Chapter 26
Luna could not help but ask, "But how is that possible? Most people never are able to use magic that well with wands let alone without them!"
Aelira looked away as she sat the chair back down, "Well that is the thing we cannot use wands. Our power was too great when we got our first wand they shattered touching our hands. It only took two more wands for us to test before we the wandmaker stopped testing them, as they had shattered from our power as well."
"At this point our mom got the shop keeper to make us specially made wands. Wands that would only work for us, they were made of Oak as the wood, and contained hair from our twins' head as the core," Aelita shrugged.
"Did they work? Or shatter?" Hermione asked surprised that her two friends were so powerful.
"They didn't shatter," Aelira shivered, "It was much worse. I was handed my wand first, then sis got hers."
"At first nothing happened except what a first time wizard or witch would normally feel. The wand feeling right in our hands, like it belonged. To make sure we were both safe and the wands work correctly he had us test out our skills with a basic light spell, Lumos. We both cast at the same time, the results were something none of use realized was possible," Aelita flexed her hand as she spoke.
"Did you fry the place with the strength of the light?" Hermione asked remembering back to some books she had read about how powerful the flash of light created by a bomb could be. Some were powerful enough to blind people while some of the biggest known ones could even turn a person to ash.
"No. The wands exploded as we cast the spell, we were throw out the shop window by the force of the blast while the shop owner was lucky enough to be behind the counter and ducked into cover. Mom was also thrown down by the blast and anyone looking towards the show was blinded for at least a minute. We were blinded for about three hours and mom couldn't see for an hour. The shopkeeper was out of it for close to an hour we heard," Aelita winced, remembering what happened that day in scary detail.
Aelira nodded, "After that we realized that we could not use a wand without risk of repeating what had happened. At this point our mom set about teaching us wandless magic."
"So you both have enough power to fry and destroy any wand you touch?" Luna blinked, shocked, "that's hard to believe. I wonder if this would still happen if you used the wand of legend."
"What were the wands you tried, the core I mean?" Harry leaned forward, interested in the twins' answer.
"We tried a phoenix feather once, then a Dragon's heart string, and then a hair from the head of a Sphinx, all three creature used to make some of the most powerful wands," Aelita said remember their lessons.
"And with the wood type we don't remember though," Aelira said.
"So you were forced to learn wandless then master wandless magic?" Hermione said looking at the girls with a good deal more respect.
"Learn, yes. Master not even close yet." Aelita said, "It took us a year and a half to just master just the basic skills. Our progress though according to our mom has increased greatly since we mastered the basics."
"So how far are you along?" Hermione asked.
"Well, we've completed spells through the fifth year for the standard book of spells," Aelira confided. She got up from her chair and ran off, coming back with a copy which she then handed to Hermione. Hermione carefully looked over the book before she handed it back.
"This… this is something else," Hermione stated, looking at twins carefully, her tail moving back and forth as she eyed the book like a cat would a mouse.
"Yep," Luna agreed.
"I do have to ask, how is it you have not be sent any owls for warning of use of underage magic?" Harry pondered, giving the twins a raised eyebrow.
"Well there is no real way to track our magic, without a wand it is impossible to actually track someone using magic. It is why the Ministry of Magic tries to have people only use one wand, so they can figure out who did something once they find the owners of the wand," Aelira shrugged, "at least that is how mom explained it to us."
"So why would I get a message for underage use of a magic when I did not use my wand, or even have it on me?" Harry asked remembering back to summer break before second year.
"Not truly sure, it might be possible to activate a wand." Aelira shrugged after a few seconds, "but I am not truly sure."
Harry nodded as the group slowly fell into small talk. As the talk continued Hermione felt a growing heat between her legs causing her to blush in realization. The potions she had been on to control her heat were starting to give out. It wasn't too bad, but it could cause her problems later. Thankfully for Hermione, she made it through till it was time for them to rejoin the Grangers. Meeting up with her parents she showed them both Aelita and Aelira as proof of where they had been all afternoon.
As they got back to the hotel, Hermione felt her heat increase a small amount. It still wasn't that bad but it was still there and she felt it slowly growing, and because of she missed out on swimming and spent the time with Harry. When her parents got back she went over to her Mom and told her the problem. Her Mom had her write the school Nurse and send it off immediately. Hermione wrote the letter but without Hedwig around or some other magical way to send a letter they were still stuck.
That night Hermione slept in a different bed making Luna wonder what was wrong. Luna felt a little lonely as they slept but in the morning they were met by a surprise. Harry, waking first, spotted Hedwig standing at the window to their room. Harry slid open the window enough to let her in and she landed on Hermione's belly rousing her from sleep. Letting slip a cat like yawn she rubbed her eyes and looked at Hedwig and smiled.
"Hey girl, what brings you here?" Hermione yawned giving Hedwig a light stroke down her back.
Hedwig just nibbled her ear lightly and beat her wings as Hermione tilted her head confused as Harry walked over, "Hermione I think she came for a letter."
Hermione eyes widened, "Yeah I needed to send one yesterday but was not able to. Hedwig can you…"
Before Hermione could finish what she was saying Hedwig flew over to the chair. Hermione smiled and quickly got up and found the letter she had written the night before. Quickly tying it to Hedwig's leg she smiled as she flew out the room. She gave a small sigh of relief and sat down as Luna woke up stretching and yawning, "Why is the window open?"
Hermione yawned again and got up and closed it, her tail moving about a little bit as she closed the window. She turned back to Luna and answered, "We had an unexpected visitor this morning. Hedwig showed up to take a letter I had needed to send out."
"Neat… but did you have to open the window?" Luna pouted getting a laugh out of both Hermione and Harry as she curled deep under the blankets and covers.
"Yes Luna, Harry did," Hermione said as she pounced onto Luna's bed and started tickling her.
Luna tried to get away from this but was unable to thanks to being curled up under the heavy blankets. She started giggling and laughing as Hermione tickled her more and more. Harry chuckled lightly watching the two girls try and gain the upper hand over the other either by tickling, or petting. It lasted for about 2 minutes before Harry joined in, becoming a Neko, like Hermione. But because of Hermione's heat and Harry's newly sensitive nose Luna ended up the winner, petting them both to submission, while Harry and Hermione cuddled against each other, purring loudly. Tillie came into the room and laughed, smiling at the scene before her. She would've found it very cute if it weren't for the fact she knew Hermione was feeling the effects of heat as her potions wore off.
But as it was Christmas day she was going to let it slide.
Presents that year were nothing really big for the group, the most noticeable ones where the necklaces from Luna to both Harry and Hermione which were two thirds of a Heart, with Luna having the third and final part. The other present that was notable, was a new broom for Harry who had lost his old Nimbus 2000 in a match earlier that year. It was a brand new Firebolt, considered to be the best broom currently available.
After this they had a light lunch, and then got ready for the small evening gathering. Sam and Tillie gathered up what they would bring, mostly snack foods since the twins' mom, whose name turned out to be Veronica, was taking care of the drinks. Harry, Hermione, and Luna did not really do much unless Sam or Tillie asked them to find something. Finally ready, the three friends and the Grangers left their rooms. As they got into the car they knew the get-together would be a night to remember, but they did not realize why.