Friday night Tamblin arrived at the class room on time to find Hannah already there with several scrolls laid out on the table. She was arranging them in some sort of order. As he came in she looked up and smiled.

"Hi! I just wanted to get everything ready."

Tamblin looked down at the parchments. She'd used some sort of charm to make the letters in certain passages glow one color or another. She followed his look.

"Oh I just thought I'd set out the things I need help on. The parts that glow green I think I understand but I need help with actually doing. The parts that glow purple I can get to work but I have no idea why it works. The parts that glow red, and see it looks like they make cute little sparks on the page, well those parts I really need help with. Oh and the yellow ones... well the yellow ones I'm just not sure which category they belong in."

Of the eight partially unrolled parchments Tamblin could see there was hardly a line that was not green, purple, red (with sparks), yellow, or some combination of the four. It looked like she had charmed some sections repeatedly before deciding which category they belonged in and the letters were either mixed colors or periodically flipped from one to another.

She looked a trifle nervous.

"I know it's a lot of stuff to go over but I just really want to do well, and Cascata and Susan both said you really helped them a lot. And..." She bit her lip. "It's too much, isn't it? I'm sorry I shouldn't have worried about the Astronomy stuff. I mean I know I can't get a good grade in that class so why bother at this point. Right? Might as well focus on the ones I can salvage."

Tamblin bent closer to examine the parchments.

"I think I can maybe do all right in Transfiguration...with a little help," she finished weakly.

Tamblin looked up.

"This is quite impressive," he said and looked back down at the parchments.

Hannah didn't say anything for a while.

Tamblin kept looking at the parchments until she finally did say something.

"It-it's what?"

"Impressive. I'm very impressed."

"B-but why?"

"Just look at it. You managed to fit dozens of charms, that you must have researched yourself, onto single parchments with very little interaction or interference between them."

Tamblin watched as she looked down at the pages. She looked like she was seeing them for the first time. He waited a moment and then interrupted softly.

"Would you mind showing me how you did that?"

Hannah looked at him with something very closely related to alarm if not panic.

"You want me to teach you?"

"If you would."

"But why?"

"Because I couldn't have done this, and you obviously can."

She blushed slightly.

"I'd very much like it if you showed me how you did it. It could be quite useful in my own studying."

She smiled. "Okay, yes."

Half an hour later she was still showing him how she'd charmed the ink. Tamblin had to admit it really was rather clever. He was in the middle of practicing changing the color of an already charmed section (something Hannah was still having some difficulty with) when he looked up and found Hannah looking at him with a sort of faraway look in her eyes.

"Something wrong, Hannah?"

"You're building up my confidence, aren't you?"

"Yes, I am, but that doesn't mean I'm lying to you. What you did really is impressive. You don't need to study. Well maybe just a little, but what you really need is to get a sense of just how good you already are at these things."

"You really think so," she said.

"Absolutely. And the fact that you figured out that I was building you up should only go to prove that you are quite clever in the first place. Now show me how you made the little sparks on the red ones."

And she did.