Library Bookshelves
 

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A large number of floor-to-ceiling bookcases fill up the library, creating aisles upon aisles of books available for students to read and browse. To make finding books for all years a little easier Mr Kitridge has divided the bookshelves into sections like romance, suspense, crime, history, plants and fungi etc.

To return books just walk up to the appropriate shelf and hold up the book. The gripping charm in place on the shelves will take a hold of the book. When you feel a tug on the book let go and the book will fly up and find its right place amongst the other books on the shelves. When retrieving a book you can use the sliding ladders or if you feel confident with your magic you can use a simple accio charm to retrieve the book you want.

In front of each aisle there is small set of desks which students can use to complete homework, copy notes, take book references or chat. Keep your voices down and be mindful of falling books and other students accessing books around you.

Happy reading and learning!

Gabriel had IMMEDIATELY found refuge in the library...due to how many PEOPLE were at this school. NO ONE had told him about all the people there would be! See...he wasn't a fan of people. Books were better. Especially any books he could find in odd languages. The higher the difficulty, the more into it he'd be. To find the appropriate distractions, you know? From.....family....and girls.....and, uh, anything else that induced stress...

Gabe was searching for books that fit these very criteria....when...uh, it was the little scary girl from the train!

She hadn't seen him yet...

No....

He turned and headed in the opposite direction. Nope, she hadn't seen him.

She did see him, and Dot hopped down off her ladder and started to shadow Specs. He was an odd one, from the way he cowered on the train and let those girls boss him, to the way he was running away from her now. She was little. That kid at the feast had called her a little kid. Why was Specs running away from a little kid?

"Hi." Dot planted herself at the end of the row Specs was trying to escape down, her hands on her her hips and feet in a wide stance. She wasn't gonna go chasing after him. Nope.

Oh, no.

Gabriel turned to stare at the little girl, sorta at a loss of what to say. She'd seen him, obviously. It would've been rude to.....uh, just...erm, run, right?

....

"Hi." STARE.

He stuffed his hands into his pockets...mainly to high how badly they were shaking. It was just a little girl...JUST a little girl.

..................."Uhhh...how are...you?"

There was this one time when Dot and Dima had seen a rabbit in the field by his house, and they'd had to creep up on it in stealthy bursts, judging whether or not it felt safe enough for approach before inching cautiously towards it. They'd never made it, since Dot gave up and ran at it full tilt, but she'd learned how to approach terrified creatures.

Like Specs was terrified.

"Good, yeah. Choo doing here in the lib'ry?" Since he didn't have any books or anything on him yet.

...................Just....a little girl. Nbd.

BREATHING.

Erm. Sweaty and clammy. It was happening...but not as bad as it normally did. That was...uh, something...right?

Subconsciously, Gabriel took a step back from the girl.

"...Looking for....books." Clearly, he hadn't found one yet...but there would be one. Maybe....if he could....uh, find some peace where the crowding was concerned. "Do....uh, you...see any....thing interesting?"

Come on, Gabriel. Get it out. Breathe.

He was running from her. Weirdo. Dot was totally sure that she was the weirdest person at Hogwarts, but here there was this kid that was making her look practically normal. Why was he so nervous?

"Good place for books." She tapped the shelf nearest her to indicate that she'd gone and found loads of them, if he was really looking. Loads and loads, every subject there was. Right here. She took a step toward him, just a little one.

"Depends, though, 'cause your interesting and mine are diff'rent."

"Difficulty?....Uh, the harder, the better?" Just....a little girl. NBD.

It was becoming a mantra. She might have looked terrifying...but essentially, Gabe was bigger than she was. So...there was that...

Not that it made him any less stressed. The brightside was that it was one on one. If it'd have been only more than this, he wouldn't have been able to deal.

"Do.....uh, you see.....uh, any in a weird....alphabet?"

The harder, the better? Was that the harder the words, the harder the subject, or the harder the cover? Should she chuck a few at his head to gauge the hardness of few hardcovers?

