Left Somewhere Behind

Disclaimer: I know that, unfortunately all of these (but not the plot!) belong to J.K. Rowling

Chapter 5: Learning Magic

"Vou deixar a vida me levar

I'll let the life take me

Pra onde ela quiser

wherever it wants

Estou no meu lugar

I'm in my place

Você já sabe onde

You already know where it is

É, não conte o tempo por nós dois

Yeh, don't take the time for both of us

Pois, a qualquer hora posso estar de volta

Because I may be back at any time

Depois que a noite terminar

After the night is over.

===o===

Vou deixar a vida me levar

I'll let the life take me

Pra onde ela quiser

wherever it wants

Seguir a direção

I'll follow the direction

De uma estrela qualquer

of any star

É, não quero hora pra voltar, não

Yeh, I don't want to have a right time to come back

Conheço bem a solidão, me solta

I know solitude very well, let me go

E deixa a sorte me buscar."

And let the luck come and take me.

Vou deixar, Skank (Brazilian song "I'll let", by Skank)

Wendy knocked at the door and Mr. Filch opened it.

"What do you want?" he asked with an angry voice.

"Hello!" Wendy said with a smile. She was so happy that it couldn't be different. "Professor Dumbledore asked me to come here."

"I'll call him." he answered, shutting the door again.

Soon Dumbledore appeared and invited her to come int. They both sat in two of the mismatched armchairs and the Professor said:

"Are you ready to begin your classes, Miss Yume?"

"I'm not really sure but I'll do my best." she answered promptly

"It's fine then. I have good news for you. First, we've found your trunk, which is on your dorm right now, and we were able to get you your school supplies. The only thing you still have to get is a wand, and we'll be doing it today. Second, we've already talked to your father and he agreed to give you anything you need. Third, al the professors but Professor Umbridge agreed to give you private classes. We also agreed that it will be impossible for you to learn absolutely everything in only a few months, so you will learn what's essential to follow the classes with your classmates, then later you can learn everything else slowly during your five years left at school."

"That's wonderful! Thank you professor!"

"Here's your timetable. The only difference this week it that you will have Transfiguration on Thursday morning, not today, because we are going to buy you a wand. We better hurry now, because you will have Defence against the Dark Arts after lunch, and Umbridge won't like if you arrive late."

Professor Dumbledore handled her the timetable, stood up and went near the fireplace. He got one small bag and threw some of the powder from it in the fire. The flames suddenly became green. He asked Wendy, who was totally astonished, to come closer, get into the fire and say clearly "Diagon Alley". She was really afraid about the idea of getting into the fire, but when she went closer to it, she felt it wasn't hot. The moment she said that everything around her started to spin round her. Just as suddenly as everything had started it stopped and she was now in what seemed to be a dark pub, nauseated. Not only her clothes were dirty with ashes, but she had also swallowed quite a lot of it.

She got up just in time not to be hit by professor Dumbledore that appeared in the fireplace just behind her. Everybody in the pub was now staring at them, but he headmaster didn't care. He took her behind the pub, hit some of the bricks on the wall with his own wand and suddenly a passage was formed. They then were walking in a small alley with narrow crooked houses. They entered in one of the left on witch was written "Wand Shop".

An old man came with two or three long boxes and asked Wendy to try the wands inside them. When she touched the first one, still inside the box, a gush of silver sparks came out of it, fulfilling the store with shinning little stars. The old man looked amazed. So did Wendy, both because of the sparks and because the man's face. She thought he was used to that, once he worked with magical stuff, but she didn't dare to ask him why he reacted like this.

When they were going back to the pub, after paying the wand, Wendy stopped for a moment. The headmaster turned back to see her eyes fixed on the ground. She felt strange about the professor. She had just met him, but she felt she had known him for a long time. He transmitted such a confidence that she would risk asking him...

"Why did he react like that?"

"I'm sorry?" answered Dumbledore with a blank stare.

"Oh, I'm sorry professor! I shouldn't have asked you that, you have been so kind with me..."

"No, that's fine. Ask me. If I can, I'll surely answer." he interrupted her.

"Do you know why the owner of that shop reacted like that? I mean, he might be used to see sparks and all, but he looked admired to see what happened with my wand."

"That's an intelligent question! But I'm afraid I cannot answer it in a complete way. Yes, he is used to magic, but he was not admired by the magic. He was admired by the kind of sparks your wand produced without you knowing anything about spells."

"And what do those sparks mean?"

"Oh, this is the part I cannot answer you right now."

When they returned to the castle it was already lunchtime. Dumbledore said sorry he was not going to follow her to the Great Hall because he had things to do, gave her the wand, some books and a bag full of coins, saying it was from her father. He also said, between the many apologizes Wendy gave him for being taking his time when he was supposed to be doing other things, that she could ask him for help if she had any doubt.

On her way to the great hall (she didn't knew it, but she was following the way most of the other students were taking) she was thinking about many questions that suddenly came to her mind. Why would Deco (her step father) give me so much money? He would never agree with me studying here! And also why Dumbledore didn't tell me the reason of the man's reaction? Didn't he know or didn't he want to tell me? And what about Umbridge's class? How am I supposed to follow a third year class?

