It was time to do the homework thing and to Vesper, that meant visiting the library. Yes, she could've done this in the Ravenclaw tower but...Well, that was a peaceful, happy place...and she didn't want to ruin it with negative things. Like homework.

Entering the library, the Ravenclaw curiously looked around before settling her eyes towards the back of the room. There. Study tables. Perfect.

While she was suffering the effects of the aging dilemma like everyone else, hers wasn't nearly as advanced and because of that, she was able to make it to the tables fairly quick. Of course, her knees did hurt...and her back felt tension beyond its years...Nothing too awful, though. Vesper was still convinced this was because she'd physically avoided her peers for so long. How wonderful it was to be a hermit...usually.

Taking a seat, she pulled out her notebook and flipped her the assignments section. Ves liked to keep a running list because she'd also gotten forgetful. Erm...maybe that was the old age at work, too. "History of Magic first, then." She'd already gotten the clay from the Professor's office...thankfully. She couldn't imagine that walk after the trek she'd just completed. Her knees needed a rest, gosh.

Pulling another notebook from her bag, there was more page riffling as she turned to her notes from the lesson. She needed to see her symbol for this amulet molding thing...and also because Vesper couldn't remember what symbol she'd chosen. There was a pause as the Ravenclaw rubbed her forehead. Had she always been this forgetful? OH. The Ankh. That was it. She beamed down at her sketch, remembering for a second that she hadn't picked the symbol for any reasons other than it's significance in her favorite Manga comics...

Ves enjoyed being muggleborn. Really.

Now, to start shaping this clay...

It was a relief that Lux was not the only one who was lost, and hopefully Sander would be able to help her even though he was not finding it easy either. Carefully, she listened to everything that he was saying to her and tried to take it in. "So I just write the weak spots down..." She could do that. Hopefully.

Looking at the assignment, she tried her best with it. When she was finally done, she showed him the paper. "Is this okay?" Crossing her fingers, she hoped for the best.

Sander looked up from his writing and pulled over the paper to examine what Lux had written on it. He checked each one of them carefully before nodding his head in approval.

"Absolutely perfect. If I'm not mistaken, you have every one correct. Sander smiled encouragingly at her.

"Don't forget to hand it in. I believe the deadline is just around the corner. I'm done with mine too. I doubt I have all of them correct, but my eyes are getting tired to check them again," Sander told Lux even as he rubbed his hands over his tired eyes.

"Do you want to do your History of Magic here or back at the House Study Tables?" Sander enquired. He really didn't have a preference either way.

This was a place he never went so why was the second year here now? To do homework of course. Yes Bart Maroon was doing homework, don't fall over anyone. He looked around now where did he go? It was weird being in this place since he avoided it most of the term so far, but he was into homework now and being responsible and all that old stuff. So what better place to do work than the library.

Stopping and looking around he noticed a girl the more he squinted the more he recognized her. Shuffling his frog slippers over towards her he stopped right in front of her table. "You're that keeper claw girl, right? You can make some wicked saves." He had been impressed with her.

Setting his book bag down the brown eyed boy pulled out his notes and clay. Flipping through them he found the symbol he had picked in class. The only thing he really did before falling out of his seat and escorted to the healer.

Looking over at the girl once more he nodded, "History homework?"

It was a predicted answer. She knew Cutty to be one of those who tried their best to work out their own problems by themselves and not ask for help until it was really needed. She nodded at him understanding his logic.

Was he surprised by her answer? He looked like it. She wasn't sure what part of the person she was to give her opinion on. So she went with the first thing that caught her attention. The man's looks. And he agreed! See, their tastes weren't that different. She wasn't sure what that meant. But hardly anyone could not see that Professor Thompson was handsome. And other adjectives she refrained from sharing them with Cutty.

And now it was her turn to be surprised. Mainly because she didn't expect that answer. It took only less than a minute for her brain to picture Tobias. She knew the boy, of course. But she saw him as a kid, like she saw Cutty and kids were CUTE! She could not compare them with the professor. "Uh-huh," was all she answered.

