"Yes it is!"

"Who else have you checked -"

"Nobody yet I went to you first."

He takes it off. "Put it back on -"

Put.

"Do you think someone's Imperiusing him - if they were why let you go -"

"I don't know I don't know I'm scared."

Nod. "Uh. We can ask Aaron, and then we can ask Theodore, and then we can ask Michael - that order so we can win a fight if it comes to one -"

"I want to check Karen too - this is an obvious use of the bracelet why even give it to me, or maybe it's recent -"

"Or maybe he was worried about it - Karen's in our common room, Aaron probably too -"

"I don't know what to do about it if somebody is. He got me the bracelet after I found out he knew the curse and he said he'd learned to throw it off, maybe it's something else -"

"He let you leave, that's weird, if something is horribly wrong why would he just let you leave -"

"- maybe he tried to do something while I was going, bounced off my Occlumency? But he could've chased me -"

"Could you be Imperiused into letting someone memory-charm you, do you know -"

"I don't know - if Occlumency helps against the curse, if that's a thing the curse does, if I even can leave gaps volitionally -"

They reach the Ravenclaw common room.

Karen confusedly accepts the bracelet.

So does Aaron.

"I'm the part of the bird that is not in the sky; I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry," says the Ravenclaw door knocker.

"Shadow," he snaps at it.

It opens.

Miranda flinches and trips over Karen's foot partway through putting her bracelet back on and it clatters to the floor.

He picks it up and puts it on, idly. Then he hands it back to her. "See a ghost, Swan?"

He proceeds across the room to inform Gillow that a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin third-year got into a spat again and are both in the hospital wing claiming the injuries are Quidditch-related - "I want to make sure we're on the same page with respect to punishment, as far as I can tell they're both responsible -"