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| | Term 57: January - April 2021 Term Fifty-Seven: The Third Wizarding War (Sept 2103 - June 2104) | 
12-04-2018, 12:25 PM
| | |  First-Floor Corridor
 To get to Defence Against the Dark Arts, History of Magic, or Muggle Studies, one will have to make use of the first floor corridor. Getting here is usually relatively easy if you're coming from one of the lower levels of the castle as you need only deal with the moving staircases for just a few minutes. Rugs with intricate patterns have been placed on the floor to soften your footsteps so that any learning going on inside the classrooms isn't disturbed.
Make sure you are not dilly dallying on your way to or from class. This corridor in particular is often times filled with students during the school day and a few professors pointing those who have managed to get lost in the right direction. Various doors flank this corridor, so make sure to memorize which of the portraits are outside of the classrooms you should be entering. And don't freak out when the corridor comes to a sudden halt -- the door at the end of the hallway will take you outside to the stone bridge and then to the rest of the first floor over in the next tower. Just keep moving!
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01-22-2021, 11:05 PM
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It had been a lousy night of sleep, a lousy breakfast and now some lousy weather outside. It was just the sort of weather she’d expect, everything here sucked. Emmerson trudged back up the stairs and began making her way back to her common room. The Gryffindor’s mood was already low. If she couldn’t get to enjoy time out on the grounds then she was going back to her dorm where she could properly sulk.
Maybe she’d get Kizzy to play exploding snaps with her—or she could nap. The breakfast might not have been good, but she’d mindlessly eaten a lot of it to pass the time until they were dismissed.
Or maybe she’d write another letter to her mother that she could never send.
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01-22-2021, 11:14 PM
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Ash was in an okay mood today. Very relaxed. She had eaten some blueberries, gotten enough sleep, did some music and art... basically, she was as relaxed as she could be. Which is why she didn't immediately walk in the other direction when she saw Emmerson Cambridge. She nodded at the girl, who she happened to hate. She was feeling very tolerant today. "Hey." She even smiled a little. Nicely. Making an effort. Etc. | |
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01-22-2021, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by astrocat  Ash was in an okay mood today. Very relaxed. She had eaten some blueberries, gotten enough sleep, did some music and art... basically, she was as relaxed as she could be. Which is why she didn't immediately walk in the other direction when she saw Emmerson Cambridge. She nodded at the girl, who she happened to hate. She was feeling very tolerant today. "Hey." She even smiled a little. Nicely. Making an effort. Etc. As if the universe hadn’t gotten done playing it’s most massive and least amusing joke, Ashley Fox appeared. Right there. Nodding at her. Smiling at her—an obvious taunt. Ashley must’ve known what she did and was now bragging about it.
Smug.
Ashley Fox never gave her the time of day, ever. They mutually did not acknowledge each other and Emm was pleased as punch about that.
This was more than the Gryffindor could stand, more than any Gryffindor should stand. “You!” Emm moved to close the distance between them quickly, reaching out to give the Ravenclaw as hard a shove she could managed. “Man stealer!”
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01-22-2021, 11:47 PM
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Ash took a couple steps back. Or she was shoved. Whatever. It wasn't a very good shove, especially since Ash had such good balance. She didn't fall over. Lucky she was in a good mood, else she would have gotten in a *physical altercation* with this small child named Emmerson. She gave the girl a quizzical look. "I stole your man? Who is that? I don't need to steal your man. I have my own..." She took a deep breath, in order to calm down. "I'm single... look. Are you having a hard time right now? Because if you are, I can totally ignore the fact that you just attempted to hurt me. We all have hard days, y'know. But do you actually want to punch me? Because I do not know what I did." She managed to say all of that with a straight face, despite the fact that this was a ridiculous conversation. Ashley Fox... stealing someone's man? Impossible. Who wanted to date a scarred child who went to boarding school and set things on fire? Only 1 muggle. And no wizards. "Is your man a wizard? Because in that case, I definitely did not steal him." Maybe Emmerson was just hangry. Ashley Fox was now very confused. | |
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01-23-2021, 12:10 AM
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Wow.
