Chapter 14

I told Sorina about the experiment and we both shrieked with excitement. I think she may have been a little bit shocked, but she was getting used to the oddness of me.

"So, what are you going to do with your powers? Find out the answers to a quiz or test?" asked Sorina excitedly.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm not allowed. I'm supposed to be 'responsible'. How am I supposed to get any better with my powers if I can't even use them?"

"Whatever." Sorina replied. "At least you have them."

After that, we got back to work.

"Drat." I muttered a few minutes later. "I left my potions essay in the library. I'll be right back."

"Okay." Answered Sorina, too wrapped up in her astrology chart to really be listening.

I got up and exited the portrait hole (the fat lady was preoccupied and told me that I'd "better be back soon or else." I snuck down to the library, the school quiet and dark. I hoped that Peeves wouldn't come out of nowhere and attack me, not that I'd seen or even heard about him in the reality of Hogwarts. Maybe he had just been made up for the muggle stories.

I reached the library and was about to go in when I remembered that my work could also be hidden under the junk on my four-poster. I groaned, but tried to open the library door anyway. Maybe it was here. I didn't want to waste my time going up and down the stairs just in case.

The door was locked. I snarled at it. It was way too late to be fighting a door. "Open you dumb thing! Alohamora!" I tried to open it again. It wouldn't budge. I slumped against the wall. Maybe…. I stood up again. I closed my eyes, facing the door and imagined the library behind a brick wall. If I could see if my work was in there in the first place, a lot of my time could be saved.

I was floating above the shelves. There were so many books from up here! Thousands maybe!

"She's in danger now! She has to be more careful!" I floated towards a small alcove in the upper corner of the library. It was a little area that the librarian used to oversee the library. There were steps that led up to it. I floated over and saw Rowling, Dumbledore and Potter all standing there in their normal clothes. Why were they in the library at this time? I sheepishly thought of my non-moving body sitting outside the doors. Never mind. I wondered who they were talking about.

"She can do almost anything now. She could change the outcome of the world even!" Potter continued. Knowing that they couldn't see me, I wandered closer. Were they talking about me?

"Harry, calm yourself. I doubt she's that much of a danger. You just need to relax…"

"No! Trust me." Potter begged, interrupting Dumbledore. "She has got to learn control soon or, or…"

"Potter, listen to yourself. How much harm can an eleven yea old girl do?" commanded Rowling.

I floated as near as I would dare to, sure that it was me they were talking about.

He took a deep breath. "She can float around the castle invisibly with nobody even knowing. From what I've guessed, her powers could act up at any moment and bring her to the…evil wizards. Dumbledore, we've got to learn the whole prophecy. If it says that she can grant power to evil or good, then we have to figure out how to keep her on the good side!"

Dumbledore sighed. "I've been trying to learn the prophecy, Harry. It's like it was never recorded. People know about how Merlin's wand's new owner is powerful, how could they not, but no one seems to know the whole prophecy together."

Rowling sighed. "There has to be something we can do."

Dumbledore nodded. "Perhaps there is, but for now let's just treat her like a normal student. She hasn't lost control lately, has she?"

Potter shook his head.

"Then we are doing the best we can."

Potter nodded, hopelessly. "I sure hope she doesn't go to the evil side."

Dumbledore put his hand on Potter's shoulder. "I hope so too."