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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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chanuphis
"Yeah - let's see if it works not around your neck? Try just holding it, Karen -"
parental_guidance
"Oh well," Emma sighs, retrieving the necklace from Karen. "I guess I just wear it if I need to translate things? And never ever else."
chanuphis
"There are some books in the Ravenclaw mini-library that aren't in English," says Miranda. "I'm not sure why they're there, but I wonder if it works on writing?"
parental_guidance
"Maybe we can test it when we get to school? It's so nice you guys have your own library, the school one won't be open for a couple days I don't think."
chanuphis
"And if the regular library has stuff in foreign languages besides the weird Latin that spells are in or, like, late Middle English, I haven't run into it."
chanuphis
"Yeah, but it's forbidden, probably for reasons. I don't want a book to eat my face."
metamorphmaga
Jenny picks up her unicorn book, puts it back down, selects a different book from her bag and waves it mock-threateningly at Miranda. "Woooooo, tasty Miranda face!"
planetarium
"I'll save you!" exclaims Karen, giggling, waving her wand vaguely in the book's direction without actually casting anything. "Take that, face-eating book and accomplice! Take that and that!"
metamorphmaga
"Noooo, what have you done!" Jenny exclaims dramatically. She makes a great show of wavering in her seat before flopping onto Emma.
parental_guidance
Emma produces an extra Chocolate Frog and waves it in front of her 'dead' housemate. "Magical Jenny revival food...?"