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Hufflepuff Study Tables Banner created by Lockhartian A large honey-colored wood table is set up to the far side of the room, the perfect place to study or even just leisure read. And should you find yourself lacking inspiration, portraits of several outstanding brains of former Hufflepuffs through the centuries line the walls in this area. These fine minds also bear the hallmark of those traditional of Hufflepuffs, including qualities of patience, a strong work ethic, and constancy. Some of these portraits include Nymphadora Tonks, Cedric Diggory, and even Zacharias Smith, flying on his broomstick. And of more modern Hufflepuffs, there are portraits of former prefects such as Savannah Mae, Nolan Reynolds, Leo Moretti, and then some outstanding quidditch plays of Evan Cassels scoring another goal on Slytherins and then Kita Lewis, snatching the snitch right from Ellie Stone's nose just several terms ago now! Hufflepuffs may have that myth floating around that we're not clever, but that is a MYTH. Hufflepuffs are definitely though, the least boastful, the most modest, but have also produced just as many brilliant witches and wizards as any other house. In addition to those named above, there's also Grogan Stump, one of the most popular Ministers for Magic of all time, as were the successful Ministers Artemesia Lufkin and Dugald McPhail. Then there’s the world authority on magical creatures, Newt Scamander; Bridget Wenlock, the famous thirteenth-century Arithmancer who first discovered the magical properties of the number seven, and Hengist of Woodcroft, who founded the Hogsmeade village. The shelves lining the study area are well-stocked with reading material for all classes, and supplies of spare parchments, ink and quills. But enough about former outstanding Hufflepuffs; I do hope some of you are willing to work hard and use these study tables wisely. After all, we've got an elusive house cup defend and after so many years, I'd hate to see it given up so easily ..... :whistle: |
Congratulations cards for Professor Hadley!!! First night. First batch of responsibilities over and done with. Now to sort the common room out how she wanted it to be. Cool, awesome and fun for all the rugrats. She'd swiped a big bowl from the kitchens, (or she'd asked really nicely - BE NICE TO THE HOUSE ELVES, RUGRATS) and had filled it with a selection of lollipops. Studying kids needed snacks. Lollipops were OBviously the best for this reason. Elodie put a yellow and black flower placement underneath the bowl and made sure they were in the center of the main table. She would dot a few on the other tables later, but for now she'd stick with one bowl. Didn't want any sugar hypes in the first week. And then she was onto what she'd wanted to do ever since she found out Professor Hadley was expecting a baby at this time of year. THE CONGRATULATIONS CARDS. Elodie stocked each table with folded coloured card that she'd collected over her summer and various craft materials including ribbons, scissors, glitter and crayons. And then put the post box (wrapped in blue tissue paper with a selection of baby toys wrapped up inside also) on one of the smaller tables with a set of cute instructions. Quote:
SO. MAKE CARDS, GUYS. Once she'd set the tables out, Elodie headed on up to bed finally. OOC: Hi guys! This isn't mandatory, it's just something Els wanted to do to welcome the newest nugget to the family! If you want to RP with her at the table, just post here and I'll have her come back to the tables the next day. Have SO much fun! (PS. WELCOME XOXOXOXO) |
Naturally you would think that after such a fun filled and exciting day of traveling and meeting new people and seeing such a wonderful place that is Hogwarts that a child would be able to fall asleep rather easily at the end of the day. Nola however was finding it difficult to fall asleep without the sounds of the bayou outside her window. Sure she had Buster to snuggle with but it wasn't the same as home. |
She'd forgotten something. She was sure of it, and she'd been lying in her bed and trying her hardest to figure out what it was. THE COLOURING BOOKS. With cute colouring pages to do with babies and happy things and ugh! How could she have forgotten?! She was sure that everyone had been in bed when she'd set the tables up, so hopefully no one would have noticed that she'd added more stuff, but when she got to the common room, arms full of colouring books, she was greeted with a RUGRAT. OUT OF BED. Much like she was. But out of bed and asleep on the table nonetheless. Elodie tiptoed around her as quietly as she could, putting three colouring books on each table before crouching beside the girl. Once she was close enough, she recognised her face of one of the houses newest rugrats. A first year. One she'd saw the sorting of and applauded for for definite. Whilst there, she gave the girls card a little look and smiled. Cuuuute. The prefect ran her hand over the girls arm and gave the crook of her elbow a little shake. "Heyyyy rugrat?" |
