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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
metamorphmaga
"Nope, chocolate's just awesome! Solves all problems. Even Dementors."
chanuphis
"Eating chocolate treats Dementor exposure. It doesn't hurt Dementors or work fast enough to let you hang out around them without being affected and it definitely doesn't prevent them from kissing you even if you fill your entire mouth with ultra-dark, the kind with cacao nibs."
metamorphmaga
"Ugh. I know it is not, like, an actual kiss but it is still so squicky to think about!"
metamorphmaga
"I knooooow. But it's one of the problems! Just... probably the least important one! Still, though. Creepy skeleton guys. Ugh."
chanuphis
"Lots of things are creepy. Dementors are just... evil."
When the train arrives, Miranda says, "We could see now if anything happens if you come in to our common room to have a look at the books."
When the train arrives, Miranda says, "We could see now if anything happens if you come in to our common room to have a look at the books."
chanuphis
The Ravenclaws lead their friends up the spiral staircase to the door guarded by the riddling eagle knocker.
The knocker says when they approach,
"I am part of a bird that is not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?"
Miranda puzzles over this, and says, "Karen?"
The knocker says when they approach,
"I am part of a bird that is not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?"
Miranda puzzles over this, and says, "Karen?"
planetarium
"Either something a penguin swallowed or - um - Oh! A bird's shadow."
The door swings open.
The door swings open.
parental_guidance
"Oooh. Nice." Emma follows her friends inside, necklace in her pocket, ready to be put on when books are found. (She will be wearing it as little as possible, until then.)
planetarium
The common room is cozily furnished. The arguing corner is marked off with a partial wooden railing; no one currently argues there, but it has room to pace and chairs to sit in if one prefers to do that. There is a fireplace; there are carrels; and there is a little library.
The natives of this common room lead their visitors to this last and start looking for promising foreign language books.
The natives of this common room lead their visitors to this last and start looking for promising foreign language books.
parental_guidance
Emma pulls at her robes to try to cover her neck as much as possible, then puts the necklace on and sits. Jenny is organizing a neat (if admittedly small) pile of books the Ravenclaws have chosen near Emma's seat; Emma picks one at random and starts reading. After a page or so, she stops and puts the book down. She reads a page each from the next two books, then stops entirely.
"It works on reading," she reports. "Also, Miranda-" she picks one of the books and hands it to her- "this one had a couple chapters on Dementors in the index."
"It works on reading," she reports. "Also, Miranda-" she picks one of the books and hands it to her- "this one had a couple chapters on Dementors in the index."
parental_guidance
"Yeah, of course. I mean, don't lose it, Mother would be upset, but- I'm more likely to lose it than you are, really."
parental_guidance
"Thanks! It seems like I should be more careful with it now. Cause... translation."
witch_please
"Nooooo, don't do that," Alli says instantly. "They'll make you send it back."
parental_guidance
"But it was Mother's family," Emma objects uncertainly. "She should know, shouldn't she?"
metamorphmaga
"Almost everything's in English," Jenny suggests. "You could tell them later, it wouldn't be weird, right? That you didn't notice earlier?"
planetarium
"Well, does it work on spell incantations that aren't really Latin but are a little bit? Like, I don't know, aguamenti? Because if it does then it would be really weird not to notice."
witch_please
Alli cackles. "Nuh uh! She'd have to be wearing the necklace for that. And unless we're translating something she wouldn't be doing that. Ever ever ever."