Book II - The Drew Grindelwald series

2. The Calm Before The Storm

"Drew where is your wand?" Dumbledore asked me. Tina, Newt, Dumbledore and I were all in his office. We were trying to work out how we would get my tongue back.I knew exactly where my wand was... it's gone.

destroyed by Grindelwald during one of the first days of imprisonment.

"Does Gellert have it?" Albus asked me, he looked at me patiently. I quickly shook my head no, surprising the man.

"Oh, do you know where it is?"I slowly nodded. I knew it wasn't there anymore.

"Did your brother destroy it?" Tina asked, my eyes shot up towards her. Her eyes quickly looked away. She had been ignoring me all day, this was the first thing she had said to me since my freak out.

I nodded, glad that Tina sensed what had happened.

"We need to get you a new wand" Newt concluded, I nodded again.

"Diagon Alley would be the perfect place to find a new one," Albus said, my eyes widened. No! Diagon Alley was filled with many wizards, wizards who were against the Grindelwald family, they'd kill me if they figured out I was there.

"What's wrong?" Newt asked confused. I looked around, how was I going to tell them this without actually having to use my mouth. I grabbed a piece of paper from Albus' desk and dipped a nearby feather in ink before I quickly wrote down a word.
I placed the feather back and showed them all the paper with the written word 'Grindelwald' on it.They all frowned confused.

"What's up with Grindelwald?" Albus asked carefully not realizing what I was trying to say. I pointed at myself.

"You're a Grindelwald, yes we know" Newt nodded obliviously. I rolled my eyes, come on! It was obvious.

"She's scared people will recognize her" Tina silently said surprising me again. I nodded towards the girl. She still didn't dare look at me though.

"Drew, how are your transfiguration skills?" Albus asked with a huge grin, I rolled my eyes again he always knew I had been the best in transfiguration in his classes.

As to proof it, I said the spell in my mind and changed into a raven in front of them.

"I missed you using this skill," Newt said excitedly, of course he loved it whenever I turned into an animal.

I noticed Tina looking at me surprised. Back at Ilvermorny, I had pretended to be bad at transfiguration so Tina would pay attention to me. After having moved to Hogwarts I didn't pretend to be bad anymore and became really good.

I wanted to improve on it because my life became more dangerous and I felt like a transformation spell could actually save me one day which is why I started practicing it even more.

"I have to teach classes, Newt and Tina you'll go to Diagon Alley with Drew" Albus concluded. I suddenly got an idea and before everyone knew what was happening I changed again. This time into a parrot. Parrot's could talk a little. I flew towards Newt's shoulder and sat on it. The perfect disguise was a parrot on the shoulder of a magizoologist.

"I love parrots," Newt said excitedly.

"You can use the fast travel portkey," Dumbledore told us, he walked towards the fireplace in his office and gestured us to get into it. As I was sitting on Newt's shoulder I was dependent on everything he did. Thankfully he was a good guy who knew what he was doing.

"Be safe" Dumbledore nodded to us before Newt and Tina said the chant the spell needed to teleport. A strong force pulled us away from Hogwarts towards Diagon Alley, a second later we fell out of an old fireplace connected to the street of Diagon Alley.