"Fairly well..." She walks over to a desk, getting out some papers and setting them on her coffee table. "I actually found a house for sell in Hogsmeade, though there's also plenty in muggle areas... My price range has us leaning more rural, but being away from people does give us more leeway with using magic outside."

"Won't we have the Trace this summer?"

"It only catches wand use, not broomsticks or witchcraft or other wandless systems."

"Point."

Giggle.

"Can't you confound it, anyways?"

"I, a law-abiding citizen, certainly would never put up wards whose sole purpose was keeping the Ministry off my back."

It's really hard to tell if she's being sarcastic.

"What if the wards were to keep us safe...?"

"The main point of any of them, of course."

Nod nod.

"More seriously... I do want to train you two fairly intensively in self defense this summer, both physically and mentally."

"Okay."

"First, though... Any house opinions?" She pushes the papers across the table. 

She takes a look.

The one in Hogsmeade has a moving photograph in black and white (which mostly just shows trees rustling in some wind)  and a still one in color. It's the biggest of the ones listed, on the outskirts of the village - it has four bedrooms and a really big lot. Professor Reynolds has noted - 'Very small town. Inconvenient to get to muggle places. No electricity. Quiet in the summer. Mostly older people, very insular, few muggleborns. Very affordable. No limit on broom flying. Close to Hogwarts.'

The other three are all in muggle areas. Two have three bedrooms. One of those is suburban, on a smaller lot, but in walking distance of a train and a park - but they'd have to floo elsewhereto fly. The other is rural. They'd have to floo, fly, or Apparate to get anywhere, but they won't have to worry about neighbors much. One has four bedrooms. It's on the outskirts of a small muggle town (about ten times the size of Hogsmeade), so they can walk to a few places as well as a train station, but they're still pretty far from major amenities. Professor Reynolds would have to figure out selective notice-me-not wards for them to fly on the property.

Ellie slightly favors the three-bedroom rural one, or the four-bedroom. Floo's pretty easy to use.

Yeah. Anathema's pretty sure she'd rather not Hogsmeade.

Four bedrooms means they could have a library room rather than just like putting all the bookshelves in the living room, right?

Unless Scarlet wants to stake a claim.

"I think they can make do with their own box."

"You never know. They've got a big personality."

"They do that. Of course, they also refuse to use any furniture bought for them - and they seem to think the best bed is a human."

Hee.

"So we can probably get away without setting aside a room for them."

"They'd move into one of ours if we tried, I think."

"Doubtless."

"I can also turn a dining room into a library, so we don't need a full extra bedroom - but the four bedroom house is larger, if that matters."

"Not so much to me?"