Taking On The Magical World

"What is it?" asks Fred.

"Do you guys remember how Professor McGonagall was able to transform into an animal in our first Transfiguration cla.s.s that is called animagi. This book here shows you how to do that." I say faking amazement, but what my new friends do not know is that this was not indeed found in the school"s library, but it was from me.

"No way, do you realize what that means, we can do follow the book and become animagi, we can transform into an animal," says Lee Jordon in amazement and glee.

"Wow, let me have a look at it," says Angelica with her hands out, and I gladly give it to her.

They all gather around Angelica with their heads leaning over her shoulder looking at what the book has to say.

"Where did you find this book, Caelum," asks George.

"It dropped out of the shelf I was looking through, it was hidden so deep and secretively, I think somebody hide it there," I say with a look of certainty like what I spoke is not else but the truth.

"Man, this amazing, if we follow these instructions we could become one of the few animagi in Britain, my dad told me there are only 7 registered animagi in the whole of Britain," said Fred.

"Yeah, but we better make sure to not get caught, especially by our head of house, Professor McGonagall, or else we might never be able to complete it," says Angelica with a worried face on.

Lee nods along with Angelica reasoning, "yeah let"s put it back first since the process is easy to memorize."

"Okay, did you guys memorize it, all you have to do is be one with nature with that you will be able to find out what kind of animal you can transform to, then place the tip of your wand over your heart and speak the incantation "Amato Animo Animato Animagus". With that done you can become an animagi."

They all nod their heads and I pretend like I am going deep into the library, but I just went to a quiet place with no one around and put my book into a pouch, it was given to me by my mother and it has the extension charm.

I go run back to the place we where studying and I heard Lee ask, "What does being one with nature mean anyway?"

"Yeah, we will not be able to become an animagi, if we do not know even understand the steps," says Fred.

"Is ain"t it obvious to guys!" any avid reader of a wuxia novel knows being one with nature just means "MEDITATION."

I look at their faces and there is no realization, they all have a blank face, "You know when you cross your legs, close your eyes, and clear your mind."

"Why did you just say that," said George.

I sigh to myself, wizards and witches know nothing about muggle affairs, and the muggles continue to advance every day while the wizarding community is stuck in the middle ages.

Now that I am a wizard living in this world, my greatest fear is the speed at which the muggles continue to advance and one day in the future the muggles will learn about the existence of wizards and witches.

I read enough X-Men comic books to know what could happen in the struggle between us, wizards and witches, and muggles.

"Let"s get back to the Gryffindor common room first then we can talk about more on animagi, I think the librarian Mrs. Irma Pince is looking over at us," said Fred and we all hurried along to the Gryffindor common room.

In the common room, we find a corner where it is difficult to hear what we are talking about. "Before we continue, we must all swear to secrecy," I say.

"I agree this is really important and Caelum could have kept it to himself, but he decided to share it with us, so I will do it, what about you twin," Fred is the first one to speak up then the others soon follow after him.

My heart warms a bit, at their quick loyalty to me, I will make sure to reward the twins well with helping the best I could with their future shop, I will make sure to get myself a good cut of the pie, I tell them to go to their rooms and meditate when we are all ready we shall use the incantation.

Although I am using them to test the method on the book, I am no fool, I do not want five half-human, half-animals running around, I am 90% sure this will work out since I am already in tune with nature and know what animal I shall become, I am just letting them go first to make sure everything will turn out okay and it is rewarding enough to let them all be able to become an animagi.

I go to my bed and start looking over the book my mother gave me on the different way of casting spells. The first one I want to get started on is Non-verbal casting, it is the easiest one to master of the other method of casting and it is good for catching your opponent unaware.

I take a piece of parchment and place it in front of me and do the floating charm but this time I do not say the chant out loud but in my mind, I waze my wand and the paper floats up slowly and shakily then I lose focus and it comes down by itself.

Man, I did not expect that to be so difficult, no wonder most adult wizards and witches can only use a few spells Non-verbally and only people that mastered a branch of magic like the professors here at Hogwarts have mastered Non-verbal casting.