Welcome to the ninth chapter! All Harry Potter characters are owned by J K Rowling. Grace belongs to Grace, one of the authors of this fic, and Katie belongs to Katie, the other author. Tam belongs to herself. The plot belongs to Grace and Katie, and this story is still dedicated to Tam who's moved far far away from us *sniffles* we miss you Tam!
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Chapter Nine – Hogsmeade Visit
"How was class?" Grace asked Tam and Katie brightly as she ran to catch up with them on the way into the Great Hall for dinner.
Tam coughed nervously and Katie went bright red.
"Oh, that's right, you had a free lesson, didn't you?" Grace asked Katie. "What did you do for an hour and a half?"
"What's with all the questions?!" Katie cried.
"Yeah, what is this, the bloody Spanish Inquisition?!" Tam added.
"Sorry…just asking…" Grace stammered.
"Come on, we can't stand around here all day, people keep getting pushed into me." Tam said, as a Gryffindor girl accidentally walked into her.
"Sorry." The girl said.
"Hurry up, Ellie!" her friend called to her, and Katie recognised her as the girl who'd helped her in Potions earlier that day. They made their way into the Great Hall and split up to go to their different House Tables, which were surprisingly bare of any food. A few people looked questioningly up at the high table where the teachers were sitting. Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Just a quick announcement." he said. "I remind you that in less than two weeks, the delegations will be arriving. In honour of the competition, there will be a small get together here in the Great Hall the night after their arrival. There will be dancing and music and it'll be a time for all of us to relax and have a good time. Please dress smartly, dress robes are recommended. In light of this, a Hogsmeade visit has been scheduled for this weekend. Anyone who'd like to buy some dress robes can buy them then. That's all, you may eat now." He sat down and food appeared on the tables.
"'Bout bloody time…" George Weasley muttered on Katie's left, as a plate of pork chops sprang up from the kitchens below.
After dinner there was homework to be done, so Tamara, Katie and Grace left to go to their common rooms. On the way down to the Slytherin common room, Tam overheard some students behind her complaining about their amount of homework.
"They keep piling work on us!" one of them whined.
"Yeah!" another agreed. "How do they expect us to keep up?! Just because Binns hasn't got a social life…"
Tam turned around to face them. "Actually, Professor Binns doesn't have a life at all." She said. "So you know what you should do then? Get yourself a study buddy and have a study session." And she turned back around and walked ahead with Draco who was hiding a knowing smirk.
"Well! Someone's a little too happy about homework." The first student grumbled.
Tam entered the cold Slytherin common room with Draco and they flopped down on one of the dark leather couches. A few green lamps hung from the stone ceiling, giving the room an eerie emerald glow. Draco's cronies Crabbe and Goyle came over after a while. It looked as though they had brought back some spare bread rolls from dinner. Tam courteously listened to them talk, but was mostly looking absentmindedly across the room at the green draped backed walls, and then Draco excused them both, explaining that they needed to study.
After a few hours of 'studying', Tam went to her own dorm, and wrote in her diary.
Tamara's Diary
Hogwart's is cooler then it is in the books! And I love it here. Potion's is favourite class. Snape is so cool! And for once I am up to date with homework, but that's only cause Draco helped me.
You see tonight we had a study date, and believe it or not we did study! But it wasn't all study, if you know what I mean. Did I mention how cool his dorm is? It is so cool!
Draco can be a bit scary though, especially when he's mean to Katie and stuff. I probably should have a talk to him or something, but I don't know what to say.
The bed's here are so comfy! I'm currently writing from my bed, cause it's night and stuff.
I can't remember what classes I have tomorrow, but I do hope they are fun.
Anyway's I should sleep, should being the operative word. I'll probably just think of Draco and homework stuff for a while.
Can't wait for breakfast.
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After dinner Oliver and Katie walked up to the common room with Fred, George, Angelina, Katie Bell and Alicia, all talking about the up-coming Quidditch try-outs for the Hogwarts team. Alicia didn't want to try out for a place on the team, she only wanted to be part of the 'Helping group', who got to run messages from person to person, fly out onto the pitch and give the players food and drink if the game went for hours on end.
"That sounds like a good idea…you'd be part of the team…but don't have to risk getting your head knocked in by a bludger…" Katie said thoughtfully.
"Come be a helper with me then!" Alicia exclaimed. "We get to wear silver and black robes, and there's fourteen helpers chosen from each school, kinda like two for every player on the field." Katie grinned, "I think I will…"
Fred and George were shaking their heads.