"What about girls?" She asked a shifty smile pulling at her lips. "Any good-looking one or ones?" Would he entrust her with such information, she didn't know.

And now, NOW he was thinking about Tobias, THE Tobias Tempus on a broom, dripping sweat after a hard game whilst his beautiful honey-coloured locks glistened and blew against the wind. And of course, everyone knew that it wasn't only about how well you played, but your marketability as a player and Toby had plenty of marketability. These thoughts resulted in Cutty looked rather blissed out over the Library ceiling. The same old library ceiling that they'd all seen before. A reverie he wasn't pulled out of until he heard Cassia's simple, 'Uh-huh'.

It relaxed him, actually, to hear that sort of response from anyone else. For it meant that Tobias was his for the taking and he would have to exert no formal effort to weasel his way into the boy's life. There were, of course the small academic favours like partnering up for exercises, giving him potions and history of magic notes and other such things, but he saw these things as more of a protecting his investment.

For all his scheming and forethought, however, this idiot still had no idea how to rationalize the fact that he had feelings outside of the acknowledged ones for Tobias. Or, perhaps he had considered them some rainy morning in his dorm whilst Caleb, Angeal & the other boys were away and realized how very little it would do for him. Just because you like someone, does not mean they will like you back now, eh?

What all this meant for Cassia Somerlad was that either Cutty was planting information or he trusted the elder girl a lot more than he'd ever said.

"Girls?" He let lose a scuffled sort of laughter. "Well the Ravenclaw prefect is quite a pretty girl, aint she? Also, I've been waiting for you to hook me up with Lex. Bet her daddy got money, don't he?" He joshed and joked. Cutty would never used a term like: hook me up.

As she watched Cutty, it seemed like so much was going on inside his head. Cassia hated to interrupt but she was curious to know what caused that sudden silence. Not that the young snake was usually a loud kid but she still could notice the calmness that engulfed the boy. She found herself glancing to the ceiling to see that it was just the same. How stupid of her, of course he wasn't gazing up at the ceiling.

Soon, though, he seemed to snap out of it and return to her. And if she had the slightest doubt that his silence was caused by sadness or anything unpleasant, the doubt evaporated hearing his answer.

Forgetting where she was, the sixth-year giggled only to cover her mouth as she remembered where she was sitting. Shooting a glance around she was glad no one shushed her or glared at her. "Dora, huh? She is pretty," She agreed with him. One of her very good friends, this one was.

On to mister Cambridge now. "He certainly does," on the money part. "But I don't think It's best for Lex to buy lots of candy at her current state," With all the aging thing. Though, Cassia could feel the Gryffindor's eyes squinting at her for denying her the opportunity to buy more sugar goods. "Your business is still on and going?" She asked, leaning back and sitting her hands on the armrests like a queen or something.

He was somewhat expecting Cassia to push the question and probe him a bit for his opinions on the younger years. You know, girls his age. But he truly wouldn't have had an answer. Well, not a truthful one. As he didn't fancy any of the girls his age. There were some that he got on with better than others like Marissa, who always knew what to say to him or Sophie because she was a little minx, but by and large most went almost out of their way to make themselves a nuisance to him and he had a way of dealing with them and it didn't involve snogging.

Though, at that very moment he gave serious consideration to that strategy. Next time he saw Fern or Tora, he'd walk straight up to them and give 'em a big smooch right in their face! Yeah!

Oh, they'd be so confused and Cutty would delight in this.

Anyway, Cutty sat up toward the edge of his seat. "Dora? Is that her name? I don't know very much about her." A true statement. And then Cassia went and mentioned Mr. Cambridge's money and Cutty couldn't stop himself from perhaps looking more attentive than he had this entire conversation. "I thought she might be from a good home." Which to Cutty was defined as 'wealthy'. "The way she was talking about buying last year that day we met up with her. Seemed like she had no limits, but the ones we had to impose upon her."

