Extraordinary (Sign it Series; BOOK 2)

Chapter 29

If someone in Dumbledore's Army didn't know BSL, they left that meeting knowing every single swear imaginable.

Maddy should've expected to have trouble with Expelliarmus, she hadn't learned it yet, and she couldn't say the spell out loud like everyone else.

But that didn't stop her from being frustrated. Even the older students getting it wrong didn't increase her spirits.

"You two doing alright?" Harry had waltzed over just as Simon's spell shot over Maddy's head.

"Why isn't charm work as easy potions?" Simon muttered.

Maddy put her wand in her pocket in order to respond. Speak for yourself, Simon, potions are awful. This however, is way harder than I expected it to be.

"I didn't expect it to be easy for you, Maddy. I can't do nonverbal magic."

Why is it my life that has to be hard?

"All we need to do is keep practicing." Simon twiddled his wand between his fingers.

"You want another demonstration before I go check on everyone else?" Harry was met with two nods, and Maddy took out her wand and steadied her ground. "Expelliarmus!" Maddy's wand catapulted out of her hand, and landed on some cushions a few metres away.

"Thanks, Harry," Simon smiled gratefully as Maddy retrieved her wand and attempted to disarm Simon, but didn't even emit a single spark from her wand.

Before Maddy knew it, a whistle blew, and the two first years looked up to see Harry standing in the middle of the room. "That wasn't bad. But there's definite room for improvement. Let's try again."

"Expelliarmus!" Maddy felt her wand give a jolt in her hand, and she had to use her right hand (the one that had been free) to keep it in her grip. "That was somewhat better." Simon muttered under his breath, "You looked like you were gonna drop it."

The wand went back in her pocket. I was. Good job, now I have to get it. She picked back up her wand, and pointed it at Simon's own wand, and with a set face, gave a flick of her wrist.

Simon's wand didn't leave his grasp, but there were red sparks, and that was enough for Maddy to sigh and let out a few swears in relief.

"You really need to work on less cursing, Maddy," her head snapped to see Harry standing beside Simon, "I think I've seen you say every single one in BSL in the last ten minutes."

Maturely, Maddy stuck her tongue out at him, which he returned, before walking away to examine the others in the DA's performance.

By the time Harry had blown his whistle, telling them they had run over time, and that the meeting was over, Maddy had only managed tiny little sparks (which Simon had tried to reassure her was amazing, but she wouldn't hear any of it) and Simon had gotten very close to disarming Maddy, it gave small jolts and jumps, but Maddy had caught it every time.

Maddy and Simon walked without attempting at any forms of communication until after they had reached the Common Room and was about to go their separate ways.

"Maddy, don't beat yourself up for not being able to do the spell the first day."

Yeah, yeah. Maddy dismissed. Night.

"Good night, Maddy."

Maddy watched as Simon sauntered up the staircase, before running up her own, skipping every other step. She quietly opened the door to her dorm, and went inside, flopping on her bed.

"Why are you out so late?"

Maddy bolted upright, and her head snapped towards the voice. Allie was sitting on her bed, her Transfiguration book on her lap, staring intently at Maddy with her chocolate brown eyes. Polly was leaning against Allie's bed, her blue eyes sparking in the lit candlelight, and Gabby and Eve weren't paying attention, as they were playing an intense game of Exploding Snaps.