Text Cut: Artemesia Timms
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The Portraits Oh, goodness! There were so many students here now! And such pretty little girls. Artemesia could hardly remember a time when so many people gave her this much attention. They must truly be fans! But the many questions were making her already muddled head even more confused. Er.. um.. the pleasant woman looked from one girl to the next, trying to focus. But they were still on the subject of Quidditch! And of course they were! They were her fans!
"Your sister isn't that dreadful Cherrine McFancie, is she? She's something of a rival." Artemesia gave Ariadne a knowing look. It was almost as if the beater had put a target on her. It was awful. What were they talking about again? Oh right, her most important event. "Why that would be the day that the Caerphilly Catapults recruited me as their starting seeker." She beamed at all her little fans. Where they her to interview her for a magazine?
But then she let out a little gasp. "I'm not dead!" Her in-person counterpart was quite a bit older, not that that thought was even in her head at the moment. Sometimes she forgot she was a portrait and not a person. Until questions like the next one. "Oh, I've never been in another portrait.. I hadn't had the opportunity until Ansley brought me here." And she had felt a little shy about it.
Ariadne dashed to her book bag and pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill. Had she known when they started the activity that she'd have to write a whole paragraph, she'd have gathered some note-taking material way earlier. She took a few minutes to jot down everything she'd learned so far and then dashed back to the portrait. When she returned, Artemesia had been talking away to some of the other students. OH, NO! Did she miss everything?
...no, not everything, because Ariadne got back just in time to hear the portrait's loud gasp and shock over being called dead. Oh, no! She'd gone and made the lady made, and just seconds before, she'd called her precious! She didn't need to get on Artemesia's bad side. She had a paragraph to write!
"I'm sooo sorry!" she said.
"Please forgive me, Miss Artemesia!" "You were a SEEKER? That's an awesome position to play!" she exclaimed. "I bet you're a really good player!" She was careful not say 'you WERE a really good player', because as the woman had just pointed out, she was NOT dead.
"My sister's a beater for the Holyhead Harpies. I want to be a beater or a keeper one day, too!" Sooo...what else did she want to know?
"So what was it like being famous? Did you get to sign LOADS of autographs?"