James came over with his Charms book and sank down into a nearby chair. "Mind if I sit here?" he asked, trying to be polite and charming. He really needed to get some work done. But Lily was right there and he could ingratiate himself to her.
Slightly startled out of her silent memorization of her timeline of events during the Troll Wars of 254 CE, Lily glanced up, suspicion flashing in her eyes for a moment.
James smiled and nodded, then opened his book. He read for a couple minutes, then frowned and pulled out his wand. Silently, he started waving, referring to a moving photo in his book over and over. The movement was awkward and choppy, not smooth like in the book, but he tried it anyway, murmuring the charm to change the colour of a shirt and accidentally turning half the rug a putrid, sickly green. "Bugger."
With the show so close by, Lily couldn't help but look up at the jerky movement. She immediately frowned. There was no way this was going to end well, with the way James was twitching.
Sure enough, accompanied by murmurs of disapproval at the appearance of green in the Gryffindor common room, the rug was mangled. She considered all of this for a moment, and flicked her own wand at the damage with a soft reversal charm. "You know," she said, pleased when the rug recovered its original color, "you force it way too much."
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"Sure..." Dammit, she was too nice.
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Sure enough, accompanied by murmurs of disapproval at the appearance of green in the Gryffindor common room, the rug was mangled. She considered all of this for a moment, and flicked her own wand at the damage with a soft reversal charm. "You know," she said, pleased when the rug recovered its original color, "you force it way too much."
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