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Old 01-09-2021, 12:07 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Violet had finally just had to get out of the castle and gone for a walk by the Black Lake, a place she always felt more at peace. Maybe it was because she could see it from the windows in the Slytherin rooms, but it always felt like home.

She was going crazy with all the tension, and for the first time in many years, she didn't have the outlet of writing her thoughts down in her journal. After carrying the miniaturized book in an inner robe pocket since the opening feast, trying to decide where she could safely hide, she had reluctantly decided that there was no safe place in the castle this year and she couldn't risk it being found and possibly thought to be incriminating. So very late one night she had crept from her dorm room into the Common Room and burned it in the big fireplace--fortunately, after last year, she'd become quite good with flame-casting charms, though she didn't remember clearly how that had happened.

Now it was October--nearly her 15th birthday, and it was probably going to be the worst birthday she'd ever had. She ought to be enjoying her budding figure and new hairstyle and making friends and thinking about boys and what she wanted to do with her life, but instead she was constantly on edge, worrying about everything she did or said for fear of attracting the wrong kind of attention from these vicious intruders, and not knowing who she could trust. She'd never regretted her social awkwardness more bitterly--she ought to have some close friends around her by now, but there were only a few acquaintances and now she wasn't sure where they stood.

She walked up to the water and looked into it at her reflection--well, this was one kind of mirror they couldn't break! And why did they get rid of the mirrors, anyway? She could understand looking for contraband and getting rid of the owls and other means of communication, but mirrors? Were they all a bunch of vampires or something? What were they up to? Surely they didn't think their thuggish behavior would encourage any of the students to join their cause? Quite the opposite--most people hated them so much that even if they hadn't originally thought much of Muggles, they wouldn't have joined this "Neo-Alliance" now. And how long did they think they could cut off all the students from communicating with anybody before their families would start to raise a stink? What use were a bunch of school-kids to them, anyway, unless they were going to hold them for ransom or something.

Tired out by all these thoughts which she could not release by writing them down, Violet absently picked up a smooth stone and tried to skip it across the Lake, with limited success.
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