Davie had always wondered what was the purpose of a mirror that reflected better decor than what was actually present in a corridor. En route to the library, he stopped in front of said mirror and wondered if it would reflect him in addition to the fancy draperies and oil paintings it was currently reflecting. He could use a haircut and a makeover, probably, or whatever the girls were calling it these days.

This Ravenclaw was also headed to the library, but apparently had come from a different direction than the smaller Ravenclaw, since she only just spotted him as she rounded the corner where the mirror was. Evie was pleased when she saw the first year. In their short time sharing a common room she had discovered that the pair of pretty blue eyes went by Davie.

"Hello, little sir," Evangeline said as she came up behind the boy and ruffled his little head of hair. "What'chu wanderin' around for?"

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This Ravenclaw was also headed to the library, but apparently had come from a different direction than the smaller Ravenclaw, since she only just spotted him as she rounded the corner where the mirror was. Evie was pleased when she saw the first year. In their short time sharing a common room she had discovered that the pair of pretty blue eyes went by Davie.

"Hello, little sir," Evangeline said as she came up behind the boy and ruffled his little head of hair. "What'chu wanderin' around for?"

Davie had just tilted his head at the mirror and then given it a poke, as to ascertain its realness, its solidness in reality. How did it work? Was it related to the Mirror of Eerised? If they moved it somewhere else, would it have the same reflection? Was it even technically a mirror, if it did not do its principal job of mirroring surfaces?

He nearly jumped when a soft and warm hand ruffled his hair all of a sudden. OH. Merlin. It was the Head Babe talking to him. Davie felt himself blush from his head all the way down to his toes. He looked up at her and just blinked, trying to remember how to form words.

"I-I-I-I-I-I-IIIIIIIII'm going to the library," Davie replied with a big, slow blink. "I just got distracted, Miss Head Babe Ma'am."

Evie had passed by this mirror quite a few times in her few years at this castle, but hadn't actually paid much attention to it. This time wasn't much different, to be honest. It was a peculiar mirror at best, and possibly not even a mirror at all, but she wasn't fussed about it.

Evie grinned when the boy turned a nice hue of red and stuttered out his adorable response. She was glad he remembered her self declared title; it was unfortunate she hadn't worn her shiny black badge today. "Please, call me Evie," she told the boy sweetly, fixing the hair on his head that she had ruffled all up.

"That's quite a coincidence, you know, I was headed for the library myself. Care for a walking companion?" The tall seventh year offered her arm for the boy in case he chose to come along with her.

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Evie had passed by this mirror quite a few times in her few years at this castle, but hadn't actually paid much attention to it. This time wasn't much different, to be honest. It was a peculiar mirror at best, and possibly not even a mirror at all, but she wasn't fussed about it.

Evie grinned when the boy turned a nice hue of red and stuttered out his adorable response. She was glad he remembered her self declared title; it was unfortunate she hadn't worn her shiny black badge today. "Please, call me Evie," she told the boy sweetly, fixing the hair on his head that she had ruffled all up.

"That's quite a coincidence, you know, I was headed for the library myself. Care for a walking companion?" The tall seventh year offered her arm for the boy in case he chose to come along with her.

"Evie," Davie repeated seriously, looking up at her as she lovingly fixed his hair for him. Ahem. "Is there a Head Dude, to go along with your Head Babeness?" Just asking, since there was a Head Girl and Head Boy. A Head Babe and Head Dude or whatever would make sense.

He beamed as she said she was started for the library, and of COURSE he took her arm. "Sure, miss, I'll walk you there." LIKE THE GENTLEMAN HE WAS.

This boy had important questions. "There is a Head Dude. I'll tell you a secret, though, because no one else knows. You know the Head Boy? Benzi, he's in our house; seventh year. He's also the Head Dude." Because he was hot AND because he was her boyfriend. "But it's a secret, because we can't let people know he holds two big titles at once or else everybody would wanna be his friend and get his autograph and such." Selling up BIG FAT LIES, but the kid didn't know. He'd find out next year after she and Benzi weren't actually Head Babe and Dude and that those titles didn't ACTUALLY exist. But for now she was having fun because this little guy was eating it all up.

