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Old 02-06-2024, 09:05 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Hope Archard
Ravenclaw
Fifth Year
Default Hope (of H&E): 2000 points minus 1900 = 100 left over

Hope went over to the prize shelves to look more closely, especially at the creature plushies. They were beautiful! And looked so soft. Hope had never really had a real, store-bought toy like this before; all her dolls and such were homemade by one of her family (though she did love them nevertheless). But she really wanted a stuffed phoenix...Then her eyes strayed to the next shelf, with all the games. A Wizarding chess set! They were very impressive-looking. But Hope also noticed the other games--her brothers and sisters would enjoy playing one of those very much during the cold winter evenings. Hope could picture it in her mind...

Then she remembered --she wasn't sure she even wanted to go home after she left school. Maybe she wanted to be a sophisticated young lady in the greater Wizarding world, instead of stuck in a pokey little isolated village. Oh bother! She was only 14 years old, how could she be expected to know what she would do so far in the future? And she did love her family. But the games were 1500 points, and she only had 2000, so she couldn't get a plushie and a game both. In the end, though she looked a little longingly at the stuffed phoenix, Hope decided to get the Exploding Snap game.

That was 1000 points, so she had 1000 left. Hmmm...those school supplies were attractive. All those quills and different colors of ink. Hope would have liked to have gotten one of each color, but in the end she picked a blue quill and a bottle of blue ink, to show a little Ravenclaw pride (she'd never felt smart enough to be a Ravenclaw, but she had answered a lot of the questions right today, so who knew? Maybe she'd grow into it by seventh year). So, that was 200 for the pen and 200 more for the ink, and that made 1900 points. She had 100 left, but none of the prizes were 100, so she turned to her partner, Hope. "Do you want to use my last 100 points?"
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