Chapter two up already! Hope you like it, even though no one even knows about this story yet except me because it hasn't made it to the listings.
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Year 1, September 4th
"Charms first today!" Lily crowed happily. Sirius looked sleepily at her over his toast.
"How can you be so awake in the morning...?"
She gave him a look. "Aren't you excited? First class of the day!"
"Uh...lemme think for a second....no."
"I must say I agree with him..." Lise added, glancing up from the paper she was reading. "It's much too early to think about such things."
"Didn't you ever have chores at home, like, early in the morning, Lise?"
"Yes, but I can not say I enjoyed them at all..."
"Oh cheer up! Come on! You should eat something before you die of starvation!"
"Un....."
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"Welcome to Charms, class!" squeaked the tiny Professor Flitwick. "Today we will be learning a levitation charm! Now repeat after me; Wingardium Leviosa!"
"Wingardium Leviosa..."
"Very good! Now, the wand movement for this particular charm is important. Swish and flick!"
The students tried out the wand movement.
"Now, try to levitate the feathers in front of you! We're working with partners today, so two people per feather!"
James and Remus paired together and got their feather floating almost instantly, but Sirius was watching his partner, Lise, try to do all the work. After a few failed attemts, Sirius intervened and made the feather float. She gave him a sheepish grin.
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On their way out the group split up. Peter and Lily had Transfiguration next, and the rest had Flying.
"I can't wait, I mean, I known how to ride a broom for ages." James boasted.
"I know, this is going to be so boring. After all, what's there to do when you already know everything being covered.." Sirius added lazily.
Lily turned on her heel, then walked away from them without saying a word, Peter scrambling to keep up.
"What's with her?" James asked.
"Dunno."
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"Welcome to Flying 101!" Madame Jemen exclaimed. "Now everyone, stand by a broom. Stick your right hand over the broom and say 'up!'"
A chorus of 'up's was heard over the field, until everyone managed to bring their broom successfully up to their hand.
"Now, when I blow this whistle, kick off from the ground. You may fly around a bit, but no higher than around five or six meters. Alright?" She watched as the class nodded, somewhat nervously, and blew the whistle.
James and Sirius kicked off the ground and circled around like they had been riding since age one. Remus and Lise both looked warily at the sky then kicked off slowly, not rising to more than 2 meters off the ground. They were having a perfectly fine time just drifting around a bit until..
"Hey Remus! Lise! Get up here!" James called down from his place ten meters off the ground. The two, however, refused to fly a bit higher, so James and Sirius decided it was their duty to help their fellow comrades. Diving down, James grabbed Remus's broom handle and starting dragging him up, and Sirius did the same for Lise. They reached their old post at the ten - meter point, them contented themselves with watching amusedly as Lise and Remus both stared at the ground wide-eyed in fear. They dragged the pair up another few meters then watched again. Then repeated that same pattern again. By then Lise was shaking, and Remus, having gotten over his initial acrophobia, was muttering something about annoying sadistic friends.
Suddenly, Lise's broom gave a slight jerk. It continued until it was bucking like a bull. That is until she fell off, and started hurtling toward the hard, baked, ground.
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Heheheh...cliffhanger. Stay tuned for the next chapter, coming up soon!
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