Sorry it took so long to update. I was having a bit of writers block, but here is the next chapter. I thought I should also mention that I am going to be taking some concepts from Wicked the book and others from the musical. Hope you guys enjoy, and don't forget to review. :)

Chapter 3

Elphaba sat in her room. She could not believe that in a couple of days she would be sitting in a school with other children who were her age and like her. Nanny and Dumbledore, she was told that once they arrived at Hogwarts she would have to address him as Professor Dumbledore, had managed to convince Frexspar to let Elphaba go to the school. It had been agreed that Elphaba would leave in three days time, she needed time to gather all her belongings and Dumbledore needed some rest before they could leave again. Elphaba could not help but be happy. Was this was actually happening? Something good was finally happening in her life. Sure Elphaba was a little sad to be leaving Nanny and Nessa and her father, but to finally feel like she belonged. To finally not stick out like a , well, green thumb. Then it occurred to her. She was going to a school of magic. Magic. Wait, did she understand correctly? The quirk that she tried so hard to suppress and hide was something that could. maybe, just maybe, be the solution to all her problems. Maybe she could somehow use magic to somehow rid herself of her putrid skin color. Maybe magic could make her normal.

Early the next day, Elphaba found herself in the garden picking vegetables for the day's meals. A tall figure came out from the guest house, and approached Elphaba.

"Good morning Miss Thropp. I trust you had a good night's rest?" Dumbledore asked looking down at her with a detached look on his face.

"Good morning Professor Dumbledore, yes I had a good night's rest thank you. How was yours?" Elphaba asked barely noticing the bags under his eyes and the tired look upon his eyes.

"Well, I am afraid it could have been better," he responded, and when he noticed Elphaba's worried look, added, "But don't worry my dear I am afraid it is just homesickness. Perhaps if you showed me around I would feel more at home and have a good rest for our journey tomorrow."

"I'd be delighted to." Elphabe quickly got up, abandoned the vegetables, and ran inside the house yelling at Nanny that she "would be right back."

Elphaba led Dumbledore out of the garden through the front gate and onto road. They then started on their way to the center of the city. Everything was quiet with the exception of a couple of animals that could be heard buzzing in the distance. The silence, however, was not an awkward silence, but on the contrary a very comfortable one. They went on in this way for a while until a strange, white-glowing, frog jumped in front of them, startling the two wanderers. Elphaba composed herself quickly and bent down to pick up the frog, getting it out of the road and placing it in the shrubs that were on either side of them.

"What a strange creature, I don't believe I have ever seen that species of frog before." Dumbledore stared at the spot where the frog jumped on the road, a puzzled look on his face.

"Really? Moon Frogs are very common animals. You usually see them at night. They are every easy to spot because they, well, glow." Elphaba looked up at Dumbledore surprised that this all-knowing-looking man didn't know what a Moon Frog was.

"I'm afraid we don't have that species of frog anywhere in England."

Dumbledore and Elphaba continued to walk until they reached the city center. There, despite the early hour, Center Munch was abuzz with people who had come to get the freshest and best foods they could get from the market. Elphaba was in need of some bread so she stopped by at the bakers where a friendly Goat sold her some freshly baked bread. All the while Dumbledore stood in the background staring at the different Animals that were out and about. Elphaba ran a couple of more errands, describing each place to Dumbledore and introducing him to various different people, then they headed back in the direction of the Thropp house.

"I am sorry to ask, but what where those?" Dumbledore asked pointing back to Center Munch, referring to the Animals.

"Well they are Animals. What else would they be?" Elphaba answered, again surprised by his question. "Do you not have any in England either?"

"Animals? No my dear, I am afraid not. The only type of animals that we have don't have any powers of speech or such." Now it was Elphaba's turn to be surprised.

"No speech, but the poor things! How do they communicate? How do they fight for their rights?"

