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Morgan
April 1993
Fourth Year
It was the week after the Easter holiday and Leili was practicing a camouflage spell, one that would create near invisibility. It could come in handy for stalking the Gryffindor trio. Jo had, perhaps wisely, opted out of the experiment part, despite Leili's assurances that nothing would happen. Leili's cat Morgan however, had no such qualms about being used for experimental spell work. She just sat there, washing her ears and curling her tail back and forth.
"I'm really not entirely happy about experimenting on my cat, y'know."
"Oh, but you're ok with experimenting on me?" Jo snarked.
"You can defend yourself, she can't."
"Oh please, she's a cat, have you seen her claws? She's hardly defenseless. Besides, you said yourself, 'nothing is going to happen'." Leili made an indecisive noise.
"You're ok with me doing this, Mor?" Morgan purred loudly. "I guess that's a yes. Ok, here goes nothing," Leili reached her wand out and tapped Morgan between the ears and carefully recited the incantation for the Disillusionment charm. She'd been practicing since summer; She'd found the spell in one of Kanani's textbooks.
For a moment, nothing happened. Morgan just shook her head like someone had blown in her ear, and then a ripple went over her fur bringing with it near perfect invisibility. It wasn't absolute, you could just barely see Morgan's outline; it was more obvious when she moved. "Nicely done, Leili!" Jo said. "If I didn't know she was there, I'm not sure I'd know she was there." Leili reached forward to scratch Morgan behind the ears, only to have her hand meet nothing but air. She waved her hand over where the cat should be. Nothing.
"Mor? Morgan? Where d'you go, kitten?" Wave, wave, nothing. No cat. "Uh-oh. Jo, she's gone. I think I worked that spell a little bit too well." In all fairness to Leilani, cats could practically turn invisible without the help of magic.
"Lumos," Jo cast, her wand tip flaring to life. She waved her wand in widening circles around the last place they had seen Morgan. No shadows. She was gone. Leili scrambled from the room.
"MORGAN! Here, kitty! Where are you, kitty? C'mon, where are you? Where aaare you?"
"We need cat nip."
"With my luck it'll attract every cat in the castle except mine," Leili groused.
Over the next week and a half-it took them three days to get some cat nip seeds, and another week to grow the stupid plant-reports came in from all over the castle of mysterious trippings, shredded curtains, phantom purring and invisible paws attacking feet beneath bed covers.
When at last the catnip was ready, the girls placed the pot in the hallway outside the Hufflepuff barrels and sure enough, in no time at all, cats flocked to it, but not Morgan. Their next step was to put up lost cat posters around the castle-they carefully didn't mention that she was an invisible cat.
At the end of the week, no one had come forward with Morgan or information as to her whereabouts. The girls had removed the catnip after a day, planted it outside. When Morgan had been missing for a full three weeks and Leili was beginning to despair of ever getting her cat back, Professor McGonagall appeared behind her on feet as silent as any cat's.
"Miss Akina," she said.
Leili turned around and saw the normally stern-looking Professor smiling with a cat tucked under her chin, purring loudly.
"Morgan!" she cried, reaching for her cat. "Where have you been?! I've been worried about you!" Morgan butted Leili's cheek with her head and gave a catty meow. "Thank you, Professor!"
"You have a good cat there, Miss Akina; I suggest you not Disillusion her anymore."
"Yes, Professor, I mean, no professor!" Leili laughed, hugging Morgan tightly, scratching her behind one ear. "I mean, thank you, Professor." Professor McGonagall gave her a nod and swept away.
"Bad Cat," Leili whispered. Morgan just purred louder.
