The Ravenclaw Girl PV Mikaela Hendricks fin.

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WC: 274 words Interactions: Dido Bleaklane February 12th, 2026:DATE Morning, after charms class. :TIME

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Well, it had been... quite a class. Learning the Locking and Unlocking charm was easier than I thought, and I didn't like it. I needed classes to be hard. And this one was not boring, it was... easy.

And when classes were easy for me, teachers would take me to older kids' classes. And when it happened, it was only a matter of time for the next school to show up.

But that didn't happen in Hogwarts, right? They'd just see it as an average Ravenclaw behavior. Always smart, always eager to learn. I had to fake it. I'm not smart. I'm not eager. I'm just an average First Year who wants to learn some spells. Nothing new. Nothing different from others.

When the class ended and everyone was starting to pick up their stuff, as I stood up and started to pack my parchment and quill, taking mental note of a new homework, I noticed a slytherin girl's quill had fallen from her desk, just a few seats from me.

She didn't notice, cause she walked out of the room. So I did the most smart thing at the moment: Follow her.

"Hey!" I catched her up in the waay out of the classroom. "You dropped this." I pointed, lifting the quill.

Interacting With: @Mikaela Hendricks
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The corridors were loud. All the time. But it was actually quite nice for Dido to lose herself in the crowd, focusing on getting through and past whorls of bodies rather than otherwise feeling the constant torment of… of worry. As Dido walked, finding paths between students, she could hear someone rushing behind her and, suddenly, a voice called out.

“Hey!”

Dido spun on her heels, quickly coming face to face with one of the Ravenclaws in her Charms class. One of, if not the, best in said Charms class. So, of course, Dido was fairly sure of the girls name as it had been called so often by Professor Townsend: Mikaela. Either way, the girl stood there, in front of Dido, holding out Dido’s spare quill before continuing, “You dropped this.”

Dido smiled tightly, biting her lip slightly as she nodded, ducking her head to avoid eye contact, and muttered, “Thanks.” She then took a deep breath, forced a grin before looking back up cheerfully and repeating, “Sorry, yeah. Thank you so much- I pretty much constantly lose them... I'm Dido, by the way.”

The words were mundane, happy, pleasant even to the casual listener, but to Dido’s ears, they felt oddly wrong. False. Like the easy lies that slip from guilty man’s tongue.

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WC: 275 words Interactions: Dido Bleaklane February 12th, 2026:DATE Morning, after charms class. :TIME

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I nodded at the girl, who seemed a bit nervous. And, by the way she was avoiding eye contact with me, even uncomfortable.

"Well... Try not to take them out of your bag more than necessary. But I always have an extra quill, if you need some." I did my best try of a smile to her. I remembered her face, we shared a few classes together. She didn't participate too much, that's why I didn't remember her name.

'I'm Dido, by the way.'

I made quick mental check. Dido, Dido... Bleakdane? Bleaklane? Yes, I think. I mentally connected the face with the name, so I wouldn't forget about her again.

"I'm Hendricks. Mikaela Hendricks." I introduced myself as confidently as I could. Hogwarts, in a few months, helped me improve on that case. At least, I didn't stutter like a weirdo each time I said my name or some teacher called my name. It was... Almost good.

The corridor was slowly beginning to empty of students. They were all already going to their classes or just going to their common rooms, or doing whatever they did after a class. Some prefects walked by, as I learned against the wall beside me. After all, I had some time to spare before my next class.

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Interacting With: Reducio @Mikaela Hendricks

Dido smiled, listening as the girl, Mikaela, suggested that she, “Try not to take them out of your bag more than necessary,” before sweetly stating, “But I always have an extra quill, if you need some.”

In response, she laughed, not replying immediately until Mikaela properly introduced herself as, “Hendricks. Mikaela Hendricks.”

