Oh! My dad's a writer too! [ Coraline brightens fondly. ] Except he writes sort-of-boring stuff, like blurbs for trade catalogs, articles about gardening, stuff like that.

...muggle gardening's much more boring than Herbology, though.

How is anybody supposed to be sure what they wanna be when they're thirteen years old? [ She laughs, shaking her head ] (Gosh.)