He gave her his old text books, and she devoured them as though she fed on knowledge. She a carnivore, they tender flesh to be consumed. She read them with a passion and a thirst that had matched his own, and within weeks she had gone through them all, reading and rereading them as she took careful organized notes. He told her stories of the magical world, of Hogwarts, that only made her yearn for more, her brown eyes bright with the need to learn and discover.