With a shrug, Flora stood up and looked at the clock. It was terribly late already, and she had History of Magic with Professor Darrow so early the next morning! (For all she enjoyed peeking across her desk to see what Rex was writing across the row, she had no idea how anyone expected her to learn about history when her breakfast was still settling in her belly!)

"Well," she said, smiling awkwardly at the younger Slytherin, "I'd better be off to bed. Don't stay up to long now, you hear me? I know you'd hate to lose house points for being late to class in the morning."

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