SPOILER!!: Anna<3
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sweetpinkpixie 
With money given to her for her third year textbooks, Anna had skipped right on in to Sugarplums and then right back out later with her weight in Puckering Sour Swirls and Licorice Wands. Not her literal weight but still entirely too much for someone so petite - or at least that would be the argument her step father would make. Anna never did anything out of malicious intent nor to be rude or callous or any other negative word you could think of. She didn't even do anything carelessly because she always had lots of thoughts! She might remember later, or at the latest when she skipped back to Obscurus Books and found her mama, that she ought to have spent the money on her education and not her immediate need for sugar buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut for now sugar and a happy tummy and energetic skipping won out. She could hardly even feel the weight of it all since her beaded rainbow bag had been enchanted with a featherlight charm (again, because she should be carrying a bunch of books and those weighed a fair bit!).
So it was, with a licorice wand in hand and her toes touching the ground just long enough to push off it, that Anna Walles came bouncing down the cobbled streets and happened upon one of the many wonderful spirits she had the esteemed pleasure of calling a friend. While naturally eliciting princess vibes and specifically Sleeping Beauty ones, Anna had dubbed Aurora with that sort of nickname...though she had been inspired by it. Rather, the day she had properly met the, then, first year Anna had just so happened to be flipping through her Astronomy textbook and admiring all the pictures (the words never made much sense to her but she could appreciate the pictures plenty!) and there had been a set on the Northern Lights and that was also called the aurora borealis. Sooooooooooooooo Princess Aurora Borealis of the Ravenclaw Tower was the current working title buuuuuuuuuuuuuut Anna wasn't quite satisfied with it yet. Sometimes it took time to establish the bestest titles for all her friends.
But, for now...
"AURORA!" she chirped, no longer skipping but hopping as high as she could up while waving both hands to draw additional attention to herself. Usually her voluptuous curls did a good job of this on their own and sometimes she wondered what it might be like if each curl was alive. Like how Medusa had snakes for her...only Anna would want something like that without the petrification bit. When the wind was blowing, like it was now, it WAS almost like the curls were alive and dancing around. "Aurooooooooooraaaaaa! Do you like licorice wands? Would you like one? I've got plenty and you look like you could use a sugar break with the way you are looking all adamantly and ardently at that list you've got there. Or a puckering sour swirl? I've got plenty of those too!"
Staring down at her list was not helping with recollecting what she had already bought or not. The items were all starting to merge into one and some seemed pretty unnecessary in her opinion. She wrinkled her nose in response wishing that instead of buying heavy textbooks and weird potion ingredients she could invest in a new skirt or even better yet, a Pygmy Puff! She was starting to debate ways that she could conceal a pet from her Ma who was waiting in Florean’s for her but was grateful for the distraction that came in the form of her friend Anna.
The blonde grinned and waved back at the Hufflepuff with enthusiasm. Aurora was your typical girly-girl who enjoyed all things pink and sparkly and princess-y (although she wasn’t afraid of getting a little grubby sometimes too). Hogwarts seemed to lack in the princess types which is why she was thrilled when she had crossed paths with Anna who shared a lot of similarities with the young girl. Anna was the type of friend who had to be protected at all costs!
“Hi Anna!” came the musical giggle out her mouth.
Aurora, also extremely petite and therefore particularly subject to the effects of sugar, had been unfortunately blessed with a pair of health conscious mums whose preference was that their children didn’t have access to the sweet stuff. The Ravenclaw meanwhile had an extremely sweet tooth and over her first year at Hogwarts had probably consumed her weight in ice cream which thanks to an active personality and a fast metabolism had not shown too much as she arrived back home. She really didn’t fancy being subjected to one of her Ma’s ‘disappointed’ looks if she had found out. Ariadne, who had shared many a bowl of dessert in the common room, was thankfully a very good secret keeper too. The offer of a sweet from Anna was met with an enthusiastic nod.
“I’d love a Puckering Sour Swirl,” she answered.
“I’m not very keen on liquorice. Ma says it’s because I haven’t developed the taste buds for it yet.” Whatever
that was supposed to mean. Liquorice allsorts had always reminded her of her Great Grandma who kept a packet in her kitchen cupboard and would offer them out when the family visited. Personally she thought they were gross but she guessed that everyone liked different things.