Whatever he’d expected Basil to retort, it wasn’t that. And then, for all his attempts to be quiet, Agrimony burst out laughing. The look on Foxwood’s face was so incredibly and completely serious that Agrimony felt he really had no choice except to start laughing at the complete insanity of it all. It was in that moment that he knew books would eventually be the death of the Ravenclaw, one way or another. “Are — you really are serious, aren’t you?” Agrimony wheezed, unable to keep himself propped up for long, and yet finding himself unable to move much further. “My god, Foxwood, it’s a book!”

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