The Year of the Revolution IV. The Outbreak

8. Piano lesson

Sev get up the first from the snakes' table. He didn't even say goodbye or directed one word to them, because he spent the meals projecting to Lauren and Lily. He did not go home, in the solfeo classroom there was everything to write. He went directly to the third floor and up the passage to the seventh, came to the portrait and Disillusioned himself.

Cecile took a while, finished dinner later and she did go home for material. When Sev saw her arriving, he appeared, she approached him and he conjured again the Disillusioner and the Muffliato. They embraced.

"Hi, Sev... how long! How are you?"

"Resisting the pull."

"Lily has told me that you are already twelve."

"We're fifteen, Cecile, counting you all. Yesterday I missed you."

"Yeah... What a pity. Let's see if everything finish soon and we can all be together."

"Well, in summer we can meet, whatever happens."

"It's true. How fed up I'm with Hogwarts, and we still have two years left. It's like a jail," she complained.

"I think the same."

"Well, we will have to resist. What a surprise, the Room of Requirement turned into a music classroom."

"You'll see, it's amazing," he said. "But let's enter and keep talking there, do you think?"

"Sure."

"Demand with your mind 'Solfeo and Piano Initiation Classroom' walking three times up and down along the corridor. Both together. Now we will run some risk."

"Well, only for the Gryffs, and they have stayed in the Common Room looming," Cecile said.

"Good. Let's go there."

They demanded, the door appeared and Sev opened it for her. "Enter, Miss Harb."

"You are a true gentleman... Wooow! A brand new Steinway grand piano!"

Wow... this one knows about pianos, Sev thought.

"I'm going to have my plate full!" she exclaimed.

Sev was laughing. The door closed behind him.

"Do you know how to play?" he asked her.

"Oh... I wanted to surprise you little by little, playing the mysterious, but I couldn't contain the emotion. It is the best piano that exists! What a good luck!"

"Well, do not excite too much, the Room is not multiple, it does not open if there is someone inside unless you demand the same, and it is not convenient to discover that we know it. The Red Magic Book may be in it."

"Of course, Sev. And besides, we have the OWLs and training, and I'm trying to become Animagus."

"Wow, you hadn't told us."

"Well, Lily has just asked me when we got home and I have already told her. I am taking classes with Professor McGonagall every Friday."

"How good..." Sev said. "Do you know if it's enough being of legal age to register, or do you have to wait to graduate?"

"No. It's enough being of legal age."

"Brilliant. We also want to become Animagi to accompany Remus. We both will come of age next January. When will you?"

"The twenty-third of September," Cecile answered.

"Oh... how good. Back from holidays."

"Of course, and I think that by then I will have achieved it."