"Yup," Phyre replied. "It's only a rumor, but there are crazier things in that forest. There are werewolves and centaurs and unicorns... Some people say there are even thestrals. They say the thestrals are the ones that pull the carriages up to the school, that only people who have seen death can see them. But while I haven't seen death, I can't see anything. So while people discredit that, I don't. Seeing isn't always believing."

She nodded, smiling. "Yeah, I can hear and feel and even taste better," she said. "I mean, I miss sight, but magic is also a sense. It's one that muggles don't have... So I got a lot better at magic after I went blind. And I can use it, too, to see. If I touch something or someone, I can send my magic through it.... Wandless, of course, though that was tricky to learn to control... And then it appears in my mind. And if I hit something with a spell? I can see it the moment it affects the object. If I use a continuing spell, like Wingardium Leviosa, I can see the object until I remove my control of it... So I haven't lost anything... and I don't need an aide, either."