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As spring approaches and the snow begins to melt, Jenny and Emma take to spending their free afternoons outside, practicing flying or doing homework on the lawn or just generally enjoying the sunshine. Their spot of choice is not, as such things go, all that far from the forest, and for Jenny it becomes something of a game: see if you can spot a unicorn. She never does, but she never gives up hope. Someday.
After about a month of this, Emma decides to leave the lawn early- she's finished her letter to her parents, and wants to drop it at the Owlery- so Jenny is left to her own devices. Bored, she examines the forest. It's only supposed to be unsafe at night, right? It won't hurt to go wander around a little in search of unicorns. She won't go very far.
And if she's lucky- unicorns.
Half an hour later, Jenny is deeply regretting her idea. She is completely lost, and the forest has gotten much darker and gloomier. She would go back, if she had any idea where to go. She's taken to making little piles of rocks, to attempt to mark her way; unfortunately, so far all this has told her is that she is definitely going in a circle.
The next time she re-encounters a pile, she branches out to the left instead. She's pretty sure she came from that direction, so maybe-
Cold.
Jenny is friends with Miranda. Miranda has been compulsively researching Dementors all year; she knows what it means, this cold, the screaming terror. But it's so much worse than anything ever, ever said it would be. She's frozen to the spot, unable to move, brain screaming in terror.
And then the Dementor appears. Slowly but visibly, it approaches her. Is it bigger than the books said they should be? She thinks it is. It's already looming and it's not even close.
Frantically, crazy with fear, Jenny does the only thing she can think of- she shifts away her mouth.
The Dementor stops, seeming to hover in place. Jenny stays frozen in place. The Dementor doesn't seem to be planning to Kiss her... but it's not moving, either, and she's still stuck.
Oh, God. Now what?
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metamorphmaga
"Well then. I shall ask Professor Reed to set up a time with you for tests." She reaches for one of the papers littering her desk. "Is that all?"
"I will not object if you'd like to show me, Swan, but it can certainly wait for the Auror."
chanuphis
If Professor McGonagall isn't in a hurry Miranda isn't either. She shrugs and gets up.
parental_guidance
Once Emma was far enough from the Headmistress' office that she didn't get the You Must Be In Trouble vibe, she parked herself in an empty corner of the hallway to await Miranda. She doesn't want to just- leave her friend behind, after all. She's slightly concerned when Miranda takes a while to appear, but it hasn't been that long. Probably everything's okay. Right?
She looks over at Karen, who's waiting with her. "Um. She's not in trouble or anything, right...? Wasn't she behind us?"
She looks over at Karen, who's waiting with her. "Um. She's not in trouble or anything, right...? Wasn't she behind us?"
parental_guidance
"I guess..." This is reasonable enough to keep Emma in place, though she does twitch occasionally. Miranda's not in trouble, right, what if she got in trouble for saving Emma, that would not be okay. "She should be along soon then..."
chanuphis
And presently, here she is, wands crossed in her hair. "Were you waiting for me?"
parental_guidance
"Yeah... you weren't in trouble or anything, right?" Emma asks anxiously. "We didn't know what happened."
chanuphis
"I'm not in trouble. She wanted to talk about my wand. I'm going to do some tests with Professor Reed sometime," says Miranda.
chanuphis
"Tests on the wand in general, I think. For a bit I was scared she wanted to take it away, but it seems like she's not going to do it unless it's really bad and she can convince my mum, and my mum listens to me."
chanuphis
"Like the explanation for it is 'Dark magic' and not 'chimaera hair', I guess."
parental_guidance
Emma blinks. "That didn't even occur to me. I guess it's good that they're checking...? It's, um, we don't actually know it's chimaera hair really."
chanuphis
"I don't think a really Dark wand could do a Patronus at all, let alone a special Dementor-busting one," opines Miranda. "Anyway, let's get dinner and tell Alli and then go see if they'll let us visit Jenny."
parental_guidance
"Ooh, yeah, we can tell her now," Emma agrees, brightening. To dinner it is.
witch_please
Alli is awaiting them at the entrance, not particularly patiently. "What. What. You've all been missing all day, and Jenny's in the infirmary, and I had to be told by an older Slytherin who thought I did it and it's all part of my," air quotes, "'evil plan for hanging out with you guys.' And... and..." she throws her hands in the air in angry exasperation. "What is going onnnnn?"
chanuphis
"Jenny got lost in the forest and cornered by a Dementor, and when Emma found a professor to help look for her me and Karen were with him and we came along, which was good because it was a giant one and he passed out as soon as he saw it and I killed it with a huge Patronus from my chimaera wand," reports Miranda.
witch_please
This earns her a few good seconds of blank, confused stare, before the scowl returns. "If you're pulling my leg, I swear..."
witch_please
"Giant dead Dementor? They don't even die! They just... float, or something."
planetarium
"They don't die until Miranda's Patronus goes up to them and squeezes them into nothing and all that's left is a cloak," says Karen. "She really, really did it. It was amazing and she's not lying."