Welcome to another exciting chapter of The Space Princess! Weee! I hope you enjoy and review PLEASE!
A/N: Just so I don't get tons of confused readers asking tons of question let me clear up a few things. I never have and never will state a specific year for this story. I felt that if I did that I would constrict the story by preset circumstances.But I would say it's probably at least Fourth year or later. In that case it's a bit of a AU.I also took away certian characters abilities that don't follow the story. Such as with this chapter, I make Harry the only one of the original Hogwarts students able to do a Patronus. I hope that clears some things up for you and if you have any questions just ask!
The Space Princess (Show and Tell)
Sillenna and Hermione were walking down the hall toward DADA when they heard Ron shouting their names.
"Wait up," he huffed as he caught up with the girls. "We're having class outside. Somebody messed up a spell and destroyed the classroom in an earlier class."
"Ok." Sillenna said exchanging "well that's weird" looks with Hermione before following Ron outside were the rest of the class was waiting. Harry waved them over to where he was waiting.
"Well class," said Professor Lupin as he beckoned the class to gather around him. "good thing it's a nice day for a field trip." The class chuckled slightly. "Since all today's work was well…for the lack of a better word, destroyed, we'll be having a sort of show-and-tell of you abilities." The class exchanged puzzled looks. "The process is simply; I'll name the spell or counter spell and ask who's attempted it, you'll raise your hand, then I'll ask who's successfully cast the spell, you'll raise your hand. I'll have a couple of you demonstrate it for the class then we'll go on to the next spell. Everybody got that?" Most of the class mumbled or nodded in the affirmative. "Alright then, let's start with the easy stuff and work our way up."
The first handful of spells everybody knew, well, everybody but Sillenna that is. Everybody was surprised that she didn't know such simply spells, but what surprised them most was that the harder the spells got the more Sillenna raised her hand.
"What?" Sillenna asked at her friends' quizzical glance. "Did you think I was going to teach myself the boring stuff?" The simply shook their heads at the typical Sillenna.
As the list went on less, and less students raised their hand, especially on the successfully casting part. Of course Harry's hand staid up most of the time, that was no surprise. The four friends started a finger puppet war to help pass the time. Girls vs. Boys, though it turned our to be more Sillenna vs. Harry since their hands were up most of the time. Harry was surprised how easily Sillenna performed some of the harder spells. To be self taught she was pretty good. It didn't seem to bother her to perform the spells for the class, while Harry felt so silly getting up in front of everybody. Ron provided several laughs when he messed up a spell and caused his hair to stand on end. Hermione proceeded to lecture him on how to perform the spell correctly but was silenced when he kissed her lightly on the cheek. The kids around them snickered causing Hermione to turn a deep shade of red. Harry turned his attention back to Professor Lupin who was calling out the next spell. The Patronas. Harry was surprised how many kids had attempted this spell. Beside himself, Ron, Hermione, Sillenna, Draco, and a couple of other kids raised their hands. He and the rest of the class thought he was the only one that had successfully performed the spell, so when a murmur went through the class when Lupin asked for only those who had successfully cast the spell to leave their hands up, Harry looked around quizzically for who else had their hand up. He didn't have to look far. It was Sillenna. She had one hand lazily in the air while the other was holding her chin. She had a bored, glazed look in her eyes and Harry wasn't sure if she had heard Lupin or not.
"Ms. Miller," Lupin said but she didn't seem to hear him so Harry poked her lightly. She snapped back to reality.
"I asked for those who had successfully cast the spell, Ms. Miller," Lupin explained.
"Oh, I know, I heard you," Sillenna answered.
"You've performed the Patronas?" Lupin looked dubious.
"Yes sir."
"When? Or should I ask Why?" Lupin asked knowing that this spell wasn't something taught to someone so young unless it was needed.
"I was bored," She explained. The entire class's eyes grew wide and Lupin started to ask something but she put up her hands to stop him.
"That's how I learned most of the spells I know. I'd be bored so I'd read a book and look for spells that sounded challenging then I'd try them out." She explained. Lupin still looked unsure.
"Are you sure you don't have this spell mixed up with another?"
"I guess it's possible."
"Well, Mr. Potter why don't you perform your Patronas for us and Ms. Miller can see if she has the right spell in mind."
Harry walked toward the front of the group and turned so that they were to his right. He pulled his wand out, took a deep breath, and concentrated on the task at hand. After gathering his thoughts, he channeled his strength into the spell.
"EXPECTO PATRONIUM!" A burst of light in the form of a white stag came shooting from his wand. He could hear the kids in the class gasping as the stag looked for the evil.
"That's very good Mr. Potter." Lupin said as Harry called the stag back into his wand. When he turned around, Sillenna was staring at the space where the stag had been, thinking.
"Well Ms. Miller?" Lupin asked her. "
"Are they all supposed to look like that?" she asked not moving her eyes.
"No, everybody's Patronas comes in different forms."
"And different sizes?"
"Yes, it depends on the form of course."
