"Wingardium Leviosa!"
Amy watched in amusement as the Doctor tried once again, for the millionth time, to make the feather float.
It had yet to move, even an inch.
The Doctor dropped his wand forcefully onto the table, his face screwed up in anger. "Why won't it work!" he shouted to no one in particular.
They had had their first lessons today. Charms had been one of the few first up. Now they resided in the common room, going over what they had learned. Well…the Doctor was anyway. For some reason he was having the most difficulty doing any of the spells. When Amy had done it, she had felt like she was born to be a witch. The Doctor…not so.
The Doctor stubbornly folded his arms, glaring at the feather.
River gave a loud sigh. She sat next to the Doctor, one of their many books held in her hands.
"Because you cannot do the wand movements correctly." River emphasised.
"I do!" the Doctor protested. He picked his wand up again. "A swish and a flick!"
The feather still hadn't moved.
The Doctor glared at the foul monstrosity.
Amy giggled.
River sighed, again, realising her husband was never going to learn at his stubborn pace.
"Here." She said, her own wand appearing in her hands. "A swish and a flick. Wingardium Leviosa!"
The feather slowly made its rise, going up and up, until River brought it back down to Earth.
"I did do the flish and the slick just like you said River!" he complained.
"It's the swish and flick." River corrected.
"I know River! It's just why can't I do it!"
"I told you." River said. "You can't do the wand movements correctly. And anyway, with the luck you had at the Academy it's no wonder you're having trouble."
"I had perfect scores." The Doctor said.
"On the fourth try that is."
"So, I failed the first couple times, you don't know how hard they were!" the Doctor complained.
"And yet, Romana still beat you." River said, shaking her head.
"How do you know about Romana?"
"The TARDIS told me. I am the child of the TARDIS, after all."
The Doctor glared at her.
"It's unfair…" The Doctor said. "How come you lot can all get on the first try while I have to spend hours trying to even make it move. Even Rory could do it." He added.
"What about Rory?" Amy said, her words threatening.
The Doctor took the advice pretty quickly.
"No, no, no nothing at all." He said rather hastily.
"Glad to hear." Amy said, but the stern look she gave the Doctor said everything. "On the subject of Rory," Amy said, her voice dropping to a whisper. "What are we going to do about that third year?"
"Nothing." the Doctor said simply.
"Nothing?" Amy said. "You do realise that Harry knows? He could spill everything to everyone else?"
"No he won't." the Doctor argued.
"And why is that?" River said, raising an eyebrow.
"Because if I'm right about Harry, which I'm most certainly am, then he would only tell Hermione and the Weasley boy. Nobody else." the Doctor said happily.
"And because you've heard all about the deeds his done in the past few years." River simply remarked.
"That is not the reason, River Song." the Doctor said, folding his arms.
"Well, Doctor," River said, "I'm pretty sure I saw you asking around about the boy as soon as you had the chance."
"You must have seen wrong River."
River huffed in reply, thinking the conversation was not worth her time. She quickly went back to reading her book.
"So, Doctor," Amy said. "What did you find about the Harry?"
"That he is the boy who lived, pretty much a celebrate here. Though the Dean boy went on about the time he defeated a Basilisk. While the other boy, Seamus, said it was most definitely dragon. Apparently one of those really deadly types, that could kill you with one look. Dean went on to argue that was what a Basilisk did and Seamus disagreed, which lead to an argument, which I promptly left." The Doctor realising his mistake also said. "-But it wasn't like I was actually there talking to them. No, I was on the other side of the room, Timelord hearing and all."
"Sure you were Doctor..." Amy said, clearly not believing a word.
"Where's Rory?" River suddenly asked, her head sweeping to look at the many occupants of the Gryffindor common room. None to be the roman.
Now it had come to her attention, she hadn't seen him since class had ended. Her brow frowned at this realisation.
"I don't know…" she said, worry seeping through. All she could do was think that he better get his stupid face here as soon as possible. Then, she could tell him off for not being here. That made her smile.
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
An explosion ricocheted through the common room leaving a pile of ashes where the feather had been and a very sooty Doctor.
"How is this fair!" He shouted.
Amy and River burst out in laughter.
Rory wondered the many halls of Hogwarts. It wasn't really his fault he was lost, more his very bad sense of direction. Amy and River had reminded him constantly as kids. So, Rory could only sigh heavily as he looked at another identical corridor. He was getting quite bored of suit of armour.
That and the fact they sent shivers up his spine. He knew traveling with the Doctor made you a bit more jumpy and prone to look at normal objects and fantasy some creepy alien coming out of it. Being in a magic school made it worse. At least with the Doctor things were rational real and could be explained at length. But here, everything about the place shouldn't exist; it wasn't possible.
Something with certain amount of hair, suddenly, ran into him.
"Oof!" he said as the collision rendered him winded. He fell to the ground, landing on his bottom.
"Sorry!" came a rushed reply.
He looked towards the girl sprawled on the floor, who Rory, quickly identified as Hermione Granger.
"Oh thank god," she said with relief, a smile appearing on her lips. She sat up, before helping him. "We thought-"
"Rory!" the Doctor's voice floated towards him. Rory saw Amy close behind he could clearly see the worry on her face. They also weren't wearing any robes, but muggle clothing. The Doctor in his usual tweed and bow-tie.
The Doctor was about to open his mouth again, when he stopped in his tracks, cocking his head to the side looking at Rory strangely.
"Why are you wearing the school uniform?" he asked.
Amy stopped as well, while Hermione gave him a weird look.
"Err…" Rory said. "Because I'm at school?"
The Doctor frowned. Rory could see the cogs turning inside his head, frantically trying to make his mind work.
"Doctor?" Amy questioned.
"You wouldn't know where River is would you?" he asked.
"Um…at the common room?"
"Ah, right, just as I thought." The Doctor said, nodding his head. "Come along Pond, Granger, we seem to have made a mistake."
Before anyone could argue, the Doctor had grabbed Hermione's and Amy's hands dragging them along around the corner, leaving Rory alone again.
Rory sighed, once again. He was still lost.
'Oh and Rory!"
Rory looked round to see the Doctor's head appear around the corner.
"It's a left turn and don't mention any of this; preserving the time lines and all." He said, before once again disappearing behind the corner.
Rory knew what confusion felt.
And he definitely had it right now.
I always love it when time-wimey stuff happens.
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