*General*
Megan led the others up and down a few flights of stairs, then to a Gargoyle statue that stood at the end of the hallway. As they approached the gargoyle came alive and jumped to the side. Beyond its outstretched wings was a circular staircase that moved like an escalator. Each of them took a stair and soon came to Dumbledore's circular office. He was their at his desk, expecting them.
"Ah girls, excellent, Minerva found you. Now, first before anything else may one of you please explain what trouble you were concocting this morning?" he said in his slow stately voice.
"Sure," Robyn volunteered, "Okay, last night Krista and Nikisa had this really weird joint dream. In it there was this weird sort of contest was going on. What you needed to do was create an explosive force that was strong enough to blast you through a window set 5 stories from the floor, and behind that window you had to slid just over 20 feet, and then you went on to the next challenge, but they didn't get there. So, since the Hall is like the perfect example, and fits all the criteria, we decided to try and make something that would do it." she explained as they all got comfortable in the chairs.
"So did you succeed?" he asked smiling.
"We think so, but we won't know until the dream happens again and we can put it into use." Nikisa said.
"Very good, you are all extremely bright if you can manage all that without aid. However, since you were late the other day, we did not get the chance to chat. All the other exchange students have decided to take classes with our students here, and then do their own studies after class, and during some classes they will not be taking. Now you must decide, which classes will you take?"
"Um, lets see, Transfiguration," Kate said ticking off her fingers, "Potions, Charms, Megan and Robyn will take Herbology, the rest of us would rather not and we will take care of Magical creatures instead, while those two won't. Umm... Megan and I want to take Arithmancy and Runes, Krista, Stacy, Nikisa, and Robyn want to take divination, and Robyn, Shayna and Holly want to take Defense against the Dark Arts." she said and when finished she sighed, "And I think that's all."
"Very well then, Arithmancy, and Divination are next, but you two," he said pointing to Holly and Shayna, "Will have to find something to do for the next two classes." They all nodded then got up but before they left the office Dumbledore stopped them.
"Girls, the Quidditch tournament is beginning soon, would you like to make a team?"
"YES!" the practically screamed.
"Wait, do we have to use brooms?" Nikisa asked, slyly.
"Not if you have something that will work to substitute them." Dumbledore said genially. Grins spread across all of their faces.
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
"Hey who's that?" Ron asked as the trap door opened. We were sitting together in the back of Divination as Professor Trelawny droned on about what our school year would be like. Four of the Canadians had arrived and they took the four remaining spots in the room, right next to me and Ron.
"Hello girls, as I was telling your classmates, today we will be reviewing tea leaves and crystal balls before moving on to oracles and natural prophesies. Please get your tea cups, and we will begin." The class stood and prepared their cups, as they did that first time back in third year. At our table we decided to switch around in a circle. Ron had Stacy's cup, Stacy had Krista's, Krista had mine, I had Robyn's, Robyn had Nikisa's, and Nikisa had Ron's. I took out my divination text book and found the right page before looking into Robyn's cup. I don't think this is normal... Instead of the normal jumble of clumpy brown stuff all over the place, there was only one big clump of tea leaves, and I think it looks like a tree, or a waterfall, no it a tree. I look up at Ron and see the puzzle on his face too.
"Um, Robyn is this normal?" I asked turning to the blonde girl at my right.
"What do you mean?" she asked looking confused.
"Your cup. It doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before." I told her showing her the tree.
"Oh, yeah that's all you'll get from us." Stacy said looking over Ron's shoulder at her own cup. The other girls' cups were similar. Stacy's cup held a shark clump, Krista's looked like a tongue of fire, and in Nikisa's cup was something that I think muggle scientists call a black hole or a galaxy or something like that.
"Um... So this supposed to happen?" Ron asked.
"Yeah." Nikisa said, looking up a reference in my text book, to decifer Ron's tealeaves .
"Oh dear, this is not a happy table." Professor Trelawny said coming over to their table, "Lets see, yes, my inner eye sees, unhappiness, darkness, disaster, death, and peril in these cups, and this one," she said lifting Nikisa's closer to her glass rimmed eyes. Then she let out the most horrible sound I have ever heard. She screamed and dropped the cup.
"I cannot read this cup, it is full of chaos." she said retreating rapidly, her breathing increased and she looked like a startled fly.
"Yeah right, I see what she thinks means death in Harry's cup, and it's a horse, which means travel. Jeez." Krista said with a laugh when Trelawny was far enough away.
"No joke, Ron's 'darkness' is a light bulb which means knowledge, what a load of crap." Nikisa said. They all laughed a little at that, but apparently the professor's happy with the recap cause she's taking out the crystal balls. What a boring class, I think I'm going to fall asleep.
*Seen through the eyes of Hermione*
I think that was the most interesting Arithmancy class ever.
