And I would have thought Dumbledore would have realised that, particularly with the way things are at the moment.”
Martha giggled next to me. “Even Flobberworm – though I’d understand it if you didn’t count them as animals.”
Through Lily’s careful coaching I managed to do a decent job on my first attempt at an Everlasting Elixir, and it occurred to me that I might even have the hang of Potions by the end of the year if I stayed near her during class. XXX And what would Madam like first, a back massage or a foot rub?”
Bea pretended to take me seriously and looked up at the ceiling, her finger in her mouth in a thinking pose. Her marks had been lower than she’d hoped due to her encounter with Mulciber just before the exams, which unsurprisingly had affected her revision, though she had surprised even herself by getting an O in Astronomy, which she therefore decided to
