Open Post: Great Hall

[courageous_wit]

[When the students enter the Great Hall today, they will see it decked out in black and yellow banners, with the Hufflepuff badger in prominent display. There are also a few model badgers that are moving around

The house-elves went all out in the food, serving Hufflepuff lots of cakes and cookies and other delicious treats.

Although you are divided by your houses, it's such a great party that you can visit your friends and butt into other house conversations!]

[Gryffindor | Ravenclaw | Hufflepuff | Slytherin | staff table]

Comments

[youfallback]

You're at school for a reason, you know. [Raising an eyebrow over at South. It's going to be a long school year if she's already looking forward to Summer.]

[i_got_this]

Yeah, because there's nothing else to do until I'm an adult.

[youfallback]

It's good for you. [Another eye roll.]

[i_got_this]

So is winning the cup. [Glaring at Carolina.] Come on don't you think of anything but studying?

[youfallback]

[Carolina clearly just doesn't understand the life-or-death circumstances involved in the Quidditch Cup. At the question, her thoughts definitely drift toward York and the pictures that they'd taken in Hogsmeade. Like the one that was carefully tucked inside her book. There's a momentary distracted pause before she answers,]

Being the best wizard in the school doesn't come from obsessing over Quidditch.

[i_got_this]

Uh-huh. [Sheridan saw that faraway look, and she's regarding Carolina with faint disbelief.] Because that's really something worth striving for.

[youfallback]

It is to me. [Just to prove her point, she opens up her book to the page she'd been reading and one corner of the photograph peeks out from its pages. Said photograph is of her and York eating a liquorice wand while smiling goofily over at each other. So sweet it'll melt South's teeth.]

[i_got_this]

[Sheridan's about to dismiss herself from the conversation with a look of disgust, but yeah that picture grabs her attention, and she darts forward to yank it out for a better look.]

What's this? This doesn't look like studying!

[youfallback]

[Carolina reaches out to try and stop her and doesn't succeed. That doesn't stop her from trying to still snatch the photograph back.]

Nothing! [Getting a little pink in the face.]

[i_got_this]

[Sheridan twists her back to Carolina and clutches the picture while she studies it. Realizing who she's with and what they're doing, she looks back at Carolina with horror and whispers (loudly),]

What are you doing with a Gryffindor?

[youfallback]

[Well she'll still do her best to try and reach around South to grab the picture back.]

We just-- [Fuck fuck fuck. They really hadn't done anything, just been silly goofballs and talked for hours like total strangers who are not at all attracted to each other do.] Nothing!

[i_got_this]

[Sheridan shoots her hand into the air with the picture to keep it away form Carolina.]

You were making googly eyes at a Gryffindor!

[youfallback]

[Carolina can't stand up on the bench to get the picture back, as York would for sure and see and decide she's just an immature sixteen-year-old. So, she'll do as much reaching as she can from a seated position.]

Give it back! I wasn't making googly eyes.

[i_got_this]

[Sheridan pulls the picture down and jabs a finger at it.] Then what's this?! You're certainly not looking at him with hatred and comtenmpt. Traitor.

[youfallback]

[With it much closer, Carolina at least snags one corner of the picture again, trying to grab it back without tearing it.] We're just eating candy. He said he wanted it so he could remember Hogwarts better.

[i_got_this]

[She relinquishes the picture, crossing her arms.] Yeah right. First it's candy then it's 'can I carry your books' and then 'let's meet in the courtyard after classes' and before you know it you're necking the enemy.

[youfallback]

[Carolina quickly mentally visualizes necking with York and gets just a little more pink as it spreads down her neck.] I won't be necking with him.

[But her statement definitely lacks some heat. She tucks the photo back into her book, making sure every inch of it is out of sight now.]

[i_got_this]

-- but you want to!

[Whoops no longer even attempting to whisper.]

[youfallback]

I-- [No, denying it is really difficult right now because she totally wants to neck with York. A little tiny bit. Totally inconsequential. The pink continues to spread down her neck.] That's not important. He leaves in a week.

[i_got_this]

And you wish you were with him, huh? All like, hugging and snuggling under blankets and crap. A Gryffindor. Where's he even going the school year's like, just barely begun ...

[youfallback]

He's not going to be here in a couple days. It doesn't matter. [Frowning over at South, nearly glaring.]

[i_got_this]

Of course it matters ... he's the enemy! [South throws her hands in the air dramatically.]