Living in an unusual home with an unusual girl had seemed to be interesting to Harry before the reality. But now that he did it and also got to know her – blind – twin sister Ariana, he added "exhausting" and "unconventional" into the overall description.
He woke up at 4 every day with the girls, and together with the duo puttered around the kitchen for a light snack before their morning run around the grounds. The running track itself was ever-changing, labelled with a glowing, unbroken red line on the ground that Ariana claimed emitting a certain sense that even she could trace. It made them pass many terrains and features of water, and the running session itself lasted until 6 o'clock – by which Harry was quite knackered and grumpy but elated at the same time. On the fifth day of doing this, Harry was even convinced that the track got longer and longer alongside his endurance, leaving him no time to congratulate himself. The only silver-lining in this torture was that Hedwig always accompanied him, flying low just ahead of him along the track.
The twins were slave-driver, indeed.
But they also taught him about various abilities, both magical and mundane, and how to harness them, and he liked these sessions immensely. They began after bath and breakfast with theories, from 8 to 10 in the morning, while lounging in hammocks, swimming or swinging. Practises for the respective fields – usually small but motivating – followed after tea, from 11 to 1 in the afternoon.
The boring part was the writing exercise he got after lunch, from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, in which he had to practice perfecting his handwriting with tools ranging from simple lead pencil to warding wand. He got some time for calligraphy, printing arts and drawing technics as insentive, but still… Perhaps he was just not an indoor type of person? Because the next two-hour session, a mad catch-up with his mandane studies that began at five after tea, was no less boring to him.
After another bath and dinner, though, it was Harry's most favourite time ever. The twins let him explore various interests and studies, trying to see where his hobby – or hobbies – lay. In the first few days, they only held easy discussions in various places near the house; but then Harry caught sight of a book about engine construction one night, and he did not want to stop only there. It turned out that he held a similar interest to Ardila, who, oddly enough, enjoyed fixing and mending things. If he could mix the mundane and magical contraptions and make them work…
And, to top each busy day, the twins insisted he learnt to channel his powers without wand an hour before bedtime – at 10. Given his tired body and distracted mind, the previously-easy feat became a chore; and given the exhaustion afterwards, he slept soundly all through the night sans dreams.
Exercise, indeed! While the twins otherwise pampered his pet owl…