No doubt Tucker didn’t like it. No doubt he would rather be kissing her right now.

No doubt because that’s exactly how Lizzie felt. Tucker was so nice to kiss! His chest was so… tight and, flat and hard when she put her hands there, and his hair was just so soft and strokable. It made her go all gooey inside and as if she wanted him to … carry her around or something stupid like that. She just wanted to press herself against him as hard as she could! But for now she would have to be content with feeling the heat of his leg against hers and focus on her Transformation.

And it didn’t take that long before she was lost in looking up passages in the textbook and checking her notes and writing down what she thought Professor McGonagall wanted her to write. What was more, it was actually beginning to make a kind of sense to her. Maybe she was picking up some of Tucker’s braininess. Because he must be brainy if he thought that this was an easy assignment. Nothing they did for the OWL’s was easy to Lizzie.

She turned and glanced at Tucker, only to find him looking at her, and she blushed. She tapped the feather end of her quill on his parchment and frowned, but ended up blowing him an kiss, before she turned back to her own work. She struggled on for a few minutes more, her brow creasing and her lips pouting as she fought to understand parts of her notes. Sighing she shook her head.

“Tucker,” She whispered, “What did she mean about the process of re-substantiation going from inside tae outside? I’ve got here, ‘When ye transform a livin’ animal intae something not livin’ the process of re-substantiation progresses from the center outward.’ Does that mean if yer turinin’ a turtle intae a flower-pot, it becomes a pot from the insides oot? Doesn’t kill the turtle?”

She turned to look at him, and her stomach did a flop.

All this time she had been looking at Tucker, and it was as if she hadn’t really seen him before. Not really seen him, as a real, livin’ warm boy. Not as Tucker. It frightened her.

Almost as if she had turned into something else, from the inside out.

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