Chap 6

I slept peacefully that night, only awoken by day's light. I read one of my school books (The Standard Book of Spells Grade 1 by Miranda Goshawk) until my roommates awoke. Sorina and I walked down to the great hall together.

"Why wouldn't you tell us anything about yourself yesterday?" She asked. "Like why you were here before everyone."

I sighed once again.

"Please!" She begged.

"Okay. I'll tell you, but it's really weird. I started out at a park on the swings. Suddenly the swings went over and back and I was flung into the air."

Sorina gasped.

I continued, "I flew up and somehow my mind created a portal or something. Some evil guy was trying to summon me because I have some different type of magic."

"The Inner Eye?" Asked Sorina.

"Nah. Something else. Dumbledore told me that. Then I stayed here those two days before the school year started and went to get my school supplied with Professor Rowling yesterday. My wand, there's some kind of prophecy about. That the wands owner would have a great power and all evil would be after them, blah, blah, blah. But before that, this was Merlin's wand.

"Are you lying?" Accused Sorina.

"No!" I exclaimed, holding my hands up. "It's all true, but…maybe I'm just dreaming this all. Pinch me."

Sorina leaned over and pinched me.

"Oww! Not that hard!" I said, rubbing my arm.

Sorina grinned. "You're not sleeping." She said happily, skipping along the last few steps. Sorina and I became close friends that very moment. I knew she was someone I could always trust.

She turned back to me and smiled. "C'mon. We'll be late." I rushed after her to the Great Hall."

"Schedules." A first year boy to my right named Ben Nedsra said, passing me a bunch of papers.

I took them and found mine. I handed the rest to Sorina. My schedule was a big chart. There were two classes in the mourning, and then lunch. Then there were two more classes and dinner. Tea was somewhere in there also but I ignored that. It's just tea, which, in America, isn't a big deal. This kind of schedule went on all week, except we had Friday afternoons off, sometimes we had seemingly random breaks and we had nothing Saturday. Then I saw Wednesday night.

"We have a class at midnight?" I asked Sorina, unbelieving.

"Yeah." She answered, sounding overwhelmed. "Don't eat too slowly. We have a class this morning."

We went back to our Dormitory after breakfast, got out Charms books, and went don to Professor Flitwick's classroom. We sat down at out seats as the other students wandered in. Some had gotten lost for a little bit. They started to chat, but Flitwick began to say "Quiet! Attention please! Welcome to Charms class. My name is Professor Flitwick in case you haven't read your schedules closely enough." A few people laughed. "Today we are going to go over some basic wand movements."

'My wand!' I suddenly realized. 'It's on my bed.' I couldn't believe that I had forgotten it.

I could see where it was in my minds eye. All of a sudden, I was in the dormitory. 'How did I get here? I have to get back.' I grabbed my wand and jumped towards the door.

A picture of the classroom flashed before my eyes. I was sitting in my seat again. And everyone was staring at me. Even Professor Flitwick. I felt my face blushing. Now I had a lot of explaining to do. But how to explain?

"Let's just get back to our lesson now. Shall we?" Started Professor Flitwick. "Please open to page 310 and…" He gazed off, still confused. Still surprised.

I was still embarrassed. Why? Why couldn't I have just been a normal witch? This was so humiliating.

The lesson continued. The basic wand movements were easy enough. The rest of the class kept stealing glances at me though.

Afterwards, I ran up to the dormitory and threw myself onto my four-poster, crying. Sorina came in soon afterwards and rushed over to comfort me.

"What's wrong?" She asked, patting my back, sympathetically.

"I wish I'd never even come to Hogwarts!" I cried.

"Shh. Calm down…hey! What's happening?"

I felt a slight tingling all over my body. I looked down and saw myself fading away. I strained as hard as I could.

"You're sliding in and out of view. What's going on?" Asked Sorina. She was backed up against the wall. Evidently, she was afraid of me now.

"Help!" I screamed. Then I slid completely out of view.