Was she really gonna stand there on some high horse pretending she wasn’t planning a whole wedding with Sammy in the music room? Ravenclaws. They thought they could out logic and outsmart everyone. Emmerson didn’t wanna talk. Talking never fixed anything, it just annoyed her more—like now, all these unnecessary words coming from Fox.
”You know exactly what you did!” Emm screeched shoving at the girl again, harder than before. ”You couldn’t go find your own?!”
Ashley was trying to be slick...in her mind anyway and that was enough of an insult.
She would not be talked down. She would not be reasoned with.
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01-23-2021, 12:20 AM
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Ash rolled her eyes. L O S I N G P A T I E N C E. "I'm not exactly dateable, y'know. I have a big scar on my arm, and one time, somebody saw me kicking a wall in the laundry room. And I've set stuff on fire. Everyone thinks I'm crazy. There is only one person who wants to date me, and I assure you it is not your boyfriend. So I think I did find my own." She chilled out a little bit. "Who even IS your boyfriend? I can guess if you'd like. Or we could just stand here and you can try to beat me up." And fail, obviously. Ash decided to look less annoyed. She molded her expression into something a little more calming. "Is there any particular reason you're mad at me or..."
As IF Ash was planning a wedding with Emmerson's boyfriend. Ash only dated people who liked her back... | |
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01-23-2021, 08:56 PM
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She was back to using a lot of words, a lot words Emmerson was not interested in. For a Ravenclaw, she was slow. She didn't get that the Second Year would NOT be talked down in the middle of her newly found rage.
Not about laundry rooms, not about fires, not about craziness and nothing about guessing. It infuriated the 12-year-old to the point she was nearly seeing red. Ashley thought she had some higher ground and was surely playing dumb to avoid a fight but Emm wasn't having it. "Stop pretending you and Sammy weren't together in the music room! Stupid, worthless, rotten MUDBLOOD TRASH!" Emmerson lunged this time, having answered none of Ashley's nonsensical questions.
Proper conversation? Hearing both sides? What was THAT?
Emm was angry, angry enough that punches and biting were the only way she would be able to diffuse the tension radiating through her.
It was an almost visceral reaction by this point. "HE WAS MINE FIRST!! WHY DON'T YOU GO HOME OR DROP DEAD?!"
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01-23-2021, 09:26 PM
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Ash crossed her arms. "I'm not stealing Sammy. I'm not in love with Sammy either. Your relationship is fine. You're just mad because I can have one conversation with him that doesn't involve expressing my undying love for him, or whatever." And then she dropped her arms in shock. "I'm not mudblood trash. Don't call me mudblood trash. EVER! I'M NOT WORTHLESS OR STUPID." She took some more steps back. Emmerson couldn't hurt her physically, but she sure was annoying. "I WANT TO GO HOME EMMERSON. I don't care about you, or your boyfriend, and I HATE THIS SCHOOL. I don't need to go drop dead, because everyone is TRYING TO KILL ME ALL THE TIME." A single tear ran down her cheek. She got very quiet. "If you really want me dead, why don't you go tell Rosier that my crush is muggle. That would really be the nail in the coffin. Also that I hate him and this stupid place and the entire world. I didn't ask for any of this. I would pass my magic to a squib if I had the chance. I don't WANT to be a witch anymore." And then she stopped crying. No need to show pain in front of an absolute child. Instead she just looked blank. One more hit, and she might actually punch Emmerson. | |
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01-23-2021, 09:55 PM
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You're just mad because I can have one conversation with him that doesn't involve expressing my undying love for him, or whatever.
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That did it.
"I'll call you whatever I want! DIGUSTING MUDBLOOD garbage." Emmerson didn't shove again, this time she drew for a punch--squaring up, posture set, legs at good distance, technique the way their fighting teacher Hassan had taught them back at Stark School.
Ashley was talking dung at this point so she'd better be ready to put up.
And yes, she might go have a talk with Rosier. It was the first decent thing the Ravenclaw had said since she saw her.
