Minerva finally made her way back to her dorm room. She was exhausted throwing the shoulder bag to the ground she stopped at the mirror. She could barely look at herself. Her hair was short, because she had only taken such a small amount of the potion terrified Queen wacka doodle was trying to poison her or set her on fire again.

It wasn't until she turned that she noticed the red roses near her bed. She sent them there.. They had been there the entire time. As much as she wanted to be happy the thought of them turning into that plant.. That clown faced, burning, took her robes and hair fire plant. She couldn't look at them she had to get rid of them. Picking them up she felt the emotions building again all the anxiety, stress, and humiliation flooded her and she turned throwing them at the wall. Seeing roses scatter Minerva curled in a little ball on her bed and began to cry.

Laura had decided that she would clean the dorms again because she knew they needed doing and she wanted to give Minnie a treat because she was a bit annoyed with herself, she was going to go and do the sixth year girl dorm, when she suddenly heard some crying coming from the room, she didn't like that and so she decided that she would go and see if she could help.

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Laura rushed over to Minnie and sat down on her friends bed, Minnie had helped her when she was sad and now she was going to try and repay the favour, she didn't like the way Minnie hair looked, what had happened to it. "Minnie." Laura whispered to her friend. "What happened?" Laura looked at her friend, she wanted to give her a massive hug but first her friend would have to sit up. "If you need a hug, I'm here." Laura said truthfully, "And held out her hands, so her friend could give her a massive hug.

Minerva felt someone sit on the bed and looked up seeing Laura she first hid her face. "Go away" She didn't want to talk to anyone really. Why bother, it was horrible and she was humiliated. So why would she want to tell anyone else about it. No she covered her eyes and continued to cry hoping Laura would go away, but at the same time not wanting her to leave. She really didn't feel like being alone

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A hug.. Visions of the plant and the fire pushed into her mind and she shuddered. "N...no.. no hugs." She never wanted to hug again. So it was back to the no touching policy she had a few terms ago it seemed. How could one day go so wrong. She couldn't figure it out still. Finally she sat up and pulled her legs to her chest wrapping her arms around them. "I.t..it was that detention. I..I got detention with.. with Ethan." Voice shaking and trying to stop her tears to talk Minerva took a deep breath. "The Wacka doodle healer saw me waiting for Ethan on the pathways. Ethan came and she said we ignored her, that we just were being couplish or something, so she put us in detention." Her head hurt from all the crying, she couldn't even focus long enough to get out information. "Lafay was there, she set the plant on fire.. I had to hug it.. It burnt my hair off." She buried her face crying into her legs.

Laura looked at Minnie, she didn't want her head bitten off for staying but she also knew she couldn't leave Minnie like this. "I'm sorry Minnie, but I'm not leaving." Laura said truthfully, then she sat there listening to the story, she folder her arms on her chest and sighed.

"I'm sorry Minnie." Laura said once her friend has told her what had happened. "When I was in my second year, the healer chained me to the wall and them put goo all in my hair," Laura sighed, she had hated it and she had tried to block it out of her mind, but now it came flooding back to her, but this wasn't about her she could cry about that later.

Laura sighed, she wanted to do something evil to Lafay for making Minnie upset. "Minnie, I like your hair." Laura said truthfully. "It suits you, though if you want I'll try and use that spell the Professor taught us last year or the year before where we had to grow each others hair." Laura had just remember about that spell, why hadn't she remembered it awhile back when she needed it.

Laura decided just to sit there and hope that Minnie wouldn't be mad with her for not going but she had made a vow to herself that she wouldn't leave until she knew Minnie was going to be okay, she didn't like seeing Minnie like that.

Minerva trembled still seeing the visions of what happened. She listened to Laura and frowned, "How do they get away with this stuff. How hasn't any parents came after the school?" She knew she didn't have parents to come defend what was going on and her grandparents didn't understand as it was if she said anything negative she wouldn't be allowed back into this world and going back to the muggle world was not an option now.

"She is pure evil... crazy.. both of them are, but I think Lafay is worse. At least it was just slim. It washes out. THE WOMAN BURNED OFF MY HAIR.. All of it gone and my robes and shoes." She whimpered saying it. Lafay was a new level of crazy. Healer Tillstorm might not have set the plant on fire, but she laughed, she thought it was funny. What type of person thinks like that and she is suppose to be healing children.

She looked at Laura and blinked, "How can you like my hair." She frowned at it. She loved her long hair, but it wasn't even her hair that she was bothered by. She could just take the rest of the potion and have it back, but she was still freaked out that Lafay might slowly poison her. She looked at Laura was she meaning the spell she just used to help Laura, shaking her head, "No.. no I can do it myself, I just think after it being burned off it just needs to grow on it's on."

Laura really wanted to hug her friend but she didn't because Minnie didn't seem to want a hug yet and then she hurt all about what had happened. "I think no parents complain because the children are too scared to tell anyone." Laura said truthfully, she hadn't told her parents about her punishment but she would make sure they treat Minnie like a daughter this summer when Minnie came over to her house.