Might be too traumatizing.

"Weird alphabet books. I'll look." Dot turned to the nearest shelf and pulled out a few books, reading over the covers and then tapping on them with her fist. All about the same hardness, and all of them in English. She happened to be in the section on aquatic plants, which might have something on Mermish. If he wanted.

Books in Mermish were definitely a step in the right direction...NOT that Gabe could mentally respond to her thoughts. He wasn't a mind reader...So, naturally, he had to make words.

"....Different....languages." Preferably.

With eyes still partically on the little person, he perused the shelves...BUT HE HAD HER IN HIS SIGHTS. NO. FUNNY. BUSINESS.

"I know what you meant." There was just a little sass in her tone, but Dot didn't turn to look at him. Specs. Did he have a name, even? She moved down the shelf in his direction, pulling off one with a funny word in the title and sliding it toward him.

No sudden movements.

"What's your name? I'm Dot. Wojack. Are you scared of me?"

Benny managed a smile as she eagerly accepted his hand, the girl having already agreed to his suggestion to move on. It was either that or he was going to freak out and run and he doubted the latter would have made anything better. In fact it would have likely made it worse and more complicated. So instead he was walking with her into the library.

"Sounds good," he admitted, knowing that surely as a muggleborn she knew more than he did about lots of stuff. "And I can help in wizarding areas." Except potions. He was rubbish in potions and it was sheer dumb luck he hadn't blown anything up in the classes as of yet. He could only hope that that luck continued this term as well. They bypassed the front desk and headed towards the bookcases randomly. They hadn't really decided on any set topic.

Angel looked at Benny and smiled, she was glad when he walked her into the Library and then they were going towards a book shelf and Benny was speaking. "Yeah it does." Angel whispered as she realised it was a library so they had to be quiet, she didn't want the Librarian mad at them or anything.

"Oh that would be great, though some how I got on the History of Magic Leader board last year." Angel was still in shock about that. She stared into his eyes and then looked at the books, did she want to say the thing that was on her mind the most, she decided that she wanted to. "Ben..." Angel whispered as she looked at him, her nerves were getting to her. "I like you... I like you a lot in fact." Angel hoped that Ben wouldn't freak out or run away. "I mean. I really.... really.... really like you." Angel whispered to him.

Not everyone came to the library to look for books. Ruby for one, had never been in a library for its actual intended purpose of reading. Like, why? Boring. Even if she could read better, she probably wouldn't. Why spend all your time cooped up inside and not talking to people?

Nooo she was here to scope it out for other purposes. And maaaaybe she'd see Gabe here somewhere? Maybe? Not that she was looking for him. Except that she DID want to see him even if he was all busy with his new smart friends or whatever.

Ooooh it was quite dark over here. And quiet. Good shelves. Good place for snogging.

Ruby wandered and came around a corner, stopping warily when she saw the girl ahead. Oh yes, she recognized her. Bed stealer. Narrowing her eyes slightly for a moment she tried to work out if she wanted to actually talk to her or if she should just continue on her little tour.

.... nope she was soooo going to talk to her.

Ruby sauntered over, coming up behind the other girl.

"Not harassing my brother today?" She asked in a saccharine sweet tone.

After looking for a book for at least five minutes, not one of them stood out of took her fancy, so she turned on heel to go to a different section in the hopes of having better luck there. She didn't get that far, though, because someone was in her path ... and was talking to her ... fantastic.

And it WOULD be Gabe's sister ... who else would it be!?

"Ruby," she said absently, looking back at the bookshelves because that was easier than making eye contact with her. At least until she knew how to react and deal with her. She seemed complicated. Clara knew that Ruby and Gabe were close, she approved there, however she seriously questioned her choice of friends. Ahem, Zahra. "No, that's not on the schedule for today." Well. Maybe. There was still a lot of the day left, but if she spoke to him, it wouldn't be harassing. She definitely believed that that wasn't the way Gabe viewed it. Not entirely anyway.

