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The Forbidden Spell

With all the anticipation, Lorette could not believe what she saw next. A man what looked like a magician walked into the room. Wearing long robes or purple and orange, gold lace, and flying broomsticks, he made Melikar look normal.

Standing still with shock looking as if he'd seen a ghost, Melikar snapped to life what seems had been taken away from him with fear.

Graciously he welcomed his guest, "Welcome Remus!"

"Won't you come in?", then he turned to the surprised girl.

"Lorette, tell Cam to bring in some coffee and biscuits...quickly!"

At that moment the man called Remus spoke up "Melikar, I am supposing you know why I am here?"

"Offcourse I kno"- he was cut off shortly by the sound of a coin dropping to the hard cobblestone floor, followed by a voice...

"Not again!"

"This dumbfounded wishing pool, I knew it was a mistake all this time it's been is a nuisance to me!"

"I will get rid of it once and for all", and with that he reached into his chest pocket and pulled out a long wand.

"OBITERDICTUM!" and with a wave of his wand, a glass like wall covered the smooth glass-like surface of the wishing pool. Just then Lorette came in.

"Melikar, will our guest be staying with us for the nigh"- she stopped speaking as she saw the glass like wall covering the wishing well.

"Melikar what have you done?"spluttered Lorette without realizing how high she had raised her voice to the old wizard.

"They're an unhappy lot, coming to the pool all hours, wanting this and wanting that. Some wish with such intensity they wake me in the middle of the night. I've half a mind to cover the underside of the pool."

"Oh, Melikar, no." Lorette grabbed the apricot sleeve of the wizard's robe, almost knocking the wand from his grasp.

'This is the only place in the entire muggle world where I can view the other world a wizarding truth," she added quickly so the wizard couldn't argue.

Wizarding truths could not be argued.

The look he gave her made her suspect he had seen the disrespectful wrinkling of her nose. Melikar secured a candle in a spiked holder and moved to his workbench.

Gathering her courage, Lorette perched on the footstool, pulling her lion colored braid to one side so she wouldn't sit on it. Her hair had been growing for all of her fifteen years.

"If it wasn't for the wishing pool," she said, continuing her argument, "I'd never know what the sky looks like, or trees, or stars."

Then as she suddenly thought she was getting through to the old git he just waved his hand and quickly replied with " I have no need of such disturbances".

And out came an outburst of laughter, only it came from they're guest and neither of them knew how to react. Thinking the man was laughing at him, Melikar suddenly turned red and hurriedly asked "what may I ask is so amusing?"

"Ha! No need to get all a flustered my good friend, it amuses me to see how much of her father there is in her and yet how much of you she has gained".

"What?" questioned Lorette, "how do you know my father?"

"I'm sorry miss. Nevermore, I've lost my manners." "I believe we haven't been formally introduced, my name is Remus Lupin, your godfather". He held out his hand in a way which looked like he knew he would not get an immediate respond to the shocking news.

"Is this some joke?", "you want me to believe that I have had a living relative all this time and think everything's going to be okay?" Lorette looked as if she was about to explode.

"I'm going to bed," and she stormed almost knocking Cam, the wizards apprentice over when he was coming through the doorway with the refreshments.

"What's with her?" asked a confused Cam.

"Many things, many things Cam...things neither you nor I could change." From there the three of them went on with conversations about the wizarding world, with no interruptions. Talks about castles, and creatures of all shape and size erupted. Their voices could be herd throughout the night, until finally one by one they all decided to hit the sack and dream of the wonderful things in the wizarding world. It was a good thing too that they finally went to bed.

Lorette had decided once and for all she would let her dream become a reality. Her desire to see the other world grew more intense each day that brought her closer to her sixteenth birthday.

She crept slowly and quietly down the winding stairs, and into the cavernous living rooms that was bound with millions of books. Each book had it's own secrets, Lorette had made it her goal to read each and every book in the old wizard's study.

She searched until she found the one book she was looking for, she had skimmed through it many times viewing it's contents and hoping one day she could use one of those spells. Today she would finally do what she had wanted ever since she knew she was from a pure blood family.

She walked forward to the wishing well and found exactly what she was looking for. Melikar had left his wand on the table upon all of his spells and trinkets. Then she and carefully said the counter spell to remove the glass like wall upon the wishing well.

"Diversify", she quietly read making sure not to wake anyone.

Opening the book which hadn't been used so very often to her guesses by the sight of the almost untouched spine. She found the page that she was looking for, and for a while hesitated but immediately decided she had to go though with it.

Raising the wand she read the words aloud, "Anger, fear, love, drawn with a knife. SEND MYSELF TO A WIZARDING LIFE!"

And with the last bit of her spell Lorette jumped into the pool of water, awakening everyone inside the old cottage to a loud and gigantic splash.