The Dancing Queen

Step, step, step, back... step, step, step, swing... Audrey practising her dance.

And she antusiasly drag Percy when she saw he's coming.

"Tom Andrew ask me to the dance!" She smilling wide.

"Good..."

"Im so nervous... how if i ruin the dance? how if i step his feet? Oh, what i have to wear? How if i look ugly?"

"Calm down, Audrey."

"Im so affraid. The girls said, 'the baby will stomp on her own dress.'"

"They are mean. Would you like me to sneak to your class and make their mouth locked?"

Audrey giggling. "No, no. You are not a bad wizzard."

"Locking foul mouth is not bad."

"No, just let it be. They just jealous Tom Andrew ask ME to the dance."

"Why?"

"Well, he is a popular boy. Every girls wish him ask them to go with."

"Do you too?"

"Um..., not really. He is handsome though, but Im good to go with any boy. I wish i could go with you."

"Ive ask you."

"Yes, thank you for that."

"See Audrey, a popular boy ask you to go with him. You are not ugly or short or what ever they said."

"Uh, i dont know. But how if i ruin the dance?"

"Practise then."

"Help me?"

Percy nodding. Audrey shows him the steps. After trying a few round and Percy have memorizing the steps, Audrey pull out a stowaway* to play the music.

Gratefully Audrey dance barefoot, because in the first round, she keep stepping his feet.

Audrey start sobbing.

"See... im gonna ruin it..."

"Audrey, you just too nervous. And me too make saveral mistakes so its not all your fault."

Percy suggest them to stop practicing for the day, as he see, they will make no progress.

Percy noticing in his mind, dancing is not as eassy as its looks. Percy sometimes saw Mom and Dad dancing gracefully in the garden when the kids all sleep, and he think, dancing must be not so difficult. Apparantly he is wrong.

Percy copying the dance steps manual from Audrey's note. He's practicing his own after locking and silentcing his room.

Mom's wondering why now he takes longer time to finish his tasks, and sometimes fell asleep in the studying session (He sleep late, practicing).

Dad suggest Mom, may be he is too tired, just let him napping. Mom giving him a few days afternoon session break, and allow him to practicing the lessons in the morning sessions, so he could take a nap in the evening.

In a few days, finally Audrey start feel relaxed as they both get fully memorized the steps. Now she almost never step his feet again.

Today she bring a pair of new shoes. It has sweet shape and decorated with tinny swarowskies, blinking beautifully.

Mother allow her to use it to practicing arround the house, to make her feet more accustomized to the shoes.

Her feet blistered here and there. She's stepping in grimance, but she doesnt want to put them off.

"I have to make my feet get used with it."

"Are your feet will stop blistered if it has been full covered in blisters?"

"Mother said, new shoes usually do make the feet blistered. But it will better later. Thats why Mother allow me use it before the dance."

"Put band aids then. its start bleeding."

"My feet will not fit in the shoes if i put band aids."

Percy examining the shoes, and casting a cushioning spell.

Audrey giggling hard wear them.

"Its so fluffy! I feel like i use my room slippers."

And in a few weeks Percy relieved as now Audrey has confident enough with her dance, comfortable in her shoes, has a nice blue dress and will looks beautifull after Mother doll her up.

But that evening, she sobbing hard in her dance dress. Her make up all wiped with tears.

"Audrey, what happening? Was the dance went wrong?"

"No. Everything good. I made no mistake in the dance. But... but..."

"Why?"

"Tom Andrew got angry to me."

"Why?"

"I kick his feet."

"Why?"

"He want to kiss me."

"Why?"

"He said im his girlfriend."

"He should not do that. You are not his girlfriend. He should not kiss any girl who doesnt want to."

"He said i must feel gratefull he choose me. All the girls want to kiss him."

"He sound like a brat."

"He cursing me. He said im ugly, short, snotty baby! Thats why i dont want to kiss him, because im a baby, a baby not kissing."

"He is a pervert. You're doing good kicked him. Old wrinkly Merlin's shake, we are kids." (But his face burn red said so).

"He call me witch."

"I wish you are." Percy clenching his fists.

"Percy! he insulted me!"

"But 'witch' is not an insulation. Witch is as human as any girls, just born with magic. Luna is a witch. She is good, right?"

"Uhm. You right. He's stupid. Wait, Luna is a witch?"

Oops.

"But she and her family meet muggles!"

So Percy explaining about magic born, what is pureblood, half blood, and muggle born. Luna has a muggle grand parent that registered his marriage in the muggle civil administration, that give her family a muggle identification.

In other hand, Percy's family has no muggle identity, and if they want to make some, its take a lot of fortune, and his family has a big family member, which, expossing one kids, could as well get the other get exposed too, and so on and so on.

"Gosh, its so complicated."

"It is."

"And any muggle, with no magic parents, could born with magic?"

"Some times. But mostly they have squib ancestor. That mean, they actually have magic hereditary."

"And they know how to do magic just as it is?"

"Not really. When they 11 years old, Hogward, magic school, will invite them so they could learn everything there."

"What is squib?"

"A person who has no magic even they have one or two magic parents."

"Thats sad."

"Yes. But may be not."

"They living among muggle?"

"Yes. They have no magic power, right."

"But if they have no muggle ancestor, they have no muggle identity?"

"The Ministry will arranging for them to have it."

"How if the parents could not afford to pay it?"

"They put them in the orphanage."

"Thats cruel!"

"No, they just do it so the muggle civil administration staff make them muggle identity for free. They usually will get 'adopted' by their own parents."

Audrey giggling.

"Daddy Arthur will never put you in the orphanage."

Percy laughing.

And the next day, Audrey excitedly told Percy that Tom Andrew got big purple green boils in his temple and his nose keep runny so he snuffling all the time. He looks ugly and all the kids laugh him.

"He deserved it."

stowaway = walkman : Ancient portable music player, datas sored on cassette tapes.