I was surprised when Megan and Kate first walked into the class, and Professor Vector greeted them with, well she didn't really greet them nicely at all. Then she decided to barrage the girls with questions before they even sat down. I mean I totally understand that she needed to test their skills, but that was rather mean of the professor. Kate answered everyone perfectly and even though they got progressively harder she still took only 2-3 minutes per question.
Megan stood beside her friend through it all, and she even yawned once. Probably at the questions, though she wasn't answering. I mean I always thought she was so nice before, then she was making her friend answer all the questions. The professor noticed too.
"And you little miss, why aren't you answering are they too hard for you?" Vector asked, she was really angry now that they had answered her questions. Megan shook her head then at the question and looked defiantly down at our professor.
"Professor, Megan helped me answer half those questions, she's smarter then I am"Kate spoke up, "But she can't speak, or won't at least. So don't expect her to answer any questions, unless she answers them on the board or something." she said, and she sounded almost as if she didn't like the prof.
Professor Vector seethed silently for a few seconds and then told them to sit down, rather sharply. They took seats beside me and Vector immediately went into the lesson, totally ignoring our table. Our class, made up of six and seventh year students, went silent as she began to explain a particularly difficult equation first discovered by a famous Warlock named Einstein. About halfway through her explanation I looked over at the new girls and saw Megan slumped over her desk not paying attention. I think she was reading something, and she was making notes on her parchment.
Professor Vector noticed at the same time. She came up and snatched the parchment away from the girl who sat back in surprise.
"What are you doing, you little mute?" she said cruelly, "Not paying attention in my class will cost you 25 points from Gryffindor. What is this?" she asked sternly looking over the page. Megan turned and looked at Kate with an exasperated look.
"Mam, like I said, she doesn't speak, so why on earth are you asking her?" Kate said, "And that bit of scribbling on that page is the answer to the formula you are trying to explain, along with another formula, she's been trying to work out. Now please leave her alone, its not her fault your teaching things she already mastered." When she had finished Kate turned to Megan who was grinning and clapping her hands silently. Professor was shocked still for a moment and looked at the parchment more closely. I think my own jaw must be hanging just as low as everyone else's in the room. No one talks back to a Hogwarts' professor.
"It is, and its, correct!" she said in a disbelieving tone. Then she looked over the next formula, "When you figure this one out, come and show me." she said simply, then turned back to the class and continued teaching just like nothing had happened.
I leaned closer to Kate and asked, "Why does she want to know the answer to that?"
"B/c no wizard has yet been able to discover the formula for it yet." she said simply. My jaw hit the table again.
*Seen through the eyes of Holly*
Shayna and I, thoroughly intended to spend the next two hours in the library, maybe looking up spells we could use for some odd thing or another, but well... We got distracted. First we couldn't find the library, I mean it must have disappeared because it just wasn't there, or else we just kept missing this trick corridor or something, either way, the two of us just couldn't do it. After passing by the hidden passage for the sixth time in a row, we ran into someone, or she ran into us. All three of us girls were knocked to the floor and would have had a difficult time getting up, that is if six really, really, really cute guys hadn't come and helped us. One of the boys I recognize as being in Gryffindor, three of them were from Ravenclaw, and the other two, and the girl who was on the floor with us looked like they were from Hufflepuff.
"Sorry, 'bout that, I didn't mean to run into you." the girl said with a heavy Irish accent.
"Its okay, thank you for helping us up." Shayna said solicitously to the boys.
"Hey, you are from Canada aren't you." one of the boys said, his accent placing him either from New Zealand or Australia. HOT!!!
"Yeah, we are, and you are from New Zealand?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, hey, want to come with us to the lake?" Are you joking man? Duh!
"Sure." all three girls answered.
"Great." another boy said. They spent the rest of the class before lunch talking about where they were from which classes they had taken, and what magic they had specialized in. Of course me and Shayna had to explain a bit about the whole Order thing, and then about the Air thing, but we didn't explain all of it, that might have gotten them in trouble. Just as Michael (one of the boys, who was a year younger, same as the girl whose name was Michelle) was asking about the other girls in our group, a loud bell tolled.
"That must mean its time for lunch." I said brightly.
"Race you!" Shayna yelled jumping from her rock and taking an early lead since all of us had to get up from the ground. We all followed though at a slower rate, I mean c'mon we aren't that silly and she waited for us at the doors to the castle. Breathless from our climb we walked inside and sat down at the appropriate tables.
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
Lunch was a weird experience for all of us. Hermione was distracted by what had happened in Arithmancy, Stacy and Ron were telling everyone within hearing range how much of a delusional idiot Professor Trelawny was, and well yeah, that was when the weird stuff started. For some unknown reason all the teachers had disappeared, and the prefects seemed to have been gone too.