"I'm still in business, but I'm trying a word of mouth thing this year. Just to see how far it could get." And also to test the chain of chat, to see who spoke to whom at the school. He waterfall-slid off of the edge of his seat onto the floor and skooted near his books which he began to rearrange into a neat pile to carry back to the front desk. "But I haven't sold to Lex in a while." He said getting to the heart of the matter. Cassia needed to hear this. At regular intervals. Yes, mother we're behaving. "Perhaps, this aging thing has made her less inclined to eat so many sweets." Though, he'd sooner believe Lex to have had a boyfriend who bought her candy, then the afore mentioned theory.

Sander gazed at the students in the library. Some had their heads buried in textbooks, others were busy scribbling away working on their homework, while others were just chatting quietly among themselves. A majority of those heads, including his, sprouted grey hairs. As Sander watched, he wondered how many of these students had attended the recent Charms class. He suspected that if they had, they would soon be practicing the new spell Professor Fuller had taught them. The one that reversed the color of their hair from grey back to their original color.

While he waited for his friends to join him, Sander decided that he would practice the spell on himself first. If he was going to mess up, he'd rather it be him than one of his friends.

Opening his journal, Sander flipped to the page where he had written down the incantation to the spell and the wand movement for it. "Senectus Reversus....Senectus Reversus...Senectus Reversus," Sander read off the incantation, repeating it over and over again, until he was familiar with it. Checking to make sure he had the correct wand movement, Sander then practiced waving the wand in a circular motion first over one portion of his head and then another.

It was now time to apply both the wand movement and the incantation at the same time. And what better way to do it then to practice casting the spell. Pulling out a hand mirror from his backpack, Sander first examined himself in the mirror, brushing his fingers through his greying hair.

'All this definitely has to go. But I should work on one portion first, just to be sure I've cast the spell correctly,' Sander thought to himself.

Eeenie...meenie...miney...mo...Which of you shall I let go? Sander played the selection game until his finger landed on the left side of his head. He would start here first.

He placed his mirror right in front of the selected greying area. Tilting his head to the side a little, so that he could see his reflection from the corner of his eye, Sander waved his wand in a circular motion over the area while saying the incantation,"Senectus Reversus."

He watched as the greys began to change. The color of each strand getting darker as seconds passed until finally all the strands of hair on the left side of his head were now sandy brown in color. His spell had worked. Sander quickly ended the spell, saying,"Finite" and holstered his wand.

He studied his reflection in the mirror and began to laugh. He admitted that he looked comically funny, with one side of his sandy brown in color and the rest still grey. But Sander didn't care. He was just glad he now had a solution to his greying hair.

Now where were his friends? Sander was eager to help them with their greying hair too.

Hoping that she was not late, Lux made her way over to the study tables where she had agreed to meet her friends so that they could do their homework together. Spotting only Sander, she smiled and said, "hello." Placing her bag on the table, she took a seat and pulled out her wand. It was a good idea to practice the spell and then try it out on one of her friends, though unfortunately no one would be able to do it on her since she didn't have grey hair. Actually... she loved her red hair, so it made her beam that she was not getting older.

It was a good idea to practice the incantation. "Senectus Reversus... Senectus Reversus... Senectus Reversus." Repeating it until she was sure it was correct, she then moved on to trying out the wand movement.

Circular motions.

Lux repeatedly did them over the table until she was sure she had that mastered as well. If she could, she would have done a try out on herself, but that was not possible, so she would have to live without it.

Alex arrived at the library study area and began to look around for her friends. She spotted Sander and Lux and went over to find a table near them. "Hi guys", she said as she put her book bag down. Alex was meeting her friends to practice the hair coloring charm they had learned in class. She was glad that she would have some other heads to practice on besides her own.

Before she could trust herself to practice on anyone else, Alex figured it would be a good idea to test the charm on herself. She was happy with the results she had gotten when practicing the charm in class, but practice made perfect. Starting with the incantation, Alex repeated, "Sen-eck-tuss Re-vers-us, Sec-eck-tuss Re-vers-us". She then silently waved her wand over her head in a circular motion trying to produce the movements accurately.

