She laughs, a little, waving her wand to smooth out another section of blasted stone. "I've possibly been accused of being an adrenaline junkie a few times before," she teases.

"I would never."

Soft smile. "I don't mind being told the truth, especially from those I care about." Her lips quirk. "Even if it's sometimes given teasingly."

...Does that mean Professor Reynolds cares about her?

She smiles.

She smiles back, humming and continuing to work on repairing the platform.

"Well, um. See you later, Professor."

"I'll see you later, Miss Potter. My door's open, too, if you want to come by before class Tuesday..."

"Okay."

And off, still smiling.

Anathema follows her out with a "Bye Professor!"

She's humming as they leave, also happy. "I think this semester's looking up..." she says, cheerfully.

"Yep."

"I bet once we kick Snape out it'll all just be smooth sailing. All the other Professors are pretty nice, so can't really see anything else coming up."

"Out of everyone we've met so far, anyway."

"I dunno the other electives professors matter as much right now. We won't have any of them until second year."

"Wouldn't it be better to get all of the trouble out of the way in the beginning?"

"Maybe! Beginning of the year's a good time 'cause we've got less homework... But if we had to get a whole bunch of professors kicked out all at once we might be too busy to have fun."

"I guess we can save some for next year."

"We'll just have to be careful which ones we hit. Can't go getting Professor Reynolds in trouble."

"Perish the thought."

She giggles. "I wanna go read all our spell books now, figure out what as many of those spells were as we can..."

"Good idea. We can write down what we remember first."

"Yeah!"

They need to go to their dorm to get everything first, of course, but then the dragon room's the perfect place to flop and chatter and study, after - the lower year spells are easier to find, of course, and their Standard Book of Spells actually only covers first year, but the transfiguration and charms books are both good through fifth year...

Ellie's copies end up with a lot of bookmarks sticking out at all angles.

Anathema ends up noting down page numbers in her notebook, too - she's building up a bit of a table of contents of interesting things.

So much magic to learn!

She knows - it'll definitely take them longer than just Hogwarts. They'll be learning forever!