"If you tell anyone what you have discovered I will drop you on the pavement and make you walk home alone," he threatened, somewhere between joking and serious. He wrapped his hands up and under her thighs to support her on the walk and carried on as if this were perfectly normal and he wasn't nearly as drunk as he actually was. It was a pleasant evening, a little hot, but he was used to that.

"If I had brought my wand I would have charmed up some wind to cool us off." He'd gotten into the habit of leaving his wand behind. He was taking wandless II this semester and hoping he could ditch the wand altogether. He was already pretty good at the wandless I spells they'd learned last year. Cooling breezes wasn't one of those spells unfortunately.