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The following day, Sadde has Transfiguration in the morning.
She is all over it at lunch.
"Okay, so, Transfig is just about the coolest thing," she says first thing to the Ravenclaws as soon as she sits at the table.
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always_and_forever
"I am sure you will be well in time to visit the library today."
And then Madam Pomfrey is distracted by the victims of a potions accident.
always_and_forever
Sadde is distracted by her own thoughts, mostly.
...she may be playing a little bit with metamorphmagic.
She hmms softly, looks at Madam Pomfrey to check that she's not likely to look at her too soon, and morphs herself a year older.
Huh.
She morphs herself a year younger.
Hmmmmm.
Eventually she morphs back to her own age before Madam Pomfrey can notice anything wrong.
...she may be playing a little bit with metamorphmagic.
She hmms softly, looks at Madam Pomfrey to check that she's not likely to look at her too soon, and morphs herself a year older.
Huh.
She morphs herself a year younger.
Hmmmmm.
Eventually she morphs back to her own age before Madam Pomfrey can notice anything wrong.
Madam Pomfrey notices nothing.
One of the potion accident kids blinks at her, but seems to decide he was seeing things.
One of the potion accident kids blinks at her, but seems to decide he was seeing things.
always_and_forever
Sadde was counting on that! Apparently the instinct is strong even amongst wixen.
...just to have some fun (it is her third day, she's allowed to have fun now, right?), the next time she catches one of the kids' eye without Madam Pomfrey's attention she morphs her tongue into a lizard's and does the little tongue-flick thing lizards tend to do. Just for a fraction of a second, then her tongue's hers again.
...just to have some fun (it is her third day, she's allowed to have fun now, right?), the next time she catches one of the kids' eye without Madam Pomfrey's attention she morphs her tongue into a lizard's and does the little tongue-flick thing lizards tend to do. Just for a fraction of a second, then her tongue's hers again.
The kid yelps. Madam Pomfrey assumes it's a response to a wand jab and apologizes perfunctorily.
always_and_forever
Sadde doesn't giggle, that'd just give it away. She can't trust the everything-is-normal instinct that much. She acts thoroughly normally for the rest of her stay, only ever doing interesting things with her metamorphmagic when she's fairly sure no one else is looking.
Eventually she's released. Her next class is History of Magic, which she finds absolutely fascinating in spite of it being taught by Binns. Then it's dinnertime.
Eventually she's released. Her next class is History of Magic, which she finds absolutely fascinating in spite of it being taught by Binns. Then it's dinnertime.
always_and_forever
"So I couldn't exactly turn five or twenty-five while I was in the Hospital Wing, but I turned twelve-and-ten-months and then ten-and-ten-months, or maybe the other way around, I don't remember. Anyway, it feels..." She pauses to think about it. "Weird. Like, it feels like this is not the way I'm supposed to be. After doing it with the age thing, I noticed I feel the same thing when I morph stuff like donkey ears or a duck beak or whatever, only much less so. So, like, there's some sense in which I'm supposed to be this age and not some other age, and this species and not some other species, but there's not any sense in which I'm supposed to be a boy and not a girl or vice-versa. Or, I dunno, any given ethnicity or eye colour or hair colour as opposed to any other."
chanuphis
"Huh, that's weird. How long do you think you could stay like that if you did really want to?"
always_and_forever
She shrugs. "No idea. It felt uncomfortable but not too much? ...the best analogy I can find is wearing clothes that don't fit you but in your brain. Maybe it gets worse the longer I stay that way? Or maybe it's proportional to how far from what I'm "supposed to be" I am, or both. I still haven't really understood which kinds of things we get for free and which we don't with magic. Anyway, it bears testing. "
planetarium
"Yeah, you could go around with bunny ears for as long as you can stand, and when anyone asks you how you got them you can say someone you don't like hexed them on."
always_and_forever
She grins. "Bet you I can find someone to be my scapegoat by tomorrow," she says.
Then she thinks some more and her grin broadens, becoming positively wicked.
Then she thinks some more and her grin broadens, becoming positively wicked.
always_and_forever
She shrugs. "I'm thinking about getting the bunny ears or whatever and then... keeping them. Even after people try to unjinx it. I wonder how many people I can freak out with the unfixable curse before they catch on."
always_and_forever
"Well, Professor McGonagall and Professor Slughorn definitely know. Unless they gossip the others don't, but if they don't gossip I don't see the appeal of even being a teacher."
always_and_forever
"Well to gossip in general I suppose, but I mean I can't imagine spending the largest part of my life teaching teenagers and prepubescent kids magic and not gossip about them. I bet they even talk about which students are gonna end up together and stuff."