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Old 02-02-2021, 10:51 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Cameron Rhodes
Ravenclaw
Fourth Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe Calypso [s]Dupont[/s]
Slytherin
Seventh Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Charlie Fox-Matthews
Hufflepuff
Second Year
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

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”I beg to differ. The fact that you haven’t been crucio’d yet means you are smart enough ” he said with a shrug of his shoulders. They weren’t exactly friends who stuck together everywhere they went but he had heard talk about what she had been doing. If anything, the hufflepuff secretly admired the young girl for her defiance because the older he got, the more he thought things through before he acted which resulted in him bubbling up emotions until they exploded. ”I'll know though” he said as he stopped the ball with his foot and stepped on it. ”You have friends here too and they will understand your stories. I hope you remember that Ashley” he suddenly made a face ”Wow I sounded like an old man” he laughed.

How was he doing? Minjae looked behind him to make sure they were indeed alone . ”Oh you know, everyday is a struggle between complying with the alliance and wanting to send non-verbal hex their way” he said. Sometimes he would fantasize sending the dancing feet spell their way during classes so that everyone could have a good laugh for once. The consequences of that was what scared him though. ”But I’m not stupid, i know what will happen if i try” he kicked the ball back, harder this time because he was getting frustrated. ”I just want to see my family. Check if they are alright. I hate that we have no means of contacting them.”
"Well I am a Ravenclaw, apparently, so everyone thinks I'm smart. I don't know if being smart translates into making good decisions though. I know what the right decision is, and then I just do the opposite, not gonna lie. But I have a guardian angel who sits on my shoulder going 'nonono don't do that' whenever I do something too crazy." Because you know what Ash did? She did more and more crazy, high-adrenaline, high-risk stuff until she thought she would actually die, and then she started over and repeated it. Smart? No. Workable? Yeah. "Yeah. Some of us." Not all of us. "Some of us." He should watch out too, lest he make the mistake of thinking all the kids were on the same side. "You don't sound like an old man. You sound like a therapist. It's funny." She kicked the ball back. "I want to see if my best friend is alright. He doesn't know about the no-letters thing, so I'm really hoping he hasn't chosen to send me anything. They could trace it." Luckily, Ash had stuff in place to make sure that her best friend didn't come close to the wizarding world. She never talked about it with him, and made sure all of his letters were forwarded by her bodyguards. Because when you love someone, you have to make sure they stay far away from your torture. "I'm scared, you know. Because to escape, you have to revolt, and to revolt, you have to be okay with casualties. And I don't want anyone to die for me, whether they're kids or ministry workers. But at the same time, a lot of us will die if we never escape. I think about it a lot, but I haven't found any loopholes yet. Because the alliance will fight to the death, but I don't want us to die fighting. So the only way out is to win. But winning is dying." She shrugged. "There's always a way. It's just only accessible from outside of here, which is why I can't see it yet." And she believed that. Nobody won a war by accepting defeat. If you were careful and had help, you could always find a way out. Being careful was why she was whispering. She had that part down. Now she just needed to trust that someone out there was coming with help.
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