Trying to Belong PV Medea Darkwaters Closed

Medea woke up strangely early that Saturday. Well, early for her past life at home, but now that she was at Hogwarts, she had so much excitement for every little thing that she would always wake up so electrically charged and ready to go. Even on the weekend. She had spent those almost two months studying like crazy, as she really REALLY wanted to make her family proud. After all those years of stories about how amazing Hogwarts was and what an honour it was to be in Lady Ravenclaw’s house as well, she had so much to prove!
All those thoughts and all that excitement and desire to learn everything she could, explore every corner and make her family proud kept her so busy that now, she realized she had no one to spend the weekend with.
Well, of course, she had chatted now and then with her housemates, studying together, walk to the classes together, eating together… even having some game night in the Common Room together. But friendship was something else entirely. And since she lived such an isolated life before Hogwarts… her relationships were a blank space that she desperately wanted to fill in.

As she had woke up so early, when Medea arrived in the Great Hall for breakfast there were barely anyone’s there, so eating took a very short amount of time. How could she fill up that day? Walking out of the Great Hall, she found herself wandering towards the gate to the park outside. Well, why not? She could very well study outside, she thought. She had brought a couple of books and her notebook with herself, as she knew that she could not waste all the weekend without study. She had a very boring History of Magic essay to write, and she had been postponing that for days. As her mother was a historian, she always made history funny and exciting for her, but now that she was actually studying her, she had realized that not all history is so fun and exciting and was quite struggling at focusing for so long. She definitely preferred the more practical classes. Her attention was just erratic, to say the least.

Outside in the park, Medea could not refrain from smiling. What a wonderful day it was! She knew she had to enjoy every single bit of fun before the winter arrived, as in Scotland autumn is definitely too short. Humming a tune that reminded her of her little sister, she headed straight back to her favourite reading spot, a very nice and big tree that had just the perfect place around its trunk to just sit and relax. But as she was almost there, ready to sit down… she realized that someone else was already sitting on the other side. What should she do? Greeting the stranger? Or pretend to haven’t seen them and just sit there, ignoring them? that didn’t sound very polite and moreover, wasn’t she all busy complaining that she didn’t have any friends just half an hour ago?
Finally, Medea took the courage with her hands and turned to the other side of the tree, where she saw another very young girl, probably her age, studying. She had a familiar face, they probably had shared a room during some classes, but she was positive she had never spoken to her or even said hello. Looking at her for an awkward moment, she saw she was studying History of Magic. Poor girl.
“Ahm hello! I hope I don’t bother you – she started – I love this tree to study to, so is it a problem if I join you? It’s a way too good of a day to stay close inside!” she said with a bright smile, trying to fake some confidence she clearly didn’t own.

She flipped another page of her textbook for her History of Magic homework. While the class was rather boring, she found the reading rather interesting. Her classmates in the muggle world were probably reading about Vikings and the history of the country, she was learning about gargoyles and goblins. Those that grew up in the wizarding world were probably used to the repetitive stories that they had already heard from relatives or parents, but Norina wasn’t sure she would ever get used to learning something new about her new world.

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a fellow student.

“Ahm hello! I hope I don’t bother you. I love this tree to study to, so is it a problem if I join you? It’s a way too good of a day to stay close inside!”

Norina blinked as she looked up, the student looked close to her age and she seemed familiar to her. They probably had a few classes together, but Norina suddenly felt guilty for not introducing herself sooner. This is why you don’t have friends. She thought to herself. You’re too focused on school and not on friendships.

“Oh! Of course! There is plenty of room for both of us to enjoy the day!” she smiled and moved over to make more room.

She placed a piece of parchment in her book so she wouldn’t lose her place in her reading, “I’m Norina Evans, it’s nice to meet you!” She looked at the fellow first-year, very excited to possibly make a new friend outside of Hufflepuff.

Interacting with: @Norina Evans