Once inside the office they shut the door. "Do you think if we closed the blinds, it would be safe to turn on the lights?" Sevastian said, studying the only window in the room that looked out on the classroom.
"Just the desk lamp should be okay," Roxanne said.
So Sevastian closed the blinds and then nodded to Roxanne who flipped on the desk lamp. The light seemed overly bright and Roxanne had to blink several times to get rid of the spots in her vision. But once her vision cleared the light made it very easy to find the radio and book Mr. Crew had shown her. There were also two things she didn't know the name for on top of the radio. She grabbed the things on top and moved them to the desk. Sevastian tried to pick up the radio and almost dropped it. Roxanne hurried to help him.
"Careful, it's heavy," he warned as she took one side.
It was heavy and hard to hold. Roxanne worried her fingers would slip and it would fall and break, destroying their only chance to call for help.
But they managed to get it to the desk. Roxanne sat down in Mr. Crew's chair and started looking through the book.
"You're not going to read the whole thing?" Sevastian said.
"No," Roxanne said, looking at the table of contents, "Unless I need to." The chapter labeled 'Setting up your radio' looked promising, so she flipped to page 12. The first thing in the chapter was a picture of a radio, each part labeled with a number. The rest of the chapter described each number and what it did. The only problem was, the drawing didn't match up with the box sitting in front of her. After several minutes of studying the chapter, she connected the headphones and placed them on her head. Then she connected the other thing which she thought was either a tapper or microphone. Roxanne then began fiddling with what she thought was the tuning dial. Nothing seemed to happen, the box looked the same and she could hear nothing. She pushed the headphones down around her neck and looked back at the drawing.
"Don't you have to turn it on?" Sevastian said.
Roxanne blushed, she'd forgotten she was in the Muggle World; magical items did not have on/off buttons.
Sevastian reached over and flipped a switch on the back of the box.
Roxanne put one of the headphones to her ear, "I can hear crackling!"
"Its called static," Sevastian said.
"I thought you didn't know how a radio works?"
"I don't," Sevastian said, "You're doing great."
Roxanne thought Sevastian might be making fun of her, "You do it then." Roxanne thrust the headphones at him.
Sevastian backed up a step, "No, thanks."
Roxanne reluctantly put the head phones back around her neck and tried to focus. Mandy needed her to succeed. Now that it was set up she went back to the Table of Contents. Two chapters look promising. Roxanne turn to page 58 'Transmitting Messages with a Microphone.' After reading the first two paragraphs she looked at Sevastian, "is this a type of microphone?" She held up the second device, it was a wooden base with a metal lever on it and a wire connecting it to the radio box.
"No," Sevastian said.
Roxanne hurried to speak so he wouldn't say anything unhelpful, "I thought not. Could you go look for microphone? Otherwise we'll have to use Morse code."
Sevastian gave a mock salute. "Aye aye captain, anything else I should look for on this scouting mission?"
Roxanne started to shake her head and then thought of something, "my Science notebook."
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Wizard Born
FanfictionRoxanne Weasley, daughter of George Weasley, thought that all she had to worry about once she turned eleven was avoiding her brother Fred's pranks, working up the courage to occasionally talk to someone outside the family, and learning magic. But wh...
