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taryn ricci; pacify her, she's getting on my nerves

[wxckedgrin-blog]

“Pleasure to meet you, Taryn.” He let out a small laugh. “There are more people around here willing to harm others than you’d think,” he admitted. “You just have to know where to look. Surprisingly enough, Slytherin is not where you go finding those people.” Oliver had found several students that would do more than just harm others. And those were the ones he greatly admired. He followed her around into the hallway, keeping his eyes peeled for anyone.

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“I guess I just don’t go hunting them out,” She shrugged, “I usually do things on my own. I’ve experienced  more than my fair share of backstabbers in my time, when I’ve worked with other people at least,” She eyed him out of the corner of her eyes, “I trust I won’t have that problem with you?” Taryn had used memory erasing charms more than she’d admit out loud and she wasn’t afraid to do it again. She hoped she wouldn’t though. She had a good feeling about Oliver. 

As they rounded a corner, she heard a few students talking, and put her hand up to shush him, “Quiet,” She peered around a pillar, “That’s him.. That’s the one who messed with the paintings.”

[hiddenseer-blog]

“Alright, thank you. I understand and you did the right thing.” Percy glanced around the area as they walked. He believed what she said, but he hoped she wouldn’t point anyone out. As much as they probably deserved it, he hated getting children in trouble. But he had to do his duty. His attention returned to her when she questioned him. “My year has been lovely, thank you. No more trouble than the first years who have no clue what their doing,” he lied. She didn’t need to know about the troubles he was going through. “And how has your year been, Taryn? Sixth year is a big year.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

She laughed, “Sometimes I feel like first years will be the death of me,” Taryn hook her head and let out a sigh. Even though sometimes she tried to have sympathy towards them, it was hard. She didn’t have sympathy for anyone very often and, even though she herself had been a first year at one point, she felt that she was so much more responsible and learned so much faster than others did. They drove her crazy. 

“It’s been really great. Sometimes a little overwhelming. I’ve got a few big tests coming up but I’ve always been good at studying.. I’m really upset that this will be my last year in Defense Against the Dark Arts.. It’s one of my favorite classes. I’m not ready to give it up,” In reality, she wouldn’t be giving it up completely. Not parts of it, anyway. Her favorite thing was re-purposing the spells they’d taught her and she’d never be done doing that, “I really do want to take Herbology again next year though. I really learned a lot last year. Besides, I miss being able to listen to you teach every day!”

[wxckedgrin-blog]

Oliver pulled his wand from his robes and looked around the area. There was no one that could get them in trouble in sight–not that it really mattered. One memory charm and the potential of getting in trouble was gone. His malicious grin remained as he spoke, “Well, then lead the way.” He paused for a moment, realizing he lacked the knowledge of her name. “I’m Oliver, by the way. We never introduced ourselves.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“Taryn,” She told him, “I’m Taryn,” Anyone else might have shaken his hand but she hated making unnecessary physical contact with others. The thought just made her terribly uncomfortable, “I don’t think I’ve ever met another person who openly admits that they’d like to put hexes on people,” She laughed and pulled her wand from her robe, turning a corner into a new hallway. She had no idea where they were going. She figured she’d just lead him along until she found a few students to hex.

[hiddenseer-blog]

“That has become a trend recently–putting yourself before others. I’m happy to see not everyone has taken up that mindset,” he commended. Percy nodded. “If you can point me in the direction of students who stood by and did nothing, I can assure you that I’ll speak with them. I can’t guarantee that they’ll be in trouble, but I will talk to them. I’ll never understand it either, but you should be proud of yourself for setting an example. Now we can only hope others will follow.”

Percy nodded, a grin on his lips. “I understand. You may go get them, but I’ll have to walk with you in case you run into any other teachers who aren’t as kind as I am. I’ll explain the situation to Professor Meadowes as well.” He turned on his heels and began walking toward the Slytherin dorms. “Come along.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“Well,” She told him, starting to walk forwards in the direction of her dorms, “I’ll do my best to remember names and faces and I’ll point them out to you, or try to give you names, as best as I can. It was pretty difficult to focus on who else was there. I was so focused on getting help to the person who needed it,” Taryn shrugged her shoulders. She turned her head and looked up at him again as they walked, “How has your school year been so far, professor? I wasn’t fortunate enough to have Herbology this year, but I should hope no one is giving you too much trouble.” 

