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DaniDiNardo · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2020, 11:58 PM

Once you've given The Fat Lady the correct password, you'll enter the Gryffindor common room. On one side of the room is the game corner. At the back of the room are two spiral staircases leading to the dormitories: boys to the left, girls to the right. Two lion statues sit on either side of each staircase. Don't forget to give them a pat before heading to bed; you're sure to get a roar or a purr in return!

The circular space is decorated in the signature Gryffindor colors of scarlet and gold, and there are plenty of plush armchairs, sofas, and beanbags for lounging. The room's most prominent feature is a fireplace; over its mantel hangs a portrait of a lion. A large portrait of the house's founder Godric Gryffindor adorns the back wall. Several other tapestries and paintings depicting animals and famous Gryffindor alumni decorate the walls - who knows? You may even find some of the famous Harry Potter himself! There are also a few tables in quieter spaces where you can study, read, or write to your hearts content. There's also a plaque and a bulletin board on one side of the room. Don't forget to read up on important announcements!

This room is your home away from home during your time here at Hogwarts. So, relax, take a load off!

sweetpinkpixie · 05-06-2021, 12:59 AM

Atlas had done it.

He had managed to escape the feast AND Phoebe James' ~~beautiful~~ gaze to the safety and comfort of the Gryffindor common room. Only it hardly felt safe and comfortable. Coming off an entire first year at Hogwarts where there had been no Head of House and no real sense of security had left the blonde with a bit of a sour taste in his mouth. Like when you ate a boogie Bertie Bott followed up by an earthworm one.

...he would go for either of those right now. The single bread roll had not sufficed at dinner and his stomach was reminding him of this as it gurgled and somersaulted.

Quickly making his way towards the stairs to retreat to his dormroom and snuggle with Toby, the second year pulled out his hand and audibly gasped at the discoloration and puffiness. He really should have just gone to the staff dais to speak with Professor Recard - none the wiser that there had been a change in school healer at the moment. No doubt he would find out later as he would land himself in the hospital wing at some point this term.

Stupidly trying to flex his fingers, a little experiment to see if it was really as bad as it looked and felt, Atlas yelped like a kneazle being strangled.

Cassirin · 05-06-2021, 01:21 AM

"Well, that is exactly what I thought," Phoebe said as she bumped into the common room and came up on Atlas lurking at the bottom of the stairs. Those fingers finally closed the loop for her, and she realized why the careful way he'd been nursing that hand out of sight seemed so familiar to her. Just like when Rosier broke all her fingers last term. So maybe not exactly what she thought, but she'd have gotten there eventually.

"Can you explain why you're hiding that?" It was nice to be able to do magic again, and Phoebe summoned her healing kit from her dorm. And then her pajamas, just for good measure. "I mean, they pay someone to heal us. But since you're here... can I look?"

sweetpinkpixie · 05-06-2021, 01:45 PM

Oh no.

Oh no.

Oh no no no no no.

Cue a slooooooooooow turn that revealed a wide eyed look complete with mouth slightly agape. Maybe if he stayed really really still...she wouldn't notice him more. Older Gryffindor ladies were like a Tyrannosaurus rex...right?

"Hide what?" he asked stupidly as he shoved his hand right back into his pocket and hit an abrupt stop with the bottom of his pocket. It wasn't exactly a punch, at least the intention wasn't to be that, but in the moment it felt as though he had just punched a brick wall. "...I just ... slammed my fingers in the door of one of the compartments on the train..." It had been an accident and he did not want to bring more attention to the injury. Especially since he had ~~pathetically~~ played things off with Quinn as being just peachy. "...slammed them really hard..." Sighing, Atlas slowly pulled his quivering hand out of his pocket. "...do I have to pay you if you do? I...could just go see Professor Recard in the morning..."

Cassirin · 05-07-2021, 01:18 AM

"I work for free." Phoebe pulled on her pajamas pants under her robes before banishing the robes up the stairs. Casual girl thing of changing clothes in public. "For you. Don't tell your friends, because I don't want Le Profeseur to get mad that I'm doing her work without a license."

But honestly, she'd spent ages learning these sort of spells last term JUST for this very purpose. Phoebe plunked onto the couch and patted the spot next to her. "I won't tell anyone either. But you won't be able to sleep tonight, and you'll be tired in class tomorrow. So come over here and stop being a stubborn lion cub."

sweetpinkpixie · 05-09-2021, 01:57 AM

Well...that was a relief. Atlas wasn't too sure he had much to offer someone like Phoebe James. Save maybe do some of her homework assignments. Nothing that required any though. "I won't. Don't have many friends to tell anyway," he replied with a small shrug. No real upset detectable and just stating the facts. "...even less now...I think..."

He really wasn't sure what was going on with Quinn and him exactly...but it felt like something had broke. And it had broke because Atlas had tried to help. Maybe he should just stop trying to help. Unless it involved blowing something up, literally.

Quiet and now with his hand held gingerly against his chest by the wrist with his other hand, the second year shuffled his feet over and sat down rigidly beside her. Another glance down at his hand and he was slowly, reluctantly, pulling it away from his chest and over in her general direction. "...thanks..."

Cassirin · 05-10-2021, 02:09 AM

"You tell me you don't have friends? What a fibber," Phoebe spoke quietly as she gently took Atlas' hand and examined it. It looked super painful, and the swelling made it really hard to tell exactly what was broken and what was just bruised. Badly bruised, but still. "You're a very nice person. And smart. And loyal. Sometimes it takes us a while to find our people in the world, but people like you always will."

