The Irreplaceable Charlie Weasley

Chapter 3 - The Vera Verto Fight

Nova

We decided to go study down by the Lake as it was the only sunny day in the whole week. We had blankets and jackets and hot tea and sweets, so we were well prepared.

Bill, Charlie, Tulip, Tonks, and I sat down, ready to open our books. We knew that Penny wouldn't join us as she was studying with Andre and by the look on her face the morning after her unofficial date in Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, I was ready to bet that what they were doing in the Library wasn't just studying.

I grabbed my Advanced Transfiguration notes and sat between Bill and Charlie. Every time Charlie turned a page in his Defense Against the Dark Arts book, I placed my head on his shoulder to see if there was something I might need to revise. Bill asked if he could copy some of my Advanced Transfiguration notes – as what professor McGonagall was teaching me – he had to learn for his N.E.W.T.s.

I couldn't believe this was the last year we would have with Bill at Hogwarts. I was going to miss him and I think so was Charlie as he invited him to join us for studying more often than any other year before that.

I didn't want to be too confident but I felt very prepared for both my Transfiguration and Care of Magical Creature O.W.L. that's why I decided to ask Tulip to help me with Astronomy first and later I was planning to ask Tonks to help me with Herbology.

Tulip was just explaining the magical powers of a solar eclipse when I caught Penny and Andre rushing towards us with the corner of my eye. Andre looked rather worried and Penny was holding something behind her back.

"Nova, we need your help!" She breathed, kneeling in front of me. Charlie groaned as she sat on his notes.

"Sorry, Charlie." She apologized and looked back at me.

"What's wrong?" I asked, worried.

"Well, I was helping Andre with his Transfiguration spells and he cast the animal to goblet spell on one of the school mice and it doesn't look good." She made a squeamish face. She took the thing she was holding from behind her back and I gasped at the sight of it.

The goblet, which was supposed to be perfectly transfigured from a mouse, had white fur and a pair of eyes. Tulip and Tonks started laughing.

"It's not funny!" Penny frowned at them. "It can happen to anyone." She defended Andre.
"Of course, it can," Charlie reassured her, even though I sensed some sarcasm in his voice. I giggled.

"Well, let me try fixing it." I took the half mouse half goblet from her hands and placed it on one of my books.

"Reparifarge," I whispered. The mouse-goblet monstrosity quickly turned back into its animate object and Charlie leaned forward to catch it as it was ready to escape. His eyes glowed as he was observing the little creature. Animal lover!

"How did you do that?" I looked up at Andre, who was staring at me with an open mouth.

"We learned this spell in class 2 years ago, Andre." I giggled. "Now, could you please explain to me what went wrong?"

Andre started to tell us how he did the spell exactly as he remembered McGonagall do it. Three taps on the mouse with his wand and saying the incantation. Penny was sure that he pronounced it correctly.

"And did you focus on the goblet? Did it appear in your mind?" I asked.

"You sound like McGonagall." Andre was still stunned.

"That's why I brought you to her, nobody except McGonagall can teach you like Nova can." The lot all nodded in agreement and I couldn't help but blush as I was flattered.