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India smiled over to Matt when he agreed to being study partners. That would be really fun. Very much so indeed. "I'm glad you like the idea" she commented, running a hand through her hair. She was proud - very proud to meet another who felt that the house elves should be treated with respect.
Even if they were raised to believe that any mistake they made was only fixed with them fixing it - and hurting themselves. She wasn't one who believed any creature should be treated like a slave - not even the fictional Ood from the Doctor Who of the past. She was always on their side - even when they had gone red-eye. Gulp. Her utter old-school geek was about to show.
"I think I'm going to clean Ravenclaw tower as much as I can - or, I'll just go to the owlery and get a job shoveling owl dung...or even anywhere in the grounds as well....I don't want these guys being treated like low level subservient scum...its, its just not right." Yes here she was sounding all civil rights. But what if they didn't want the help? Well, she'd still help.
"Yeah, I just don't want Nimma to get hurt" she gave Nimma a quick smile. Knowing she'd probably trot off soon anyway - even so she was going to help because helping was what India would do no matter what. It was hard to tell something that was taught not to berate itself, that it did nothing wrong - and whatever happened was not their fault at all.
Only the first day of a new term and he had already had a study partner, not bad but it would have even better if he didn't hear of points being lost due to some of his housemates acting rather inappropriately. But there wasn't much that could have been done about that one now. "Well, it's definitely better than studying by yourself don't you think? I mean, with this idea you'll actually be able to ask questions if you're having issues understanding the material or a question." Matt really didn't have much problems studying as it was, but if Dia wanted to work with him then he wasn't going to turn it down.
I wonder what Raven would have to see about this.. knowing her she'd make some outlandish assumption that there's something else going on when there really isn't.
"Well.. the dungeons are usually dirty but that's no fault of the elves; that's just because they're meant to be as such and there's no point in trying to clean them in that case. But, I completely agree with what you're saying. It shouldn't be completely up to them to look after the castle, there's hundreds of students here.. if everyone did their fair share of the work then it would make the elves' lives easier." He wasn't sure how many people were going to agree with that idea but it didn't matter, it was the right thing to do since four house elves should not have been the only ones doing the work.
Before he could continue the conversation with his new friend, Matt looked up at the staff table and saw someone familiar, someone that shouldn't have been here.. at least so he thought.
Wait.. is that? No it can't be, she's supposed to be at Beauxbatons. I have to be seeing things to actually think that Stella's here. But if it was indeed a figment of his imagination, then how was it possible he could still see that she was actually standing there talking to some of the professors? This was just way too weird.