Chapter 7 Ladies first.
The first day of classes was relatively boring; there was no practical work, only teachers telling us of expectations and how this year affected the rest our lives. By the time dinner came around I met with Ginny and Luna in the Room of Requirement as per usual and walked into the hall in our structured group, Ginny seemed more bubbly than usual; she always loved to show off.
As everyone was near to finishing their food, Dumbledore stood to address the students. Confusion crossed many students' faces as they only had ever had Dumbledore address them at the start and end of year feasts.
"Students, tonight we have a little treat, your dear professor Slughorn has challenged our new transfers to prove their, lets say, worth of skipping grades to attend their seventh year. Now tonight we will have Miss Ebony performing charms against a young talented Slytherin, Mister Regulus Black. If they could both come up the front please." Both of them walked to the front of the room. The whole hall watching as they looked at each other, studying and judging the other.
"Now they will perform four highly difficult charms that many seventh years have trouble with. Which of you would like to go first?" they exchanged a look of uncertainty.
"Ladies first, Miss Ebony." Regulus said in a somewhat flirtatious manner. Ginny nodded her head and then looked towards Dumbledore.
"Okay the first charm that you need to do is the bubble head charm." Ginny nodded, waved her hand in front of her face, doing wandless non-verbal magic. Regulus' eyes widened at this as the bubble appeared around her face. The hall gasped in surprise. Ginny looked towards the chuckling headmaster.
"Oh, I'm guessing Phei didn't tell you we are all able to do wandless non-verbal magic?" she threw me a look saying, seriously? I simply smirked back at her and shrugged.
I looked back at the headmaster as he gave Regulus a look for him to start. He was able to do the charm non-verbally but not without his wand.
"I believe, they were both able to perform the charm, the score is even." A scoreboard suddenly appeared, with one all written on it. "Next you are to perform the alter charm, please change the colour of my robes, Mister Black will go first this time. Regulus focused for a second before changing the headmasters robes green from the red they were. He smirked and looked over at Ginny who rolled her eyes and giggled. She then waved her hand towards the headmaster changing his robes to red with gold flashing lights saying GRYFFINDOR FOR THE WIN! At this the Gryffindor table cheered and Ginny took a bow.
The headmaster simply chuckled. And changed his robes back to a simple red, adjusting the score two all.
"Alright, now Miss Ebony is to go first next, the hover charm if you will, but on Mister Black this time instead of myself, I am far too old." Ginny again waved her hand making him hover a good 10 feet off the ground before slowly putting him down again. Regulus repeated the action but verbally this time.
"Very well done, the score is currently three all. This is the last test for the pair of you; you are to produce a corporal patronus, Mister Black if you will." He said motioning towards Regulus; he took a stance a look of hard concentration on his face.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM" a silver shield came out but not a corporal patronus. He suddenly looked terrified over at Ginny. I caught her attention, Regulus seemed to notice, I mouthed to her, be nice! She simply nodded in reply. Taking out her wand, she waved it in a pattern the same as that of Regulus', a silver canine came out and raced around pushing Regulus over and started licking him; she threw me a look in surprise. She wouldn't normally instruct her patronus to do something like this; it seemed to be doing this on its own free will.
Regulus stood up as her patronus faded, sighed and looked towards the headmaster.
"Well that was a great shield, but seeing as it was not a corporal patronus I can only award points to Miss Ebony, the score for this evening is four to three – transfers in the lead. Now tomorrow night will be Miss Sun and Mister Snape doing a potions challenge. Goodnight students, pip, pip, off to bed now."
Ginny's attention went to Regulus, strangely, he was smiling at her. She winked, smiled back and walked away. Leaving one dumbfounded boy staring at her in her wake.
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