Books Books Books Errand

The boy had heard that he was going to hold an event that had captured his attention, one that had to do with books. Although he remembered, he had heard through some classmates that the event was due to World Book Day. He had not been quite sure what it consisted of, and so he had to ask around, whose answer was that he should bring a book to donate, and if he wanted, he could borrow a book. Hades had also learned that for the event, he could go dressed as one of his favorite characters from the book. For this, he chose to dress himself as Alec Lightwood, a character with whom he had been identified by his crisis of finding himself and because both personalities were similar. The only thing that had not modified were his curls, as they were the favorite part of his body.

As soon as he left his bedroom, he remembered the book — as he had almost forgotten it, with so many things on his mind. Who could blame him? It was one of those events that Hades would love to be involved with. He bit his lower lip, since he wasn’t sure if it was right. Maybe someone might have misinterpreted it. It’s pretty unlikely, since you’ve added fake tattoos on your neck and arms. Hades frowned and tilted his head, shrugging. He took the rest of what he needed: his glasses and the wand. Most of the time, the badger did not need to wear glasses but used them when he needed to read. And since it was a book-related event, it was going to be quite likely that he would go read something. Depending on how it would go and if he found the right book. The sense of curiosity was prominent.

He walked in a hurry, wanting to arrive soon. Because of this, his steps were strong and resonated through the passages, but the chatter of the students who were around helped to block the sound of his footsteps. He pursed his lips, having forgotten for a few minutes where the event was. In the library? It wouldn’t make much sense, because there was no talking and there was no room for so many things. Then he remembered that it was celebrated at the Great Hall, so he rushed to get there. And he was pleasantly surprised to see how the place had transformed “Wow!” he whispered, blinking in awe. The place had been transformed, with two tables. They were separated by categories, and there was even room for snacks. Hades had a feeling he could spend hours here reading books.

He went to get a snack. Typical of Hades, whenever he came to a place where there was food, it was the first thing he went. Chewing, he was examining the table, looking at what books were on the table. He was examining the book he had brought to donate, but worried that it might not be interesting enough, as most people preferred stupid novels like Twilight. Ugh, he had read it once and all he felt was regret for reading that piece of crap. He could also have influence that his preferences were different, such as those of Mortal Engines and The 5th Wave. Hades recalled that someone had mentioned that he had a preference for books that focused more on adventure and the story that gave rise to the events of books. He noticed that Kim was at the place, so he came over to greet him and chat a little.

He watched as Kim grabbed food next to Bailey, which reminded him enough of squirrels as they did in a similar way “You know what? I think I should call you Squirrel Aoki.” he teased, tilting his head. He stared at the food, and instead of imitating them, he just went on eating one by one. Hades bit his lower lip “Have you seen Damion, by the way?” he asked Bailey, remembering that they were both from the same house. He hadn’t seen him around, so he must have been there or somewhere else. He noticed the book and gestured to them, leaving for a moment to leave the book he was going to donate. And then he went to find the table where he could borrow a book, but he wasn’t quite sure which one. There were interesting books, and certainly some were within his liking.

He was a little unsure, until the drawing of a bird in a golden circle caught his attention. The way it was positioned with the wings extended and held the arrow with the beak. The title was The Hunger Games. His nimble fingers grabbed the book, having made the decision. He went back to where Kim and Bailey were “My apologies, I wanted to see if there was a book that was within my standards and so enjoy a good reading.” replied, flashing a smile. He looked around and saw how a boy had brought a cat, which reminded him of something “Aoki, weren’t you allergic to cats?” asked frowning. Hades wasn’t 100% sure but he had to ask, just in case. The relationship between Hades and Kim was confusing, especially since it happened at the Sato Ball.

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Interacting: @Pandora Smith, @Mateo Sáez
Mentioning: @Ethan Smith, @Isadora Everridge

The Library was Duvessa Ember's refugee. She would always retire there in her early weeks for a good night read, (let's say that no one guessed that she often slipped there after curfew for a new book) and Duvessa always enjoyed the quietness, peace and relaxing atmosphere. Especially after having a chaotic day with her fellow snakes, each more fiery than the other.

