Chapter 37: Practice!
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But if I had to place a bet where they would set up their new base, if it wasn't at Grimmauld place it would be at Hogwarts.
Mainly to do with what I had previously read in Hogwarts a history, seeing as I read the thing twice over in the month beforehand.
I knew everything that it had about the ancient castle.
The first thing being was that Hogwarts was a sovereign land to itself, the ground on which the castle stood as well as the town of Hogsmeade rested on was all separate from the ministries control.
It has been that way since the founders founded Hogwarts over a thousand years ago so that no ministry or government body could interfere or influence what was being taught there.
And in order to protect the castle and its occupant's powerful wards were erected over the castle to defend against attacks and monitor the inner workings of the castle.
Which the founders used to watch over the castle while they ruled it and the surrounding land as its lords and ladies.
But as time passed so did the control, the board of governors was created to take over from the founders to manage the welfare of the school, and the appointed headmaster was given control of the wards which were extensive.
The first one the book mentioned was the unforgivable detection ward, that notified the headmaster whenever an unforgivable curse was used in the school.
Next was the dark magic and dark objects detection wards that scanned everything that was brought into the school.
If any such items were brought in through the wards the headmaster was notified and it was up to him on how to deal with such items.
It wasn't hard for me to figure out that Dumbledore was seriously abusing the wards in order to allow all the things that were going on this year to happen.
The wards would go nuts when the Cerberus and the Mirror was brought into the school, on top of that there was no way the wards didn't warn him about Quirrell being possessed the old man knows and does nothing about it.
He is allowing it all to happen because he wanted it to happen for his 'greater good', and I now know to be wary if I hear him say that because I figure it means one of three things.
That someone is about to get shafted, someone has been shafted or someone is in the process of being shafted.
I rubbed my brow as I felt the train pull off from the station and sighed.
I was about to be put into the school run by this manipulative bastard with a beacon on my head that was my heirship of the house of Black because to his knowledge I had no guardians of any kind, I was just another pawn for him to use.
I grinned, we would see about that that old fart is about to find out that not all his students are pawns for his amusements.
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The train ride was underway for about five minutes when there was a knock at my door, I turned my head to see the door being opened and two girls standing outside it, both in witches robes with trunks at their sides.
I blinked at them and I found it very odd that I didn't immediately recognise them, I realised that they must have been lesser known characters in the books.
Not everyone made an appearance in the movies.
"Sorry but do you mind if we sit here?" The first girl asked, she was a blond with long silky smooth hair that ran down past her shoulders for a couple of inches, she had a near perfect complexion, a round face and blue eyes.
I shook my head, "Not at all, please take a seat," I said as I gestured to the empty seats in the compartment.
Both girls nodded and as the first girl came in I got a better look at the second, unlike her blond friend the second girl was a brunet with hair the same length as the first but only with some curves near its ends, and she had small freckles on her slightly rounded cheeks and brown eyes.
Both came in pulling their trunks behind them, and I noticed the initials on both of them, the blonds had a DG on its side and the brunets had a TD.
I thought it over in my head and I couldn't place the initials with any girls off the top of my head but quickly came back to the present when I saw them both start to help each other to lift their trunks up to the above head storage, struggling slightly.
I smiled, "Here, let me help" I offered as both girls looked to me as I pulled my wand from my sleeve and with another swish and flick both trunks lifted up off the ground and slotted into place above them.
Both girls turned from watching their trunks float into place to me both with looks of shock and wonder.
"How did you do that?" the blond asked her eyes wide, "I didn't even hear you speak?"
I smiled, "Practice," I responded, "My grandparents, they have me practising each spell on the curriculum weeks in advance and them take it to the next level with is silent casting, takes ages to get it right, but it's worth it to see the looks I get." I grinned.
Both girls were still looking at me in awe for a couple of seconds before the brunet was the first to snap out of it apparently and speak.
"Well that's pretty cool," she said as she smiled at me, "I'm Tracey Davis, pleased to meet you."
Tracey's apparent introduction managed to shake the blond from her shock as well and I saw her cheeks pinked in embarrassment before she spoke, "Oh, of course, I've completely forgotten myself," she said before curtsying to me slightly.
"Daphne Greengrass, my apologies for not introducing myself sooner, but I was a little… side-tracked," she said as her cheeks pinked again.
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