Chapter V

Back at Hogwarts

Rose awoke to find herself laying on one of the couches in the Gryffindor common room. Startled, she sat up and looked around. Teddy Lupin was pacing back and forth, his eyes burring the floor with his gaze.

"Teddy!" Rose shouted happily.

"Why did you have to come?" Teddy abruptly asked Rose in a sharp voice.

"What do you mean?" Rose asked, a shiver flying though her at the coldness in his tone. His voice has always seemed warm as a summer's day to her.

"I wanted to stay and fight, but no. Hagrid just had to tell McGonigal that we were with him, so Hagrid was forced to take us back," Teddy explained, his voice raising in anger.

"I'm sorry Teddy," Rose said weakly, her voice breaking.

"Well whats done is done," Teddy calmly said to Rose with a sigh.

After a brief silence Rose dared to ask "Do you know were Albus is?"

"Yes, He and another lad told me to tell you that they would meet you in the Great Hall."

Rose ran out of the Gryffindor house and down the magical stairs to the Great Hall. She quickly found were Al and Will were sitting and joined them.

"Glad your back Rose," Al said giving her a smile.

"Same here, we looked everywhere for you," Will huffed, making his voice sound out of breath.

Rose told them of her adventures and of the war that the magical creatures were going to fight. Al and Will were interested in what Rose said, but James burst into the Great Hall with his friend and strode over to Al, interrupting Rose.

"Why hello Al, I just came over here to say my last words to you, mate," James said with a big grin.

"Why, what do you mean, James?" Al asked confused.

"Well surly your going to die in magical spells class. Your expected to fight a tiger, I barely made it last year, but I did. Although, half the class was torn to pieces. Well good bye," James said with a deep bow and walked away.

"James! Wait, James! What do you mean! JAMES!" Al shouted as James walked away.

People from the Slytherin table stared at Al like he was a maniac. Embarrassed, Al quickly took a seat.

"OOooh great! Do you think he's joking Rose?" Al asked trembling.

"Of course he is. He always jokes," Rose said calmly, rolling her eyes. Al's gullibility really was astounding.

"Well, I hope your right," Will muttered.

"We better get going before we're late to class," Rose said cheerfully, pushing Will and Albus out of their seats.

The three walked to charms class and took a seat.

"I am professor Flitwick," a tiny man said while climbing on top of a pile of books in order to be level with his students," Today we will learn to make a feather fly. Do all of you have your feathers? Yes? Jolly good, now then," Professor Flitwick said in his sophisticated squeaky voice," The name for the spell is wingardium leviosa. Now everyone, give it a go!" he commanded.

The students started waving their wands in the air while saying wingardium leviosa, yet failed. Will was unsuccessfully pointing his wand at the feather and saying " wingardium leviousa" or "wengardium levioasa," . Rose just sat in her seat staring at everyone with a interested expression.

"Aren't you going to try?" Will asked Rose frustrated after trying 26 attempts at making his feather fly.

"Sure, but I'm just watching everyone right now," Rose said, "it's quite amusing really."

"Well, give it a shot then," Will said.

Rose pointed her wand at her feather and giving it a little flick said in a clear voice,"wingardium leviosa." Her feather daintily flew up to the top of the class room and professor Flitwick praised her for her skill and awarded Gryffindor with 5 house points. Will and everyone else continued their attempt again.

"How did you do that Rose?" Al asked.

"Well, You have to pronounce it correctly," Rose said smugly.

"Hhmmmmm..." All murmured as he thought of the correct pronunciation.

"win-gard-ieu-m lev-i-osa," Al said to himself in his head. He gave his wand a little flick, concentrating on how he would say it out loud. Suddenly his feather soared up into the air next to Roses.

"Congratulations! 3 points for Gryffindor," Professor Flitwick said.

"Professor," Al said completely stunned,"I didn't actually say it out loud, it just flew."

"Why thats 6th and 7th year magic! How did you do it?" Professor Flitwick asked in a serious manner, the whole class dropping dead silent, all eyes turned towards him.

"Err, I was just thinking of the way Rose pronounced it and I gave my wand a practice flick and it, it just happened," Al timidly said.

"20 points for Gryffindor! That was very advanced magic ," Professor Flitwick exclaimed happily.

Al smiled, happy that he did something that James couldn't do yet. Will gave Al a how-did-you-do-that-wickedly-advence-magic-for-the-first-time-you-used-your-wand-in-your-life-and-managed-to-do-it-without-saying-any-words look. Al shrugged and Will went back to his attempt at making his feather fly.

The three walked out of class and went to herbology, where Neville made a long speech on how pleased he was that he could teach them and gave Gryffindor 10 points because Rose knew that the effects of the Julipinian purple tree root were when a slug ate it. When class was over, the three headed over to the history of magic. To Al, it seemed as if this class would go on forever. While Rose earned 5 points, Will slept and Al struggled to keep his eyes open.

"Really Will, I don't see whats so boring about the history of magic," Rose said cheerfully as they walked to the Great Hall for lunch.

"Its almost like he had sleeping powder in his room," Al said giving a big yawn.

"Well, I found it fascinating! I never knew that Gregorice the Gallant was the founder of potion making. I mean, really, sure he was prince of the wizarding world in 20 B.C., but...," Rose continued to blab on and Will and Al rolled their eyes.

"Food at last!" Will interrupted Rose when they got to the Great Hall.

"You two go along, I'll meet you later, I really must write my mum and dad," Al said and he started walking to the Owl tower.

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