She smiled and nodded as Maddie spoke. She also wanted to get the work out of the way so she could paint her toenails. The pinks were great, but she also wanted to try out doing her toes in Hufflepuff house colors. They had another game coming up soon and it would be fun to be all puffed from head to toe. “Sounds like a great plan.” She agreed as she put some finishing touches on her notes.

Once Maddie was finished doing her second reading, she handed over her foot casts in exchange and got to work. It seemed much harder trying to read someone elses foot. Even though they had been housemates and teammates for a while, she still didn’t feel she knew her well enough to try and predict her future.

Either way, it was the assignment and she knew she had to try. Her notebook was place on her lap and her quill was twirling around in her hand as she studied the footcast.

After putting the finishing touches on her reading of Maddie’s cast, she glanced around at the polish colors again. “I’m finished. I think I’m going to start painting my toes Hufflepuff colors, then paint a little snitch on one big toe and a badger on the other.” She placed her notebook on the floor, away from the water bowls, and grabbed the colors she needed. “Want me to pass you one of the pink polishes?”

After watching Miss Maddie and Miss Emmalyn do the foot readings, she snapped her fingers and a little tray, just big enough for her feet to fit inside, appeared. It was filled half way with a sort of mud mixture, which she placed her feet into. Once firmly imprinted, she carefully lifted her feet and snapped her fingers once more. The mud mixture instantly hardened, leaving Tinka footprints behind.

"Tinka make prints like studentsies. Tinka feetsies not look like studentsies. " It was the first time she noticed that she only had four toes and the studentsies had five toes. She held her still mud covered feet out before her and wiggled her toes before placing them in her little bowl of warm water to clean them off.

Once it looked like Derf was ready to share, she reached over and grabbed his foot casts and started the reading. It seemed a bit silly to her to study the cast when she could simply hold is foot and look first hand, but then she would have hold his foot and her notebook while trying not to tickle him. Plus, it was going to be quicker for her to do the readings without having to ask someone to stop moving or keep them from seeing what she was writing.

She sat the foot cast down before her on her lap and pulled out her notebook and quill. She let her fingers feel around the imprint, finding a few cracks here and there, and studying how long and wide the toes were before taking quill to parchment.



Once she was finished with Derf's reading and handed back his foot cast, she noticed Tinka had made a foot imprint as well. It was on a different material than the ones they had made in Divination class, but she could still make out the shape, size, and cracks needed for a reading. "May I?" She asked as she reached for the cast to take a better look. She knew she was going to have to think a bit extra for the reading since the house elf only had four toes, instead of the five on the list, but she figured it could be done.




"Thanks, Tinka! That was very interesting." She smiled brightly at Tinka and placed the house elf's foot imprint back where she got it from. Since she was finished with the readings, she reached over and grabbed the yellow and black nail polish and began to paint her toes in preparation for the next quidditch game. Yellow, then back, yellow, then black, she went over the toenails.

"Hey, Derf, are you ready for me to paint those nails?" She asked her friend as she finished her own toenails. There was a fine bush on the table that would work perfectly to paint a badger on his big toe. "I can do black nails with a canary yellow badger on your big toes, if you would like."

If there was one thing that Kaylah Aideen O’Sullivan hated more than being at Hogwarts, it was the fact that there was always drama at Hogwarts. Without fail, something happened. Something that detracted from the little time that she genuinely wanted to study in the first place. Which, granted, truly wasn’t that often - but that wasn’t the point.

The point was - one of the Professor’s had just sent their patronus to the common room to warm of trouble. Inferi trouble. Which, honestly, sounded grotesque… They were never pretty to look at - they needed a new stylist. 100%.

Looking at her twin sister, and at the common room door - she tried to decide if she wanted to put her life in danger and attempt to help or if she wanted to try and find the safest place possible to wait it out.

Neither sounded ideal. She had after all, just sat down to do revision for her NEWTs.