"Mine don't fold up hide-under-a-coat size either," she muses, looking over her shoulder.

"I can make them invisible too."

"That'll work as long as nobody hugs me."

"That would be a pretty unusual thing for them to do. You're dressed funny, though..."

"So what should I wear?" she smirks.

"Uh, robes? Like my dad's, pretty much?"

"...Do they come in backless?"

"No but you could probably do slits?"

Voila. "Like this?"

"Very convincingly witchy." He taps her wings; they go, not invisible, but very very hard to see and impossible to notice if you're not particularly looking for them. "If anyone asks why you're in Hogwarts you can safely just say 'Timothy' and roll your eyes."

"It is ultimately his fault," she agrees.

"And also people will find it completely believable that it's his fault, and also he's Head Boy and has a lot of latitude. Minor, hold the door -"

"Say please -"

"Minor, will you surpass my wildest dreams of what can reasonably be expected of a younger brother? Will you take on this horrifying exertion at my behest? Will you suffer for me? Will you die for me? Will you hold... the door?"

He scoots over and takes up his books again.

Amriac thinks Michael is hilarious.

Michael thinks so too. He leans over to kiss her and then leads her out into a corridor that would be unremarkable if not for all the portraits staring curiously at them.

Amriac looks curiously at the portraits, which would be doable conceptually with 2179 tech but not in paint.

"Muggle art doesn't move, right?" Down the corridor to a cathedral-sized space crisscrossed with moving staircases; he steps on one as it swings around to point to a different hallway down below.

"The paintings don't. There's animation. Not now though, I think."

Down a staircase and through a hallway and to a courtyard and -

"Way! Who's this, where're you going?"

"Professor! This is Amriac, she's from Bechuanaland, we're going out for a stroll -"

"No, you aren't. The castle's on lockdown until further notice - does the Headmaster know she's here -"

"Timothy cleared it. The castle's on lockdown? Why?"