A New Kind of Caretaker PV Marcus Iwasaki Closed

The Ravenclaw House Head's announcement only caused the girl to cry harder. There were no longer any words; just long, pitiful wails of unhappiness and the sulky, sullen defiance of a child too mired in their own despair to want to do anything about it.

Water continued to flow down her face like a fountain and there seemed to be no end in sight. Even the cabinet seemed to back off in its rattling as if conceding to defeat. It seemed for all the world that if Marcus wanted her out of the office he had just marched her to, he was either going to have to bodily go over and wrestle her out of the chair or use some means of magic to do so.

At one point, the child seemed to summon up the will and strength to take off each of her shoes and begin to half-heartedly throw them at the man by the door, soon doing the same with each of her socks as well. With each action, she seemed to get some more of her defiant insolence back - enough to start shouting comprehensible words through her tears once more.

"As if any of the others would know me, either!" she wept loudly and angrily. "Why'd you bring me here if you're just going to leave again?!"