Minerva half listened to everyone talk about the runes. She knew this was the first lesson and they had to go over the basics, but she was just so sleepy, that the basics were really giving her a hard focusing time. Opening her eyes wide so they wouldn't shut she sat up straight in fear of dozing. She would really need to go to bed earlier tonight.

When the professor asked what runes were used for she put up her hand, [b] "Professor, we have in other classes put two runes together to make a stronger protection or even made them to help make us better at something."[b] She thought of her exam last term and how she had to put the two together and why they would work to make someone better.