Who're you going with, then?' said Ron.
Angelina,' said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.
What?' said Ron, taken aback. 'You've already asked her?'
Good point,' said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, 'Oi! Angelina!'
Angelina, who had been chatting with Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him.
What? She called back.
Want to come to the ball with me?'
Angelina gave Fred a sort of appraising look.
All right, then,' she said, and she turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting with a bit of a grin on her face.
There you go,' said Fred to Harry and Ron, 'piece of cake.
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
