One of the last things Draco wanted to do after his stressful morning (and, really, stress ought to be outlawed until at least noon because anytime before that was too fucking early) was go to lunch with anyone because interacting socially with others was going to be a draining task. What made it infinitely worse was that now Draco was going to ( Read more... )

( Inquiring Minds Need to Know )

Millicent stepped outside of the reunion hall and off to one side of the doors. She leant wearily up against the wall and lit another cigarette. Merlin.

What a night. Ups and downs, decent conversations with Snape only to be shot down, decent conversations with Luna, threatening Finnigan only to have him like it and then go on to discuss his ( Read more... )

George left Fred, Hermione, Ginny and Ron outside the enterance to the hall and hurried over to Tonks's place. Everything was so... messed up! George, however, meant to avoid as much of the unpleasantness as he could... Well, tonight, at least. People were going to need a way to forget (or at least not worry so much) about the disturbing close ( Read more... )

Millicent held open the door for Draco, Luna trailing after him, just in time to see a flash of white light flicker through the opposite door. A Patronus ( Read more... )

Hermione sat at the table she had left Tonks for, staring off into space. She wasn't brooding, exactly, just replaying the conversation she had had with Professor Snape over and over in her head. She hadn't been wrong, had she? Draco Malfoy was trouble; it was one of those constants, like Wingardium Leviosa making things float. She wasn't ( Read more... )

Ron had enjoyed the walk from the Inn to the Reception Hall. It was nice to finally have things feel normal between him and Harry. Or nearly normal, at least. There still seemed to be some sort of tension there, but it wasn't bad, exactly. He hoped that he'd been right when he told Harry that they were fine, again ( Read more... )

The walk to the reception hall was a quiet one, not that Draco had expected any less.  Severus' face was fairly closed off which meant he was doing that thing where he was hiding away all the important emotions and fixating on the superficial ones.  It was what made trouble-makers, idiots, and stubborn charges so lucky.  As long as Severus kept a ( Read more... )

The day had been more eventful than he would ever have wished for. Considering that he mostly liked his rather monk-like existence, that is not to be wondered at. However, between the experience of Draco's idea of 'fashion', then lunch with his snakelets and the ordeal of the tour, he felt quite like he had been ground in a cosmic mortar and ( Read more... )

She almost walked by it.

She almost walked by themLate for the reunion, a quick scrawl in her newly-acquired journal, and a drop-off of eight trained rats at the Magical Menagerie, and Millicent was hungry ( Read more... )