And so it happened that Adelia ended up in Professor McGonagall's office that evening just before dinner. She fiddled with the hem of her skirt, which was dotted with water droplets stains, courtesy of the large lake out in the front lawn. "So." The headmistress said, finally, after keeping Adie under her glare for what seemed like forever. "So, you decided to make waves today, didn't you?" She said, and Adelia knew that she knew. Professor McGonagall did not expect her to admit to it, no one admitted to their crimes.
"Well, you see professor, I wanted to go surfing." Adelia said, face paper blank
"Well, of course you didn't do it, it just - wait, did you just admit that you made that wave?" She said, eyes widening. Adie nodded. "Because you wanted to go suffing?"
"Surfing. It's this muggle sport where you ride on waves on a board. We wanted to surf, so I tried to make waves, so I used a lot of power, fuguring that would make a bunch of them. But it just made a really big wave." Adelia said, looking down, resentful.
"Well, Miss Maren, you need to learn to control your power. Since it was an accident and nobody was hurt, just soaked, I can let you go this one time. But no more sorfing." Adelia knew a dismissal when she heard one. She fled the room, running down the winding stairs as fast as she could. When she came down off of the stairs, she ran straight into Leila.
"Slow down." Her friend said, taking her by the shoulders and shaking her. Adelia suspected that her new friend did not really know her strength. "Now, come on, we're almost late for dinner."
Adie followed her into the great hall and made for the teacher's table, keeping her head down. "What are you doing? You can sit at the Hufflepuff table with us." She said, taking a seat next to a very tall youth with green hair. "This is Teddy Lupin. Teddy, this is Adelia." Leila said, making a quick introduction.
"Hey. You're the elemental girl, aren't you? I'm Teddy." He saw her staring at his hair. "And I'm a Metamorphmagus." He explained.
"A what?" Adelia asked, confused. What was with these people and these big words they used, completly normally, as if she was going to understand them!
"I can change my appearance at will." She looked at him, and eyebrow raised, disbeleivingly. Grinning, he changed his hair to black, then to green again. "See?" He said.
"So you can change your hair color? Anyone can just do that with dye." It didn't seem like a very useful skill to her. Besides, she liked her hair color.
"No, I can change all of my facial features, like my nose and mouth and face shape and eye color. What is 'dye'?"
"Hair dye. It's something that normal people, er, muggles use to change their hair color."
Teddy nodded thoughtfully. A girl with strawberry blonde hair matched with light blue eyes sat next to him. Her nose, which could be considered somewhat larger than delicate, kept her from looking like a china doll.
"This is Victoire Weasly, Victoire, this is Adelia Maren" Leila said, making more introductions.
"Call me Adie. Adelia has too many sylables for such a short name, it's tiring to say." Victoire smiled, eyes laughing over her numerous freckles.
"Victoire, you know you're not supposed to be here. You should be over with the Gryfindors." Teddy repremanded her lightly. She stuck her tounge out at him and flouced off.
"Paden. Paden!" Leila called, cupping her hands around her mouth to make her voice louder. Apparently, this happened rather often because no one even glanced at her, except for a boy walking into the hall, who smiled and walked over to her. Paden's mouth was wide and made for smiling, his nose looked like it had been broken once, young as he was. His eyes were dark green, so dark that it was hard to discern the pupil from the iris.
"Hey Leila, what's up?" He asked, his eyes flicking to Adie. He had an American accent. She wondered if he was from there.
"Oh, Paden, this is Adie. I was wondering if you could help me with our Potions essay. We're supposed to have three scrolls of parchment and I only have two and a half and have no idea what else to write." She said, looking up at him hopefully.
"Uh, sure, why not? It's nice to meet you Adie. Now, where did you come from?"
"I came from the world." Adelia retorted shortly, eating. She was hungry, having accidentally slept through breakfast that morning.
"Ouch. She has a bark, but does she have a bite?" He said, sitting down next to her. Leila looked mournfully at the space next to her she had made for him.
"Watch your tounge or you'll find out." She said as she glanced at him sidways.
"Well, I'm a curious being so let's just see how this goes. I'll just keep talking, really annoyingly, and you should burst any day now.I'm waiting. Don't worry, I, unlike you, have patience. And I, unlike you, - "
Paden's sentence was never finished. Adelia glanced to the teacher's table and, satisfied that nobody was looking, summoned the water in her cup to splash him on the face. It hit him perfectly.
"Mr. Noel. What on earth happened to you?" McGonagall said, walking up to Paden. Adie had to bury her face in her now empty goblet to keep the headmistress from seeing her silent laughter.
"Oh, I a so terribly sorry, Professor. I was just being so clumsy, I suppose. My hand just slipped and my water spilled all over me."
"But your goblet is filled with pumpkin juice."
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I say my goblet. Well, I was holding Adie here's glass to toast her, you know, teasingly, and it spilled. Sorry for the slip of the tounge."
McGonagall surveyed Paden and Adelia. "You're sure the water didn't just come splashing up at you with an unknown force."
Paden looked taken aback and surprised. "I'm certain, Professor."
"Very well, then, go dry yourself before your next class." She walked off. Paden turned back to Adie.
"How'd you do that?"
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