He also likes Karen, she did useful experiments in Charms and now there's no one to glare at them for not working productively if they speculate endlessly about the results.

Speculating about results is fun! They will have to be very quiet, though. This is the library.

They can pass speculative notes!

That works! And in between they can do their homework.

And then Karen wants to go outside and watch something levitated by overpowered wand without a ceiling in the way!

Yeah and also outside they can speculate aloud without being slapped with a ruler by the librarians!

Which is an improvement!

Anyway, it turns out that Miranda's wand will levitate a leaf so far they can't see it anymore and can't find it drifting to the ground, and a rock about four stories up.

"Where do you suppose things go if they just go up forever -"

"They become Astronomy subjects."

"We could put some stars in the sky and confuse all our professors!"

"They'd be so alarmed!"

"If you put up a star do you get to name it?"

"I don't know! You should, usually the discoverer does, right, but making it's more impressive than discovering it ... I wonder how bright it'd need to be, and how far up..."

"I don't know what I would name my star. Karen would be a silly name for a star."

"Yeah, you gotta name stars in Latin or something so people take your star seriously."

"You know Latin, right? What would you name a star?"

"My family's house motto is 'per aspera ad astra', means 'through hardship to the stars'. Bit of a silly thing to name a star, though.

Quaesitor, maybe. It means, like, seeker."

"Now I will be less confused if I ever run into a conversation about Quidditch in Latin."

"My family has a rule to only have conversations about Quidditch in Latin!"

"Really?"

"Everyone gets excited about Quidditch, and my father wants us to practice our Latin, so that's the rule!"

"That's funny. I don't think Quidditch is that exciting. Flying is but I don't see the point of adding the game to it."

"Competition makes most things more interesting. And Quidditch is the market for and driver of better broomstick development so if you like flying you should be glad people like Quidditch so much."

"I don't object to other people having fun with it!" says Miranda.