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Desiree was listless tonight, and she didn’t know why. Maybe it was the end-of-summer blues. Maybe it was a sugar crash after way too many sweets on the train, or maybe it was something else. Whatever the case, she was feeling less than her usual upbeat self. Nonetheless, she still waved to her housemates as she took her seat at the Hufflepuff table. “Hi, everybody!” she greeted. “Have a good summer?”
Willing herself not to doze off before the feast began, she propped her head up on one arm. She absentmindedly listened to the conversations going on around her until the mention of a snake caused her to sit upright. Hold on, did Maria say her dad was mernapped?! And a snake just happened to turn up in a basket with her name on it? Did anybody else find that ridiculously suspicious? Maybe it was the years of warnings from her dad making her paranoid, but she didn’t think that was a coincidence.
Should she say something or…? She blinked, her bright blue eyes darting from the basket in the middle of the table to Maria. One look at her, and Desiree decided against voicing her concerns. Instead she gave the younger girl an encouraging smile. “Hey, it’ll be okay,” she said. They’d tell a professor, like everybody else was saying, and get to the bottom of this. “Chocolate frog?” she offered, reaching into her bag. If there was one thing she’d learned from her dad, it was that sweets made everything better!
__________________ 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... |