It was unknown how long Nola had been out of bed or how long she had been sleeping on her card in progress. Buster was curled up on top of her feet keeping them warm while she snoozed. When the older student approached Buster got to his feet and walked near her meowing. |
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Mum? Really? She'd already dealt with being called mother at the feast and now again? Ugh. She waited a moment for the girl to wake up a little more and straightened herself up before sitting in the seat next to her. "Rise and shine, sleepyhead." It wasn't really 'shine', because it was dark out and Elodie was going to get this girl back to her bed in the hour. She needed to finish off her card first. Speaking of.... Els reached out and took the confetti from the other girls face and smiled again. "The idea was to stick things onto the card, not your face. And you have a few days to do it...you know that, right?" Had she came down here tonight just to get this done? |
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Nola nodded her a head a little bit and calmed her racing heart. Surely if she were going to get in trouble the prefect would have made that really clear, right? Like crystal clear. "I couldn't fall asleep so I came out her just to look a little. Then I saw all of this." Nola motioned to the tables with the card making stuff laid out. "I was gonna just make one super fast and then go back to my bed but I guess I fell asleep." Nola explained finally as she ran her hands across her face to make sure there wasn't any more confetti there or drool. She definitely hoped she hadn't drooled on herself while she slept. |
Rubbing her eyes, Lux slowly made her way from her dormitory and towards the Common Room. It was early, so she should have still been asleep, but of course that was not happening. After tossing and turning in bed for a while, she had given it up as a lost cause, so here she was. Hearing voices at the study tables, she headed towards them and found Nola and Elodie in conversation. "Hey, guys. What's up?" It made her happy to see that she was not the only early riser here. |
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She already had plenty of presents, so it wasn't going to bother her really if people didn't. She'd just assumed it was a nice enough thing to do. It wasn't like they'd been treated badly by the woman. In fact, Els thought she was pretty fair on them and treated them very much like family. "Well. It's nice to meet you Nola. And you Buster!" The cat got another set of petting then and Elodie took another look at the card Nola had been working on. "Would you like me to walk you back to your d- Oh, hi Lux!" She had been meaning to offer to walk Nola back to her dorm and make sure she got herself settled with Buster, when the other girl made her appearance. "You should be in bed, Lux Carrington." She wasn't joking, but she wasn't telling her off. It was the best thing for the students to be in bed at this time of night, especially when they had classes early in the morning. But she couldn't do much more than suggest going to bed. "Are you okay?" Had she been sick? Had an accident in her bed? Had someone died in her dorm? |
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The first thing the second year noticed was the instructions given by Elodie. Cute. She picked a yellow card and took out her flamingo feather quill and Leah's favorite honey flavored ink. She started scratching out her thoughts onto the card. Quote:
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Steph/Kace Anna walked up and looked around, huh... felt weird to look at the study tables in. She never was much of a studier... but hey, she was turning a new leaf, and maybe this would be kinda enjoyable. But she was really doubting it, which is why she did grab a book |
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Covering her mouth with her hand, Lux knew full well that she should be sleeping, but sometimes that was easier said than done. At least Elodie wasn't being all super lecturing Prefect on her, which was wonderful seeing how it was too early in the morning to waste energy freaking about getting in trouble. Besides, she liked Elodie too much, and the thought of having the older girl mad at her made Lux sad. "I couldn't sleep and I felt hungry... I thought maybe I could sleep better in the Common Room by the fire." Honestly, this child was not sure if she even made sense, but that was her reasoning. Glancing at her surroundings, Lux noticed some stuff on the study table. "What's all this for?" Even tired, this girl was naturally curious. |
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"How about you??" he asked nudging her. "How was your summer?" |
