Lux was happy when he took the Chocolate Frogs from her and started to eat one of them. It made her worry about him a little less, though she still figured it might be good for him to have some water.

Him needing food dealt with, Lux was reminded of why they were even up here in the first place when he asked her where her owl was. That was a good question. Turning her gaze to where the owls were perched, she looked to see if she could spot her snowy owl, but with more than one there, it was not too easy.

"Luna," she called out as she made beckoning sounds, and she grinned when her little owl flew over and perched herself on her arm, hooting. She petted the bird affectionately before tying the letter to her foot and letting her fly off.

Dylan noticed her looking up and he looked in the direction she was, noticing the owl she was calling. He smiled. She was a really cute owl. And her name was pretty and really suited her! Watching as the owl swooped down and perched on Lux's arm, he smiled again. "Is she yours then?" he asked as he watched Lux tie the letter to Luna's foot. Turning to watch the owl fly off, he smiled, suddenly wondering curiously to himself what the letter was about. He mentally shrugged it off. It was none of his business.

Lux smiled as she watched until Luna disappeared. "Yep, I got her this summer before coming here." Since she had been home schooled the year before, it was only now that an owl was needed. And she loved Luna, because she was such a nice owl and she was very pretty and white; Lux loved snowy owls. "I also have a cat named Mr. Mittens, but he is at home." Pout. She missed Mr. Mittens, and hoped that he was being taken good care of. "Oh, and my friend Bay lets me have his Pygmy Puff a lot too, because I don't have my own!" Ziggy was so fluffy and cute; she absolutely loved him!

Dylan smiled as the owl flew off. "That's cool! She's really pretty." he said as he turned back to his new friend. Snowy owls were the prettiest in his opinion. They were so...elegant looking. If he had an owl, he'd definitely choose a snowy one. He smiled when she mentioned her cat. "Yeah? I love cats! I have one actually. You can see her later in the common room, if you'd like. Her name is Ginger." he told her. Smiling again when she added the bit about her friend's Pygmy Puff, he chuckled. She seemed to really love creatures which was neat, they really did have a lot in common. "Pygmy Puffs are adorable!" he said with a grin.

Lux beamed. She really liked Dylan, and she wanted to be good friends with him. She knew that they would become close, because he was so friendly and she liked talking to him. "Do you have an owl?" she asked curiously because she knew that not everyone had owls, and some students had to use the school ones to send out letters. "I love cats too! I want to meet your kitty. I wish you could meet mine and they could have cat play dates." She laughed, as she thought about how cute that would be to watch their kitties playing together in the Common Room. Maybe she would bring Mr. Mittens back to Hogwarts with her after the Christmas holidays! "Oh, yeah. He is a big fluff ball and he loves me and I get to have sleep overs with him."

As Caelen walked across the owlery floor -she was getting good at dodging the messes while not looking down now- she gripped her journal extra tight. Because she was not sending her letters through with mess on them. Ewww! That would be disgusting.

And as she made it to the owl she always seemed to be using, the redhead stopped and felt slightly sorry for him. Because she was always sending him out to send the letters and then he had to get the letters back and it was a never-ending process. And even though that's what messenger owls due -hence the name and everything- Caelen still couldn't resist feeling slightly bad. Shouldn't she due something nice for the owl that sent all of her school gossip, chess ideas and schemes and begs for candy?

But that thought traveled in the back of her mind. Because she was carefully tearing out the four or five pages of letters that needed to be sent. She stuffed two of them in her backpack, noting that her aunt would just have to wait. Aint nobody got time for that letter right now.

And after tearing out the letters and stopping her pleas with herself to not rip any of them in half, she read over the ones to her mom and Rockwell. To make sure they were all spelled correctly and such.

Dear Mom,
So lessons have started, and I think I'm doing well. Well, I'm at least doing better than my brother. Has he been doing the chore stuff that I had to do. Because that's soo not fair if he doesn't have to do it.

Also, my candy supply is kind of diminishing and fast. Please send me more candy! And ask your sister to send some cookies. Aunty makes the best cookies. And never tell Rockwell I call her Aunty. He'll have a field day with it. I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.

And I sort of learned how to fly. Well I already knew the flying part, but it's the landing that always was really hard. And I'm not sure if I told you this, but I finally get it! And I'm in a club and I've been studying and such. So yeah, I've been good here at Hogwarts. I need the candy.

Tell me everything that's happening at home and I'll help whip my brother into shape. And also send sweets.

Love Caelen.

And when that letter was read and she was sure it made sense and sounded loving instead of someone asking for a ransom, she read Rockwell's.



And then when the two letters were read over and deemed acceptable, she tied them to the leg of the owl with two ribbons and sent it of flying with a promise thats she'd try to find a treat for him when she came back. Because after all the owl did for it, it would be nice for a treat.

He shook his head. "I wish," he said with a sigh, looking out the window down at the grounds. "But sadly, I don't. My parents are hoping to get one soon though, for the house." he added. So that would be nice! But he'd like to have his own...oh well. Ginger was perfect for him. He would actually rather have her than an owl. She was pretty special to him.

"You can meet her, she's real friendly!" he said. He then smiled at the idea of their kittens having play dates. "That'd be really nice! Ginger would love a kitty friend... do you think we could make that happen?" he asked, cocking his head.

