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Hogwarts in Spring 🌷✨🌱📚
Prompt 13 - Materialised
Wolfstar June 13, word count 441
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“Well,” said Dumbledore, his face thoughtful. “That is quite the damning evidence on Mr Pettigrew’s part. “I would like to see the memory of your confrontation with Mr Pettigrew after Voldemort’s.”
Sirius shook in Remus’s arms as he relived the memory that slowly leaked from the corner of his eye. Dumbledore snatched it away with the tip of his wand and plunged it into the pensieve. Remus wanted to see what happened too, but Sirius was shaking so badly he didn’t want to leave him.
“I’ll be fine, Remus. I want you to see it.” Sirius slowly slipped out of Remus’s arms and sat in one of the chairs before the headmaster’s desk.
“If you need me, pull me out,” Remus said, squeezing his shoulder and moving to the pensive to join Dumbledore and McGonagall. He tilted his head forward and fell into the memory.
The memory materialised on a crowded street somewhere in London. Sirius stood looking out at the sea of faces, looking for something, or someone.
Remus knew when he’d spotted Peter, Sirius stilled, like a dog that’s found its prey.
“Peter!!!” he called out in a soft, deadly voice, and Peter froze.
The man who had been their friend turned to face Sirius, fear oozing from his body. Remus was certain if he’d been there, he’d have been able to smell it.
“Si-Sirius! Wh-what are you doing here?” Peter stammered, his eyes flicking to anywhere but Sirius as he tried to find a way out.
“To kill you, Peter!” Sirius growled. “To rid this world of a snivelling, traitorous, pathetic excuse for a wizard. You killed Lily and James! You killed your best friend! How dare you!”
“HOW COULD YOU BETRAY LILY AND JAMES, SIRIUS?!” Peter shouted loudly. Sirius’s brow creased at Peter’s words. “THEY WERE YOUR FRIENDS!!!”
That’s when the spell hit him. Peter had overcooked it a bit, and Sirius blinked as he tried to fight off the cheering charm. He swayed on the spot, lifting his arm in uncertainty when the road suddenly blew apart. Remus watched as Peter severed his own finger, leaving it in the rubble before transforming into a rat and squeezing his fat body through the nearest grate, into the sewer below, as Sirius flung his head back, unable to fight the effects of the spell any longer, and laughed.
Aurors apparated into the screaming, smoking mess and grabbed Sirius, heavy manacles appearing on his wrists as they began to drag him away, still laughing uncontrollably, his eyes screaming out the truth, but no one was paying attention. An Auror raised his wand at Sirius, and the memory went black.
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Got a pretty cool shot of the Hogwarts Express, Hogwarts castle and my MC, Evelyn, flying on her broom with Sebastian in tow.
morning, noon, evening & night
Screenshots in-game taken by me!
What’s up with the Hogwarts dormitories? Do students stay in the same room all 7 years or do they switch rooms every year? And does each room have its own bathroom or are there just community boy and girl bathrooms for each house?
Okay, this is actually an interesting question so I wanted to check what I can find about this in the books.
At the end of the year they clearly pack all their belongings from their dormitories. They don't leave stuff at school over the summer:
And suddenly, their wardrobes were empty, their trunks were packed, Neville’s toad was found lurking in a corner of the toilets; notes were handed out to all students, warning them not to use magic over the holidays
(PS, Ch16)
But in CoS we are straight up given the answer for a change:
They hurried up it, right to the top, and at last reached the door of their old dormitory, which now had a sign on it saying SECOND YEARS. They entered the familiar, circular room, with its five four-posters hung with red velvet and its high, narrow windows.
(CoS, Ch5)
So, yeah, canonically it's the same dorm room they return to every year and the sign outside just changes. But they are expected to take all their belongings at the end of the year and not leave personal belongings in the dormitory.
As for bathrooms/showers, I talked about this a little here. And there isn't as straightforward of an answer, but I tried.
It appears they have showers in the Quidditch changing rooms:
“Where is Wood?” said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn’t there. “Still in the showers,” said Fred. “We think he’s trying to drown himself.”
(PoA, Ch9)
And baths somewhere in the common rooms:
“Yes, it was,” said Ginny. “It was appalling. Angelina was nearly in tears by the end of it.” Ron and Ginny went off for baths after dinner; Harry and Hermione returned to the busy Gryffindor common room and their usual pile of homework.
(OotP, Ch26)
We also see all students seem to have bathrobes/dressing gowns (depending on edition and book, I assume. In the American PS version I have uses "tartan bathrobe" to refer to McGonagall's tartan dressing gown):
They pulled on their bathrobes, picked up their wands, and crept across the tower room, down the spiral staircase, and into the Gryffindor common room.
(PS, Ch9)
“I believe you, Potter,” said Professor McGonagall curtly. “Put on your dressing-gown — we’re going to see the headmaster.”
(OotP, Ch21)
The fact all students are expected and known to have dressing gowns/bathrobes can imply the bathrooms are located in the common rooms and not in each dorm. My assumption would be where the dormitories are, so they won't need to go back to the common room itself.
