Chapter 9: Knowledge

They eat and ask if we want to get a tour. We nod and stand up. I notice it is about 11: 45 and whisper to Sirius that we have to recast the spell. I close my eyes and concentrate. Sure enough, my wand shoots out a purplish hue and it surrounds my body. Sirius smiles at my and I get a high five. I accomplished silent magic. I had been working on it in my free time ever since we arrived in Scotland.

Lily, Remus, James, and Peter are gaping at me. "Silent magic?!" they ask, simultaneously. I nod and grin. Sirius whispers the spell and he, too, is now protected for four more hours.

"Hey, what's that spell?" Remus asks me as we walk out of the room.

"It's a blocking spell. It protects us from the sun. Since we are so pale, the sun is horrible on us!" There it is again! Werewolf. I think. Then, I hear:

WTF! Vampire! It's coming from Remus' mind. I freeze, so does Sirius. He has a faraway look in his eye. He must be having a vision.

"Remus, can we talk to you for a second." I say.

"Uhh, sure?" Remus says, but it comes out as a question. We step a few feet away and I wave my wand, silently putting up a silencing spell.

"You are a werewolf." I state.

"How... Are you the vam- never mind, you two are. What the hell? Why did Dumbledore let 2 VAMPIRES into Hogwarts?" he's basically hysterical now.

"Calm." I say, "we were just turned the 31st."

"We don't kill humans." Sirius adds.

"You won't tell anyone about my furry-little-problem, will you?"

"Of course not." I hurriedly say. " I just want to make sure you don't tell our secrets."

"I would never te- secrets?"

"Never mind." Sirius adds.

He nods, but thinks, I'll find out eventually.

"God I hope not." I tell him, in response. He gapes at me. "Oh, I read minds."

He, again, nods. Interesting. Mia? I nod in response. What is Sirius's special 'power'.

I laugh, "He can see the future."

"Your friends will successfully transform into anamagi and can join you during the full moon in 2 weeks." Sirius says. Remus, again, gapes.

I take down the silencing spell and walk over to the others. The boys follow. "What was that all about?" James asks, annoyed.

"They realized I was a werewolf and confronted me about it." Remus says, nonchalantly.

"Oh, um okay. And you don't care? How'd you find out?"

"Of course we don't care. His face; It's all scratched up. Plus, he has yellowish eyes and he ate more than you two, signs of a werewolf." I reply.

"Lils, you might get a run for your money this year." James laughingly says. I grin and we begin to walk. The boys and Lily described the different parts of the castle and the grounds. We listened intently.

After a few hours, it was again time for food. The boys ate excessively and Lily, again, commented on our apparent lack of hunger. She grabbed us food and piled it on our plates.

Sorry Mia. Lily is very maternal. She is used to taking care of all of us so I guess she thinks she should with you two too. Remus thinks to me.

"'Tis okay. I'm used to being maternal and taking care of everyone else too." I whisper to him.

James looks at us funny, but doesn't comment.

James must suspect something.

"Naw, he's just curious as to why we're whispering."

Oh. This is cool. Do you think we could find a way for you to speak without, you know, talking?

"Sure." I reply. "Sirius?" I ask.

"Yes, love?" he responds, turning to look at me from his conversation with another Gryffindor, Frank Longbottom.

"How can we talk without speaking?"

"Uh, letters? I don't really know."

"Okay, thanks anyway." I kiss his cheek and he turns back to Frank.

"Hmm... Oh! I got an idea." I lean into Remus's ear. "Okay, we need a charm that can form words. When you touch the coin, or paper, or whatever we use, the letters will appear that you are thinking in your mind, and thus the words will appear. I'm off to the library!" I jump up, kiss Sirius one more time, and run (human pace) to the library.

After 10 minutes of grueling research, actually just flipping vampire speed through books, I find what I'm looking for. In the book, Dangerous Charms for Secrets, in the restricted section, I found a spell. It described it as the following:

'To communicate with out speaking, one must find the correct charm. The Communous charm is a perfect way to do so. You must place the charm on an object, say the names of the people that can use it, and duplicate the object for it to work. For example, if you wanted to write back and forth, you can say communous John to Alice, tap the paper 3 times and then say duplicitous to copy it. Then, whatever John writes on the paper, Alice can read on her's and vice versa.

There is also another way to do this spell. If you put it on an object, such as a coin and say communous temporarium John to Alice, the spell will read your thoughts, record what you thought, send to the other coin, and erase after it was read. This is useful especially for battle tactics because it heats up when someone thought something.'

I was very excited. I conjured up six coins, said separate spells on each, connecting them to every coin and tried it. After engraving the names at the top, I laughed. I could hold Sirius's coin, think Remus, Mia, and Lily, and say 'Hey' and it would appear on Remus's, Lily's, and my coins! I took them and ran to the Gryffindor common room, where I knew they'd be.

"Mia!" James said, as I walked in. I waved and sat on Sirius's lap.

"Look what I did." I pulled out the coins and showed them what they did.

"Holy crap! Mia, this is so awesome!" Peter said, taking his coin.

They all agreed and took their separate coins. "Congrats!" said Remus.

"Thanks." I replied.

"You are the smartest person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing." Sirius told me, kissing my cheek. If I could have blushed, I would have.

"Thanks." I whisper.

"Well," James said, after letting out a big yawn, "I'm off to bed. G'Night everyone."

"Night." we all chorused.

"Me too." Remus and Pete said at the same time. They looked at each other and laughed. They walked up the stairs, after saying goodnight, in giggles.

YAWNNN! Lily was tired too. "Night." she says.

Me and Sirius reply with our own good nights and we leave to our dorms. We practiced magic, talked, read, and now I'm recording our day. We already have good friends. Maybe being stuck in the past won't suck that much after all.

Mia