Chapter 2
September 2nd, 1936
Walburga woke up at 6 o'clock the following morning. She sat up and looked around the room, everyone else was still asleep. She decided that there was no point of laying in bed and wait for the others to wake up, she got up from bed and put her robes on, trying to be as quiet as possible, not wanting to wake the others. When she had dressed, she went to the great hall for breakfast. Walburga was the only one there, but she didn't care, she was glad to get some peace and quiet. She sat down at the corner of the Slytherin table and began to serve herself some toast.
10 minutes later Euphemia arrived, she immediately spotted Walburga and sat down next to her.
"Good morning." Euphemia said and yawned.
"Morning," Walburga mumbled. Euphemia studied her face. "Well someone's in a bad mood this morning." "I am not!" Walburga snapped. "Yeah, sure..." Euphemia teased.
"JUST-" Walburga paused when she realized that she had raised her voice. "Just let me eat..." She said her voice much calmer. "Okay, sorry," Euphemia said as she grabbed a piece of bread.
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Their first class was Transfiguration with Professor Dumbledore.
Walburga and Euphemia were seated in the right corner of the front row, Mary and Druella sat in the middle of the front row.
Professor Dumbledore showed them how to turn a rat into a goblet.
“Vera verto,” Euphemia said as she flicked her wand. The rat turned into an old silver goblet for a couple of seconds before it turned back into a rat again. “I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong!?” Euphemia said frustrated. “You try it.”
Walburga pictured a golden goblet with red rubies as she pointed her wand at the rat. “Vera verto.” She said with a firm voice. They both watched as the rat turned into the golden goblet Walburga had pictured in her head. “Wow, how did you do that?” Euphemia asked.
Dumbledore inspected the goblet with an impressed smile. “Well done, Walburga. 5 points to Slytherin!
By the end of the lesson, Walburga had won 25 points for Slytherin.
“If you keep this up, you’re going to win the house cup for Slytherin,” Euphemia said as she put her school supplies in her bag. “I just answered a few questions, no big deal.” They were about to head to the common room when Druella and Mary joined them. “You were amazing!” Mary said. “Yes, the other Slytherins are gonna love you now,” Druella added. Walburga rolled her eyes. “Can you guys stop talking about it like I’m some kind of hero? I won a few house points, so what.” Walburga said annoyed. She didn’t get why everyone was making such a big deal of it, she had just answered a few questions. Everyone could do it. “You’ve only been to one lesson, and you’ve already made 25 points!” Mary said. “It’s not exactly hard, I just answered some questions, anyone could do it.” She repeated. No one said anything more after that and continued there walked in silence.
The other girls sat down in the common room chatting about some cute boy they had seen in the corridors. Walburga couldn’t care less and decided to go study in the library. “Hey, where are you going?” Euphemia asked curiously. “To the library, why?” “Just curious, that’s all.” She said, making an expression that Walburga didn’t get. “Okay? Anyways I’m going now, bye.” She turned and hurried towards the portrait to exit the common room. “Wait!” Walburga turned to see who had called for her. It was Euphemia. “Can I join?” She smiled. “Sure.” She would much rather study by herself, but she liked Euphemia. And maybe it would be fun to study with someone, what did she know?
They walked to the library together and found a secluded spot in a corner that was surrounded by big wooden bookshelves. It was rather dark, but Walburga didn’t mind, there were enough light to see what they were doing.
“I can’t believe he gave us homework on the first day of school, can you?” Euphemia didn’t let her answer that and just kept talking. “I mean, it’s the first day. He could’ve at least let us have one day without homework?” She complained. “Mhmm” Walburga muttered as she read about transfiguration and the consequences of using it wrong. They sat in silence for a little while, until Euphemia started talking again. “Why are you always so quiet?” Walburga looked up from her book. “What do you mean?” She said confused. “I mean, you don’t talk very much. You hardly say anything unless someone asks you a question.” Euphemia studied her carefully. “I’m not a very talkative person, I talk when it’s necessary.” Euphemia gave her a quick nod before starting on her homework.
A few minutes later Euphemia spoke again. “I think you should talk more.” Walburga looked up from the book again. “You never shut up, do you?” She said with an almost not visible grin on her lips. “Hey, that’s not true.” She whined as she crossed her arms over her chest. “Prove it. Be quiet until you’ve finished your homework.” Walburga said, her grin now a little more visible. “Fine.” She got back to her homework. Walburga returned to hers too, enjoying the smell of books and the calm and quiet atmosphere surrounding them.
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43 minutes later Euphemia had finished her work.
“I’m done… and I didn’t talk!” Euphemia said with a glimpse of proudness showing in her eyes. Walburga looked up from her book. “Shame, I had started to get used to you not talking. It was rather nice.” She teased.
“Oh, stop it, I know you love hearing my voice.” She said with an arrogant smirk.