AN; Sorry guys, not as long as last time, but I think it is an okay chapter.
I hopped off the stool ecstatic to be in the same house as Anna. We were really connecting, and having a great time together. She seemed just at happy, she ran over to me and we started spazzing out. Our parents thought it was a bittersweet moment, they were so happy that we were happy, but they knew their time with us growing up around them was over. I ran over to my mom and dad and grabbed them up in a big hug.
"I see that we are all pleased with placing, I will be back tomorrow morning to bring the girls to Hogwarts." Dumbledore wished us all goodnight and left via the floo.
"I don't know about you girls, but a full day of sightseeing has left me exhausted," My mother said to us, "I think we are going to head up to bed, how about you all?" Anna's parents' concord, I was tired but to excited to sleep.
"I think we will hang out for awhile longer," Anna told them. They nodded, said goodnight and turned to their designated rooms. Anna collapsed on her bed letting out a huge sigh. Midnight jumped up on the bed next to me. I petted her pretty coat.
Are you looking forward to school soft speaker? She asked me.
Quite a bit Midnight, do you think that you and Daylight will like it there?
Yes, there are friends of mine there, they were taken from the store and given to others earlier this year, during the eighth month. I nodded in understanding; other students must have bought her friends. I was still going to miss my puppy dog, but I think that Midnight and I had a connection. Then, while thinking of connections, I remembered what the hat had said about Anna and I.
"Anna, I found out what they meant by lost witches!" I exclaimed throwing her of guard. She processed what I had said and then jumped up.
"Pft! Then what are we waiting for lets go!" she whisper-yelled. I threw her a questioning look; she just ignored it, pulling me off the bed. She held her finger up to her lips, signaling me to be quiet. I gave up trying to figure out where we were going, and followed her. It really wasn't worth it to waste the energy. We tiptoed past our parents bedrooms, going down the stairs, out the door of the pub, and out onto the street.
"Where are we going Anna?" I asked her finally when we were walking down the street.
"Look around, we aren't in Digon ally anymore. I am going to find a muggle café or something of the sort," She told me looking around, seeming lost. I rolled my eyes. We walked down a couple of blocks and finally found a nice little place. We entered the establishment; a waitress asked us what we wanted. I asked for hot chocolate, it was cool out tonight, and Anna being the person she is, ordered coffee. Probably the last thing she needed.
"So what does it mean? And where did you find out?" She questioned me.
"Well I asked the sorting hat. He had no patience to avoid my question so it worked out for us. Before I tell you I need to know how much you know about your abilities. Do you know about our special powers?" I asked her.
"Only that you can talk to magical animals." She responded to my question.
"Okay then, well it may be best to start with that. You know we are the lost witches, but being the Lost Witches isn't only saying Hogwarts couldn't find us. There was a prophecy made about us, years and years and years ago. Anyway, we are the Lost Witches, and they are happy to have found us. 'Cus you are magically magical at magic as am I. But we both specialize in specific areas. So you are very extremely advanced at healing, charms, and transfiguration. But you are lacking in any skill in DADA, Herbology, and potions." When I said that her face fell.
"What about you? She asked.
"I on the other hand am quite advanced in Potions and Defense, but not as advanced as you are in your subjects, and am above average in Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. You see if you put our skills together you get a master healer. I believe that in the future we are meant to become a magically magical masters of magic healing team." I finished rolling my eyes. The whole deal was a lot to expect from a couple of teenagers.
"Well then. So what about your other subjects, like transfiguration and charms," She asked, continuing the conversation after the waitress dropped off our drinks.
"Normal give or take a bit. I think they may be a bit below average, because I do have advancement in other things so it only makes sense. I think the whole thing is a bit much to except from a couple of teenagers, but I guess that is why the Headmaster didn't tell us. But I don't want a Harry Potter situation pulled on us, so I think it is better that we know."
"I think your right, but I doubt Voldemort would come back to the dead to kill us." She laughed, "I wonder what that prophecy says though." We did our trademark move, a look and shrug. I checked the time, it was after midnight now, we really should be getting home, especially if our parents think to check on us.
