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Bella is picked up from Charlie's house at the end of the summer, her visits with various people and her other parents having concluded a couple of weeks previous. She feels very worldly as she gets on the bus and is inspected by the new sixth-graders. The bus trundles along to the Bay Cauldron, and she does her shopping, and helps one of those sixth-graders pick an owl, and then they all arrive at ACAAM.

She goes to her and Sherlock's room to drop off her belongings and let Euterpe out.

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From:

nobodyelse

Sherlock is there, unpacking some books out of his bag.

From:

occluminous

"Hi, Sherlock! How was the rest of your summer?"

From:

nobodyelse

"Largely unremarkable. And the same with you?"

From:

occluminous

"Yeah, pretty much. Did you get your schedule, do we have anything together this year?" She digs hers out and hands it over for inspection: Charms, Herbology, Potions, Magical Defense, lunch, Social Studies, Transfiguration, Magic Theory. (Brooms as a class is for sixth graders; flying will be on their own time, or as part of an organized sport or the JROC drills.)

Edited Date: 2013-08-20 05:05 pm (UTC)

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nobodyelse

Sherlock's schedule matches in several places: Charms, Potions, Social Studies, Magical Defense, lunch, Divination, Transfiguration, and Magic Theory.

"And Tony's matches mine with one transposition - she has Transfiguration and then Arithmancy after lunch."

From:

occluminous

"You'll have to tell me if Divination is any good. It doesn't sound terribly teachable but maybe I'm wrong."

From:

nobodyelse

"I intend to find out."

From:

occluminous

"Maybe I'll take it next year if it's cool and I don't love Herbology. Or maybe I'll take magizoology, that was my second choice for this year."

From:

nobodyelse

"What put Herbology in the lead? Its applicability to Potions?"

From:

occluminous

"Yeah. Magizoology is applicable too, I'll take it eventually, but it would mostly be - conversationally helpful, not academically, you know? I could stop asking people things like 'wait, are nundus really that big or are you exaggerating for effect'."

From:

nobodyelse

"And what was the quoted size of the nundu in question?"

From:

occluminous

"Quote, 'the size of Lake Erie', end quote."

From:

nobodyelse

"Exaggerated. But by less than if it had been, for example, any of the more common species of dragon."

From:

occluminous

"Yeah. Dragons are cool. Magizoology would probably be more fun. I just think Herbology with the Potions applicability will be more useful, so that's a reason to do it earlier."