Dirt and Grime pv | detention

Ebony had not realised that handing out detention meant that she, too, would have to rise at the crack of dawn. It was the first time the newly appointed prefect had caught a troublemaker red-handed — she had come across a young Gryffindor, Laura, practicing her spellcasting in the Abandoned Toilets long past curfew — and so the Ravenclaw was of course eager to use her newly gained authority. Handing out detention now seemed to be nothing but a detriment to both the detentioner and detentionee; a pointless waste of time much better spent elsewhere for both parties. Rule-breaking was costly, the brunette had ascertained, to all who were involved: the rule-breaker, the rule-enforcer, and anybody that the rule-breaking harmed. Becoming a prefect had bestowed upon her the novel perspective that rules were in place for a reason.

She thus now found herself lugging a heavy bucket full of soapy water that sloshed from side to side, threatening to spill over the bucket's sides and onto the stone floor. The bucket was carried to the very toilets in which Ebony had found the miscreant, along with a plethora of scrubs and sponges of different sizes to be chosen from. The materials rendered the nature of the punishment clear — cleaning, but in the Muggle way. Every wizard's nightmare. The Ravenclaw shuddered at the thought of having to clean without magic, but of course, she was not the one doing the cleaning.

She would greet Laura with nothing but a brief nod and a flat-voiced explanation of what the girl was to spend the following hours painstakingly doing. "Since you were so eager to spend time in these abandoned bathrooms, you will be cleaning them. They must be spotless before you will be allowed to leave," Ebony said, though she was slightly worried that the request was impossible — it was probable that these bathrooms had not been cleaned in decades. "Oh, and your wand please. You are to do this without magic."

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