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The next day, Lucas and Lucifer came together. They had asked for Charlus and Henri, and the woman who ran the administration desk pointed them to room 402. They took about half a day to settle in. After they set everything in place, they went to register their room.
The registration happened smoothly. They went back and spent the rest of the day playing games. They had a little trouble sleeping in the new dorm since they were new to it, but they fell asleep eventually.
The next day, they went out to meet their other friends. They went to the garden at 3 as usual and waited.
To their disappointment, no one turned up.
"Maybe they only came today and are still unpacking. Why not come back tomorrow?"
Everyone agreed.
They came back on the fourth. This time, all three of their female friends were there.
"Did you know we came yesterday?"
Lucas asked Charlotte.
"Really? Sorry about that. All of us came back yesterday. We were late so none of us are in the same room."
"That's a shame. All of us got a room for ourselves. Me and Charlus booked it on the first day itself." Henri rubbed the fact that they had their own room into their faces.
The gathering was very similar to the ones they had previously. The only difference - they had wands this time. Everyone was still excited that they had wands that they started showing off.
"Did you learn any spells?"
Most of them had learnt the basic lighting charm. Fleur had gone further and learnt the levitating charm.
"Why did you learn that? We're going to learn that in class anyways. I learnt the glasses repairing charm." Lucas said.
Everyone laughed.
"When are you going to use it then? I don't think you noticed, but none of us have glasses."
Lucas became silent. Then Fleur said, "I can use the fire-making spell."
"Really? Can you show us?"
Selene was the most curious since she was a muggleborn.
Fleur was a little nervous since it was her first time performing a spell in front of her friends.
"Ahem. Incendio."
A small flame lit on the top of Fleur's wand. Everyone cheered.
"Well, I have made bigger flames than this, but anyway, that's the spell."
Suddenly Selene came up with an idea that everyone found interesting.
"Why don't we try out the spell? Maybe we can do it too. It will be a good learning experience."
Everyone took out their wands and started casting. Everyone was failing. While they got their pronunciation right, thanks to the Theory of Magic classes, they were unable to transfer the magic from their body to their wand. The best they were able to do was release a small amount of smoke from their wands.
Suddenly Fleur, who was overseeing the casting of the spells, came to Charlus and asked him, "Why aren't you trying?"
Charlus didn't know what to say. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to succeed since he was doubtful about the strength of his magic. He had tried various spells when he was at the Black Mansion, but none of them succeeded.
"I'm just looking at the others. I'm going to try now."
Charlus took out his wand. He concentrated on the magic that he felt in his body. He called out to one of the strands. He controlled the strand and tried to make it come out of his body into the wand. However, he was only able to get it till his wrist. No matter how hard he tried, the magic strand wouldn't pass the wrist and go forward.
"Incendio." He chanted weakly, knowing that the spell was bound to fail. As e had expected, nothing happened. Fleur, however, was not surprised.
"It's alright. It took me a week to get this spell right."
A few minutes later, everyone gave up. They didn't want to waste their entire day learning a spell when they could work on it later.
"So, when do we come tomorrow? Same time?" Henri asked everyone.
Selene shook her head.
"Not the same time. Our schedule changed. We have less free time than before. We have 4 classes a day now. All the timings are irregular. We won't be able to meet like how we are right now."
"So what do we do?" Lucas asked.
"We can just be together during the classes. We can always go to the classes together. And then there are lunch breaks."
After three years, the group had become thick friends. They wanted to spend time together, and so they decided to brainstorm ideas.
"I have a brilliant idea!"
Everyone looked at Charlotte.
"Well, you know how Charlus pranked Madame Abadie the first time and we got a whole week free. If he does it again, we can have more time. A great sacrifice for a great cause."
"That wouldn't work. Teachers are more cautious these days after last year. We can make him prank the students. If the class strength is less than half, the class is cancelled for the day."
"That's a great idea."
"Will everyone shut up?!!"
Everyone turned towards the source of the agitation.
"You want me to prank, I can prank!" He took out a small sphere and threw it towards the rest of his friends. Everyone scattered from the sphere fearing that it might burst open.
Charlus suddenly laughed and went towards the sphere and picked it up. He put it back in his pocket and said, "Next time you plan something about me without my consent that will be a real bomb."