Thoughtful dinner ((Patsy))

[dana]

Dana had never before found the Hogwarts castle boring, or even afflictive. Yet most people were either packing or leaving the school for winter holidays. With the exception of Dana. Oh no, for the first time in her history she wouldn’t be returning to the Hogwarts Express to drive back home before holidays began. As she was passing a window Dana threw a glance outside and grimaced slightly. The drive to school had been… eventful enough to make sure Dana would never voluntarily take a step on any train ever again. It wasn’t as much as she was afraid of the train itself, no that was merely a piece of metal. Dana was afraid of loosing control over herself should she ever see the train from inside again. The image of Kris being hurt still haunted her anyway, without her having to enhance those memories any more. That would only be pointless self-torture and Dana wouldn’t hurt herself. That would me simply silly.

Shaking such thoughts from herself Dana continued her way, taking the turns almost automatically by now. After having studied here for 6 year, Dana knew her way around the castle relatively well. But the Great Hall was still one of the main pointers and it should be relatively nice place to have dinner and find a moment for herself to read. Tapping a rhythm of Christmas colour on the leather-bound book-cover hanging easily from her hand as she side-stepped a group of giggling girls offering them merely one glance.
The Great Hall doors opened and Dana misled at the two boys who had been exiting the room, as they but politely pulled back, letting Dana pass through the door first. Answering the boys greeting with a calm ‘Merry Christmas’ Dana moved shiftly through the room, choosing a seat near the middle of the Ravenclaw table hat was relatively empty.

Placing the book on the table next to her Dana looked around the choices of food before selecting out some pasta for herself. Pouring herself a pitcher of water Dana started to eat relatively quickly as her mind whirled around other subjects. Christmas and holidays mainly but also tried to recall as much as possible about the subject of the book she had brought along today. It was nearing the edge of dark magic, but since it had been sent her by Meredith, Dana had no hesitations about it being rather educational and neutral. The difference between good and evil was only knife-blade thin and the matter of view-point after all. And Dana tried to remain as neutral as possible, for the sake of herself and everyone. If two extremes destroyed themselves, then it was always the neutrals who had to rebuild the world after all.

[anton]

Patsy looked up and down at her reflection and sighed. What was I thinking putting on a blue scarf, she thought pulling it off and throwing it onto her bed.
She looked around her dormitory and held her breath, hoping not to wake the remaining, tired, girls.
She looked back at her mirror and stroked her skin and tried to smile but her face just felt tight from her small fever. She had to eat something as she was feeling her stomach rumble in the silence.

She pulled herself of the stool and slipped out of the room where many Ravenclaws were, flicking through random books and arguing randomly about their homework. She had only a few things to do when it came to her homework but any reasonable Ravenclaw knew that if you wanted to get something done, you would steer clear from the common room. She left the common room with only a nod at her waving acquaintances.

She paced herself as her stomach pained with each passing step. Her mouth was becoming dry and with a swift, natural move of the head she saw that the winter was blooming into the castle.
She moved into the great hall where several teachers passed the tables with suspicious eyes and on the ravenclaw table she could not recognize anyone and without any thought she sat near another girl she only knew to be called Dana.

She did not introduce herself, knowing that she would probably want to be alone with her own problems and thoughts. She tugged at her Charms book and quickly placed it on the table. The words of the book were melting as she slipped back onto her tired state. She knew nothing about what she was supposed to do as her friends had decided that the perfect time to whisper her nonsense was when the homework was being explained. And being a reasonably good student she was too afraid to confess to Flitwick that she had just not concentrated and left the class with a billion queries running through her head. Trying to shake them out she glanced back at her text book, hoping that she may have some luck after all.

[dana]

Dana eyed the illustration curiously after having read the explanation that went with the spell. The explanation had been rather gruesome. Most certainly one of the curses considered to have a rather dark nature, even though not nearly at the level of the three forbidden curses. Dana raised her eyes as someone sat next to her but as no greeting was offered Dana herself merely settled for a brief nod to the 5th year girl. Despite the number of Ravenclaw 5th year girls that were all close friends of her – including Cleo, Sapph, Meyghan as closest of them – this girls he didn’t really even know. Dana knew her only by fleeting passing in school and common room to have a name something similar to that Slyth Queen Pansy… Patsy? Patsy might have been a pretty close call for her name. The thoughts flashed through Dana’s mind within seconds as she looked back at the book while pulling out her wand. Taking a sip of her coffee Dana tapped the picture watching as the illustration jumped up a bit holographic like as it showed in detail how the victim of the curse would be moved.

Dana chewed easily on the prawn tail while merely wrinkling her nose in distaste as holographic blood flew over the book pages. “Not a spell to be used while wearing silk or velvet,” Dana murmured to herself as the hologram illustration – it must have been quite a spell to make all drawings in the book do this – withdrew to the pages of the book once again, no bothered by the sight of blood otherwise. Dana eyed the page of her book thoughtfully before pushing it backwards a bit and starting to eat her pasta. It wasn’t a bad spell on the whole though even if not perhaps one she wouldn’t have to use much. Eyeing the incantation once again Dana stored the information in the back of her mind still before pushing the book a bit further and concentrating on her food her mind filled with different curses and how to encounter them.

“Could you pass the blue cheese, please?” Dana asked politely from the girl sitting next to her as she couldn’t reach the plate herself. Murmuring a thank you as she got the cheese Dana pushed a couple of pieces onto her plate enjoying the rich taste as she continued to eat.