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With all the hubbub, a seventh-year Gryffindor - Hermione Granger, which is rather exciting - takes Miranda aside for a brief chat about how she has some experience with famous eleven-year-olds and also with prodigies, and says that she is willing to be a tutor/supervisor for Miranda's wand experiments. This is much appreciated, and Miranda accepts, but doesn't have time to take her up on that before Easter's on the horizon.
Miranda meets her mum at the train station at the end of Easter hols and is promptly Apparated directly to Charlie's house in Fordwich. She is successfully not-found by reporters there.
But partway through the vacation her Daily Prophet mentions that there is a sort of town hall meeting, open to any British-residing wix, about - the agenda's about forty items long, but it boils down to "there are not enough of us" (and also, "oh no, wild Dementor").
Miranda owls her mum.
Her mum dithers but agrees to take her on the condition that they will Apparate away if anyone shows too much interest in Miranda. (The paper seems, in its small flurry of articles about her after the one she was tricked into giving "quotes" for, to have decided to call her "Silverlight", almost like it's her last name: "Belgian Theoretical Magic Expert Weighs In On Possible Mechanisms for Miranda Swan's "Silverlight" Feat". "Miranda Silverlight: Evidence of New Family Trait Magic?" "The Prophet Investigates The Source of E. Miranda "Silverlight" Swan's Unusual Wand.")
Miranda brings a copy of her agenda, crosses both wands in her hair even though she isn't allowed to do magic over hols, and walks in at her mum's elbow into the Ministry hall being used for the meeting.
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chanuphis
witch_please
Alli snorts. "Reed's okay, but Fisher's kind of a doofus, yeah? Dumb choice for a spy."
chanuphis
"And what would they be spying on? It's a school. If interesting things happen at it the news finds out anyway."
metamorphmaga
"They never said what... happened," Jenny points out quietly. "Some magic object, left from the war? That's what McGonagall said." She shivers. "Maybe the Americans want it?"
chanuphis
"Maybe. I didn't think she'd tell me if I asked, but I could try it..."
parental_guidance
"Okay, but... whatever it is, what would the Americans do with it?" Emma wonders. "They don't use Dementors there, they've been illegal forever."
parental_guidance
"You should know that, that's part of the intro history stuff for before we can start Hogwarts."
chanuphis
"I didn't learn that in primary school, but I did learn it in the Dementor books. Anyway it probably has other uses besides Dementor-bloating."
witch_please
"Some kind of weird growth enchantment?" Alli wonders. "Or an energy source?"
chanuphis
"Or something. Dementors eat, well, souls, I'd be really surprised if it was a generic sort of make-things-bigger spell that worked just alike on them..."
parental_guidance
That... is a sad Jenny. This is Emma's least favorite form of Jenny. Subject- not change, but at least a slight detour. "Maybe it's just a Dark Magic thing," Emma suggests. "There were lots of Dark wizards around for the battle."
chanuphis
"Yeah, that could be it. That'd explain why they wouldn't tell eleven-year-olds what it was. Uh, Jenny, do you need some topics to wait till you're not around?"
metamorphmaga
"Kinda...?" Jenny says, trying to piece her thoughts together. "Like- yes, but also, if it's in the news all the time and I have to hear about it all the time, I'd rather it was you guys than not."
metamorphmaga
"I just..." she shivers again. "I hate thinking about them, so much, they were so awful and cold and I still have nightmares where I just lie there again, for hours and hours and hours and it's just dark and empty and my head keeps screaming, it's so..."
Fetal position it is, insofar as she can scrunch herself up on the bench.
Fetal position it is, insofar as she can scrunch herself up on the bench.
chanuphis
"Have you talked to Madam Pomfrey about the nightmares? Or Professor Slughorn? I don't think you could take Dreamless Sleep every night, but sometimes..."
metamorphmaga
"Can't yet," Jenny mumbles. "They need a better idea of when I get them, so they can figure out when to give me the potions. Got another couple weeks."
chanuphis
"I'm sorry." Pause. "I don't know what happens if my Patronus is up when I'm sleeping but I could see if it could sit by you at night? Would that help?"
metamorphmaga
Jenny blinks. "Probably?" she says. "Er, don't stay up for me or anything, but... could we try it?"
chanuphis
"Yeah, if it can persist while I'm asleep and if it helps - and it won't keep everybody up being shiny - then I don't mind a bit. I'll ask Hermione if it's safe to have a spell like that running before I try it though."
parental_guidance
"I've never heard of using too much magic doing anything bad," Emma says, thinking out loud. "I think you just- stop the spell. But, the Silverlight thing is new too, so who knows I guess"