Chapter 2: Not a laughing matter
They quickly gathered their things when it was time to go to Magical Literature. They were very excited to go and see Professor Lupin. As they walked up a flight of trick stairs (that if you were not careful you would fall through) Harry finally spoke, "So do you think this wand can read minds or is it just our imaginations? I mean I've seen some pretty weird stuff but a mind-reading wand that's new."
" Well let's see… you see that door over there?" Ron pointed to an unused caretakers closet. " If that wand can read minds, open it with out saying a thing."
" Maybe we should find out a little more about the wand before we test it Harry." Whined a worried Hermione.
" Shut up Hermione its not like he's testing it on someone."
"Fine but I think…"
"Relax Hermione I know what I'm doing" lied Harry. But it seemed to calm her down a bit. Harry thought about the door opening and raised his wand. A red wave of light came out and the door came off its hinge and fell over. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood there with mouths wide open. All they herd was one thing. Footsteps.
"RUN…RUN FOR YOUR LIFES!" they all took off running through the corridor, past bewildered paintings and bumbling ghost till they finally reached the Magical Literature classroom. They ran in the door and sat at the table closest to the front.
"Ah… MR. Potter, Mr. Weasley, and Mrs. Granger so nice for you to join us, try not to be late again." Said Professor Lupin dramatically. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all started to blush. They looked around the room and it looked like they were out side but not at Hogwarts but they were in side.
" Um, professor why are we in the desert?" asked Hermione noticing the sand dunes behind the Professor's desk.
" Well Hermione as I explained to the rest of the class, I have put a charm on the room to look like the setting of the book we will be reading. The book we will be reading first is entitled Endless Nights. It's about a wizard who got lost in a part of the desert where you can't use magic and he is stuck in this desert for 40 days and 40 nights. These days seem to last for, oh, 5,000 pages. It was written by non other than our own Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. He wrote this while he was doing his 12 uses for dragon's blood experiments. Apparently he was under the influence of test number six if you ask me." Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked impressed and shocked.
"You mean we actually have to read the booked?" sighed Ron
"Of course not Ron I will show you all a charm for your wand that will read the book for you in the authors voice. BUT you cant tell any teacher I'm doing this or they will have my head!" explained Professor Lupin, " All you have to do is point your wand at your book and say Automatico Translatium and it should work." He passed out all the books, which were unusually small for a 5,000-page novel. "O.k. class please turn to page one and point your wands. Are you ready? On three, ONE, TWO, and THREE Automatico Translatium. " The whole class repeated the spell but only three Dumbledore voices were heard. They were coming from the wands of Professor Lupin, Hermione, and Harry. Professor Lupin was not as surprised to hear Harry's wand talking as he and Hermione was.
"Good job both of you." Complemented Professor Lupin.
"Tanks Professor." Said Harry. The rest of the class went by without any problems, and by the end of the class there were about fifteen Dumbledore voices speaking but nobody knew how to stop them.
"Just pick up your wand and the voice will stop. I want you to read the first five chapters by Monday." Said Professor Lupin " Oh and Ron, Hermione, and Harry will you stay back I need to talk to you"
"We would," replied Hermione," but we have detention w…"
"Sure we would love to," said Ron.
"Oh I know about the detention with Severus, but I will tell him I had to talk to you"
"Alright, what do you need to talk about?" asked Ron. Him, Hermione, and Harry sat at the table closest to the professor's desk.
"Actually this has to do with Harry's wand… it seems to be able to read minds is that true?" he motioned them to come closer and pointed strait to Harry's wand. "This wand is not an ordinary wand. It seems to have physic powers. I know what you're thinking I'm going to take it to Headmaster Dumbledore's office but I know whom it belonged to. I will let you keep it if you promise to be careful with it and not use it one a person. Agreed."
"Agreed." The three of them said in unison.
"O.k., you three can go to your common room and skip the detention. I will tell Severus that you spent the detention with me." They stood up and headed for the back of the room and they herd the professor mutter something. They turned around and noticed the room was back to normal. Impressed, they walked quickly back to the Gryffindor common room trying to avoid Snape at all cost. Then Hermione broke the silence.
"Harry you know that this wand is no laughing matter, you can really hurt people with it. Use it carefully." Harry nodded and they went through the Fat Lady and in to the common room. They went to the dormitories and went to sleep. But Harry could not sleep; he could hear someone calling his name. But everybody else was sleeping so he thought it was his imagination.