She heard that there was an activity there taking place, on the 2nd of March, in the Hall itself. She giggled as she thought of the character she was wearing; she decided to go very muggle, going as Daisy Wells from a gripping story (that she had enough time to read when she was younger) that was called Murder Most Unladylike. She wondered if anyone who she knew read it - for it was an excellent read.

So, armed, with a book donation (Arsenic For Tea By Robin Stevens), she walked into the Hall. She had selected a wintery, stylish outfit topped with a schoolgirl hat, as Daisy Wells had been daughter of a Lord and had the most softest, comfortable and usually best clothes compared to Hazel Wong. Duvessa walked calmly to the Donation table, smiling as she though fondly of her favorite muggle series. Placing the book on the table. She glanced at the other titles, searching for a new book to become on her top favorites.

She looked temptingly at the snacks that were laid out, but was more excited to draw a mystery book. Heavens knows, it could be something so gripping that she would not the able to put it down for a week! She walked to it cheerfully, and her slender, pale arm dove to retrieve one. She finally fingered one, that seemed to be very thick. She had fished out a book called Nothing More to Tell By Karen M. McManus.

The title didn't ring any bells, so she shrugged and decided to give it a go. What was already told? The title seemed to be curious enough. However, she began heading to the doorway. It really had been a while, and her friends were probably wondering where she was! She smoothed her stylish jacket and slung her school bag over her shoulder. She simply had to read this book. Curiousity had killed the cat - and made Duvessa excited for bedtime to read it.

She looked around once more, glad that there were other students milling about (she guessed that they must be book lovers too) and excitedly thought if there were any familiar faces. However, before she left, she simply had to do one last thing. She casually strolled to the Librarian, her feet making a soft click, click, click (she had selected them especially and polished them too - surely Daisy must have always looked presentable.
"Er, Sir?" She began tentively, "I just want to say thank you, for making this event part of the Wizarding World. I am a huge fan of books - I would love to help out with any library related things if needed." She offered politely. The Librarian was one of the only people who she spoke kindly to, the rest had to be content with intimidating looks, coldness and an occasional scowl or glare.

So, with a final nod and a tight smile, she briskly set back to walking to the doorway. She had promised to meet a couple of friends. So, smiling fondly to herself and casting a look of sadness at the books. I'll see you again soon.... she thought to herself and once again returned to the character everyone saw her as. Intimidating, cold, secretive and a tad argumentive.

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Attire: Usual school day attire: robes, shirt (buttons mismatched), tie (knotted around his left knee), kilt, neck ring, no shoes.

Reducio

Colin will take Beast Quest: Ferno the Fire Dragon and Hunger Games

"WOOOOOOT!!!" Colin hooted as he threw his satchel over his shoulder and ran from his last class of the day! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! It's not that Colin didn't like classes, but today was Books Books Books! Anything involving books and reading, Colin was sure to be there! And so it was that anyone who got in the young wizard's way, be they still lost firsties or potion addled seventh years, would find themselves in the path of a twelve year old juggernaut in a kilt and wearing his tie around his left knee.

Well, there was no rule that said a tie had to be worn around the neck, right?

Professor Sáez had placed posters in the common room inviting everyone to a book exchange, so naturally Colin was all in! He had a couple books with him for the student book exchange and was eager to see what other students contributed. He came charging down the stairs and into the small hall that led to all the excitement! He reckoned the place would be crawling with Ravenclaws, but then, he thought, maybe not. Wouldn't they have all these books already up in their high common room?

Colin shrugged, then laughed. Didn't matter, just crack open a book and you'll have a birb looking over your shoulder in no time! And with that thought, Colin burst into the hall and stopped in front of the tables. Cool. Student book exchange was for him! He dashed over to that table first, leapt up onto the wooden bench for the last few strides to where neat arrangement of books was to be seen. He rummaged around in his satchel until he found the books he was going to donate --- The Hobbit and The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Colin was pretty sure Professor Tolkien was actually a wizard, but the other book was all about muggle witches and how confusing it was in early America when there were real witches, and muggles who thought other muggles were witches and people not understanding what magic even is, and all of that with the story taking place before the Statute of Secrecy!

