"You have a wand that overcasts everything?"

"I don't really know how it works yet." She manages to levitate her thing in a downwards direction out of the ceiling.

"Cool. I want one, where'd you get it?"

"Secondhand shop, Madam Ollivander wouldn't sell me a backup."

"Awww, then they probably don't know how to make wands like that in general."

"The man said it was chimaera hair core but I don't know if I should believe him. It liked me though." Gentle non-overpowered bobbing of thing in the air.

"I'm gonna write home and ask my dad to find me one."

Miranda is quietly skeptical.

Well, Miranda doesn't know his dad.

By the end of Charms almost everyone has feathers bobbing in the air. The Ravenclaws have History next.

Karen and Miranda make plans to mess with the spell out of doors later (Karen is curious about how high the weird wand can make things go) and then off to potions with her!

Potions is in a courtyard so the fumes don't get to the students too much.

Seems reasonable! Miranda knows how to make a couple things but only via haphazard instruction from her mum.

They are starting very simple; upper-level potions can be unexpectedly or undetectably dangerous if you screw up.

This is reasonable. As long as the work is simple Miranda can take the time to develop good habits about mincing things finely and stuff.

Mincing things finely is very important. Exact direction-following is very important, they don't know enough theory yet to guess which deviations will be safe.

This also seems reasonable.

Then at the end of two hours she should have a potion with effects vaguely like coffee.

Cool. Do they get to keep them? What's the shelf life?

They do not get to keep them, in case they did something subtly wrong. They can request some from the kitchens if they want some. Properly made it'll be safe for a year.

Well if they don't get to keep them the shelf life is a much less interesting question, although Miranda doesn't tell the professor this.

Lunchtime!

And then transfiguration time!

Where they are changing the color of parchment scraps. Miranda aims for a nice robin's-egg blue.

He aims for green, the house colors of his new house!

How stereotypical.

Once she has her blue she attempts stripes in ecru.

Detailing in silver is hard; he hasn't gotten anywhere by the end of class.