Originally Posted by Orchideae

And then before he could speak anymore about his hatred of the Runic subject, Copernicus showed up and took the seat next to Celandine. Noticing the attention he gave her, he couldn't help but feel certain envy about the pair. No, he didn't like Cel-an-dine in that way; it'd be AWKWARD because Cel-an-dine was like a little sister. But it was more just the fact that HE never experienced anything like that Willow.

Sure they talked, but he didn't know what to do with her. He liked her and wrote poems about her, for her, but other that, nothing. Yet Copernicus, seemed to get it right and he had no more experience than he had. At least Dom didn't think he did.

Sighhh.

"Copernicus." He greeted, for once not reciprocating the last name greeting. "It's good and yes, we do still need to visit Svennson." Time seems to get the best of them sometimes and Dominic wondered where it went at times.

Of course Cela liked runes; judging from the fact that moments prior she had said she found the homework EASY. Her offer though was near impossible to resist; for one, Professor Lupa had suggested last year that someone tutor him in the subject and two, her cheerfulness. Plus the added shoulder bump was even more convincing.

"That would be great," Dominic agreed, because even though he had no intentions of doing ANYTHING with Ancient Runes in his future, he still wanted to prove he could do better than a Troll in the subject.

And speaking of doing better, she just HAD to bring up the dreaded NEWT examinations. "It's ... going," Dominic answered vaguely, because honestly he HADN'T given much thought to preparation as he should have. Except taking Copernicus' advice and making that study schedule. But following the schedule; now that was something else entirely! "And your OWL preparation?" Dom asked, changing the subject around.

Wait . . . WHAT?

Hang? What does that even mean? "Uh... Yes, Hogsmeade, but I'm not particularly fond of hanging anywhere," he explained, as he recalled from distant memory about Cel-an-dine and her tree-climbing ventures. Because he was NOT going tree-climbing with her, even if she tried to make him. That was where he drew the line.


Wait? No!! Cela can't know about why him and Copernicus want to talk to Svennson. That wasn't public information; it was probably silly in some regards, but it was excellent NEWT prep and provided them with practical experience for almost all areas.

Yet before he could try to prevent Copernicus from telling Cela about their intentions for NEWT prep and reasoning for speaking with Svennson, something plopped down on the table and HIS Arithmancy book.

"What the?!" Noticing the letter, Dom swallowed nervously and untied it from the leg of the owl. Which just as he got the letter free, before he could take in the full appearance of the owl, it flew off as though satisfied its work was done and in a hurry to carry on with the next mission.

Reading the letter, he frowned, because of the reminders it carried with him. Odd; three years ago, he never thought he would be this sad about leaving. And now . . . three years later . . . Sigh

Originally Posted by Daffy.Potter

Livvy grinned as the girl laughed. Well it was only reasonable and logical that Perni would want to sit next to his girlfriend and vice versa. She didn't want to stand in the way of anything. Now THAT... was uncool. "How have you been, Cela? How are you liking the whole Healer Helper thing?" she asked, trying not to make a face while she was it. It was nice and all, but honestly, Livvy didn't like it. Melita was hardly ever there and really... Livvy didn't think she learned ANYTHING from it. Besides lessons on looking like an idiot and doing nothing. Not that she ever really needed lessons for that.

.... Anyhow, she wanted to get started. Not that she cared for studying. She just wanted to DO something. Or do something somewhat useful or beneficial.



The Ravenclaw girl then turned her attention back to Dominic. The guy she had caught snogging her Quidditch Captain two terms ago. She wasn't sure if he still had a thing for Willow, nor was she sure if Willow had a thing for him. In fact. Livvy didn't know what was going on between the two period. She made it her business not to care about gossip or the love lives of other people when it didn't involve her. Not that she was involved in anything romantic.

Romance? ... Yeaaahh.. no.

Not her thing. How many times had she failed at this so called 'life course'. A bajillion of times, that was for sure. No way was she, Olivia Zhang, taking it again.

Pushing all that aside, Livvy studied the guy's face. He seemed to be pondering something. What was he pondering? Did he not know who she was? That was highly possible. No one ever knew who she was. She was highly unpopular and insignificant that probably at her death, they'll write Liver instead of Livvy in her obituary. Uncool.

Oh. THEEERRE we go. Dominic finally said her name and she just smiled. "How's it going?" she asked, politely. Livvy wanted to be nice... and get to know him... not that she was trying to win brownie points with him because he was the Head Boy. Of course not.



Livvy glanced up to see Copernicus, hurrying over and taking a seat next to Cela. Of course. Her lips couldn't help but twitch as she smiled. "Hey Perni," she said, brightly.

Originally Posted by fire_faerie

"All right guys, before we start I have a proposition. Would you like to work in level groups or subject groups? I have taken the liberty of writing up a list of our homework and we have a total of five official assignments to hand in with another, er, less formal one," she glanced around at them, wondering how many actually knew of Professor Ashby's informal homework.

"We could split into five groups - or six, depending - with each one working on a different piece of homework. Once some of us are done, we could alternate between the groups so that we can get it all done tonight," she finished up, and nodded to everyone. Now it was time to see what they thought.