"You have an unusually close set of brothers!"

"I have the best brothers!"

"They are pretty great. Sometimes your family makes me wish I weren't an only child."

"Awwww. You can borrow my brothers when you need brother things, they like you."

"They do! It's handy!"

"Family's great. That's why it can't just apply to anyone."

Sigh.

Miranda got her books in advance and went through the first couple months of expected material with Karen, so she has spare time. She invents rules for broomstick dueling. She isn't very good at it.

Karen is! She takes Miranda's ruleset and runs with it, who wants to do broomstick dueling alternate Sundays?

Gryffindor House collectively loves this idea.

Fun. Karen is promptly no longer much advantaged by the head start, but she still has fun.

Miranda can often be convinced to referee.

For Miranda's birthday he digs up some obscure administrative utility spells that could possibly have been worth a trip to Holland and teaches them to her.

Oooooooh now her notebooks are searchable Timothy gets hugged.

"I can't believe they don't teach that one at Hogwarts, really, it's so useful."

"This is my favorite spell. I would rather have this than the one that does my hair, and that one saves me an entire day every few months."

"As good as if I'd spent the summer conquering a small country?"

"Might depend on which country."

"It'd pretty much have to be one you hadn't heard of unless I did it all with blackmail and snarky comments at dinner parties."

"Is that not how you'd do it?"

"I'll grant that it's my preferred medium. Well, not as good as giving people presents, but much more fun than assassination and vote-rigging."

"You're very good at presents."

"Perhaps your good opinion is very worth purchasing!"

Giggle.

Tyche Trembley owls Timothy and tells him that her little brother is to find his new housemates the picture of friendliness, which they have somehow failed to be on their own.

Which house is her little brother in?