Originally Posted by Anna Banana

He wanted to go home, too? "Then let's go," she said. "We can owl Mom and Dad, and they'll come get us. I'm not going if you don't go, though." She wasn't going to just leave him here to rot away even further. What if it was something in the castle? What if getting out cured them? She got teary-eyed at his description of home. She was already writing home to her mother in her mind.

She actually laughed, though, when he freaked out over her skunk description. "Relax. I just meant that you're sort of striped like one," she said. He was already looking at himself in the mirror, though. She held still but still answered him. "Because I'm a girl," she said. "You'd have a lot of hair, too, if you were a girl." Actually, he did have a lot of hair for a boy.

Sophie waited until he was finished working on her sides, and then she turned to work on his. "Hold still," she said. She waved the wand over the left side first. "Senectus Reversus!" she said, feeling the words rolllll off her tongue just as they had before. She then moved to the right side and waved her wand over it, too. "Senectus Reversus!"

"All done," she said. "...and I better get going. I still have some other homework to do. That was all we had to do, right?"