Date: 29 May 1998
Characters: Morag MacDougal, Padma Patil, Ravenclaws
Location: Hogwarts, Ravenclaw Tower
Status: Public
Summary: The Ravenclaws return home as the Tower is opened for clean-up.
Completion: Complete
Morag felt anxious. Her breakfast sat heavily in her stomach as she climbed up to the fifth floor entrance to the Ravenclaw Tower. She walked with Padma up the damaged marble staircase, past a tangled mess of desks, and through the silent hallways.
She never remember the spiral staircase leading up to the Tower being quite as enclosed as before. She felt like she was spinning upward as she climbed. When they reached the top, she released a small gasp. The door knocker was gone. Actually, the whole door was gone, but she was specifically concerned for the knocker.
Professor Flitwick was already there, advising some other Ravenclaws on the best reparation charms for the damage done to the Tower. Many of the large windows in the room had been smashed. The glass had been cleaned away and the lower windows were already repaired, but a slight breeze came from the upper ones. There was rubble and destroyed books laying around the room and the carpet was torn up. Chairs and tables were missing arms and legs, like amputated casualties of war.
It wasn't the same as she left it the other night, but it was there. Her home for the last seven years was in pieces, but it could be put back together. I can fix this, Morag thought and that thought gave her strength.