Aww, and he called her MISS. How precious.

"You know," she began again as they continued their journey to the library, arm in arm. "A little birdy told me you're the son of Headmistress Truebridge." And she hadn't known that at first. Quite an interesting fact.

Wait, was the Head Boy her Head Dude, or THE Head Dude? "I thought the Head Boy was Zander Adair," Davie answered her slowly. He knew who Benzi Rider was, because he was Ravenclaw's prefect along with Sophie. "Are the Head Babe and the Head Dude always different from the Head Boy and Head Girl? And how come this isn't in Hogwarts, a History? Is it a new title?" Davie scrunched his little nose as he looked up at Evie, completely and obviously believing everything she was telling him. He might have made fun of Zander Adair for being gullible, but Davie would never have guessed this older, wiser, waaaaaaaaaaaay hot Ravenclaw was lying to him. He was also DEAD SERIOUS about not telling ANYONE who the Head Dude was. CROSS HIS HEART AND HOPE TO DIE, MISS!

He was just happy to be holding her hand arm. Hehehehe. Oh... oh boy though. His cheeks turned pink as she brought up his mum. "Um, yeah," he would have shuffled his feet and looked down at the ground if they weren't walking together. "That's my mum." Davie stole a peek at Evie. "Do you know her?"

This Mirror ALWAYS fascinated the heck out of Adi. What was he secret that made it reflect something totally different than what it was actually supposed to? Well, maybe if he researched properly he could find an exact spell that did this. Or maybe he could ask one of his Professors? Perhaps Baxter would know.

Adi stopped before the mirror to peer into it. Yep, there were the chandeliers, paintings and what not. His head snapped around to look behind him. Nope, no paintings nor chandeliers there. Hmmm. He was going to find out your secret, Mirror!

Wait, what?

Evie paused and thought back to what she said. "Did I say Head Boy? I meant prefect. Benzi, the prefect, he's the Head Dude. Not the Head Boy." Merlin, keeping up with her lies was already getting complicated. THAT was why people weren't supposed to lie. But she was just having a bit of FUN, you know, not, like, ruining his life or something bad. Just fun.

"You see," Evangeline began again, spinning up another web of lies for the boy. "The Head Boy and Girl are quite different from the Head Babe and Dude. The Head Boy and Girl are plain-Jane, boring, goody-two-shoes; supposed to set good examples for all the rest of the students in the school." Okay, so Sophie and Zander weren't really boring, but y'know, since she was ALREADY lying... "And the Head Babe and Head Dude are more, like... Castle idols." Ooooh, good one, Shacklebolt. "They're the ones everybody wants to BE, you know? The COOL kids. The ones with style."

So, in other words, no, it wasn't official. "It's not in the book because... it's supposed to be a surprise." Yep. Surprise! Just like that. LIES.

Evie smiled down at the blushing boy. "Well, of course I know her, she was the Headmistress last year. I liked her quite a bit, but she did seem a bit underqualified for the more... dangerous parts about the castle." Such as the protection of the castle from acromatulas... And here was hoping that the boy didn't write that part in his next letter home.

Benzi, yeah! Davie knew that. He nodded along, all wide eyes and big ears as Evie continued to explain the student leadership roles here at Hogwarts. "That makes sense," he agreed, knowing how smart Sophie was and all, always volunteering original answers in their classes. Castle idols, though. He was walking a CASTLE IDOL to the library right now.

Whoa.

"You do have good style," the little Ravenclaw admitted. And he liked.... liked that she liked his mum. Sort of liked her? "Underqualified?" he repeated though. "How so? She's hunted NUNDU before." He bet Evie and all the other kids didn't know that.

He wasn't sure yet where he was going, but his feet had led him all this way from Gryffindor tower, so there was little point in turning around and going back for nothing. Some fresh air might be nice anyway. And... WHERE was Amur? They had plans they needed to discuss, urgently, only because he was being impatient.