Dido smiled again before realising that she was smiling an awful lot and quickly dropping the smile into a more casual expression of general interest. In a bright and playful tone, she responded, “Oh, I know your name. The teachers can’t get it out of their mouths fast enough!” Dido laughed, but inwardly chastised herself. Why on earth had she brought up the one topic she felt insecure about? Despite this, Dido couldn’t hold herself back asking the final question, “You’re Ravenclaw, right?”

At this question, Dido felt a wave of bitterness wash over her. It shouldn’t have been targeted at Mikaela. In truth, it wasn’t, the pain came from the part inside which still herself but in practise… well, to put it simply, if jealousy was physical, Mikaela would have been knocked ten feet away by the force of the blast.

Thankfully, Dido managed to supress this sudden hatred and continue vapidly grinning at Mikaela, as the girl leant against the wall of the corridor. Dido turned slightly and moved to stand beside her, Dido’s hands pressing down onto a small sloped edge to take her weight. Maybe it would be nice to have a moment before she started to study.

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WC: 264 words Interactions: Dido Bleaklane February 12th, 2026:DATE Morning, after charms class. :TIME

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Oh. Yeah.

That.

The teachers can't get it out of their mouths fast enough. Right. Did that make me the typical nerdy type?

Well, guess I'll never stop being that 'nerdy freak' someone called me once.

I nodded, making my best effort to keep my smile. After all, Dido didn't need to know about my nerdy insecurities.

"Uh-yeah, I'm a Ravenclaw. Guess it was the only choice for me..." I tried to joke my way out of it. It had been a tip my mom taught me once if I felt too uncomfortable with a question or a conversation: If you don't know the answer, joke your way out of it.

It was funny, because the hat didn't even hesitate. It stayed in my head for, like, 10 seconds before screaming the house. There was literally no way I wouldn't be a Ravenclaw.

"But it's not all sparkles and twinkles, you know? There's so much blue in the dorms." I whispered, making my best impression of a small laugh. I definitely needed to improve my social skills. At least a bit. I won't make lots of friends if I act all weird all the time. They may suspect something is wrong with me.

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Stats/Abilities Reducio Stamina: 4 Evasion: 6 Strength: 5 Wisdom: 8 Arcane Power: 5 Accuracy: 7

Interacting With: Reducio @Mikaela Hendricks

If Dido had been paying attention to Mikaela, she might have noticed the awkwardness with which the Ravenclaw brushed off the question or how she disguised this with a joke. But, as it was, Dido did not notice this. In fact, since she had asked the fateful question and had moved to stand beside Mikaela, she had been fixated on the blue crest on the girl’s robes that almost seemed to be grinning up at her and mocking her, even while her eyes never strayed from Mikaela’s face.

As Mikaela apparently started to make another jovial comment, Dido forced her attention back to the conversation and managed to hear the Ravenclaw whisper, “But it's not all sparkles and twinkles, you know? There's so much blue in the dorms.”

Without much effort, Dido managed match Mikaela and force a half-genuine laugh at this image before adding, “If you think that’s bad, you should see our common room. It’s all under the lake so all of the natural light that gets through is tinted dark green,” she remembered an incident from a few days before, “You can barely see a foot in front of you when the lights aren’t on!”

As she spoke with such cheerfulness, Dido thought about the Slytherin Common Room. Logically, she should have thought, “What did the Slytherins do to deserve the worst room?” or, “Surely Hogwarts needs to give it’s Slytherins vitamin D pills!” but instead, Dido, somewhat incorrectly, wondered, “What could I have done to deserve being in such an evil place? I don’t belong there with them!”

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WC: 276 words Interactions: Dido Bleaklane February 12th, 2026:DATE Morning, after charms class. :TIME

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I couldn't help but let out a little smile. Dido seemed cute. I noticed the way she was getting more and more relaxed and a bit less nervous. I took it as a good sign.

"I actually think that's pretty cool. It must be cold, too. I mean, if it's under the lake, you guys must be freezing there every night." I added, the words leaving my mouth before thinking well on them.

Now, I didn't want Dido to think I was saying the Ravenclaw common room was better. Actually, in terms of beauty and cozyness, maybe the best one was Gryffindor's. At least that's what I've heard.

