Chapter 2

"Alright, girls prepare the descent" said Miss Hardbroom as they flew on their broomsticks towards Hogwarts.

As they landed on the school grounds they approached Professor Dumbledore who stood in front of the school gates along with his staff members to welcome their guests.

"Amelia!" he greeted Miss Cackle, "It's been so long since I've seen you. How are things going with your school?"

"Oh, wonderful, Albus, just wonderful. The girls are all looking forward to meeting your students" said Miss Cackle, "Aren't we girls?"

"Yes Miss Cackle," the girls replied.

"What charming girls," said Professor Dumbledore, "Please, do come in."

Once they have been given a tour around the school the girls were settled into their dorms. Three girls to a room and Mildred shared hers with Enid and Maud.

"Wow this is great. It'll make our midnight feasts a lot more easier," said Enid.

"Yeah, no more sneaking about for the next few days" said Mildred.

Just then there was a knock on the door and in came Fenella and Griselda, two fourth years.

"Hey you lot," said Fenella, "Miss Cackle just wants us to let you all know to be finished packing in twenty minutes then head downstairs to the great hall with your hat and cloak."

"Alright, thanks" said Mildred and Fenella and Griselda left in an instance.

Once they've finished, the girls headed downstairs with their hat and cloak on just like Miss Cackle said. They lined up in the front of the great hall where they saw all the Hogwarts students sitting and chatting about.

"Now listen here everyone," said Dumbledore as the entire hall became silent, "For the next few days we will be having the girls of Cackle's Academy staying with us in this castle like I said so last night. And for those who weren't listening to me; Cackle's Academy is a school for witches and they perform magic in a different way than we do and they will be staying with us so that we may each experience a different kind of magic from one another. And now to welcome our guests let us all stand and sing our school song"

Once he had finished the whole school of Hogwarts stood up from their seats and began singing their school song.

As they sang Mildred, Enid and Maud bit their lips to prevent their laughter from escaping their mouths. They couldn't help but find the lyrics to the Hogwarts school song to be very funny.

Once the song had finished Dumbledore allowed the girls to leave their places and go sit and socialize with the Hogwarts students.

Mildred, Enid and Maud found three empty seats at a nearby table and went over to sit there.

"Hello," said a voice right next to them, "I'm Hermione Granger and that's Harry Potter and Ron Weasley," she introduced herself and two other boys sitting across from them.

"Hi," they both greeted

"Hi, I'm Mildred Hubble," replied Mildred, "But you can call me Millie and this is Enid Nightshade and that's Maud Moonshine."

"Hi," they both greeted

"So Cackle's Academy, what's that like?" asked Ron

"It's great," said Enid, "It's in a castle just like this one but a lot more smaller and its up in the hills surrounded by a forest."

"Cool. You guys ride on broomsticks?" asked Harry

"Of course," said Maud, "It's every witches' custom to have broomstick and be able to ride them."

"Does your school do any quidditch?" asked Harry

"No, unfortunately not," replied Millie, "Our teacher, Miss Hardbroom or HB as we like to call her, isn't really fond of that sport in fact she isn't fond of the idea of wizards riding on broomsticks."

"What does she have against wizards riding on broomsticks?" asked Harry

"She says its witch's custom to ride on broomsticks not wizards" replied Maud

"But don't worry about her, she's always acting like that," said Enid, "She's our potions teacher you see and she's absolutely horrifying. She's always yelling at us in class when we're getting something wrong in our potions, she always appears and disappears from nowhere which scares the daylights out of us and worst of all she favours Ethel Hallow."

"That sounds a lot like our own potions teacher, Professor Snape. And who's Ethel Hallow?" asked Hermione

"She's this girl in our class who thinks she's so much better than us just because she gets straight A's and comes from a family of witches that date back to the medieval times" said Millie, "She's always trying to find some way to get us into trouble, especially me. I've almost been kicked out of school because of her."

"And again that sounds a lot like a particular class mate of ours," said Hermione with Ron and Harry nodding in agreement with her, knowing she was referring to Draco Malfoy.

"And speak of the devil," said Ron pointing towards the Slytherin table where they see Malfoy chatting away with two of the Cackle's girls. Mildred, Maud and Enid immediately recognized the two girls.

"That's Ethel!" said Millie, "And the one next to her is her best and only friend, Drusilla. Who's that their talking to?"

"That's Draco Malfoy," replied Harry, "And he's exactly how you described Ethel Hallow. He thinks he's so much better than everyone else because he's what people call "pureblood" which means he's got no drop of non-magic blood in his veins. He's always picking on us and he's always trying to find some way to humiliate us or get us into trouble."

"Then, it's no surprise Ethel and Drusilla made friends with him," said Enid and Maud and Millie nodded in agreement.

"Now one more thing before you all head off to bed," said Dumbledore, "Tomorrow classes will proceed as normal only now we will be having joint classes with each other Cackle's and Hogwarts. The only class that will be separate however will be any spell casting classes as I'm sure you've figured by now considering the different uses of magic. That is all now off to bed the lot of you."

"We'll see you in the morning then," said Hermione

"Yes of course," said Millie, "Goodnight," and with that Millie, Maud and Enid went back to their rooms and Harry, Ron and Hermione did the same.