"Awwwww…but Ali, you've got to try out! We need as many Gryffindors on the team as we can! Otherwise Slytherin'll dominate and you know how they get when they think they're better then us!" Angelina protested.
"Alicia, I want you to try out." Oliver commanded. "As the Gryffindor Quidditch captain it would make sense for me to make sure my whole team makes it on the team. We're the best of the school, we can all make it. And we will." He added, looking at Alicia pointedly.
Alicia rolled her eyes. "Katie, sort out your boyfriend for me…if he wants to keep his face looking the way it is…"
Fred and George laughed as Oliver blushed as Katie poked him gently in the ribs.
"Oliver…let her do what she wants…" Katie implored, trying to sound sweet and cute at the same time.
Oliver glanced at her and sighed before nodding.
"Okay…sorry Alicia…"
"Oooooo Oliver finally found someone more important then Quidditch!" Fred exclaimed.
"Can you believe it Fred!?! She's can control him even over Quidditch!" George exclaimed back.
"So what's so special about her Oliver?"
"Quit it you two." Oliver demanded, keeping his fingers entangled with Katie's as all the girls laughed.
They walked into the common room, and all split up. The twins going to speak with Lee Jordan, Angelina, Alicia and Katie Bell went to discuss tactics to get on the Hogwarts team, and Oliver and Katie shared one armchair together in front of the fire to do their homework like everyone was supposed to.
They sat there for a bit longer then two hours, talking as they did their homework together, Oliver helping Katie with her transfiguration which she didn't really get yet.
Katie threw her quill down on her parchment and sighed, resting her head in her hands.
"What's the matter Kats?" Oliver asked, poking her gently.
"I don't get Transfiguration…" Katie wailed softly.
Oliver chucked slightly. "You've been here three or so days, and you expect yourself to understand six years of Transfiguration after just one lesson?"
"States everything in the Harry Potter books…" Katie mumbled.
Oliver looked confused. "…What?"
Katie paused slightly, deeply wanting to explain everything about the real Harry Potter books by J K Rowling to him…but she knew she couldn't.
She sighed. "Don't worry…" Katie murmured, resting her head against his shoulder, closing up her parchment in her Advanced Guide to Transfiguration.
Oliver dismissed her slightly confusing murmurings about his Seeker and resting his arm around her shoulders reassuringly, squeezing her hand gently as her fingers found his.
"Don't worry about it…you're doing okay for someone's third day. No one's going to get annoyed or upset with you…so what's the problem?" he asked her softly, resting his head against her's.
"I just want to be able to do magic so badly…being so close to it…yet so far is irritating…" she answered softly.
"Katie…Kats…just chill. You've only just started here, you're not expected to be able to do great things straight away…it always takes people a few weeks…and you did superbly in your Quidditch lesson today…" Oliver reassured her.
Katie paused thoughtfully. "…I did?"
Oliver chuckled, resting his hand under her chin as he kissed her gently. "You did very well…" he winked at her flirtingly, so she got the picture. Katie poked him, laughing as they both reminisced their forth lesson.
As it got colder, Oliver wrapped his robe around them both, since Katie was used to the Australian heat and not the Scottish colder temperatures. She rested against his soft blue jumper that he hadn't changed out of since the Quidditch lessons, which she loved already, and he didn't seam to mind having her there!
After a drawn out saying goodnight to Oliver, Katie sneaked to her dorm and pulled the drapes around her bed so the light from her wand wouldn't annoy any of her dorm mates. She got out her diary, and started to write.
Katie's Diary
I said in my last entry 'I think I'm really going to like it here…'
Well I was totally right.
I'm on cloud nine or whatever muggles call it. I'm even starting to refer to them as muggles now…since I know that Tam, Grace and I aren't them anymore…
This is wonderful! More then that…terrific! Oliver's so dreamy…
I had my first free lesson today…and as Oliver promised, he took me out for a private Quidditch lesson. We were just getting started when Draco and Tam came on the pitch as well. Draco and Oliver argued over who got the pitch, but in the end they agreed to stay on separate halves. I didn't like Draco's tone against us, so, being the little pagan I am, threw the Quaffle at the back of his head as hard as I could. It was to vent my anger! Better then going against the rules and hexing him.
I should've realised that Draco was not one for rules himself, and he hexed the broom, making it buck me off. When I hit the ground, I was knocked unconscious, and when I woke up again, you'd probably never guess what I saw!