Ugh. She didn't want to think about this right now.

The redhead gave the girl a look and raised her eyebrow slightly.

"What brings you to the library, anyway? You don't strike me as a book lover."

Angel looked at Benny as he congratulated her on getting on the leader board in History Of Magic, but she wasn't really paying attention to that, she was still trying to figure out if he was going to run away from her after what she said.

"I know your not...." Angel was about to say something when.

O_________________o

He was two years older! and yet he liked her too. OMG!! she was totally freaking on the inside, someone might need to check her pulse was it going too fast?

Angel smiled at Benny. "I've never felt this way about anyone before, it's like there another side of me I've never met." Angel whispered to Benny. Now though she was confused what did it mean.

Oh good, she knew her name. That made it less awkward since the girl had slept in her house and all. Ruby wasn't QUITE sure what to make of Clara yet, so far she only had totally negative things (courtesy of Gabe) to go off. But also? Despite all the crap that Gabe said about her? He was STILL hanging out with her, so Ruby wasn't completely convinced of his anti-Clara stance. And he HAD sort-of-almost-not-quite-but-a-little-bit acknowledged that he thought her pretty.

Pretty but totally a snot apparently. Ruby smiled sweetly. "You're lucky I haven't struck you at all." She said in an exact mimic of the other girl's tone. "But I'm not violent so by all means keep being freakishly obsessed with my brother. Its probably good for him." Ruby said, ending in a cheerful voice.

And no, she hadn't answered Clara's question as to why she was here. Why should she when the Ravenclaw girl had clearly been trying to be mean and imply Ruby was stupid.

She'd simply been being friendly. Wasn't her fault Clara was on the defensive.

Benny watched her curiously as Angel seemed to be distracted, the girl even starting to stay something before breaking off. Had she heard him? Had she thought he would say otherwise? But then it was a light bulb going off and her face seemed to say it all. The younger lion had figured out what he had said and it was then that he felt self conscious.

"Its....new to me too," he admitted. It wasn't like he had ever really had a crush before. That had been Adi with Sophie a couple of terms before, the two of them trying to set him up with another girl. That situation had been more than just a little awkward at the Valentine's event that year. But this...this was okay.

Angel looked at Ben and smiled as he said it was new too. See couldn't Ben tell that they were meant for each other, now she had got over calling him cutie-pie and was calling him by his name. "Eh...so Ben." Angel lifted his head up to him as she tried to look straight into his eyes which was a bit hard since well he was taller that her. "Do.... you.... eh." Angel had no idea how to say this.

"Boyfriend....Girlfriend....us.....I?" Angel was getting so confused now her speech was coming out blurred. "Uh I mean, you... boyfriend... I... girl." Angel stopped and looked at Ben wondering if he was getting the message even if it was going wrong.

Angel smiled as she looked at Ben again as he asked her to clarify her words. "Eh..." Angel looked at him before nodding and whispered. "Yes." Angel really did want to be his girlfriend. Though she was a bit worried now that he might call her crazy and tell her he wanted someone more her age and better looking than her. "I...eh." Angel looked up at his handsome face. "I hope you don't mind me saying that." Angel was blushing like crazy at the minute and she wanted to be somewhere else but she stood rooted to the spot, he could only call her crazy once if he didn't want her to be his girlfriend but she would wait and see.

Yes.

One simple word confirmed the clarified phrase as well as changed everything for them. So that was that. They technically were now a couple. Well as long as he wanted them to be which he guess he did deep down or he wouldn't have been able to say anything about it, perhaps even running away from the whole situation. But he had done one and not done the other so he had his answer.

At her question he shook her head. "No," Ben answered truthfully. Granted there were weird feelings going on but he figured that was totally normal right now given what was happening. "How about we headback to the common room," he suggested not sure he could focus on studying at the moment. Besides the near-constant nice fire combatted the starting autumn chill.