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Summary: AU. Mostly a series of loosely-connected oneshots that follows the Wicked characters if they all went to Hogwarts. This will be a fun little experiment and I want to see how far I can go with this. Musicalverse(with maybe some bookverse here and there, as it should be, lol). Eventual Fiyerba with Gelphie friendship.
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Of Broomsticks and Bubbles
(in which, Galinda floats in a bubble above Hogwarts grounds):
"It's good to see me, isn't it?" Galinda chimed, smiling one of her most Galindified smiles as she floated prettily in the huge pink see-through bubble she had created, with her own magic even. The bright green robes went very well with fluffy pink dress she wore under it, and little tiara she normally donned didn't help with her the visage of a little blonde fairy rather than the fourteen-year-old witch that she was.
("This isn't even my party dress, Elphie, it's my school one-so quit complaining about how 'impratical' it looks-" Galinda had said the first morning she put the dress on that term.
"Oh, I so sure that pink tutus don't go against the dress code at all-" Elphaba had said with a short cackle)
Elphaba couldn't help but roll her eyes at the admiring looks a few of the other Hogwarts students gazed admiringly from their various classroom windows at the decked-out blonde hovering above them. Elphaba, simply dressed in a dark old frock, her Slytherin robes, and a long black braid under her a pointy black hat that Galinda had gifted her, had herself been sitting on an old broomstick she'd self-enchanted, keeping close by her friend just in case the saccharine sphere decided to pop suddenly(the sparkly staff certainly wasn't helping that suspicion).
Closing her own private copy of the Grimmerie (where Galinda had gotten the spell in the first place) and tucking it away in her school bag, Elphaba started to say "Well, that's a little relative-I mean us being roommates and all, I practically see you everyday-"
"Oh Elphie-" Galinda said, looking down at her best friend as if she'd made a simple mistake that anyone would make. "-no need to answer-I love you, too. And that question was rhetorical! Fellow Slytherins-" Galinda began, addressing the empty grass along the field.
"Oh Oz-"
"Let us be glad, let us be grateful, let us rejoicify our wonderful Wizard letting us be at this wonderful Hogwarts for the remainder of our schooling years-"
"It's been four years, Galinda, and I'm pretty sure that the Wizard knew that with a simple 'sorcery seminar' back home just wouldn't cut it, and besides, it's not like sending Ozians to Hogwarts is anything new-"
"Good point, Elphie! Alright, I'll just have to thank dearest, darlingest Momzy and Popsicle for letting us study here in the first place-"
"All you, Glin. Father just sent me here to watch over Nessa, but I think that Morrible has that part covered for the most part-I feel bad for messing up her office, though, when I found out Nessie was messing up his office-"
"Oh my poor Elphie! I'm sure nobody noticed-"
"People still give me crap for lighting her wig on fire" both friends had to laugh about that.
It was true, Ozians were still a fairly recent addition to the Wizarding World, but they'd blended in well enough, with a lot of the Sorcery students that came to Hogwarts to study producing pretty powerful sorcerers, travelling through a small gateway between worlds and all.
Not Elphaba though. She always suspected her magic quirk to be some sort of fluke, being that both her parents were supremely Ozian, father-a Munchkinlander of pretty highbirth, being Governor and all, and mother a pure-bred Gilkin. The Thropp daughters were cursed, Elphaba born with green skin and a short temper and Nessa being born unable to walk.
However, there it was-both Elphaba and Nessa had developed incredible magical ability, prompting their father to send them to study magic in what he called "that Other World". Elphaba never understood what the big deal was about-the Wizard supposedly came from this Other World, after all.
Thank Oz Hogwarts offered academic scholarships, or else Elphaba would have never gotten the chance to come to Hogwarts in the first place, her father certainly wouldn't have pain for it, Nessa or no. Hearing that his cursed first-born daughter had been sorted into a house notorious for coming up with Dark Lords wasn't much help to her cause. At least the green of the house matched her skin-it was nice to blend in somewhere.
Not that being best friends with Galinda Upland ever meant much "blending". How the two ever became friends was another tale to be told, but ever since their third year, the two friends had been inseparable, mostly with Galinda never missing a chance to show off what she called "their superior Ozian magic".