Tam and Draco totally pashing their lips out!
I was like 'Whoaaa!!! Bet she's enjoying that!' because she's had a thing for him ever since she first saw him.
I'll get onto the good parts…well, in my mind the good parts anyway. I'm grinning at the moment by the way. So I regained consciousness, but, like I always am after getting knocked out, I hardly had enough strength to sit up, so Oliver wrapped his arms around me and helped me sit up, moving slightly to sit behind me so I could rest against him. I'd let myself get knocked out again if it meant I got to rest my head against his shoulder, with his arm gently around my shoulder. His jumper was really soft as well…
And he said he liked me! And we kissed and cuddled and everything…Oliver Wood, likes me! Katie Silvanus! It's almost 11 at night, and it's only Monday. Still have a whole week of school, so I should get to sleep again…but I'm so happy. I'd never have guessed that I'm writing this in my dorm, after just eating dinner by Oliver's side, tenderly holding hands, then going to the Gryffindor common room and sitting in his lap in front of the fire with his robe around us both. He's so amazing…
I wonder how Tam and Draco are doing…
Grace gave us the weirdest look at dinner. I think Tam and I reacted too harshly after she practically drilled us with questions of what we'd each done in our lesson after lunch. She probably doesn't wanna know the answers anyway.
I'm just so unbelievably ecstatic with Oliver…he's so sweet…so loving…I can't believe he actually likes me in return. I was happy enough just being his friend! Actually being here, close enough to touch his arm or talk to him, listen to his accent was enough for me…I thought I was going to stay here, and just keep it at that, and then go back home to Australia, and think about how lucky I was to actually meet him…
But now we're actually dating!
I'm so lucky to be with him…
I'll write more later, the try-outs for the Hogwarts Quidditch team are soon, and this weekend is my first ever trip to Hogsmeade! I have to buy some dress robes, because when the other teams get here, we're having a dance to welcome them.
It's a get together, just to meet everyone, but it means dress robes, and it probably means dancing.
I hope Oliver and I go together…
I'll update on what's going on between him and I later, but right now, I need some sleep so I don't look totally dead tomorrow.
Katie signed the page in her diary with a flourish, closed it and stuck it under her pillow, dropping the quill on her bedside table, and setting the ink bottle down gently, before whispering Nox to her wand to extinguish the light. She snuggled down in her bed, happily dreaming of Oliver.
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Grace dragged herself up to the third floor with some other Ravenclaws, took a few turns down some hallways, and stopped in front of a statue of a knight.
"Password?" it asked, its visor clanging down loudly.
"Hodgepodge" Grace said, and it stepped shakily to the side, revealing a secret passageway. She walked forward into it, and the knight stepped back into place, blocking out most of the light. About three metres on, she came to the end of the passageway, to a wooden door. She lifted the rusty handle and pulled it open, stepping into the Ravenclaw common room.
It was a large room with quite a few polished wooden circular tables with royal blue overstuffed armchairs by a large heating grate. Wooden chairs with blue tightly upholstered cushions sewn into the seat were tucked neatly under the tables, which also had patterns of eagle feathers carved down the legs. There were two grand bookcases in the common room full of theory textbooks, and some Witch Weekly magazines and earlier editions of the Daily Prophet were stacked in piles on the most bottom shelves. In the day, the common room's windows usually filtered in a lot of sunlight, but at this time of night, the moon's light shone thorough instead, illuminating the corridors leading to the boys and girls dormitories. The boy's dorms were on one side of the room, the girl's on the other.
Grace went into her dorm, took her books, a few rolls of parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink out of her bag and went back into the common room to get her homework finished. She sat down at a table, spread everything out in front of her and got started on her Runes homework, interpreting the symbols, and writing out their predictions. After two hours or so, most of the students got up and left to go to bed. About another hour later, just as Grace was starting on her Arithmancy homework, Penelope Clearwater stood up from her armchair where she had been reading. "Lights out, everybody, come on!"
Grace looked up in a panic. She hadn't finished all her homework yet, how did they expect her to hand it in tomorrow?! She wasn't used to going to Hogwarts, so it took longer for her, plus she pretty much sucked in class. Not to mention the amount of homework they were given… Grace sighed, left everything on the table, went up to her dorm, waited for about another half hour, and then crept back out to the common room and sat there 'til the early hours of the morning when she finally finished and went to bed again. Once or twice during the night, she woke up after having nightmares about being internally suspended because her class work wasn't good enough, but by the time she woke up the next morning and went down to breakfast, she didn't remember the dreams at all.
