Better. Better was good, but not great. Alice was not completely satisfied, but there was nothing she could really do to ease Jasper's suffering, make his struggle easier. Though they were at Hogwarts now... Perhaps she could enlist the help of magic? A spell, a potion, to quench the thirst... She would have to go to the library. Talk to a professor. The idea mingled her anxiety with a touch of hope. Maybe, maybe there was something she could do...
Alice didn't contradict him there. "But he was there. So you didn't hurt anyone." But you hurt. She reached up and stroke over his cheek with her thumb. "You didn't hurt anyone," she repeated firmly. The no-kill spell was both a bit of a relief and an excuse. It would have been easy to think that it didn't matter if they fed on humans while here. They wouldn't take a life, no one would die, so they wouldn't be murderers and no harm would be done. Right? That was dangerous reasoning.
Then Alice got something else to think about, and her eyebrows knotted together. "Not engaged? What... But we've spoken to them after it was announced and that was before they came back here. How could they not be engaged?" What about the wedding?!
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Better. Better was good, but not great. Alice was not completely satisfied, but there was nothing she could really do to ease Jasper's suffering, make his struggle easier. Though they were at Hogwarts now... Perhaps she could enlist the help of magic? A spell, a potion, to quench the thirst... She would have to go to the library. Talk to a professor. The idea mingled her anxiety with a touch of hope. Maybe, maybe there was something she could do...
Alice didn't contradict him there. "But he was there. So you didn't hurt anyone." But you hurt. She reached up and stroke over his cheek with her thumb. "You didn't hurt anyone," she repeated firmly. The no-kill spell was both a bit of a relief and an excuse. It would have been easy to think that it didn't matter if they fed on humans while here. They wouldn't take a life, no one would die, so they wouldn't be murderers and no harm would be done. Right? That was dangerous reasoning.
Then Alice got something else to think about, and her eyebrows knotted together. "Not engaged? What... But we've spoken to them after it was announced and that was before they came back here. How could they not be engaged?" What about the wedding?!