SPOILER!!: LOL he'd take /her/ last name if they married???? XD
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SlytherinSistah 
Buying his own books. That was going to be a possibility very soon. His mother's side of the family had only recently let him go off on his own to the store and his step-mother, with whom he'd built a rather please me or perish relationship, had become far too dotting for him to get away.
His mother remained ever the suspicious Slytherin.
It was not impossible, but as he could not practice at home and rarely at school, it hardly seemed the sneaky thing to do. At least, as a twelve or thirteen year old boy. Though, he could see how Lex could get away with it. She was of the class and gender that could. Maybe he'd try to marry her later or something. He wouldn't mind being Cutty Cambridge for the right price. H'mm...Cutty Cambridge. Sounded somewhat designer. "My parents have a system in place." He sighed. "If I give you some dosh, would yew mind picking me up a few the next time yer out buyin' books y'self?"
He got up close to inspect the fine grain which Lex had reduced the dummy to. It was almost confectioners sugar. He could see as he knelt down over it and took up a fist full. "I'm surprised she let us use this curse and even showed us how. ...think she's testing oos?" For what, he couldn't say, but it was a stray from the normal Romanos class. Most of the stuff was more on the harmless side. She knew a lot about monsters, though and dark creatures.
He let the powdered defense dummy slide through his hand as it pulled itself back together before firing off another attempt, keeping Lex's words in mind. Desire a powder. Desire disintegration. "Reducto!" His recently reassembled dummy again fell to teensy bits. It was slightly better than the first attempt, though some coarse grain was still present. Soon the thing started pulling itself together once more, quick as.
This had to be her favourite homework Romanos had ever given. How often did a Professor say go forth and disintergrate as you will?--With obvious limitations of course but that didn't matter. She was practically being graded on making things blow up and that was satisfication enough for the Gryffindor. The explosions.
Lex looked to Cutty at the mention of his parents having a system in place. What did that even mean?
"A system? One that doesn't work for you? If so you should say as much. Let them know it won't work and have them make a new one." That's what she'd always done and there was hardly a time her father wasn't willing to oblige. It made no sense telling her not to buy the books, she'd get them anyway and she was of no danger to anyone because of the magic age rule so harmless essentially.
"I'll do you one better." She said to answer his question.
"I've got a couple that I've exhausted already. Follow me to my Common Room after we're done and you can borrow some for as long as you need." Wasn't like she'd be in any rush to get them back.
Cutty had a good point though. The Professor never let them do anything dangerous.
"If she is, I'll fail because I'm going to use this anyway I see fit and I'm guessing she'd be wanting responsibility if this is a test" In some ways Alexa was a disappointment and she knew this but it didn't bother her. She was much too busy having fun.
Lex watched him try again but could tell he wasn't completely satisfied as yet. That was fine. They had all day if that's what it took. Again she took aim at a dummy.
"Reducto!" BOOM! Another puff of smoke and dust that eventually settled on the ground. This time the Prefect did walk over to it to test the texture for herself. It was so smooth it almost felt like liquid. Expected given how long she'd been practising this spelled. She must have taught it to herself last term or the term before.