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AuroraQuinn 
So studying at the Library hadn't exactly gone well... but she had got out the books she thought would be useful... Though she wasn't allowed in the restricted section because no teacher had asked her to get this. Pffft.
Aurora plonked her pile of books on a table and sat down, dragging the first one off the pile and flicking through it. Deadly Nightshade... where would you beee.... Nope. Maybe it'd be under Belladonna. Hmm... here it was...
She tried to read the passage under this entry but it didn't really give her much knowledge in the area of what it could do to a person... pfft. And the words were all jumbly and swimming about on the page and all the letters were in the wrong order and... gah. She couldn't concentrate... Her brain kept thinking of other things..
Like the reason she was looking for Belladonna... the phial in a mokeskin bag in the top drawer of her bedside table. And the little box that was in her pocket. The little box wrapped in green and silver wrapping paper. Because it was Kennedy's birthday... and however much she tried to tell herself that getting him something was a bad idea she just couldn't restrain herself from doing so... He was of age now... and her mother had made a batch of this anyway... so two little phials wasn't going to make much difference and it wasn't as though she'd spent loads of money on him or anything... She'd given the first to Mordred for Christmas but... this one... seemed right for Kennedy. Somehow.
She shook herself and went back to her book... nope. This one was no good. She pushed it out of the way and grabbed another from her pile. Belladonna... hmm...
Kennedy made his way to the study tables with a small bounce to his step. Even though Slytherin had lost the Quidditch match there were many things he was glad for. First, that no more students were frozen. Okay. Who was he going to kid, he had only cared about Sierra's well being. Sure, he worried about the others, but he didn't have a crush on them, now did he.
Second, it was his birthday. He was now officially seventeen. He has already received a handful of gifts from his family, and that clearly cheered him up as well.
Kennedy stopped by the front tables. There was no way he was going to be studying on his birthday, so that wasn't the reason he was here. Aurora had told him she had something for him and it'd be rude to decline it. That and he wanted to try to fix things...even if he wasn't the cause of it. That was the advice he had been consulted so, why not try it, right?
He spotted her and approached her. He noticed the book and tilted his head. What was she looking up? It didn't matter, probrably studying for O.W.Ls.
"Hi," he said, stuffing his hands into his pant pockets.