When she got to the hall, Sue brought her back from her thoughts.

"We thought you had got lost inside her! Luck you didn't!"

"Yeh... Luck..."

"Hey, what's going on? Why are you like that? Had anything happened that you didn't like?" Lina joined them, going to the table.

"No. It's just that I'll have to watch one of the classes with you."

"How come??? Which professor said you could do it?"

"I don't remember her name, but I know the class will be right after lunch."

"Oh, guess who Lina! That Umbridge! What is she planning to give us in class that someone who had never learned magic could follow? In the first year we had such a great course with Professor Lupin, and last year it wasn't that bad..."

"Who is that?" Wendy asked suddenly.

"Professor Umbridge, the one with a..."

"No, after that! The one who gave you classes in the first year, I think."

"Professor Lupin. Do you know him?"

"No, but his name sounds familiar. Anyway, what does this Umbridge teach?"

"Defence against the Dark Arts."

"Ok, I don't know what that means, but lets have lunch, I'm starving!"

They sat down and ate. After that, the girls went to the Gryffindor Tower to get their material and Wendy went with them, although she was already carrying her books.

"It's a bit early... Do you wanna stay here for a couple of minutes?" asked Sue.

"Fine. Then we can teach Wendy some nice basic spells!" said Lina, full of enthusiasm.

In Wendy's opinion, they were really good teaches. She didn't know if magic was that hard, but she managed to make one pen fly in only fifteen minutes. She was really amazed about that. The girls said it was her merit, but she was sure she couldn't have done that by herself.

Soon after, they went to their class. While they were waiting for the professor to arrive, they met Diane and Thabata, and the girls also introduced Wendy for their other friends. Soon after, Umbridge opened the door and took the students inside. When her eyes fell over Wendy, she gave a disdain look and then turned away.

Umbridge's class was awful! She just told the students to sit a read their textbooks. That's why she said I could follow her classes! Wendy thought. The girls told her after that the other classes weren't like that. And indeed they weren't.

Although Wendy was having private classes (and she had never liked it very much), she found them great. Only History of Magic, the most boring one, and Potions, taught by Snape, who seemed to be always in a bad mood weren't so good. She particularly liked Charms, probably because Professor Flitwick was amazed to see she already dominated the Wingardium Leviosa spell (she had been practising all week until Friday to do that).

By the weekend she was exhausted. She had stayed up till hours to study, and woke up early, although she didn't have classes in the first period in the morning, she woke up with the other girls to study a little bit. She really wanted to do well in those classes. Lina and Sue helped her a lot with that, at least in the beginning that they didn't have much homework themselves. Thabata turned up to be really nice also. As Lina have said, she was very shy, but was intelligent and talkative, once you start talking to her.

On Sunday night Wendy was sitting on a table, with some of her books and notes over it, staring into space when suddenly something strange caught he attention. Something was floating in the fireplace, something rounded, like a head. Yes, it was a head, a thin face with long black oily hair. She then heard the same voice in her head she had heard on the train:

'Please come back!' And then the head vanished.

What was that? I'd better go to bed now... It's getting late...
Hi!

Really, really sorry for not having updated earlier!!!! Please, don't stop reviewing!!! It is that although this chap was really fast to write, I had some problems about using my pc... I hope you like it anyway. And also the Brazilian songs I wrote in the beginning of this and the third chap, what did you think about them?

Ah, and I believe it's clear that everything is going on the HP and OOTP. I found this last part (Sirius mentions he had been seen by a girl, probably a new student) on the book when I was looking for another detail, fantastic isn't it? I didn't remember about that before, but I had already thought of putting something like that, but I didn't want to change the book...

Whimsical Firefly, maybe you have read something similar, this one is slightly different, send me an E-mail so we can talk about that… Well, Wendy is going to get more outgoing, she just need to get used to this new life. (Imagine yourself being in a whole different world… Well, I think anyone can get a little shy…) By the way, BlackWiltedRose is beta reading the fic (thanks again!), so my English is not as good as that…

Flaignhan, I'm glad you liked it! I really liked your fic, be sure I'll review each chapter of it if I can!

Annoriel, Brigadinha! Que bom que vc gostou!

Magestar, thanks for your review! I'm glad you liked it! Well, Wendy will meet Harry, but I'll just put that when I have no other ideas. I want to leave it for the next fic (the cont. to this one), 'cause I have a better context for it to happen there… About Smeltings, well I don't really know if it is a boys' school or not… Any way, I'm considering it a mixed school in this fic.

Sweet 16 Movie Buff, thanks for your review. I'm glad you liked it! And well, I'm sorry to say but Sirius isn't her father.

BlackWiltedRose, well, you already know what I'm going to say, don't you? Thanks a lot!!!

Riddel(), thanks for your reviews!!! Your name will surely appear! (it is here…) I have the same op about the fifth book… WHY DID SHE DO THAT????? I wish she could bring him back!!!!!!!

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