"Good morning, Professor. Happy Christmas."

"Good morning and happy Christmas, Miss Potter, Miss Canta."

"And thank you for the gift, Miss Potter."

"You're welcome."

"Thank you for the jacket!"

"You're welcome, Miss Canta. I'd hoped it was your style."

She laughs. "Yeah, it is."

"The teapot is really nice."

"Thank you." Soft smile. "It seemed like something you'd get use out of."

"Definitely will."

Anathema sits across from Professor Reynolds and starts piling food on her plate. "Oh, also Ellie got a mystery present. We think it's maybe an invisibility cloak, but whoever sent it didn't attach their name..."

"Oh?"

She opens the pouch below the table to show Professor Reynolds the folded cloak within. "Here."

She examines it, reaching out to run her fingers over it briefly and then sticking a hand within the folds - rendering her hand invisible. "It does look and work like an invisibility cloak... But - the cheaper ones are made out of enchanted normal cloaks, which don't have this sheen... Cloaks made out of demiguise hair are significantly rougher than this..." She frowns, pinching a bit between her fingers and rubbing it. "This isn't tebo leather or even treated lethifold skin... The strands are too long for hidebehind hair... It's much too soft for an alchemical thread, and it doesn't have a potion residue... There's some conditionally invisible plants, but they're not fibrous enough to really make cloth out of... If you managed at all, it'd be more like an invisible papyrus than an invisible cloak."

A deeper, more pensive frown, and: "I - think this might be made of thestral hair, actually, which would be... Bizarre, to say the least, but I suppose there's nothing stopping you if you befriend a herd and can actually keep track of the hairs."

"I don't think it's cursed, though I'd have to run some tests to be sure - do you have any idea why it was sent to you?"

"There was a note. Said it belonged to my father."

"Well, a thestral hair cloak would certainly qualify as a family heirloom. Do you have the note?"

"Um, yeah. Here."

She reads it. "...This is Headmaster Dumbledore's handwriting." She sighs. "He was friends with your parents and often worked closely with them, so I'm not too surprised he'd have something like this - I can ask him about it, though."

"...No, I think that's okay."

"Alright."

Anyway: breakfast!

Breakfast!

Professor Reynolds chats lightly with them during it (which often involves listening to Anathema chatter about this or that book she's read). She sometimes looks a little pensive, especially when hearing about their advanced readings and research projects.

Does she have an opinion about those?

The Transfiguration and Charms readings are closer to her specialty... She's unfortunately not much more than a hobby historian - still, she would caution them that all sources have bias, to varying extents, especially for their history projects... Still, experimental archaeology does sound exciting.

Yeah, it does. But they've got a lot of evidence to sift through before they get to that. Got to try and sort out what biases are where.

She has a few recommendations for how to do that.