 ~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Ary tapped his wand on the paperclip, reverting it to its original state at the exact moment Bry walked in. He spared her a glance before returning to his task. It was frustrating not being able to manipulate this clip to the shapes he needed it to be. He only paused briefly to offer Bry a smile when she sat beside him. Did he want a bite of the brownie? In response, Ary simply leaned in and took a nibble out of the snack. Others might find this surprising or gross but Ary and Bry had grown up together; he had known her literally all his life and they usually shared their snacks in this way. “Thanks. A mandrake.” The boy did not say whom it was for since he knew Bry did not like Drake very much, but he suspected she’d figure it out anyway.
Thankfully, Roman arrived. At the Feast, Ary had thought he would have gotten ever so often mixed up with the names of Rowan and Roman. This had not been the case. “Hi, Roman.” That was his dorm mate, yup. Then there was Emmie. Ary lifted a hand in her direction, giving her a two finger wiggle wave.
With the professor getting started, Ary tucked the bent and out-of-shape paperclip into his pocket. Because he had so much time in the Cabana reading through the books, he easily followed all that professor Liu was saying about the correlation between Latin and Charms. Tilting his head to the left, Ary tried to follow along as best as he could to the instructions. Her demonstration made it easier for him to do so.
He looked automatically at Bry, then at Roman. He didn’t mind working as a trio. “Expellere comes to mind,’’ he told them, recalling this from the book he was currently reading. “Ex means out, pellere means to drive.” They could use ‘ex’ as their root word if they wanted, since that would make things simpler. Expelliarmus was a good spell to start with. |