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Echo found professor Dumbledore waiting outside the entrance.
"Hello Echo." Dumbledore greeted her.
"Er hi professor. Um, what did you need me for?" Echo asked.
" Please come with me to my office." He walked into a hallway, and stopped in front of a large stone gargoyle.
"Sugar quills" he said, and the gargoyle moved aside. They stepped into an office, where a beautiful bird was sitting on a golden perch.
"Oh wow!" Echo exclaimed over the bird.
"That's a phoenix. His name is Fawkes."
"Awwww. Hey Fawkes." Echo said, petting the bird.
" Miss birch, I asked you to come because I sensed something different about you. There is some sort of unknown magic in you."
Echo stared.
"Yes. And I would like to see what it is. If you could come every day after classes, we could work with it. You probably didn't feel it because you are also a witch."
"Um, I guess, but, still even though I'm a witch, wouldn't I have, well noticed something?"
"I don't know. I'll discuss this tomorrow with you after classes."
Echo left, and stood dumbly outside the gargoyle until Sirius Black crashed into her and sent her flying.
"Sorry echo. What were you doing here? Did you get in trouble with Dumbledore or something?" he said, helping her up.
"Uh, no, I was just, er, here." She said, blushing.
"See ya." He started running again, to catch up with his friends.
Echo told her friends everything that dumbledore said to her.
"Wow Echo, I wonder what it is?" Lily told her.
"Maybe he was just imagining things." Crystal suggested.
"I dunno…" Echo trailed off.
Just then, the marauders walked in, brooms slung over their shoulders. Their mini fan club of mostly girls was following close behind.
"C'mon you guys," said lily, looking disgusted, "lets go somewhere quiet. They walked away.
The next day, after classes, Echo went up to the office again, saying to the stone gargoyle, "sugar quill." She walked up the stairs, and was greeted by professor Dumbledore.
"Miss birch. Hello. We will be having our lesson outside. Come with me."
Their walk ended at the paddock with the horses in it. Dumbledore asked echo to take lightning out.
"I think that you may have some strange connection with animals. Professor Reb tells me that Lightning here really liked you."
"Professor, I know a lot about horses. I have one. Maybe it was just because I knew more."
"Could be. But let's try this just to find out. Now, I want you to close your eyes, and think a sentence to Lightning. Just say hell in your mind, and direct it to her." Dumbledore ordered her. Echo closed her eyes, feeling silly. [Hello?] Echo heard something, but she couldn't understand. "What?" she said out loud.[I said hello, are you a bit deaf?] the horse looked sympathetic]I should hate to be deaf. It would be horrible don't you think? I do. Just imagine not hearing anything]
"I heard her, professor!" Echo said, her eyes wide, "I really heard her. Omigod! Hey, you really heard me didn't you?" she asked the horse again. [Some people are slow also,] Lightning said,[I should absolutely hate to be both deaf and stupid]echo glared at her.
"Ah, looks like I'll be talking to you tomorrow," said dumbledore, "looking at his watch, "try not to talk in front of other people too much. They might think you're crazy." And with that he waved goodbye and left. `I can talk to animals!' echo thought. [Goodbye.] She told lightning, because she was eager to try out her new power on shadow. She ran in to find the common room empty. `Good' she thought. [Shadow!] She called to her cat, which was sitting on the table. [Since when did you learn to talk] shadow asked, looking surprised.[since now!] said Echo, delighted, [tell me everything]
Echo and shadow talked on and on, until the gryffindors came in, and Echo had to stop. [Bye shadow.] She told the cat, and went over to her friends.
Echo was comfortable with hogwarts. She grew to like almost everybody, except for snape, this really oily, greasy kid in slytherin. Her lessons with dumbledore went on, and Echo grew better and better at talking with her friends the animals. She could almost control them, and could calm a crazy animal down pretty fast. On a cold December morning, Echo was chatting with Nightstar, a black mare when James, Sirius, Remus, and peter strolled up, early. Echo made a face. She liked the boys, they were nice and fun to have around, but Sirius made her blush and she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of them. Plus she had horse hair all down her robes. So she kept talking and scratching nightstar
"Hey echo." Sirius told her.
"Hi." She answered back. [Ugh.] She told the horse. [Why do they have to be here?]
"Do you know if Prof. Boards is giving the test today or tomorrow?" James asked.
"It's tomorrow, I think." She told him [that colt needs to comb his hair or something,] Nightstar told her,[even after a 100-mile flight I don't think my mane looked that bad.] echo almost laughed out loud. James' hair was really messy.
"Oh," said James, looking at the hill, "here comes Lily and that other girl, uhm…"
"Crystal," Remus said, and coughed, embarrassed, when they all looked at him. Sirius grinned. "So Remus, what's her last name? Her age, height?" Remus blushed. Echo smiled, glad that she hadn't felt awkward the whole time.
"Hey echo." Lily had just arrived.
"How's nightstar?" crystal asked, looking at nightstar.
"She's fine, I think. Bit hyper today, she was talking a lot. Really, I feel sorry for whoever has to ride her."
"Well then, you can do it!" Lily said, laughing. The four boys looked at them strangely.
"Don't mind us," said lily cheerfully, "we're crazy!" the three girls laughed again.
"Er… right." Sirius said. Just then, Professor reb walked outside. The class began.
OKAY, U NEED 2 TELL ME IF ECHO IS GETTING TOO PERFECT. I DINT WANT HER 2 BE A PERFECT LITTLE MARYSUE. IF SHE IS, THEN TELL ME AND ILL TRY 2 FIX IT. ALSO, IF THERES SUMTHING ELSE SAY SO. NOW GO REVIEW!!!
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