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The semester goes on. The Patronuses - the three of them that exist - are useful for remote communications, though they're too conspicuous for chatting in class. And even Bella can send return messages. Feral gets mauled by the carnivorous thorn plant and is sent to Healer Song with a disturbing grin on his face, and tells Bella all about the properties of the plant in question. Sherlock produces no further prophecies, but gets excellent grades in everything, including Divination. Bella gets him to read tarot for her and he gravely informs her that she is fated to be the ruler of the world, before sweeping up the cards and allowing her laughter to be contagious.
Tony draws brooms with jet engines, and jets with tail-twigs. Bella learns about Crups and Grindylows and dragons and unicorns and hippogriffs and Puffskeins (these are handled in-class; she likes them until they try to lick her). Feral works on Animagery and Bella collaborates with Tony on a Transfiguration project for a change and Sherlock gets cornered by Artemis Burberry's cousin and sends him to the infirmary with superficial cuts, stuck-shut eyelids, and a distinct case of unconsciousness.
Bella attempts to invent a broom-based sport that doesn't involve anything exploding or a disproportionate amount of scoring being performed by a single team position, but it turns out she's very bad at catching and throwing balls even when she's in the air and she gives up. The JROC courts the twins and gets nowhere. Feral's fire problem diminishes enough that between that and fire-suppression from the elves he can use magic in the kitchen; he learns to make cheese souffle. It is delicious. Bella loses her hazel wand for a day and a half before it turns up and feels very smug about her backup idea; she finds the missing one under the ingredient cupboard in Potions.
Renée meets her at the exit from the wizarding hideaway of the Bay Cauldron, and she goes roadtripping to Phoenix for the first half of the summer.
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occluminous
occluminous
"I wonder why some of us were worse affected than others."
sparksflying
"It's not like Sherry's a happy person most of the time," says Tony.
occluminous
"Yeah. I am though - but then there's whatever's wrong with me that makes me not able to cast a Patronus, I guess."
occluminous
"Where's your mom? I want to ask her if she knows if there's a way to kill them."
occluminous
"Oh. I guess I'll have to figure it out, then. Because it is not okay for them to be."
occluminous
Bella sits down with her. "Where did it come from? Do they just run wild? Do British wizards seriously use those things as prison guards?"
sparksflying
"Yeah. I mean, there's not supposed to be a lot of them running around, but - they can fly, and you can't kill them, and they're hard to trace until they start draining people..."
occluminous
"How hard to trace? I wonder if Feral can find them for me once I know how to kill them," Bella muses. "He can find stuff when he's changed."
sparksflying
"...I have no idea if anybody's ever tried getting on a Thestral and saying, 'Find me the nearest Dementor'," says Tony. "I know I wouldn't. Those things are nasty."
occluminous
Bella heads to the household bookshelves and looks for books on dementors.
There are books that mention dementors, here and there.
The available knowledge looks something like this:
Dementors are highly dangerous Dark creatures. They cannot be killed, but may be driven off with the use of a strong Patronus. Under observation they have been known to bud new Dementors, but there is some evidence that they also just appear spontaneously in the wild. They take the form of a corpselike figure in a tattered black cloak with a deep hood. They have some ability to recognize individuals; the ones in use at the British prison Azkaban can accurately tell one prisoner from another. They can fly, not as fast as a good broom but much faster than a running human. Chocolate and a good rest are the best known treatment for brief exposure; with enough of those, persons who have been in the company of Dementors for up to a month have been known to make a full recovery.
Also, they can suck out your soul. There is no treatment for that. The Dementor's Kiss is still widely used in Europe as the ultimate death sentence, but has been banned in the Americas for more than a century.
The available knowledge looks something like this:
Dementors are highly dangerous Dark creatures. They cannot be killed, but may be driven off with the use of a strong Patronus. Under observation they have been known to bud new Dementors, but there is some evidence that they also just appear spontaneously in the wild. They take the form of a corpselike figure in a tattered black cloak with a deep hood. They have some ability to recognize individuals; the ones in use at the British prison Azkaban can accurately tell one prisoner from another. They can fly, not as fast as a good broom but much faster than a running human. Chocolate and a good rest are the best known treatment for brief exposure; with enough of those, persons who have been in the company of Dementors for up to a month have been known to make a full recovery.
Also, they can suck out your soul. There is no treatment for that. The Dementor's Kiss is still widely used in Europe as the ultimate death sentence, but has been banned in the Americas for more than a century.
occluminous
So not only are they unkillable (she's going to fix that) but there are more of them sometimes, appearing, budding. They might have a slow-growing population but it's growing. That's not okay.
She looks for more general information on destroying Dark things.
She looks for more general information on destroying Dark things.
Most Dark creatures can be damaged or destroyed using relatively mundane methods - weapons, curses. There are some, such as dragons and trolls, that have special resistances to some or all kinds of magic, and some such as Dementors and Lethifolds that don't seem able to be destroyed at all.
If a comprehensive answer to that question exists, it's not here.
occluminous
Hmm.
How about theory on how Patronuses work? Her book where she found the spell was not so much about that part.
How about theory on how Patronuses work? Her book where she found the spell was not so much about that part.
Nope.
occluminous
Hmm.
Bella goes and gets her notebook. She makes lists of things to check on when she has access to the school library again.
And then she looks for something that isn't dessert to eat. She's gotten kind of tired of chocolate.
Bella goes and gets her notebook. She makes lists of things to check on when she has access to the school library again.
And then she looks for something that isn't dessert to eat. She's gotten kind of tired of chocolate.
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