"We obviously have immensely different romantic priorities but still, I don't think you're doing very well at yours, which is super weird."

"I have a plan for once I meet the right person."

"Is it a stupidly convoluted plan?"

"Well, I don't think so."

"Hmmph."

They get Miranda's demonstrative stick working!!!

Oh wow what a fantastic stick. Maybe if her notation catches on they can market demonstrative sticks?

They're more useful than textbook diagrams by far! It's not stable enough that you could put your hand on it and get used to the motions but they might be able to make it that way eventually.

What a good stick. What good friends.

And as a bonus it was good practice for picking up more wandlore!

"Is that going to be your thing, you think?"

"I don't know if I could break into Ollivander's market so I don't know if I'll have it as a career but it's so interesting they're just these little sticks we buy when we're eleven but they have opinions and we carry them everywhere and do practically all our magic with them so I want to know how they work!"

"Your thing doesn't have to be your career, Father's sure isn't broomsticks. How much would you need to know to make a wand -"

"I could probably make a terrible one that didn't like anybody now. Well, I'd need a wood turner."

"Seriously? Wow. I don't think I realized second-years could do it at all."

"It's a little more like potions than like spellcasting, it's - putting stuff together. It would be a really terrible wand though."

"But you'll get better from there!"

"Yep."

Timothy gets a cat. It's a very docile cat.

Well that's creepy but Miranda doesn't say anything.

Except once when nobody else is around she asks if Feverfew would be able to step through her bracelet.

"Sometimes. Possibly all the time, couldn't exactly ask if the bracelet was rated for the Imperius and wasn't good enough yet to test it."

"I was mostly wondering if it's supposed to apply to animals."

"Haven't checked that either. They might never be relevantly in their right mind. Our elves can put it on and take it off, that I was curious about."

"Oh, I should've thought to ask that one.

- I'd like to know if it works on Feverfew."

Feverfew obediently walks over and steps on the bracelet. It doesn't go.

"As your prefect I feel obliged to observe I could fake that result," Timothy says.