Chapter 6 ~ Lucy Lovegood ~

Instructions

On Monday it was back to classes. Herbology was awkward. Dad seemed really sorry about yelling at me, but I still held a grudge, I don't know what it was about that yelling, but it really mad me upset. Shel, Em, Gab and Lilly where all eager to hear what had happened last night and we whispered in the bag of our potions room, while we stirred our caldrons. "Who do you think that lady was?" Gab asked curiously. I shook my head. "No idea, but Her voice seemed familiar." The bell rang, and we all stood and packed away our equipment. "See you all later!" Professor Jordan told us as we filed out of the classroom. Our next class was Charms, and Shel, Em, Gab and I left Lilly to go to our separate classes. When we got to our room, I saw that our teacher, Professor Podmore - the deputy principle - was late. Twenty minutes after everyone else had already entered, she glided in the room, "Everyone, Form a line along the right wall." She snapped. We all raced to do as we where told. "Now," Professor Podmore said, "we are going to do a little test." Waving her wand, she moved all the desks into a line in front of us. A desk for every person. You have fifteen minutes to find out about a spell to move objects and move your desk past the line on the far side of the classroom. The desks all have your names, so there will be no cheating. If you succeed, you will get 10 points for your house. If you fail, you will lose 15 points from your house. You may go to the library to do research. Go!" Gab, Shel, Em and I raced over to the library, using a shortcut hidden passage that I had found. We arrived there after four minutes and we spread out across the spell section, searching for a spell to move items. "I found one!" I cried a few minutes later. "So did I!" Shel said as they all came racing over to me. "My spell is the -" I saw a Slytherin in our class hiding behind a bookshelf, listening. I pointed to the book, so the others could read it, but said, "Expulso spell, when you point your wand at it and say it, it pushes things away." The real spell I'd found was Accio, which brought things to your hand. Shel, also seeing the Slytherin pointed to where her spell she'd found, which was Wingardium Leiosa, but said, "Mine is also Expulso." We all replaced our books and raced back to the classroom. There was one desk that was moving slowly across and was halfway there. The rest hadn't moved. I walked over past the line and held my hand out in front of me. "Accio." I whispered, using the summoning charm. Slowly but surely, my desk began making it's way towards my hand. It overtook the Slytherins desk and made it. Shel and Em where trying the same thing, but theirs weren't moving. Shel tried her Wingardium Leviosa charm, and the desk began to soar upwards. She carefully maneuvered it, until it was sitting next to mine. Gab and Em did the same. The Slytherin who had bee trying to copy us walked into the classroom. We backed into a corner. "Expulso" He said, pointing his wand at his desk. It exploded, and we burst into a fit of giggles. He glared at us, but didn't say or do anything. Five minutes later our time was up. "Okay, 170 points to Ravenclaw, and 50 points to Slytherin. And 150 points From Ravenclaw and 405 points from Slytherin. So altogether 20 points to Ravenclaw and 355 points from Slytherin." She informed us. We giggled again at how many points Slytherin lost. The bell rang and we went to lunch.