Title: The Girl, The Dragon, and The Wild Magic
Chapter Seven
When they arrived at the pitch the dragon was already settling down for a nice long stay. Professor McGonagall looked at Brightstar and the others.
" What are we going to do?" asked Severus, who had never encountered this before.
" I don't know!" said Dumbledore. " However, I'm worried about the safety of the students here."
The dragon turned to look at them and they all backed away.
" Don't worry about them, wizard," said the dragon, though it hadn't moved its lips. " I shall not harm them."
" How can you talk without moving your lips?" McGonagall asked.
" It's the girl that is allowing me to have this gift, and for that I shall be grateful. However, the child is in even more danger then you can imagine. So are her parents."
" What do you mean?" asked Dumbledore.
But the dragon said no more.
Dumbledore turned to his friend, but Brightstar had already left. Dumbledore turned to Severus and McGonagall.
" There is something going on here and I don't like it," he told them. " Brightstar has never kept anything from me and now he is. Find out what's going on with him and then report back to me."
" Yes, Headmaster," said both Severus and McGonagall at the same time.
And they both left as well.
The next morning the dragon was still on the pitch and because of this Dumbledore issued out a warning that students weren't allowed near the pitch until the dragon was removed. Rowena felt the connection between her and the dragon and knew that it had been her talent that had caused this to happen.
" Are you all right?" Ginny asked her in Transfiguration.
" I'm fine!" said Rowena. " Just thinking about something."
In her History of Magic class, she was still thinking about the dragon and was just about to put her things away when a voice entered her head.
" I'm glad that were alone," he told her. " Talking with mortal minds is tiring and I get that way so easily. I know that you didn't summon me! But someone else has that ability and you must find her and defeat her."
" But I'm only a child, how can I do such a thing?"
" You are more then just a child!" said the dragon. " Your magic has endless possibilities and you must use them all."
" Where do I start?"
" In the Dining Hall," was the dragon's answer.
Rowena entered the Great Hall and at once felt the dragon's presence with her. She had felt as though this creature knew more about magic then the Professors all put together. However, as she sat down, she wondered about what the dragon had said to her. It had said that someone had the talent. It was scary to know that someone else would be causing problems and that this time; no one might be there to help her. An hour later, with food in her, she headed off to Herbology.
" So did you finish that Defense Against the Dark Arts work for Lockhart?" Ginny asked her.
" Last night," Rowena replied. " You?"
" Sure did," Ginny answered. " Its so nice to have a Dark Arts teacher that everyone likes. Don't you agree?"
Rowena mentally rolled her eyes at this, but answered, " Yes, it is," to her.
Rowena didn't have another chance to be in the Great Hall until dinner. Professor McGonagall, who wanted to know if she had summoned the dragon to cause them problems, had kept her up. She didn't understand why the Professor would think that she would want to harm anyone, let alone the entire school. When McGonagall had been satisfied with her answer, she had been allowed to go.
" What kept you?" asked Ron, as Rowena sat down next to him and her mother.
" McGonagall wanted to talk with me," Rowena answered.
" About what?"
" Nothing!" Rowena answered, then started on her food.
" Are you still looking?" the dragon asked.
" Yes!" Rowena said mentally. " But I haven't yet had a chance to fully look around."
" Look around with your mind," the dragon instructed. " Let your mind go and then scan the room. You'll find what you're looking for."
Rowena wished that she could scream that it was easy for him, because he was a dragon. But that would only gain her looks. And she didn't want that, not with the idea of the person that had brought the creature to the school, getting the idea that she was being watched. She had no idea how this witches mind worked, or if she knew how to shield her mind from known intrusion. She closed her eyes and as the dragon had instructed, let her mind go.
She scanned the entire room until she picked up on something, something that wasn't normal. Then just as she got a lock on it, a loud voice entered her mind, making her scream out-loud.
" Don't ever enter my mind again!" the voice said. " Or else you shall find out what I can really do!'
Then the world turned black and she knew no more.
A/N: I'm not going to reveal who's causing these problems until later in the story.