"We should probably get going," I told Anna, leaving the money on the table. We stood up and left, hurrying home, since we had snuck out. When we got back (without getting caught) we went straight to bed since we were both exhausted. Tomorrow we would start at Hogwarts.
"Goodbye Mom, Dad, I love you both. I will write often!" I said to my parents. Mom laughed.
"No you wont," she told me, I shrugged while nodding. I would tell them about Hogwarts, but it would probably take awhile. Anna was saying bye to her parents on the other side of the room.
"I will see you both at Christmas." I assured them. They smiled and nodded. I gave them a big hug then turned towards Anna. She was finishing up. Dumbledore was waiting patiently near the fire. We weren't in any rush as it was Sunday and there were no classes today. We were going to be given a tour of the school, because unlike most students we should know our way around, but we wont. Ugg! Things were going to be harder. We also were going to be given a quick overview of our schedules, because they were different than most students. All this was to be done this afternoon before dinner, when we would be introduced. Gah! I don't like being the center of attention, but at least Anna and I had something planned.
"Oh and Nicole? Be good please." My mom called to me as we made our way towards the fireplace. We would be flooing to school.
"I will try Mom!" I said before I stepped into the fireplace and yelled "HOGWARTS!"
"Girls here are your schedules," McGonagall said as she passed us each a piece of paper. Mine read;
Monday: Transfiguration, Potions, free, lunch, healing, Care of Magical Creatures
Tuesday: AP Potions, free, Herbology, lunch, free, Charms
Wednesday: CMC, DADA, AP DADA, lunch, Potions, free
Thursday: Free, HM*, DADA, lunch, Transfiguration, charms
Friday: Healing, AP Potions, AP DADA lunch, AP Herbology, AP CMC
It looked like all our classes were together except for the AP classes. Anna had AP in Charms, Transfiguration, and Healing when I had them in Potions, DADA, CMC, and Herbology. I was pretty happy with my schedule, though I wish my AP's were more spread out. Then I looked again and noticed something.
"What is HM?" I asked Professor McGonagall. She gave me an odd look, like she didn't know what I was talking about. She took back my schedule.
"Hey I have it too!" Anna suddenly bust out. The teacher grabbed her schedule too.
"It stands for Headmaster, it is on all the teachers sceduals, so we can meet with him once a week to go over lesson plans and such. I didn't put that on there, he must have added that on. I have no idea what he has in mind." She shook her head.
"Attention!" Dumbledore called out to the great hall using the snorus charm. The Great Hall slowly quieted. Anna and I were standing in the entrance hall, listening to Dumbledore.
"Thank you for you undivided attention. I have an important announcement to make. We will be having two new students joining us from America, they are in fourth year. They have already been sorted and are both in Gryffindor, I hope you all welcome Nicole Dawson and Anna Naraya." As he finished we made our way over to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to some cheery faces. Soon the food appeared, distracting they many stares aimed at the two of us. I could only imagine what they must be thinking.
"Interesting reception, I believe they think we were kicked out of our last school," I whispered to Anna as we each took some food. She nodded.
"When should it happen?" She asked me.
"Soon," I replied, a smirk showing upon her face. Earlier, we had managed to sneak away from McGonagall for a while. This gave us a bit of time for a prank. We made our way over to the kitchens, and asked a favor of the House elves.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" A high-pitched scream echoed out across the hall. The sad part was, it came from a boy. I shook my head as we started laughing at the reason for the scream. He had obviously taken a bite of his food, because he had long bright pink hair with purple streaks in it. Suddenly many other heads turned pink and purple, shocking many other students. The kids at every other table looked warily at their own food. Anna and I kept on eating, though we did secretly high five.
"It was you two wasn't it?" I heard a voice ask Anna and I. I looked up to see a girl about our age shaking her head at us.
"What are you talking about? The new look the Slytherens have just acquired?" Anna asked.
"Nicely done, but you need to add some creativity." Another voice added, this time it was male.
"Ted! Don't encourage the new students to act like you!" The girl scolded him; he stuck his tong out at her.
