("But good heavens, we know nothing of the future!"..."No; but there is a thing or two to be said about it all the same.")
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She stays at Hogwarts over Christmas without her family.
Even at that large and noisy Gryffindor table overflowing with food and friends, mouths filling up with chatter and soups, she barely eats and she eats alone.
By Easter, she quits the Quidditch team and Gryffindor loses to Hufflepuff.
She fails her Charms O.W.L.
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Lysander takes N.E.W.T level Charms.
He didn't go to the matches either.
He brings her down to the kitchens and a house-elf named Toasy is glad to make Roxanne a platter of extra-chocolate chip biscuits and as many sandwiches they could want.
They stay at Hogwarts over the next Christmas and the new year futures them together.
