 Rhibear ~ Madam Solo ~ Dark Brooding Girl ~ Accio Jedi ~ Gryffinclaw ~ Just a doll
Tina didn't want to come to charms class today, but this time it wasn't out of loyalty to M. Marchand or frustration with Professor Dopple's teaching methods. The woman's ghostly form was a bad reminder for her - and not just a reminder of what the fluffy pink monsters running amok in the school could do! She was a bad reminder of Tina's unkindness. She had been awful to Professor Dopple while she was alive… not so much to her face. She wasn't dumb enough to outright insult a professor, but she'd been mean in other ways… constantly snarking to herself and comparing Dopple to M. Marchand, showing off her charms talents at every opportunity to show what she'd learned from a “real” charms expert, not to mention the purple butterfly she wore in some form to every charms class as an act of protest. She still had the purple butterfly, this time worn as a hair clip, but the meaning behind it had changed. And it wasn't alone. Today there was a white butterfly in her hair with the purple one.
Tina was going to make an effort to be kinder to Professor Dopple. She managed a small smile for the ghostly professor - not much of one, but it was more of a smile than she'd given the woman all term. “Hello, Professor Dopple,” she greeted politely, sparing only a passing glance. It made her too sad to look at the professor for long! The thought crossed Tina's mind to offer help, but seeing as a lot of her classmates had already done that, she wondered if it was necessary. She supposed it couldn't hurt. “If… uh, you need help with anything, let me know,” she added.
Without another word, she took her usual seat at the back of the room and waited for the lesson to begin. Her dart eyes darted around the room, searching for something to distract her from her feelings, and landed on the obviously dead cat on the desk. That cat just gave her an idea! But it would have to wait for now... she had a charms lesson to get through first.
__________________ Old voices I had thought long since dead whisper of another life I might have led
If I could take that second chance, If I could make my life anew, If only dreams came true... |