"I also do antidotes, if you mean they have a longer duration."

"Thurgood's Constancy doesn't sound fun and this other one doesn't sound fun to stop."

"I wouldn't trust the school library too far on love potion descriptions, and I also think they affect different people differently. Miranda, do you think I'm nonconsensually drugging people? If so, who, and to what end?"

"I don't know what's going on, would you rather I asked someone else to guess."

"I have told you what is going on. What is going on is consensual use by people older than twelve who have a right to privacy."

"I didn't ask for names."

"I'm not clear on what you are asking for."

Miranda turns to go.

"Don't tell everybody they can get potions from me, most people I'd have to turn down and I'd rather it just not come up."

She leaves.

"- is something up?" he says the next day in class.

"I don't know, which bothers me."

"- I can imagine. What might be up?"

"It might be nothing, I - I don't know."

"So we should find out."

"If it's nothing I shouldn't tell anyone."

"Why not?"

She privacies them. "Is there any reason Timothy ought to have made a particular thing of distributing love potions to people who want to take them - not even the ones that sound like people might want to take them, weird ones -"

"...uh, it's Timothy, maybe someone specific wanted them who he needs as an ally in the Wizengamot in five years or maybe he owed someone a big favor and that's what they wanted or maybe love potions combine interestingly with something else..."

"- and brush me off for being twelve when I asked."

" - then it's probably a sex thing. Right?"

"Yes but that part he said."

"...then what part did he brush you off about?"

"He just - it might be nothing it just seemed weird and -"

"And you have a thing about mind-altering magic?"