For someone who had recently lost her uncle, been betrayed by her cousin and fought a team of elite magical assassins, Jez was actually feeling pretty good. Not 'jumping for joy' good, but not 'bear in the cave' depressed either. Neutral was a good way of describing it. But she'd also unconsciously decided to go into lockdown as far as the whole summer was concerned. No thinking about it, no talking about it, no doing anything about it. She just wanted to forget. This was near impossible, of course, but Jez rarely spared a thought for that kind of thing.
She found Nate and Pam at the Ravenclaw table and sat down next to them. "Hey," she said, biting back a yawn. "Excited for the new term?" She couldn't quite remember if she'd seen them at all on the train - in fact, had she even been on the train? Jez shrugged inwardly, not really worried about her apparent lapse in memory.
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Originally Posted by Toddles
Blue people?
Toddles liked blue, it was the color of the ceiling he could see in the big room that the windows kept out. Tinka and the other House Elf's wouldn't let Toddles out there. Maybe one day. Catch was probably awesome in there.
"Hello studensies, Toddles has tried playing catch with the green ones and the red ones, do blue boys and girls know this game? Toddles will teach you." He raised the orb above his head with his tiny hands and then flung it, hard towards some studensies.
"Like THIS!"
Then Jez spotted the little house-elf near them, and all other thought went out of her head. It wanted to play catch? Yay! Jez caught the orb, diving a little into the table but otherwise doing it effortlessly. The thing felt familiar for some reason, although she couldn't remember why. "Heads up, Toddles!" she called to the elf, throwing it back gently enough so it wouldn't hurt if he didn't catch it, but firmly enough for it to still be a challenge.