Today was no exception.
Galinda never was completely alright with broomstick flying. She was adequate flyer overall, but something about broomsticks in general just made her uneasy.
"They are just so tacky, Elphie!" Galinda had said after a flying lesson a few nights before. Morrible granted Galinda her own private dorm, Elphabo only becoming her roommate in the first place due to a clerical error(though Elphaba guessed her father simply told them not to give her any place to stay).
" Surely something in that Grimmerie-" Galinda said, flopping her head up to give her friend an expectant look.
"Oh, I know, I'll give wings like I accidently gave Chistery-" she quipped with a bitter sort of laugh, flipping through the spellbook before landing on a section that had to do with flying.
"Don't even joke!" Galinda added jokingly, tossing a pillow at her best friend, only to frown once she saw Elphaba's brown orbs mist over with tears.
With one swift movement, Galinda crawled her off her own bed and over to where Elphaba sat on hers to pull her into a sincere hug.
"I'm sorry" Galinda whispered, rocking her best friend the best she could with her petite body against her tiny frame.
"It's not your fault, it's mine" Elphaba replied, giving into the sway as she let the tears roll down her emerald cheeks. Galinda knew better than to disagree, so she just let the tears fall where they would and hugged her friend even tighter.
It had been their first year. Elphaba had sworn it was a mistake. She'd only meant to enchant an old broom for herself one day in the "Room of Requirement", wanting to see if she could actually accomplish the feat as well as practice an actual levitation from the Grimmerie. The result was an Animal student, a young Monkey named Chistery, walking in on her while directed one of her spell beams at the broom at the door, only to hit Chistery instead.
What resulted was a lot of nightmares for Elphaba and a lot pain for Chistery, along with two large black wings. Madame Pomfrey had said that spells from the Grimmerie were irreversible, so Chistery was stuck with the mal-aquired set of wings for life. Ironically, he and Elphaba had become really good friends after that, with Elphaba helping him regain his speech, little by little after her spent the first few weeks muted in pain.
He became pretty friendly with Galinda too, Chistery missing Galinda's "bubble debut" just because he had a Quidditch practice he had to attend.
("It's helpful to have a roommate who can fly on his own" Chistery had joked to Elphaba and Galinda at breakfast one morning, causing the two girls' laughter echoing through the Great Hall).
The bubble spell was completely safe-although Elphaba made Galinda go over the spell at least 20 times a day that week, making sure her hands and wands weren't raised so as not to cause another misfire. By the end of the week, Galinda had the pronunciation down to near if not exact perfection, and now here she was, living her dream, floating in a giant pink bubble.
"I'm sure that this spell is rather advanced for fourth-years..Maybe I can ask Morrible for some extra credit, I'm sure she'd give it to us…" Elphaba said, watching Galinda motion to move the bubble up and a down along the clear blue sky of the day. She heard Galinda sigh, her big blue eyes sad as she smiled at her friend, flying beside her.
"Oh, she loves you, Elphie! I'm sure she'd give it to you. She still doubts that I ever 'had what it takes'…" Galinda replied with a sigh. Elphaba frowned, hovering closer to her friend. "I'm sure it's not like that, my pretty. I'm sure you can prove her wrong-"
"I doubt I will."
Elphaba shrugged. School was one the few things Elphaba got praised on, but she knew that wasn't always the case for the petite who, while smart, was more concerned with relationships and popularity than her grades.
Perhaps that could help her get her minds off things.
"You wanna come with me to Chistery's try out sometime soon. I heard that Fiyero Tiggular's going to be there, and I know how you find the Gryffindor outfits just, thrillyfying"
Galinda face lit up and she squeed, hurting Elphaba ears as she broke the spell with a happy burst, climbing onto the broomstick to sit ahead of her friend as she guided them to the Quidditch field nearby.
"I do love a man in red! Thanks Elphie, you're the best-but maybe your right-Maybe someday we can both prove to Morrible watch wicked witches we are-" Galinda said with a smile.
"Oh Galinda…we'll be the greatest team there's ever been!" Elphaba said with a hearty cackle.
