Nicky sipped on her beer as Marlene told the story of her first time and the anecdote that followed involving Moody and invisibility spells. She found herself chuckling at points within the story. At the mention of the portrait giving her a hard time, she remembered a particular difficult riddle during her first year.
"Ravenclaws were always trying to get ahead of the curriculum," she said, not at all surprised that Moody and Marlene mastered privacy spells at such a young age. "I spent a whole month during my second year mastering a transfiguration spell that would turn one girl's pillow into a running alarm clock."
After taking another sip of her beer, she asked, "Have either of you ever thought of careers not as Aurors?"