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grangerfan8 
There wasn't a day that went by it seems, that Arya wasn't studying. Though her methods of studying weren't all orthodox, so the prefect was perfectly happy to prepare for her NEWTS. After her usual day out on the grounds and in the great hall for a lunch, she decided it was time for some indoor studying. And since she'd already had a duel, charms was her only other option.
She still needed to put her letter into Schirmer's mailbox, and was about to do just that when she heard one of her favorite charms being cast. Stuffing the letter back to her pocket, she strolled over to the door of the annex and glanced around.
First for a patronus, then it's caster.
"Kurumi." She grinned and started for the younger prefect. "How is the practice going?"
Nothing.
Kurumi suspected as much. She had to think happy things to produce a patronus but she didn't feel like she had very much to be happy about right now. Her mother was...well... that. Jonathan wasn't at Hogwarts and she wasn't receiving any sort of communication from him. To top everything up? Now there was this whole...situation with Lewis. Actually, he might be one of the only happy things the Gryffindor had going for her right now, but that glimpse of happiness came with layer upon layer of confusion as well. Trying the spell once more and producing no results again, Kurumi sighed and looked up just in time to see Arya standing over her.
"
Not...too well," she sighed. This charm was rather advanced magic, but it still was disheartening that so many of the younger students had been able to produce a non-corporeal patronus so quickly during last year's lesson and now here she was, a fifth year, and she was still struggling. It was embarrassing.