And there is food out on the table and six or so arguments happening at once - Finis is participating in three of them - and the chairs on one side of the table have been turned into toadstools.

"...g'morning. What's with the mushrooms?"

"Discussion about some details of how transfiguration of the type 'turn each instance of X into Y' defaults in implementation. No one's put them back because they're sort of interesting, aren't they?"

"I suppose they aren't poisonous sorts of mushrooms...?"

"No, perfectly safe."

"Okay then. May I have some breakfast?"

"No! All this breakfast you see lying about is exclusively for the enjoyment of Theodore, who eats like a dragon who has been in hibernation."

"I'm a growing young man!"

"Well, Miranda's a growing young woman. Are we going to say that counts?"

"Eat something," Theodore says to her impatiently, and turns back to the conversation he's having, which is probably about Quidditch because it's in Latin.

Miranda giggles and has some breakfast.

The twins come downstairs and express curiosity about the toadstools and have pancakes and quiz Miranda about what Hogwarts is like.

She will answer their questions - "do your brothers not write?"

"Yeah, they do, Minor writes books, but they notice different stuff than we might care about, you know. We're all very - angled - people."

"I have noticed. I'm not sure what your angle is."

"Me neither. Some of 'em it was obvious at ten but some it wasn't, so maybe my angle will pop out at me someday or some new field'll be invented and it'll be like 'oh, yes, this is the thing I will annoy everyone by being unable to shut up about."

"I look forward to finding out."

"What's your thing?"

"I don't have just one thing! I taught myself Occlumency? Does that count?"

"That's pretty cool! Why?"

"Because it'd be terrible to need it and not have it."

"Yeah, I guess. But it means you can't testify under Veritaserum you didn't do something..."

"Yeah, there is that, but I wasn't planning to go around looking particularly suspicious."

"I mean, lots of ambitious stuff is inherently going to look a little shady. Timothy wants to rule the world and all. Doesn't that sound sort of Dark Lordish?"

"A little, but telling anybody who asks about it is less so."