Sibling Bonding ((BBBSs read, committee respond))

[Aurora Chan]

Aurora checked her watch, tapped it with a finger and stood, waving her wand and sending her pieces of parchment folding neatly into her trunk under her bed. She flicked her wand again and another wad of paper sailed from her bedside table, clipped together neatly. She grabbed them, pocketed her wand and exited her dormitory, heading to the Common Room. Aurora noticed Harmony sat with a group of friends by the fireplace and approached her with a smile. “Hey, you know the meeting starts in fifteen minutes, right?” She pointed to the clock on the wall, and Harmony nodded her understanding. “Just reminding you.” Aurora explained wryly, before waving her goodbye and leaving. She walked briskly past several corridors, manoeuvring her way around some tricky moving staircases to reach her destination on a different floor. The Room of Requirements was difficult to locate, and Aurora was worried that the BBBS members would have trouble finding the meeting point; however, there weren’t many people in Hogwarts who didn’t know about it, and those who didn’t know how to find it could follow or ask someone. Aurora crossed her fingers for all members to turn up, hoping that the beginning of the scheme would be a success. It would be demoralising for her team if BBBS were a flop after all the hard work they had put into it.

Finally reaching the right storey, Aurora looked around the empty corridor, supposedly the one she had been walking along when she had first found the Room of Requirements. It had been a while back, when she had seen Carson McGreggor, a fifth year Hufflepuff, run out of the room hurriedly, leaving Aurora to explore what lay beyond the never-before-seen door. There she had seen Angel Sheridan, a Ravenclaw fellow sixth year, ice skating on a makeshift rink, and since it was Angel who had come up with the BBBS scheme, she and Aurora had decided it was a good place for the first meeting for all members to take place. The room was shaped for your specific needs; it couldn’t be more perfect. Aurora looked around, until a door appeared in the wall, and assuming it was the right one, she entered. What met her eyes made her laugh out loud as the door swung shut behind her; a fireplace burned bright in the corner of the large, expansive room, which was filled with plush and colourful cushions and a couple of small tables and chairs. Nodding her approval, Aurora approached the nearest round table and placed her things down. The plan was to take a register of all arrived members to see if any were absent. Sitting down, Aurora wondered when the other committee members would arrive. They had scheduled it so that they would come about fifteen minutes before the start of the meeting, bringing their lists of members with them.

Aurora remembered with sadness that, in fact, the committee team had changed since the beginning. Originally it had consisted of herself, Angel, Jamison Parson the Ravenclaw head boy, Celia, another Ravenclaw in her year, and Kia Brightstar, a fifth year Gryff. However, since then the line-up had changed, what with Angel leaving Hogwarts for a different life, leaving Carson in her place. Aurora was glad to see another Huffle on the team, but sad to see Angel go, but they had to live with the decision, and Aurora wished her friend the best of luck with her future. With Angel’s departure, Jamison had been named as the head of BBBS instead, with Celia as Secretary (all those papers and filing, Aurora thought!). Kia, Carson and Aurora had other jobs to get to anyway, kept busy by other things such as NEWTs for Aurora, which were so far going well this year. She was enjoying Charms and Transfiguration in particular, even though it was harder. Muggle Studies and Arithmancy were the same as ever, really. On the work note, Aurora remembered she had an Arithmancy test coming up in the following week, and she really needed to revise for it. Groaning inwardly, Aurora rubbed her eyes worriedly, before sifting through her papers on the table. She was sure Angel had briefed poor Carson on the BBBS plans already, so she needn’t check up on that, but she felt it necessary to see to him anyway, in case he felt a little thrown in at the deep end. Aurora wondered back to if the members would be late, when the door creaked open, alerting her to someone’s presence.



((BBBS members please get in contact with your brother/sister, organise a thread here in Hogwarts in the Room of Requirements, start a thread and sign up to the correct committee member IC so we know you’re here. You may god-mode our presence but please do not god-mode any speech without permission. Thank you. Committee members please remember that you also must post with your fellow brothers/sisters!))

