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Lex surveyed the dummy she'd blown up again. After some thought she figured she wasn't satisfied simply because she was hard to please and was perfectly okay with this. It meant she would always be striving for something until there was nothing else to be attained at which point she would have achieved perfection. There was nothing more thrilling than the perfect explosion.This was common knowledge.
Her expression lit up some at his request. Not many people went asking her for help with that kind of thing...or any kind of thing really and that didn't bother her but there was just something about Cutty. It didn't feel right having him NOT know any of the epic stuff. "The library's far too sheltered. Anything useful's in the Restricted Area but it's hardly worth the detention. You should buy your own books like I do. They're brilliant." It'd shocked her father the first time she opted to use candy money to buy a book but after learning of the subject it all became clear. "I'd love to help you. There's so much to learn."
Oh? Reducto? "Homework?" She KNEW she'd been forgetting something when she walked in here. It was good of Cutty to remind her even if it wasn't intentional. "Maybe it's like you said and you need different material." If things weren't fine enough she wouldn't go recommending people. Those took certain other curses to get just rightly dissolved and out of your hair. Instead, Lex stepped back and watched him cast.
"That wasn't half bad at all. If you really want it finer you'll have to imagine the power behind the spell even while you cast. You're gonna have to really want it shattering into fine pieces of dust. Like this." Lex took aim at another dummy not far away and actively thought about the most annoying person she'd every met, then "Reducto!" BOOOOM! There was a brief gathering of dust and smoke that quickly dispersed, revealing the fine dust of the once dummy on the floor. He was free to have a look before they tried again.
Buying his own books. That was going to be a possibility very soon. His mother's side of the family had only recently let him go off on his own to the store and his step-mother, with whom he'd built a rather
please me or perish relationship, had become far too dotting for him to get away.
His mother remained ever the suspicious Slytherin.
It was not impossible, but as he could not practice at home and rarely at school, it hardly seemed the sneaky thing to do. At least, as a twelve or thirteen year old boy. Though, he could see how Lex could get away with it. She was of the class and gender that could. Maybe he'd try to marry her later or something. He wouldn't mind being Cutty Cambridge for the right price. H'mm...Cutty Cambridge. Sounded somewhat designer. "
My parents have a system in place." He sighed. "
If I give you some dosh, would yew mind picking me up a few the next time yer out buyin' books y'self?"
He got up close to inspect the fine grain which Lex had reduced the dummy to. It was almost confectioners sugar. He could see as he knelt down over it and took up a fist full. "
I'm surprised she let us use this curse and even showed us how. ...think she's testing oos?" For what, he couldn't say, but it was a stray from the normal Romanos class. Most of the stuff was more on the harmless side. She knew a lot about monsters, though and dark creatures.
He let the powdered defense dummy slide through his hand as it pulled itself back together before firing off another attempt, keeping Lex's words in mind. Desire a powder. Desire disintegration. "
Reducto!" His recently reassembled dummy again fell to teensy bits. It was slightly better than the first attempt, though some coarse grain was still present. Soon the thing started pulling itself together once more, quick as.