#commonroom

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- huge windows everywhere with the most delicate curtains

- to go with the windows, a window seat for each one complete with fluffy blankets and pillows

- an entire fridge dedicated to caffeinated drinks to power through late night studying

- a communal bowl of stationery (spare parchment, inks of all colors, maybe even some “pens”)

- always smells of citrus and jasmine

- a chilling 68 degrees F (20 degrees C) to prevent sleepiness

- however if you want to sleep, help yourself to the cart of chamomile tea or melatonin gummies

- at night the room is full of candles, each student having their own scent, so the room smells like Bath and Body Works, only better

- theres always chatter happening- but its never really gossip (if you listen, you can hear the ravenclaws arguing over the number of leeches needed to concoct a polyjuice potion)

- luna is always talking to the eagle, asking it riddles

- some Ravenclaws are hosting tutoring sessions, charging the desperate Gryffindors 10 galleons per hour

- many students fall asleep whilst studying, but they have an alarm system that blasts eine kleine nachtmusik every hour

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Adorable Home: Hufflepuff Common Room

“technically, sleeping at night is just taking long naps in between daily tasks and routine. if you think about it, there’s no real difference between a nap and going to bed.”

SLYTHERIN COMMON ROOM

I Imagine The Slytherin Common Room As..

–  Somewhat cold, much like its inhabitants, yet never drafty. Which is a shame to some who think that in summer it’d be needed, but hah! They don’t need the draft because. the. common. room. is. always. cold.         ↳ So, in summer, they don’t need to go outside (“with the peasants? No, no. No thank you”), and they don’t need to put cooling charm upon calming charm all around because it’s already so cool. so good.         ↳ In winter though, that’s a completely different story. It’s so cold that risking sitting anywhere away from the fireplace is a wish to catch hypothermia.

–  The aura is sleek; smooth; uncomfortable to the point of it being so unnatural for it to be so symmetrical, so perfect.         ↳ But it’s fine, because once you get use to the feel, especially, then it’s one of the most relaxing places in this hell.

–  The scent in the air that lingers is almost undetectable unless sought after: vanilla and the slightest hint of lavender, but that’s only for the strongest of noses.          ↳ The vanilla instantly puts people at ease, and it’s so soothing that it can quicken the process of inducing sleep.         ↳ There’s been increasing studies to prove that lavender oil has been found to affect the brain in such a way that it increases drowsiness.           ↳ So, what I’m trying to say is that if you spend too much time in the common room, there’s a perfectly good chance you’ll fall asleep.         ↳ Those were Salazar Slytherin’s favorite smells, and under the constant stress and overthinking he did, he cast a spell to forever onward carry this particular mix, which became Slytherin’s most desirable smell.

–  You can constantly hear the fire crackling, from whatever corner of the layout of the common room. It’s always in the background, casting shadows with it’s green flames. Very patriotic, yes, yes.

–  There’s always the sounds of distant yet unreachable music, and it usually comes from the lake.          ↳ Some days, in the crack of dawn, students would awake to the sounds of the mer-people singing songs of old, - traditional ones which some Pure-Blood children have been raised with, bringing back memories.

–  The layout is very complex, unsurprisingly. When you walk in, it’s overwhelming to the eye, as there’s so much space!            ↳ There are at least three different sitting areas: one in front of the fireplace, (which seemed to be main attraction since it was on a raised platform, higher just about a foot from the rest of the room) with the largest amount of chairs and sofas, the second was placed around the towering book-wall, there were at least a few armchairs and couches neatly scattered around with a few side tables with notes littering them, and the third was tucked into the other corner of the fifty foot (fifteen meter) room. It had a big L-shaped couch pushed against the corner, with only two armchairs in front of it, a coffee table placed in between.          ↳ For the bookshelves, and books, they were placed around in corners and sometimes took up entire walls.

–  The whole roof and the walls that faced into the lake were glass, which meant they weren’t occupied with paintings or bookshelves. There were windowsills underneath them, which were free to leave people to their thoughts as they look outwards to the underwater life.

–  People stare out into the lake and watch the Giant Squid and have previous nicknamed him: Inky, Squidling, Squidward (some Half-Bloods just mucking around) and the Pure-Bloods have no idea why that makes them crack-up so much.

–  Most of the light is distorted from the water and casts the coolest of blues and greens across the common room, and even at night, the light was mostly reflected from the lake.

       ↳ There’s one giant chandelier that dangles in the middle of the common room, decorated with little, intricate details of silver weaved around the gold frame.

–  The floor is tainted dark Oak wood, stretching across the whole platform, crawling up into the stairs and into dorm rooms. But there are a few fluffy green or gray carpets tucked under the couches and tables. 

– There are only two pictures hung up in the common room. One of Salazar Slytherin who often disappears and only reappears at night to gaze into the fire, and the other more approachable painting was of Merlin. And Merlin was there most of the time, conversing with students, explaining certain questions to them, or telling them tall tales of his own youth.