Chapter 13 - Carlie's powers

Carlie had been in the hospital wing for three days, Fred and George often visited her with some interesting gifts. Jess dropped by really late on the first night to apologize and give her the book she was reading. So now her sources for amusement were 'entertaining spells' and levitating things around the room. Jess's punishment wasn't as severe as Carlie thought, he'd gotten three weeks of detention and twenty points had been taken from Slytherin.

"TWENTY POINTS! IT WAS AN ILLEGAL CURSE!" George had roared.

Carlie hadn't heard of anymore talk of getting Jess back but then mind reading wasn't in her power description. She strained to remember what her powers were, she'd read in the book about it but she could scarcely remember. With her face screwed hard into concentration, she didn't notice how hard she was staring at the ceiling until a hot piece of it fell on her bed. Looking up she saw a large misshaped patch burned into the ceiling. Concentrating on a circle shape in her mind, the ceiling began to heat up and a circle shape was made, it glowed red but as it cooled, it looked as if it was etched into the ceiling. Carlie smiled at her work, she'd been the only one who hadn't had lessons from Marcus and in her opinion, she had done a fairly good job. She rattled her brain more to remember what powers she had but was coming up blank. Sitting up she checked whether Madam Pomfrey was around. Once the coast was clear she orbed up to the dorm, most people were at dinner so the dorm was empty. Stumbling out of the closet, Carlie snatched the element book out of her draw and orbed back into the hospital wing. Leaning back on her bed, she opened the book to the powers of the elements, the mistress of Fire had many powers but her main gifts were being able to Shape shift, burn things with her mind and dreamography. Dreamography is the ability to transfer images from ones own mind to another.

"Shape shift and Dreamography" Carlie said softly. Turning the pages towards the back, she came up with instructions on how each power is used.

"Shape Shifting is the skill to change the appearance of ones self, much like metamorphmagus except a shape shifter is able to turn into any animal without the skill of being an Animagus" Carlie read "One must think of what they want to look like before they transform"

Carlie placed the book down and thought for a second, what would she want to change into? She'd try something small first, like change her hair colour. She decided she'd try and turn her hair a vibrant blue. Closing her eyes, she concreted on what she'd look like with blue hair. Opening her eyes, she looked around for a mirror, when she found one, she laughed. Her hair looked awesome; it was a deep blue colour. She wanted to keep it that way but there would be questions how she did it in the hospital wing without her wand. Thinking about her normal hair colour, it turned back to its usual platinum blonde dye job with black re-growth. She felt quite tired after that and before long had dropped off into a deep sleep.

The fresh air never felt so good, Carlie thought as she walked across the grounds. She'd just been released from the hospital wing and wanted to find Fred and George. Percy had told her that they were on the Quiddich pitch. She could see the Gryffindor Quiddich team flying around in the distance.

Fred and George spotted her as she came closer and waved to her. Smiling, she waved back. They flew down after a while and said "Come on and join us, Wood won't mind"

"Really are you sure? You know how crazy I am on a broom."

The rest of the team flew down. "Hello Carlie, good to see you're better" Wood said.

"Hi Oliver, is it okay if I join in?"

"That would be great actually; I can see how the team performance from a spectators perspective. Do you mind playing keeper?"

Carlie nodded. Oliver passed Carlie his broom and he went up to the stands.

Carlie positioned herself in front of the hoops and began to watch the game in progress. Katie Bell began to come towards her with the Quaffle, then she threw it towards the left hoop, Carlie decided to have a little fun by making the Quaffle turn around and zoom towards the other end of the pitch. Carlie tried hard to sustain her giggles.

"WHO CHARMED THE QUAFFLE?" Wood was yelling.

"NO ONE CHARMED THE QUAFFLE OLIVER!" Fred yelled back.

"SOMEONE DID! LOOK AT IT!" Alicia yelled flying over to Oliver.

Everyone flew over to her. Carlie mentally slapped herself, the Quaffle was burnt.

