lumos maxima

Just passed the freaky doors to the library.  ”Well then, better hurry so that you can get back to passing out detentions.”  Summer began marching down the corridor and gestured for Hikari to follow her.  They walked in silence for several minutes before Summer decided to strike up a conversation.

She was content to walk in silence, only feeling the slightest bit awkward about the lack of conversation. Instead, her mind raced with thoughts of homework, trying to work out what she could accomplish when she returned to the common room. It was only when Summer asked her a question that she snapped back to attention.

Summer pulled at her robes and tried to give herself a pep talk.  Hey, if you manage to pull this off the prefect might go easy on you.  Just, focus.  Unfortunately if there was one thing Summer had issues with, it was focusing.  She carefully climbed onto the chair and found her balance, giving the book in front of her a hard look.  She hyper-extended her arm in an attempt to grab the book but it was clearly still out of reach.

Summer shouldered off her robe and tossed it to the ground before rolling her shoulders.  Alright, let’s go.  She stood up on her toes and took another jab at the book.  Swing and a miss.  Summer could feel the Ravenclaw prefects stare.  This is going nowhere.  There was only one thing left to do.  Letting out a huff Summer pulled at her skirt before hopping up and down.

The chair and desk wobbled as she landed.  Her hand had barely brushed against the book, but it gave her enough confidence to try it again.  Taking one more jump she managed to clamped her hand around the spine of the book before missing the chair on the trip down and tumbling to the ground.

Before she could even realize what happened, the strength of the desk and chair gave out, and both they and Summer went tumbling to the group. Hikari's eyes widened, and she covered her mouth with her palm before rushing over to the mess.

"Oh my-- Are you okay? Do you need to go to the infirmary?" Summer had already picked herself up with pride before Hikari could even reach her to offer a hand. She sighed a breath of relief. "Well, I'm glad you're still in one piece."

Summer placed the chair on the ground on its side and clapped her hands together.  ”It’s very important that I study for Potions you see, I’m not to confident on the current topic and there’s a test coming up soon.”  She couldn’t tell if the Ravenclaw was buying it.  Really, it would’ve been easier to just throw the Hufflepuff girl under the bus.  But Summer didn’t play those games.

Hikari sighed and pulled out her own wand and waving it in the direction of the broken table and chair. "Reparo." The chair legs that Summer was holding floated out of her grasp and towards the broken piece of furniture, all of it repairing in the blink of an eye. She turned back to Summer, nodding towards the small pile. "Go ahead, then."

Flash forward to today; a Hufflepuff girl begged her to locate her ‘lost book’ which she had left in the far corner of the castle.  While Summer was more than happy to fetch the book for her, she was definitely less pleased when she found it clutched in the claws of a raven statue perched in the far corner of the ceiling.  While she tried to whip out her wand to get the job done quickly, someone had clearly put a spell on it to prevent the book from being recalled by Accio.  Really, it didn’t surprise her.  If anyone was crazy enough to continue this quest and grab the book, it was her.

"Oh Summer, be a dear and get my Potions book for me?"  She imitated the girls voice in a high falsetto while attempting to keep quiet.  "Oh I’ll get your Potions book for you alright."  She had searched half the wing looking for something to stand on before deciding she wasn’t going to find anything that would reach high enough.  Settling for a desk and a chair, she was now attempting to balance on 8 wobbling legs as she grabbed for the book.

She opened her mouth to begin her favorite part of being a prefect -- the lectures -- then noticed the broken desk and chair behind her. Apparently there was even damaged school property involved. Hikari crossed her arms against her chest, resisting the urge to tap her foot.

"Is there any reason in particular you're out past curfew, apparently destroying Hogwarts property?" She nodded towards the desk behind the other girl, as if to emphasize her point.