"Preferably during their office hours."

"Yeah - be polite and all."

"Sounds like a tomorrow problem..." Yawn.

She nods, yawning a bit too.

"Okay. Off to bed, you two."

"See you later, Professor." She stands and offers an arm for Anathema.

"See you, Ellie, Anathema."

Anathema stands as well - wishes Fay a goodnight - and takes Ellie's arm, beaming at her.

Off to bed, then, before starting on their latest study projects.

Dumbledore gives the needed permissions, though they're still waiting on the Ministry to confirm their place in the tests at the end of the year. Their professors all seem fairly enthusiastic to help them set up advanced study guides. The History professor's a bit overwhelmed about it, but is complimentary about their progress so far.

Professor McGonagall examines them evenly, then says, "Of course. I was expecting you to ask earlier, honestly - you two are very advanced students. And, in fact, if you do go on to NEWT Transfiguration, I fully expect you both to complete it by the end of your fifth year."

"Thank you for the vote of confidence, Professor."

Anathema nods.

And Professor McGonagall proceeds to go over their OWL revision - they don't actually need as much as in many of their other classes, since much of this was covered by or is related to what they learned for their Animagus transformations.

Guess it'll be one of the easy ones, then.

Gives them more time to revise for Herbology and Potions... They haven't been getting as far ahead in those two.

They're a bit harder without specialized equipment and supplies, after all.

Less relevant to their special interests, too, and the Animagus potion was kind of off on a tangent...

So now they've got to make that time up.

Yeah. They should have the time, though, what with how far ahead they've gotten everywhere else...

It's balancing out, yeah.

Plenty enough to keep them busy, then - Anathema doesn't want to cut back Quidditch or hanging out with Elodie, but they have some other social stuff they can skip on if needed...

They can give everyone else a sneak preview of what they'll be in for next year.

Heh, yeah.

Speaking of Elodie... What with running around trying to get their schedule in place, they've been neglecting hanging out with her a bit. Time to go find her?

Elodie is still slightly disgruntled.

"Everything okay?"

She curses in French. "I spent six weeks brewing that potion! And they say 'poor planning'. Bah! I told the headmistress, I only want the Phoenicians', but is that what she sends? No! Probably some hagspawn scraped it out of the swamp in the backyard and stuck the fancy label on the jar." Another round of cursing.