Miranda has a lovely summer, some of it spent at Karen's and some in Italy and some at home.
She shows up with Karen at the train platform and they look for Minor.
Having acquired his Apparition license and having no real girlfriends at present and two pretend ones to cover for, and having reasonably tolerant prefects, Michael takes to spending weekends at Muggle churches listening to the music. It's lovely.
Singing nuns at this one. One of the novices gets a solo. She shoots the conductor a dirty look before she sings it.
She folds back into the choir afterwards and dawdles when the others disappear into the recesses of the nunnery.
Maybe she wants to say hello. He's not actually sure how much attention he can get from girls without the family name.
He heads over. "You were lovely."
Smirk. "Why thank y-"
"REBECCA," hollers another, nunnier nun.
"Ugh," says Rebecca. "But thank you." She gets up and scampers.
He has brought her a box of chocolates. Non-magical chocolates, he doesn't want to get in Statute trouble and make headaches for Timothy.
He finds her afterwards and hands them to her. "I liked your singing."
"Exotic foreign candy. You'll like them. - they're not drugged or poisoned, I can demonstrate by eating one if you would like."
"Oh, I can't imagine why you'd do that." She eats one. "- mmmmmmmm -"
"REBECCA!"
"Damn," says Rebecca, and she stuffs the box under her wimple, "duck pond, ten minutes," and off she runs.
Rebecca climbs out a window, chewing a chocolate, and goes up to him. "These are probably too expensive to be all eaten in a sitting and I don't care. What's your name?"
"Michael. They're not cheap but I don't know what the point of indulgences is if you don't, well, indulge."
" - I don't actually know anything about Mug- about British religious politics, I just come to churches for the singing."
"No. I could convert, if one needs to be Catholic to give presents to pretty nuns."
"- yes, you live here and run things and sing and so on? I know it's a religious vocation."