seeking thestral

[occluminous]

Feral goes back to school. Bella goes to Charlie's house for the rest of the summer. She studies her textbooks and does her summer projects and owls her friends.

She thinks about Dementors.

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[occluminous]

"Yeah, he doesn't have another one. I'm not sure whether I wish we were in an earlier class or not. I mean, it didn't look like the room had been previously partially demolished, but that doesn't mean much."

[pythbox]

"Yeah. When most people get really scared, stuff doesn't start burning."

[occluminous]

Bella nods.

Snuggle.

[pythbox]

Snuggle.

"It's so bad," he says. "I bet he doesn't even know, and if he does he obviously doesn't care - there's people who have real things to be scared of, things where it doesn't matter if you only see them for a second, it'll still fuck up your whole day. And some people might not even be able to guess what they are ahead of time, or they might think it's something else, or there might not be a way to make it funny to them, or if there is they might not think of it."

[occluminous]

"He's very terrible," says Bella.

[pythbox]

"He really is," says Feral. "I'd try getting him fired again if I thought it would work."

[occluminous]

"Maybe we can accumulate enough convincing material," says Bella. "The memory charm by itself didn't do it, but that plus the boggart plus I don't know what else might."

[pythbox]

"Yeah. I bet if we tried we could get him in some serious shit," Feral says musingly.

[occluminous]

"What were you thinking? I don't know what Mrs. Stark tried when she tried."

[pythbox]

"Write down all the fucked-up stuff he does, see if any of it will get more people mad than just Tony's mom. Maybe try to catch him breaking a rule the school will have to care about, or get him to break one."

[occluminous]

"I have all of it written down already," says Bella. "I mean, not organized, but I could get it that way. Most of it was small stuff."

[pythbox]

"Like what?"

[occluminous]

"Like - I'd need to get my notebooks to find a perfect example but after the thing with the memory charm he didn't like me, he spent the rest of sixth grade making little snide remarks whenever I was about to practice something, asking if I was sure it wasn't against my religion or did I want a minute to paint a protest sign against throwing signal sparks or whatever. He was very quiet about it, I could ignore it, I'm not sure anyone else heard."

[pythbox]

"Wow, what an asshole," says Feral. "Probably no one will care. But he's still an asshole."

[occluminous]

"Yeah."