"Don't worry, we only know that it was you because we know how to read a prank, plus the only people who bother to pull pranks around here is us, and we didn't do it, so we had to assume it was you." He continued like the girl had never spoken.
"Okay, well I'm Nicole, and this is Anna, and you are?" I introduced us warily. Anna was still laughing at the spectacle going on across the hall.
"Teddy, Teddy Lupin, at your service Miss. Dawson. Oh and this is Kim." He introduced himself and the girl he was leaning on. She shoved him off at the moment.
"Ignore the git. I am Kim Ashton. I hope you don't judge me by my choice of friends. This idiot was a poor decision on my part." She told me as she rolled her eyes. Teddy looked mock offended.
"I am offended Kimmy! How could you be so mean to me?" He said, "Anyway we are in fourth year too. So we should be in some classes together. There aren't many other 4th years, bad year we were born, right before the end of the war."
"Oh! So you are the Teddy that George mentioned!" Anna it turns out had been paying a bit of attention. "He said you were in our year. Harry also mentioned that you were on the Quittich team." She added the last part in a mutter going off into a dream world with her broom.
"You know Harry?" He asked surprised, "A lot of students know George because of the shop, but not many people have actually met Harry. Let alone got into a conversation about Quittich." Teddy rambled on confused. I took the job of clarifying.
"Yes, we meet all the Potters and Weasly's the night before last, Harry and Ron taught us to fly our brooms, with James's 'assistance'" I air quoted the last part.
"Wow, nobody has ever clicked that fast with my family before, 'cept Harry, and that was because he was orphaned, and Grandma Weasly has a thing for kids." Teddy shrugged it off. "Anyway you mentioned Quittich? What positions do you play? Sadly Gryffindor hasn't had a chance to hold try outs yet this year, but we are only a month in so the first game wont be until the end of November, so we still have some time left.
"I haven't though about it yet, as when we learned I was mainly enjoying the speed of the broom, but I know Nicole plays beater, and does a fair good job at it too!" Anna complimented me, I blushed.
"I don't think I am that good Anna."
"Well let's leave that up to try outs! What kind of brooms do you guys have?" Ted questioned us.
"I have the Nimbus 3000, great control and pretty good speed, Anna wanted the best speed around so she went with the Firebolt 42." I explained. He nodded, looking pleased.
"Are you all done with the Quittich talk for now?" Kim asked, "Because everybody else is leaving," I looked around to see that we were among the last few in the Great Hall. Anna and I stood up, along with Ted and Kim.
"Well we should head up to the common room then I guess," Kim nodded, "Lead the way, I don't know where it is, nor do I know the password."
"Kim always knows the password, if she didn't I would be in for a lot of nights outside the common room." Ted informed us.
"Nicole it is your responsibility to remember the passwords for us okay?" Anna whispered to me, I nodded, smiling at my friend's irresponsibility. I found her loveable, and exhausting at the same time. That was Anna for you. It was amazing that I didn't even know this girl a week ago. And now we were best friends, I guess turning out to be a witch will do that to you.
"Hey can I see your schedules so I can see what classes we have together?" Kim asked, I nodded pulling out both Anna's and my schedules. Anna did a double take when she saw I had hers then searched her body for the schedule; I shook my head, sighing at how unobservant she was.
"Here you go, both our schedules." Kim glanced them over quickly, as she did her eyes widened in surprise.
"What kind of school did you go to before that you guys have so many AP's?" She asked us.
"What are AP's" Ted asked as he grabbed our schedules out of Kim's hands.
"Advanced Placement, more difficult courses than the average level for our age. Well actually we have never gone to a wizarding school before, this is our first time. Technically we are fourth year age, but at a first year knowledge. Dumbledore said that we are called the Lost Witches, and we are really advanced in specific subjects." I informed our friends.
"Yeah! Like I am supposedly uber good at Transfiguration, Charms, and Healing, but at a very low level of everything else. And Nicole has a better deal; she is advanced at DADA and Potions, and above average at Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. She is normal at every other subject." Anna finished.
"So you are telling me that you two have no previous magical education, and you are in AP courses? I didn't even know they offered AP classes here." Teddy said skeptically. I shrugged.
