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Al is sat under the same tree Eva was sat under earlier that day, holding a scrunched piece of paper.
Eva skids down on her knees landing next to him, giving him a big hug. “Are you okay?” she asked “What happened back there?”
He quickly wipes the tears from his eyes as his friends come up to him. “… I guess I’m just tired… Didn’t sleep last night, after what his Slytherin mates said…” He sighs “That boy I fought with, Damian, he told a bunch of fibs back there and stupid Sprout bought them all… You know why? Because he’s a Gryffindor and I’m a Slytherin…” He finishes talking before bursting into tears, Eva giving him another big hug before looking him dead in the eye “And Professor Sprout is neither!” She reminded him “Being a Gryffindor doesn’t always mean they’re gonna be the good guy and the Slytherin is the bad guy, it can be the complete other way around.” she said to him as she cleaned the remaining blood from his face and brushed away his tears. “I’ll try and talk to Sprout about it later, okay?”
Albus shakes his head, the tears started to slow but were still falling. “It’s been so many years… And yet just because You Know Who was a Slytherin, no one trusts us… I wanted to be Gryffindor, honest I did, but at the sorting ceremony, I changed my mind. And this is what I got myself into”
Eva felt sorry for Albus, but she had to stay positive that they’d get through it. “I trust you, and I don’t care what other people think about that because you are an amazing person!”
Scorpius, who was not that far away from the trio, smirked as he said “Got some admi-“ before getting cut off as Eva threw a stone at him. “Shut up Scorpius!” She turned back to Albus and giving him one last hug before standing up “Look, we gotta go to Herbology, I’ll talk to you at lunch, okay?
Al nods “Thanks…” he said as he stood up, beginning to walk away, when Roman hugs him!?
“See you in charms” She said, before grabbing Eva’s hand and dragging her to the green houses.
The girls arrive at the Herbology class, hurrying in and getting their textbooks out.
“Sorry we’re late Professor, that was my fault.” Eva said as they entered the green house
“Yes alright girls, I’ll talk to you at the end, sit down please” Professor Sprout said to them.
Eva sits down at a table with Roman, flipping through her book to the right page “You shouldn’t have waited for me Roman, I told you I’d catch up” Roman shrugged at her friends comment “Meh, I may not be very Hufflepuff sometimes, but I know when my friends need me” She said as she smiled at her slightly shorter friend.
“Eh, I guess you’re right” Eva replies before they get given pots and are told to plant something to catch up with the rest of the class.
As the Herbology class finishes, Eva and Roman hurry to the Charms classroom, hoping not to be late for another lesson. As Charms class was with the Slytherins, Al saved Eva and Roman seats, letting them sit with him. Al patched up and bruised, but the tension between him and Roman seems to have subsided. The teacher announces that they’ll be getting stuck straight into spells and magic!
Eva, seeing Roman bouncing up and down in her seat, tries to hold her down before she explodes.
Everyone is given a feather and are taught the spell Wingardium Leviosa “Good! Now try it yourselves!” The teacher says with a soft smile.
“Wingardium Levioser” Albus says, though nothing happens “Wingardium Levioser!”
Eva, chuckling, pushes down Al’s wand before he pokes someone’s eye out “It’s LevioSA not LeviosER” She casts the spell and her feather flies into the air.
Albus looks at her feather in awe, then tries the spell again “Wingardium Leviosa!” His feather rockets up and a grin appears on his face. “Yessssss!!!!”
“My turn!” Roman says, laughing at them. “Wingardium Leviosa!” Nothing happens “Wingardium Leviosa!” She tries about ten times, doing everything perfectly, but the feather never moves.
“Have you tried moving your arm differently?” Eva asks her, slightly concerned.
Roman tries the spell again and Eva can see there is absolutely nothing that she’s doing wrong. Everyone else has managed it by now, so the teacher looks over to see what’s wrong. “Hmm, hand me your wand” He tries with her wand and the feather flies “Hmm… Keep trying, it takes some people longer than others” He hands Roman her wand back and she tries to cast the spell yet again.
“You’ll get it eventually Roman!” Eva tells her, in a positive tone. She starts looking through her textbook and starts writing note down before the class ends.
The class finishes and Roman still hasn’t made the spell work. It’s the end of the school day, and Al suggests that they go visit Hagrid. They meet up about up about ten minutes later and walk over to the hut, Roman still notability salty about her failure at a simple spell.
As they walked down to Hagrid’s, Eva tells Roman that she’d happily help her with the spell back at the common room later that night.
They are welcomed into Hagrid’s with tea and chatter. Al has known Hagrid since birth, but that doesn’t stop the girls easily feeling as if they has known the half giant forever as well. Hagrid didn’t comment on Al’s bruised condition, he had obviously heard about the fight.
“So, how were yer first days?” Hagrid asked them as he poured some more tea
“Well, apart from the rough patches” Eva said as she drunk her tea “I’d say it went okay”
“That’s good!” Hagrid said happily “What were yer favourite lessons?”
“Mine was potions” Roman says, before mumbling “as it’s something I can actually do”
“Eh? What was that?” Hagrid asks her.
Eva elbows Roman, whispering to her “Don’t be like that!” She thinks about the classes they had that day, before deciding Charms was probably the best out of the lot. “Mine was Charms, as nothing bad happened then.”
“Oh dear, that doesn’t sound exactly positive.” Hagrid said, before perking up “Well, never mind that, tomorrow will be better, you’ll have Care of Magical Creatures!”
“Hagrid’s the CMC teacher” Albus added in
“An’ wait till yer see what I have planned for class tomorrow! It’s a real treat!”
“Well I am very looking forward to see what you have in store for us Hagrid!” Eva said. She check her watch as she could tell it was getting dark outside “Darn, we should probably head back to the castle, it’s getting late.”
“Too right! Don’t want to be missing dinner, do we?” Hagrid said
The four returned to the castle and eat their dinner. Afterwards in the common room, Roman practices practices Wingardium Leviosa, but to no avail. Some older students try to help and encourage her.
“You have the movement perfect!” A fourth year boy says “It’s just a case of the magic actually wanting to work now!”
“Don’t worry about it” a third year girl adds in“It took a boy in my class a week to do the spell!”
“My brother’s an Auror, and he still struggles with Wingardium Leviosa” Another boy says “So it’s no big deal!”
“See!” Eva says, yawning “You’ll get there soon enough”