FORTY-FOUR

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- Chapter Forty-Four -
"I'm sorry but you look very familiar."

Pink

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Pink. The color pink, is thought to be a calming color associated with love, kindness, and femininity. Many people immediately associate the color with all things feminine and girly. It might also bring to mind romance and holidays such as Valentine's Day. Some shades of pale pink are described as relaxing, while very bright, vibrant shades can be stimulating or even aggravating.

Extremely aggravating.

Elladora would rather pour 5 bowls of porridge over her head than wear anything pink. She hated the colour, it wasn't relaxing at all and it doesn't show kindness, or love, or femininity. It show stereotypes. She hated it, it was one of the only things that she hated more than Mulciber and Avery.

That's why she hates Valentine's Day. The teachers take it upon themselves to decorate the castle with different colours of hearts, roses or banners, suspending them in the corridors and even put decorative hearts and roses in the middle of the tables to 'spread positivity'.

It didn't work, though, seeing as Elladora was currently ripping up an origami heart that had been placed on the table where the marauders sat. The boys watched in amusement as she tore it apart and threw the spare pieces to the empty space next to her.

"Not a fan of Valentine's Day, then?" Remus raised an eyebrow, ladling some porridge into a bowl and giving it to her. That had sort of become a usual thing for him to do, they didn't know when it started or when he would ever stop, but they just knew that every time they had breakfast, Remus would be the one placing her food in front of her.

"No." She huffed and grabbed a spoon, digging into her breakfast. "It's stupid. It's like, yeah we get it you're a couple, you don't need a day to snog in the corridors."

"I wouldn't mind." James sighed, putting his chin and his hand and staring down the Gryffindor table at Lily Evans and her friends. "I got her a bracelet, I didn't know what else to get. She probably has loads of bracelets though, right? Yeah, she will do, girls give each other those sorts of things. She'll have too many, she won't want this, I have to her her something else I-"

"You're meeting her at the barrier to the shrieking shack at 12'o clock today." Elladora said to him, taking a drink out of her goblet as the others turned to face her. "What? Just because I don't like Valentine's Day doesn't mean that I can't set my best friend up with the girl that he likes when she obviously likes him back but won't admit it."

"Wait, she said yes? To going on a date with me?" James gasped, there was a look on his face that made Elladora's stomach swim with guilt, she hadn't actually mentioned that Lily would be meeting James there but that had been her plan.

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