"They don't," Kim said. We all shot her a confused look, "They don't offer AP courses here, to normal students at least. See teddy this is your problem. You were born into a magical family, so you never bothered to learn the history of the magical community, well at least not beyond what your relatives told you. There is a prophecy, well more a legend, but anyway it tells of two girls, two witches, called the Lost Witches, who have extrodinary powers, bound to be the best healers of all time, if they stick togher, if not, they are doomed."
"Well, I didn't know about the doomed part," I laughed uneasily. Well this just keeps getting more and more interesting. Kimmy looked upset and covered her mouth very quickly.
"It's kay, we are best friends, we will take what comes in stride," Anna stated like fact, I nodded, reassuring kim.
"Ted you don't have the invisibility cloak do you?" I asked him, he shook his head, looking veugly confused. "Dammit. Hmm, well lets see, who here is a 7th year?"
"Tom Fryly, why," Ted responded, nodding towards a tall boy on the other side of the room.
"Is disillusionment charms or transfig?" I asked the three in general.
"Charms, why?" Kim responded quickly. I walked over to the boy named Tom.
"Hi, Tom is it?" I asked, he looked up and nodded. "Can I borrow your charms text for a moment?" He shot me a questioning look, but then shrugged and handed me a book. "Thanks."
I walked back over to Anna and the others. While I plopped back down on the floor I opened the book to the page instructing about disillusionment charms, and shoved it at Anna.
"Read," She read the page quickly, finally catching on. She nodded when she finished, and handed the book back to me.
"Accio Bloodline!" I called out, needing the book, but also testing my magical abilities at the same time. It worked surprisingly. Suddenly I found the book in my hands.
"Try on this, I don't want to end up permanently invisible, and if I lost this forever I would personally be quite happy, horrid, horrid book…" I trailed off shuddering. Anna shook her head at me, while Ted and Kim still looked simply confused. She performed the spell flawlessly. I had expected as much, but now she had to undo it, which is what I was more worried about. I was ignoring the shocked looks being emitted from the two sitting next to us. She attempted to reverse the spell, and it also worked flawlessly. I was happy with the results. It was still before curfew, but just, so we would need this spell. I signaled for our friends to follow us. They did so without question at this point.
Once we were outside, I had Anna perform the spell on all of us. Then we made our way to the Room of Requirement.
"Holy shit! You are goddamn advanced!" Teddy exclaimed once Anna reillusioned us. We just looked at each other and shrugged, our trademark.
"We should copyright that move…" I said randomly, when we were in the hallway. Nobody was in sight, so I walked past the spot where the room was supposed to be 3 times. Suddednly a door appeared. We stepped inside to find a relaxing but fun looking room. The school had provided us with everything we needed to have an awesome relaxing evening.
The room was deep red and blue, calming colors, they also happened to be Anna's and my own favorite colors. There was a cleared area with a sweet sound system for music, totally muggle friendly (or muggle turned witch friendly ;D). Then in another area of the room there were a few comfy beanbag chairs, next to one of the chairs was a notebook with a lock and a nice fountan pen, making it glaringly obvious it was for me. The other two, looked surprised that they had never seen this room. I laughed at them.
"As much as I have enjoyed these past couple days, I learned to much and it has placed my mind in a overload state. So it is time to plan pranks, and blast music and be teenagers!" I shouted, since I had made the room soundproof. Anna and I ran straight over to the music and picked out CD's. I found some mixes and found that they were exact copies of mine from home, which were upstairs in my dorm at the moment. I threw a disk on, getting there just before Anna. The four of us partied and planned pranks for quite awhile. By quite awhile, I mean multiple hours, until after midnight. When I relized the time I made Anna give up and we decided to head up to bed. I had Anna disillusion us again, so we wouldn't get caught heading up to bed. I sent Ted and Kim out first to wait for us, then as we all turned towards the end of the hallway, Anna and I following Ted and Kim, I heard a whisper.
"Goodnight Anna, Goodnight Nicole, sleep well girls." The sound echoed down the empty halway. I knew that the Headmaster had caught us, but, surprisingly, he didn't care.