Ellie Potter and the Sorcerous Anathema

Mar 13, 2025, 2:13 AM

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Ellie Potter

warrior-my-warrior

Diaeresis

In three and a half minutes, Ellie will be eleven years old.

It is 11:56:30 PM, 30 July 1991, and she is on the wooden floor of a creaky little cottage on some godforsaken island. She has one blanket below her, and another, only slightly less patchy, wrapped over her. The door rattles in a gust of wind, and she shivers. The floor is dusty, and it's making her eyes itch. That, and her cousin's snoring from the pullout couch, is doing an admirable job of keeping her awake. She contemplates drawing something in the dust, but can't quite decide what. Maybe that snake she met.

She'd draw it eating her cousin, if she didn't think it would choke on him.

In one minute, she will be eleven years old.

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warrior-my-warrior

Indeed, indeed.

up-at-the-stars

Something they're managing, at least.

warrior-my-warrior

They are, at that.

up-at-the-stars

She giggles, then surprises herself with a yawn.

warrior-my-warrior

Time for bed?

up-at-the-stars

Sigh. Probably.

warrior-my-warrior

There's always tomorrow.

Anathema Canta

up-at-the-stars

Decima

One advantage of time.

warrior-my-warrior

Off to bed.

up-at-the-stars

Off to bed! Fortunately, there's nothing special happening tomorrow...

warrior-my-warrior

For a change.

up-at-the-stars

The school's still gossiping furiously about the Snape issue, of course, but less of it's directed at them (except for one Hufflepuff informing them, sounding utterly baffled, that some Slytherins are signing on).

Anathema's in the mood to explore the grounds some, actually - she likes sunshine.

warrior-my-warrior

Sure, sounds fun.

up-at-the-stars

She does bring a bag with two books in case they find somewhere to sit and read, and then off they go!

There's a large open green space around the castle itself, including down to the lake on the other side from the train station - which seems to be a popular hang out spot. The Quidditch Pitch is on a flatter area overlooking the lake. But there's also a really big, dark forest sort of folded into a much smaller bit of land inside the sweeping walls (with 'Dangerous - Keep Out' signs in a perimeter around it), and smaller, lighter patches of trees and hedges and bushes, and stacked stone walls and cottages and outbuildings - one of the cottages down near the Forbidden Forest is occupied, but a lot seem to have been unused for a really long time.

There's extensive gardens and greenhouses around the Herbology classroom (and a cottage by there as well, which has been transformed into a classroom for less hands-on lectures). There's a few meditation mazes tucked away here or there, and some flat areas with signs they've been used for rituals in the past.

You could fit a village or even a small medieval city inside the walls easily, and there's signs there used to be inner sets of walls at some past point.

Some of the gardens and cottages have paper signs fixed to the entryway with some variant on 'claimed by this or those students' and then years. Lots of the claims seem to have expired, and lots are unclaimed.