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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.
occluminous
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.)
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."
"And Tony's matches mine with one transposition - she has Transfiguration and then Arithmancy after lunch."
occluminous
"You'll have to tell me if Divination is any good. It doesn't sound terribly teachable but maybe I'm wrong."
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."
nobodyelse
"What put Herbology in the lead? Its applicability to Potions?"
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'."
nobodyelse
"Exaggerated. But by less than if it had been, for example, any of the more common species of dragon."
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."
occluminous
"Come on, let's go to the welcome feast." And off she skips.
sparksflying
Tony is at the welcome feast too! And she is already sitting with Feral, which means they have plenty of space.
occluminous
That is depressingly convenient! Down sits Bella. "Hi, Tony, hi, Feral! How're you?"
"Me too," says Feral. "The elves let me help with the feast."
"Desserts!" he beams. "Cupcakes and brownies. They're really good."
"Good plan," says Feral.