Laura just sat on her friends bed and listened to the story, "I always said Lafay needed to get hugged more." Laura was sure that Lafay was mean because she wasn't hugged enough, hugs meant that someone cares about you kind of like Laura cared about all her friends, she didn't want to see anyone hurt and if it wasn't for the fact she had promised everyone she'd before, Lafay would be getting a dungbomb thrown in her office for what she had done to Minnie but well she wouldn't.

Laura just sat there on the end of the bed, she wondered if it would make Minnie happy if she had short hair too, that way she could show her friend that short hair was good. "I just think it suits you." Laura said truthfully. "Also I think it's really nice." Laura then listened to Minnie. "I liked your long hair too, but it's up-to you, if you really want long hair, I will use that spell and make it longer again." Laura felt like she was about to cry because of the fact she had failed Minnie, by not being able to offer a solution.

"As for your robes and shoes." Laura looked at her friends. "You can have a pair of mine, I know we will have to make them bigger but I insist that you take a pair of my robes, and shoes." Laura had brought extra, so she didn't mind giving her friend a pair.

Laura then decided to be brave and say something to her friend, that had kept her strong for all the time, she had detention, she just hoped that her friend wouldn't jinx her for saying this or shout at her. "No matter what happens to me in life, no matter what horrors I face, I know that as long as I keep true to myself, no one can break my spirit." Laura sighed, her grandmother had taught her that this Christmas after what had happened last summer, she just hoped she hadn't upset her friend by saying it, she sat on the edge of the bed and waited to see what Minnie did next, she was a bit upset.

Minerva nodded Laura was probably right. "Maybe someone needs to tell their parents about it." She wondered if Ethan will, but then she feared what his parents might do. They wouldn't want him to leave before the end of term, right. She pushed it out of her mind. He would never leave her, but then again he had to leave her sooner than she wanted. She couldn't even handle those thoughts right now. She buried her face in her legs again.

Min threw her head up when she heard Laura "NOOOOOOOO don't you ever hug her. Do you hear me.. NEVER HUG LAFAY. . or Tillstorm for that matter." She trembled at the thought of what those hugs cost her. Pictures of hugging that plant on fire entered her head. No way did she want Laura to go through that. She wanted no one to go through what her and Ethan did in that dungeon. Her hand went to her head as she put her fingers through the short hair, "Thanks, but it's not how I wanted to go about getting short hair." She whimpered a bit as Laura kept talking about her hair. She didn't like being defined by her hair, but it was a big part of her.


Shaking her head she looked up, "Thank you Laura, but I have extra. I have plenty of shoes and a few robes." She was a seventeen year old girl, of course she had more shoes. She wiped her eyes and tried to calm down a bit as she listened. When did Laura because so... mature.. Minerva took notice of this and was grateful that her friend was being so sweet. "Thanks Laura for everything." She wanted nothing more than to be alone, but she was glad that Laura was there too.

Laura looked at Minnie and sighed. "Maybe someone will, but I know it won't be me." Laura was upset after talking about the detention, it came flooding back to her all the slime and the chains and Oakey having to clean up even though his back was hurting like crazy.

Laura almost jumped backwards of the bed when Minnie seemed to wake up a bit. "I promise I won't hug her then." Laura just didn't like her friend looking like this, she wanted to do something to cheer her up, she was feeling like a failure at the minute, she wasn't doing a very good job, she decided to leave the hair thing out of it.

Laura just stared into space as her friend, said thanks for everything, surely she hadn't done much, even her offer of robes had backfired on her, well she had one thing that hopefully wouldn't backfire. "Minnie, want to go to Hadley for a pick-me-up or do you want to be left on your own for a little bit?" Laura thought that Hadley would be able to help. "I think if we went to Professor Hadley we could talk to her." Laura hoped her friend would chose the first option but if she wanted to be left alone, Laura would leave her.

Minerva shrugged, "Or someone should write to the prophet, let the wizarding community know what's going on here. I bet people would listen if it was in the news paper." She wasn't sure if that would do any good or a letter to a board member. Then Professor Schirmer crossed her mind. She was a professor here did she not know what was going on. Then horror hit her no.. no.. Professor Schirmer would never do such mean things to students. Still sniffling she thought about sending her an owl, but would it do any good. Lafay had been there a long time and rumors were always going on about her and what she has done, but at the same time she trusted Professor Schirmer, she just didn't know. Minerva felt hopeless with the situation.

Breathing a sigh of relief when Laura promised not to hug Lafay, "I think I'm lucky to talking to you right now after hugging those two. I.. I don't know what's gotten into me, but it.. it won't happen again." Tears slid down her cheeks and she pulled herself into a tighter ball.

Did she want to go see Hadley, why, what did that do? She was still having the headaches from the match, maybe she should see her. There was no way she would see the healer for them. She would have nothing to do with Tillstorm after this, honestly she wanted nothing to do with any of the professors. She trusted those two, respected them and this is what they did. Who else in this school would burn her hair off given the chance, but at the same time Hadley had always been there for Minerva if there was someone at school at this moment she trusted it would be Hadley. She nodded, [b] "I..I'll go, but I don't know what to say or if I should say. W..What if Lafay comes after me for saying something."

