Mystery of magic

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The rest of the year Shannon couldn't stop thinking about the forest and what Gryphus had told her, what she had seen. Magic, so that was the explanation all along. Shannon still needed more details and she was going to get them soon.

"So you are leaving for the summer instead of your usual spying " Maddie asked.

"Yeah, you will update me on any important details or weird things, won't you?"Shannon said.

"Of course" Alfie said.

Then the Dursley's car came in. Harry was with them.

"So he didn't get kidnapped by aliens yet again" Maddie said. Harry heard her.

"What?" He said looking at them.

"Shannon can answer you that" Maddie said running away. Alfie followed her.

"I am sorry is just that I have seen some strange stuff happening around you and your house, I might have made some crazy assuptions" Shannon said with a pretty nervous voice. Could he tell him that she knew? but she didn't know much, just what Gryphus had told her, which wasn't the full picture, just some basic things.

"What kind of strange stuff have you seen?" Harry said, he was clearly nervous too, maybe she should tell him the truth.

"It started on my first halloween here, I came back from asking for candy, Dudley was chasing you, I thought you were playing some game, I wanted to play, so I decided to follow you, you hid behind a column, you looked so scared, I was going to talk to you, but you dissappeared in mid air, it was impossible" Shannon said.

"but it was so long ago, you were 4 and I was a really little kid, that knew all the spots to hid from Dudley" Harry said.

"That was just the begining, and I myself got convinced that I just imagined things, but as time passed and I went to primary school with you weird things kept happening, objects that moved places without explanations, balls and frisbees avoinding you in sports class even when Dudley aimed directly at you" Shannon said.

"You are just reading too much into things, I know how to avoid balls" Harry said.

"The zoo, I was there remember, I saw you talking to the snake or something then, the glass dissapeared and the snake scaped, I may have passed out afterward but I remember" Shannon said.

"you were scared, it was an accident that had nothing to do with me" Harry said.

"You were sent to a correctional school according to your aunt and uncle, but when you left you had a broken pair of glasses, when you came bacl your glassed were in perfect condition" Shannon said.

"I... they fixed them close by" Harry muttered.

"Later that summer I may have spied through your window and saw something pointy eared, moving" Shannon said.

Harry was clearly stressed, had he ran out of excuses?, was she comming off as mean?

"Then the final blow, the flying car, I saw you leave in it, I thought I had dremed it, but you weren't in your room the next day and there were sighthings of a flying car all across the country, I thought it was an alien spaceship disguised as a car" Shannon admitted.

"So that is what this is all about? , some strange coincidences? thanks for telling me, but I am heading in, probably going to be trapped in my room for the rest of the summer, just know I am not an alien" Harry said.

Shannon hesitated, the situation had been resloved, but not completely, he would be weary to her, but she already knew some things.

"Wait!!" She yelled.

"What?" he asked.

"There is something else, near our farmhouse in the countryside live the Scammanders, I have befriended their sons, Gryphus and Rolf they are a little bit strange, like you."Shannon said.

This made Harry go pale, he probably recognized the names.

"Where are you going with this?" He asked.

"Maddie and Alfie know about what I told you before, but this they don't know, and they never will, last year, our class took a field trip to Scotland, we passed near a poorly explored area of the Lochs, I being the curious girl that I am, I separated myself from the group and went near the forest, but I felt this sudden fear to enter the forest, I was heading out when Gryphus emerged from the forest, I got confused, then a rabbit with antlers came out behind him, he hardly got any time to explain anything to me, when a manticore came out, and he pulled me into the forest, the manticore grabbed me, and he used magic to set me free, he told me the truth, I know the truth, I want you to know that I know" Shannon said while tears came to her eyes remembering the incident.

"You really have weird dreams Shannon, maybe you should get one of those dream interpreting books" Harry said, clearly still trying to avoid the fact that she knew.

"It wasn't a dream and I have the scars to prove it, a normal scratch would have dissapeared by now, but these are still there, healing slowly" Shannon said pulling up her shirt showing the scars.

"What do you know exactly?" Harry finally said.

Shannon pulled Harry appart.

"I know that you are a wizard, and that you go to some magic school, nothing else, if you want to tell me something else good if not then also good" Shannon said.

"my parents didn't die in a car accident, they were killed, trying to protect me" Harry said.

"That is why you live with the Dursleys?" Shannon asked.

"That and the fact that my godfather was a supposed serial killer framed for their deaths" Harry continiued.

"so living with the Dursleys isn't that bad?... I mean if people are trying to kill you so often" Shannon asked.

"I guess so, they are mean and all but they aren't trying to actively kill me or kill a bunch of people with a giant snake" Harry said.

And so Harry shared his real experiences with Shannon, it was nice, quite crazy and if she haven't seen all those inexplicable things it would have come off as a crazy made up story for a fantasy book.

She told her friends he had denied any alien abductions, but that Refoematory school wasn't really that bad. The next day they were going to the farmhouse where she would have a long talk with Gryphus and Rolf.