Basil

by vertrauteaugen

It's the first anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts and of the trio only Hermione had returned to school to do her final exams. Every night she looks up to a light at the sky hoping it's a sign of Ron to remember her until Hermione get to know the truth and with new friends makes it back to life and reality. After all the war changed people and some have to be given second chances

3. Chapter 3

3. Much to learn

The final exams had begun and Hannah and Hermione spent time together in the library. They read and learned and Hermione listened when Hannah spoke about Basil. She often talked about him and soon she talked about nothing else. "It was a happy surprise to see him again. I think he looks even better now. I hope he feels happy in London. Do you think it's easy living with muggles?"

"Muggles are like wizards. There are good and bad muggles but most don't believe in magic and they are scared of everything they can't explain. We have to be careful using magic in front of them. Some wizards lived with magic all their lives and it will be difficult to change this. It's good Basil doesn't use it" Hermione remembered he had told them his wand and uniform were hidden under his bed. He protected his magic and it was not too difficult for him. Basil's best subjects at school had been Astronomy and Divination. He was also good in flying lessons but didn't practice anymore.

"Do you think Basil has a talent foretelling future?" Hermione thought about Basil's best subjects. He had not achieved his N.E.W.T.'s but he looked happy.

"He never told me" Hannah looked sad for a moment and was surprised when Cormac came to their table with good news for her. "You can write to your friend. My brother agreed I work on a new mail service to connect wizards without attention of the muggles. I'm working on special feathers and paper to send messages without owls"

Cormac explained the combination of feathers and papers will send words magically to the next Letter Office. From there the magic notes will be led on to the correct address or if it's a muggle or a wizard who is not connected to the system the magical words will become letters and delivered by postmen. "I'm currently testing possible options for the magical connection system. It worked to send messages from me to my brother but I couldn't send letters to my mother. I need a magical object that is able to take a magical signal over long distances. Hermione do you have any idea?"

Hermione was surprised Cormac asked her. She couldn't help him but congratulated him to his idea. It was good someone started to connected wizard and muggle world again. Since the war muggles were scared even more of something living with them they didn't know about. Old alliances were broken and new ones had to be built.

Basil had burned his hand on the oven. At home he had never cooked for himself and sometimes he still did things wrong. But in general he was happy with his life and enjoyed a bit too dark dinner. Earlier this day his neighbor had knocked on the door and told him something about his garden. A tree in the Dursley's garden reached over the hence and had to be cut. Basil was still not sure how he should do this but he promised his neighbor he will. It was important the muggles in his neighborhood were trusting him.

Basil looked outside and watched the tree. With magic it would be a work of seconds but Basil wanted to do it right. After dinner he looked into a box he kept everything in what the Dursley's had left behind. He found a huge scissor and went to the tree to test it. It seemed to do the job and Basil started working.

The next day Basil had to go shopping. The supermarket had become one of his favorite places. The muggles had everything in one place and he spent hours running around and grabbing things. Children looked at him and gave him advices what tasted good. At the end he always had a lot of chocolate in his bag and eating one piece every night was delicious.

Watching news on the television and inform himself about the world Basil started thinking children are better rulers of this world than their grownups. But he still had no one to talk about it. He often looked at Hannah's picture in the broken Remembrall and missed her.

His light signal every night helped not only her but also reminded him he had a friend somewhere. Knowing this made him feel less lonely before he explored more muggle stuff and examined the Dursley box of things.

Some made noises and let him fall on his bottom. Some others hurt him and made him spend a day with television and chocolate. Basil soon found out chocolate is magic too. It doesn't heal a wound but lessen pain. And since he lived alone and had a lot of free time he exercised a lot mostly in the garden. Every night he sat on the grass and sent light with his Deluminator to Hannah and at the end of the day he smiled.