He crouched down on the bench and placed his two contributions on the table and checked out all the other books that were available to take. "Hmm, he said to himself; "the agony of choice, eh lad!? What should we take, if we can only take one, eh?" He'd already read Alice in Wonderland, and that was a brilliant story! He looked at the back of the Hunger Games. Colin's eyes widened in horror! "WHOA. This is totally mental! Do muggles do this? Sending kids out to survive a game where they can die --- without magic!?" Colin realised something. He blinked. "Gosh. It sounds like the Hexiwizard Tourney, but blimey!"

Then he caught sight of a book with a red dragon on the cover. "NO WAY!!! A MUGGLE BOOK ABOUT DRAGONS!!" It had to be! He leaned over the table and snagged Ferno the Fire Dragon as well! He checked the back of that book too. He liked how muggles put a synopsis of the book on the back, even though he was certain he didn't hold with cheap paper covers. He'd have to bake proper hard covers for these books some time.

Book craving satisfied, Colin checked out the snack table. He got a wee sack out of his satchel and tipped some cheese and sausages into it, along with an apple. Colin never ceased to be amazed how the school Elves always seemed to churn out snacks that everyone liked! After that, he decided to find someone to sit with. He'd been wanting to find Kim for the longest time. For one thing, he hadn't really had a chance to be with his friend since the beginning of the year! He felt really bad about that. Every time he saw Kim, the lad always seemed down, especially since their friend Sophia disappeared. Colin had even taken to making a list of all the kids that had disappeared since last year. The number was depressing.

But also! His seanmamó had sent him a neatly wrapped treat that he was to give to Kim personally. Colin knew exactly what it was. The rich and delicious odor of Cadburys choco had filled his satchel since after Christmas. What a better treat to give the Prince of Sweets than a huge bar of muggle choco right!?

"Oi! AOOOKI!!" Colin cried out once he caught sight of the lad. His nose was running. Again. Must be a cat nearby. He'd already seen Piérre, which meant that a certain feline wouldn't be too far distant! Poor Kim! At least he had a kerchief with him. It was really too bad that wizard healers could fix broken bones, but not oversensitive noses! Colin made his way over and flopped down near Kim. "Ayo Bails!" he said to Bailey and gave her a smirk and a wink; he bowed quickly to the others nearby. He smiled brightly at his friends, wondering when either Kim or Bailey were going to pop the question so they could start going out proper!

"Kimmo! Got something for you, lad!" He rummaged around in his satchel, took out the thick block of nicely wrapped goodness and handed it over. "For the Prince of Sweets from me seanmamó! She's quite fond of you, you know! Even I didn't rate one of these!"

Interacting with @Kim Sato | @Bailey Glade
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OOC Note: @Mateo Sáez, Colin is bringing The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare for the student book exchange; and he'll choose the Beast Quest book, Ferno The Fire Dragon to take with him!

Rose looked down at Chaska, who had sat at Rose's feet and started to groom her ears. Rose was trying to make up her mind to leave when somebody approached her.

The person who approached her- Rose couldn't decipher their gender right away. They looked younger than Rose by at least a couple of years, mostly because they were shorter than Rose was. They had dark, curly hair, but stunning green eyes. "Oh- hello," she said, in response. She hadn't really expected to be approached, but this was a pleasant surprise. Rose was asked who she was dressed up as.

She smiled, a little bashfully. It would be pretty hard to decipher who she was dressed up as, since it seemed like something that somebody would wear, just anywhere. "Ah- well, it is a pretty simple outfit, isn't it? I'm dressed up as Scarlet from the Lunar Chronicles. It's a science fiction book set in the future. But not like thousands of years or something. But Scarlet has red hair and wears jeans and a red hoodie throughout most of the series, and I didn't really have time to put anything else together." She laughed a little bit. Rose's voice carried a slight American accent. It had been really strong in her first year, since she had spent so much time around her American mother, but over the years, spending so much time here at Hogwarts, it was fading rapidly. She shook her head. "There are lots of characters I like, so it was really hard to pick a favorite. But I do really like Scarlet. Can I ask who you're dressed up as?"

