Unspoken
by Teddylonglong
Please refer to chapter 1 for my disclaimer and warnings. Thank you.
"Regina, you're a wonderful mother."
Regina stared at her sister in disbelief. While Artemis had to attend a last-minute staff meeting at Hogwarts, as the students were going to arrive the next day, Rebecca was spending the evening with her, probably knowing that she was driving herself nuts worrying how Harry would get on at the muggle primary school.
"Don't worry too much. You chose the optimal school for him."
Regina nodded. As she had worked as a mind healer for a few years, she knew all the primary schools in the area. In fact, just around the corner was a relatively small school that allowed children with special needs to attend the school together with normal children. Among the pupils, there were physically handicapped children, and the parents who allowed their children into the school, accepted that they were interacting with kids with special needs.
While Harry was a fairly normal child, if one did not consider that he had been abused during the last few years and that he was a wizard, he was allowed to bring Lucy. That fact alone had ruled out any other primary school.
Apart from that, Regina knew the headmistress well enough to admit to her that Harry was a wizard. Naturally, she was not allowed to tell anyone about it, but she had found it to be in Harry's best interest if at least the headmistress was aware of it, and Rebecca had readily cast a spell at her assuring that she was not able to talk to any other person about it.
"I just hope that no one will call him a freak like the Dursleys did."
"We shall see, and if so, we're going to teach him several ways to reply to it. I also believe that these two weeks of training at the Unspeakables' office has already done wonders for his self-confidence."
"Yes, that's true," Regina agreed, smiling.
Rebecca remained pensive for a moment. "I rather believe that he's going to be incredibly bored at school. During these two weeks, you've taught him to read, the centaur has taught him Maths to an extent that will most likely exceed everything the children are going to learn at the primary school, and he has become used to be confronted with difficult tasks. He'll be bored after the first week at the latest. Mark my words." She grinned. "If it's too bad, we'll just take him out again. The Unspeakables will be able to teach him everything he needs to know."
Regina nodded, feeling very much reassured. "I just hope he'll attend long enough to have at least one good friend of his own age."
"He will," Rebecca replied, smirking.
Regina's eyes narrowed. "Have you recently become a seer?"
"No, but according to Harry, the centaur told him to bring his muggle friend with him to study at the Unspeakables' office. As our teammate, he's allowed to tell us the details of his training. He cannot tell you anything, but trust me, if there's anything you should know, I'll inform you. It's not exactly an Unspeakable secret, but Harry is too young to know the difference."
Regina nodded in understanding. "That's true. Thank you, Rebecca."
HP
After breakfast the following morning, Regina accompanied Harry and Lucy to the school.
"Lulu, remember, you must sit on my feet and be quiet," Harry instructed the canine in a firm voice, receiving a confirming =Yes= in return.
=It's going to be boring. Devil always plays with us.=
"Maybe not. Let's wait and see."
"What is she wuffing about?"
Harry looked up at Regina, smiling. "She said it's going to be boring, but we don't know that yet, and we'll have training with Lorenzo this afternoon. He's totally cool."
HP
During the first hour, the parents remained with their children for a small ceremony. The headmistress, Mrs. Brighton, greeted the new first-years and their parents, before she explained a little about the school. Every few minutes, the ceremony was interrupted by a children's song played on musical instruments by a group of five older pupils.
Harry liked the music, and heard how Lucy let out small sounds of happiness by small yowls. They were very quiet though, and he was certain that no one else but perhaps Regina would be able to hear them. 'The instruments are different from those, which the giant showed me,' he thought, 'but the music is equally good.' During his lesson with the giant Unspeakable, he had been allowed to try out various instruments made by the giant, and he was looking forward to practise again in a few days' time.
Finally, Headmistress Brighton divided the children into two groups of twenty pupils each, before she instructed them to say good-bye to their parents. Harry's group was assigned an older teacher who went by the name of Mrs. March.
Harry allowed Regina to pull him into a light hug and whispered his good-bye, while Lucy laid her front paws against Regina's stomach and gently licked her face. He then joined Mrs. March and the group of children standing around her.
"Will the doggy attend class with us?" one girl asked. She had light blue eyes that seemed to smile at him and Lucy.
"Yes. That's Lucy, my dog." Harry returned the smile, knowing that Regina and Rebecca both had reassured him that he was allowed to take Lucy to school with him. 'If she couldn't come to school with me, I wouldn't attend the school but simply study with the Unspeakables,' he thought in determination, just when the teacher motioned everyone to follow her into their classroom.
Harry and Lucy trotted behind everyone else. By the time they entered the classroom, the teacher instructed everyone to sit in a circle on the floor.
"Harry, here!"
Harry smiled upon seeing the girl with the light blue eyes wave at him and happily sat between her and a fat boy, who picked his nose and reminded him of Dudley.
Lucy obediently sat in front of him with her front paws on his lap, from where she gently licked the girl's hands.
When everyone was firmly seated and had quietened down in apparent expectation, Mrs. March began to speak. "Now, I am Cornelia March, and I will be your class teacher during the time you will spend at our primary school. As you might or might not know, our school is a bit different from ordinary primary schools, which is why you have two handicapped classmates as well as two children who are accompanied by their dogs."
Glancing around, Harry noticed that there was one boy sitting in a wheel chair and another who was missing one hand. A blond girl, who looked very bony, was accompanied by a small dog. It was black and white and seemed to be smaller than Lucy.
"Now, I wish each of you to shortly introduce you to your classmates. Please say your name and whatever you wish to tell us. This can be about your family, the things you like to do or something you do not like. It does not matter. We will all listen quietly."
'Too bad that I can't tell them about the Unspeakables,' Harry thought, as he absentmindedly listened to his classmates talk about their parents, siblings and hobbies.
The girl, who was sitting next to him, went by the name Connie Cox. "I don't have siblings, and my parents, Giselle and John Cox, are both professors at a university in London. We live just around the corner."
Noticing that everyone was now looking at him, Harry cleared his throat. "I am Harry. Harry Potter. My parents died, when I was a baby. We live just around the corner, too."
'Thank Merlin I did it without mentioning magic,' he thought, when the fat boy next to him continued with the introduction.
HP
To Harry's surprise and at the same time disappointment, he did not learn anything new that morning, as they spent all the time playing several games, apparently so that they would have the chance to get to know each other.
Everyone was friendly, and after a few hours of playing, Harry slowly relaxed. For the last hour that morning, the teacher took them into the garden, where they could play catching or hide and seek.
Seeing that Lucy picked up a branch that was lying under a tree, Harry playfully summoned it from her without even considering the matter. Only when several of his classmates stood there staring at the branch that was steadily gliding through the air, did he notice his mishap.
tbc...?
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