 Post #1 Mod Babysitter | be curious, not judgmental
Sophie nodded solemnly at DaBest's reply to her own answer, and she nodded even MORE when he reiterated that NO ONE at the school was truly evil right down to the core. Though... she still kind of wondered about Cutty sometimes, but since HE could do a proper patronus and had even been the one to help her along with her own... well... maybe Cutty wasn't REALLY so bad after all. The Slytherin boy got a brief look as she considered this, but then her attention was back up front because... LOTS of people were giving her looks, at her mentioning mental health stuff. Whoops. Had she... struck a chord with them?
Sorry, friends.
The professor did a really fine job of explaining all aspects of patronuses in great detail, though, and it was fascinating to listen to him talk. He had a very interesting way with words, didn't he? AND he was still getting right "Fuller-Thompson," so the guy was earning all sorts of brownie points in her book.
You are using something that protects you. And you have something worth protecting. The patronus is a representation, a force, of what protects you and what you wish to protect the most. Do not fear it. Ever. That whole part made her shiver, and she immediately thought of her happy thought - well, thoughts - and... those were definitely worth protecting, and the thought she had used to conjure her patronus last time did involve what she wished to protect most. Though... thinking about it now, a new memory came to mind - one from the summer, where she was quite possibly the happiest she ever remembered being. Uninhibited joy had filled her up fully and completely, and...
Ohhhhh yes. Yes. She had a new memory to try out today, didn't she?
Unable to keep her thoughts and her gaze separate from each other, Sophie's attention flickered first to Tobes, then to Zander - not focusing on them in the present, but recalling the memory she so held dear to her heart. And with a small smile on her face, she let that pure elation from the summer's memory fill her up, focusing on it with every fiber of her being.
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