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Hesper opened her mouth to dispute the likelihood once again of her aunt allowing it but closed it again as soon as she realized she couldn't think of a reason for it. She'd never actually asked for permission to see her friends before. She assumed she wouldn't be allowed because it seemed as though her great aunt was determined to deny her anything that had a whiff of fun about it but maybe she'd just gotten so used to her aunt's restrictions that she was now the one imposing them upon herself. Was it really so impossible that her great aunt would forbid her from socializing with exactly the sort of children she ought to approve of?

After a long, uncertain pause she replied, Maybe you're right. Unless she was determined to be cruel for the sake of it (Hesper wouldn't rule it out completely but hoped that wasn't the case) she couldn't think of a reason why Flora's party might be considered inappropriate. And I really do want to go. She looked up at him, unaware that she was hoping to find reassurance there even if Sirius knew next to nothing about the whims of Great Aunt Jessamine.

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