Laura looked at Minnie and just sat there listening to what her friend was saying, she knew that it would be hard to prove anything, it was the way detention had been run for years but well she had a feeling that Lafay and the evil healer had gone a bit too far with this detention, she wanted to pull her friend into a hug but decided against it for now, Minnie could hug her when she was ready, she knew the offer was there.

Laura smiled at Minnie. "It's okay Minnie, everyone has a bad day now and again." Laura said truthfully she knew that she probably would have a couple more bad days. "You have to realise that bad days define us Minnie, it's how you cope with the bad things that makes you stronger, you can mope around or you can hold your head up high and say that no matter what happens you will never break my spirit." Laura stared into space, she had no idea where all this was coming from.

Laura then came back to earth when Minnie said she'd go to Hadley. "Cool, and don't worry if you don't want to say anything, then I can tell Hadley for you, I'd love to see Lafay try and come after me." Laura had decided that no matter what happened she would just let it go over her head, it was the only way to survive. "I'm ready when you are."

Honestly who was this person in front of her? Laura had changed this term. When they first started the term Min was so afraid of how it was going to go, because of summer issues, but she really pushed forward and had grown up so much. She couldn't help but finally give her friend the smallest smile. "Thanks Laura you're right, it's just getting those images out of my head." She shook her head, "You know the worst part about it all wasn't even my hair or thinking I was on fire even though it wasn't touching my skin." That was bad.. really bad and was going to haunt her for a long time, but she didn't feel it was the most horrible part. "The worst part was when they put up a wall and I couldn't see Ethan. They had put a silence charm on both of us, so I couldn't hear him either." Tears started again. "I didn't know what they were doing to him and that scared me to death. I didn't know if they were hurting him or what." She looked down trying to control her emotions.

She shook her head, "No I want none of that. I am not letting anyone else suffer because of this." If she decided not to say anything to Hadley that was her own choice and no one else should say anything. Sighing she leg go over her legs. "I...I think I'm ready."

Sophie carried the unmelting bowl of ice cream to the girls dormitory and went straight to her bed. Sitting down, she staaaaaaaaaaaaaaared at the ice cream.

It was beautiful! Colourful and stuff. Sophie approved of the colours.

But she was still a bit suspicious about it... what with making everyone crazy and stuff... but the Charms' assignment this time was to actually eat the ice cream and share it with someone... and she HAD TO do it. It was Charms, after all! She HAD TO!

After taking a deep breath, the badger took a spoonful of the pretty ice cream and......... ate it.

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Okay, now what? Blink. The brunette looked around as if searching for something, though she didn't know what. Merlin, that was good ice cream, right there. Yum. She took another spoonful and eyed her dorm some more. It was pretty! She remembered the day she changed the colours of everything there and she felt like doing it again.

AGAIN!

She ate more of the yummy ice cream and kicked her legs some. What a nice day, that was. Lovely day to practice some Charms! Oh, speaking of Charms, that one they had just learned was super cool! Sophie wondered if she would be able to multiply the amount of ice cream in her bowl, since she hadn't gotten a lot because pffffft she was being silly and being afraid to eat that yumminess. Aaaand another spoonful for her tummy!

Omnomnomnomnom!

"BRADY!" She yelled called out for her bunny rabbit that should be somewhere around there. He should TRY this! "BRADY." Sophie didn't let go of the bowl of ice cream and lay down on her bed to look under it upsidedown. "There you are! Come out!" She said sitting back up and pulling her wand out. She waved it a bit around the ice cream, chuckled and increased the quantity of the ice cream in the bowl.

Oh yum. That looked lovely! But Brady hadn't come out! "BRADY!" Come come comeeeeee! Sophie hopped off her bed and knelt down beside it, sticking her head underneath it to take a better look at her pet. "You need to try this! It's awesome!" The fifth year watched as her bunny ran away from her yelling invitation and got up. "BRADY! Don't be so rude! This is BRILLIANT!" She called out again, chasing the pet outside the dorms.

Ella was sprawled on her bed, Divination text book open in front of her and her notes from class beside that. She was staring curiously down at her palm, wondering if she should be worried about her Life line. It didn't exactly sound very promising. Manipulated by others was particularly frown-worthy and the blonde wondered who she knew that might do something like that. She didn't like to think she was easily manipulated. Maybe she'd have to pay closer attention from now on or something. As for the being tired part, that was definitely true. The sixteen year old took on a lot and so it wasn't surprising that she'd be run down most of the time. She really did need to learn how to relax.

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.

With her life line done, the blonde moved on to the fate line. She first noticed how deep hers was and she ran a finger along it curiously, having never really thought about it much before. This meant that she was strongly controlled by fate, yeah? So...did that mean she had no control over what happened to her? That...was a bit scary to think about. The blonde also noticed that her fate line went right across her life line. That... meant that she had supportive friends and family. Or well, it probably meant that they'd be supportive with whatever she ended up doing with her life...which was strongly controlled by fate. ...Yeah. This was meant to be a good thing, right? ...Right.

Scribble. Scribble. Scribble.




Once she added her current findings to her notes from class, she shut her text book and decided a snack was in order. ...Was eating lots in her fate too?

Uhh.