The Slytherins must have noticed this too, and they started up some mischief. After breaking from a huge huddle the entire Slytherin table stood, and moved immediately up to the teacher's platform and took out their wands. Draco seemed to be their spokesman
"Go take a bath you filthy Mudblood lovers!" he yelled as all the Slytherins shouted one gigantic curse. All the food on everyone's plate exploded and splattered everywhere ... almost. Before any of the food actually hit us, it all froze in midair. No one was moving. The Slytherins and everyone else were frozen. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw Kate, Megan, Holly and Nikisa stand and form a circle, while Krista, Robyn, and Stacy walked out of the hall with Shayna. I tried to ask what they were doing but no words were coming out of my mouth, I must be frozen too. The four girls linked hands and there was an explosion of movement. Wind came into the hall from nowhere in great gusts as it took all the food with it to the front of the hall. Suddenly we could move again, and we used our new found freedom to double over with laughter. Every Slytherin was covered head to toe with soup, sandwiches, and fruit, and they were seething mad. Like it was bad enough to be trying that on the whole school, now they were the butt end of their own prank.
"You'll pay for that Potter!" Draco seethed as he walked past the Gryffindor table followed by his house mates, as they went out of the hall, supposedly to wash up.
"I wonder how long it will take them to wash that stuff off?" Nikisa asked innocently.
"I wonder how long that Draco character will take before he realizes that it wasn't Harry, I mean honestly, if we are going to go through the trouble to prank someone we should at least get credit for it." Holly said with an exasperated sigh. They were all sitting again, just like they hadn't moved at all even Shayna and the other three were back, though I was sure they hadn't been here just a moment ago. Most who were listening shrugged their shoulders, but I have an inkling that this isn't the extent of their powers. Megan looked at me with a big smile on her full lips.
"Don't dwell on it, we're bound to know by supper time." Kate said. Dumbledore came in then and looked at the empty house table.
"Well, I wanted the Slytherins to be here for the announcement," Dumbledore told htem all in his rich voice, "But oh well. I've talked to each of the transfer students, and we have now drawn up the Quidditch tournament. The tournament will begin shortly after Halloween I expect all of you to practice extremely hard and go for it." The three tables cheered hard. QUIDDITCH! YES!
The conversations during the now quite lovely lunch centered around Quidditch of course.
"Hey are you girls playing?" I asked, mostly to Krista and Stacy who were across from me.
"Yeah, its going to be great, though we've never really played a real game." Stacy said looking down at her plate.
"Oh, well I'm sure you'll get good in no time, would you like Ron and me to help your first few practices?" I asked.
"Harry, here's the captain of Gryffindor, and I'm the new chaser." Ron said.
"Why doesn't the whole team come with us for the first bit, I'm sure you two can't help with all the positions." Krista said.
"Sure, but we'll just be helping you, we don't want to give away our moves or nothing." I said. I think I sound way too much like Oliver.
"Hey, we need to borrow brooms for the practice, we don't have any." Shayna said.
"Yeah, Harry do you know if we can do that?" Holly asked.
"Oh, yeah, but you might want to get your own brooms if you can, you don't want to ride those crappy brooms during a match." Dean Thomas put in, "I'm Gryffindor's Keeper."
"Okay, that works, how about tomorrow night?" Robyn asked.
"Sure we'll book the pitch." Ron said. Just then the bell rang and we all scurried to get to class.
*Seen through the eyes of Professor McGonagal
That afternoon I had the Gryffindors for double Transfiguration. Then a short prep class. I got straight into the lesson as always there, just isn't any point in wasting time. Ir's difficult enough teaching them about transforming themselves and others without bringing a lot of other stuff into the mix. I thoroughly assured them that this isn't the same as becoming an Animagus. As always, I remind them that it is extremely tricky, even though it isn't for me, and I made them take notes for the first half-hour.
Now to surprise them all. I call Megan and Kate to the front of the room to display their extraordinary skills.
"Okay girls, I would ask you to transfigure each other now, I trust you have been practicing." I say in a teasing voice, like it was some big joke.
"Yes, Mademoiselle." Kate said, her accent becoming French, as it usually does for some odd reason. The two girls faced each other, their wands raised, then Kate chanted, 'Questa Draco-onis.'
At once I could tell the spell was going to work. Something shot from both wands and surrounded the two girls, before flashing in a bright light. When my eyes had recovered from the blast I saw the most wonderful sight. Sitting on either of my shoulders were two small dragons, that looked different from any dragon I have ever heard of. These two dragons were identical, one burnished black, the other glittering gold. They each had four legs, ending in taloned feet that clung to my robes, and their wings were wide and leathery, also very thin. As if protesting against the sudden attention both dragons flitted into the air and my class and I watched in amazement at their graceful movements ... until the flitted right out the open door.