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Chapter Nine – Hogsmeade Visit
"How was class?" Grace asked Tam and Katie brightly as she ran to catch up with them on the way into the Great Hall for dinner.
Tam coughed nervously and Katie went bright red.
"Oh, that's right, you had a free lesson, didn't you?" Grace asked Katie. "What did you do for an hour and a half?"
"What's with all the questions?!" Katie cried.
"Yeah, what is this, the bloody Spanish Inquisition?!" Tam added.
"Sorry…just asking…" Grace stammered.
"Come on, we can't stand around here all day, people keep getting pushed into me." Tam said, as a Gryffindor girl accidentally walked into her.
"Sorry." The girl said.
"Hurry up, Ellie!" her friend called to her, and Katie recognised her as the girl who'd helped her in Potions earlier that day. They made their way into the Great Hall and split up to go to their different House Tables, which were surprisingly bare of any food. A few people looked questioningly up at the high table where the teachers were sitting. Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Just a quick announcement." he said. "I remind you that in less than two weeks, the delegations will be arriving. In honour of the competition, there will be a small get together here in the Great Hall the night after their arrival. There will be dancing and music and it'll be a time for all of us to relax and have a good time. Please dress smartly, dress robes are recommended. In light of this, a Hogsmeade visit has been scheduled for this weekend. Anyone who'd like to buy some dress robes can buy them then. That's all, you may eat now." He sat down and food appeared on the tables.
"'Bout bloody time…" George Weasley muttered on Katie's left, as a plate of pork chops sprang up from the kitchens below.
After dinner there was homework to be done, so Tamara, Katie and Grace left to go to their common rooms. On the way down to the Slytherin common room, Tam overheard some students behind her complaining about their amount of homework.
"They keep piling work on us!" one of them whined.
"Yeah!" another agreed. "How do they expect us to keep up?! Just because Binns hasn't got a social life…"
Tam turned around to face them. "Actually, Professor Binns doesn't have a life at all." She said. "So you know what you should do then? Get yourself a study buddy and have a study session." And she turned back around and walked ahead with Draco who was hiding a knowing smirk.
"Well! Someone's a little too happy about homework." The first student grumbled.
Tam entered the cold Slytherin common room with Draco and they flopped down on one of the dark leather couches. A few green lamps hung from the stone ceiling, giving the room an eerie emerald glow. Draco's cronies Crabbe and Goyle came over after a while. It looked as though they had brought back some spare bread rolls from dinner. Tam courteously listened to them talk, but was mostly looking absentmindedly across the room at the green draped backed walls, and then Draco excused them both, explaining that they needed to study.
After a few hours of 'studying', Tam went to her own dorm, and wrote in her diary.
Tamara's Diary
Hogwart's is cooler then it is in the books! And I love it here. Potion's is favourite class. Snape is so cool! And for once I am up to date with homework, but that's only cause Draco helped me.
You see tonight we had a study date, and believe it or not we did study! But it wasn't all study, if you know what I mean. Did I mention how cool his dorm is? It is so cool!
Draco can be a bit scary though, especially when he's mean to Katie and stuff. I probably should have a talk to him or something, but I don't know what to say.
The bed's here are so comfy! I'm currently writing from my bed, cause it's night and stuff.
I can't remember what classes I have tomorrow, but I do hope they are fun.
Anyway's I should sleep, should being the operative word. I'll probably just think of Draco and homework stuff for a while.
Can't wait for breakfast.
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After dinner Oliver and Katie walked up to the common room with Fred, George, Angelina, Katie Bell and Alicia, all talking about the up-coming Quidditch try-outs for the Hogwarts team. Alicia didn't want to try out for a place on the team, she only wanted to be part of the 'Helping group', who got to run messages from person to person, fly out onto the pitch and give the players food and drink if the game went for hours on end.
"That sounds like a good idea…you'd be part of the team…but don't have to risk getting your head knocked in by a bludger…" Katie said thoughtfully.
"Come be a helper with me then!" Alicia exclaimed. "We get to wear silver and black robes, and there's fourteen helpers chosen from each school, kinda like two for every player on the field." Katie grinned, "I think I will…"
Fred and George were shaking their heads.
