Ira listened attentively, more attentively than she usually did, to all that Professor Hadley was explaining. Curse breaking and decoding was all exciting stuff! And suddenly, that as that. Lesson over? No! Not fair! They had hardly done the curse breaking part.. And Ira wanted to do much more.

Maybe next lesson looked interesting. Bring wands? Ooh! Definitely exciting! And the homework sounded great. Making their own codes? Ira quickly copied down the homework, and packed her stuff in her bag and got up. "Thanks Professor Hadley," she said, smiling, "Looking forward to the next lesson."