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"Oh it was... hard, I guess you could say." She shrugged, "I mean, started off great... got out of the orphanage in Russia was sent to Turkey thanks to two of my tutors." Anna nodded, "... I mean, it's great there... All the kids they take in are like me, so I'm actually kind of accepted... Then I got to see Anastasia..." She looked down, "And she just... She ran away in fear, telling me she didn't want me around messing up her chances of staying with Mom and Dad..." She bit back a whimper. The old Anna cried, she wasn't going to mope about it anymore, "It was just... a wake up call, I guess... If my own sister wants nothing to do with me... why would anyone else?" |
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Kace nodded and heard her story. He moved in closer and gave her a hug. "Well at least you are accepted here right?" he smiled towards her. "If your sister wants nothing to do with you, just wait, she will come back to you someday and realize a big mistake she did." he said reassuring her again. "But enough of that, i came here to introduce you to a game.." he smirked and got out his favorite card game. "Have you ever played UNO before?" he asked showing the card game to Anna. He hoped she heard of it being from the orphanage and all. |
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She looked at him puzzled at the game, shaking her head, "Never heard of it..." She shrugged and looked at the cards, "But I do normally like card games." |
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Then he started to explain the rules, "There are cards like Draw Two where the player draws two cards, there is a Reverse so it reverses the order, there is a wild card to change the color, and a wild draw four to draw four cards..." he said holding each card up. "Do you understand so far..?" he asked before he went on. |
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Anna paused and again brushed her hair back. She was admittedly kinda nervous to actually talk to him like before. After all she hadn’t talk to him in roughly half a year… mostly because she chose not to but still. It was just a little odd to think that they could actually talk like nothing had happened. |
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On a side note. "But i know things were awkward between us last term but i think we can change that around.." he said being optimistic. He knew she kissed him and he didn't care. I mean sure it was nice to be liked but his heart now belonged to someone else. |
Have permission to not reply to other posts! Charries can pretend they made one! ♥ She had said she was only going to keep the card crafting out for only a week, but a month into the term, it was still there. Elodie finally took away the charm from the box, and opened it up to see how many cards had been made. Not too many. But more than she expected to see. She put the lid back on the top, and placed in her own card, as well as the jar of cookies she had just finished making and a few extra gifts she'd spent her free time this month on. Once she had finished rearranging the post box, Elodie gathered up all of the craft supplies into another box and sent that back up to her dorm with a flick of her wand. Then she refilled the bowls in the center with lollipops and other sweets fine with longlasting exposure and placed a note on the main study table. Quote:
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She paused as he talked about the last year, no… She didn’t want to think about that, so Annaleecia just tried to laugh it off, “Oh, Kace… I’m over that, it was just a stupid decision and just… yeah, like I said… Stupid.” She shook her head knowing that didn’t sound convincing at all but… at least she tried, “And I mean… I think I’ve grown use to the idea that I’m not really meant for romance or that kind of stuff.” If her own parents and sister wanted nothing to do with her, why would a guy? |
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Kace chuckled and understood. "Trust me i have done stupid things too." Trust me. He had his fair share. He wasn't convinced but he let it go. When he heard her say she wasn't meant for romance, he shook his head. He took her hands and said, "Anna listen to me...You are meant for romance. It may not be the right time but one day a guy will sweep you off your feet. Trust me on that." he smiled and let go of her hands and continued playing the game. He didn't want her to loose hope. |
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She looked at him and just shook her head slightly, “Kace, I’ve just come to accept the fact that I’m not really the type of person who should have friends… I mean, Mel and you… Romulus every now and again… But aside from that I’ve never really talked to anyone here.” Annaleecia shrugged, “And that’s not a bad thing to me. It just seems like maybe I don’t need to have the friends aspect… or I’m not supposed to. Not saying I don’t want to talk to you.” She added the last part quickly. She didn’t mind talking at all, but she just didn’t want to bother anyone. |
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