Lorinda Scamander

But when she spotted Lorie making her way in or out of class (probably out, hopefully!) Lily’s limbs took life of their own, and on reflex she yelled out her name from the tree branch. “Hey!”

"I nearly didn’t see you, LiLu! Why are you up a tree? Are you being an owl?”

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“It’s your call, i can take you up the stairs if you want to sleep in your room tonight or we can go to ask Min for your things”

“Do you have any homework you need to do?” They still had time before they needed to get to sleep. “I’ve got my Magical Creatures assignment due on Friday, but I’ve already got it researched and outlined so I’m sure I can finish it tomorrow night. All I really wanted to do today was figure out what I want to do with the Magical Creatures Club. I hear there’s a boggart around school. It could be fun to find it, even though the Ministry classifies it as a ‘non-being’ instead of a ‘creature’.”

“You’ll have to recommend some stuff to me, then, that doesn’t feature two white men in a relationship.”  She might not seem the type to stay indoors and out of trouble a lot, but when Molly did spend a night in, she loved binge-watching shows.  If nothing else, Lorie’s recommendations would give her something to do so she could shut herself in her room on breaks.  “I don’t think I’ve ever tried using a laptop here, honestly.  We should run some experiments!  I’m sure with our combined genius we could figure something out.”

"Maybe we could figure it out,” she pondered. “But I don’t think I’m prepared to surrender my laptop to science. If it fizzles out then I’ll lose all my files and my internet bookmarks! Hogwarts could kill it, Molly. That’s laptop death!” She could almost cry for it. “I don’t think I could be part of an experiment that could be so mean.”

“If you want i can ask any girl form Ravenclaw for help and bring you your things. I want you to be comfortable, and i will prefer if you had someone taking care of you. I don’t like the idea of you being on your own. i mean, i know you are independent and everything but for now, just to be sure i really want someone to be around, just in case.”

“Your butt is definitely still there, which is awesome because it’s a very nice butt.”  At this point, Lorie was probably more coherent than Min was.  Ze was tired and a little loopy and ze really couldn’t resist leaning hir chin on the back of hir arm.  Another yawn overtook hir and ze looked up at Lorie balefully.  “Would you mind if a took a little nap?  I promise I’ll wake back up when your family gets back.”

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“If you want, you can seep with me tonight. Like when we were kids. School just started so our room is not a big mess yet”

“I could sleep in your bed for the night... but I haven’t got a change of clothing for tomorrow. I don’t want to wear the same underwear two days in a row. Maybe I- no, nevermind. But I can stay in Hufflepuff with you until bedtime, yes?”

“I would go crazy being stuck in bed all day,” Molly said, running her fingers through her hair absently at the thought.  She’d never been one to enjoy being cooped up.  “What tv shows did you watch?  I haven’t seen anything good for a while.”

“Oh I watched that has gay ladies in it.” Lorie giggled at this, but she expected Molly would understand. “Unfortunately the internet kept trying to recommend shows that feature two white men in a relationship. I don’t care if it’s Sherlock finally turning subtext into text, I don’t want it. I wanted to download some of the shows I do like to watch at Hogwarts, but I don’t think laptops work there.”

“I just wanted to check in and see how you’re feeling, but yeah, I’ll totally take the article to read later.  What’d you write it about?”  The Quibbler wasn’t one of her usual reads, but she did like supporting her friends when she could, so reading the article wasn’t a hardship for her.  “I can’t even imagine!  What did you do to amuse yourself?”

“When I wasn’t writing, I had lots of people visit. And I also sent owls out to people telling them they should visit. My family and my Love were there a lot too. I think Min was there at my house more often than ze was at hir house over the break. I also played board games and marathoned tv shows. My butt got really sore from sitting down all the time.”

“Hey Lorie!  Mind if I sit?”

With someone to occupy her for the moment, Lorie closed her copy of the Quibbler. Soon she’d have to start re-reading articles because she had nearly read through the entire thing once already. “Do you want to read this?” she offered. “I wrote an article for the Quibbler over the break. Though not for this issue because they’d already finished the final print layout. Mum and dad probably won’t use what I wrote, but I was so bored lying in bed all day. You have no idea how boring it was, Molly.”