Scandal. That seemed even less likely than a windfall—imagine! Blythe, caught up in some sort of scandal! Still, at least Miss Lestrange typically did better in the exasperating course than Blythe herself. The Hufflepuff supposed she should at least try to give the other badger’s reading of the leaves some measure of consideration.

“Goodness, I should hope not!” she exclaimed. “But I suppose it would be preferable to a death by giant squid—it looks a bit like tentacles around about the edges, if you look closely enough. I don’t suppose they’ll let us stick to dreams and cards during our OWLs, will they?”

Both were much clearer sources of symbolism, devices Blythe could actually understand.

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