Embarrassing outcome
Teddy Lupin looked up and then down to the book on his desk. Up and down. Then he looked at his side, where a girl called Anna Murata sat.
"Skongify," he said for the first time after he watched Anna perform the spell. In the moment he said the charm the girl looked up with big eyes and then a she grimaced.
"That's not the spell, genius," she said and frowned. He looked down on the book again. He slowly touched it, but there was no change, the book was still just as hard as before. For a moment he thought nothing has happened. He was ready to perform the unsuccessful charm again when he fell of his chair. Anna fixed her dark brown eyes on him and Teddy didn't need to be able to read her mind to know what she was thinking. "Really, Lupin?"
The whole class erupted in laughter and Teddy felt as he blushed. He was probably as red as a tomato. With the help of a kind girl Hufflepuff girl, Milly Vargas he got up.
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, Mr. Lupin. It's not a big problem to make a mistake; it's a difficult spell and it's only your first year." He heard Professor Flitwick's squeaky voice. He just nodded and sat back to his chair. Teddy looked to his side where Anna was looking strangely at something.
"These weren't here before." She gestured to some parchments on their desk. Teddy raised his (now) dark red eyebrows in confusion. Anna sighed and rolled her eyes, she grabbed the one on the top of the pile. She looked at them curiously and frowned.
"These are letters," she declared and Teddy grabbed another one as he was curious what his friend was talking about. It seemed that they weren't the only who didn't care about the Spongify spell. Emily Hallahan, Chris Brown and Harmony Rayne, three girls who were in Gryffindor just like Anna and Teddy turned to them and all of them grabbed a letter.
"It's from 1973; it talks about the birth Nymphadora Tonks. She was born with pig nose. I have heard about her, she was a war hero," Harmony read a part of the letter up.
"This one is about a girl called Andromeda Black in love with someone called Andrew Nott. It's so fluffy I'm ready to die in sappiness," Chris declared dramatically.
"It's about the first day of... wait this letter was written by you, Teddy. I didn't even know you nearly peed yourself during the Sorting" Emily grinned at Teddy who was red, not only his cheeks, but his hair was flaming red too. Anna looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Wait, these are all about your family and you, right?" Anna had an evil glint in her eyes and she grinned at Teddy.
"You just had to bring that up, didn't you?" he asked embarrassedly.
"We are going to have fun, guys," Anna stated.
This drabble was written for Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry Challenge/Competition - Charms class
Mandatory prompts: Write a story about a first year student in Charms class. It should be no more than 500 words.
Words: Difficult
Action: A character must preform a spell incorrectly.
Quote: If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Era: Next-Gen
Year: 1973
Pairing: Andromeda/OC
Major Character: Nymphadora Tonks
Genre: Humor
Sentence: You just had to bring that up, didn't you?
Event: First day of school
