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Callie · 05-07-2018, 11:17 PM

"I'm three in the photo." She kept her voice low, but not quite as quiet as she had been. Save for the three of them, the library seemed quite empty. Still, Quinn's eyes were always shifting, hunting for anyone that might be listening in. She shook her head. "We're pureblood...at least the people who raised me are. Not exactly the good kind, either. I think my great grandparents might have been Deatheaters. I don't know about the people the poster lists as my parents though. The picture in the poster didn't move. That's a muggle thing, right?" The pictures and art in her muggle fiction never moved; only in her wizarding fiction books it did. "But why kidnap a muggle child and raise her as a witch? How would they even know I was magical if I was born a muggle?"

She looked up in surprise when he said he didn't know who Voldemort was. "Dark wizard. Perhaps the darkest ever. A hundred years ago he tried to wipe out all muggleborns and half-bloods, leaving only pureblood wizards. He was defeated right here, in Hogwarts. Deatheaters were his followers..." She paused to let that sink in with an earlier statement she'd just made and turned to Beth. "I don't think he's the third coming of Voldemort, Beth. And that's my point. All Hogwarts' threats come from inside Hogwarts." Or in the case of the portal, other dimensions. "Hogwarts isn't exactly safe, it's just safe from outside threats." Like her parents.

"Besides, we haven't had any luck figuring this out on our own." She watched Beth head into the stacks and sighed, dropping her head into her hands and running them through her hair. It was something she always did when she was emotional, and she did it now.

"I just don't know what to do. I don't think confronting my parents would be safe. They can be...." She shook her head, letting the rest go unsaid. "Maybe...maybe your plan is the best. I've looked for the name Pekkala before, but I've never had access to the Hogwarts library either. How about Beth and I try that front? And..." She reached into her bag, all the way up to her shoulder, even though the bag shouldn't have even reached her elbow, and pulled out a quill, ink, and parchment. When she was finished writing out the name for him, she tore the piece of parchment off and handed to him. Written in shimmering scarlet ink and immaculate handwriting was the name SERAFINA PEKKALA. "And you can use your muggle contacts to search on that end?"

Quinn quickly returned ink, quill and rest of the parchment into her bag, along with her book. "I am going to go look through the stacks, see if I can't find a reference to Pekkala. And please keep this to yourself." Quinn stood up, giving him one last pleading look befor turning and heading into the stacks.

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Callie DMC Snidget Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Never Never Land Posts: 2,717 Hogwarts RPG Name: Andromeda Renzler-Denaker Gryffindor First Year	Fluttery Pegasi "I'm three in the photo." She kept her voice low, but not quite as quiet as she had been. Save for the three of them, the library seemed quite empty. Still, Quinn's eyes were always shifting, hunting for anyone that might be listening in. She shook her head. "We're pureblood...at least the people who raised me are. Not exactly the good kind, either. I think my great grandparents might have been Deatheaters. I don't know about the people the poster lists as my parents though. The picture in the poster didn't move. That's a muggle thing, right?" The pictures and art in her muggle fiction never moved; only in her wizarding fiction books it did. "But why kidnap a muggle child and raise her as a witch? How would they even know I was magical if I was born a muggle?" She looked up in surprise when he said he didn't know who Voldemort was. "Dark wizard. Perhaps the darkest ever. A hundred years ago he tried to wipe out all muggleborns and half-bloods, leaving only pureblood wizards. He was defeated right here, in Hogwarts. Deatheaters were his followers..." She paused to let that sink in with an earlier statement she'd just made and turned to Beth. "I don't think he's the third coming of Voldemort, Beth. And that's my point. All Hogwarts' threats come from inside Hogwarts." Or in the case of the portal, other dimensions. "Hogwarts isn't exactly safe, it's just safe from outside threats." Like her parents. "Besides, we haven't had any luck figuring this out on our own." She watched Beth head into the stacks and sighed, dropping her head into her hands and running them through her hair. It was something she always did when she was emotional, and she did it now. "I just don't know what to do. I don't think confronting my parents would be safe. They can be...." She shook her head, letting the rest go unsaid. "Maybe...maybe your plan is the best. I've looked for the name Pekkala before, but I've never had access to the Hogwarts library either. How about Beth and I try that front? And..." She reached into her bag, all the way up to her shoulder, even though the bag shouldn't have even reached her elbow, and pulled out a quill, ink, and parchment. When she was finished writing out the name for him, she tore the piece of parchment off and handed to him. Written in shimmering scarlet ink and immaculate handwriting was the name SERAFINA PEKKALA. "And you can use your muggle contacts to search on that end?" Quinn quickly returned ink, quill and rest of the parchment into her bag, along with her book. "I am going to go look through the stacks, see if I can't find a reference to Pekkala. And please keep this to yourself." Quinn stood up, giving him one last pleading look befor turning and heading into the stacks. __________________ Last edited by Callie; 05-07-2018 at 11:33 PM.