Mystery of magic

Snake Tales

Shannon's father couldn't take them to Scotland that year, but she got to go to the farmhouse again and hang out with the Scamanders. 

"We had a crazy school year there was a monster on the loose" Rolf said.

"It was a snake, monster is what the second years called it " Gryphus said.

"I don't know snakes are quite scary" Shannon replied.

"They are not, they are creatures like every other one out there, well the one in school was indeed bad, but most are not bad" Gryphus said. 

"What do you mena it was bad? did it kill anyone?" Shannon asked.

"Just paralized not killed, the victims got trated in time" Rolf said.

"Wait what? how could something like that happen and not end up on the news?"Shannon said.

"It wasn't as big of a deal as Rolf makes it sound" Gryphus said.

"oh really?" Rolf said.

"Yes" Gryphus said with a weird tone in his voice.

"Well let's stop talking about snakes before I have a panic attack, by the way did you guys hear a story about a flying car seen last year the first of september" Shannon said.

"A flying car? that's crazy, it's probably one of those crazy stories that people tell for attention" Gryphus said with a strange tone in his voice once again.

Shannon then noticed a newspaper in his hand, he didn't lie about liking to read newspapers, but if Shannon didn't know better she could tell the image in the newspaper was moving.

"Is that an old newspaper like the ones you like to read" Shannon asked.

"No! ... No, it's from my parents" Gryphus said, quickly hiding the newspaper.

Shannon cpuldn't bring herself to understand why Gryphus was acting so weird that summer.

Gryphus Scamander was surprised of how observant Shannon was, when his father had told him of the muggle family that spent their summers in the next farm he had told hom how nice they were depite the Scamanders keeping secrets fom them.

His family despite being pure, had always seen muggles as equals, his great uncle Jacob was a muggle. But even he too, thought telling the Combes the truth was too dangerous specially since the British Wizarding world had been at war. While Henry Combe had grown to be a muggle scientist he was still oblivious and close minded when it came to unexplained events, Shannon on the other hand loved this strange occurences  and it made it harder to lie about not only the truth about himself but the world he inhabited. Living next to the most famous wizard in the world Shannon had seen things and unlike others she didn't gloss over them. 

And that summer  thanks to Rolf's blabbermouth about the "snake" they were in a thight situation and she clearly wasn't going to let it go. And The Prophet on his hand, the situation was quite akward.

"We have to buy school supplies in London soon, dad must be waiting for us" Rolf said.

"Wait, I could go with you" Shannon said.

Here we go again Gryphus thought just as he thought he had gotten off the hook here she was making things more complicated.

"No, you should enjoy the rest of your hollydays, oh and I should give you back the books you lent me, well some of them, the other ones suffered accidents" Gryphus said.

Which meant they got eaten by magical creatures or got potions on them.

"Maybe I can send you new ones if you want, where is your school" Shannon asked.

"I'll take some books before you leave, our school is really far away and we would like to save you the trouble" Gryphus said.

"But it has to has postal service right specially if it is abroad" Shannon said.

"It is not abroad" Rolf said.

"Then what is the problem?" Shannon asked.

"It is really old fashioned, in the middle of Scotland, they don't really have a postal service" Gryphus said.

"Scotland? Old fashioned? what kind of school do you go to?" Shannon said.

" a special one, now we need to go, leave the books with my dad, he will get them to me" Gryphus said.

So curious, he enjoyed the summers she had been there, the muggle things she would talk about and how she would listen to his stories of magical creatures even if she believed it to be a fantasy.