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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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"Extinguishing spell," he says. "I can't really show you, though, I'm not supposed to set stuff on fire on purpose."
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"You could just not hold your wand and tell me what the incantation and the movement are," she points out. "I've been able to do a couple spells just out of books."
"Look it up in the library, then," he says, "that way I can't get it wrong and screw you up."
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"All right," laughs Bella, and she writes this down on her growing list of things to check out in the library when she has a chance after Social Studies, her last class of the day.
It's not very long until Charms. Feral does remember where the room is, and it's the same one, so he offers to walk her there.
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Sherlock and Tony catch up with them on the way.
"New friend?" inquires Sherlock.
"New friend?" inquires Sherlock.
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"Maybe," says Bella. "Feral, this is my roommate Sherlock and his sister Tony, Sherlock and Tony, this is Feral, I have Magical Defense with him and he's in Charms with us too."
"Hi," beams Feral.
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Bella opens the door to the Charms classroom and picks a desk in a cluster of empty ones and gets out her textbook.
Feral plops down next to her, textbook-free. The Stark twins, with textbooks, occupy the desks in front of them.
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"Why don't you have a book?" Bella asks Feral in an undertone.
"Forgot to bring it," he shrugs. "Can I share yours?"
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"Okay, but switch seats with me, then, if you're on my right then my notebook will be between you and the textbook," shrugs Bella, getting up.
"Okay," he says, and he switches seats.
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She sets up in her new seat and arranges her materials and awaits the teacher.
This lesson is on levitation; after various students are called on to read textbook paragraphs aloud and the teacher comments on the described features of the spell, they get assorted light objects (feathers, bits of tissue paper, leaves) to attempt to levitate. The teacher demonstrates - she's working with a book instead, but assures them that the principle is the same and the light objects are just about psychological barriers - and then has them set about their work.
Bella swishes-and-flicks with great care at her provided feather. She doesn't get it right away, so she tries again.
This lesson is on levitation; after various students are called on to read textbook paragraphs aloud and the teacher comments on the described features of the spell, they get assorted light objects (feathers, bits of tissue paper, leaves) to attempt to levitate. The teacher demonstrates - she's working with a book instead, but assures them that the principle is the same and the light objects are just about psychological barriers - and then has them set about their work.
Bella swishes-and-flicks with great care at her provided feather. She doesn't get it right away, so she tries again.
Feral tries once, and his feather rockets right off his desk and hits Tony in the back of the head. "Sorry," he says, giggling.
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She gives him a look over her shoulder, then cracks up and picks the feather out of her hair to hand back to him.
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Bella giggles once, not unkindly. "Better than nothing?" she suggests. "Wingardium Leviosa..."
Her feather twitches. Encouraged, she repeats herself.
Her feather twitches. Encouraged, she repeats herself.
"Wingardium Leviosa," says Feral, with the appropriate wand movement. His feather leaps straight up into the air, spins madly, and catches fire.
He slashes his wand at it and says, "Exstinguo!" and the fire abruptly goes out. The charred remnants of the feather drift back down onto his desk in a shower of ash.
He slashes his wand at it and says, "Exstinguo!" and the fire abruptly goes out. The charred remnants of the feather drift back down onto his desk in a shower of ash.
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Bella blinks.
She writes this incantation down, then says, "Is that a hazard of this spell or of you?"
She writes this incantation down, then says, "Is that a hazard of this spell or of you?"
"Me," says Feral. "I do that a lot. I got really good at extinguishing spells over the summer."
He sighs, and tries levitating his charred part-feather. It flips over on the table and breaks in half, scattering more fragments of ash. Without comment, the teacher comes up to provide him with a leaf instead.
He sighs, and tries levitating his charred part-feather. It flips over on the table and breaks in half, scattering more fragments of ash. Without comment, the teacher comes up to provide him with a leaf instead.
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"That sounds really inconvenient. No one knows how to make it stop? Wingardium leviosa!" Bella's feather rises two inches, then settles gracefully back on top of her desk.