[wxckedgrin-blog]

“Both are sounding rather appealing right now. And we can’t let perfectly good magic go to waste, so why not do both? One for the vandal and another for an unsuspecting first year.” Oliver flashed a devilish smile. “There’s nothing quite like watching students run around confused and panicked. As long as you’re not the one it’s happening to, that is.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

Her lips turned up in a mischievous grin. For Taryn, the whole thing was even better knowing that really, both targets would be two unsuspecting first years, since she’d made the whole thing up to begin with, “If we hurry, we could probably still catch them in the halls somewhere before we miss our chance. I think I remember what direction I saw them heading off in,” Taryn glanced around, looking for professors or prefects.

[kellendietrich-deactivated20160]

As he looks downwards at the girl’s shoes he can’t help but narrow his eyes, there’s something about buckled shoes in this age that seems just plain weird. Looking up he gently bites his lip as he waits for her to finish, “I suppose some help would be nice”he says slowly.

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“I see you judging me,” She furrowed her eyebrows at him when she saw his eyes narrow, “Who’s the one who got their shoelaces disintegrated here, hm? These shoes are the best decision I’ve made-- uniform wise-- since I’ve been at Hogwarts,” Taryn sighed loudly and shook his head before letting it go, “What are you trying to use this for anyway?” She glanced around, looking for professors, before gesturing for him to follow her, “Let’s head outside. It’s easier to work out there.”

[hiddenseer-blog]

Percy nodded, offering her a grin as she spoke. “That’s very kind of you. It’s rather amazing how little some people are willing to help when there are such small consequences for doing so. It was good of you to do that. What class are you headed to?”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

She sighed, “I guess some people care more about themselves and their own schoolwork than they do about making sure people are safe, y’know?” She shrugged, “I personally think the students who didn’t stay behind to help are the ones who should be getting in trouble.. How they could just rush off and leave someone in such a panic, I’ll never understand,” She shook in her head in feigned disappointment,.

“I was heading to potions but I got so caught up in helping my classmate that I didn’t have time to grab my textbooks from my dorm,” Her eyebrows furrowed, “I don’t think my Professor would really appreciate me showing up without them.." She looked up at the taller man in front of her with her big brown eyes, hoping he’d let her walk back to her dorms to grab them before sending her to class.

[kayley-matthew-deactivated20151]

“Because it…. wouldn’t help me to calm down if I use a spell. My… hands wouldn’t have anything to do then….” Kayley replied cautiously, eyeing the girl from head to toe. Last thing she needed here now was a Slytherin student, but then, she hardly could tell the other to leave, seeing they were both here without permission. “You, uhm…. can have one if you want….”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

Taryn raised a brow, “What’s got you feeling so tense?” She tilted her head to the side and walked forward, swiping a bit of icing off one of the cupcakes with her finger. She licked it off her finger and then shook her head, “No, thanks. I’m trying not to have too much sugar. It always seems to make it harder for me to focus on things and I hate that,” She shrugged and hopped up to sit on one of the other counters that wasn’t being used, “Do you always sneak in here and bake this late?” 

[orionrosier-blog]

“Yeah, this seat’s open if y’want it. Don’t worry, I promise I don’t bite — or feed over used lines like that very often,” he jokes, wolfish grin creeping into his visage.

[slytherintaryn-blog]

A smirk mirrored on Taryn’s face, “Well I’ll trust you just this once.. Although, if you did bite me, it wouldn’t be too big of a problem, I suppose,” She set her book down on the table and sat across from him, “My cousin is a werewolf.”

[kellendietrich-deactivated20160]

“You’d think that I would have learned how to cast a simple blasting curse, yet I still managed to accidentally incinerate my shoe laces”he says with a laugh, “That being said, would you know where I might be able to find another pair?”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“I don’t,” She gestured down to her feet, “I’ve been wearing buckled shoes with my uniform since second year,” Taryn looked back up at the tall student in front of her, “I can help you with that blasting curse, though. It’s one of my favorites and if you’re going to use it, then you might as well use it right.”

[kayley-matthew-deactivated20151]

Originally posted by itsamixer

Kayley had no problems with being alone, in fact, she prefered it over being in company, even more after some of those pranks that had been played to her lately.