Rose felt a little bit like she was talking too much, but it wasn't like she just came up to them and started ranting. She had been asked the question. She might as well give a full and slightly elaborate answer. Rose smiled, letting them finish their own answer before she spoke again. "I'm Rose, by the way. And this is Chaska," she said, gesturing down to the cat at her feet, who looked up at the newcomer with her big silver eyes. "What's your name?" she asked them. "And- can I ask your pronouns?"

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World Book Day. They had celebrated this at her Muggle School in Dunbar and she had always enjoyed it. As she had read all about how it was going to be conducted, her mind had already started thinking about the books she had up in her trunk. She did not mind donating books... especially her favorite ones. None of the volumes in her trunk were given to her for any special occasion, so maybe that made it easier to donate them. The books themselves were not as important to her, possibly because the stories themselves now lived so vividly within her.

AngelFyre did not have a photographic memory, but it was incredibly close. After reading anything that particularly moved her in any way, for good or bad, she had an uncanny ability to be able to close her eyes and see the words and their placement on the page, and this always brought back what she was feeling at having read them and what she was thinking about while reading them. It was such an immersive state of being. There was just nothing like it. As much as she loved movies, nothing could compare.... or could rarely compare... to her own imagination when reading good writing. Two movies she found to be an exception to "her own imagination rule": To Kill A Mockingbird as well as Out of Africa. Wait! Just thought of a third - Sense and Sensibilities, the Emma Thompson version. She had read all three of those books before seeing the movies and was astounded how the pictures in her head were so beautifully unleashed onto the screen.

As she thought about which book, or books, to donate, she also turned a thought to the dress up portion of the activity. After her bible, her all time favorite book was To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus Finch was so like her father and AngelFyre could relate to Scout and her relationship with her father. She never had a brother, but she had had Kendric, and her heart caught momentarily in her throat at the thought of Kendric. He was as close to her as a brother could have been. She winced as she felt her throat constrict in an effort to stave off any tears.

But that is not the book she would be donating, primarily because she had no overalls and would not know how to dress like Scout given what she had available to her right then. What she did have was a little dress that could pass for something from the 1920's and that is when it hit her. She would take a copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , though she would not necessarily be dressing as Daisy Buchanan, whom she found to be a shallow, weak woman and completely unworthy of Gatsby. Instead, it would be a nod to the Jazz Age and maybe more of a nod to Zelda, the author's real life wife. She was who the character was loosely based upon anyway.

As she was dressing, it crossed her mind that Zelda Fitzgerald's maiden name had been Sayre. That in turn made her wonder if her family was in any way descended from the founders of Ilvermorny? She should look into that. Fitzgerald was one of Simon's favorite authors and to find out that there may be some magic connection there, even if he might have only married into it, may interest her fellow.

Now dressed, she headed down to the Great Hall. She walked in and smiled at the Librarian, Mateo Sáez, and set her book down on the table. "I brought The Great Gatsby. I hope no one else did, though it would not surprise me if they had," and she grinned at him. She then turned her attention to the other books on the exchange table. There were some nice choices but she had read most of them. One title stood out to her, Arsenic for Tea, and she knew based on the name alone she would be taking that one with her.

Then another area with wrapped books caught her attention and she walked over to look at those. She chose a book from the Friendship section and unwraped it to find it was The Book Thief. Excellent! That had been on her reading list for a bit, so looks like she would be getting to it earlier rather than later and smiled deeply. She looked up at the Librarian one more time, raised her hand holding the new book and thanked him for putting the event together before turning to look over the room and the other costumes.

