“Oh, I’ve collected them over the years,” she said airily, trying not to be delighted by Miss Fraser’s interest. Merlin knew most students weren’t the least bit intrigued by their teachers; Carmelina suspected plenty preferred to imagine none of their professors even had lives beyond the classroom.
“Archaeological digs, and the like,” she offered a shrug; there were plenty more tools than these one would find in such a situation, “and often the best protection from a curse is a counter in the same - language, if you like,” ...runes to counteract runes, and so on. Ancient magic did often take funnily to modern magic. It could almost give an old site an allergic reaction.
“And of course one can only ever learn so much by the theory - I find doing can be just as illuminating once in a while, don’t you?” She grinned hopefully, gesturing the Ravenclaw forwards again, not having expected the redhead to be particularly shy about it.
“Archaeological digs, and the like,” she offered a shrug; there were plenty more tools than these one would find in such a situation, “and often the best protection from a curse is a counter in the same - language, if you like,” ...runes to counteract runes, and so on. Ancient magic did often take funnily to modern magic. It could almost give an old site an allergic reaction.
“And of course one can only ever learn so much by the theory - I find doing can be just as illuminating once in a while, don’t you?” She grinned hopefully, gesturing the Ravenclaw forwards again, not having expected the redhead to be particularly shy about it.