"Oh, dear. KATE! MEGAN! COME BACK! GIRLS!" I yelled down the hallway. What have I done?
"You'll never going to get them back that way, Madam." Holly told me coming up to stand next to me.
"They won't be back for a while." Shayna added.
"We can try to catch them if you want, though I know they would be better at it." Nikisa sighed.
"Might as well try." I said. I can feel the tears starting as I look vainly out the door. Nikisa and Shayna stood together facing each other. Neither moved and they didn't blink. I wanted terribly to ask them what they were doing since it is very disconcerting, but the looks of concentration on their faces made me think better of it.
Suddenly there was a loud raucous screech, and a bang as the class in the room and those in the closest class rooms came out to watch. Just through the open windows I can see a writhing mass that was floating towards them, a golden dragon flitting around beside it. The golden dragon screeched again and flew at the gathering students, flame bursting from her tiny mouth to singe the eyebrows off Dean Thomas's face. Everyone backed out of the way after that and the discolored blob floated closer and finally came through the window and quickly came into my classroom as we all followed. There was a mad flurry as Stacy, Krista, Holly, and Robyn went about my room closing all of the windows, and the door.
Then the blob collapsed, just as the door closed, and out dropped the black dragon, only to be caught by the golden one, who immediately started to chirp and screech at Shayna and Nikisa in a scolding tone. Then, sighing with relief and a wave of my wand Kate and Megan floated for a few seconds in the air, before crashing to the floor with a loud screech from Kate. Then Kate turned on Shayna and Nikisa.
"What did you do that for?" she asked scathingly.
"You were running away again, you know you aren't allowed to do that, someone might have seen, and noticed." Nikisa scolded.
"Well, next time, don't put Chaos inside the bubble it hurts too much." the dark haired girl sniffed
"Fine." they succeeded as I motioned for the class to settle down, and sent the extras away.
"Very good girls, though next time don't fly out on us. The spell is quite simple the changing word is 'Questa', and then we say an animal name, in latin, and that will transform the rest of it. Also you need to have a clear picture of the change in your mind. Now get into partners and choose an animal name. The dragons are not on the list by the way." I said magicking the blackboard into existence.
*General*
Harry and Ron went together and went to the back of the room.
"So what do you want to become?" Harry asked his friend.
"How's about, a..." Ron said studying the board, "Wolf."
"K, try a deer on me."
"Questa Cervus!" Ron shouted as Harry shouted
"Questa Lupus!" At once Harry looked down and saw the predator standing there, its mouth slavering. He screamed and tried to run, but there were things in his way. His hind leg got caught on something and the wolf leapt. And turned into Ron again.
"Thank-you professor" Harry said breathlessly, looking up to see McGonagall standing on her desk.
"Well, next time, be sure not to turn into predator and prey, but it is time for you to move on to Charms." she said gesturing all of them to leave.
*Seen through the eyes of Robyn*
Charms class was way too boring, I mean what's the point in repeating the same words over and over. After school I was wiped so I went up to my dorm, and fell asleep. It had started raining outside, and that plus my boring day equaled me being even more exhausted the before. Rain always makes me sleepy for some reason. A little while into my nap I sensed rather then heard the person coming into the dormitory.
"What do you want?" I asked with a groan, I mean can't I go to sleep with out interruptions for once?
"Oh, sorry, someone told me Holly was up here." a male voice said. What Male? I drew back my curtain and was face to face with a rather handsome young man. He had short blonde hair that was set in permanent waves, some falling towards his eyes, which were blue, oh man I love guys with blue eyes. He was well muscled too and is he appraising me? Oh wait I was doing that to him.
"Um... Hi, I'm Sheldon." he said, his accent placing him as a New Zealander.
"Robyn." she said.
"So, you're one of Holly's friends right?" I nodded stupidly, "Do you have a specialized magic too?" WHAT!! I'm blanching here! Okay birdie, don't panic, obviously Holly and Shay told him something so, damn it I should answer now!
"Um, yeah. Did they tell you about us or something?"
"No, not really, we were just talking about our past school experiences and they told us about how you guys had weird magic teachers and that they were learning how to control some element stuff." he told me, though by the look in his eyes he doesn't understand it.
"Oh, yeah, I'm learning how to control nature. Did Holly, and I assume Shayna, tell you about what all of us were learning?" he shook his head, "Oh, I see. Well yeah, I'm learning about nature, and so far my greatest accomplishment is making a seed grow to a full grown tree in less then a minute, and then back to a seed, though that takes longer." I told him blithely. He stared, and I laughed, not out loud of course...
"You can grow an entire tree in like 60 seconds!?" I nodded, and then to my complete and utter horror yawned, and it was HUGE!
"Oh sorry, you were sleeping, I'll go now and let you sleep." And with that said Sheldon fled the room and went back to somewhere, while I gladly fell back to sleep.