He smiled as she described the Pygmy Puff. D'awwww. Dylan just adored cute little creatures. "He sounds cute!" he said. "I'll have to see him sometime."

Aww, how sad that he didn't have his own owl. "Well, if you want you can borrow Luna until you have one." It was not like she sent a lot of things off with her anyway, so it would be totally fine if he used Luna.

And kitty play dates. SQUEEE. She was getting excited just thinking about it! "We so shall make it happen! I can bring Mr. Mittens back with me from Christmas holidays!" She was sure her parents would let her if she kept asking, she wanted her kitten here with her, not back at home.

"He is so cute," she added about Ziggy. "You should see him! I'm sure Bay wouldn't mind, I have him a lot anyway." Bay honestly didn't even seem to care about that either.

It was just before Christmas and instead of wrapping presents, the third year trotted up to the Owl Post. She would send presents out the day after Christmas, so she wouldn't technically be celebrating it. Not that she wanted to. Beverly hated Christmas. Why should she be happy a few days before her mother's death anniversary? It was just wrong.

The holiday was wrong and stupid. Everything was stupid.

Reaching the top and hurrying up inside Beverly didn't even care that she was stepping on owl droppings. They were everywhere anyway. Glancing up she searched for her owl.

"Mori, here," she ordered. The big Eurasian Eagle owl flew down at once, perching itself on one of the tables and stared at Beverly expectantly. "You haven't even done anything," she said, very well knowing he expected a treat. "Here you go, you big oaf." That was their way of getting along.

While the owl munched on the treat Beverly took outthe letter she'd written last night from her pocket and smoothed it over to make sure the wax seal -with her initials on it: BJW - still held. Inhaling a raspy breath she attempted to keep the tears at bay. This was for her own good, and for theirs.



That had been the hardest letter she'd ever had to write. Lying to them was the best, she told herself. If she went back home and they saw her all old and stuff she would never ever see Hogwarts again. All in all, this was the best way for her.

So why was she crying? Because she really missed them and wanted hugs and even if she had one or two friends, she felt the loneliest during the holidays. And like every Christmas, for the last four years, all she wanted was her mom. As far as life went, the dead couldn't come back.

Tying the letter to Mori's leg she fed him another treat, then sent him off. It took a load off her shoulders. No more thinking about her family worrying. She'd deal with this on her own. That's what independence was all about, right? Learning to solve one's own problems.

Wiping her eyes with her sleeves Beverly turned around and took her time toward the dungeons.

Dylan smiled. "That'd be great, thanks!" he said. Sometimes he was a bit afraid of the school owls...he wasn't sure if they'd like him or not, or if they just weren't nice. He got scared to use them. But Luna seemed really nice, so using her would help a lot!

"You can?! Yay!" the second year exclaimed, clapping his hands together in happiness at the thought of their kittens having play dates. He was sure Ginger would just love it. She did need more kitty friends for when he went to classes. Poor thing got lonely...

Nodding, he smiled again. "I bet he is real cute! And I'd love to see him sometime." he told her. "Do you wanna head to the kitchens now?" he added with a smile, cocking his head.

"Awesome! And of course I can!" Lux beamed as she got herself ready to go back down now. She was looking forward to these play dates and him meeting Ziggy. "We are gonna have loads of fun! I am so happy you are in the same Year as me." It meant that they would be in school together until they both Graduated. "Do you want to go get some food now?" She was getting hungry, and they could go down to the Hufflepuff table maybe.

At the crack of dawn, Botros was out of his office, a worried expression etched on his face, and made his way determinedly up to the school's Owlery. It was an emergency and Hogsmeade was too far away right now, using the Headmistress' fireplace was out of the question either thanks to how old she looked compared to him. It was all very embarrassing and too odd to him. He had a small stack of folded parchments with him that he intended to send to his personal Healer in St. Mungo's.

The tower seemed to be empty as he expected, thankfully. Ab frowned up at the owls, most of them had tucked their heads under their wings by now. He balanced the parchments on the edge somewhere and started whistling gently... whispering was for birds in general, hooting would be too creepy.

It took him ten minutes to get the attention of a white owl, it had just come through the big opening and landed on his arm. "St. Mungo's." He whispered to it, tying the rolled-up parchments securely to its leg. "Be quick." And he watched it fly away.

His steps had sort of become more like shuffling and as Cutty made his way to the owlry a THUMP followed by a scuffling sound against the littered ground announced his slowly waxing presence. He was normally careful about remembering things, but a few mishaps here and there had him making check lists regularly.

So he took out the items from his bag, one by one. The parchment, the quills, and the fresh bottle of ink. He then set to scribing out his handmade notifications to those whom it may concern.





He rolled up the parchments and attached each to owls, and after instructing them where to go, he gathered up his writing instruments and headed back downward within the castle.

Okay, Adi wasn't there to send a post but he was there on a mission. An Astronomy homework mission to be precise. He was here to hang his second and final poster. He had chosen here because loads of persons came to send owls.

"Hey, all you owls!" he greeted with a cheery grin as he hobbled his old bones towards the old, wooden desk. The closest wall next to it would be perfect for the poster. Whenever anyone went there to write a letter, it would be one of the first things they noticed.

Again, Adi used the regular Sticking Charm and quickly stuck it on the wall closest to the table. Awesome! Mission accomplished!