He's just fine with being practiced on, however.

Bella collects his wand many times after she gets the hang of the spell.

Feral giggles the whole time. Also he has a habit of hugging his wand every time he gets it back.

"Why are you hugging your wand?"

"Because I missed it," he says, snuggling it some more.

"Expelliarmus," Bella snorts.

"Hey! I was hugging that!" exclaims Feral, chasing after his fleeing wand.

Bella catches it and hands it over, giggling.

Feral hugs it some more.

Bella steps back to appropriate distance, and swipes it once more.

Feral lunges after it again, and this time manages to catch it on its way to Bella.

"They probably will," says Feral, shrugging. "Not like I can do much about it."

"Have you noticed any patterns about when it happens and when it doesn't?" Bella asks, finding them a table.

"Kinda," he says. "It happens more when I'm distracted, and it happens a lot when I'm angry."

"So maybe when they say you'll grow out of it what they mean is you'll learn to concentrate and calm down?"

"Maybe. Or maybe I'm just weird," he says. "I'm already starting to get the sense that nobody expected me to still be doing it after two years."

"I've heard of kids having problems with spontaneous magic and spells backfiring and stuff," says Tony. "It's not that rare. But I don't think it usually works the way it's going with you."

"I wonder if Healer Song knows anything about it, have you asked him?" Bella inquires.

He shrugs. "Nah."

"It is not always obvious to me if you really want the fire thing to go away," muses Bella.

"...What do you mean?" says Feral, cocking his head quizzically.

"Well - you don't seem to like it, I bet if I could wave my wand and make it go away you'd let me, but you don't seem to spend much time trying to work on it. Maybe you do it when I'm not looking or something."

"Depends," he says. "I like being able to set things on fire. I don't like doing it when I don't want to. So if it's all part of the same thing, then I don't want it to go away. I'd lose just the lighting things up by accident part in a second, though."