Megan led the others up and down a few flights of stairs, then to a Gargoyle statue that stood at the end of the hallway. As they approached the gargoyle came alive and jumped to the side. Beyond its outstretched wings was a circular staircase that moved like an escalator. Each of them took a stair and soon came to Dumbledore's circular office. He was their at his desk, expecting them.
"Ah girls, excellent, Minerva found you. Now, first before anything else may one of you please explain what trouble you were concocting this morning?" he said in his slow stately voice.
"Sure," Robyn volunteered, "Okay, last night Krista and Nikisa had this really weird joint dream. In it there was this weird sort of contest was going on. What you needed to do was create an explosive force that was strong enough to blast you through a window set 5 stories from the floor, and behind that window you had to slid just over 20 feet, and then you went on to the next challenge, but they didn't get there. So, since the Hall is like the perfect example, and fits all the criteria, we decided to try and make something that would do it." she explained as they all got comfortable in the chairs.
"So did you succeed?" he asked smiling.
"We think so, but we won't know until the dream happens again and we can put it into use." Nikisa said.
"Very good, you are all extremely bright if you can manage all that without aid. However, since you were late the other day, we did not get the chance to chat. All the other exchange students have decided to take classes with our students here, and then do their own studies after class, and during some classes they will not be taking. Now you must decide, which classes will you take?"
"Um, lets see, Transfiguration," Kate said ticking off her fingers, "Potions, Charms, Megan and Robyn will take Herbology, the rest of us would rather not and we will take care of Magical creatures instead, while those two won't. Umm... Megan and I want to take Arithmancy and Runes, Krista, Stacy, Nikisa, and Robyn want to take divination, and Robyn, Shayna and Holly want to take Defense against the Dark Arts." she said and when finished she sighed, "And I think that's all."
"Very well then, Arithmancy, and Divination are next, but you two," he said pointing to Holly and Shayna, "Will have to find something to do for the next two classes." They all nodded then got up but before they left the office Dumbledore stopped them.
"Girls, the Quidditch tournament is beginning soon, would you like to make a team?"
"YES!" the practically screamed.
"Wait, do we have to use brooms?" Nikisa asked, slyly.
"Not if you have something that will work to substitute them." Dumbledore said genially. Grins spread across all of their faces.
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
"Hey who's that?" Ron asked as the trap door opened. We were sitting together in the back of Divination as Professor Trelawny droned on about what our school year would be like. Four of the Canadians had arrived and they took the four remaining spots in the room, right next to me and Ron.
"Hello girls, as I was telling your classmates, today we will be reviewing tea leaves and crystal balls before moving on to oracles and natural prophesies. Please get your tea cups, and we will begin." The class stood and prepared their cups, as they did that first time back in third year. At our table we decided to switch around in a circle. Ron had Stacy's cup, Stacy had Krista's, Krista had mine, I had Robyn's, Robyn had Nikisa's, and Nikisa had Ron's. I took out my divination text book and found the right page before looking into Robyn's cup. I don't think this is normal... Instead of the normal jumble of clumpy brown stuff all over the place, there was only one big clump of tea leaves, and I think it looks like a tree, or a waterfall, no it a tree. I look up at Ron and see the puzzle on his face too.
"Um, Robyn is this normal?" I asked turning to the blonde girl at my right.
"What do you mean?" she asked looking confused.
"Your cup. It doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before." I told her showing her the tree.
"Oh, yeah that's all you'll get from us." Stacy said looking over Ron's shoulder at her own cup. The other girls' cups were similar. Stacy's cup held a shark clump, Krista's looked like a tongue of fire, and in Nikisa's cup was something that I think muggle scientists call a black hole or a galaxy or something like that.
"Um... So this supposed to happen?" Ron asked.
"Yeah." Nikisa said, looking up a reference in my text book, to decifer Ron's tealeaves .
"Oh dear, this is not a happy table." Professor Trelawny said coming over to their table, "Lets see, yes, my inner eye sees, unhappiness, darkness, disaster, death, and peril in these cups, and this one," she said lifting Nikisa's closer to her glass rimmed eyes. Then she let out the most horrible sound I have ever heard. She screamed and dropped the cup.
"I cannot read this cup, it is full of chaos." she said retreating rapidly, her breathing increased and she looked like a startled fly.
"Yeah right, I see what she thinks means death in Harry's cup, and it's a horse, which means travel. Jeez." Krista said with a laugh when Trelawny was far enough away.
"No joke, Ron's 'darkness' is a light bulb which means knowledge, what a load of crap." Nikisa said. They all laughed a little at that, but apparently the professor's happy with the recap cause she's taking out the crystal balls. What a boring class, I think I'm going to fall asleep.
*Seen through the eyes of Hermione*
I think that was the most interesting Arithmancy class ever.
