"Leo!" Ellie called
"Yes, mummy!" Leo called back
"There is something I need to talk to you about" she said as she entered his room, she sat on the bed, close to where Harry was playing with his new presents on the ground "do you want to start learning magic?"
"Yes!" he shouted, and then turned to his sleeve :Did you hear that Coira? I'm going to start learning magic:
:Amazing!: Coira hissed back
Ellie chuckled slightly "I'm happy you're excited, cause you'll need to work hard"
"Yes, I want to be the most powerful wizard ever!" he shouted the last two words
"You'll start learning magic, Professor McGonagall will start teaching you" Ellie said
"You mean Aunt Minnie?" asked Leo
"Yes, Professor McGonagall will be teaching you" said Lily
"Splendid!" he said
"But you must not do magic in front of muggles" said Ellie
"Yes, mum!" he said enthusiastically "when will I start?"
"I won't teach you only how to do magic, but how to control it as well. When your magic is controlled, you'll be using your full potential, which is powerful one, and that's why I need you to meditate every day, is that understood?" asked McGonagall, it was their first lesson, July 8
"What is meditating?" asked Leo
"Meditation, is communicating with your inner self, muggles have their own meditation, but since they don't have any magic, it's not the same as wizarding meditation" said McGonagall "Wizarding meditation, is not just communicating with your inner self, but also shaping your magic and getting to know it"
"How do I meditate?" asked Leo
"I'm sure, your mother knows how to meditate, she'll teach you later" said McGonagall "but now we'll start doing some magic"
"Yey!" he shouted, McGonagall put her most stern look on, and Leo looked down embarrassed "Yes, aunt Minnie" he said looking down
"Good, to cast a spell, you should push your magic out using your wand. think of your magic, passing from your head to your chest, from there to your arm, hand, and finally your wand" Minerva explained "So, our first spell is the levitation spell, and its incantation is Wingardium Leviosa, say it out loud"
"Wingardium Leviosa" Leo repeated after her
"Perfect, now, your wand should move like that, swish and flick" she said, swished and flicked her wand
He swished and flicked his wand
"Great, now try it with the incantation" she said as she levitated her feather
"Wingardium Leviosa" he tried, but to no avail
"It's very important to concentrate on the magic passing through your body to the wand" she told him "Try to push it out"
"Wingardium Leviosa" he tried again, this time the feather vibrated a little bit, but then stopped
"Good try, focus on your magic, like a river running in you" McGonagall encouraged him
Now, focusing on his magic, he pushed it down from your head to his chest, and then felt it going through his arm to his hand where it stopped, 'push it to the wand' he thought, he pushed the magic, and finally started to feel the magic passing slowly to the wand, "Wingardium Leviosa"
This time, the feather was floating in the air, Leo beamed on it
"Well done, Leo. try it again" McGonagall asked him to levitate the feather again and again, until his magic was coming out to his wand without pushing it
On September 1, Leo got ready to go to the kindergarten. He was excited, excited to make new friends. But he was also afraid, he was afraid that he would fail.
"Mum, I don't want to go" he said to Ellie
"Why, sweetheart? You couldn't stop talking about it yesterday"
Well, that's right, he told Padfoot, Moony, aunt Minnie, and even some strangers he met in the way to the clothes stores, where he bought a new outfit for this special day
"But what if I didn't have any friends?" he asked
"Don't say that, of course you'll have" said Ellie "but remember, you can't perform any magic in front of your classmates or any other muggles"
"Yes, mum" he said
"and you can't speak to Coira in front of them as well" said Ellie
:Sorry, Coira: he said to his sleeve, before he turned again to his mother "can I show her to them?" he asked, his eyes shining hopefully
Ellie thought for a moment, it's indeed unusual for muggels to take a snake as a pet, but it's not unprecedented "Yes, you can!"
"Yes!" he said before he turned to his sleeve :Is that okay with you?:
:I can cope with it: she answered
:Great: he hissed, and then he turned to his mother "Yes, mum"
"You also can't speak about any magical things such as owls, moving photographs…" she was going on
"or anything unusual to muggles" he continued
"Exactly, so are you ready to move?" she asked
"How are we going? Car or apparition?" Leo asked
"Apparition, it's faster, isn't it?" asked Ellie
"Yes, it is" he said, and took her offered hand, and almost immediately, felt the strange sensation of apparition, and a minute later they was near the kindergarten
"Take care of yourself" Ellie said and bent down to kiss him on the cheek
"Won't you stay with me?" he asked, somewhat disappointed
"No, I can't, I'm going to work" she told
"Are you going to see Mrs. Bones?" he asked, from his visits to the ministry, where Ellie worked in the department of Magical Law Enforcement, he met Amelia Bones, who was kind to him and gave him candies every time he came to a visit
"I'll tell her you say hi" she smiled at him reassuringly "now go, you don't want to be late on your first day, do you?" she asked him
"No, I don't" he said, hugged her, and then started walking toward the class, he stopped in the middle of the way, looked back, stared at her for a minute, and then turned around and made his way to the class. The moment he got in, she disappeared to the ministry.
I hope you liked the chapter, I know I should've made Leo more immature but this what I got, besides I wrote it long time ago (months)...
Meanwhile in my writing, Leo and the gang (I'm not telling who) are going through their first year in Hogwarts... you have to wait!
Thanks for reading, every review/following/favoring is appreciated...