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01-23-2021, 10:01 PM
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"Shut up! If you want to settle this with a fight, fine!" She got into a fighting stance and threw a punch. Hopefully, it would hit square in the nose. That's certainly where Ash was aiming. Emmerson better get out of the way. "LEAVE MY BLOOD STATUS OUT OF THIS." Emmerson certainly could call Ash whatever she wanted, but actions had consequences. And Ashley Fox would not stand being called a mudblood. "YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!" She said that one very loud, out of sheer anger. At some point today, Ash would have felt bad for Emm. But at this point, the girl had it coming. If Sammy didn't like Emm anymore, then good for him. | |
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01-24-2021, 01:17 AM
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Norman was on his way back to his office when he heard screaming coming from the corridor. If that wasn’t enough to give him pause, the words being screamed certainly did. The M word… Under normal circumstances (as in, if the school wasn’t under control of a sadistic blood supremacist), that word alone would be grounds for punishment. Now… he wasn’t surprised.
Reversing course, he followed the sound until he came upon two second years fighting. Cambridge? Fox? What the hay was going on?! “HEY, HEY, HEY! BREAK IT UP!!!” he yelled over the noise, placing himself between the girls. He wasn’t going to lay his hand or his wand on a child unless it was absolutely necessary, so he’d give them one chance to stop throwing punches on their own.
His eyes darted from one girl to the other as he tried to mentally piece together what had happened. Both of them had a habit of… saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, shall we say. He’d bet money that one of them said something to set the other one off, but he would wait until he had all the facts to hand down punishment. “What happened?” he demanded, his blue-green eyes flashing dangerously, warning the pair not to even try to lie.
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01-24-2021, 02:43 PM
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Emmerson Cambridge would most absolutely do what she wanted. The fact Ashley's sore spot seemed to be her blood status was reason enough to keep poking at it with a pointy stick.
She got set to block and reset for another punch when there was suddenly a hulking mass of a grown man standing between her and the girl whose face she wanted to rearrange.
Emm tried reaching around him, stopping only when she realised she wouldn't be enough to nudge him out of the way. With a frustrated shriek, the Second Year stepped back to look up at the man. "She stole my boyfriend, Professor!" The little girl was newly indignant. "She did and she won't admit it."
Riled up anew, Emmerson tried once again to reach around the man.
"I'm gonna break her face!"
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01-24-2021, 02:57 PM
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Andddd here was a professor. Right on cue. "Sooooo the background to this is that I had one conversation with her boyfriend or ex or dream husband, I don't know. I have my own crush, and it's not him. And she decided that a good way to show how much that made her insecure was to shove me around and call me a worthless... well, you probably heard. And then I decided, that no, this is absolutely ridiculous, and I'm going to punch her. And then you showed up, and that's when I realized that I will lose this fight in the long run because you're going to tell Rosier and he's going to kill me." Ash said it in a weird voice. The kind comedians use. The kind where you would be crying if you weren't laughing. A kind of dark humor. And then she turned right back around, stuck her hands in her pockets, and rolled her eyes at Emmerson. "If you and your boyfriend hate each other, that's a you problem, not a me problem. And talking about my blood status won't help you solve your problems." Ash was very hurt, and the only way she knew how to hide it was anger and sarcasm and jokes. | |
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Norman stood like an immovable stone wall between the girls, barely reacting to Cambridge’s attempt to reach around him. He gave each of the girls his full attention as they spoke. The sooner he got to the bottom of this, the sooner they could all go back to their lives. What? “Stole my boyfriend”? Oh dear Merlin… this was way above his pay grade! He was a professor, not a relationship counselor.
His patience was already wearing thin when Cambridge tried reaching around him again. Would she ever learn? He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “No. You. Are. Not,” he replied to the threat of breaking Fox’s face, his tone stern yet perfectly calm. “Next time you try to reach around me, a magical barrier goes up. Understand?” He shot her a look, warning her that this was her last chance.
