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Rion cringed. She was no stranger to the consequences of silly decisions, but this one bit hard. Ravenclaw's a great house. You guys will be perfect there. Ugh! She'd become the very thing for which she had mocked Evianna and Ralph. And Evianna wasn't even in Ravenclaw; she'd made Hufflepuff...

The nurse was saying a lot of objectively scary things — blunt trauma, kidney contusion, possible internal bleeding — but Celia could barely bring herself to care. After all, magic would end up fixing all of this. She had already taken one potion for the pain and another to stop any bleeding...

If the forbidden forest were truly dangerous, Van reasoned, it wouldn't have been left up to a single warning good faith to keep the children out of it. There would have been magical barriers, a strategically placed tombstone etched with the name of a former pupil - that sort of thing. Van had...