"I'll talk to McGonagall about it, bloody Slytherins" Wood said "well we're run overtime anyway, so I'll see you tomorrow"

Carlie gave Oliver back his broom and walked back across the grounds with Fred and George.

"Now that you are free Carls we can get Mcairn back for doing it to you" Fred said.

"I turned his hair green so he got me back for it" Carlie said.

"I think we should drop dungbombs on him until he passes out" George suggested.

Carlie rolled her eyes. "I won't have anything to do with it"

"Oh you have a soft spot for Mcairn now do you?" Fred asked.

"So what if I do?" Carlie asked

Fred and George gaped, "You don't LIKE him do you?"

Carlie shrugged "And if I do?"

"But he's a Slytherin and he hates us" Fred cried

"Maybe if you got to know him you'd realize he is actually a really nice gu.y"

"No way, you're delusional" George said.

"Probably that potion Pomfrey gave me" Carlie gave a cheeky grin.

"You're messing with us!" Fred said.

Carlie pretended to look hurt "That cut me deep you know, it's like you don't trust me"

The two of them laughed "Gee I wonder WHY we wouldn't trust you?"

"Well you should" With a flick of her hair, Carlie turned around and began to go back to the castle.

Jess was sitting in the Slytherin common room when Marcus announced /orb to the house for some more lessons/

Jess silently got up and threw his books on his bed before orbing to the house.

Marcus was sitting on the couch with Lyndsay who were in deep discussion when Jess appeared.

"Hey Marcus, hey Lynds"

"Hey Jess" Lyndsay replied before returning to the conversation.

From what Jess could hear, they were talking about potions.

Nathan almost orbed on Jess if not for Jess moving.

"Sorry, not to good at it" Nathan apologized.

"That will change after this lesson" Marcus said.

"Are you going to teach us how to orb to other places we haven't been?" Lyndsay asked.

"Yes but we need Carlie here"

/Carlie where are you/ Jess asked

"Sorry I was practicing my shape shifting" Carlie's voice came from behind him.

When Jess and Nathan saw Carlie they couldn't help but gasp, her hair was bright blue.

"I see you've learnt how to change your hair colour" Marcus smiled.

"Do you like it?" Carlie asked

"It's awesome, can I do that?" Lyndsay said

Marcus shook his head. "That's a gift from the mistress of fire"

Lyndsay looked slightly disappointed.

"Now on to orbing" Marcus said rubbing his hands together.

It wasn't as difficult as they expected, it was similar to the way they had been orbing but instead of thinking of what the place looked like, they had to think of the name of the place. After a few hours at orbing to different places, Carlie, Jess, Lyndsay and Nathan were exhausted.

"That's all for tonight" Marcus finally said.

"Thank god, I need some sleep" Carlie groaned.

"Get some rest and practice your powers, they'll become very natural to use in a few weeks" Marcus said.

"See you" Carlie said.

Carlie ended up sleeping in and missed breakfast. She was running late for potions and knew she was going to get in trouble. Walking in to the classroom, Professor Snape was writing on the board. Sitting down, she didn't notice everyone's stares until Fred whispered "what did you do to your hair?"

Carlie realized it was blue, she'd forgotten all about it.

Snape turned around and narrowed his eyes at Carlie "Mason! You're late, ten points from Gryffindor and another five for offensive hairstyle" he barked.

Carlie raised her eyebrows "Excuse me Professor but from all people I would expect you to make fun of my hair, after all YOUR hair breaks every hygiene rule ever made."

He walked slowly down in front of Carlie and the whole class held its breath, Carlie didn't seem intimidated. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT" he growled.

Carlie smiled "Like what? I was just merely pointing out that you seem to have extremely greasy hair."

Carlie could see the rage in his eyes; she knew she was going to be in big trouble for it. But nothing happened; he looked into her eyes and then turned back around like nothing happened. The whole class was gaping at her.

/What did you do/ Jess asked

/I have no idea/

Carlie shrugged and began copying the potion ingredients down, the whole class still looking at her.