[Carson McGreggor H6]

Carson sighed as he gathered up a bunch of papers written in Angel’s neat script writing. Ever since she had left for training in Sweden, things had been rather boring and hard for Carson, who had relied on Angel’s friendship ever since he was five years old. Her only favor for Carson before she left was to help continue her program. It was all she talked about the week before she left. At first, Carson thought Angel was crazy for even asking. He barely wanted to be a part of BBBS, let alone a committee member. But Angel had that charm to her. She could persuade anyone to do anything she wanted with that simple look in her eyes. After Angel had given him that look, Carson could not possibly decline. So here he was, dragging himself to this sibling bonding meeting with all of Angel’s notes and forms. He had been briefed on all that was going on in BBBS, but to be truthful, it was all very confusing and extremely overwhelming. First there were the surveys. Thank god that part had been done already. The other committee members had to go through the hell of grading those damned things and pairing each and every participant with someone compatible. If it were up to Carson, he’d just draw them all from a hat. The students would just have to live with their siblings. It was much more realistic. God did not see which two children were compatible before he made them siblings. He simply created two people and shoved them under one roof together. Carson had been lucky. God had given her Julia, who was in his opinion, the best sister in the world. Other people, like Angel for example were not quite so lucky. She was stuck with multiple siblings that got on her nerves constantly. God did not ask her to fill out a survey. Carson sighed as he walked through the corridors.

On his way, he noticed Casey and Ezzie walking together in the hall. He smiled at the pair and Ezzie (who looked rather pale and sickly) waved. Casey gave him a bright smile. “Hey, I’ll see you two at the BBBS meeting soon, right? I need at least someone I know to be there. It’s my first real day on the committee. God knows how fun that will be.” He said with a shrug as the pair stopped to talk to Carson. “Yeah,” Ezzie said weakly. She never spoke very loud anymore. “We’ll be there. Have fun introducing us to our big sisters!” Ezzie said with a smile. Carson smiled again and walked away. Just before he left, he noticed Ezzie scratch her throat, which was already very red. Carson almost winced at the sight of her fingers, which were blistered and cut. “Ezzie, what happened to your hand?” Carson exclaimed in disgusted shock. She lowered her hand and shrugged. “Oh, this?” She asked. “Spell gone wrong. Trust me, you don’t want to know.” She said in her thick Spanish accent. Carson shrugged. “Oh well. Hope you get better soon!” He said, walking away. He sighed a bit after he waved Casey goodbye. He had been kind of avoiding her lately. It wasn’t that he wanted to; it was just that he needed some time to figure things out. Carson liked Casey a lot. He and Casey had shared many laughs and some great times together. Casey was sweet, adorable, and incredibly random (in a good way). But then there was Eden. Carson had just joined in as the guitarist in Eden Sweden’s band. After spending some quality time with Eden, Carson had discovered that he really liked Eden too. After much time of long hard thinking, Carson had resolved to just avoid both of them for the time being until he figured some things out. Carson ran his hands through his knotty hair and struggled once again as his fingers were caught in the mess. After moments of struggling, Carson had succeeded in removing his fingers from the array. As he approached the spot where the Room of Requirements should have been and thought to himself.

“I need to find the BBBS Sibling Bonding Meeting Place” Carson thought to himself. Just as soon as he had opened his eyes, the door was there. He pushed it open and walked inside the large room. He smiled a bit. Seeing the Room of Requirement had always given Carson a rush, especially when he had entered it with Ethan to do a bit of mischief making. Ethan was supposed to show up to this thing as well. Carson wondered if Ethan would actually show. He shrugged as he approached the fireplace, where someone was already waiting. He waved casually at Aurora Chan, who he had heard of a few times before, but had only met a few times for very brief moments.

“Hey Aurora. Wow. I think this is the only event I’ve ever shown up early to. When is everyone else expected to arrive?” He said with a small smile. It was quite a rare thing that Carson was early. He always seemed to be running to make it just on time for something or another.


((All god-moding of Casey Allen was allowed by her creator. )