"𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞. 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫."
Elladora Hargreaves, a Slytherin who sits alone and never speaks. Most believe that she has some kind of...
- Chapter Eighty-Two - "Also, that was one hell of a confession."
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Defence Against The Dark Arts was spent in silence, Yaxley having commanded it. The class had managed to get by without the man yelling at them unnecessarily which seemed like his favourite pastime. He even carried it out into the hallways, heard from across the whole castle shouting at students who had happened to be talking or laughing loudly as they walked past them, most students had tried to track the times that he was on duty so they wouldn't get screamed out and deducted points for just talking to their friends and for the most part it worked, his yelling had toned down massively in the recent week and Elladora was thankful for not jumping out of her skin every time his voice rang about the castle.
They had Charms class after that where they were going over the Reductor Curse and Elladora managed to submerge herself in her work again, not paying attention to any of her surroundings as she turned several empty ink pots in need of throwing away into rubble like Professor Flitwick had instructed them to do. Since her nightmare involving Sebastian, Flitwick had kept an annoyingly close eye on her and kept coming over to ask if she was handling it well. Of course she was handling it well, it had been one nightmare and it had been because she hadn't go lot of sleep the night before. It had been blocked from her memory...mostly. It was easier said than done to forget it, especially when it was her brother involved but she tried to do what Hagrid said and not think on it.
After her two morning classes, it was first break which was 25 minutes long and Elladora knew she couldn't avoid Remus any longer. Though she desperately wished she could, wanting to avoid confrontation rather than walk right into it, she knew it would look suspicious if she sat on her own and maybe the other Death Eaters would come up to her then they'd surely know something was up. So she decided to prepare herself instead, by pacing slightly outside of the Great Hall with deep breaths to calm her nerves.
The butterflies were roaring inside her stomach savagely and she hated it, it was bad enough when they came in small swarms whenever Remus was near her, now she even got them at the thought of him and it was annoying. Too annoying. She hated it, hated how it made her feel anxious around her friend, hated not knowing something. She knew everything, that was her thing yet she had no idea what to do now; she was unprepared, indecisive, her mind all over the place and it was too different from her normal self that it unnerved her slightly.
Elladora was smart, Elladora was confident and she was never one to avoid her friends without a genuine reason. Getting stupid feelings in her stomach was not a genuine reason so drawing herself up to stand up straight, she gave a couple more deep breaths and tried to shake of her tensed thoughts. Calm, calm, calm, calm. She needed to be calm. So calmly, she stopped her pacing and turned to look into the Great Hall, seeing her friends sat at the Gryffindor Table as usual but joined by Lily and her friends too. Elladora already found herself smiling at the happiness on Lily's face compared to the sadness she had shown on Saturday.
