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Lumos

To make the end of a long day short Dumbles did come and take me away, Graeme's parents did come and take him away too and I was deposited with my horse, toad and school supplies at my fake daddy's house thing.

Now while the day err… the evening was young I had plans to make.

It seemed school started in a month and half give or take a few days.

Before school started I had a list of things to do.

1)Hatch baby evil snake of doom. How long will it take to hatch one? Toads are cold blooded as are snakes, but it starts as a chicken egg so should it be cold, or warm? Should I put it in water like frog eggs? Or maybe it should be buried in dirt and the toad should be forced to sit on the dirt? How the crap is this thing going to work and how can I find out?

2)Acquire the family locket. It would make things a lot easier having proof for my parentage and if needed I might be able to use it to …what …bribe my evil cousin or something like that? Maybe... I know he wants it and if he gives me trouble or I need something from him it would be good to have some advantage, besides knowing some of the 'future'.

3)I need an owl so I can use the catalogs. One that won't eat my Toad.

4)Both 2 and 3 means I need money.

Therefore it is time to practice my transfiguration. If I could turn a rock into something with just a little value and then sell it I could start my buying broken things and fixing them idea. It's tempting to just transfigure everything, but at some point it will turn back to normal and if I did it too much word would get around that my stuff is bad.

I could ask fake father to do it, but just because this entire world is fake and I am most likely having a really strange dream while in a comma or something, doesn't meant the idea of doing magic isn't epic.

Now that I think about it, it would be a good idea to practice some first year spells before I get the trace-wait! I live with my magical father. I can do all the magic I want anyways! Cool…

I still want to try something. Let's see…

I take out my wand and focus. I would assume that the best way to do magic would be to focus, breath deeply, visualize, think of nothing else, but the effect of the spell…

I shouted the first spell that entered my head and almost gave Green Brisket a heart attack.

"LUMOS!"

"AHHHHH the light it burns!"

Hooollly Hellll.

That's bright. How do I turn it off?

"Nix, Pix, Onex?"

If anyone asked I would deny that I sat on the glowing tip of the wand so I wasn't blinded.

So…Green Brisket and Purple Biscotti were both glaring at me…I had epic light powers apparently…and I need to remember how to turn off the light.

It started with an N…come on this is a lot more important to remember then that Moody says Constant Vigilance! Oh…in the worlds of that evil midget $&!&(%#()&$$ # !

"Angry daughter? We skin the muggles!"

Oh god…hi dad. What a nice way to cheer me up.

"No we will not skin the muggles! How do you turn off lu-the light spell." I am not saying that again.

"Off light? Where's light?"

"This light…" I removed the wand from my hindquarters and blind us all again.

"AHAHHHHHH BRIGHT LIGHT!"

No duh.

"How do you turn light off?"

"Finite!" He jabs his wand in my direction and my light turns out.

I blinked. That was not what I wanted.

"Thank you, but I didn't want you to cancel my spell I wanted to know how I could turn it off."

He blinked. "Finite." He repeated.

So he doesn't know the spell that just turns off light? I watch him walk back into the cabin which I now realized is a dark green. Why did he make the shelter we live in dark green? It doesn't look that bad actually...anyways.

"Well Brisket I think I should locate the spell in my spell book and actually read the theory this time. I knew it was unrealistic in those fanfics where the OC learns up to like all third year spells in a summer just because they've read the books."

After about an hour of reading, rereading and practicing wand movements I was ready try again. This time knowing the counter spell was Nox and if that didn't work then Finite would cancel it also.

I also knew that what I had done with my visualizing was overpowering my spell. If I had very little magic or was trying a very draining spell doing so would have worked wonderfully. I image if I do so with a stunner or Incendio I will have very awesome results in a fight, but to do in a classroom would be very foolish.

Also wand movements and pronunciation helped controlling both power, shape, and color of spells.

It seemed there was lots of variants of lumos, which could give me different colored light, different intensity, could give off slight heat, could start blinking, and all was determined by a mixture of intent and slight wand movements.

I suppose it made sense really. Harry did say in the books it wasn't all waving your wand and having something happen. Also if that's all there was to it how could anyone write essays about a wand flick equaling light?

It's possible that we didn't hear about this in the books because the teachers didn't get a chance to go over everything and just how interesting would we have found his school work as the years went by if everything was detailed.

As it was now I saw I would have a lot of work ahead of me. Flipping though the charms book it was oblivious the other spells were much the same.

Learning how to send up sparks was the next spell which went into nearly every color of the rainbow and progressed into making basic shapes in the sky. As annoying as it was I really did need to know that for emergencies.

There was two whole chapters of theory after that on Wingardium Leviosa before it got to the casting.

I'm nearly in shock that this requires real work. May I have a moment to rant? Thank you.

Why the hell isn't it as easy for me as it is for all the other people I've read about in this situation! Who cares if they aren't real, I am and I should get to learn everything super fast too!

Ok, selfish self-centered rant over now.

I don't even want to look in my other books now…

I picked up a rock.

"Hey dad can you make this into a pretty bowel that will last a few days?"

He looks at me.

I look at him.

"Bowel?"

He points at one of the dishes I made him transfigure earlier.

"No. Pretty bowel to sell."

He smiles with his yellow teeth to my horror.

"Pretty Bowel!"

He does something complicated with his wand to the rock I'm holding and it turns into a very shinny sliverish bowel with a moving snake on it. Moving I say!

This could take awhile. I inform of the corrections I needed and I went outside to practice lumos again. This time I got it right on the first time. Turning it on and off was in fact easy now I would start with the easiest color change. Blue….

How in the Hogwarts did that give me puce? It's not even on the color chart of colors you can do! ( I should start using wizard swears now. It sounds like fun and should make me blind in more.)

"Daughter pretty bowel!"

It was a pretty bowel in fact I wonder if he can make permanent so I can keep it. It had my horse galloping around the bowel with my Toad riding on her back. Lovely, still moving, but lovely.

This was going to be a very long night.