Looking for inspiration ((Carr))

[Sophia Hallington H7]

Sophia opened up her sleepy eyes, and took a few seconds to adjust to her surroundings. She'd just spent the past 3 weeks at home, and it was a bit of a shock finding herself back in her Hogwarts dormitory, rather than her bright yellw room back in Manchester, although she had now been at Hogwarts for a few days now, and having accustomed her eyes to the bright light in the room, she slowly slid out of bed, slipped on her slippers and wandered dazily over to the bathroom to splash her face with cold water, in order to wake herself up a bit more.

Itr was now the weekend, and being the first week back after Christmas, she didn't have much homework left to do for a change, and so she started thinking about what to do. Hearing the beep from her clock, it was 8.30, and so she decided to go to the Great Hall for breakfast to think more on the subject. A good bit of food always did her some good-it woke her up and generally made her feel a lot better, if not slightly hyper, depending on what it was. Today, she decided on some bacon, sausage and beans, with a glass of orange juice-her favourite breakfast meal!

Having arrived back at the Hufflepuff Common room, she looked round for some inspirationl. She then found herself looking towards what she called the "fun corner" of the room, where there was a bookcase and a cupboard filled with games...Wizard Chess sets, packs of exploding snap cards, bags of gobstones...nothing she was interested in. Then right at the back, she found another box...this time it said "Wizard Scrabble" on the box. Sophia was intrigued...so she tuipped over the box carefully to see what it said for the rules, and how it differed from normal scrabble. Basically it was the same, except you had to put magic-related words...spells, beasts, plants etc...and apparently there was a nasty punishment if you put a wrong word in.

So she picked it up, and placed it on the nearest table, before closing the old cupboard from which it came. Then she realised that there was nobody around to play with. So she slumped into a chair by the table...and thought about what to do. Maybe someone would turn up to play? There was nobody else there to ask, or she would. She sighed...another fun plan, probably gone to waste. So to pass her time, she decided to place it out, as if it was going to be played, to perhaps aid her chances of a partner, or to at least give hints to the rest of the Hufflepuff population.

[carr]

"Ahh! Carr noo!' Wendi called as Carr tried to jump on her back. He laughed like a little girl. "C'mon solider move, move!" He joked like a military general. Wendi fell to the floor and Carr went along with her. "Ouch." She said pushing herself back to the ground. Carr just stayed on the floor. "Come on Wend! Be strong!" Carr said loudly. Wendi sighed, shrugged her shoulders and plopped herself back onto the floor next to Carr. "You are so annoying, you know that." She joked in a normal tone of voice. "Thank ya. And yes I know, but what it annoying really? Is it the sun, the sky, the evening moon, your pretty smile.." Carr went on like a poet. "Carr." Wendi said sternly. "Point taken." He said putting his head to the floor. "Too, tired." Wendi said closing her eyes. "That's because you won't talk to Jami like I told you." Wendi sighed. "Carr." She warned. "Sorry, sorry. You really need to talk to him, ya know?" He offered. Wendi nodded and got up. "Yea, I know." She said walking away. Carr watched as she left. How could this girl be so mentally strong? True, she was kinda, different now, but she was still..Wendi.

Carr finally got up off of the floor. Well, after half an hour at least. Oh, well. He liked to rest. Well, not really. He liked to move. But, sometimes a rest was nice. Well, maybe once in a blue moon. Carr was walking back to the Hufflepuff Common Room. There was a slight mischievous look on his face. Well, he was quite bored. So, what was there to do? Carr smiled. He took a bit of parchment out of his pocket. He laughed at the list that read:

1. Eat Breakfast and find a charm to keep food still yummy in your pocket.____Well, nearly a check.

2. Pretend to study for Potions.____Check

3. Annoy Wendi.___Double Check

4. Hop around the castle.___Check, check

5. Dye hair pink___

Well, the last one was more like a lifetime goal than anything. Carr marched off to the Common Room. Suddenly, he noticed a small first year. "LEX!" Carr called. "Oh no!" The first year boy called as he ran the other direction. "C'mon Lex I'm bored!" Carr said laughing. "You'll try and turn my nose purple again!" Carr laughed. "Will not!"

Carr entered the Hufflepuff Common Room nearly an hour later. Well, he had, had an early breakfast and all. His hair was all rustled and his robes were now a pink color. Oh, well. He had other ones. Carr noticed a younger girl with a game in front of her on the other side of the room. Carr smiled as he rushed over. "Sophia right?" He asked. Carr made it a goal to know every Hufflepuff by name even if he had never met them personally. "Ohh! Games, games." He said joyfully. "Can I play?" Carr asked clapping his hands. "But, then again, you will have to teach me how to play since I can't even play muggle scrabble too well. Well, maybe just a bit." He said laughing. Carr looked down to his new pink robes. "You know, I can color your robes orange if you'd like!" He said excitedly.

[Sophia Hallington H7]

((Hmm, sorry for the long wait, it's inexcusable of me. I tried posted it earlier in the week but then it disappeared...or more likely I must have clicked off it somehow and it never returned, so here it is!! For the scrabble letter scores, look here: thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/rules.html))

Sophia re-read the instructions on the back of the box for the third time, to make sure she had the complete idea of what the game actually entailled. She got the impression that it was exactly the same as muggle scrabble, but with magic touches to it-you got punished for putting a wrong word in, and it did special things when you got points. It even had a magic points counter on the side of the board! Plus the box was a different colour, instead of the conventional dull green which Sophia had never liked-this version was brighter, and it was shiny too!

She was starting to think up words she could include, when she saw someone enter the room. She recognised the person straight away as Carr McDuff, a boy in the year above her. Everyone knew Carr, or at least everyone that was in Hufflepuff or shared lessons with him. SHe smiled as she saw him, and couldn't stop herself from laughing. She had always liked Carr, but what other boy would turn up in bright pink robes and messed up hair. She grinned even more as he came over to join her, and asked her how to play it. She quickly read over the instructions again, after having greeted the older boy, and proceeded to tell him what to do.

"Basically, with Scrabble, you are given seven letters at the beginning, from which you have to make words. Each letter you put down on the board gives you points, varying from 1 point for common letters to 10 points for a Z, as that isn't used very often. The first word goes across the pink middle square" She pointed this out to him "and the proceeding word has to link to that. Following words have to link to a letter that's already been placed on the board. For every letter you put on the board you pick up another from the bag, and the winner is the player who has the most points once all the letters have been placed on the board. There are some squares that are double or triple word or letter scores, but these basically speak for themselves. Put a tile on one then the number of points you get from the word/letter doubles or triples depending on the square. And this being magic Scrabble, the words have to be magic related, eg spells, or plants, or potions or something. Does that sound ok?"

She proceeded to pick out her letters. U H M T S L and O. She quickly noticed "LUMOS" there, and placed the tiles on the board. From this she picked up seven points-1 from L, 1 from U, 3 from M 1 from O and 1 from S. She watched the score counter at the side of the board change to a "7" next to "Player 1", and picked out some other letters. She still had H and T left, and to this she added a Z, a V, a D, an O and an E. She immediately started to wonder what she could do with these letters, as she watched what Carr was doing with his letters.