It was as he moved along the fourth floor that he saw a familiar face up ahead, and by the look of him, the dude was confused.

Zeke approached, coming to a halt beside the Hufflepuff Prefect. It was that weird mirror, he'd stopped to analyse it once or twice, but eventually considered it inconsequential. Zeke stared at Adi's reflection in the mirror, giving him a nod to say hello. "Your hair looks fine if that's what you're worrying about," he joked, slipping his hands into his pockets before rocking on the heels of his feet.

Squint, squint!

As if squinting will help you to find the Mirror's secret, Adi. It will, however, make you realise that you have company. Hehe. Adi happened to notice the movement out of the corner of his eyes. Before he could even look to see who it was, he heard the voice! It was the Little Lion Man! And he was saying something about his hair?

The Hufflepuff grinned. "I should hope so. Do you know how much shampoo goes into it?" Haha! Well, he did spend a great deal of time ensuring his strands were all nice and good looking by using that shampoo he'd been using since he was eleven with Batman printed on the bottle. Anyway...

"Heya, Zeke! How's it going? Do you know what spell is at work on this mirror?'' Questions! Adi always had them.

Shampoo?

Zeke honestly had no idea, so he shook his head solemnly. "Maybe cut down on it?" he offered his opinion... cause shampoo sounded like a great deal of effort, and he remembered something Frankie said about them being harsh or whatever... that dude was too into products.

How was he? Zeke shrugged, "Can't complain, life's pretty grand. How're you?" Was the Prefect having a good day? Or were the first years giving him trouble too? Some of them were quite obnoxious he found. LOUD.

As for the spell work, what was he? A walking-talking encyclopaedia? Last he checked he was a fourth year. BUUUUUUUUUUUT... tilting his head a little, he considered the mirror. He could maybe hazard a guess? "It's not based on perspectives, because the scene is always the same, so nothing emotional either, no personal values... it could be that it's charmed only to reflect that scene, OR perhaps it's a two-way mirror? Maybe it has a twin that's displayed there," he said, pointing to the lavishness in the frame. The only thing about that though, was he'd never seen OTHER people in it, though that could simply be part of the spell work. Exclusionary... or something.

Cut down on his shampoo use? Adi had thought of that, actually but had never really gotten around to doing so. He guessed he wasn't too into reducing his precious shampoo. Especially when it made his hair look THIS good. "I don't think I want to,'' he told Zeke honestly. "I like my hair looking shiny.'' Hurhur.

WOAH!

The Gryffindor went all Ravenclaw on him!

But Adi listened with interest to the theory and deductive reasoning. "Great thinking, Zekester! I wonder if Baxter knows for sure. Or any of the other Professors.'' He made up his mind to ask a few of them. It was a mystery he wanted cleared up before he left Hogwarts. With a hair flip, he returned his attention to Zeke. "How's it going with you? It was weird not seeing you play for the Gobstones match, by the way.'' He was just throwing that out there though he did respect Zeke not wanting to play anymore.

He didn't think he wanted to? He liked his hair shiny?

...

"What're you? A baby unicorn? What do you need shiny hair for?" he chuckled. Seriously, clean hair was one thing, but purposefully shiny hair, that was something else entirely. "And... doesn't shampoo damage hair?" he questioned. Was that Adi's aim? Damaged but shiny? Was the cost of having SHINY hair, damage?

BUT... this line of discussion was weird. It was perhaps a bit too girly for his liking.

At least his other thoughts were received better. Baxter, yeah, sure, she might know. Surely SOMEONE in the school would know. "A ghost or portrait might be better to ask though, they've been around longer." Just a thought. They were more likely to know the castle's secrets than anyone else, in his opinion.

Zeke watched his reflection for a moment, surrounded by opulence, it wasn't his style. How's it going with him? Well he did say life was grand, but he supposed in the light of the no gobstones thing, he had to fill his time somehow. "Been keeping busy, staying out doors, working the obstacle course, the usual..." he rattled off. And with gobstones, "You'll get used to it." He did.