"Awwwww…but Ali, you've got to try out! We need as many Gryffindors on the team as we can! Otherwise Slytherin'll dominate and you know how they get when they think they're better then us!" Angelina protested.
"Alicia, I want you to try out." Oliver commanded. "As the Gryffindor Quidditch captain it would make sense for me to make sure my whole team makes it on the team. We're the best of the school, we can all make it. And we will." He added, looking at Alicia pointedly.
Alicia rolled her eyes. "Katie, sort out your boyfriend for me…if he wants to keep his face looking the way it is…"
Fred and George laughed as Oliver blushed as Katie poked him gently in the ribs.
"Oliver…let her do what she wants…" Katie implored, trying to sound sweet and cute at the same time.
Oliver glanced at her and sighed before nodding.
"Okay…sorry Alicia…"
"Oooooo Oliver finally found someone more important then Quidditch!" Fred exclaimed.
"Can you believe it Fred!?! She's can control him even over Quidditch!" George exclaimed back.
"So what's so special about her Oliver?"
"Quit it you two." Oliver demanded, keeping his fingers entangled with Katie's as all the girls laughed.
They walked into the common room, and all split up. The twins going to speak with Lee Jordan, Angelina, Alicia and Katie Bell went to discuss tactics to get on the Hogwarts team, and Oliver and Katie shared one armchair together in front of the fire to do their homework like everyone was supposed to.
They sat there for a bit longer then two hours, talking as they did their homework together, Oliver helping Katie with her transfiguration which she didn't really get yet.
Katie threw her quill down on her parchment and sighed, resting her head in her hands.
"What's the matter Kats?" Oliver asked, poking her gently.
"I don't get Transfiguration…" Katie wailed softly.
Oliver chucked slightly. "You've been here three or so days, and you expect yourself to understand six years of Transfiguration after just one lesson?"
"States everything in the Harry Potter books…" Katie mumbled.
Oliver looked confused. "…What?"
Katie paused slightly, deeply wanting to explain everything about the real Harry Potter books by J K Rowling to him…but she knew she couldn't.
She sighed. "Don't worry…" Katie murmured, resting her head against his shoulder, closing up her parchment in her Advanced Guide to Transfiguration.
Oliver dismissed her slightly confusing murmurings about his Seeker and resting his arm around her shoulders reassuringly, squeezing her hand gently as her fingers found his.
"Don't worry about it…you're doing okay for someone's third day. No one's going to get annoyed or upset with you…so what's the problem?" he asked her softly, resting his head against her's.
"I just want to be able to do magic so badly…being so close to it…yet so far is irritating…" she answered softly.
"Katie…Kats…just chill. You've only just started here, you're not expected to be able to do great things straight away…it always takes people a few weeks…and you did superbly in your Quidditch lesson today…" Oliver reassured her.
Katie paused thoughtfully. "…I did?"
Oliver chuckled, resting his hand under her chin as he kissed her gently. "You did very well…" he winked at her flirtingly, so she got the picture. Katie poked him, laughing as they both reminisced their forth lesson.
As it got colder, Oliver wrapped his robe around them both, since Katie was used to the Australian heat and not the Scottish colder temperatures. She rested against his soft blue jumper that he hadn't changed out of since the Quidditch lessons, which she loved already, and he didn't seam to mind having her there!
After a drawn out saying goodnight to Oliver, Katie sneaked to her dorm and pulled the drapes around her bed so the light from her wand wouldn't annoy any of her dorm mates. She got out her diary, and started to write.
Katie's Diary
I said in my last entry 'I think I'm really going to like it here…'
Well I was totally right.
I'm on cloud nine or whatever muggles call it. I'm even starting to refer to them as muggles now…since I know that Tam, Grace and I aren't them anymore…
This is wonderful! More then that…terrific! Oliver's so dreamy…
I had my first free lesson today…and as Oliver promised, he took me out for a private Quidditch lesson. We were just getting started when Draco and Tam came on the pitch as well. Draco and Oliver argued over who got the pitch, but in the end they agreed to stay on separate halves. I didn't like Draco's tone against us, so, being the little pagan I am, threw the Quaffle at the back of his head as hard as I could. It was to vent my anger! Better then going against the rules and hexing him.
I should've realised that Draco was not one for rules himself, and he hexed the broom, making it buck me off. When I hit the ground, I was knocked unconscious, and when I woke up again, you'd probably never guess what I saw!
Tam and Draco totally pashing their lips out!
I was like 'Whoaaa!!! Bet she's enjoying that!' because she's had a thing for him ever since she first saw him.