I was surprised when Megan and Kate first walked into the class, and Professor Vector greeted them with, well she didn't really greet them nicely at all. Then she decided to barrage the girls with questions before they even sat down. I mean I totally understand that she needed to test their skills, but that was rather mean of the professor. Kate answered everyone perfectly and even though they got progressively harder she still took only 2-3 minutes per question.
Megan stood beside her friend through it all, and she even yawned once. Probably at the questions, though she wasn't answering. I mean I always thought she was so nice before, then she was making her friend answer all the questions. The professor noticed too.
"And you little miss, why aren't you answering are they too hard for you?" Vector asked, she was really angry now that they had answered her questions. Megan shook her head then at the question and looked defiantly down at our professor.
"Professor, Megan helped me answer half those questions, she's smarter then I am"Kate spoke up, "But she can't speak, or won't at least. So don't expect her to answer any questions, unless she answers them on the board or something." she said, and she sounded almost as if she didn't like the prof.
Professor Vector seethed silently for a few seconds and then told them to sit down, rather sharply. They took seats beside me and Vector immediately went into the lesson, totally ignoring our table. Our class, made up of six and seventh year students, went silent as she began to explain a particularly difficult equation first discovered by a famous Warlock named Einstein. About halfway through her explanation I looked over at the new girls and saw Megan slumped over her desk not paying attention. I think she was reading something, and she was making notes on her parchment.
Professor Vector noticed at the same time. She came up and snatched the parchment away from the girl who sat back in surprise.
"What are you doing, you little mute?" she said cruelly, "Not paying attention in my class will cost you 25 points from Gryffindor. What is this?" she asked sternly looking over the page. Megan turned and looked at Kate with an exasperated look.
"Mam, like I said, she doesn't speak, so why on earth are you asking her?" Kate said, "And that bit of scribbling on that page is the answer to the formula you are trying to explain, along with another formula, she's been trying to work out. Now please leave her alone, its not her fault your teaching things she already mastered." When she had finished Kate turned to Megan who was grinning and clapping her hands silently. Professor was shocked still for a moment and looked at the parchment more closely. I think my own jaw must be hanging just as low as everyone else's in the room. No one talks back to a Hogwarts' professor.
"It is, and its, correct!" she said in a disbelieving tone. Then she looked over the next formula, "When you figure this one out, come and show me." she said simply, then turned back to the class and continued teaching just like nothing had happened.
I leaned closer to Kate and asked, "Why does she want to know the answer to that?"
"B/c no wizard has yet been able to discover the formula for it yet." she said simply. My jaw hit the table again.
*Seen through the eyes of Holly*
Shayna and I, thoroughly intended to spend the next two hours in the library, maybe looking up spells we could use for some odd thing or another, but well... We got distracted. First we couldn't find the library, I mean it must have disappeared because it just wasn't there, or else we just kept missing this trick corridor or something, either way, the two of us just couldn't do it. After passing by the hidden passage for the sixth time in a row, we ran into someone, or she ran into us. All three of us girls were knocked to the floor and would have had a difficult time getting up, that is if six really, really, really cute guys hadn't come and helped us. One of the boys I recognize as being in Gryffindor, three of them were from Ravenclaw, and the other two, and the girl who was on the floor with us looked like they were from Hufflepuff.
"Sorry, 'bout that, I didn't mean to run into you." the girl said with a heavy Irish accent.
"Its okay, thank you for helping us up." Shayna said solicitously to the boys.
"Hey, you are from Canada aren't you." one of the boys said, his accent placing him either from New Zealand or Australia. HOT!!!
"Yeah, we are, and you are from New Zealand?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, hey, want to come with us to the lake?" Are you joking man? Duh!
"Sure." all three girls answered.
"Great." another boy said. They spent the rest of the class before lunch talking about where they were from which classes they had taken, and what magic they had specialized in. Of course me and Shayna had to explain a bit about the whole Order thing, and then about the Air thing, but we didn't explain all of it, that might have gotten them in trouble. Just as Michael (one of the boys, who was a year younger, same as the girl whose name was Michelle) was asking about the other girls in our group, a loud bell tolled.
"That must mean its time for lunch." I said brightly.
"Race you!" Shayna yelled jumping from her rock and taking an early lead since all of us had to get up from the ground. We all followed though at a slower rate, I mean c'mon we aren't that silly and she waited for us at the doors to the castle. Breathless from our climb we walked inside and sat down at the appropriate tables.
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
Lunch was a weird experience for all of us. Hermione was distracted by what had happened in Arithmancy, Stacy and Ron were telling everyone within hearing range how much of a delusional idiot Professor Trelawny was, and well yeah, that was when the weird stuff started. For some unknown reason all the teachers had disappeared, and the prefects seemed to have been gone too.