But I decided to check how Harry gets ready for bed/in the morning and if it's ever mentioned he leaves his dorm to brush his teeth or otherwise hint at the existence of a bathroom inside or outside the dorm. Unfortunately, Harry doesn't seem to shower/bath or brush his teeth before bed. Just goes straight to his dorm, pulls on pajamas and goes into bed:
Their trunks had already been brought up. Too tired to talk much, they pulled on their pajamas and fell into bed.
(PS, Ch7)
It was so late that the Gryffindor common room was almost empty. Harry went straight up to the dormitory. Ron wasn’t back yet. Harry pulled on his pajamas, got into bed, and waited.
(CoS, Ch7)
He threw his wand down onto his bedside table, pulled off his robes, stuffed them angrily into his trunk, and pulled on his pajamas.
(OotP, Ch11)
They pulled off their robes and put on pajamas in silence; Dean, Seamus, and Neville were already asleep. Harry put his glasses on his bedside table and got into bed but did not pull the hangings closed around his four-poster;
(OotP, Ch21)
And i couldn't track down any morning routine either (since we only really see Harry wake up and get up when something is happening, so...)
So we can't really count on Harry (or Dean, Seamus, Neville, and Ron all act the same way). I considered Harry and the others may just be showering/bathing and brushing their teeth earlier, but:
Half an hour later, Ron arrived, nursing his right arm and bringing a strong smell of polish into the darkened room. “My muscles have all seized up,” he groaned, sinking on his bed.
(CoS, Ch7)
Ron clearly didn't shower/bath in any way that would dampen the smell of the polish he used in detention before heading to the dorms.
At this point, I considered the ramifications of the smell in the Gryffindor boys dorm. Technically though, the fact they don't use the baths much doesn't mean they aren't there. It just means their dorm probably stinks.
“Right,” said Harry, and feeling happier than he had in ages, he and the rest of the team led the way, still in their scarlet robes, out of the stadium and back up to the castle. [...] It felt as though they had already won the Quidditch Cup; the party went on all day and well into the night. [...] The Gryffindor party ended only when Professor McGonagall turned up in her tartan dressing gown and hair net at one in the morning, to insist that they all go to bed. Harry and Ron climbed the stairs to their dormitory, still discussing the match. At last, exhausted, Harry climbed into bed, twitched the hangings of his four-poster shut to block out a ray of moonlight, lay back, and felt himself almost instantly drifting off to sleep. . . .
(PoA, Ch13)
Now, why does this chapter help us? well, if we're willing to reach a little, this paragraph can imply each dorm room has a bathroom of it's own. Because, the Quidditch team heads back to school in their Quidditch robes — they aren't taking a shower in the changing rooms. And we know they do usually shower after Quidditch. Hence, there is a bathroom in the dorm that Harry can take a bath in before "at last" falling into bed. Potentially. Hopefully.
Then, in CoS, Ron could've gone to that same bathroom after his detention after he talked to Harry. And I found another quote that implies this further:
Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, and Harry distinctly heard her mutter “Slave labor,” before bidding them good night and disappearing through the doorway to the girls’ dormitory
(GoF, Ch12)
They are sitting in the common room in front of the fireplace, and Harry can see Hermione disappearing through the door to her dormitory, which is upstairs. Which means, there is a balcony of sorts, looking down on the common room from where the girls' dorms are. Which, then, implies, private bathrooms in each dorm is more likely than a joint one you'd have to walk past a balcony all the common room could see to get to. It would also help explain why Harry and the others always go straight to their dorms and not stop at any bathroom first.
It also helps with the whole "student out of bed" thing. They aren't allowed to leave their dormitories during the night, so it makes more sense they would have a bathroom in the dormitory.
As you can see, I couldn't track down any easy answer for the bathrooms like with the dormitories unfortunately, but I now believe each dorm room does have an abjoint bathroom. At least, I think it's more likely.
Velvet Smoke
The castle was bored.
Not quiet.
Never quiet.
But bored in the particular Hogwarts way where the corridors felt too long, the torches burned too slow, and everyone had somehow already exhausted every bad idea available before dinner.
James Potter was walking backwards down the corridor with his hands in his pockets.
“I’m telling you,” he declared dramatically, “we should start a fight.”
“You start fights every other Tuesday,” Lily Evans said flatly.
“And every other Friday,” Mary added.
“And once on a Sunday,” Marlene snorted.
“That was self-defence.”
“You threw the first punch,” Remus said.
James pointed at him accusingly. “You weren’t there.”
“I was literally holding your coat.”
Peter wheezed laughing beside him while Fabian and Gideon Prewett argued over whether exploding snap counted as gambling if nobody technically owned money anymore because Fabian had lost all his three days ago.
Frank Longbottom looked exhausted already.
Alice Fortescue was hanging off his arm grinning. “I still think we should sneak into the kitchens.”
“We got banned from the kitchens,” Frank reminded her.
“That sounds fake.”
“It was literally your fault,” Sirius said.
“It was worth it.”
“It was not worth it,” Lily sighed. “The elves still glare at us.”
Sirius barked out a laugh anyway, shoving his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket as they wandered aimlessly around another corner.
“Moony,” James said suddenly. “Turn into a wolf.”
“No.”
“Tiny wolf.”
“No.”
“Emotionally?”
“No.”
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