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Cassirin 
"There isn't anything wrong with wanting to be important, I guess..." Or not important exactly, but wanting to make a difference. It was admirable in a way. But she felt like she had to point something out, just in case Louisa misunderstood Cassandra Rae-Branxton in some way. "She doesn't think of herself like that. I mean, she knows that she is and so she uses it, but I don't think she wanted it and I don't think she seeks it."
Her mother had chosen to be an Auror too, after all, and then had come to teach at Hogwarts after her first husband died. Everything that happened after that was just a result of being willing to be used where she was.
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It probably didn't matter that her new friend didn't really get her mother, but she felt like it was important to try explaining. Merlin, though... why did they keep coming back to her mother? Vivi felt a pang of doubt, wondering if Louisa was interested in her friendship for less-than-sincere reasons.
"Oh, that's alright then. I can be here for part of the holiday. Who is... we? The prefects and such?" She turned her head slightly to study the other girl. It was true she hadn't had a high opinion of Louisa initially, and when she thought of the things she'd said to Sierra about her, the pompous-Vivi-handing-down-opinions... well, she was embarrassed by it. They might have difficulty being friends, but Louisa appeared to be good people TOO and didn't deserve her censure.
She didn't seek 'it'? That makes her even a better role model, and really Louisa tried imagining the caring gentle toned President back in her youth (not that she's
too old, ahem) and failed to see her running from place to place trying to climb up the ladder to power greedily. However, she wondered about something. "
Is it bad?" Her face mirrored her concern and slight confusion, "
People who seek influence and authority. They're usually the ones who fall easily into the abyss of greed and darkness." Louisa read enough to learn this fact. "
But what if they just want to be have a better influence on the world." Her tone was skeptic, she didn't know the real answer apparently.
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It's a secret though!" The redhead added quickly, "
I haven't told anyone about it." Except Vickers of course. She just told him they were working on a surprise for the students around the winter holidays. So Vick and Vivi. "
Yep, the prefects along with the quidditch captains and the staff. It's going to be really fun." Pause. "
And quite stuffing." She pretended to poke Vivi's hidden-under-a-thousand-blankets tummy.
She rolled back onto her back, tucked her arms under the blanket for more warmth, and folded them on her stomach. "
I haven't really asked you this before. I could feel that you're not so happy with the professors, but what about the students? Did you click with anyone yet?" A sly smile made its way onto Louisa's face, she meant friends basically but if Vivi felt like doing girly talk about crushes, who's hot and who's not, Louisa was up for it too. Hehe.