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After dinner, while Bella is squirreled away in her and Tony's room reading her History textbook as though it's a fantasy novel (for the two bear significant resemblance)...
Artemis Burberry is in her room, on Patricia Hall, lamenting to her great horned owl about the lack of relatively private fireplaces for Floo calls here, and wondering where her roommate is.
(Who names their daughter "Sherlock", anyway?)
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"People get scared if you know stuff they don't expect you to," he says. "Especially if it's nasty stuff. Anyway, I gotta get to class."
He waves and heads off.
He waves and heads off.
A seventh-grade witch in the uniform of the Junior Regimental Officer Corps blocks her path.
"Do you know who you were just talking to?" she hisses.
"Do you know who you were just talking to?" she hisses.
"Feral is right!" she says. "He's dangerous! He bit somebody last year, I mean Mark drew his wand but that's no excuse for jumping on somebody like a rabid Muggle."
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"Um, if Feral drew his wand back then Mark might have caught fire even if Feral didn't mean him to," Bella says. "I don't know what they were fighting about, but as long as they were already fighting, biting him probably was safer."
The JROC witch sniffs. "Oh, I've heard about the fires," she mutters darkly.
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"...Yeah, so've I. He doesn't do it on purpose. He's waiting to grow out of it," says Bella.
"Are you sure?" she says. "Did you know he can see Thestrals? That means he's watched someone die," she adds, in case Bella did not know this. "I think it means he's killed someone."
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"Um, I don't think most people who've watched someone die killed them personally, but why are you telling me all this stuff anyway?" Bella asks.
"Um, so you don't hang around with him and end up getting murdered?" she says.
The JROC witch stares at her with an expression of mixed confusion and worry.
"I guess I can't stop you," she says. "But... be careful."
"I guess I can't stop you," she says. "But... be careful."
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"I'll ask him about the thestrals," suggests Bella. "Um, thanks for warning me?"
"I think it's my duty," the JROC witch says seriously. "And I have to get to practice."
She heads off in yet another direction.
She heads off in yet another direction.
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Bella hurries the rest of the way to theory, which passes uneventfully, and to transfiguration, similar, and then it's lunchtime.
Guess who's sitting all by himself again!
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Is it Feral? Bella bets it's Feral. There she plops herself. "Some girl thinks you might murder me," she says. "She thinks you can see thestrals because of having killed somebody and that it's not safe to hang around you. Also she said you bit someone, but she said he drew his wand on you so I think that was probably the best thing you could've done if you couldn't just run away because otherwise he might have caught fire and that's worse than getting bit."
"Yeah," he says, "you figured that one out, all right. I don't duel, I fight. Gets me more detentions, but nobody catches fire, so I'd call that a win, wouldn't you?"
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Bella nods firmly. "I don't understand why the faculty is being how they are about the fire thing. I hope you grow out of it soon, it sounds awful."
"And I'm not gonna murder you," he adds, in case she was wondering.
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"I didn't think so. How come you can see thestrals, though? I didn't ask last time it came up."
"'Cause I killed somebody," he says casually.
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"That's what the girl said," Bella says slowly. "I didn't think it was true."
"I'm pretty sure she only got it right by accident," he says. "I didn't tell her. It is, though."