After css, the Gryffindor students were still discussing Glover Cecil.

  This unventional theory lesson had successfully wohe young lions, and his past as a Dark wizard no longer ed them much. He had quickly bee one of their favorite professors.

  By dihat evening, Glover Cecil's identity was known to all the students, and their curiosity about him far surpassed their fear of his Dark ast.

  There were too many mysteries surrounding Cecil, making it hard not to be intrigued by both him and the subject he taught.

  Everyone eg about his past, w what kinds doings he had itted.

  Did he perform terrible experiments or murder wizards gles?

  And who had brought him to justid sent him to Azkaban?

  Both sed- and fourth-year students had already attended his csses, and they couldn't stop praising him. This only fueled the anticipation for those who had yet to take Defense Against the Dark Arts.

  A mysterious past, a troversial identity, and waves of protest letters from parents—what seemed like a catastrophic beginning had vanished in just a day. From this alone, Cecil was already proving himself to be better than his predecessor.

  That evening, ba the on room, a first-year girl approached Eda, Angelina, and Alicia.

  "Good evening, senior. My name is Katie Bell. Professonagall told me to temporarily stay in your dormitory," the girl named Katie Bell said timidly.

  She seemed nervous, clutg the piece of part in her hand so tightly that it was crumpled.

  Eda vaguely remembered the girl, recalling that she had sat nearby during the start-of-term feast.

  Eda extended her hand to Katie, and the nervous girl finally realized she was supposed to hand over the part.

  "Ah! Here!"

  After quickly sing the letter, Eda said, "Wele, Katie."

  The three girls led Katie back to the dormitory, where twe suitcases were pced at the door. Katie stepped forward, struggling to move the boxes to clear the entrance.

  Angelina walked up and unlocked the dormitory door. She and Alicia entered first, while Katie, just about to lift her twe suitcases and follow them, noticed that the boxes were now floating in mid-air, slowly drifting into the dormitory.

  "Two beds, pie!" Angelina said, pointing to the two empty beds. She and Alicia quickly tidied up the things on the vat beds as they ehe room.

  Still standing at the doorway, Katie walked in and ied both beds before ultimately choosing the one slightly farther from the door. Her suitcases floated over aly nded by her chosen bed.

  "Even though I know Eda is talented, every time I see her use magic, it makes me feel unworthy of being a witch. It's holy a bit discing," Alicia said to Angelina as she walked over to help Katie with her bed.

  "Yeah! Being Eda's roommate is seriously stressful. Not only do we have to deal with her in css, but we also e back to see her in the dormitory," Angelina added.

  "I'm kind of jealous of little Katie. At least she doesn't have to see Eda in css."

  "I'll take that as a pliment, humph!" Eda said, leaning against her bed with no iion of helping. "But ime, maybe talk about me behind my back."

  "Actually, you could always move in with Patricia Stinson if you handle her stant g," Eda tinued with a smirk.

  "I'd rather stay with you!" Angelina ughed. She was a straightfirl and definitely couldn't stand Patricia, the little crybaby.

  "Could you at least get off your zy butt and help?" Alicia tossed a pillow at Eda, though not out of frustration—she just wanted Eda to make a good impression on the udent.

  While Katie was anizihings, she quietly said, "It's okay, seniors. You rest. I do it myself."

  Katie Bell's dorm was temporarily uninhabitable, so she had to be separated from her new cssmates for a while.

  Professonagall assigned her to this dorm, and since she'd only been at school for two days, it was natural for her to feel a bit nervous around the older students.

  "Don't even think about it. Eda even uses her wand to prepare Garlon's dog food. If she doesn't have to use her hands, she won't," Angelina said.

  Checkmate!

  Angelina's ent forced Eda to get off the bed and help out. With Eda joining in, the unpag went much faster.

  After they helped Katie settle in, the first-year student became much more familiar with Eda, Angelina, and Alicia, and her initial nervousness faded. She realized that the irls were actually quite easy to get along with.

  Angelina and Alicia took extra care of the udent, especially after learning that Katie also liked Quidditch. This made them even more atteo their new housemate.

  "Quidditch chatterbox"

  Eda didn't join in their versation. She simply sat on the side, watg the three animatedly discuss their favorite sport, almost as if she were the one who had just moved in that day.

  On Tuesday m, their first css was Charms. Professor Flitwick seemed to have learned from yesterday's lesson and didn't jump straight into teag new spells. Instead, he led the students in reviewing the charms they'd learhe previous year.

  After practig for a while, Professor Flitwick began teag spells from The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2, but he expined everything slowly, as if worried the students had fotten t their brains to css.

  The Dang Feet Spell 'Tarantallegra' was what Eda and her cssmates were learning today.

  This spell caused the legs of any object it hit to twittrolbly, as if perf a quickstep da worked on both inanimate and living objects—basically, anything with legs.

  It was a fu mischievous jinx, but Professor Flitwick strictly forbade them from using it on their fellow students. Instead, he handed each student a small stool to practice the spell on.

  Iernoon, they had Herbology. During their first year, Professor Sprout had always taught them in Greenhouse One, but this year, they were using Greenhouse Three instead. pared to the first greenhouse, Greenhouse Three was far more iing, but also much more dangerous.

  For example, in their first lesson, they dealt with Mandrakes.

  Mandrake roots were a powerful restorative ingredient, used to return transfigured or cursed people to their inal state. However, the cry of a Mandrake could be deadly to anyone who heard it.

  Mandrake roots looked hideously like wrinkled babies, and their cries were incredibly unpleasant. During Eda's attempt to re-pot the pnt, the Mandrake was anything but cooperative—it squirmed, kicked its legs wildly, waved its tiny fists, and even tried to bite her!

  With the help of the system, Eda was able tnize and distinguish herbs, accurately naming the characteristid uses of every pnt she had studied.

  Today, she even answered Professor Sprout's question about the Mandrake and earwo points fryffindor.

  However, Eda could never muster any real i in Herbology. She disliked handling difficult pnts aed the smell of fertilizer that always filled the greenhouse.

  That particur odor made her feel especially unfortable.

  For Eda, Herbology was always a css that came sed only to Potions in terms of sheer torment.

  Potions was difficult due to Professor Snape, but Herbology? That was thanks to the stras and unpleasant smells.

  year, if Eda chose to take Care of Magical Creatures, she imagi would bririple the "joy."

  She could only wonder what kind of bizarre creatures Professor Silvanus Kettleburn might bring out for them.

  Hopefully, whatever the elderly professor had prepared wouldn't be more terrifying than Hagrid's "cute pets."

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