"Probably an Animagus transfiguration?"

"That's turning into an animal?"

"Yeah."

"Cool!"

"I really wanna learn the patronus."

"What's that?"

"It's a charm for driving away dementors, which're sadness monsters that eat souls. The patronus is, like, happiness magic. It makes a protector for you that dementors are scared of - usually an animal shape that kinda has stuff to do with what you love or what makes you happy or what protects you..."

"Huh."

"...I don't like the idea of dementors. At all."

"Doesn't sound nice."

"Yeah. They're supposed to be only around Azkaban, the wizard prison... But the Ministry doesn't always control them well."

"...Or that's what the book said."

"Which book?"

"The History of Magic one. It didn't super say that the Ministry has poor control, but there were some cases where they totally did."

"If the book's on the curriculum I don't think it would be allowed to say that."

She laughs. "Probably not."

"Professor Reynolds said that 'A History of Magic' is biased and out of date, but there's not a lot of others that cover the same breadth and those are all worse."

She sighs. "It's annoying that books can be dumb too."

"They are written by people."

Giggle. "That'd be a problem, yeah."

"And I wouldn't trust a magic book to write itself."

"It'd probably say all sorts of weird things."

"Magic things tend to be very strange," she agrees. "In my brief experience."

Shrug. "I haven't seen much either... But Diagon Alley was really weird."

"Seriously."

She laughs. "Are you muggleborn too, then?"

"Technically no? It's a bit complicated..."