"He said nothing; he didn't even take any points off Gryffindor!" Lee exclaimed as they walked to Charms.

Carlie smirked and said "I have a thing for getting out of trouble."

"I can't believe you said that about his hair!" George laughed.

"Well I was only making an observation, it's just like saying George has red hair, I'm merely stating the obvious" Carlie said

The three of them started laughing as Carlie noticed Jess walking past withMatthew Hadrem when he yelled out "nice hair Mason."

"Yeah I know, thanks for noticing" Carlie said in a perky voice.

They gave her a dirty look and walked off. Carlie shook her head "Bloody idiots, trying to tease ME!"

George put an arm around Carlie "yes, trying to tease the unteasable."

Carlie laughed and as they walked into Charms Professor Flitwick commented on her hair "Interesting Hairstyle, did you use a hair colour change spell?"

Carlie wasn't sure what to say, then she had an idea "I did it by myself, just though of it and it turned blue"

Professor Flitwick raised his eyebrows "You're a metamorphmagus?"

Carlie shrugged "I think so."

Most of the people in the class looked puzzled; Carlie would have been amongst them if not for reading the book the other night.

"A metamorphmagus is person that is able to change their looks at will without any use of spells or potions" He explained.

/That was a pretty good idea, what's the difference between a metamorphmagus and a shape shifter/ Jess asked.

/A metamorphmagus can only change their looks, a shape shifter can turn into animals and inanimate objects as well/

"Miss Mason, maybe you could demonstrate the abilities of a metamorphmagus?" Flitwick asked

"Sure" Carlie said, she decided to change into one of the Weasley twins and then they could be triplets. Concentrating she turned into the twins triplet. Turning to them they burst out laughing.

The whole class applauded included Professor Flitwick, "When did you find this out?"

"A few nights ago in the hospital wing, I was bored and I was thinking about different hairstyles and then I looked in a mirror and my hair was blue!" Carlie said.

"Hmmm interesting, we haven't had had very many metamorphmagus's in Hogwarts"

"Can I stay like this sir?" Carlie asked.

Professor Flitwick smiled "If you wish."

For the rest of the lesson Carlie remained to look like Fred and George's Triple, they'd decided to call her Bob.

Charms had been the last lesson for the day and Carlie had decided to have a little fun and walk around like Bob for the rest of the day. Percy had a heart attack when he saw the three of them, as did most people. After a day of being Bob, Carlie had turned back into her normal self and was now sitting in the common room with Fred and George.

"Christmas is going to be awesome! We should try this prank on mum and see what happens" Fred said

"I can't wait for you to meet my friends, I think you'll really like them" Carlie said

"Is that Lyndsay and Nathan?" George asked

"Yeah plus some other friends of our, Keisha, Tegan, Jason, Lewis and Jax" Carlie answered.

"I'm glad dad's not coming, he'd go nuts with all the muggle things" Fred said.

"You sure your mum is okay with having us over?" George asked.

"Oh yeah, mum's cool like that, actually" Carlie picked up a piece of parchment and a quill "I have to write to her."

"You going to tell her about being a metamorphmagus?" Fred asked

"Yeah" Carlie wrote rather quickly.

Dear mum,
Just writing to you to say I'm okay and that Fred and George are looking forward to coming over. I don't know if you heard about it but Jess Mcairn accidentally cursed me and I was in the hospital wing for a week. I'll tell you more of the details later. I have loads to tell you but I'll keep it short. But there is one thing I can tell you I'm a metamorphmagus. Isn't that cool? Anyway see you soon
Peace out
Carlie

Carlie had written it so fast that there was a far bit of ink spilled everywhere. The one thing Carlie couldn't get used to was the quills and ink and the parchment. "I think I'll bring my fluffy pink pen to school" Carlie thought.

"I have to go to the owlery, wanna come?" Carlie asked

"Yeah sure, maybe we can do a little pranking on the way" Fred said

Carlie smiled, picking up her letter, she got up and went through the portrait hole.