From the case that Phoebe had summoned from her dorm, she pulled a clean cloth and a bottle of liquid. Just a simple pain-relieving potion, but it would take away so much of the discomfort that Atlas was feeling at the moment. "It's going to feel cold, then warm, then tingly like it's going to sleep, and that should help with the pain, okay?"

sweetpinkpixie · 05-13-2021, 10:25 AM

Atlas frowned a bit and looked down at his feet, at the carpet, at the legs of the table, towards the fire...basically anywhere BUT his alternate future wife. "...I think...you have me confused with my brother..." he manages to say sheepishly as the color rose in his pale features. "Aries...he is all those things...not me..." Atlas hadn't even stood by his best friend...and now that was all complicated and confusing. He could still hear Quinn's mom's shrieking and it made his hand throb even more.

Watching her, eyes still looking anywhere BUT at her face, the second year simply nodded. There was little else he could do right now anyway.

That warm tingling feeling though...it was very much prominent in his cheeks and in his chest...very much like whenever he spoke to Auntie Minnie. He told Auntie Minnie just about everything (save for how he was going to marry her. He had stopped proclaiming that aloud around age eight or so) and felt comfortable doing so. That same kind of comfort was appearing here too...and it felt nice.

Cassirin · 05-16-2021, 01:45 AM

"I met your brother at the feast. Just met him, in fact, so if I'm talking about anyone, it must be you." Phoebe packed up her supplies before settling back against the couch cushions. It would take a minute for his hand to feel better, but Phoebe had a feeling he was already starting to feel the effects. Or at least more comfortable.

"Why don't you tell me about what happened with your fingers? I bet you didn't get hexed by a big hulking Neo-Alliance goon, which is how I broke mine last term."

sweetpinkpixie · 05-16-2021, 01:55 PM

He felt...tingly. And he wasn't sure if it was because of his hand and then his brain was imagining it spread through his whole body or tingly because his unrequited love was complimenting him. Perhaps it was a little mix of both...but his fingers were tingling and uncomfortably so. It did remind him of when your foot was asleep and he had just had that this morning and hadn't realized it until he had tried to stand.

...not the best wake up call to start off the term. Atlas didn't believe in signs but...clearly it had been a sign.

"...I remember that..." nods lightly while worrying the inside of his cheek. Fingers and her teeth too. Right in the middle of a class and he had done...nothing. Been too afraid to. But he saw what happened when you did try and speak up and you were either poofed or someone else got hurt or killed because of it. But still...the guilt was there and had long settled in his chest. Head hanging a bit and eyes on his limp hand, the second year sucked in a deep breath. "I...I told you...I slammed them in a compartment door. It...it was an accident...I panicked..."

Cassirin · 05-18-2021, 02:00 AM

"Slammed it in a compartment door. On accident." It sounded a lot like a lie, but Phoebe didn't press him. It wasn't her business to harass the kid until he spilled the beans. Besides, maybe he was telling the truth. Some people were so wrapped up in their own head that even the truth sounded like a lie. "Sounds painful. I'm sorry to hear that."

She ran her wand through the air over his injured fingers, murmuring quietly to herself as she recalled the healing charms she'd taught herself last term. Maybe she hadn't actually healed a HUMAN before, but she'd practiced like crazy. "How does that feel?"

sweetpinkpixie · 05-21-2021, 01:39 PM

"Well...yeah. Why would I slam them on purpose in a compartment door?" Especially hard enough to break one or several of them. Sure, Atlas may sometimes have lashed out at home to bring focus back on to himself...but that had been when he was younger. Like toddler age. And, to be fair, it had been useful since during one of those fits was when his magic had finally manifested. It had been...well...all that was unrelated to this conversation. "...it doesn't feel so painful now..." He couldn't really feel most of anything with his fingers at the moment. "...you didn't like...accidentally disintegrate the bones in my fingers...right?" Atlas chewed lightly on his lower lip and then looked at his fingers. "...sort of can't feel my fingers at all."

Which was better than that painful throb he supposed.

Cassirin · 05-23-2021, 01:30 AM

"You can't feel them at all?" Phoebe bit her lip and considered whether that was one of the things that was supposed to happen. The potion removed pain, the spell re-knit bones, but the spell wasn't supposed to have any additional pain relieving aspect... Unless she was just really gifted. Using the corner of her robe, she rubbed off the potion skill sitting on his skin, just in case she'd applied it too liberally.

"I think that's okay. Give them a bend to see if they're working right and re-knit the way we expect. And... prove to yourself I didn't make the bones disappear." If she did, she was going to jump out the window IMMEDIATELY and hope some dragon snatched her midair and took her home as food.

sweetpinkpixie · 05-23-2021, 01:46 PM

Well...maybe not not at all...

If he couldn't feel anything at all it wouldn't even feel like he had any fingers at all, right? "...well...it feels heavy..." He tried to do what she asked of him, but his fingers were just like lead sausages. Tingly pulsing lead sausages. But he was able to move a little from the wrist to start, first with a twist to the right and then a slow turn to the left. The tingly feeling sort of intensified a little and it was one he was not too pleased about.

None of his fingers were bent at a weird angle, so that was good. If she had dissolved the bones there then his fingers probably would be a little droopy and not feel heavy, so therefore there were still bones. His pinky finger twitched first and then his thumb, neither of those the victims of the crime he had committed but still a good sign. His medicine finger was next and then the tips of the remaining two twitched as well. "I think...it worked?"

Though they still looked kind of...purple.

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