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[lauraevamadley-blog]

a happy kiss.

"Are you sure?"Laura's heart started beating a lot faster once she heard Adelaide's words, hercheeks flushing a bit as she remembered the face of the person her best friendhad just mentioned. Sometimes, Laura convinced herself she was in love. Thistime, she was in love. Or, at least,that's what she told herself every time she got even a bit closer to Stephen Cornfoot.That was also the reason why Adelaide was so excited to tell Laura what she hadseen. "I'm completely, totally, one hundred percent sure! I saw him! And there's no way you'relosing this chance, Laura." What is worse than wanting something foryourself? Having your best friend wanting the same thing... for you. The Hufflepuffwas pretty sure she would be soon kicked out from the dormitory just so shecould check on Stephen and finally do what they had been plotting for days now."Okay, okay. I'm going, alright?" She sighed, despite not being ableto hide a smile; that would definitely be the day.

Twelve minutes later, LauraMadley was approaching the area near the forbidden forest. She was alsocarrying a purse with a small version of her guitar inside, just so it couldgive her luck. Not that she would need luck... some things were meant to be,right? That was one of those things! It had to be... it was. It definitely was.Therefore, she was expecting a lot - expecting him to be there in the firstplace, probably taking care of an animal or helping Hagrid with one of histhousands missions, and being happy to see her. Maybe she could even help, showhim that she knew something despiteonly being in her second year. Things would be terrible if he decided not topay attention to her only because she was younger... so she wouldn't let him(not pay attention).

What the Hufflepuff wasn'texpecting was the scene right in front of her eyes.

"Oh my." Shemuttered, her face in shock while her feet moved almost involuntarily; soon shewas running towards Stephen, who was crouched down beside a horse... a wingedhorse! One that was lying on the floor, seemingly hurt. She could see and heareverything, from the way he appeared to be squirming to the sounds the animalwould do, clearly in pain. "W-what happened in here?" Soon she hadforgotten it was Stephen and what she had planned to do, her voice tremblingnot because of nervousness but because she felt awful seeing it happen to thepoor creature. She wished there was a way she could help. No creature deservedto suffer so much, and Laura's heart broke a bit with that scene, as she kneeleddown to take a better look at 'who' she would later find out to be a Granian.

"That... that'sterrible!" The look of surprise in Laura's face would probably last long,as she shyly asked with her hands if she could caress the animal's body, asStephen seemed to be doing right now; she wasn't even so nervous anymore,focused on the fact that the Granian was in that much pain. And the reason whyshe said that out loud had not only to do with those facts, but also becausethe older boy explained that the horse was poisoned; probably by a creature whiletrying to defend herself. One minute went by and Laura finally spoke again,this time her voice trembling a bit. "She'll die?" Laura didn't wantthe poor creature to die; she was beautiful, majestic even, and it didn't soundright that an innocent horse would suffer so much.

"An antidote..."Finally, she repeated his words, or at least part of it; something that couldstop the poison, but which antidote to use? And maybe it was Laura's facilitywith potions, but she had an idea, one that made her stand up right away."I think... well, I know there'ssomething we can use. Mum said it's not 100% sure that it will work, but wecould try." She then proceeded to explain what she had in mind; a simplepotion that wouldn't act on the poison itself but on its consequences, makingthe horse immune. If they got it right. "Ok, I'll get it! By the way, I...I'm Laura." The hufflepuff bit her lips once he couldn't see her faceanymore, feeling the adrenaline take over as she ran towards the castle; maybethey could save the horse. Hagrid would know it better, but Stephen explainedthat he was thirty minutes late now for meeting him and probably wouldn't comeanymore.

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Almost one hour. It tookLaura almost one hour to gather everything plus make the potion, and some moreminutes to get near Stephen again. This time she was sweating a bit - not somuch because it was a cold day -, her heart beating fast as she approached theolder boy and gave him the liquid she prepared. He didn't want to leave thehorse alone in its suffering, so it made sense that she would help with thepotion. "S-so... Do you think it'll do?" Now Laura couldn't even lookat him, all the shyness she was feeling before for being near him back again,and the Hufflepuff decided that it was best to focus on that horse. At leastuntil she got better, if it even happened. "Yeah, I hope so too. It'sawful that she has to go through this." And with that they decided it wastime to use it, the potion, I mean. Laura could do nothing but cross her ownfingers as she watched Stephen managing the liquid; part of her was tooenchanted and the other focused on the poor animal.

Finally, he said it...well, what he said was that they would wait. Wait. Together. With the horse. Soshe would get better. Together. Yeap, that was enough to make Laura's cheeksflushed, and the half-blood could only hope he wouldn't notice. "S-so,you're in your fifth year, right? I.. I see you sometimes, in the corridors andin the Great Hall." At least that wasn't so hard to admit; it made sense,as they studied at the same school, despite being a lot of students. "I'monly in my second." That was it, once again, frozen, totally incapable ofsaying something more. She hated it, not being able to say anything, but thistime Laura was way too affected with his presence to even fight her ownshyness.

Slowly, she recovered herconfidence. They started talking, and it was easy talking to him... she didn'timagine that, not at all. It took her just a few minutes to go back to beingthe normal, extroverted, sweet Laura, not the shy/mute one. All while takingcare of the horse, that slowly seemed to be less and less in pain... until shestopped complaining about it and finally made an attempt to stand up."We... We did it! She's okay again. I can't believe we did it." Andthat was it. One of those moments that Laura got too carried away by her ownemotions and simply forgot everything - for example, the fact that she onlytalked to him for a few minutes, and that they were basically strangers to eachother, despite him being her crush.

