How Did Isabella Barkwith: Helpful Or Harmful?

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Isabella Barkwith had always one upped Jane - was it quidditch, spells, or eating competitions. The whiny pureblood always showed up and stole her glory. Although Jane wasn’t too audible about it, everyone probably knew she dreaded Isabella by now, considering they had had a few heated confrontations about Jane’s jinxed broomstick in the quidditch trials.

Evidently jinxing Jane’s broom was a serious mistake, though. A second serious mistake was leaving one’s Nimbus laying around in the locker rooms. The only real contemplation Jane seemed to have was whether to destroy it or use jinxes to render it useless. Although destroying it did seem very tempting - like popping bubble wrap - jinxing it would make up for a more elaborate show, and humiliating

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