Alex had checked her hair in the mirror before leaving the Ravenclaw dormitory so shew knew exactly where her gray patches were. Her hair had grown somewhat since her recent dye job. It was time to try the charm for real now. Waving her wand a circle over a portion of her head, Alex said, "Senectus Reversus". Yay, she was two for two. The small patch of hair that she'd addressed was back to it's natural brown. "Alright, who wants next?", Alex said.

Sander smiled and waved Alex over when he saw her join them at the library study tables. He waited patiently for her to finish practicing the spell on herself and when she asked for volunteers, Sander immediately raised his hand before realizing what he had just done. He grinned sheepishly lowering his hand at the same time.

"Why don't we exchange heads...I mean why don't I work on yours and you can work on mine. I'm trying to see whether I can look like a badger by the time we're all done," Sander chuckled. Moving over to sit next to Alex, Sander examined her head before raising his wand.

"I'm ready to start. Hold still," he advised his name twin as he waved his wand in a circular motion over the back of her head and said the words to the incantation,"Senectus Reversus."

He watched as the hairs in the area where he had cast the spell on, begin to change in color, the grey strands first slowly turning a light tan and then finally a shade of natural brown. Saying "Finite" Sander ended the spell before holstering his wand.

Then he picked up his mirror, and held it up behind Alex's head, while placing her own mirror in her hand and raising it up until she could see the reflection of her head from the back mirror reflected in the mirror she was holding.

"Is this your hair's natural color, Alex?" Sander asked Alex hoping that he hadn't messed up the color of his best friend's hair.

When Alex finished practicing the charm on herself, Sander volunteered to take turns working with her. Sitting down next to her, he prepared to work his magic on Alex's hair. She turned her head as Sander examined the back of it and tried to remain as still as possible. Hearing him say the incantation, Alex was anxious to see the result of his work. She looked in the mirror and was happy to see that the charmed portion of hair was perfectly brown. Yes twin, this is my natural hair color. It's perfect! I might need to make a standing appointment to have you do my hair.". Alex laughed at the thought of Sander being her hairstylist like Monte Bossa in Hogsmeade.

Then Alex turned to Sander and said, "Now it's your turn". She stood up while Sander sat so that she could adequately reach his head. "Hmmmm, where should I begin?" Saying, "eenie, meanie miney, mo", Alex decided on a patch of hair on the right side of Sander's head. Readying her wand, Alex made a circular waving motion over the target hair. Simultaneously saying, "Sinectus Reversus", she watched as his hair changed to its original sandy brown color. Handing Sander the mirror, Alex said, "Voila". "Well, what do you think?"

Turning to Lux, Alex addressed the younger girl. "Want to take a whack at my hair? There's plenty of gray to go around." Surely she needed to practice the charm too. Fortunate to have retained her fabulous natural hair color, Lux couldn't practice on herself.

Bay made it to the Library finally.. his old bones were so tired… he made a mental note to pick the next place they all do homework.. "Hey guys" he said to his friends when he saw them.. noticing that only Sander, Lux and Alex were there… "hmmm I wonder where Tessa is?" he thought..

Getting a closer look at his friends he saw that they had started doing their homework.. "you guys… errrr…. look good?" he held back a laugh… seeing that everyone else was almost done he thought it would be a good time to practice while they were working on each other.

taking out his wand he started to move it in circular motions in front of him.. and he said to himself "Senectus Reversus…………………….Senectus Reversus…………………..Senectus Reversus". uggghhh Bay needed to sit down.. pulling out a chair he sat down and he was still practicing the movements and muttering the spell…. soon enough his friends would be great enough to let him try it out on them.

As Lux continued to practice, she noticed that Alex and then Bay had joined them. "Hey, guys!" Oooh, Alex was asking her if she wanted to try the spell out on her. "You bet!" Getting up from her seat, she moved over to the other girl, and stood on her tip toes with wand raised outward so that she could reach the area that needed doing. Sometimes it really sucked being short, but she would manage.

