"Well, this was a Slytherin who hit you, right?"

"Naturally, otherwise I'd probably not have heard of the unfortunate underwear mishap."

"Heard of. Right."

"Yep. I couldn't possibly have done it myself; as you might know, the girls' dorm doesn't allow any boys in."

"How many people in your dorm still don't know?"

"I think none of the girls do, and most of the older boys don't either. I know Jacob knows, but he acts like he doesn't. We also don't talk in public anymore, he's quick to learn. The others, I think they're not sure yet, I haven't been feeling very girly this week so they haven't really noticed how much I change."

"There are so few students in the class, you'd think they must notice that there was a girl in some of their lessons and she's vanished..."

"What is it even like to 'feel girly'?"

"But what do you mean, you feel like you're a girl, or feel like you're a boy, why would that feel like something."

"I don't want to be a boy! I'd be in the wrong room and all my robes would be cut wrong and it'd be weird!"

"...right," Sadde giggles. "So, some days I wake up feeling kinda like that, and it gets better when I morph."

"But don't you sleep in the same room all the time...? And do you have different sets of robes, I wasn't paying attention."

"I do. Anyway, that's why I said it's kinda like that, but it's not really related to anything practical like robes or rooms, it's just..." Who'da thunk, Sadde at a loss for words. "It's itself," he sighs. "It's just feeling like my body should be a certain way and I should be seen a certain way and, erm, yeah. I don't have anything better than this." Shrug.

"I wonder if a lot of metamorphmagi feel like that?"

"Wouldn't know, never met one. My childhood would've been very different if I had."

"Because they would have told you about magic in general?"

"Yes. Or, at least, I hope they would."

"You never know, maybe your neighbour's a metamorph spy. They could be anyone!"

"Why would there be a metamorph spying on Sadde?"

"Clearly to see if he's fit to be a part of their giant conspiracy to take over the world by impersonating all of the world's rulers."

"I think you might need to do more than look like the rulers to successfully impersonate them for long."

She shrugs. "I wouldn't know, I'm not a Slytherin."

"You're a Ravenclaw, think about it! Rulers know all kinds of stuff that a metamorph wouldn't know; and they have families who'll know them really well, too."