A/N: Yay work, and school. *grumbles* Anyways, I promised I would try for another chapter by March, so this is what you'll get. On the plus side I'll be back in Scotland over my spring holiday, and may write a chapter and post it when I return.

And I was going to have them eat at the Little Tea Room [and get a knickerbocker glory like my friend and I did when we discovered they had them] but I couldn't bring myself to write about them eating at a place that would've been closed.

And as I'm facing mild writer's block, the story is going to move quickly here, though there is a random chance I'll come back and rewrite parts of it.

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The first day of classes at Christ's College started early for Maddy. Still, once the class was over, she would have plenty of time to explore her new surroundings before her other class.

Throughout the course of the day she was given information for the first excursion that weekend, from meeting for the trip, to returning Sunday evening. A trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon, seeing two plays and staying at Birmingham University Friday and Saturday, stopping by Oxford, and so much more to pack into three days!

Maddy's head was spinning at the thought of everything happening that weekend when she wandered to the Porter's to check the post and meet Severus. Severus took her off to The Eagle for dinner. A nice place that thankfully had a no-smoking section. Maddy wasn't quite used to the constant smoking that seemed to go on around her and was glad to be in an area where people wouldn't be smoking.

Dinner was a pleasant meal. Nothing exciting or incredibly memorable happened. Though after dinner, Maddy realised that she didn't learn anything new about Severus.

These thoughts were soon forgotten when she woke up Friday and got ready for an adventurous weekend. After a rather long ride in the coach, they arrived at their first stop. As excited as Maddy was, she was already starting to feel mildly claustrophobic. She wasn't used to large crowds of people, and was never really comfortable with them. Still, it was a minor thing, and only caused her to feel squished, but didn't detract from her general enjoyment.

That night was Much Ado About Nothing, and a long trip to the place they were staying. Saturday brought a morning of the semi-finals of the Henley Royal Regatta. Grateful she chose to dress up somewhat for the event, she didn't feel extremely out of place like her fellow peers in jeans. Though she wasn't thrilled about being moved about like a herd of cattle, and opted to leave the Regatta for a bit and explore the town.

She managed to lose all sense of direction and was lost after a few turns. At one point she passed an archway in a wall and merely glanced as she walked by, and thought she had caught the site of people in robes, though if not in robes, there was certainly a lot of colour. Stopping and backing up she was disappointed to discover the archway merely led to a side alley, a rather drab, and colourless side alley at that.

Returning to Stratford, was a night of Edward III, which chased away thoughts of the mysterious sight earlier for a brief time. At the intermission however, she went and stood out of the main seating area in an effort to shake the feeling of claustrophobia she was suffering. She was staring at her program, deep in thought about that archway when she was surprised by someone coming to stand next to her.

"Fan of Shakespeare as well?"

Lo and behold, it was Severus. Though how or why he was there baffled her. She merely nodded, *Has he been following me around? No, he couldn't have been, I didn't seem him yesterday after all. So why is he here?*

"You seem to have something on your mind other than the performance, care to share?"

"Well," Maddy paused a moment, while he just looked on expectantly, *He'll think I'm silly and seeing things. Still, I have to tell him something, might as well tell him the truth,* "I was at Henley earlier today and could've sworn I saw something down an alley, but when I checked, nothing was there. I just thought it odd that so much colour and so many people could disappear that quickly." *There, I've said it, now he'll think I'm insane*

"Henley? Interesting..." Severus stood there thoughtfully for a moment, then asked her a number of questions about what she had seen. Maddy was confused, it was just her mind playing tricks on her, nothing that important. Or so she thought.

"What's so interesting about this?" Maddy decided not to answer his recent question, wanting answers of her own before the show started up again. Severus just looked amused at her bewilderment.

"Nothing, nothing at all," and then without giving her a chance to ask another question, "looks like we should get back to our seats if we don't want to miss anything." With that he turned and left her with her thoughts.

Her remaining time at Cambridge went by quickly. A good friend was there for a different summer program, and she met new people. She still met Severus often, though he never brought up the discussion of the archway, and Maddy didn't question him about it.

She would have forgotten about the strange even in Henley if an impossibility hadn't happen on her last day in Cambridge [but not in the UK!]. She had taken the time to explore some the used bookstores before the dinner with the rest of the group. She was looking longingly at the reproductions of Shakespeare's first folio, when her eyes caught sight of a bookshelf hidden in a corner. Not taking her eyes of this shelf she swore she hadn't seen earlier, she made her way over to it, discovering it contained books with Latin titles.

Not really willing to dredge up her knowledge of Latin she just gazed at the titles and prices. Some were actually being sold at a price that she would be wiling to pay and she considered getting one. She was being silly. After all she had two more weeks of travel, and she would probably never really get the chance to actually translate any of it, but she felt she should have one. In fact a book titled Capiendum et Transformandum seemed to be begging to be bought. As she picked it up her mind worked on translating the tile...*Capiendum...that's what? The gerund of capio isn't it? Right which could make it capturing, so capturing and transformandum. That's another one, transformo, transformare, to change shape, transform, transfigure. Wouldn't be funny if this were something like charming and transfiguring? Right, it's probably something about one of the wars...still. It could be fun.*

She hadn't brought her Latin dictionary with her, but did a quick online search to confirm that capio, capiere could indeed mean charm. She decided that whatever it actually was, she would enjoy pretending that it was possibly some book from a wizarding world on charms and transfiguration. She didn't mention the purchase of the book to anyone, not even Severus when she met him later that evening.

She had to admit that she was coming to like Severus. A lot. She would miss him when she returned to the States. They agreed to met again before she returned home, after her week in Ireland.

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A/N: Okay, I think I'll stop there. I am going to jot down ideas about Ireland and the return though coherent sentences won't happen until my mid-terms are over and done with. I may end up changing the title of that book, but it is indeed meant to be "Charming and Transfiguring" and as I don't feel like actually looking up "to charm" right now, it'll stay that way until I get a chance to really think about it.

Cheers!