I'll get onto the good parts…well, in my mind the good parts anyway. I'm grinning at the moment by the way. So I regained consciousness, but, like I always am after getting knocked out, I hardly had enough strength to sit up, so Oliver wrapped his arms around me and helped me sit up, moving slightly to sit behind me so I could rest against him. I'd let myself get knocked out again if it meant I got to rest my head against his shoulder, with his arm gently around my shoulder. His jumper was really soft as well…
And he said he liked me! And we kissed and cuddled and everything…Oliver Wood, likes me! Katie Silvanus! It's almost 11 at night, and it's only Monday. Still have a whole week of school, so I should get to sleep again…but I'm so happy. I'd never have guessed that I'm writing this in my dorm, after just eating dinner by Oliver's side, tenderly holding hands, then going to the Gryffindor common room and sitting in his lap in front of the fire with his robe around us both. He's so amazing…
I wonder how Tam and Draco are doing…
Grace gave us the weirdest look at dinner. I think Tam and I reacted too harshly after she practically drilled us with questions of what we'd each done in our lesson after lunch. She probably doesn't wanna know the answers anyway.
I'm just so unbelievably ecstatic with Oliver…he's so sweet…so loving…I can't believe he actually likes me in return. I was happy enough just being his friend! Actually being here, close enough to touch his arm or talk to him, listen to his accent was enough for me…I thought I was going to stay here, and just keep it at that, and then go back home to Australia, and think about how lucky I was to actually meet him…
But now we're actually dating!
I'm so lucky to be with him…
I'll write more later, the try-outs for the Hogwarts Quidditch team are soon, and this weekend is my first ever trip to Hogsmeade! I have to buy some dress robes, because when the other teams get here, we're having a dance to welcome them.
It's a get together, just to meet everyone, but it means dress robes, and it probably means dancing.
I hope Oliver and I go together…
I'll update on what's going on between him and I later, but right now, I need some sleep so I don't look totally dead tomorrow.
Katie signed the page in her diary with a flourish, closed it and stuck it under her pillow, dropping the quill on her bedside table, and setting the ink bottle down gently, before whispering Nox to her wand to extinguish the light. She snuggled down in her bed, happily dreaming of Oliver.
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Grace dragged herself up to the third floor with some other Ravenclaws, took a few turns down some hallways, and stopped in front of a statue of a knight.
"Password?" it asked, its visor clanging down loudly.
"Hodgepodge" Grace said, and it stepped shakily to the side, revealing a secret passageway. She walked forward into it, and the knight stepped back into place, blocking out most of the light. About three metres on, she came to the end of the passageway, to a wooden door. She lifted the rusty handle and pulled it open, stepping into the Ravenclaw common room.
It was a large room with quite a few polished wooden circular tables with royal blue overstuffed armchairs by a large heating grate. Wooden chairs with blue tightly upholstered cushions sewn into the seat were tucked neatly under the tables, which also had patterns of eagle feathers carved down the legs. There were two grand bookcases in the common room full of theory textbooks, and some Witch Weekly magazines and earlier editions of the Daily Prophet were stacked in piles on the most bottom shelves. In the day, the common room's windows usually filtered in a lot of sunlight, but at this time of night, the moon's light shone thorough instead, illuminating the corridors leading to the boys and girls dormitories. The boy's dorms were on one side of the room, the girl's on the other.
Grace went into her dorm, took her books, a few rolls of parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink out of her bag and went back into the common room to get her homework finished. She sat down at a table, spread everything out in front of her and got started on her Runes homework, interpreting the symbols, and writing out their predictions. After two hours or so, most of the students got up and left to go to bed. About another hour later, just as Grace was starting on her Arithmancy homework, Penelope Clearwater stood up from her armchair where she had been reading. "Lights out, everybody, come on!"
Grace looked up in a panic. She hadn't finished all her homework yet, how did they expect her to hand it in tomorrow?! She wasn't used to going to Hogwarts, so it took longer for her, plus she pretty much sucked in class. Not to mention the amount of homework they were given… Grace sighed, left everything on the table, went up to her dorm, waited for about another half hour, and then crept back out to the common room and sat there 'til the early hours of the morning when she finally finished and went to bed again. Once or twice during the night, she woke up after having nightmares about being internally suspended because her class work wasn't good enough, but by the time she woke up the next morning and went down to breakfast, she didn't remember the dreams at all.
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