It’s 7:05 pm. Around this time, dinner should be starting at the Great Hall soon, but Mallory had opted skip dinner tonight. Instead, here she is, seated quietly in the almost vacant library, working on assigned homework. Normally, she isn’t as studious as Granger, in fact far from it but if it is an excuse to get out of sitting in the Great Hall, might as well use it to her advantage. She’s too engrossed with her own work that she wouldn’t have seen the person approaching had it not been the shadow that loomed over her parchment. “Did you want something?” She quips, barely looking up from where she had left off.