At least Fox’s account filled in the gaps in information, but that last sentence she said and the way she said it… It was enough to make even a battle-hardened ex-Auror like him feel sorry for her. He paused for a moment, choosing his next words very carefully. He needed to let the girls know that he would not be involving Rosier in this without sounding openly defiant. “Nobody is dying today, Fox,” he said firmly. “Headmaster Rosier is a busy man, much too busy to worry about students’ relationship drama, so I will be handling this.”
He would give that a moment to sink in while he decided on an appropriate punishment.
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"But you HAVE to tell Headmaster Rosier!" Emmerson huffed, folding her arms to prevent herself from any unnecessary urges to lung at the Ravenclaw again. "She IS a mudblood. He says so, he says they're no good and don't deserve magic and I'm a pureblood so I should win--that's what he says Professor, honest, he says so all the time in our classes." Green eyes searched Professor Carton's, failing to understand why the man wasn't seeing things her way and immediately praising her while reprimanding Ashley.
Was this not the new castle? Was her blood status suddenly useless again?
"He can have the hoodie squad hex her real good!! Maybe they'll let us choose which ones!! I say crucio and I think I get to pick because I'm the one who's boyfriend she stole."
It all made perfect sense to the 12 year old.
This was a no brainer.
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Ash shrugged at the professor. "Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Maybe me, maybe my family, maybe my friends. Doesn't matter." He had no EVIDENCE that she was going to be okay. "Please don't tell Rosier that I deserve to get tortured, sir. I KNOW I don't deserve magic. I DESERVE to be back in Australia, having fun with my life like a muggle would. IF the world were FAIR, I would be home by now." And with that, she broke down into sobs. But not before she had managed to growl the words "One day, your privilege is going to come back and bite you. Also, I hope that you never find love." At Emmerson. Because if she survived this year, she was going to come back and get REVENGE. Maybe involving a fight, maybe involving romance, who knew? Only time could tell what the revenge would be. She managed to stop crying, and crossed her arms. "I hate this school, and the whole wizarding world. They've given me nothing but pain. And suffering. But most of all I hate you. How dare you wish torture on a child. If you ever get a new boyfriend, I'm going to tell him you suggested using a curse worse than death on a kid because, and I quote, "I'm a pureblood and I should win."" She was going to make her regret this. Ashley Fox didn't forget. And she felt rage deeply. Emmerson would regret ever talking to her. Unless of course, Ash died. But it didn't matter. She had friends. And siblings. Contingency plans, right?
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Norman was so done, D-O-N-E done with this. No, scratch that. He was done with this about five minutes ago. Somebody please tell him this wasn’t the way all teenage girls acted! If he ever found out his daughter behaved this way, she would be grounded for life! With both girls still arguing, this situation was quickly devolving into chaos, but at least Cambridge finally stopped trying to reach around him. His blue-green eyes met the Gryffindor’s, studying her face. Did she not understand the dangers of dragging Rosier into this? He gave her the benefit of the doubt until he heard those last couple of sentences. That summed up exactly what was wrong with Rosier’s ideology! Not only did it breed division and terrorize innocent people, but it added to some of these kids’ already overblown sense of entitlement!
Norman blinked, unsure how to react as he heard Fox’s sobs. He wished there was something he could do, but crying children was a new territory for him. And even if he did know how to comfort her, he couldn’t. If word got back to Rosier that he’d shown sympathy to a muggleborn, it would put both of them in danger. He was relieved that she pulled herself together on her own, but the feeling didn’t last. Why did she have to say that? Now there was no way he could turn a blind eye to those anti-wizard sentiments!
”ENOUGH!” He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, as he turned to Fox. “Ten points from Ravenclaw, Fox. Keep your anti-wizard sentiments to yourself.” Please! If the wrong person heard that, there was little he could do to protect her, and he didn’t want her (or anyone else) to die!
“Now, the fact remains that both of you are guilty of fighting,” he said, his eyes darting from one girl to the other, “and not just any fighting. Fighting the muggle way.” He threw that last bit in there, just so it would be known that he complied with Rosier’s nonsense. “So you’ll both be serving detention. End. Of. Discussion. Any further attempt at arguing with me or with each other will lose one house point per word, so I suggest you go your separate ways.”
He would remain here watching until they did just that.
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