Library Nonsense

Clarion let out a sigh as she set down her textbooks and sat down at the Ravenclaw table. She was exhausted and it had only been day one! Today had been very long and the excitement of the first day had officially worn off. Clarion was tired and wanted nothing more than to crawl into bed and sleep.

That wasn't going to be possible for another few hours though. Dinner was going to last almost an hour, and to top it off, despite not having done very much magic in classes today, homework had still been assigned. That would be at least another hour and a half spent in the library before actually getting the chance to return to the dorms. Then finally, she had been plotting a relaxing bath ever since afternoon classes finished.

Until then Clarion just had to make it through dinner. Luckily, a warm meal was just what she needed. She began filling up her plate with small portions of food. Hyacinth, who was sitting across from her, helped her by cutting a slice of ham and putting it on her plate. He looked just as exhausted, but was definitely trying harder to hide it. Every now and then he would do this weird thing with his jaw while pressing his lips together which was him obviously trying to hold back his yawns.

Mary soon entered the hall and sat down beside Clarion. Hyacinth offered her some ham and she took it gladly. "Where's Snow? I haven't seen her since our last class."

"Isn't that her sitting at the end of the table with Holland?" Clarion pointed with her fork that had a piece of ham stabbed onto it.

Snow was in fact over there, sitting with Holland, Penelope, and some of the fifth year prefects. She laughed at something Holland was saying. Whatever it was, he managed to get a reaction out of Penelope because now she was noticeably rolling her eyes at him. Holland then gestured over to the Gryffindor table where the head boy and girl were sitting with their prefects. Penelope's face then grew red as a tomato.

"That's no surprise," Hyacinth muttered, drawing his attention back to his plate of food, "Those two are practically inseparable when they're in the same room together."

"Why does it bother you so much anyway? They are dating after all," Mary questioned with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.

"Yes, but you don't get it. This happens all the time, Snow dates a guy, then he breaks her heart and I'm left to pick up the pieces and put her back together."

"Sounds intense," Clarion spoke with a hint of sarcasm.

"You think I'm exaggerating! Just you wait and see, at the end of term Holland graduates, and from there it's all down hill."

Clarion and Mary glanced at each other and smirked. Hyacinth would never say it out loud, but he did in fact care about Snow. It wasn't just because they were cousins like he often claimed it to be.

After a few announcements from Professor McGonagall, dinner came to an end. Clarion and Hyacinth decided to go to the library together to get started on the homework. They invited Mary along, but she said she already had plans to spar with some of the students from Hufflepuff. Apparently she was very adept with a sword.

Before leaving for the library, Clarion and Hyacinth both had come to the conclusion that it would be best to bring Snow along with them. Otherwise she might never do her homework. When they arrived at the library, the three students took up an aisle near the back where the books on magical plants were located.

Professor Sprout had assigned them a short paragraph on a specific plant of their choice for herbology. The requirements were simple, students were to include where the plant could be found and what magical properties it possessed. Clarion chose to do her paper on the glaciem lilium, a lily made of ice, found in the northern part of Russia. She discovered the flower in a book that had been left open on the desk and it had captured her attention fully.

By the time Clarion was about two thirds of the way through the assignment, Hyacinth was already finishing up and Snow had gotten down barely a few sentences. She obviously had no interest in working on the assignment at this moment in time. This became apparent when she began levitating her quill and making it dance through the air. It proved to be quite distracting and Hyacinth's patience wore thin quick.

"Could you, please, stop that!" he attempted to snap in a whisper.

Snow scoffed and rolled her eyes, "Fine, whatever makes you happy."

"Thank you," the Ravenclaw boy grumbled as he went back to work.

After a few more minutes of silence, Snow couldn't take it anymore. She leaned in closer to Clarion, "So, what did Dale say to you after lunch today?"

Hyacinth let out a sigh, "Snow, we're doing homework, homework that you should also be doing. Do you really think now is the time to be asking that?"

Snow scrunched her face up at him before turning back to Clarion, "So, as I was saying before, what did Dale say?"

"Snow!" Clarion giggled at her friend's persistence.

Hyacinth let out an exasperated sigh and stood up to begin packing his bag up. "You know what, I'm finishing this back in the common room, since apparently it's near impossible to concentrate here, in the library!" Hyacinth then quickly disappeared back into the bookcases they had come from.

"Great! Well now that he's gone, you have to tell me!"

Clarion set down her quill and pushed her assignment aside, "And who says I have to tell you."

"Me! Besides, I'm your best friend and you're obligated to tell me these things. It's the rules."

The princess rolled her eyes, "Well, seeing as I have no choice- Now don't complain when I bore you to death with what I have to say."

"Oh come on, Clarion, just tell me!"

"Fine, if you must know, Dale didn't really say anything. I just told him that I accepted his offer to show me around the school."

As Clarion finished speaking a voice rang out across the library, saying that it would be closing soon. She neatly began to pack up her bag while Snow remained sitting.

Snow groaned, "That can't possibly be true! He had to have said something!"

"Nope, nothing other than him saying that he'd see me tonight, before he ran off to catch up with the rest of Gryffindor."

"What do you mean tonight? It's almost curfew. What's he gonna do, say hi to you on the way to the common room and then leave?"

"I don't know, he probably meant to say tomorrow." Both girls nodded in agreement before getting up and heading towards the door.


Hey guys! I'm not dead! I'm sorry I haven't updated at all this past summer and much of this year in general. Life has just been a real roller coaster, but things are starting to get back on track since school starts up again tomorrow. I'm sorry to have kept you guys waiting so long. I will be working on and hopefully updating other stories soon as well.