With a circular motion over the target hair, she said, "Senectus Reversus." Voila, the spell had worked, and the part of hair that she had done lost its grey. Awesome, she had practiced enough. With a smile, she turned her attention to Bay. "Can I do your hair now?" She was sure he would agree, but it wasn't proper to just wave a wand at his head and do a spell on him without asking.

Sander waved Bay over the moment he saw them approach where he and his friends were sitting. He waited patiently for the fifth year Gryffindor to first practice the spell before offering to cast the spell on him.

"My turn...my turn. Can I try casting the spell on you now?" Sander asked Bay eager to practice casting the hair color reversing charm on his friend. Getting up from his seat, he moved over to sit next to Bay. Leaning over to examine his head, Sander showed Bay the area he would be working on.

"I'm going to work on this area if it's alright with you, Bay. It looks like it has the more greys," Sander pointed out the area to his friend holding up mirror and pointing out the area to him.

"Hold still," he advised Bay as he unholstered his wand. Waving his wand in a circular motion over the area of Bay's head, and said the words of the incantation, "Senectus Reversus."

He sat back and watched the spell work its magic on the greyed area. To his delight, he saw the grey hair turn a light tan, before turning different shades of brown until all the grey hairs in that area was gone.

"Hey Bay, can you check to confirm this is your hair's natural color?" Sander asked Bay holding up the mirror for him to inspect his head.

Alex noticed that Bay had joined them in the study area. "Hi Bay", she said as he began to practice the hair coloring charm.

Alex laughed at Lux enthusiasm toward practicing on her hair. Scrunching down as she approached, Alex offered her head and said, "I'm all yours". She tried to remain still while Lux went to work. Before she knew it, the job was done. Alex's hair was almost back to normal, but she still had a little Bride of Frankenstein thing going on on the side of her head.

Then addressing Bay, Alex said, "If you need someone else to practice on, you are welcome to my head.....that is if I can have a turn with yours.".

seeing how awesome all his friends were doing, they all seemed to want to practice on his hair… "sure guys go crazy" he said replying to them all.. hoping that they would be doing it one at a time.. not just waving their wands at him..

Bay laughed at Lux.. "Lux.. you don't need to ask… feel free to use any spot on my head.." he turned to Sander "dude.. that piece looks grey to mee.." he waited for Sander to cast his spell… taking the mirror from Sanders hands he took a look.. "dude… awesome.. thats my hair colour all right" he said while laughing.. he might have to get Sander to finish off his head incase there were any more hidden grey hairs.

turning to Alex he laughed.. "theres ton of Bay's hair to go around" he said while looking at hers.. she still had some grey.. "mind if I get that bit first?" he asked her… but he had such an urge to do it he waved his wand over her head in a circular motion and said "Senectus Reversus" seeing her hair colour change he felt a lot better.. passing her the mirror that he had in his hand from Sander he passed it to her.. "take a look" he winked at her.

Lux laughed at Bay's reply to her. She knew he wouldn't have said no, but she had wanted to wait anyway. "Okay, you are my guinea pig then." Not really, because she had already done it on Alex once successfully, but she liked calling people her guinea pigs. So that was what he was.

Peering over his head, she found a good spot and made a circular motion over it while saying, "Senectus Reversus." The hair transformed from grey to brown gradually so it had worked again. "There you are, Bay. What fun! I kind of want to do more of this." It was nice seeing her friends get back the hair colour they used to have, and she was sure that they would be happy to not have grey hair anymore.

Bay laughed at Lux… she was being too cute.. looking at his hair.. "thanks Lux.." he told her with a big smile..

looking over at Sander after he finished with Bay's hair he stood up instantly going for a big chunk of grey hair of his.. "dude.. you still have so much grey.." he trailed off.. he knew Sander wouldn't mind him practicing on him..

taking out his wand Bay quickly warned Sander "alright Mate.. imma try it" he laughed… then stopped.. hoping that Sander wouldn't be put off from his laughing.. okay serious face now, waving his wand over the spot of grey in a circular motion he said "Senectus Reversus" watching the colour change back to Sanders normal blonde hair.. Bay reached out and touched it, "it feels better too" a lot healthier actually.

