The history of magic class had a mundane setting. The light morning rays came in trough the windows and shone upon the desks. A ghost was moving side to side with a book in his hand as he took no notice of his surroundings, he almost seemed like a robot unless you interacted with him intentionally. Professor Binns was our history of magic teacher. And he was a freaking ghost. Wow, this place really embodies the fact that ghosts have most knowledge about history.
I walked to a bench on the rightmost row and middle column with Hermione in tow. We sat down right at 7:57 am as my watch indicated. I resumed our discussion as the professor seemed quite oblivious to the world except the book in his hands.
"So as i was saying, the magical circuits are there in every magical thing because it is the sole method of making the magic interact with the world ina autonomous way without a spirit such the ones in living organisms. And even magical creatures have circuits in their bodies giving them various traits and types. Wait...."
"If magical creatures can have such circuits to enable them to do magic without wands with ease, then why cant we? Wow, i need look into this" and with that i started rambling on and on about various possibilities and started doing a lot calculations while completely forgetting i was in a class of history of magic whose teacher did not care what was going on in his own class. He just on reading like a audio book.
After getting lost in the world of discovery i came back with a conclusion that i will need biology textbooks and research papers to continue on hia research. I decided to add his into my mental list of things to do.
Hermione looked at me with pout and hmphed away when i asked her about what happened. She just ignored me and continued taking notes and studying. I got confused. Is it because i ignored her when i got lost there. Uhh... what should i do now, i cant have her angry although she looks cute no matter what.
The class continued as i listened while continuing my study on the circuits with mathematical description. He used one of the sample magical object he bought which was fairly simple to study.
The class soon ended and Hermione stormed away with me following her hurriedly.
"Wait, what happened hermione? Why are you angry with me?"
She just continued on with her angry march towards the library wih me in tow.
I silently followed thinkin about a strategy to calm her down.
When we reached te library i decided to give her some space and time before trying again, so i went to the section of charms and started reading before our first charms class. I discover how each spell had instructions and tried to visualize doing them and checking how the magic moves through the wand. A simple wand lighting spell was so easy with a wand while i have such tough time producing light. Why?
I lost track of time as delved deeper into the books while constantly doing lumos with my wand. Trying variations and observing and noting the observations.
"Hey! We are going to be late for charms! Hey, Kaelan"
I heard the cute witch's voice that made me break out of my trance. I looked at her as she looked cutely angry. Noticing me come back to reality, she stormed off again. Sigh... now what?
I followed her and caught up. Showed another one the shortcuts to charms class. She knows about my 4th dimension now because i did explain it all to her. In fact i should say she knows everything about me except my past life, which is suprisingly okay fow me. Weird... i usually am not so spill it all out kind of guy? Why am i like this with her?
Bah... whatever i though while taking a seat next to the cute girl.
The charms classroom with a stack of books as the podium along woth benches on both sides facing each other was full as everyone arrived excited for their first charms class. I saw my roomates on the opposite side with some other guys. Moving my attention back to the book i borrowed while i waited for the class to start i read the book intently.
"Welcome to your first charms class!" Said a short man with a wand, had a different kind of spirit than humans, his body had some circuits, although quite less. Partly magical creature? Wow.
I looked up from my book after the analysis using my zone. I saw the man was standing on a stack of books and was waving his wand like a conductor with his matching clothes that really looked like a conductor.
"Today's class is going to be a fun one as we start our journey of learning about charms. The centre of attraction in the magic world, all kinds of things are possible with this fascinating subject of charms. Simple yet complex, I hope you will find the subject as interesting as I do. Well for today we will go through the basics of charms. Can anyone answer what are spells? And what are the basic steps for any spell?"
A hand on my right shot up like a bullet, wait no probably faster, how? How can someone raise their hand so fast, literally physically, that must require years of practice.
"Yes Miss Granger?"
"A spell is a short burst of magic used to achieve a specific task, often involving a wand, incantation, and the caster's intent. The basic steps for casting a spell, as described in the Harry Potter books, are: wand movement, incantation, concentration, and intention"
"Great answer! 5 points for Ranvenclaw"
The happy little girl sat down and looked at me with a smug smile. I couldn't help but melt and chuckle to her cuteness in response which elicited a frown from a her along with a pout followed by a hmph to look away. Sigh.... Why do I keep making it worse by the second?
Soon the practical started for the wand lighting spell. I waved the wand and produced a bright light easily. I discovered that the incantation, even the wand movement are not important but just the intention and concentration with the right input to the circuit of the wand through the use of will, or according to my terminology, the spirit is enough.
"A beautiful silent spell cast. 10 points to Ravenclaw! Well done Mr. Voss"
Soon Hermione followed with a successful cast.
"Now use nox to turn off the light." I did so silently. Followed by the little witch.
"Well done! 5 points for such excellent perfomance by both Miss Granger and Mr. Voss"
Soon the clas ended and I gained more insights as I observed the flow of magic in everyone. Noting all the observations as I waited, we soon left for the lunch in the great hall, Hermione not speaking the whole time while i was following her absentmindedly thinking about the observations. The witch in front of me stopped suddenly. And I crashed into her from behind. Not hard enough to fall but still.
She turned around "Kaelan Voss! What is wrong with? Why do you keep spacing out?!! Pay some attention to your surroundings for god's sake! Gosh!!! You would have missed charms class without me and even started to completely ignore me in the history of magic class. And now I lead you to some random corridor and you follow me without saying a single word!!! You tell me all those important and delicate theories of yours with such a adorable sparkle in your eyes and look so cool spacing out and trusting me completely when we have just met yesterday evening! You ignore your roommates to come sit with me!! Gosh what should I do with you!!!" She shouted in the deserted corridor stomping her little foot on the stone magically powerful floor.
"I- uh... Am sorry?" I stuttered as I look startled and apologetic. I did not understand what I did wrong but the girl seemed pretty angry so assumed that I actually did something wrong and did not realise it.
"I am sorry for not realising my mistakes Hermione." I said while keeping my head down, which seemed right thing to do.
And soon the girl turned around and stormed away with me in her tow, dejected. We reached the great hall.