"Mm." She consults her shopping list. "What sorts of supplies do you need for potions?"

"A cauldron, some phials, and scales - you'll be using them your whole school career, hopefully. You can also buy kits of common potions ingredients, but the school has everything needed for what's taught in class in stock."

"Is experimenting with potions dangerous?"

"Fairly - I'm less familiar with it, though, than with spells or rituals. But potions can explode or turn highly acidic pretty easily if you're not cautious."

Nod. "Okay."

"There's ways you can mitigate the risk - but a lot of it's experience, or having someone with experience spotting you."

"So the same as other kinds of magic."

"Pretty much."

Onwards to Potions class supplies. She refrains from purchasing any ingredients.

It goes pretty quickly and easily, then - as does miscellaneous supplies from the shop next door. (Quills, parchment, a ruler...)

More boring than the other stops, but presumably still just as necessary.

"Most people dislike having to use the school surplus."

"Writing with quills is, by the way, somewhat different from pens - and very different from pencils. As is writing on parchment... And your professors vary in what they require for assignments - I don't particularly care, and students have turned in essays written in gel pen or on a typewriter before. One student had a habit of writing in lemon juice. But several of the older fashioned professors require all homework be written with a quill, in a specific sort of black ink, on parchment... All of the longer term professors let students take notes however they like - though the History position goes through professors rather quickly, and some of them have odd preferences."

"But, well - when we duck out to get you some muggle clothes, you might want to also pick up some writing supplies and blank notebooks."

"All right."

"You'll have an Orientation class that'll cover using quills - among other things."

"How to deal with outdated technology-slash-magic 101?"

Small laugh. "Pretty much. A big part is how to use the library... Which hasn't updated to the Dewey decimal system. Or a searchable index."

"...Oh no."

"A rather horrid problem."

"But for magic books, I will struggle through."

"Intrepid of you."

Hee.

Smile.

"But I think we can handle muggle shopping tomorrow. For now - what do you say we return to the Leaky Cauldron? I can help you with your spell work some before dinner, if you'd like, or I can go ahead and see about getting your living arrangements more properly sorted for the next month..."

"Living arrangements, probably..."

She nods. "It might not get sorted tonight - but we can keep staying in the Cauldron until it is."

"Thank you."