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Week / Date / Time: "Promises and Plans" / Monday, October 10th / 7:00pm
Location: Slytherin Common Room
Open to: All Slytherins
Currently Involving: Jeannie, Gabriella

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Jeannie walked into the common room after dinner, her bag over her shoulder. Monday was always an interesting day. No classes, and that meant she had to do her homework for everything else.

She saw nobody whose face she knew- oh, wait, there was her roommate! Gabriella, was it? Jeannie had never gotten the courage to talk to her... they seemed like opposites, and the other girl was rather intimidating. Or so Jeannie thought.

But gathering up her wits, she came and sat down at the table, across from her. "Hi!" she said brightly. Now observing her companion's face, she would say that Gabriella looked angry. Whoops.

"Do you need any help? I'm good at Potions. You've got something on your cheek, y'know." Jeannie chattered on, while getting out her own Transfiguration homework.

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Gabriella looked startled and blinked across the low coffee table at Jeannie. "Hello?" she responded, seeming somewhat taken aback by the other girl's cheerfulness. One hand went tentatively to her cheek and rubbed at it, but missed the ink spot. "It's probably ink," she said somewhat warily, examining her fingers and finding nothing. Her voice was colored by a scottish burr. "It's okay, I have a week to finish the essay and I already have half of it done." She watched the girl make herself comfortable in the other chair in front of the fireplace. The kitten cracked one golden eye open, saw Jeannie, yawned, and went back to sleep.

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"It's ink," said Jeannie, studying it closer. "If you rub it on your hand, it'll get stuck on there, too," she advised, pulling out a handkerchief and handing it to her. Maybe not one of the most normal things for a first-year girl to carry around, but Jeannie was very neat and Kleenexes annoyed her.

"I don't remember that essay," she said, looking at it for a second. "Ah well. If it's due next week, I have forever. But this essay, on the other hand, is due tomorrow. But it shouldn't be that bad, since I like Transfiguration. Though maybe I shouldn't have put it off so long." She stopped, remembering that she was in fact talking to a person and not herself.

A bit later she noticed the cat. "Ooh! A kitty! It's cute," Jeannie giggled. "Gray is one of my favorite colors. Oh, and its eye color! That's adorable."

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Gabriella poked the tip of her tongue out and touched it to the handkercheif, then scrubbed at her cheek. She kept checking it until she found the black smear, then rubbed at it ferociously until it was a little lighter in color and a spot on the handkerchief had turned periwinkle blue. "It's an extra credit essay," Gabriella told her, not wanting to say anymore, especially not to mention the four consecutive Potions classes in which she'd bungled her mixture so badly that Snape had Vanished it rather than accepting a sample. She peeked at the top of Jeannie's Transfiguration essay. "Oh. I'd already done that one... it didn't need to be all that long." Glancing upwards and behind her, she said, "That's Persephone. She's my familiar," she said matter-of-factly.

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OOC: Like this? Oh yes, and have you posted in the classrooms? Because, like I found when I came here, comments are screened there unless you've been accepted, and I didn't see your comments.

She smiled, a bit bubbly. "I could help you there! In Potions, I mean. I like that class."

When hearing the last bit about what type of Auror Gabriella wanted to be, Jeannie clapped her hands happily. "How exciting!" she exclaimed. "Though, I wouldn't be able to do that at all. I suppose you'd have to be good at Care of Magical Creatures? I know I won't be good at that class, if I take it in third year, which I shan't. I can't tell a flobberworm from a normal stink-worm. I just hate getting near the creatures. I mean, what if they bite me?!"

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((excellant, thank you! And I did post on the classroom threads... it's odd that they're not showing up. I've posted in DADA and Potions.))

Gabriella smiled. There was something slightly dark in it. "If they bite you, they bite you. The worst it can do is kill you, and with what I've seen of magical healing, that's pretty unlikely. I think I'll like CO Magical Creatures when I get the opportunity to take it. I don't know. I like animals more than people. I understand them better, I think... predator and prey is simple. It's people who complicate things. And I don't really want to chase the Minister of Magic around like a sycophant, like those Aurors I always see in the papers. I suppose getting a job here at Hogwarts, if the war is still on, wouldn't be horrible - I'm very good at self-defense charms. But I like the idea of hunting."

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(You should delete them and post them again, since they're not showing up. They should work now.)

Jeannie shrugged. "Well, people are smarter, so I figure it's only fair that we complicate things."

She thought for a moment. "Hunting would be fun for me also. Except you could hurt yourself. But I suppose you shouldn't be all too worried about that, since you like some sorts of pain?" A bright smile on her face showed that she was joking, and hoped that she wasn't pushing her limits. "That's why I like the idea of Cursebreaking, too. You get to go off and retrieve artifacts and things, but there isn't that much danger."

Pausing for a moment, she continued. "Well, actually there is, but no danger of biting creatures. Hopefully."

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"The kind of pain I like is the burning ache you get deep in your muscles and your lungs when you've had a really good work-out," Gabriella told her. "Crushing, cutting, and piercing pain, I'm not fond of, but I have a high threshold. But then, most girls can take a lot more pain than boys can," she said somewhat smugly.