Harry heard Draco in the back talking with some of his goons. "It's probably a mouse." He said causing the Slytherins to snicker. Harry glared at him, but was glad Sillenna hadn't appeared to have heard him.
"Can I perform the spell?" she asked.
"Of course" Lupin motioned for her to place Harry had been standing. She walked to the spot then looked at the class as if she was measuring the distance from them to her. She shook her head and walked farther away from them. The Slytherins started snickering again. Lupin was to busy watching her closely to notice. After she got quite a ways out she stopped.
"Ok, I'm ready," she said.
"Go right ahead." Lupin said. Harry expected her to follow the same process he had but instead she simply lifted her wand said "Expecto Patronum!" like she was performing a simple first year spell. The second the words left her mouth a brilliant light poured from her wand and blinded the class. When it died down the look up to see a huge white and midnight blue dragon staring them down. But this was no ordinary dragon; it was like no dragon they had ever seen or heard of and was easily five times bigger than any dragon ever recorded. Of course only Sillenna knew it was a Space Dragon. It made her sad to look at it, knowing it wasn't real. It reminded her a lot of Yallie, a kind female dragon who had been her companion on many trips. As the dragon returned to her wand, Sillenna turned to face her class. Their faces held looks of pure shock.
"Well?" she asked cocking her head to one side and putting her hands on her hips.
"Ah…ahh.." Lupin stuttered trying to collect his thoughts. At this time
Dumbledore and several teachers came out of the castle and headed in their direction.
"Excuse me Professor Lupin," Dumbledore said in his kind voice. "What exactly was it that we just saw hovering over you students?"
"My Patronas." Sillenna answered before Lupin could speak. Dumbledore looked to Lupin for conformation. He simply nodded his head and shrugged his shoulders in a bewildered fashion.
"Ms. Miller, would you be so kind as to cast the spell once more?" Dumbledore asked.
"Sure," she said, "But you might want to back up some." In a matter of seconds, Sillenna had the large dragon gliding out of her wand. Luckily most of the student remembered to cover their eyes intitally and managed to look up in time to see the unique spiral motion in which the dragon appeared from the wand. The dragon glanced around at its surroundings and looked slightly perturbed by what it saw. With an impatient snuff, the dragon took off into the sky and began searching the area. Everyone watched in amazement at its graceful yet powerful movements. In mid-flight the dragon raised it's head and roared into the sky. It was a haunting sound, beautiful yet chilling, like nothing they had ever heard. Sillenna tensed at the sound. It sounded exactly like the call of a Space Dragon. Anyone within several solar systems would be able to hear that call and could come to investigate. In a panic Sillenna raised her wand and called out to the dragon in her native language. The dragon turned, looked at her, then returned to the wand in the same spiraling motion. Unfortunately, her shouting out in a strange language caught more then the dragon's attention.
"Ms. Miller, will you please come with me," Dumbledore said after a moment of stunned silence. Oh great, Sillenna thought, How am I going to explain this? She closed the gap between them so that their conversation could not be easily overheard.
"Uhh, Professor?" Sillenna asked quietly, "Could my friends come with me? It might make the questions you're gonna ask easier to answer." Dumbledore looked down at her pondering then simply called out not taking his eyes off her face.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasly, Ms. Granger? Will you please accompany me?"
The others followed without a word. The whole class watched them leave with puzzled looks on their faces. When they reached Dumbledore's office he summoned enough chairs for everyone and motioned for them to take a seat. After everyone was comfortable, he turned to Sillenna.
"Now Ms. Miller would you mind telling us exactly when and where you learned that spell?" he asked. Sillenna retold the story of how she taught herself the spell from a book she was reading. The fact that she learned it so quickly didn't seem to surprise Dumbledore.
"I always knew there was more to you then you let on," he said with a twinkle in his kind eyes.
"I knew you were a wise man from the first time I heard you mentioned," Sillenna said with a chuckle.
"Why thank you," he said in his humble way. "Now please tell me why it is that your Patronas is so powerful and takes on a form of an animal that as far as we know does not exist." Sillenna looked over at her friends with pleading eyes, begging them to explain the Secrecy Binding.
"I don't think she can Professor," Hermione said. "She's under a Secrecy Spell of some sort." Hermione went on to explain everything they had been able to figure out about Sillenna; the Secrecy Spell, the strange potions, the hiding, the man after her, everything. When she was done, Dumbledore was silent for a few minutes, staring off into space.
"You are certainly full of mysteries, Ms. Miller," he said quietly still gazing into nothing.
"You have no idea," Sillenna mumbled. Dumbledore asked Sillenna several questions, none of which she was able to answer. Right when she thought that her jaw couldn't take it anymore, the lunch bell sounded.
"I think that's enough for now," Dumbledore said. "You run along to lunch and I'll see if I can't figure out this secret of yours Ms. Miller."
As they walked down the corridors, Sillenna's friends seemed confident that Dumbledore would be able to figure everything out. Sillenna wished she could have the same confidence, but she knew there was no way any one, not even Dumbledore, was going to be able to figure her secret out.
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