Sadde hmms again and casts again and mist! Okay, that's an improvement.

"What was that one?" she asks, pen poised.

"This Christmas."

Scribble scribble. "Get good stuff?"

"Not really, I mean, more than usual, but mostly it was the spending it with you and visiting Karen."

"What was that?" asks Sadde, who does not read Miranda's notebooks.

"Getting a spell I'd been looking forward to doing to work. The hair-braiding one."

"Ooh. Let me try something like that..." Try. Nothing. "Hm."

"What'd you try?"

"Getting Alohomora to work. Though I guess I hadn't really had a story of wanting it to work for a long time before doing it, it's just been the hardest one so far."

"What were you unlocking?"

"...nothing?" he tries.

"Then how do you know it worked?"

"Because... the nothing was... not locked after I did it?"

"I suppose you don't have to tell me."

He shrugs. "I have a feeling that not telling you things is not a good way to go around you."

"It would not generate me a particularly good quality Patronus mist or anything."

He grins. "After the panties incident, Arens started locking his trunk. I think he figured a simple Colloportus would be enough to stop the inept muggle firsty."

"And what did you do when it was not enough to stop you?"

"I left a note inside it saying that he'd never find what I took, without taking anything."

"...Okay, that one I kind of like."

He giggles. "It took him weeks to figure it out, it was hilarious."