She kissed him. A simple,fast kiss, but still. An unrequited one, and maybe that was the reason why sherealised her own acts. So when she pulled away from him, she could almost hearher heart cracking itself. She felt stupid. Really stupid. "I... I'msorry. I didn't want to..." She tried, not really able to say anythingthat made much sense, and took a deep breath before standing up again."I... I have something to do, erm... C-can you take care of her?" Shepointed to the horse, whispering a thank you before turning to leave for good.She could sense that soon there'll be tears, but they would have to wait untilshe was safe and sound on her dormitory again.

[megan--jones-blog]

ross butler

Name: Mark SpencerFace: Ross ButlerHistory:

Mark lives next door to Megan and her father, and babysat Megan frequently when she was a child.

Especially during the period where Charles seemed to be sowing his wild oats, Megan could spend up to four nights a week being watched over by Mark. 

Megan was an easy child to babysit, although Mark had quite a bit of trouble connecting with her in any way. They hardly ever said a word to each other because she was always reading.

Mark still says hello to Megan whenever he sees her.

[aoife-devlin-blog]

4, 7, 18

4. Childhood Crush. 

Aoife could never really pin down one childhood crush. She’s had so many they’re impossible to remember. Her imagination was vivid and her affections fickle; the boy from the bus stop, the girl who sat two seats ahead of her, the mailman, Catwoman. Her crushes are as varied as they are endless. 

7. Thing They Got In The Most Trouble For. 

… uh, everything? Honestly, she’s been in every type of trouble, it’s a talent. She does have very distinct memories of the first time she was caught snogging in a broom closet. It had been her fourth year, with some guy, and that professor had not been pleased to catch them. Her mother had sent her a howler. It had actually been pretty embarrassing, but she’d played it off like she didn’t care. She figures her parents must just be used to it by this point; they haven’t sent howlers in ages. Her parents always had a tendency to react to every thing with the exact same amount of dramatic disapproval, so nothing else particularly stands out as anything she got in “the most” trouble for. 

18. Did they have a childhood? 

Already Answered. 

[dxphnegreen-blog]

Never have I ever stolen something from my parents.

She smirked, taking the shot. Thinking back to the time when she was young and furious at her mother for not allowing her to take that duelling class she wanted. Daphne had snuck into her parents room while they were sleeping and stole her mothers wand, wanting to see her freak out when she woke up to find it gone.

She had not been disappointed.

[lauraevamadley-blog]

4, 7, 18

4 - Childhood crush

Laura had a collection of crushes since her younger ages, though she wouldn’t really “look” for it. What happened is that sometimes she thought she had fallen in love for a random boy that visited their shop with certain frequency, though it would go away really quickly. Once, though, she really crushed on a boy that was part of The YAdventuers (see answer to question 7), and she would give him all kind of gifts related to music from their shop, until the day she decided to give him a letter to confess her love. One of the girls from the group learned about that and intercepted the letter, without telling them, and Laura felt really sad because she thought he had simply ignored it - a few years later she even asked him what happened out of curiosity and the situation was explained, but by that time she didn’t crush on him anymore.

7 - Thing they got the most in trouble for

During her years before Hogwarts, Laura was part of a group named “The YAdventurers” - here meaning “The Young Adventuers”. It was a group of children more or less her age that lived on the Diagon Alley as well, and they would often hang out, get into minor troubles, have fun together and all that. They weren’t bad kids and weren’t looking for trouble because they enjoyed pissing people off, but sometimes it would happen that they would break something, pull a prank that wouldn’t be so welcoming, etc, and as a result Laura would be grounded for a little while.

18 - Did they have a childhood or were they forced to grow up too quickly?

Because of how Laura’s parents raised her, Laura had a wonderful childhood. She would often spend it either in the shop, learning about music, instruments, singing, meeting people and when a bit older helping them take care of everything, or would spent time exploring the DA with her friends. It was as magical as we could be - though years later, when she was a teenager, Laura had to grow up because of the war.

[heartofgoldandfire-blog]

4, 7, 18

4 - Childhood crush 

Ginny has had a crush on the idea of Harry Potter since she was young enough to know his name and that he was only a year older than she was. It only got worse when he became best mates with her brother.

7 - Thing they got the most in trouble for

Ginny never got into a terrible amount of trouble because being the youngest of seven and the only girl certainly had its perks. However, she snuck out of the house one night because she wanted to look at the stars when she was about seven years old. Molly woke up randomly and poked her head in Ginny’s room to check on her and nearly had a heart attack when she saw the bed empty. She was grounded for two weeks for that.

18 - Did they have a childhood or were they forced to grow up too quickly?

Ginny definitely had a childhood. Her parents tried to shelter her from reality even when she thought she could have and deserved to handle it on her own. 

[megan--jones-blog]

5, 15, & 25

05: What is your relationship status?

Single. Megan is single, has always been single, and, if you ask her, will probably always be single. She can’t so much as talk to a boy without stammering and blushing, and that’s just casual conversation. She’s pretty sure that she’s meant to be single forever.

15: Have any pets?

A barn owl named Athena.

25: Do you miss anyone from your past?

The only person from Megan’s past that she misses is her mother, although she’s not sure if it counts as missing someone if she’s never met her. 

[megan--jones-blog]

4, 9, 17

4 - Childhood crush

Already answered!

9 - Did they witness/encounter death as a child?

Megan never encountered or witnessed death as a child, but she did grow up without her mother because her mother left her at a young age. She didn’t encounter death until the War.

17 - Any siblings? Did they get along as children and do they still get along?

As far as Megan knows, she is an only child. However, her mother dropped her off on her father’s doorstep when she was an infant, and so for all she knows her mother is out there somewhere and has born more children. She’ll likely never know.