Authors note- Okay, so maybe this chapter is not necessary, but I wanted to give you more time to do my survey: Who should Bella Brooke end up with? or at least comment on which house she should be in! And I beg of you, please comment, say whatever! Constructive criticism, which house Bella should be in, who she should at least end up with for a bit (or forever) Or even just write HI or something completely random like 'I Like Unicorns'! I beg of you all, even after I have finished writing this one and moved onto the next part (I am going to do something like Book 1: Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone and Percy Jackson and the lightning thief. Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters etc, you get the idea) just please comment because I'm feeling really lonely on here! (Also if you want to follow me, I follow back, and if I don't I give you permission to send me a nasty comment or whatever). But anyways, this chapter is probably going to be both bad and short, because I'm biding my time before the Sorting because I want to know you're opinion and get your ideas so this story can be as fun and awesome for you as it is for me to write, so now, please enjoy your flight/stay (sorry that last sentence made me feel like a flight attendant) So, this chapter is practically just a side-story and will have almost nothing that is of much importance to the story so feel free to skip! And I am so so so sorry for leaving you for the entire weekend with no chapter, and I promise that I will never ever leave you so long without a chapter again! EVER! Unless I absolutely have to, but then, what's a girl to do? :(
Refresher- We apparate back to camp and I give Professor Snape a hug before I walk in and attempt to make it to my cabin before Annabeth spots me, needless to say I failed dismally ...
Annabeth catches me almost the second I cross the barrier and helps me lug all my stuff (the bag Professor Snape gave me now only extends for coins now that all my stuff is neatly packed in my trunk). We pull the trunk onto my bed and we both sit cross legged on the bed as I open my trunk of goodies. I tell Annabeth what Professor Snape told me about metamorphmaguses and I stand in front of the only mirror in the cabin and attempt to change my nose to look like a beak, after succeeding I shoo Annabeth out of the bathroom I start to transform myself to look like Annabeth, I grow a few inches taller and change my hair and eyes, I can't remember a few small features so I call her back in and she nearly screams. I make large tufts of hair grow out of my nostrils and ears "Ah, perfect, now I look just like you" I joke adding to the mix a magnificent curly mustache and a pointed beard "Hey!" Annabeth shouts slapping my arm, I turn back into myself and we go sit back down on my bed a smirk playing across my face. I pull out my wand box and pull the brown paper wrapping off, Annabeth almost squeals when I show her my wand. I pull 'a standard book of spells (grade 1)' out of my trunk eager to start doing some magic. I open it to the first page, the first spell on the first page is 'wingardium leviosa' which is a spell to levitate things, followed by 'reparo' and 'lumos' and 'nox' (to turn off lumos). I decide to start with 'wingardum leviosa' because it is the first one, I brandish my wand and after practicing the swish and flick motion I say the spell "Wingardium leviosa", the feather lifts into the air and hovers there for a few seconds before ... Bursting into flames and spreading ashes over the polished oak floor. Annabeth squeals with delight as I hand her my wand to let her try a spell herself, she flips through my book before settling on 'Scrougify' she practices her own wrist movement before pointing my wand at the floor and saying loudly and clearly "Scrougify" nothing happens, she looks so sad, and I just look at her apologetically my hair slowly turning a light blue, she suddenly looks a lot happier and hands my wand back,
"We'll so smash Ares cabin in capture the flag now, oh you will come home for Christmas right?", then I proceed to practice every spell in both 'A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration' and 'A Standard Book of Spells Grade 1'.
"I'm going to go find Connor and Travis, we'll practice some potions down in the dining hall before or after dinner" I tell Annabeth, grabbing the two books I was practicing on and a potions one, shove my wand in my boot and race to the Hermes cabin to find my pranking buddies, as I expected they are in their cabin dreaming up new pranks
"you'll never guess what I brought" I singsong dumping my books on a bed,
"You're not her to try and make us read again are you?" groans Travis eyeing my books
"No sillies, I brought this ..." I say dramatically brandishing my wand,
"A stick" states Connor "If we wanted one of those all we'd have to do is walk outside"
"you really are silly, no this is my magic wand dumbos" I mutter "Wingardium Leviosa" I add using my newly learned spell to make their plans fly out of their hands and into mine, they both suddenly look very interested in what I have to say, I glance at their plans, not really reading it,
"you could definitely use my help, if you want it please notify me, I'll be back down in the dining hall using my 'stick' to make some potions with Annabeth, oh and you can have a look at these to see what else I can be useful for" I say throwing them my spell books and striding out and back to my cabin to collect my cauldron and ingredients to find them already gone, I look down towards the dining pavilion to see my cauldron already set up, I jog down to see that Annabeth seems to have gathered half the camp and is seemingly doing a survey on which potion they think we should make, she comes over and mutters in my ear that the highest vote is for the most difficult potion in the book (the extra difficult book I bought for extra reading): Wolfsbane Potion, Annabeth looks thrilled because this is one you don't need a wand for quite so much so she is quite determined to prove herself. We have a silent conversation before I announce:
"Annabeth will be doing this for herself, I will only step in for the wand parts, then I will get rid of all the potion as it is quite dangerous an deliver for you a simple potion to cure boils!" Annabeth gives me a happy hug before snatching up the book and getting to work, in the time it takes Annabeth to measure her first ingredient I have already agreed to help with various pranks, just as I am denying Clarisse super strength Annabeth's potion blows up in her face, I walk over and I am cleaning up various messes Chiron clops over and sends all the campers away.
This is going to be a very long Summer ...