She was pleased to see a number of folks had dressed up, but exactly which characters they had dressed up as was less obvious to her. She immediately saw Captain Ahab and Pipi Longstocking. The red pigtails sticking straight out was a glorious touch. That was being accomplished with magic or a whole lot of hair lacquer. She also spied a table with some friends: Colin, Bailey, and Kim. Kim was dressed up as was Bailey. She was pretty certain, given the title of the books she had seen on the donation table, Bailey was dressed like Jo March. She did not recognize Kim's costume at all. And Colin.... well her woofy was dressed in his fabulous kilt attire.

She hesitated for a moment, dithering as to whether her presence over there would send Kim over the edge. Maybe, but hopefully not. She would not sit, so he would know she was not to add to the crowd around him. She would go over, say a quick hello, and see what everyone had donated and taken in exchange to read. Then she would scramble back up to her dorm and crack open her new world to discover.

Approaching their table, she greeted everyone with a cheerful lilt in her voice. "Hello, fellow bookworms. Find anything fabulous to take with you from the donation table? I am taking a book called Arsenic for Tea. I know nothing about it but it sounds like a murder mystery does it not?"

As Sara has decided, she's going to get out of her comfort zone this year. And meet new people or friends, whatever. Yikes... So another event popped up: "Books, books, books", the celebration of the World Book Day. She remembered they used to do that too in her muggle school. It was a great opportunity, really: meeting new people (which she didn't like so much, to be honest) through books, which she adored.

She needed to find a book to donate... Sara was usually the person who is very attached to her things and did not like giving them away so easily. So she had to find a book she just moderately liked and it was in an okay condition to be donated. After some digging through her trunk and throwing all kinds of things and books on her bed and all over the dormitory, she found a book she quite enjoyed. It was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. She knew it almost by heart considering how many times she has read it. She even watched two movies that were the adaptation of the book (she liked the newer version more, to be honest). Maybe there will be children who also like this book, and maybe even the muggle ones that have seen the movies. Yes, a conversation starter! Sara thought to herself.

"Great, now I have a book, so what about the outfit? Of course, it's optional, but it would be kinda fun to dress as one of the characters, right? Huh, Cinnamon, what do you say?" Sara asked her cat, who was sitting comfortably on her bed and was half-asleep. Cinnamon just meowed, not too enthusiastically. "Well, it would be kinda odd if I went down dressed all blue and coloured my face blue, right Cinn?" the cat was probably asleep already, but Sara needed a companion right now. "Maybe as an Oompa-Loompa!¨That would be like SOOOO funny!" she laughed loudly, actually to herself. "Hmm, maybe Veruca Salt. Although I don't resemble her manner and the way she behaves, I do look a bit like her." she said. "And I'm not very keen on her, but I like the way she dressed. And I have a similar coat in my trunk. Oh, and also it would be fun for me to go dressed as her because she was demanding and all that spoiled brat stuff, and I'm just, kind of the opposite of that. Yes, it may be funny." Sara laughed a bit and decided she will stop talking to herself out loud because there could be other girls around here listening to her. She would be really embarrassed if that happened. And the nonsense she was saying...

So she dressed and he thought her outfit was quite cool, actually. And cute. She recently received the huge red lollipop from her parents so she used it to complete the Veruca Salt look. She took her book and went to the common room. She glanced around and saw a girl there. This black-haired girl had a rather peculiar pink dress and was wearing black lace gloves. She took the glove from one of her hands and did something weird with her hand and said "Show your true face you Shadow. I've got my eye on you" Sara looked at her with a confused look on her face and soon the girl left. Sara waited a bit and then she left too.

Sara arrived in the Great Hall and she stopped at a table to study the books other students already left for exchange. After she spent a few minutes looking at the books, Sara decided to get some snacks. She got some chips and it was very tasteful. While she was eating, she noticed the girl from the common room was eating near her. She may go and talk to her. Even though she's a bit anxious about it... After all, she came here to make friends, not to be anxious and chicken out... There we go...

"Hey, you're the girl from the common room, right?" she asked her and smiled "Hi! I'm Sara Arnez. Or maybe we met before... Can you maybe guess which character am I?" Sara asked showing the girl her book.

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