clever girl.

              ❛     𝐎𝐅  𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄  𝐘𝐎𝐔  𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃.      Who  wouldn’t     ?     ❜     Her  tone  lacked  any  real  emotion     ,     falling  free  in  a  chilled  manner     .     Did  the  air  actually  get  colder     ?

“ --- just putting in my two sickles. consider yourself lucky -- someday my advice is gonna cost a LOT more than that. ”

“you can’t BELIEVE everything you hear – this school is a bloody gossip mill–” 

“ --- so you’re denying it, then ? it’s a yes or no question. ” 

                𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒  𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃  𝐎𝐔𝐓  𝐎𝐅  𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐒𝐄,      hand  lingering  in  place  as  he  studied  the  blue  creatures  that  rattled  in  their  cage      .      Leaning  just  a  bit  closer     ,      barely  a  centimeter    ,    they  jumped  at  the  sides     ,     their  prison  now  tipping  wildly  back  and  forth      .      Adie  instinctively  jumped  back    ,    eyes  wide  as  he  snarled      .          ❛     Shifty  lil’  bastards    ,    aren’t  they     ?      ❜

“ --- i like them, ” septima declared, more to be contrary than anything else, really. but it wasn’t a lie; she was fascinated by the pixies, shifty though they may have been. “ --- they’ve got SPUNK. ”

“Seems that all my parchment is missing again.”

“ --- that tends to happen when you write on it. ”

          𝐇𝐄  𝐖𝐀𝐒  𝐀  𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐂  𝐁𝐎𝐘     ,    a  storm  lingering  beneath  the  surface     ,      one  arm  safely  in  his  sweater  as  the  other  lifted  to  place  a  book  back  on  the  shelf     .     He  wasn’t  going  to  read  it  anyway     .     Lacking  all  grace  as  he  moved  to  pull  up  the  remaining  sleeve     ,     he  blew  strands  of  blond  from  his  eyes  before  opening  his  mouth       .     ❛    Frankly     ,     my  dear     .  .  .    I’m  sure  you  can  guess  the  rest                Wanna  watch  me  walk  outside     ?    Hear  it’s  snowing     .     ❜    

“ --- wow, ” septima said, eyebrows raised with the injustice of such a graceless dismissal. her next words were muttered under her breath as she turned back to her book, just loud enough so he could hear them. “ --- what, is it that time of the month already ? ”

❛ so i missed the train and took a week or two to myself, studies show an intensive self care routine is BENEFICIAL for mental health as well as your skin. so by missing school, i was really tending to my overall health and isn’t that just a t a d more important? ❜

“ --- you took a week off because you missed the train ? couldn’t you have flooed ? ”

              ❛     Just     .  .  .     for  the  sake  of  full  disclosure     -                  i  know  you’re  standing  there      ,     and  I  see  you  staring  at  me     .     ❜ 

“ --- just for the sake of full disclosure, there are like, FIVE people staring at you. i’m not the only one. ”

“can ya’ skip to the part where i’m supposed to give a shit because transfiguration is really kicking me in the ass and i’m CLEARLY not great at multitasking–”

“ --- ignoring your obvious and needlessly hostile attitude, i’m just saying, you really shouldn’t multitask with transfiguration. that’s what gets heads turned into CACTI. ”

LANA CONDOR —— well, if it isn’t SEPTIMA VECTOR, the SLYTHERIN superstar. for those of you who don’t know HER, you can spot them sitting with the other SIXTH years. most people think that they’re ANALYTICAL and INDEPENDENT, but they can also seem pretty CONTRARY and COMPETITIVE. sometimes people call them the LOGICIAN. sure, they’re a PUREBLOOD, but that doesn’t define them.