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“Emmeline.” Dorcas looked up at the voice, a smile spreading across her face. She was pretty chuffed with the partner given to her for the assignment. It could have been a lot worse. She had watched some of her housemates uneasily walk away with their Slytherin partners. Doe was friendly with a lot of people from a lot of different houses, but for some reason, somehow, this year just felt different. “Yeah, I guess we are partners.” The blonde tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, gathering her notebook and pencil as she stood up.
“I will write it out properly, just gonna do a draft first.” Doe explained sheepishly, sticking the pencil in her ponytail. It wasn’t uncommon for her to get stick from her classmates for using a pencil.
It would be good to get to know Dorcas better and it made her assignment a fairly easy one. “How have you been? Did you have a good summer?” Emmeline noticed the pencil that Doe had pushed into her ponytail and tilted her head to the side out of curiosity. Plus, she found the way the other had it tucked in to look rather adorable. “Is that one of those pencil things? I’ve never used one. Are they easier to use than quills?” She truly wanted to know because anything that made taking notes in class go by quicker would be a godsend.















