Estelle Windsor

Dahlia was trying to work on one of her music assignments. Except she was stuck now, and the more she looked at what she had, the more she hated it. Perhaps that’s why, when the other came, she was almost thankful for the distraction. She took one glance at the paper before giving the other a smile. “I just finished it last night, actually. Did you need help?” Quite unusual to hear her propose help, but they were housemates after all. Plus, she should probably try to work on getting some friends.

Estelle smiled brightly when she asked, nodding a little. “I’d love some, actually.” She opened her textbook back up, smiling thankfully at the girl. “I’m Estelle by the way.” She introduced, her bubbly personality clear in the way she bounced every time she smiled. “I really appreciate it, I’m not very good at charms.” She admitted a little sheepishly.

“That’s a big family.” he grinned and nodded understandingly. “Do you go to meet them often?” he asked her curiously. His sisters were in France, if they were closer he would probably visit every weekend. “Oh, that’s totally okay!” he insisted as the other apologized, feeling bad for making her guilty. “Really, it’s totally alright, I don’t think we have spoken before anyway.” he added, hoping he hadn’t upset her. 

Estelle shook her head a bit. “They’re really busy usually, even if I went back for a weekend or something they likely wouldn’t have much time to spend with me.” She said with a sad smile and a small shrug. She gave a small, embarrassed giggle when he said they probably hadn’t spoken. “Still, I should be better at remembering people I’ve been around a lot.” She said, “I won’t forget this time.” She said, though mostly to try and re-enforce it in her own memory.

Elias shook his head a bit at her question. “No, don’t worry about it, it’s nothing.” He said first, before grabbing a piece of parchment so he could scribble down some ideas as they came up with them. “It’s adorable, until he gets himself tangled in my hair, and I have to sneak back to Professor Kettleburn’s office for help to get him out.” That had only happened once, but it wasn’t a pleasant experience. “Besides, he should be with the rest of his branch, not in my room.” He pointed out. “I do really like him though. I didn’t mind him being in my room until he started causing chaos.” He definitely had some times where he sneaked creatures back to his room to take care of them, but not usually ones Professor Kettleburn would notice if they went missing. “Sure, nifflers would be great.”

Estelle giggled a little as he talked about the bowtruckle. “You should introduce me sometime, he sounds like he just wants a friend.” She said with a bright grin. “Okay, awesome!” She exclaimed, pulling out her class textbook to flip through and locate the section on nifflers before pulling out some parchment and a quill to start figuring out the details. “So where do you want to start?”

“You do?” he smiled a little. Family was everything to him, and it was just hard to have his sisters be away since last time when he had gotten them transferred to Beauxbatons for their own safety. “Oh.” Hugo said as the other introduced herself but took her hand anyway. “I know, we are in the Care of Magical Creatures club together.” It wasn’t uncommon for people to not have noticed him. “I am Hugo.” 

Estelle nodded, “I have three brothers and a sister, all muggles.” She said with a smile, “It’s hard being away from them all the time.” Estelle was glad she wasn’t the only one with family not here at school, she knew most people had siblings at school here so it made it harder to be away from hers.

When Hugo said they were in the Care of Magical Creatures club together her cheeks quickly darkened with embarrassment. “I’m so sorry.” She blurted out, feeling rather guilty for not remembering. “I’m really bad at remembering people’s names.” She paused for a second. “Actually I’m not very good at remembering people’s faces either.” She muttered, still feeling pretty awkward about it.

A smile lit up on his lips when he saw Estelle and he shook his head at her question. “Oh, no, I’m fine.” he insisted before he held up the letter from his sister. He had read it several times, and he really missed both his sisters. He had spent all of his Easter with them but he still wanted to go back to see them again. “My sister wrote to me, and I just miss her, you know?” 

Estelle nodded a little bit with a sad smile on her lips. “I know exactly what you mean.” She said. Being away from her family was always hard, it made her feel really disconnected from them. She spent so much time at Hogwarts not being with them and when she was back she spent so much time catching up on the studying they had been learning while she was gone that it felt like she never saw them. She quickly shook the thought from her head. “I’m Estelle.” She said, extending a hand towards him.

Elias normally liked to get to class early. However, with an incident in his dragonology class right before, he was actually a few minutes late, and was only excused when Professor Kettleburn seemed to notice the singing on his hair from the incident with a dragon. So, he stood in the back, and observed the rest of the class, curiously watching to see what they were going to be doing that day… but before long, it was announced they had to work on something in pairs. As soon as he heard Estelle’s name paired with his, he looked around, trying to spot the other student, before she came rushing up to him. “Oh, yeah, hey.” He said with a smile, before laughing a bit. He wasn’t going to say that they’d been in classes together for years, he knew she’d likely forget again… he just assumed she had more important things to keep track of. “I have a bowtruckle that keeps trying to follow me back to my room after classes, so I think encouraging that behaviour might not be a good idea… but the others would be good.”

Her brow creased a bit at his laugh, her head tilting a bit. “What’s funny?” She asked, rather confused by his reaction. Estelle didn’t put two and two together to realize it was her mistake and her memory was just doing her an injustice. She giggled a little at his story, “He follows you back? That’s adorable! Why don’t you just make friends with him, wouldn’t that be easier than making him go all the way home?” She asked curiously. She didn’t understand what could be so bad about an adorable little bowtruckle wanting to be your friend. “How about nifflers then?” She suggested, rather excited that she’d gotten to pick their topic. 

Estelle sat in the common room, struggling over some transfiguration homework. Despite being a Care of Magical Creatures major her parents encouraged her to use some electives to pursue other classes. The problem arose when Estelle remembered that school did not come easily to her. She was fed up with struggling with it. When she turned around at the sound of the common room door opening, she saw a girl coming in carrying transfiguration textbooks. “Do you think you could help me?” She called out. “I really don’t understand my transfiguration homework...” She said softly, a little embarrassed to admit it.

Estelle got to Care of Magical Creatures class early, she loved spending the extra time with whatever creature they were studying that day. The professor explained their assignment, that they were to pick a creature in their pairs and do a full presentation on the creature’s nature, how to care for it, and any other information that was relevant. He listed off the pairings and sent everyone to get to work. Estelle looked around, having not recognized the name of her partner, and hoped someone else looked just as lost as she did. Noticing the boy with slightly singed hair, she giggled a little and hurried over. “Elias?” She asked, and when he confirmed she grinned brightly. “I’m Estelle. Do you have any ideas for our creature? I was thinking maybe a hippogryph or a bowtruckle or maybe a niffler?” She rambled. Estelle had a bad habit of speaking very quickly when she got excited.

Estelle was out in the courtyard, enjoying the cool breeze and fresh air along with the sounds of all the chirping birds and owls flying overhead. She wasn’t always the most observant, but on this particular day she did notice the boy in Hufflepuff robes sitting by himself with a not so cheery look on his face. She frowned a little, seeing people sad always made her a little sad too, before hurrying over to slide onto the bench beside him. “What’s wrong?” She asked, tilting her head a little. “Is there anything I can do to help?”

Estelle was in the study hall, attempting to do some homework but all she was doing was making herself frustrated. She had never been the brightest, but she was struggling particularly hard with this charms homework. She looked around the room, a pout on her lips, until she saw a girl in matching Hufflepuff robes that she recognized from her class. Estelle quickly scooped up her books and ran down the hall to slip onto the bench next to the girl. “Hey, do you understand this? I don’t get it at all.” She said, very quickly with her usual smile.