Assignment – History of Magic

Lesson: The Soap Blizzard of 1378 was, presumably, a blizzard of soap that occurred sometime in 1378. This blizzard was followed by a burst of the wizarding economic bubble.

task: write a witch/wizard being trapped. (Interpret this however you want, just be creative!)

Prompts:

(pairing) Lily/Regulus

(element) fire

The Escape Room - 619 words

Lily was standing in the middle of the room looking around a bit helpless. How had she even landed here? Ah yes, because of some stupid bet between those blasted Marauders and the Slytherins of their year.

The bet? Who would be able to escape a locked room?

Her opponent? Actually her boyfriend Regulus – though no one knew that they were together since they had to keep it a secret with all the house prejudice.

The problem? How was she supposed to get out of a locked room?

The entire thing came up when Potter told his friends how the Auror Corps had instated a new training method after one of their man had been trapped in a locked room and nearly died there because he didn't get out anymore. After that the DMLE instated so called Escape Rooms that were locked and warded against escape through normal means like the Alohomora Charm and that you could only get out of through some hidden mechanism – the room the Auror had been trapped in also had a mechanism so that the owner could get out again but the Auror hadn't been able to find it. So now the Aurors trained to find hints to get out of such rooms as not to repeat the mistake.

However, when Potter told his friends the Slytherins unfortunately overheard them and then challenged them that they would never be able to get out of such a room. The Marauders took up that bet and so both houses sent in their most intelligent student to compete against each other and it happened to be Regulus Black and Lily Evans.

Once they ensured that both parties would compete they all went up to the Room of Requirement to simulate the locked room. So that was how Lily Evans ended up standing together with Regulus Black in a locked room of which she was supposed to get out again before him, she could only hope that Hogwarts hadn't added anything she didn't know about.

"You know there are far better things I would do when locked in a room with you than trying to get out," Regulus said walking over to Lily and kissing her.

Lily returned the kiss for a while before she pulled away. "I know, but unfortunately we have to get out of here again," she replied with a smile. "Not that I would overly mind some…other activity."

"Look there is even a bed over there," Regulus said dragging Lily with her before he shoved her on the bed and climbed over her.

Lily laughed upon her boyfriend's antics but didn't struggle to get free. "What about that stupid bet?" she asked him once he let go of the latest kiss.

"Let them wonder what we're up to, not my problem," Regulus shrugged while wandering with his left hand under Lily's shirt.

"That was the best you said today," Lily said, leaned forwards and embraced Regulus in just another kiss.

It was about an hour and a half later that the others obviously had enough and entered the room coming to a full stop when they saw what was going on. Lily and Regulus both were comfortably lying on the large bed that stood against the wall opposite of them and had an animated discussion about fire spells and the fire element in general, the two not even registering that they weren't alone anymore.

The Marauders and the Slytherins looked at each other wondering what was going on here before they broke out into a heated argument about who now won the bet.

Lily and Regulus though didn't care who of them won or not, they had a nice time together.