"Forever, maybe," Pete said cheerfully. His lion purred; it would be sweet, maybe, if it wasn't so loud Pete's teeth shook in his gums.
"Okay." He sighed and jiggled his knee until his lion lifted its head, then stood up and made wary eyes at his door. "Probably we weren't the only ones a bit, erm, troubled. By the sudden presence of corporeal emotive Patronuses. Patronii?"