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STUFF GOES IN HERE

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From:

parumcanis

Have you tried it?

[Other people get more hung up on underage magic, but the Blacks have never particularly cared. Once you demonstrate magical ability, you might as well use it. The younger you are, the better. Sirius leans forward to scan the page for the healing spell.]

Oh. Right, see--I nearly had it. There's just a few bits that are more fiddly.

From:

bitty_justice

[He shakes his head.]

I didn't want to mess it up.

[And he sticks out his foot again, for some reason heedless of the fact that it's a rather bigger thing if you mess up on a leg than on a quill pen.]

Okay, try -

From:

parumcanis

Okay. Here goes--

[And he raises his wand again, with a flourish--and this time when he brings it down, he brings it down hard, with intent, perfectly mimicking the diagram in the book. Or--nearly perfectly, anyways.]

From:

bitty_justice

[And at once Miles brightens.]

Say, that's -

[...until the moment when boils start erupting on the skin of his ankle. He deflates.]

Oh, dear.

From:

parumcanis

Eesh.

[That is most definitely not meant to happen. Sirius stares at the ankle, which is quickly turning incredibly, incredibly ugly.]

Uhm-- my mother's never looks like-- uh, does it hurt?

From:

bitty_justice

Umm - noo, it's, um - it doesn't -

[But that doesn't keep the faint panic from his voice.]

No, but, um...Oh - is my leg going to have to be amputated -

From:

parumcanis

No! What?

[He looks up at Miles, a little taken aback by the mere suggestion.]

What, like--cut it off? Why would they ever do that? They go away, eventually--they can do a counter-charm or something, we just have to find someone that can, um--or wait till we get to Hogwarts--

From:

bitty_justice

Okay -

[And the boils have stopped spreading - Miles lets out a breath of relief at that.]

Okay, it - it stopped - Oh, God, that's ugly -

From:

parumcanis

[Well, if it's stopped, then some of the crisis has passed. That gives permission to Sirius to lean forward, staring at the mass.]

Eurgh. It's hideous. [But he sounds nearly pleased by it now.] It really doesn't hurt or anything?

From:

bitty_justice

No, it's just sort of - scaly -

[He leans forward, poking at it, torn between devastated horror and sheer disgusted curiosity.]

This is...curable, you said -

From:

parumcanis

Scaly!

[That gets outright glee out of him; he sits forward, interested, and if Miles is poking at it, then surely it's all right if he does as well, a little--carefully, of course--]

Oh, yeah, 'course it is. Everything is curable nearly, especially things done by charms. You just have to work out the counter-charm, that's all.

From:

bitty_justice

[Miles twitches a bit when Sirius pokes it - just because it's weird. Not because it hurts. It doesn't feel like anything.]

Well...and the ankle doesn't hurt anymore.

From:

parumcanis

That's good! But scaly, it's weird--

[And it does feel scaly, and he screws up his face, in delighted disgust--and then more a smirk, as something suddenly occurs to him.]

We should use this.

From:

bitty_justice

[His horror, as ever, is less vital a force than his curiosity.]

Use...it? How?

From:

parumcanis

To get Rosier back, of course.

[He prods Miles' ankle again, grinning now.]

You can stumble in there and act really infected, and fall on him, and we'll pretend as if you've got something catching. And he'll die.

From:

bitty_justice

[Miles' eyes light up - somewhere between fierce and malicious. But his reply is cautious:]

We'll get in trouble, though...

From:

parumcanis

No we wouldn't.

[He sees that light in Miles' eyes; he only has to push a little.]

Not if we were really careful with the way we did it. He'll feel too stupid to tell anyone.

From:

bitty_justice

But no one likes being scared...

From:

parumcanis

He does.

[His viciousness is tempered slightly when he adds:]

Just a little. Just enough to make him really think twice.

From:

bitty_justice

[With slowly growing enthusiasm:]

He was being quite rotten...

From:

parumcanis

Awful.

[Pointedly, he nods. So awful. Awful enough that he needs a little revenge.]

And think of how his face would look. It would be hilarious.

From:

bitty_justice

And it would stop him from being mean to others, right?

[Because if their intentions are noble, then it's okay.]

From:

parumcanis

[With some solemnity, he nods.]

Absolutely. He'll always think twice after this. Come on, let's go--

[Because he's got Edgeworth's agreement, he can tell. He goes to the door again and tugs it open.]

Can you walk all right with it?

From:

bitty_justice

I can walk just fine.

[He wrinkles his nose as he stands.]

It doesn't hurt at all. You did heal it. Even if there were, um...side-effects.

From:

parumcanis

Really?

[He's sort of surprised by that--but pleased as well. It means he was more of a success than he'd thought he was, and he grins, glancing down at the ankle in question.]

Well, good. That means it'll be easy to sort out later. [And easy to use in their trick here, and he jerks his head to Miles.] Come on.

[In the compartment down the way, Rosier is still sitting alone. Sirius skulks ahead enough to be able to confirm that, but ducks out of the way before the other boy sees him.]

Okay--go in there and fall all over him, act like you're dying. Make sure he sees your leg.