Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Sunday 23 November: 5:00 PM

Sunday 23 November:

5:00 PM

We didn't feel it was safe enough to go to the library til Tuesday. Tromvled and Refisul would be busy with the second years then.
I rooted through 'Magical Tales' yet again, hoping that a clue towards Tromvled and Refisul's behaviour had appeared since the last time I looked, and that I would find something.
Nettie searched through the 'Biography' section, hoping to find one on Bonita Eefats. The twins wandered over to the 'Bad Magic' section.
"Why do they call it Bad Magic?" I heard Johnny asking. "Is it because it's just the actual magic that's bad, like, is the magic naughty, and the person using it is good. Naughty Magic, go sit on the naughty step..."
"Shut up!" His sister scolded.
I found the idea of Naughty Magic sitting on the naughty step so funny, that I had to sit and giggle for five minutes.
"Lenny?" By then my laughter had subsided, and Nettie had sat next to me, putting a book on the table.
"I managed to find a biography on Bonita Eefats."
We both flicked through it. It turned out 'Magical Tales' was the only book she had written. She was famous mainly for tracking down mythical animals, and proving tbeir existence. She met several people on her travels, who told her stories. When she retired from  tracking down mythical animals, she wrote these stories as a book.
There was a chapter on the people who she'd met, and (I remember my heart leaping into my mouth when I read his name) Tromvled  was one of them!
I read the chapter properly out loud. "Bonita had met Tromvled when she was searching for the legendary fire breathing pig of Haborgah. She thought Tromvled had an unpleasant personality, especially as, while she was visiting him, he boasted about performed many evil experiments with his friend, Refisul. He also, on her visit, turned his former friend into a painting after an argument, and she wrote a story about him and made him a villain!"
"Well, that helps a little," I said, when I finished reading. "But it doesn't explain Refisul and why they are here."
I looked up, the twins had joined us, with a book of their own.
"Perhaps we can help," Wendy said.
The book was: 'Powerful Witches And Wizards Of The Past Thousand Years'. I flicked through it eagerly. Some witches and wizards used Good Magic; some used Bad Magic. I got to 'T', and found Tromvled.
"According to the biography by acclaimed legendary creature seeker Bonita Eefats, Tromvled came from the Asian magical country of Haborgah, and performed many evil experiments with his friend, Refisul. When he met Bonita Eefats, and she told him about her days at Saint Morgana's Academy For Witches, he expressed a wish to pass on his teachings. Also according to Bonita Eefats' biography, he grew jealous of Refisul's ever increasing power, and turned him into a painting
According to different sources, it wasn't a argument. After hearing that Bonita was writing a book of the stories she'd heard, and that it would be in schools up and down her home country, he cooked up a plot with Refisul. Tromvled turned Refisul into a painting. In the hopes that Bonita would put him in a story, he deliberately told her the spell, knowing she'd put it in the story. He cursed the spell, in the hopes that one day, a schoolchild would say it out loud, and worked out how to reverse it, it would transport the two of them to a school, to carry out their dream. Oh hang on, there's a bit in brackets. It has to be noted, both Tromvled and Refisul were legendary and their existence has never been proved. By the time Bonnie Eefats wrote her biography, she was suffering from a magical brain disorder, and may have made up that Tromvled and Refisul were real. The bit about the cursed spell may possibly be made up by unknown sources and passed down through the centuries."