Yeah! She makes continuous incremental advancements in How To Golem.

Seems to be more tricky to do even basic things than it is for Kaede, though. And not just as a practice effect.

"I kinda wanna stop reading this and turn it on already."

"Not like it's going to go on a rampage if you only tell it to do things that you know you understand right?"

"It might do things without me telling it to."

"Think it's particularly tough? Like, much tougher than stone itself is?"

"It definitely is, turning things magical makes them way more resistant than usual and people often add redundancies over that. This golem certainly has them."

"So there's no guarantee I will be able to blow it up if it attacks us."

"There is not," she agrees. "How would you blow it up, out of curiosity?"

"Massively overpowered version of the trivial light thing all Witches can do blows things up quite nicely. I'd demonstrate, but it'd probably blind and deafen both of us in such a confined space."

"Hmm... I could probably shield us, but I'm not actually in a hurry to see it."

"I could try more exotic stuff if raw force doesn't work, too, but yeah not fighting is better."

"Mmhm. I'll... give it just a little bit of charge? See what it does?"

"How much book is there and how much have you read so far?"

"Like about five times as much as I've read so far."

"I think it's written sensibly enough that any dire warnings would have shown up by now."

"...yeah, you're probably right."

"And you get to do the honors, seeing as you found this place and I stumbled into it."

"Okay..." She squints at the statue, and—

—its eyes start glowing.

And it doesn't do anything surprising or violent right?

Nope. It doesn't even raise its head.

"Seems okay..."

Now it raises its head, very quickly and suddenly, and looks at Gren.

She raises a glittering patterned shield with one arm reflexively.

It just keeps looking at her.