 be curious, not judgmental
The common room was not a place Sophie Brown hung around these days. It had once been a place she loved to hang out with Eves, Parbear, and CB, but... it didn't feel as much like home anymore. Maybe it was a sign that she was growing up or maybe it was simply that she loved being able to be around her friends from all houses as much as possible... but the fact of the matter was that she avoided lingering in the common room as much as possible. If people wanted her, they could catch her in her dormitory or knew she would be out and about. She was an active girl - staying cooped up in the common room wasn't her cup of tea.
Today, however, as she made her way to the common room, she had to battle far more cobwebs than she could remember in the past days. As she approached the bronze knocker, her wand was out and she vanished the cobwebs as she went instinctively, but when she entered the common room itself... uh, ew?
She'd tried not to pay the room much attention in the past months aside from checking to see who was present and who she could greet, but... the room felt even more uncomfortable and unsettling than normal. She paused in her journey to the dorm to take in the elements of the room - it felt almost like they were down in the dungeons. The cobweb infestation was extremely out of hand, and... the Ravenclaw sighed. As a prefect, it was probably, like... her responsibility to take care of the room, right? Maybe she could round up Tanner and Kitridge to stage a house-wide clean-up to restore everything to normalcy, but for now... she would do what she could.
Aiming her wand at the various cobwebs on the nearby wall, Sophie cast "Evanesco!" at one cobweb at a time, wanting them to go far, far away into non-existence. Bye bye, cobwebs. See you never.
...Was that Gabe over there? Sophie paid him a glance, observing what seemed to be the end of some sort of spazzing from him, but tore her gaze away because... if he knew she saw him, he'd be mega embarrassed, right? So she was trying to spare him the shame and mind her own business. She saw nothing, co-prefect.
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