Changing from within

Chapter Eight

Changing from Within

Chapter Eight

Game Plans

"Expeliarmus!" I leap out of the way of the spell Gregor shot at me, the bright red beam barely missing my head as I fall back.

"You-" I try, unable to word anything in shock at his sudden attack.

"You still think I'm a pompous git?" Gregor has no problems finding words as he passes his wand between his hands.

"I never said you were, I said that's what our Prefect said you were!" I defend myself, cautiously standing back up, wand held firmly in my hands.

"You didn't need to repeat it." Gregor growls back, lifting his wand back up and pointing it directly at me. I roll away just as he opens his mouth, "Stupefy."

"You were going to KNOCK ME OUT!?" I shriek, flicking my wand up and yelling the first spell that comes to my head, "Levicorpus,"

Gregor, not being in the correct position, is unable to dodge and gets picked up by his ankle, floating in the air, yelling profanities at me.

"Finite," I turn to the source of the voice as Gregor falls back down, landing with a thud on his back, I turn my glare on the smirking Adam.

"What did you do that for?" I snarl, twisting my body so I have both males in my sites, preventing any attacks from the back.

"You were boring me," He answers with a shrug, besides, I had to see if the spell worked or not. It's one thing reading about the spells and another trying them out."

"Oh," I answer, my momentary spite with Gregor forgotten as I turn my full attention to Adam, "What spells have you read about so far? How many have you tried out? Want to try some out now?" My thirst for knowledge over rides any need for revenge as I happily sit next to Adam. Gregor crawls over to us and takes a book out from his bag, Steph comes over to us, putting her own book down, and looking intrigued.

"This is the book we've been looking at so far," He informs me, sitting it on the ground between us, "It's mostly jinxes, we haven't had the chance to try them out yet."

"Well let's try them out now!" I decide, Katherine wanders over to us, looking interested as Hannah and Megan lie bathing in the weak sunlight.

"We found this spell, I think it's the one Ginny is good at," Katherine informs us, flipping through the book and landing on the Bat-Bogey hex.

"Yes!" I cry out, leaning into the book for the instructions.

The incantation, I find immediately at the top of the page – 'Vespertilio Larva' Underneath the incantation is a brief description on the wand movements, a circle then push out, and a summery on the inventor of the spell. One Miranda Goshawk who cast it on her three sisters for various reasons.

"Who's going to volunteer to be the first victim?" Adam asks, smirking.

"You just did," Katherine and I inform him in perfect synchronisation, his smirk quickly vanishes as Katherine levels his wand at him.

"Vespertilio Larva," She calls out, right as Adam casts a Protego. The lime green coloured spell hits the see through, plastic looking shield and fizzles out, Katherine slumps in disappointment. "That's cheating." She informs him.

"I was hardly going to take it without complaint," Adam smirks back, lowering his shield.

"Well I think we can still call it a success," I console Katherine, "You got a colour out, and it looked vaguely bogey like in colour." I add with a shrug at her frown. "But we need to find a simple spell-" I cut myself off, grinning as another idea springs to mind.