Baking and gardening were both things made to calm her down when the Ravenclaw girl felt stressed like this, though, it was to cold for gardening now. Plus, she maybe could also figure out some nice sweets for Halloween this way. Humming Kayley added some frosting to her cupcake - she wasn’t expecting anyone else to be down in the kitchens at this time, also because it wasn’t exactly allowed for the students to be here on their own.

[slytherintaryn-blog]

Taryn couldn’t sleep and she wasn’t really looking to. She’d been reading her defense against the dark arts book, having learned in her second year that some of those spells could be used to do the opposite of what they’d been created for. A lot of them could do harm more than good if you used them correctly– or incorrectly, depending on who you asked.

But she’d grown bored of reading after awhile and decided that maybe it was time to search the halls for some unsuspecting students that were up roaming the halls at night like she was. She’d been wanting to practice Levicorpus on someone for awhile now but it was much too difficult to do while there were so many people around. She heard quiet clanking and a subtle sweet smell coming from the kitchen. When she rounded the corner and saw the dark haired girl, she considered trying the spell now. However, it was much too risky. Instead, she decided to make herself known, “Wouldn’t it be easier to do those with a spell, instead of by hand? Isn’t it a bit tedious?”

[professorxcrouch-blog]

@slytherintaryn

“Honestly, I haven’t a single idea what assignment it is you’re talking about…” Wyatt paused trying to recall her name, though as he came up blank he just continued. “Why not try asking whatever Professor was substituting before I arrived?”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

Taryn crinkled her nose, “I wasn’t talking about an assignment,” She flipped the book open that she was holding in her hand to a bookmarked page, “I was asking about this here,” She turned it around so that it was facing him, the words upside down for herself, “Levicorpus? Our substitute touched briefly on it.. But we weren’t really taught anything in depth.. It says it was originally intended to be cast nonverbally and, again, we’ve only touched very very briefly on nonverbal spells this year but I think I’ve got the hang of a few and I just can’t.. This one seems a bit more troubling to me.” She let out a frustrated huff, trying not to give away too much, knowing she’d definitely get in trouble if she admitted she’d been practicing on some unsuspecting Hufflepuffs.

[wxckedgrin-blog]

“There’s a myriad of things we could do. Hexing, poisoning, perhaps some vandalism of our own to the Gryffindor house. It’s your choice, you’re the one who saw him.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

"I’m liking the sound of hexing more and more by the second.. My two personal favorites are anteaculatia-- there’s nothing quite like seeing someone panic when horns grow out of their forehead-- or redactum skullus-- it’s a little more difficult for someone to reverse a spell on theirr own when their head is shrunken to the size of a small pear.”

[hiddenseer-blog]

“I don’t want to have to take house points away or give you detention, but cutting class is a serious thing. Come up with a good enough reason as to why you aren’t in class right now and I’ll let it slide.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“I was just on my way back to class after taking another student to the infirmary. One of the first years was practicing magic on her and she lost all the bones in her leg, so I had to carry her there myself. I was the only one willing to do it. No one else wanted to help her because it meant cutting class. I was the only one who would help her, so I was just trying to do the right thing.”

[librachang-blog]

“You know I’m not supposed to accept papers for marking after the deadline…”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

“I know, I’m so sorry.. I'm usually so good at turning things in on time... I just.. My mom just had a baby and she’s been sick, y’know? So it’s been really distracting me from my studies and I just wasn’t able to get it done on time with all that I had going on.. I’m sorry. I’ll understand if you can’t accept it.”

[wxckedgrin-blog]

“Oh, I’m sure. And that kid will probably get into loads of trouble.” Oliver shrugged. “I’m not one that cares much for house points or anything of the sort, but it would be rather fun to get a Gryffindor in trouble I suppose. We could tell an administrator… Or we could get revenge of our own. I prefer the latter.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

She laughed, “Okay, okay,” Taryn shrugged and brushed her hair over her shoulder, “I wouldn’t say that I’m totally opposed to getting some kind of revenge. What did you have in mind?” 

[wxckedgrin-blog]

“That sounds like something a Gryffindor would do. But if it was one of the paintings, someone in one of the portraits probably saw and they’ll know who it was. That’s a shame–I always thought those paintings were disturbing anyway.”

[slytherintaryn-blog]

I think that house points were taken from Gryffindor because of all this, right? I mean, that would definitely suck for them. First years always seem to be mucking things up for the rest of their house, right? Right. Maybe we should talk to an administrator and have someone look into the Gryffindor first years.