Ch. 10 Getting ready for Hogwarts

It was the night of 31st august. I am lying on my bed and any type of sleep eludes me. I go through the things that I have done so far. I bought myself a trunk with the weather weight charm, shrinking one and with the space expansion one. I asked the store owner for the largest space he could get me for the cheapest price. It contained the size of about 2 rooms. I didn't have any specific locking mechanisms as they would increase the prices exponentially and all I had were books to store anyway. I wanted to store as many books as I could from the room of requirements and otherwise. The rest of the things I picked up were a wand cleaning kit, wand holster and a small book on wizarding culture for light reading on the train exhausting all my funds I had saved by winning competitions through scholarships or otherwise during these 11 years.

Next, I reviewed what I had learned so far always a good thing to do as it refreshes your memory and keeps your mind active, I think. For spells so far wandlessly I could easily float 2 objects rather difficultly or just one heavy object like the trunk easily. The method I used for it or how I went about it was simple. There were two methods I could think of at first, I imagined my magic to counter the gravity acting on the object, so that the two forces counter balance each other and the object would rise. The idea looked sound but at most what I could manage was the object would wiggle. There were other demerits of course like the exponential magic I would require depending on the size of the object and its distance from me. Second and my currently working idea was to envelop the object in my magic of sorts unable to figure out whether it's my magic or just the one in the surroundings yet but just enveloping the object in my magic and imagining it to lift up worked perfectly fine. Sometimes I just overthink things maybe.

I did practice some of the other charms in the book as well. I practiced the locking charm, which was basically a magic lock any wizard with a unlocking charm would be able to open it. The unlocking one and the mending charm whose progress was going at a decent pace. I wanted to practice the water and fire making charms so badly but my logical mind finally won over. I would wait till school started 13 days was a very very long time to wait when someone can water and fire bend with your wand I tell you. Rest of the time was spent of remembering different types of wand motions like the point or jab, the swirl ,circular the wave there were just so many. No wonder an average wizard had limited amount of knowledge and arsenal of spells.

The mundane side of things also the things ended rather interestingly. The dojo I went to for over 5 years I thanked the master for his care and told him I would be going to a boarding school abroad. I was shocked when he actually hugged me telling me I was one of his most dedicated students but I needed to be more aware of my surroundings and be less vary of people. He also gave me a book with practices to keep my body fit which I would be doing every morning no doubt. This came shockingly to me actually he was the adult that knew me the most I guess in this life apart from the people from orphanage and he had done a lot for me and taught me a lot. I had tears in my eyes then I didn't realize unknowingly how much he did for me all my funds could have been said were basically thanks to him teaching me. I bowed one last time and ran away.

I had a decent time with the other kids as well. They had a dinner for me today in celebration, I was not at the point where we were inseparably attached but I would consider them as friends at least. My life for 11 years maybe has been monotonous but It was far more interesting than my last one and I thank mother magic everyday for that. I stand up to check my trunk one last time to see whether I packed everything, practicing my locking charm the last time before Hogwarts. Tomorrow would be a big day. Hopefully I would make new friends have interesting adventures and learn lots and lots of new things.

I clean my wand even though I was sure it was in pristine condition. The castle, the hat, the secret rooms, the big big library I was grinning like a fool right now. I would force myself to sleep now will have to make a good first impression tomorrow. Then I doze off to a dreamless sleep. Why a dreamless one? Because I was in fact living the best dream possible.