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Chapter Nine: Charms

Christina had developed a system for taking notes. She would read the chapter in the book. Then she would read Hermione's notes. Hermione had filed her notes so well, that it was easy to find what she wanted. The box contained Several large files. One for each year. In each of these large files, there were smaller files, each containing a subject. In those files were seperate files for each chapter. Christina started with charms, because she thought that would most suit her current needs. So she took the file for first year charms out and began working.

Two hours later she had completed her notes on first year charms. They weren't as extensive or detailed as Hermione's, but they were enough so that when it came to practicing the charms later she would be able to at least understand what she was supposed to do. She had decided to wait until her father was around before she tried to do any spells. She understood that sometimes things went wrong with magic, and she wanted someone around in case something did go wrong. Sipping her juice she started on the second year charms. She was taking notes in a spiral notebook, with a muggle pen, because she really did hate quills, and all the effort it took to make sure the parchment didn't smudge. She noticed, that if she kept taking notes at the rate she was, she would need all of her spirals for just charms. She decided to ask her dad if there was a charm to make the spirals have indefinate amounts of paper. Reaching over she took a post it and jotted a note to herself to ask. She continued working until she didn't have any paper left in her spiral, which was about halfway through third year charms. Sitting back, she decided to use the bathroom before going back to work. She was making her way back to her room, when her father came bursting through the door. His eyes wild with panic.

"Where the hell were you for lunch?" He almost shouted, relieved that she was safe here in their quarters.

"It's lunch time already?" She asked, hating that she didn't have a clock in her room.

"It's past lunch. This is my free period." He said trying to calm himself down completely.

"Well if it's your free period can I ask a favor?" She asked sweetly.

"As long as it doesn't involve the color lavender." He replied.

"Can you charm my spiral notebooks so that the paper doesn't run out. Hermione's notes are quite extensived, and I tend to write a lot myself." She said leading him back to her bedroom. She put the spirals on her desk, and he incanted the charm, tapping each spiral. She gave him a hug and a kiss, and was about to start studying again when he caught her arm.

"Uh uh, you're going to eat something." He said and pulled her into the sitting room. He conjured a table, and made a request from the kitchens. Moments later food appeared on the table. Christina ate her lunch while her father sat on the couch eying her. When she was done, he nodded smiled, and went back to his classroom. She got up and went back to her bedroom. Getting back to work, she was thrilled to see a new page appear every time she had filled the last one. She sat there for the rest of the afternoon, writing, occasionally using the bathroom, and making her way through the folder of charms.

When Dobby appeared she thought that she may have done something wrong.

"Yes Dobby?" She asked.

"Master Snape has asked Dobby to make sure you gets to dinner miss." Dobby squeaked. Christina stood up stretched, and followed Dobby to the great hall. She took her seat beside Albus and waited patiently for dinner to begin. During the meal the paper from the previous night appeared in her lap. Thinking of the charms she had read about earlier, she sent the note back, asking for Hermione to put the Protean Charm on two pieces of paper, and to quirk the spell so that either paper could change the other. The note came back with a big smiling face on it, and a note that she could keep the note now, because Hermione had already performed the charm. Christina replied, that one of them should take the paper to their classes tomorrow, and see how much fun they could have. An even bigger smiling face appeared on her paper. Severus only noticed that his children seemed to have innoncently evil looks on their faces, and he was scared silly. There was no telling what those three could get up too, especially with miss Granger, and mr. Weasley thrown into the mix. He made a mental note to procure a headache potion from Poppy before tomorrow.

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Christina laid in her bed that night, she was fondly remembering the evening spent with her father, practicing charms. He hadn't been too happy when she had accidently turned his hair blonde, but after a quick counter charm, all was right again. She fell asleep, and for the first time in months she didn't dream of the car crash.