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Bella is picked up from Charlie's house at the end of the summer, her visits with various people and her other parents having concluded a couple of weeks previous. She feels very worldly as she gets on the bus and is inspected by the new sixth-graders. The bus trundles along to the Bay Cauldron, and she does her shopping, and helps one of those sixth-graders pick an owl, and then they all arrive at ACAAM.
She goes to her and Sherlock's room to drop off her belongings and let Euterpe out.
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"I guess that's what specialization is for and it took a long time for anyone to notice that Healer Song's specialization might be useful."
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And then they sit through their magical theory lecture, and then classes are over.
"I," Bella tells Sherlock, "will be out of our room until nine thirty and I'll knock before I come in. I have to talk to a ghost and say hello to the library and its elves."
"I," Bella tells Sherlock, "will be out of our room until nine thirty and I'll knock before I come in. I have to talk to a ghost and say hello to the library and its elves."
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"I will."
And off Bella traipses, insofar as she can safely traipse.
She is back at their room at nine-thirty. She knocks.
And off Bella traipses, insofar as she can safely traipse.
She is back at their room at nine-thirty. She knocks.
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"Well, the library is as nice as always and the elves in it are too, but I don't think the ghost is a person really."
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"I don't know for sure, but - I don't think so. I think he's like a - a really good record of a person that you can voice-operate. He doesn't know about things that have happened since he died - he could remember my name for the length of our conversation but he couldn't tell me the name of the current Herbology teacher. And if I waited quietly for five minutes after asking him a question and then repeated it the exact same way I got the exact same answer, and when I asked him if he'd give me the Herbology safety lecture he didn't even wonder why I wanted it or whether I hadn't heard it well enough this morning or about how didn't I say I was going to drop it, he just recited it all the same. And I asked him what he did with his time and he just said he was an herbology teacher - and if I asked him point blank if he was dead he'd say yes and explain what killed him but on every other subject he talked about his lifetime like it was nowish."
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"Well. That makes me question how current the Herbology safety lecture can possibly be," he says after a moment.
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"Yeah. Tomorrow in Charms." She writes this down, after the notes on her conversation with the ghost. "It's a pity about Mr. Sutherland. I was hoping ghosts would be good enough and then the problem would be figuring out how to leave one and coming up with ways to go on interacting with stuff, but it's not good enough at all."
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Bella puts her things where they belong, and then she gets ready for bed and flops thereinto.
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At Charms the next morning, Bella finds Feral and tells him about the results of her conversation with the ghost. "So I don't think he's really a person," she concludes sadly. "Also Sherlock pointed out that the safety lecture can't be very up to date."
