Penelope left the delicious lunch in an excellent mood. She'd managed sit near Gion Ingbretson and spent the entire hour trying to overhear his conversation, hoping to get some hot gobstones news. She'd been so focused that she'd barely managed to enjoy the good old homestyle Hogwarts House Elf cooking.
But on coming back to their booth, that mood quickly evaporated. "What the bl....blazes has been going on here?!" she demanded of the room in general. Many of the displays and giveaways they'd all brought with them were in disarray, especially the very nice display that her colleague, Chrysanthi Owens, had made. Penelope had been meaning to compliment her on her work, but had been distracted by seeing one of her gobstone idols there, and now it was all a wreck.
"Oh, Chrysanthi, your nice displays are all ruined!" she exclaimed to the other woman, "And they were so well-done!" Pen started gathering things up off the floor and laying them back on the booth table. "Are any of your mementos missing?" Good thing all the stuff they brought no longer had curses on it, or they'd really have been in trouble.
Last edited by MadAlice; 07-12-2023 at 07:03 PM.
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