Limelight
(noun)
the focus of public attention
or
in which Naomi Roselle Scott is at the top of the hierarchy
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"Where did that come from?" Chris asked, watching the bunch of roses in Naomi's desk.
"Who gave that, you mean?" Nicole answered, a s...
"Found it!" Naomi shouted, raising a white quill in her hand.
"Finally!" Nicole, who were with them in Potions, said. She followed her friends and brother to the ravenclaw common rooms to help Naomi find her quill and gather her books for her next subject, History of Magic. Except, she didn't really helped in finding some quill and settled herself on the blue couch.
"Let's go! I'm starving. I could eat an elephant." Nicole said, exaggerating her tone and stomped her feet, copying the stereotypical stubborn brat child who didn't get what she/he wants.
"So dramatic." Eleanor chuckled beside her, grabbing her own books for her next lesson.
"Well, let's go then. I'm sure Jaspier and Chris are already at the Great Hall." Evelyn said and stood up. Nicole immediately sprung up to her feet and skipped towards the closed exit. She turned around after no footsteps echoed at the quiet common room.
"Is there a parade that I have not heard before? A parade of sloths?" She said, sarcastically, making her friends' laugh. "You should've told me! I would've prepared a lunch box seeing that you lot doesn't have any willpower to walk downstairs fast for your starving friend, Nicole!"
"We're coming, Nic." Matt rolled his eyes.
The ravenclaws opened the closed exit, trying their best to fasten their pace to catch up with their Gryffindor friend. Nicole basically ran towards the Great Hall. Everyone can see how she skipped some steps in the staircases.
Once she saw the huge door of the Great Hall, she didn't wait for any of her friends and decided to ran towards the packed room.
"Is she really that hungry?" Evelyn chuckled.
"She didn't eat any breakfast. She woke up late." Eleanor said, being the first one to enter the potion's classroom, she might've have known from Nicole herself.
"That explains it." Matt sighed.
They entered the Great Hall and immediately spotted Nicole sitting with Jaspier and Chris at the Hufflepuff table. She saw how Nicole demanded some food to her brother, who unwillingly obliged, and started eating.
They all went to the Hufflepuff table to sit with them. They immediately chose their own seats and started eating as well.
"Can you pass mo the baked mac, Chris?" Naomi requested. Once the food is in her grasp, she began putting some of it on her plate and returned the plate of baked mac to Chris. She noticed the empty table in front of Chris and Jaspier.
"Have you two finished eating lunch?" Naomi questioned.
"Yeah, we got dismissed early." Jaspier answered. Naomi only nodded and started eating her baked mac. She picked some roasted chicked in front of her and put some in her plate.
The table was quiet, all focused on their own activities. Jaspier's writing something and Chris began reading the announcement that he probably copied at the Gryffindor common room. From afar, Naomi can see words like "Afternoon", "Pitch", and "Tryouts", it was not hard for Naomi to connect the words. Gryffindor had tryouts at the Quidditch Pitch on afternoon. The date? She didn't know.
"By the way, do you have your consent letter signed for Hogsmeade?" Chris asked.
Everyone perked up at the questions. Evelyn drank her pumpkin juice before answering.
"Mum wouldn't at first, because of Sirius Black. She didn't know that Black's a wizard and I hope she doesn't. If she did, she'll tear my consent letter. Dad convinced her and signed mine." She said.
"It's a good thing you got yours signed. It will be sad without you on our first Hogsmeade trip." Eleanor answered.
"Mum signed ours right away. Saying something about Hogsmeade being a magical place that all Hogwarts' student's should experience." Nicole said, eating some mashed potatoes.
"She said that we should visit Three Broomsticks. They serve sick butterbeers." Chris added.
Chris is obsessed with butterbeers. He started drinking it at an early age of 9 accidentally. They had a party with their own family and he was parched with all the talking, so he says, and drank the liquid right in front of him. He didn't know what it was but it has a sweet smell so he drank it. He was drunk after the party. According to Nicole and Matt, Mrs. Harwin's words were pretty fruitful the next morning.
"I want to visit Honeydukes!" Eleanor quipped. She excitedly clapped her hands and smiled widely.
"Hogsmeade is one of the magical villages. Filled with wizards and witches, no muggles. They said Shrieking Shack is a haunted place. I want to see it." Evelyn said.
"Yeah! Is that place really that scary?" Nicole agreed.
"They did say it was haunted." Jaspier answered.
"Because it is." A hufflepuff next to Jaspier answered. All of their attention turned to him. He got flustered and his face immediately turned red after noticing all of their attention on him.
"How is it scary, Diggory?" Nicole challenged
The handsome hufflepuff looked at them one by one, staring longer at the raven haired ravenclaw before answering the question.
"They said that many years ago, howling and screams were heard every month, for 7 years straight. The crazy thing was it only happened once every month. It has no patterns." He said.
"Well, that is creepy." Eleanor shuddered. Nicole rolled her eyes at the story.
"So, no more howling?" She raised her eyebrows. Obviously not scared.
"No." Cedric shrugged nonchalantly.
"There's nothing to be scared of then." Nicole said and smiled at her friends.
"Still be careful and don't ever enter the house. There's a safe line for precaution and can alert the professors if ever someone entered." He warned.
Naomi remembered that Cedric Diggory is one of the Prefects this year.
"Sure. We won't cross the line." Naomi answered and looked at her friends, "Right guys?"
There was no answer. Nicole looks baffled that Naomi even agreed.
"Right, guys?" Naomi emphasized. They lot nodded their heads and answered.
"Of course!"
"We won't enter."
"Yeah!"
"There's a line for a reason."
"We don't want to alert any professor."
"Right you are, Nami!"
"Good." Cedric nodded and smiled before leaving for his next class. His group of friends following. Good thing that he left just in time and the group of third years didn't see how his ears turned red. His friends, however, did. They pushed his shoulders and cheered him silently.
The group of third years waited until the prefect is out of sight before each of them leaned at a suspiciously same time.
"We are going, right?"
"Right!"
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