"I'll take that under advisement."

"If we've gotta do an exercise club anyways, flight might not be too bad," Anathema says, cheerfully, returning her broom to the Professor.

"I guess."

Laugh.

"C'mon, I'm really hungry now..."

Dinner!

Food!

There seems to be a bit more gossip than normal, but not a dramatic amount - and Anathema tends to finish meals quickly, anyways.

The main thing she's thinking of really is wanting to see the dueling demonstration tomorrow... Hopefully everything else won't mess with that.

Hopefully. It would suck if that got canceled.

Yeah. Though maybe they'd just push it back...

That wouldn't be as bad.

She nods.

"...I kinda feel like avoiding most people until tomorrow..." she says.

"Back to the dorm?"

"Sounds good, yeah."

Then together they can head for Ravenclaw Tower.

Their room is pretty much deserted until closer to bedtime, even if the common room is full of activity.

Anathema curls up in bed reading, only closing the curtains when their roommates start coming up.

Anathema's up early again the next morning - not as much as usual, though, and she waits in her bed for Ellie to wake up instead of down in the common room.

Ellie wakes up a bit later than she would for a school day, but with approximately the same lack of grace.

It's okay. Anathema knows not to be too energetically obnoxious before Ellie's had her tea. (And she's even convinced one of the house elves to bring them that tea every morning.)

She's a good friend.

Heee! Well, so's Ellie, so there.

Still though - they should probably go get actual food at some point...

Once Ellie feels sufficiently fortified against the rigors of opening her eyes all the way, yes.

A very tough battle, that. Still, Anathema will wait graciously for her to gird herself.

Hup!

Okay, here they go.

Down to breakfast!

There...

Seems to be a bit of a commotion on the way, actually.

A knot of first years - mostly, at least - arguing. The main fight seems to be between one of the Slytherins and a Hufflepuff, though it hasn't escalated past raised voices and flushed faces yet.

Oh boy.

What is the topic of contention?

- Seems to be about Potions class yesterday morning, actually. The Slytherin girl's upset they're trying to get her Head of House in trouble over 'stupid lies,' maybe? It's hard to tell between all the people shouting over each other. The Hufflepuff's Sophie, though - the one who's been taking over a lot of the organizing for the formal complaint - and she's got her heels dug in pretty far.

Slytherin girl can suck it up and deal with Snape being a Death Eater.

Ellie will try to not get involved as they skirt around.