"I wasn't doubting that."

He will at least keep an eye out for Trembley.

Trembley is mostly only friends with Phelps, whose other friends, all girls, approximately tolerate him. He is good in Potions.

He has no idea how to make friends with someone on purpose but when he's practicing charms he will point out how he's getting the wand movement wrong.

Ares fixes it. He now can only cast that charm with his tongue sticking out for some reason, but he can cast it.

"How're you liking Hogwarts?"

"The library's grand."

"And the professors are middling and everything hasn't been thought through as thoroughly as you'd think -"

"I like Professor Mousebane."

"She's all right."

"Who's your favorite?"

"Futhark though honestly that's mostly because Runes'd be the most interesting subject no matter who taught it."

"I haven't decided which electives I want."

"If you kick up a fuss you can sit Runes second year and then the third year of the Runes curriculum doesn't really have many dependencies from the second and you can take 'em both at once, I want to do that."

"It's good you know what you like."

"Languages. Do you have no idea at all?"

"Potions is pretty good, I don't know that I'd go out of my way to do it faster if there was a way to do that."

"People can have a thing without going out of their way to do it faster, I'm just in a hurry to get to wards."

"Maybe my thing is potions then."

"Do you like it here?"

"Classes are pretty good. I don't like my dorm - I wish I could just room with Phelps or by myself -"

" - don't like the people?"

"Corner locked me out for days and nobody stopped him."

"That's horrible."

Nod.

" - I don't actually know what I'd do if that happened - I guess make Timothy fix it -"