CHP. 7 Preparing for Hogwarts.

A week has gone from the day we went to Diagon Alley. Me and my parents were preparing anything that I might need, so me and mom has gone shopping for clothes and I have gone back to Diagon Alley for few more things like books and few magical tinklets like I bought a camera and the potion to make pictures move. Oh and by the way for muggleborns like me they have a limit to how much you can change your money into galleons but you can change gold into galleons so that is what we did.

I am right now practicing charms. The first thing I did was read the Magical theory book trying to understand how magic works. Well it was kind of disappointing read. It does not have anything new for me and sometimes somethings that the author had said just does not aline with my experience of magic. After that I read the charms and transfiguration books and yes I know you will say how is it possible for me to read two books in a week, well think about it people these books are meant for 11 years old and they are not thick books that you might need to read in high school or college or books with complicated text alright and I might be 11 years old but I have a mind of 31 years old,ok and I am an avid reader and I got a quit nice brain which I train through meditation daily so I have gain almost eidetic memory and the text is so simple, it is like a instruction manual so you cannot go wrong if you do as it is said. I mean pick up a book an 11 year old child and read it and you will understand what I am talking about.

Anyway right now I am gonna practice with my wand as Prof. McGonagall has not said that I am not allowed to do magic outside of Hogwarts. So let's try it, first magic is luminous.

I waved my wand in a flick motion and said -

"Luminos." And a bright light, almost blinding came out of it.

Then I try to adjust the light and success.

Well it's quite easy and I suppose it should be after all that magic practice I did.

" Nox. " And the light extinguished. So I learned wand lightning and extinguishing charm.

Now let's learn Levitation charm.

So I did the wand movement.

" Wingardium leviosa." And magic theory book starts to floor.

Nice let's try another charm.

Let's try the fire making charm.

"Incendio." It set the tissue paper that I was pointing at fire. I just realized that I need to be careful with this charm,well whatever no harm done.

Next- " Spongify." I said pointing at the floor and then I jumped and it's a soft landing so I learned the softening charm too.

Then I continued doing these charms repeatedly.

Next day I tried several other charm 'Alohomora' for opening the locks and 'Colloportus" for locking the doors, ' Reparo' for repairing anything and when I cannot find anything to repair I just broke something or tear pages of old notebooks and then repair it. The few other charms are 'Cistem Aperio' the box blasting charm,'Diffindo' the severing charm, make a pineapple dance across the desk charm,'Filipendo' the knockback jinx, ice jinx etc. There is also household charms which I casted around the house, magic can make your life easy and make you very lazy.

Ooh let me tell you a funny incident, I was practicing the dancing charm and it's accidentally or may be not to accidentally hit my father and it was so funny to watch my father dance across the room. Later I told it was an accident but his eyes say he does not believe me so to make him happy I casted the charm on me and now I am dancing happily across the room and we have a good laugh about it.

For the 1 week straight I practiced very charm that I can get my hand on. That is how I sent my days from morning to night just practicing charms and I fell in love with charms.

Then the next week I decided to for something very stupid i.e practice transfiguration, it is said to be a dangerous subject and trying to do it without guidance is stupid. So to make up for the stupidity I did my practice in front of my parents and told them if any accident happened, they have to owl Prof. McGonagall as I am going to do it anyway. They were worried at first when I said accident but I fooled them in thinking that it is not dangerous I am only saying it because it is my first time and I do not know what to expect. But I quickly realized that I might need help for this and it's going to take time mind you I did change the matchstick to a little needle like but just a little and I think I will do great in this subject even though it is hard.

After that I focused on Herbolgy and potions as these two are somewhat related to each other, actually I realized every subject has a relation between them some more than others. Well I know my potions teacher is going to be Prof. Snape so I am going to be prepared for it at least theoretically, as I cannot practice practically right now.

Leaving these I did read my history book and I did read practice from my Defense against dark arts book. Since the practical expect of Defense is charms and easy ones at that , I finished it quite quickly with my charms book.

These are my academical preparation but for the social preparation I read fairytales, magical fairytale which is quite different from muggle fairytale but still quite same. I also read some novels from magical side to get their respective, how they look and think about general things. It was quite enteresting to read and informative too. You know I thought magical population does not have common sense but I realized what they do have is magical common sense which I do not have and what they do not have is a muggle common sense because they do not come in contact with them and I do not know things which is common to them because I do not grow in a magical household like when Ginny was possessed by Riddle's diary, she has been told before not to touch anything that can think for itself, for me it would have been- it's a magical world and it's just a part of it , it cannot be dangerous, I will not even think about it being dangerous. As for her,she was only a child what do you expect. So that is how I spend my days till September 1st.

Though I did owl Prof. McGonagall quite a lot, asking different things and some times sending some food for her help and I sometimes just send an owl to ask how she is, it's a good thing to right after all she is going to be my Prof. for seven years. Making friends with her is quite nice.

Talking about friends, I have exchanged letters with Dumbledore. Now you must be thinking how does this happen. Well I send him a letter, extending a hand of friendship towards him tell him, his name was on their my Hogwarts letter so he is only other person leaving McGonagall whom I know of as wizard so does he want to be my friend. Let me show you the letter and conversation which flows after.

Dear Mr. Dumbledore,

I am going to be a new student of your school from this September. My name is Eva Adams. You must be wondering why I am writing you a letter? To answer your curiosity I am writing as the magical world is unknown to me and the only person I know is Prof. McGonagall. Your name was there on my Hogwarts letter so I thought to connect to you. I want to ask you will you be my friend? I know it's quite unusual for a student to try to be friends their headmaster but I hve heard a little about you from Prof. McGonagall and she describes you such that I thought you might not be offended by my letter. If I am annoying you can just tell me so and I will back off but I would like friends with you.

Eagerly waiting for your replie.

Your Sincerely,

Ava Adams

Student.

And then I got a replie from him about three days later and it's hoes something like..

Dear Miss Adams,

I received your letter and it is indeed a first time a student has reached to me for friendship. I would like to say I am delighted as something has managed to surprise me after quite a sometime. I am not offended by your letter and would like to replie to your request of friendship that I would like to make friends with you.

Best regards,

Albus Dumbledore.

From then on we exchanged letters. Now I can say I have two friends and I told you so I can make friends with anyone even if we are not of same age group.