He was so happy that he started to look like himself again-ish.. too bad there was nothing to do about his achy joints and bones and always being so tired. blah…. he could go for a nap right about now.

Alex was glad that Bay was willing to let her practice on his hair, but he asked to start working on Alex's hair first. "Sure", she responded. "Charm away." They were all getting pretty good at this and Bay had quickly transformed her hair. Taking the mirror, Alex saw that he had done a very good job on his section of hair. "Thanks Bay, you did great. Now it's my turn.".

Alex carefully chose a portion of Bay's hair to work on and prepared her wand. "Senectus Reversus", she said while circling the wand over the targeted hair. As Bay's hair color began to change, Alex compared it to the already transformed sections. It looked good to her. Handing the mirror back to Bay, she asked, "What do you think?"

It was amazing to see how something as simple as changing hair color could help one feel better. Alex felt revived when her hair was brown again. Her friends also seemed to perk up when their hair wasn't gray. Now if they only had a charm to take away the aches and pains.......

Alright well she was quiet so Bart looked back at his notes and the clay he had pulled out. Opening the bag that he had the clay in he pulled it out. Now what was he suppose to do with it? He started rolling it around the table. Hmm he figured he could make a snake out of it. Chuckling a bit he started rolling it against the desk making it longer and longer. "sssssssss" Wiggling it around like a snake across the table.

Next he started rolling into a circle leaving just a little out. Hehehehe he had a snail. Moving it around the table. This was fun, he felt like he was five again or something. That's when it hit him. He was in the library with an older girl right next to him maybe he shouldn't be doing childish things like making things out of the clay. Pushing it out and making it flat he made sure it was the way he wanted it.

Pulling out his wand he thought about the spell, Duro, it seemed easy enough, but he didn't have the best luck with spells so he wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work the first time. Doing the wand movement over the clay, "Duro" He touched the clay and smiled, it worked!! He had hard clay. That was awesome!

He did not know her name. She wondered how come since he was the curious type and it'd have been very easy to find out. A simple 'what's the prefect's name' to a Ravenclaw would have done it. But maybe he just liked thinking she was pretty and not wanted to link a name to the pretty face. Like letting her presence define her other than a name. Or it maybe was so much simpler. "Well, it's Isidora but we call her Dora," And to be honest, sometimes Cassia forgot it was a nickname.

And it seemed the Cambridge family talk interested Cutty. That might be because it benefited him financially. "I assure you that no such thing had happened," she told him referring to the less inclined part. "I think it's navigating around the castle that's the obstacle. Since her common room is far from ours and all." That probably was it.

Watching him piling the many books he had gathered, she closed the one before her and crouched next to him. "Want help with these?" Was he going to borrow them all?

Maybe it was because it was almost at the end of term and her brain was getting totally in gear for summer, but Lux was having a harder time than usual doing her Muggle Studies homework. It had taken her an hour to answer the four questions, and now she was staring at the Extra Credit.

Okay, so how was she supposed to do this? Beyond the fact that this death stuff creeped her out, Lux had no idea what a living will even was or how to write one. Maybe she should look in a book and see if there was anything there that could tell her what to do.

Bay loved his books and he knew that school was ending soon so what better place for him to be in.. running his fingers over some books he saw a flash of red.. Bending his neck around the corner he spotted Lux… she looked like she was reading something.. but it wasn't in a book….

Sitting down beside her he pulled the paper towards him… "Hey Lux… do you need my help" seeing that she didn't do the extra credit on her Muggle Studies homework… he knew what it was and he knew that she was scared… to be truthful that class scared him too.. he laid his hands on hers and gave her a big smile.