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IT WAS PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL WHO MADE sure neither Lorelai nor Regulus had their wands in the moment they met in the first floor of the castle and outside the classroom for the Muggle Studies class only some minutes after Regulus' encounter with Arden, and Lorelai not-so-lovely moment with Beatrice Murphy, one of her dorm partners whose bed was unfortunately right next to hers, when she might had accidentally step over the tail of Beatrice's cat?—never mind, the problem was that since Lorelai had stopped being friends with the Slytherins and her own brother, she had started losing her old reputation and it seemed that Lorelai Nott was not as scaring as she wished to be anymore. Only a day before Lucy Porter asked her about if she liked the way she had combed her hair that morning, and Lorelai had nodded as frowning, without answering in a tone because, why would Lucy Porter speak to her? She might hadn't been one of the girls who she threaten to hex during her first year (that'd be Beatrice and Fiona Ambrose, leaving Peggy Tyler as innocent as well), but still, Lorelai had been extremely careful to leave all clear that she had zero intentions to befriend them because she actually had zero intentions to befriend them.
Before being dead, Lorelai would spend only a brief amount of time in the dorm, being during nights when you'd find her there, in her bed with the red curtains denying her the view of the rest and denying the rest to see her. Also in the mornings, Lorelai would make the effort to leave earlier than anyone else, mostly to avoid the line in the bathroom because she enjoyed long-showers, but because she did not want to see a single student from her house either. And even now that she was dead, Lorelai would do most of the same. No talking, waking up early, no talking, and then go to bed and close the curtains—simple.
Except that Lucy Porter had found no problem in asking her about her damn hair, as if Lorelai was suddenly a whole different person because she looked less-Nott and lately preferred to ignore Beatrice's complains than answering to them as the first-year Lorelai had done; just as it happened when Lorelai step over Beatrice's cat's tail, and the girl started screaming about her being so distracted and a total idiot, and Lorelai simply gave her an annoyed glance that indicated how less she cared—had something else changed besides of that? Hell no.
So Lorelai didn't have an argument with Beatrice that afternoon, and Lucy may had given her a short smile when she left their dorm as if she was proud of her late behavior, but that was not enough to avoid leading a grumpy expression in Lorelai's face as she walked to the appointed classroom.
And then Peeves ruined everything (as usual), only remarking Lorelai's frown with his stupid comments and songs. Loooorelai, I thought you were dead, why aren't you as pale as a ghost? Loooorelai is lost? Loomy Looorelai needs a friend? No one likes loomy Lorelai anymore. Loomy Lorelai is dead!
