Hannah decided that the first thing she needed to be able to do was to read the whole introduction to the spellbook. It would be a good test of the book's power, and it would enable her to see if the parts the Molly hadn't translated had contained anything useful. So, following Molly's translation, she held the book in her hands, and thought as hard as she could: Show me a spell to make me able to read and speak the language that you are written in fluently.
The book seemed to twitch in her hands, and she opened it up. Here goes!, she thought, and read the spell:
"Fac te vales scripturam legere et scribere in lingua disertus."
"UFF"!, said Hannah, as a feeling like being punched hard on every point of her body hit her. A wave of exhaustion swept over her, and she fell back onto her bed and passed out. When she woke up, she saw from her alarm clock that two hours had passed. Fortunately, her mother and sisters weren't due back for a while yet.
Hannah opened the spellbook, and gasped in wonder. It had worked! Magic was real! The text was a plain to her as Modern English would be. She began devouring the instructions as quickly as possible. One thing it told was that the older a person was, the older it would be for them to use the spellbook. It would be dangerous for a person her age to use it more than once a day.
She thought about what to do next. She would do her best to hide the spellbook from Molly for a day. Assuming that she could do that, she would then cast a spell to...