"They simply don't," Dumbledore stopped suddenly and turned around to address Elphaba, "Actually, there are a lot of things that are different from Oz in the Wizarding World. Elphaba I need you to understand a couple of things before we leave tomorrow. First, you won't find many Ozians at Hogwarts and many of the students will not know what Oz is. You see, you are part of a sort of - experiment- of mine. Your mom was a witch and because of that you have been on the list of magical children since you have been born, but we had long ago thought that your mother was dead. As it turns out she somehow ended up here, in this land of Oz, a land that no wizard had ever known of until now. And it also turns out that there are a couple of other magical children in this land of Oz, who along with you, we have decided to admit to Hogwarts as a sort of test to see how they develop their abilities. Now, I must warn you my dear child, some wizards believe themselves to be superior to others and as a result many of their children are not acceptant to, different, things. Now at Hogwarts we will do our best to ensure that you feel comfortable, but we cannot guard you every moment of every day and as a result I am afraid that you and your fellow Ozians will have to suffer some brutalities of the other children. I do not think, however, that this is going to be a big problem, but it might be something that will occur from time to time, until the other students warm up to all of you."

All of this frightened Elphaba a bit. But not enough to convince her not to go. This was after all her only chance to figure out a way to rid herself of her green skin tone.

"I think I'll take my chances Professor." Elphaba looked up at Dumbledore and saw a look of relief cross through his face.

"Well then, I believe you have been away from home for some time now. I don't think Nanny will appreciate me keeping you out for so long."

And so the the green girl and the tall man returned to the Thropp house. The rest of the day went by in a blur and before they new it night had come and it was yet again, time to go to sleep. As Elphaba readied herself for bed, she looked around her even emptier-looking room, realizing that this would be the last time in a while that she would sleep in this room. And with that thought fresh in her mind Elphaba fell asleep.

The next morning the whole house was full of excitement as Elphaba made last minute preparations for her departure. Frexspar had had to leave to do some missionary work in Quadling County, but Nesssarose and Nanny had enough excitement, and tears, for ten people. As they were getting ready to leave, Dumbledore presented Nessarose with gift "something to make up for Elphaba not being here" he gave Nessarose a beautiful pair of silver shoes, which upon wearing, provided Nessarose with the balance needed for her to stand on her own. The nine-year old Nessa's face lit up so much with this gift that it brought tears to Elphaba's eyes.

"Thank You." Both of the sisters responded to Dumbledore's gift and a couple of hugs, kisses, good-byes and "I'll miss you"'s later Elphaba and Dumbledore walked out the door with Elphaba's belongings. Dumbledore took out a stick, which Elphaba would later learn was a wand, swished it a couple of times in the air, and made Elphaba's luggage disappear.

Elphaba, who was surprised by the spell that Dumbledore had cast, started to lead Dumbledore to the road as she believed that some sort of carriage would take them to Hogwarts, but after taking a couple of steps Dumbledore stopped her with a "This will do." He stretched out his arm, to which he motioned for Elphaba to take a hold of, and let out a warning, "This won't feel great."

Elphaba took hold of Dumbledore's arm and he lightly spun around. Elphaba felt like her whole body was being forced into a straw. She lost sense of where she was and felt like she was being suffocated. Then just as she thought that she was going to die of strangulation, her lungs opened up and she found herself in a busy street. Directly in front of her was a place called The Leaky Cauldron. Dumbledore walked right in and Elphaba followed.

Upon entering Elphaba saw a great amount of people all doing various things. Some were sipping out of mugs, others were eating, and some were playing games. Elphaba noticed some dishes floating around midair heading toward what appeared to be the kitchens. The people were all dressed in a similar fashion to that of Dumbledore, and some, she could see, were carrying the sticks. Random objects were flying around, Elphaba could see more of the strange bird species perched on the windows, and creatures that she had never seen before resembling Animals were strolling about also. All around her Elphaba saw all sorts of magical things happening and as she turned to look at Dumbledore, he simply said, with a smile on his face,

"Welcome to the Wizarding World, Elphaba."