The Slytherins must have noticed this too, and they started up some mischief. After breaking from a huge huddle the entire Slytherin table stood, and moved immediately up to the teacher's platform and took out their wands. Draco seemed to be their spokesman
"Go take a bath you filthy Mudblood lovers!" he yelled as all the Slytherins shouted one gigantic curse. All the food on everyone's plate exploded and splattered everywhere ... almost. Before any of the food actually hit us, it all froze in midair. No one was moving. The Slytherins and everyone else were frozen. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw Kate, Megan, Holly and Nikisa stand and form a circle, while Krista, Robyn, and Stacy walked out of the hall with Shayna. I tried to ask what they were doing but no words were coming out of my mouth, I must be frozen too. The four girls linked hands and there was an explosion of movement. Wind came into the hall from nowhere in great gusts as it took all the food with it to the front of the hall. Suddenly we could move again, and we used our new found freedom to double over with laughter. Every Slytherin was covered head to toe with soup, sandwiches, and fruit, and they were seething mad. Like it was bad enough to be trying that on the whole school, now they were the butt end of their own prank.
"You'll pay for that Potter!" Draco seethed as he walked past the Gryffindor table followed by his house mates, as they went out of the hall, supposedly to wash up.
"I wonder how long it will take them to wash that stuff off?" Nikisa asked innocently.
"I wonder how long that Draco character will take before he realizes that it wasn't Harry, I mean honestly, if we are going to go through the trouble to prank someone we should at least get credit for it." Holly said with an exasperated sigh. They were all sitting again, just like they hadn't moved at all even Shayna and the other three were back, though I was sure they hadn't been here just a moment ago. Most who were listening shrugged their shoulders, but I have an inkling that this isn't the extent of their powers. Megan looked at me with a big smile on her full lips.
"Don't dwell on it, we're bound to know by supper time." Kate said. Dumbledore came in then and looked at the empty house table.
"Well, I wanted the Slytherins to be here for the announcement," Dumbledore told htem all in his rich voice, "But oh well. I've talked to each of the transfer students, and we have now drawn up the Quidditch tournament. The tournament will begin shortly after Halloween I expect all of you to practice extremely hard and go for it." The three tables cheered hard. QUIDDITCH! YES!
The conversations during the now quite lovely lunch centered around Quidditch of course.
"Hey are you girls playing?" I asked, mostly to Krista and Stacy who were across from me.
"Yeah, its going to be great, though we've never really played a real game." Stacy said looking down at her plate.
"Oh, well I'm sure you'll get good in no time, would you like Ron and me to help your first few practices?" I asked.
"Harry, here's the captain of Gryffindor, and I'm the new chaser." Ron said.
"Why doesn't the whole team come with us for the first bit, I'm sure you two can't help with all the positions." Krista said.
"Sure, but we'll just be helping you, we don't want to give away our moves or nothing." I said. I think I sound way too much like Oliver.
"Hey, we need to borrow brooms for the practice, we don't have any." Shayna said.
"Yeah, Harry do you know if we can do that?" Holly asked.
"Oh, yeah, but you might want to get your own brooms if you can, you don't want to ride those crappy brooms during a match." Dean Thomas put in, "I'm Gryffindor's Keeper."
"Okay, that works, how about tomorrow night?" Robyn asked.
"Sure we'll book the pitch." Ron said. Just then the bell rang and we all scurried to get to class.
*Seen through the eyes of Professor McGonagal
That afternoon I had the Gryffindors for double Transfiguration. Then a short prep class. I got straight into the lesson as always there, just isn't any point in wasting time. Ir's difficult enough teaching them about transforming themselves and others without bringing a lot of other stuff into the mix. I thoroughly assured them that this isn't the same as becoming an Animagus. As always, I remind them that it is extremely tricky, even though it isn't for me, and I made them take notes for the first half-hour.
Now to surprise them all. I call Megan and Kate to the front of the room to display their extraordinary skills.
"Okay girls, I would ask you to transfigure each other now, I trust you have been practicing." I say in a teasing voice, like it was some big joke.
"Yes, Mademoiselle." Kate said, her accent becoming French, as it usually does for some odd reason. The two girls faced each other, their wands raised, then Kate chanted, 'Questa Draco-onis.'
At once I could tell the spell was going to work. Something shot from both wands and surrounded the two girls, before flashing in a bright light. When my eyes had recovered from the blast I saw the most wonderful sight. Sitting on either of my shoulders were two small dragons, that looked different from any dragon I have ever heard of. These two dragons were identical, one burnished black, the other glittering gold. They each had four legs, ending in taloned feet that clung to my robes, and their wings were wide and leathery, also very thin. As if protesting against the sudden attention both dragons flitted into the air and my class and I watched in amazement at their graceful movements ... until the flitted right out the open door.
