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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
witch_please
"Yeah, of course, but it was a while ago," Alli shrugs. "Really, I wouldn't put it past her to forget which House she was in."
planetarium
"That seems like it would be really hard! You'd have to forget what color your tie was and where you slept and where you sat at meals and Quidditch games and who your head of House was, all at once."
witch_please
"Yes. Yes it would. I mean, she didn't; she was Ravenclaw, actually. But I could see it!"
chanuphis
"You could still remember where you sat at things if you forgot which tables and stands were assigned to which houses," says Miranda. "I don't know, I guess it probably all seems a lot less important once you're not at school every single year? Also I wonder where Jenny is."
metamorphmaga
Unicorn books are distracting! She's curled up in a corner reading, having been waiting for her friends but blatantly failing to notice them.
parental_guidance
"...good point. Hang on."
It does not take Emma terribly long to locate Jenny, and wave her hand in front of the book. "Come oooon, we're here, we're all over there!"
It does not take Emma terribly long to locate Jenny, and wave her hand in front of the book. "Come oooon, we're here, we're all over there!"
metamorphmaga
"Ack! Don't scare me like that!" But she folds up her book and gathers her stuff to follow Emma to the rest of the group.
"Hiiii," she says, flushing slightly. "Sorry. There were unicorns!"
"Hiiii," she says, flushing slightly. "Sorry. There were unicorns!"
metamorphmaga
"Nope! One girl has pictures of that hero guy everywhere, one unicorn poster is fine."
chanuphis
"Okay, good," laughs Miranda. "I'm sort of worried about how few of us there are but it's convenient that me and Karen don't have to share our room with anybody else."
chanuphis
"No, more in case they played loud music all the time or something - you're not going to be obnoxious with your wireless, right?"
witch_please
"And eeeeveryone has more than Slytherin," Alli says. "And yet we still have more girls than you. So... hah?"
planetarium
"Gryffindor's five and six, I think, nearly everybody wanted Gryffindor. I think there's just so few of everything else that it can't even out."
witch_please
"Well, I don't think it's the Sorting Hat secretly thinks boys are smarter or anything. So, Karen's probably right."
planetarium
"There's plenty of girls in Ravenclaw in general," Karen adds. "Just not our year."