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Breakfast finishes uneventfully and the Hufflepuffs leave not long after, promising to meet the other girls in the library that afternoon. Alli looks skeptical at this idea, as it appears to involve studying, but Jenny talks her into it, and leaves the Hall looking rather smug about her success.
"I want to bake a cake for Miranda," Jenny announces to Emma once they've left the other girls' earshot. "There's kitchens here, right? Would they let me bake, do you think?"
Emma supposes that they might, but has no idea where the kitchens are, so Jenny flounces off to find an older Hufflepuff to ask. The girl she asks for directions takes this very seriously, writing them out carefully step by step for her before handing it over. When asked about permission for baking, the older girl shrugs and says "the house elves probably won't care, just ask," which then dovetails into a conversation explaining house elves, but eventually Jenny thinks she has some idea what she's doing and heads for the kitchens.
Thanks to the extremely comprehensive directions, Jenny finds the kitchen immediately with no trouble. Convincing the house elves in the kitchen that yes, she's been cooking for years, no, she is not going to try anything fancy, and yes, she will stay out of their way, takes a little longer. She eventually charms them into it with protestations of "but it's for my friend's birthday!" A couple of them are even lured into helping her, which means the cake ends up decorated rather more nicely than Jenny could have managed by herself. Since the cake is chocolate- she had to guess on flavors, but she's seen Miranda eat a Chocolate Frog and really, who doesn't like chocolate?- she proclaims that 'close enough' to bronze and frosts the rest of the cake in blue, with her new elf cooking companions providing fancy little flowers along the border and chocolate sprinkles as extra frills.
She is extremely pleased with the result! She heads back to the Hufflepuff common room to fetch Emma, looking like she would be skipping if only she wasn't carrying a cake, and they head to the library to meet their friends.
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metamorphmaga
planetarium
"But if her parents find out eventually - I mean, they know she wore it for a little while."
parental_guidance
"Come ooon, you guys. They will find out eventually! I will tell them, it's Mother's, I can't just not ever tell her."
witch_please
"Geez, calm down! Not what I meant. Just- they know you hang out with us, right? So if they ask, we were just talking on the train, and then you took it off so you wouldn't lose it. And theeeeen you didn't wear it enough to realize. It works for a while, right? Surely your mum doesn't expect you to wear it that much. Doesn't she know what it looks like?"
chanuphis
"I don't think it's a good idea to lie to her if she asks? But maybe don't tell them until you're of age, because it would be a lot harder for them to take your present back then."
parental_guidance
"Aaaaaah I don't know! I don't want to not tell her, but I don't want to give it back..."
metamorphmaga
"Breeeeathe, silly," Jenny tells her. "It's okay. Just don't tell them yet. Okay? It's not weird if you don't notice immediately, they won't care."
parental_guidance
"Okay, okay," Emma mutters, curling up defensively. She offers the necklace to Miranda. "For books, or whatever," she mumbles.
chanuphis
"Thanks. It doesn't work if you hold it, but..." She loops the chain a few times around her wrist, and then looks at the nearest non-English book hopefully.
It reads Historia et Mores Dementorum.
chanuphis
"Nope. Oh well." She puts it over her neck and tucks it under her robes.
metamorphmaga
"Okay I don't speak Latin and you have the necklace but that book looks pretty Dementor-y to me," Jenny mentions.
chanuphis
"Yeah, it does. I'm sort of skeptical any books are going to tell me what I really want to know, but I might as well read it anyway."
parental_guidance
"Well, it's a library made by Ravenclaws. Probably most of it's not useless?"
planetarium
"For all we know somebody has already translated these books the long way and republished them and the contents are all in the regular library, in English. But maybe."
witch_please
"I bet older Ravenclaws do that in their free time. Look, old books, we should translate them!"
parental_guidance
"...yeah, I think so," Emma admits. "I mean... if I'm not telling my parents-"
chanuphis
"Okay, I'll try to avoid - translating things where other Ravenclaws can see me. I'll put textbook dust jackets on the things I read."
chanuphis
"You're welcome. Maybe I'll figure out how to kill Dementors. Though somehow I don't think the ability to read Latin was what was standing between wixen in general and that."
chanuphis
"I don't think so. There probably have just never been too terribly many."