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Chapter 4:

My Hair Turns Green

Jennifer

Might I take a moment to say this: Floo powder is the worst possible way to travel. It's a little hard to explain but after that incident, I never wanted to take Floo powder again. After Jane so rudely threatened me into walking into the fire, I was sucked into a tunnel of green flames an fireplaces. The wind was so strong I could hardly breathe, but after a few seconds I tumbled out of a fireplace, covered in ashes and with a bruised knee.

I found myself in a grubby bar. A crazy looking guy behind a counter was serving strange drinks to weird people in robes. I shuddered at the resemblance of the robes to the ones the Death Eaters in the Divee had worn. I was sure that if the Board of Health inspected this place, it would be shut down.

Seconds after I burst out, Jane calmly walked after me. I shot her a glare, but didn't say anything. Rather, I sat up and rubbed my injured knee. I noticed that Jane, her mom, and Emma were all staring at me strangely. I stood up.

"What?" I looked at them angrily. I hated it when people stared at me. It made me feel weird. Nobody answered me. "WHAT?"

Emma was the one who answered me first. "You-your hair." She stated. My hand flew immediately to my head.

"What about my hair?" I demanded. "Sure, it's probably all messed up, no thanks to Floo Powder, but come on guys..."

I trailed off, because I had just seen my reflection in a grimy mirror. My hair, as expected, was messed up, tangled, and slightly singed, but that wasn't what made me gasp. The weird thing was, my hair was bright green. I pulled at it. Still green. Was I going insane?"

Jane gasped. "Jennifer, you didn't tell us you were a Metamorphimagus!"

"A Metawhatsawhosit?" I asked, confused.

Jane hopped up and down excitedly. "It means you can change your appearance at will! Of course, generally, it would have shown up before now. It's almost as weird as your late power development. Hmm..."

"Whatever, how do I change my hair back to its normal color?" I demanded.

"Well, seeing as you can change it at will, I'm assuming all you need to do is concentrate." Jane shrugged. "I don't really know much about it, it's such a rare gift. Wow!"

"So I can just do this..." I screwed up my eyes "And I can...whoa." My hair had turned neon orange.

Jane's mom surprised me by speaking, which she hadn't done since we'd arrived at the Leaky Cauldron. "But why hasn't it taken effect until now?" She looked confused. "Normally, you would have been able to change your appearance since the moment you were born!"

There was a loud CRACK! and a woman in a green robe appeared in midair. "Morning, Deerfield." she said, nodding to Jane's mom. She surveyed the room and made a sort of tisking noise.

"Excuse me, but who are you, exactly?" I inquired, a little annoyed.

The woman cleared her throat. "Eh-hem. Of course. The name's Catastria Stone. I'm Head of the Department of the Improper Use of Magic Office. Now, about your Metamorphimagus powers... Eh hem." She pulled a piece of crinkly paper out of her robe pocket. "Let's see... Ah, yes."

She began to read from it. "Your magic powers and, er, unusual metamorphosing abilities, would have caused a great deal of trouble for us in the Improper Use of Magic Office, so we had to... er...suppress your powers until such a time as they became necessary.

Emma, Jane, and I opened our mouths to say something, but Catastria Stone cut us off. "You must understand that this was necessary. Due to the nature of your personality, there would be no doubt that if you discovered you had magical powers, you wouldn't hesitate to tell everyone you knew! As for the metamorphosing, that's standard procedure, so that anyone present at your birth wouldn't notice anything odd."

I still thought it was unfair, but I chose not to say anything, so instead I nodded quietly. With another screwing up of my eyes, I returned my hair to its normal color. Satisfied, Catastria Stone disappeared with another CRACK!

I looked around again, and noticed that everyone had stopped talking and was staring at me. "What? I demanded, and everyone reluctantly returned to their separate conversations. Jane's mom finally clapped her hands and said, "Okay, let's check in or room!"

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