They finally came to another high door which Draco opened. His bedroom was a circular room, decorated with grey wallpaper and deep blue curtains around the windows, and like Summers room around the four poster bed. It had a large poster of a Quidditch team called the Bullets who wore a silver and black uniform. A strange glowing orb hung over a shelf on the wall above the snake tank, and on the dressing table were strange looking objects and bottles of brightly coloured liquids.
He lead her to the snake tank where he pulled the clear glass lid back and pulled out the snake. It was black and had orange stripes around the body.
"Wow, its really nice." Summer said, taking it out of his hands. It curled itself around her wrist, and she ran her hand over its cool, scaly body.
"Better be careful, it'll start to squeeze your wrist if you let her go around to much." he said, and carefully unwound the tail. Summer put it back into the tank and closed the lid.
"How'd you warm up the tank? I mean, my tank has a UV light.." she stopped then, realising he wouldn't know what a UV light was.
"A heating charm. I'll teach you how to do it if you want, it's quite simple. It needs heating every time you open the lid any way." Draco stood back and raised his wand, pointing it at the tank.
"Hetendius!" an orange spark flew out of the end of his wand and engulfed the tank in an eerie glow for a moment and then disappeared, but the tank was still warm.
"Right. So you have to...do you just need to remember spells and stuff then?" Summer interrupted herself lowering her wand.
"Yeah mostly, sometimes you have to do weird little flicks and stuff, but they aren't hard either. You should pick them up pretty quick." he said. He was enjoying teaching her things because she took his word for it and was willing to learn. He opened and closed the lid again.
"Now your turn. It shouldn't be too hard." he stepped back as she raised her wand.
"Right, the word...Hetendius!" she said. To hers surprise the orange spark flew out and warmed the tank well.
"Cool! First spell I've tried and I can do it first time!" she exclaimed, smiling at Draco. He grinned back, and felt as though he was floating. It was really strange, he had never felt like this before.
"Hey Summer, do you think...well that I could…" he stopped, for once in his life he couldn't say what he thought, it seemed stupid.
"That you could what? Ever have a chance to be my boyfriend?" she grinned, from the look on his face, she could tell she was right. "You shouldn't be worried by what reaction you're gonna get, I'm not that evil. To the answer to the question, I don't know. Have to wait and see." she said sweeping her dark hair back. Draco just gave her a weak smile and pulled at his robes.
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As with the heating spell, Summer did exceptionally well on learning spells, charms, transfigurments, potions, only ever needing to spend a couple of hours on each,.