Yet, she had no time to wonder more, for in a moment Johnny began to disintegrate slowly, slowly, smiling as if his gradual disappearance was something as normal as opening a door, until he completely vanished. His clothes vanished too. That mysterious tree seemed to have absorbed him. So no one could blame on Elizabeth that she was even more terrified now.
There was some very fine, tickling dust rising slightly from the girl’s left hand. The girl was terrified ... She had her reasons. How would anyone feel if his hand becomes dust instantly, after which the same thing happens to his body?
But when she felt Knudlac's palm clutching her hand gently and when she saw his soothing gaze, kinder than a father’s for his daughter, Elizabeth became much quieter.
"Don't be scared," the professor explained. We will go together in a much friendlier place, a place where you will be pleased to be. I promise."
And after he saw that the girl also answered wit
Miss Harmony cleared her throat and began to say:“Of course. I'll start with ... How to explain to you, my dear? Until today you could only notice what you wanted to see. You spent your life in a real world, as those people who want to ... ignore magic. We call them ‘sceptic’. And this world is different from theirs.”“I was sceptic too?”Miss Harmony smiled so warmly that anyone would say her picture should be added to the word kindness in the dictionary.“Have you noticed anything strange with you so far?”“I saw I could make bright ponies ... out of nothing and other stuff like that.” “Then you aren’t sceptic. You couldn’t be sceptic ... Your parents were some of the best and most powerful wizards that mankind has ever had. Like Professor Eadan Knudlac. As for you, some people think you’ll ... the most powerful witch of your generation.”
“I drink water. To become the wisest wizard,” the boy replied as if it were the most obvious answer.Because Elizabeth was puzzled, Miss Harmony tried to explain to her:“Some rumours say that if you are a pure soul and you speak the truth in a difficult situation, this fountain will fulfil a wish when you sip in its water. And that you could become the wisest. At least that is what the old wizards ... and their legends say. But I say they are just myths, because I do not know someone who had a wish fulfilled by this well. It just managed to help the older ones trick their kids.The professor got close to Johnny who swallowed the water as cracked earth swallows the first drops of rain.“Johnny, stop! You have drunk water from the well and you did not become the wisest, as you can see ...”Miss Harmony looked at the little girl smiling and said:“I think he has drunk at least ten times water in this well.&r
“Unfortunately, we don't have time now, dear. Tomorrow after classes Johnny can accompany you wherever you want to go. And you can spend as much time as you want in this garden. If Johnny agrees to accompany you.“Of course, Miss Harmony.”The woman continued to present the surroundings, and the two children followed her.“Here is the Sanctuary of Mystical and Non-Mystical Creatures. You can meet anytime you want animals from the real world. You can search and see any life form that lives on Earth, underground or in the water.”"Or a beast-monster," Johnny smiled trying to imitate a beast in order to scare Elizabeth.But the girl was not scared at all by the so charming Johnny.“Johnny, please be nice,” the professor heckled him.Then turning to the girl:“Yes, it is an area with beasts. You can find out everything you want about them. But I advise you not to visit it. Becau
Keep calm, dear,” Miss Harmony said. “Once you have been given the key and you touched it, it remains yours and yours alone. This key was given to you, dear. And it knows it belongs to you, so if you lose it, it will find you wherever you are, when you want to enter any of the rooms of the main building and those near Elmbridge School of Magic, where you are allowed. It will be in your possession all the time and will help you get where you want.”The woman saw that Elizabeth didn't quite understand what was going on, so she told her:“Check the pocket of the dress ...”The girl put her hand in the pocket and she was surprised when she found the key there. She took it again closer to her eyes, only this time she frowned at Johnny, sign that he should not dare to repeat the trick.“Should I understand it doesn't matter where I leave it that it will be with me anyway?”"You got it," said Professor Harmo
Elizabeth came out of her room, dressed in the same outfit she wore every school day, as the other dozens of girls of all ages buzzing around the hallways of the magic school.A chequered pinafore dress and a white shirt were the main pieces of her clothing. And of course a beautiful red cape, with short sleeves, with the habitual hood completed her outfit.The boys also wore a chequered suit, and dark blue trousers, as well as a green hooded cape, wide-sleeved.These were the students’ school uniforms at Elmbgidge School of Magic, one of the most famous schools of magic in the Kingdom, according to information panels which also shed light upon the establishment of this school of magic.Dozens of corridors made up all kinds of halls, wider or narrower, along which you could wander round Elmbridge school of magic. Some broad, others narrow, the main ones and others, huge, because they weren’t just corridors connecting rooms, they made up a room.O
Johnny looked at that boy with a frown. He bit his lips with anger because of that student.Still, he didn't say anything, but kept going, along with Elizabeth. Eventually, they stop in the front of their class and all kids get in.Miss Harmony waited for them in that class.“Who’s that boy?” Elizabeth asked.“Alexander Soimescu ... a jerk. Some say he is a distant relative of Dragoesti’s. And his grandparents were vampires all their life ... until they died of old age.”"As far as I know, vampires do not die of old age," Elizabeth smiled, hearing the rubbish that Johnny kept selling.“Whoever he is, you should stay away from him. He has the impression that if his family spent a fortune on the best magic professors, he is a master of magic now.”And leaving Elizabeth in front of Miss Harmony, Johnny went to his desk angrily, at the back of the classroom.Miss Harmony told th
The children enter very quietly in the classroom. It was the first lesson with Mr. Knudlac for Elizabeth and for many others."Please sit down," Knudlac told the children. And open the magic book ... on page 4.On each desk where two students were seated, a volume of How to use a wand - Lessons for beginners, Get busy and make it snappy by Paula Brown, appeared for each student.“Today we talk about how to use the magic wand. The magic wand is ... the extension of a wizard's hand and it is normal to be the first thing we learn to use. Today if we have more time after reading, we practice defence against the attack of the opponent... How to disarm your wand attacker,” said the professor.The boys were on top of the world. Bustle and noise among them, because it was clear they liked the subject they were to discuss at that course. What can be more fun for young people of their age than fighting with magic, to show which one is brighter.
Some little stars fell over the pages of the four children’s books.“My dear, remember ... there are no magic objects in this world like these caps or bonnets, or knowledge pill ... or magic mirrors. Nor can magic replace knowledge and thirst for knowledge. For that there is ...” and Mr. Knudlac touched his head with his forefinger.“Now read,” he ordered the children smiling as gentle as ever.Mr. Knudlac went to his desk and sat down, leaving the four children puzzled.They were confused, but only until they followed Elizabeth’s lead ... until they looked down at the pages of the book and began to understand the letters.When the girl looked in the magic book, everything seemed much clearer than the water of the cleanest spring. When she touched a word with her finger, trying to read it, that word turned into a wonderful and clear picture of what it meant.The paragraph in the magic book "The wand