"Oh, dear. KATE! MEGAN! COME BACK! GIRLS!" I yelled down the hallway. What have I done?
"You'll never going to get them back that way, Madam." Holly told me coming up to stand next to me.
"They won't be back for a while." Shayna added.
"We can try to catch them if you want, though I know they would be better at it." Nikisa sighed.
"Might as well try." I said. I can feel the tears starting as I look vainly out the door. Nikisa and Shayna stood together facing each other. Neither moved and they didn't blink. I wanted terribly to ask them what they were doing since it is very disconcerting, but the looks of concentration on their faces made me think better of it.
Suddenly there was a loud raucous screech, and a bang as the class in the room and those in the closest class rooms came out to watch. Just through the open windows I can see a writhing mass that was floating towards them, a golden dragon flitting around beside it. The golden dragon screeched again and flew at the gathering students, flame bursting from her tiny mouth to singe the eyebrows off Dean Thomas's face. Everyone backed out of the way after that and the discolored blob floated closer and finally came through the window and quickly came into my classroom as we all followed. There was a mad flurry as Stacy, Krista, Holly, and Robyn went about my room closing all of the windows, and the door.
Then the blob collapsed, just as the door closed, and out dropped the black dragon, only to be caught by the golden one, who immediately started to chirp and screech at Shayna and Nikisa in a scolding tone. Then, sighing with relief and a wave of my wand Kate and Megan floated for a few seconds in the air, before crashing to the floor with a loud screech from Kate. Then Kate turned on Shayna and Nikisa.
"What did you do that for?" she asked scathingly.
"You were running away again, you know you aren't allowed to do that, someone might have seen, and noticed." Nikisa scolded.
"Well, next time, don't put Chaos inside the bubble it hurts too much." the dark haired girl sniffed
"Fine." they succeeded as I motioned for the class to settle down, and sent the extras away.
"Very good girls, though next time don't fly out on us. The spell is quite simple the changing word is 'Questa', and then we say an animal name, in latin, and that will transform the rest of it. Also you need to have a clear picture of the change in your mind. Now get into partners and choose an animal name. The dragons are not on the list by the way." I said magicking the blackboard into existence.
*General*
Harry and Ron went together and went to the back of the room.
"So what do you want to become?" Harry asked his friend.
"How's about, a..." Ron said studying the board, "Wolf."
"K, try a deer on me."
"Questa Cervus!" Ron shouted as Harry shouted
"Questa Lupus!" At once Harry looked down and saw the predator standing there, its mouth slavering. He screamed and tried to run, but there were things in his way. His hind leg got caught on something and the wolf leapt. And turned into Ron again.
"Thank-you professor" Harry said breathlessly, looking up to see McGonagall standing on her desk.
"Well, next time, be sure not to turn into predator and prey, but it is time for you to move on to Charms." she said gesturing all of them to leave.
*Seen through the eyes of Robyn*
Charms class was way too boring, I mean what's the point in repeating the same words over and over. After school I was wiped so I went up to my dorm, and fell asleep. It had started raining outside, and that plus my boring day equaled me being even more exhausted the before. Rain always makes me sleepy for some reason. A little while into my nap I sensed rather then heard the person coming into the dormitory.
"What do you want?" I asked with a groan, I mean can't I go to sleep with out interruptions for once?
"Oh, sorry, someone told me Holly was up here." a male voice said. What Male? I drew back my curtain and was face to face with a rather handsome young man. He had short blonde hair that was set in permanent waves, some falling towards his eyes, which were blue, oh man I love guys with blue eyes. He was well muscled too and is he appraising me? Oh wait I was doing that to him.
"Um... Hi, I'm Sheldon." he said, his accent placing him as a New Zealander.
"Robyn." she said.
"So, you're one of Holly's friends right?" I nodded stupidly, "Do you have a specialized magic too?" WHAT!! I'm blanching here! Okay birdie, don't panic, obviously Holly and Shay told him something so, damn it I should answer now!
"Um, yeah. Did they tell you about us or something?"
"No, not really, we were just talking about our past school experiences and they told us about how you guys had weird magic teachers and that they were learning how to control some element stuff." he told me, though by the look in his eyes he doesn't understand it.
"Oh, yeah, I'm learning how to control nature. Did Holly, and I assume Shayna, tell you about what all of us were learning?" he shook his head, "Oh, I see. Well yeah, I'm learning about nature, and so far my greatest accomplishment is making a seed grow to a full grown tree in less then a minute, and then back to a seed, though that takes longer." I told him blithely. He stared, and I laughed, not out loud of course...
"You can grow an entire tree in like 60 seconds!?" I nodded, and then to my complete and utter horror yawned, and it was HUGE!
"Oh sorry, you were sleeping, I'll go now and let you sleep." And with that said Sheldon fled the room and went back to somewhere, while I gladly fell back to sleep.