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After dinner, while Bella is squirreled away in her and Tony's room reading her History textbook as though it's a fantasy novel (for the two bear significant resemblance)...
Artemis Burberry is in her room, on Patricia Hall, lamenting to her great horned owl about the lack of relatively private fireplaces for Floo calls here, and wondering where her roommate is.
(Who names their daughter "Sherlock", anyway?)
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The teacher goes on to outline the effects of each curse - mind control, torture, and death - but soon returns to less horrifying topics. Feral doesn't say anything for the rest of class.
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Well, those curses sure all sound pretty horrifying. (Although Bella thinks that about half the charms in her Charms book, not to mention certain transfiguration applications, could all certainly torture or kill somebody if used creatively, those are not their only purposes; that's something.)
Bella has magical theory next, which is mostly vocabulary words this early in the year but promises some cool stuff later in the semester. After that she has transfiguration, and she successfully turns a chip of wood into a similarly shaped chunk of iron after spending an entire hour trying (she is neither fastest nor slowest).
Then lunch!
Bella has magical theory next, which is mostly vocabulary words this early in the year but promises some cool stuff later in the semester. After that she has transfiguration, and she successfully turns a chip of wood into a similarly shaped chunk of iron after spending an entire hour trying (she is neither fastest nor slowest).
Then lunch!
Lunch, indeed!
When she arrives, Feral is there, sitting all alone at a table by the wall. Nobody else in the admittedly sparsely populated room seems interested in talking to him.
When she arrives, Feral is there, sitting all alone at a table by the wall. Nobody else in the admittedly sparsely populated room seems interested in talking to him.
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Bella looks for the Starks first, but, finding them not in evidence, she goes and sits with Feral. "I thought you looked old enough to be a seventh grader but you're in my Defense class," she observes, plunking down her tray.
"I am a seventh grader," he says cheerfully, "but I'm a really dumb seventh grader, so I'm in a lot of remedial classes. Hi!"
"Nope," he says. "Somebody mentioned 'em and I wanted to know what was so Unforgivable about 'em, so I looked it up."
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"They do sound really bad. I don't know about the mind control one, but the other two don't sound all that special, so I'm confused about why they've got their own name all together. There's first-year spells that could hurt or kill somebody," she muses.
"The Killing Curse is unblockable," he explains. "In the whole history of magic there's apparently one guy who's ever survived it, and he did it when he was a baby and nobody knows how. And they don't have guns in magic land, so that really freaks people out."
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"Guns are blockable, anyway, that's what bulletproof vests are for," says Bella, but she writes down this information. "I don't suppose you also know what execution or worse is supposed to mean? I thought about asking in social studies but I think it might give -" She glances at her schedule. "Mr. Li the wrong idea."
"Oh, there's these things called Dementors and they can suck your soul out through your mouth," he says brightly. "They're banned six ways to Sunday over here, but in Europe they still use 'em to execute really nasty criminals. You end up with a body walking around with no mind in it."
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"I... guess that would be a reason, sort of," acknowledges Bella. "Do we have any other classes together?" She shows him her schedule.
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...No wonder he's in remedial classes. Bella snorts softly. "My roommate and his sister are in Charms with us," she volunteers.