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A few minutes later, Madame Meara opened the door to her office and a tall man in a pinstriped ministry suit stepped out. She bade him good-bye and then turned to Aurora and asked her to come in.
"Well miss Hansen, how much have you heard?" She asked with a light smile.
"I…I don't know what you're talking about," Aurora said, glancing around the room.
"Really miss Hansen, do you think after teaching young people for as long as I have, I don't have ways of monitoring at least everything that goes on outside my office?"
Aurora could tell that Madame Meara wasn't really mad that she had heard, she just didn't like it when people didn't tell her the truth. Aurora couldn't blame her.
"Yes Ma'am. I did hear some.. things. Something about exchanging students to England for a year?"
"Mmhm, that's more like it miss Hansen. Honesty is the best policy, you know. Well as you probably just overheard," Madame Meara exaggerated the word overheard, "The International Federation of Magic has just passed a law designed for international cooperation. Every magical school in the world is exchanging 5 students of the same grade to a different school. It just so happens that the year that was picked is 5th year so you'll have the opportunity to study and take your OWLs abroad."
"Well that sounds pretty cool," Aurora said thoughtfully. "How are you going to pick the 5 students?"
"I don't know, I think I'm just going to wait for the ministry details and decide in the last few weeks of school." Madame Meara was standing up and pacing around her office as she spoke. With her last thought on the exchange, she turned to face Aurora and said with a smile, "Now, miss Hansen. What do we have to do to get you to be on time to your classes?"
A/N: Sorry for such a short chapter. I was having some… writers block.