"Hargrove?"
Megan shook her head. "I don't remember him."
"He has a medical
condition." He leaned across the table and lowered his voice. "He can't
permanently turn off an invisibility spell he triggered when he was a kid."
"And that helps me
how?" Bethany said slowly, while her mind raced through dozens of implausible
scenarios. "Can he, like, infect me with it? But how do I turn it off so I
can work? And how would that help me go home for Christmas? That's what I really
want."
"He can wrap the
invisibility field around you, enough to just blur you so you can still talk to
people but nobody recognizes you. Or he can turn you... Well, the field is so strong,
if he let it go full force, people could walk through you."
"That's more like
phased out into another dimension," she murmured.
"Almost. Harry has
a lot of control, except for turning the whole thing off. If he wants to be seen,
he can be. And he can do the same for you."
"Sounds like a good
idea."
Questions immediately
sprang to mind:
Would he mind spending
the holidays with strangers?
Would he mind going
to Neighborlee?
She had always believed magic protected Neighborlee, but would that magic work against someone who had real magic?
Most important: Did Harry know who she was, and would he turn out to be an irritating fan?
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