"But Slytherins are great. Well, when they're not all crazy over their pure-blood stuff, you guys can be nice." I decided to hop on it since Dido seemed to be... well, not a pure-blood obsessed one. Or maybe she was, but was just hiding it well. If that was the case, then she was an amazing actress.

But well, that was a reputation that they had built for themselves. There were also crazy pure-blooded families in Ravenclaw, but at least they hadn't verbally attacked the muggle-blooded students. Or maybe they had, but they covered their tracks. I shook my head, I was already starting to disociate again.

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As the conversation progressed, Dido couldn’t help but realise that Mikaela seemed kind. Which was fortunate as, otherwise, Dido could tell that she would have hated the Ravenclaw on the spot for the misfortune of succeeding in classes where Dido struggled. Her apparently sympathetic smile was also apparently infectious and, soon enough, Dido was truly listening to the girl, nodding and smiling in all the right places without having to force a fraction of it. Or maybe just a tiny portion.

“I actually think that's pretty cool,” Mikaela quickly responded, almost entirely confirming to Dido that the Ravenclaw wasn’t secretly thinking evil thoughts. Not that Dido thought Mikaela was pondering negativity, but the speedy, almost thoughtless words guaranteed it. Which was always a bonus. Mikaela continued, “It must be cold too,” before adding, “I mean, if it's under the lake, you guys must be freezing there every night.”

Dido tilted her head. Strangely enough, the dormitories weren’t that cold at all. Perhaps some spell had been cast? Dido decided that that was far more likely than her second, rather more ridiculous, idea that, having spent several years of her life in the north of Scotland, she was immune to coldness. But Dido really need to tell the sympathising girl? No, not really. So instead, she laughed again and, while rolling her eyes sarcastically, added, “I know, right?!”

"But Slytherins are great. Well, when they're not all crazy over their pure-blood stuff, you guys can be nice."

Dido tensed slightly, her eyelid having twitched and her breath stilling for a tiny, short moment. To Dido it even seemed like the corridor got darker, more oppressive; the previously strong and uplifting archways now bowing towards her, blocking the exits. In Mikaela’s eyes, Dido was one of them. The realisation that everyone else probably saw her this way too was painful, a needle that thrust itself between her ribs and into her lungs, cutting off her breathing. Both trying to keep up a semblance of normalcy, and encouraging her own body to take deep, regulated breaths, Dido nodded in agreement to whatever Mikaela had just said, though, having been thrown by the end, she wasn’t entirely sure of the contents of the start of the sentence.

Eventually, Dido noticed Mikaela shake her head slightly, as if reprimanding herself, which was a motion she recognised well. This indication of such a familiar feeling made Dido force herself back to the conversation as well and, changing the subject, Dido asked, “So, what’s your plan for the next hour or so?” in an airy tone.

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WC: 274 words Interactions: Dido Bleaklane February 12th, 2026:DATE Morning, after charms class. :TIME

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Dido tensed up. I noticed it. I noticed the way her face went just a tiny bit paler. This wasn't a good sign. Maybe she was, indeed, after all, a pure-blood one. Maybe she'd notice that I wasn't pure, and she'd randomly begin to hate me. Mom once told me that one classmate once burned her backpack and parchments down just because she was a Muggle-born. I thought that the silent war between pures and muggle-blooded ones was over, but the signs are still there.

She changed the subject immediately, so I did what I hated the most: In order to learn how to develop myself socially, I learned once to read people. Read the rooms. If someone changed the subject randomly, don't ask what happened, just keep going with them. It was easier (and sometimes, even safer) this way.

"Uh..." I checked my clock to see the time. I wore it backwards, my mom had brought it for me from Italy. Dad said that, if I didn't wear it right, it'd twist my wrist someday. I think that wearing the clock on the pulse point is more useful.

"Well, I have thirty free minutes before my next class, so I guess I'll eat something and then I'll go there, what about you?"