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Alli is deeply unimpressed with her House. She has the strong feeling she was put in Slytherin mostly to make up for the fact that no one would actually want to be there. Her mother has made flutteringly upset noises about her Sorting via owl, but Alli knows her mom; nothing is going to happen. She's in Slytherin, and there she stays.
Well. She doesn't have to take her House seriously. She determines quickly that her year mates are- not ideal, but at least mostly tolerable; older students are to be avoided. Carefully. She stays out of their way, and they ignore her. She approves of this setup all around.
Her first day does not get off to a good start. Binns is still teaching History of Magic (and how long has he been doing that? Alli's pretty sure her grandparents were in his class) and she cannot for the life of her summon the energy to care. He's not teaching her anything witches don't learn around the age they learn to talk, not yet. She slumps on her desk and ignores him. He ignores her right back. Small blessings, she supposes.
She arrives in Charms class not terribly optimistic. Ravenclaws are smart, they want to be good at everything. Sharing a class with them is not hardly going to make her look good. Oh well. Maybe there will be Ravenclaws who are more bearable than her housemates, that would at least improve her day.
She tromps over to a desk and slouches down to wait for class to start. Her books are in something of a careless pile, but they are at least all present (unlike a couple of the other Slytherins). The others do not quite avoid her, but there's a good number of empty desks near her. She hasn't bothered to join any of the budding cliques, and they don't really know what to do with her.
witch_please
chanuphis
"When we get to third year you can take Care of Magical Creatures. Maybe there will be unicorns."
planetarium
And here is Karen with a book entitled Beginners and Practice Dueling: Spells, Conventions, and More.
chanuphis
The first week of classes becomes the second, and on the Sunday thereafter, Miranda turns eleven.
She emerges from Ravenclaw to go to breakfast carrying a book of general magical trivia from Karen.
witch_please
She is greeted by a cloud of tiny sparks in the hallway, which gather to spell HAPPY BIRTHDAY in the air before disappearing in little puffs of light.
A spying head may be glimpsed before it zips back behind a corner and vanishes away, giggling maniacally.
A spying head may be glimpsed before it zips back behind a corner and vanishes away, giggling maniacally.
parental_guidance
Emma and Jenny are waiting for her by the door. "Happy birthday!" Emma says shyly. She holds out a present. It's wrapped neatly in red paper and tied with a string bow, and is distinctly book shaped.
metamorphmaga
"Happy birthdayyyyy to yoooooou!" Jenny sings, dancing with excitement. She doesn't have a present- she doesn't exactly have pocket money- but that's okay. She'll have something at dinner.
She has an idea.
She has an idea.
chanuphis
"Ooh, thank you -" Miranda tucks the book from Karen into her bag and unwraps the one from Emma.
parental_guidance
The book reads Thinking Inside The Wand: Rare and Unusual Wand Cores. Emma shuffles her feet. "I didn't know if Karen's wand books had anything about yours, so I thought, maybe? I haven't actually read it, sorry..."
chanuphis
"Ooh, thanks! Karen's books don't have anything much about funny cores," exclaims Miranda. "Maybe it'll say how to tell."
metamorphmaga
"What was the other book?" Jenny asks, peering over Emma to examine the wand core book.
They have known Miranda for a couple weeks now; Jenny is at least passingly familiar with the covers of most of what Miranda has been reading, and that one wasn't familiar. (So far Miranda's read mostly Dementor books, or so it seems to her. Jenny is pretty sure she can recite some of them by heart now.)
They have known Miranda for a couple weeks now; Jenny is at least passingly familiar with the covers of most of what Miranda has been reading, and that one wasn't familiar. (So far Miranda's read mostly Dementor books, or so it seems to her. Jenny is pretty sure she can recite some of them by heart now.)
chanuphis
"Karen got me a trivia book. Facts about things like the longest Puffskein tongue on record and how many Crups were owned by Wilfred the Unassuming. She was up really late last night so she's not coming to breakfast yet though."
metamorphmaga
"I know what none of those are but it sounds cool!" Jenny says cheerfully, sounding not at all bothered by her lack of knowledge.
chanuphis
"Crups and Puffskeins are both magical creatures. Puffskeins are cuter," says Miranda as she heads into the Great Hall. "Hey - have either of you met Alli? She's our year in Slytherin."
chanuphis
"She seems nice and I'm not sure if anybody's actually talking to the Slytherins. Maybe even other Slytherins."
chanuphis
"She really does seem nice. We have Charms with Slytherins and she talks to us there. Karen was scared of her but isn't any more. Do you want to be introduced?"
parental_guidance
Now lacking ways to say maybe later, Emma just shrugs and mumbles, "Uh, sure, I guess."
chanuphis
"...If you don't want to I understand," Miranda says to Emma.
And really, that would be valuable information in case she's later contemplating telling anyone why and how she's a Ravenclaw.
And really, that would be valuable information in case she's later contemplating telling anyone why and how she's a Ravenclaw.