Chapter ten. Classes continue

The next day, Kolya woke up from a deep rumbling - it was badger-his spotted-furry friend-who had returned from a walk, and since the morning was cool, the cat decided to warm up under the blanket. Since the moment when Kolya bought it in the Witch's cul-de-SAC, it has grown significantly, and was no longer a kitten, but judging by the size - a street cat, and apparently did not plan to stop growing. Kolya thought it would be a good idea to ask Ignat what this species was, and decided to see him at the first opportunity.he really did not know where to look for him, but he guessed that if he was a Goblin, then he should look for him in the nearest forest. Friends were still asleep, Ira's Falcon was cleaning feathers sitting on the window, shaking off the dust that was visible apparently only to his sharp eye, and the merry man curled up in rings at the feet of Sasha and apparently also warmed himself.
"IR," Kolya called. The girl stretched and said sleepily:
- Such a dream interrupted....I flew a dragon....
"It's an interesting dream," Kolya agreed, " but it's time for us to go down to Breakfast."
They woke Sasha, dressed, and went down long passages to the stairs.
Transitions in the castle were many and there was a feeling that built their distant relative Susanin, because their main purpose according to the freshmen was to confuse the enemy ...
When Ira second time she was wrong door and was back in the place where they were five minutes ago, she swore the unique momentum of the Russian language, and even more insistent drove off muttering:- Yes where OK here passage the .
Finally she managed to find the right door, she leaned her hand against it, and it said good morning and swung open .
Once on the stairs, the friends slowly moved down, they met only a couple of ghosts, peacefully strolling in the hall, and Kuzma supervising the cleaning. With ghosts, newcomers sometimes had small problems, if Kolya, as a hereditary wizard, reacted calmly to them, then Ira and Sasha shied away from them, especially if they suddenly appeared from the wall. Finally they reached the dining room.
For Breakfast there were eggs with meat and a pie with berries. Friends with an appetite devoured the phenomena spread out on the table and then went to a spell lesson, where an elderly good-natured wizard Peter Artemovich told them long and monotonously how to use a wand to Shine it in the dark, Kolya was already able to do it, and Ira and Sasha quickly learned a new skill.
After that, there was a lesson in transformations, which was led by Elvira Petrovna, she was not as severe as it seemed to them at first glance, but she was able to hold the attention of the class and was a knowledgeable experienced teacher.
By the end of the class, some students even managed to turn ordinary stones into amber, or other precious stones, and as usual, Arina was the best at it, which caused another outburst of Ira's indignation.
"No, look at that," she whispered to Kolya. So and seeks around the be the first, from something its and not like!
"How do you know they don't like her?"
"You can see that!"- said Ira and
she lifted her nose.
Each day was filled with activities, some interesting and memorable, some frankly boring, but they were happy that they were doing what they loved and every day they became more and more attached to the school and its teachers.
They had their first Quidditch lesson on Thursday.
Since early morning, the badger started chasing the sock, which inexplicably eluded him when it was almost in his paws, thanks to which he overturned a table with textbooks, and almost broke Ira's favorite vase. After Breakfast, the newly minted players happily took to the field and formed a group in front of the teacher, a dark-haired young man with piercing eyes, dressed all in black.
- My name is Viktor, - he introduced himself, - I will teach you to fly even if you do not want to, and those who are particularly talented may take a place in the current team. So, stand here" - he pointed to a flat area of the clearing- " now raise your hands and tell the broom to come to me!"
The children uttered these words, but only Ira and Arina's brooms bounced off the ground .
"More enthusiasm," Victor said.
After a few attempts, almost everyone managed to pick up their brooms and all looked at the teacher, proud of their first achievements.
"Now sit on them and order them up!"
Within a few minutes almost all of the students were floating in the air: someone was flying backwards, someone was flying upside down, and only one girl was still standing on the ground and trying to get away from her. The student looked confused, if not pathetic.....
"Courage, young lady, courage!Victor ordered cheerfully, and the girl shrank more firmly into the broom and suddenly went up with the speed of a jet plane, then fell into a steep dive and dropped the broom, her cry of horror froze in the sky as she fell down, everyone froze looking at her, and unable to help her....
Like a bolt of lightning, Victor darted in her direction, and a second later landed smoothly with her in his arms on the lawn. Students quickly descended, threw the broom and ran to the teacher. The girl, still trembling with fear, clung to the hem of his robe....
"What! How you did it!"you didn't even have a broom!"
"It's very simple, I'm a vampire, and it's in our nature to be able to fly.
"But vampires don't like sunlight!"?"Hey!" someone shouted from the back row.
"Old vampires like me don't mind the light, especially here in the Northern latitudes, although I'm going on vacation up North for the summer.
"What about the blood?" You have to eat something?!
"The school is full of small children to feed," Victor said, and smiled his enigmatic smile.
One of the children gasped, rubbing his neck.
Victor laughed:
"Please, this isn't the twelfth century, so I'm allowed to feed on you, I'm just getting blood from a blood transfusion station, that's all."
The children breathed a sigh of relief.
"How did you manage to save her so quickly?"- Ira pointed a finger at the still shaking girl.
"You forget, my dear Irene, that vampires are many times faster than humans, and that doesn't make it difficult for me .
This lesson ended and the children slowly wandered to the castle admiring the beauty of nature. Before reaching the monastery about two hundred meters, they again came across the unlucky girl who fell from the broom, this time she got her foot in someone's hole and got stuck. Kolya helped her free and asked what her name was-Nelya, - the girl answered, - I did not intentionally fall into the hole, I saw a beautiful butterfly, and wanted to fuck it, ran after it and got here ...
"Let's go, we'll get you to the castle before you get into any more trouble," said the friends,
Nelya agreed and they went to the gate.
On Friday morning, everyone could not wait for the weekend, since the lessons were set decently, and Kolya wanted to visit Ignat, which he told his friends, and they said they would keep him company. The day before, he had sent an owl to the forest Ranger to find out exactly where to look for it and at what time it would be better to go to it. And finally, at Breakfast, the students heard the flapping of wings, a lot of owls brought mail to the students ...
The mail was different: it was both letters and small parcels, some of a very original type. Two letters fell in front of Kolya at once: in the first, his parents wished him a good school and wrote that they were doing well, and in the second, Ignat said that he would be glad to see him and his friends later in the evening, and wrote as a proti to his hut.
Kolya hastened to tell his friends that they were going to visit in the evening. This message is very interested in Ira, Sasha did not show much interest in the campaign, saying that he planned to stay with Vasilisa to do homework.
- A let, we you with Vasilisa immediately get married - can you a separate room will allocate, - teased his Irka, - Ah times not like it or with us we and in dvoem go, - on that and decided.