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Tony's patronus doesn't take much longer to finish - hers is a gigantic eagle, nearly as big as Feral's thestral. (It can sit on Bella just as well as the elf owl can, since they're weightless.)
Bella makes no progress. New books on the Philosopher's Stone, received on her birthday, get mist just like the first one did, if a little more anemically. (The books are not as good as that first one.) Feral works on being an Animagus; he doesn't have it down before winter break, though. He also keeps telling Bella about what's been going in Herbology, although she has to translate his ramblings and half-formed written scrawls into usable notes by herself.
Bella does not get Feral a Christmas present, per request, but she gives Sherlock a book about prophecies and Tony a book about various failed attempts to integrate magic and technology. Euterpe can't carry them both at the same time and Bella wants her free for sending letters anyway, so she just brings them with her to hand over after winter break.
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occluminous
nobodyelse
"Speaking of things we have forgotten to mention," he says, "Tony and I got our second wands over winter break. Spruce and cedar, respectively, and unicorn hair. They'll be coming by owl any day now; they were still being fitted for handles when we saw them in the shop."
nobodyelse
"Cedar: loyalty, perceptiveness," he says. "Spruce: boldness and a sense of humour."
occluminous
"But not so much perceptiveness that you noticed your present."
occluminous
School swings back into session. On the second weekend Bella unilaterally declares that she and all of her friends should spend Sunday morning flying around.
Feral doesn't have a broom! But he can borrow one from the school.
sparksflying
"Why don't you have a broom? I should get you a broom," says Tony. "Sherry, remind me to get Feral a broom."
Feral chases after Tony and attempts to hug her in midair.
sparksflying
Given that he's on a school broom, she'd have to let him catch her on purpose.
She does.
She does.
occluminous
Awww!
Then it is lunchtime.
And then Bella and Sherlock head back for their room, although Bella will clear out so he can catch up on sleep after she has put her broom away.
"So I know I got you a Divination book, but how's the actual class going?"
Then it is lunchtime.
And then Bella and Sherlock head back for their room, although Bella will clear out so he can catch up on sleep after she has put her broom away.
"So I know I got you a Divination book, but how's the actual class going?"
nobodyelse
"Far less interesting than the book," he says. "There's enough evidence to strongly suggest that prophecy is a perfectly legitimate phenomenon. Tea leaves, less so."
occluminous
"Can you learn to do any of it or do you just have to be born prophetic?"
nobodyelse
"No data, but I suspect the latter. Because there is no data. Genuine seers are often but not always people with the obvious set of related interests. It's not quite clear whether or not being one makes the rest of the trash actually work."