solidarity >> grace & rowan
Rowan typically enjoyed Hogsmeade weekends. There was more to look at, more to do, and the barriers between houses really seemed intangible when everyone was wearing jeans and sweaters, anyway. She and Lia usually met up, at this point no planning was necessary on either of their parts. Since Rowan did wake up a little earlier, she set out for the town with the first wave of students, mostly younger ones. It only slightly irritated the sixth year to be surrounded by a group of fourth year boys that towered over her on their way to the carriages. Hogsmeade was as inviting as ever, even with so few people, and Rowan contented herself with doing her ‘business’ trips first. She needed a more recent edition of her Law book-- apparently Calla’s old one was about two years out of date, and Professor Laurent made it clear that wasn’t going to fly. Emerging from Tomes and Scrolls, her attention was caught by motion against the corner of the Hog’s Head. Rowan felt a familiar, overpowering rush of dislike as Derek O’Connell was sidling up to a new girl who Rowan herself didn’t recognize, meaning she was from another school and younger than both herself and O’Connell. The girl looked uncomfortable and O’Connell looked stereotypically predatory, so Rowan’s feet were moving on her own accord towards the pair. “Hey! Fancy meeting you here!” her words were directed at the girl, completely glossing over O’Connell for her own sanity. “I thought you said we were meeting at the Three Broomsticks.” “You didn’t tell me you had plans.” The boy’s oily voice made Rowan’s skin crawl. Her jaw set stubbornly. “Well, we do,” Rowan stated, attention still on the girl, who looked grateful. Her arm went out, attempting to extricate her from O’Connell’s grasp. Instead, the perv’s hand landed on her shoulder, and it took all of Rowan’s focus not to knock him on his ass right then. “Maybe we can all go,” he suggested. “Yeah, and maybe you can--” Rowan’s potentially inflammatory response was cut off by the arrival of a familiar face.
@grace--raleigh


















