A Welcome Distraction: Seamus & OPEN
Seamus tapped his foot absently and sighed loudly. A fierce ruffling of thick papers and a colossal shhhhhhhing met the boy for his interruption to the silent, studious atmosphere. The library returned to a state of absolute quiet once more and Seamus peered down at his open, dog-eared copies of the Rune Dictionary and Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms and held his quill loosely in his hand, nervously letting it jiggle about as he waited. His assigned homework was to translate an advanced ancient text from ancient Wizarding Rome first into modern runes and then into English.
Though he hardly cared about the project, he knew it was good practice and he should at least attempt it. The problem was that these pesky Roman logograms didn’t like to stay put, instead they were all busy trying to jump off the page and do a strange dance all about the table. After eating dinner with Dean, Lavender, and Parvati and then leaving the Great Hall, Dean had promised to meet with Seamus later after grabbing his books.
Absently, Sea hexed one of the runes into paralysis with his wand and then used his weaker hand which was still absently bobbing his quill, to pin down another rune (one that appeared to be a corrupted form of the rune for happiness) with the point on his quill while it squirmed and struggled. Seamus not only needed help with the translation aspect of the text (which he was better than Dean at anyway) but he could also use a hand in keeping some of the more rambunctious runes from moving about so they could actually be inspected more carefully.
Suddenly, Seamus felt a hand on his shoulder give him a light tap. His tired, dopey expression vanished and Sea’s entire face got about ten shades brighter and more enthusiastic as he whipped his head over his shoulder, expecting to find that Dean had finally arrived. However, Dean wasn’t the one standing behind the surprised Gryffindor…