Errand The Ravenclaw and the Ravenpaper Solo

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Caitlyn stared at the piece of paper in front of her. Rumour was going around that you could create an origami creature to gain house points, which sounded quite the delight to Caitlyn. She started looking through her bag until she found the piece of parchment with the instructions on. It was a bit crumpled, but she could work with it. She looked at the paper, the result of the raven staring at her with some silly-looking googly eyes, or something close to that. While not the most interesting that she could have chosen, it would certainly earn her house points for the fact that she was doing it because of her house, Ravenclaw. Stretching her arms, she tried to straighten out the page so she could see better. To her surprise, there were only fourteen steps, which was a much lower number than she was guessing, around the number thirty. But nevermind that, now. She had a beautiful piece of origami to create to earn her house some well-deserved points!
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Looking at the paper she was following, she was supposed to, what looked like to her, fold a triangle outwards. From that, she assumed that she had to fold it into that triangle, which is what she ended up doing. The folding outward was easy, along with the next step which was just folding a bit of the folded-outward part inward. So far, so good. Caitlyn was beginning to enjoy herself but then the third step came. This was when she found out that she had folded the triangle wrong, which meant she had to start again. She grabbed one of the pieces of parchment that was provided. She look at the sheet again, before realising that the instructions weren't going to be too straight-forward, which would probably become an issue later on. "If only I had Mum's gift of being good with stuff like this," she sighed, before continuing back to her work. She set to work, looking forward at all the next steps to try and figure out what the first real steps were. Caitlyn went through quite a few pieces of parchment before she decided to draw out her template, which worked at first but went downhill back at the third step. "Bloody third step," she hissed under her breath, trying to be menacing but also forgetting that it was a piece of paper. She tried a few more different methods before finally getting the third step right. Almost crying with joy, Caitlyn continued onto the fourth step.
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At a first glance, the fourth step could look quite challenging. But to someone who had stared at the instructions for around an hour or two, you got the hang of the arrows. Wait..., Caitlyn thought to herself, What time is it? She checked her muggle watch but had yet again forgotten that muggle technology didn't work on the grounds of Hogwarts. Caitlyn shrugged, before looking at the clock in the Hall. Around half-past one. Good, I still have loads of time, she thought, Anyway, onto the fifth step. Caitlyn checked the step and...oh wow. She was completely and utterly stunned. She had no clue how to complete this step. After all, if you looked at it, it is the strangest movement on the instruction sheet. Desperate, Caitlyn decided to just go all in and have a go. She did one movement and look back at the sheet. Somehow, what she did was correct! She was so thrilled with herself that she squealed in excitement. Filled with determination, she continued onto the sixth step. It was pretty simple, and she did it with an elegant ease, along with the seventh step. And just like that, she was halfway there.
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The eighth step was just a bit trickier to figure out, considering the loop-the-loop arrow kept drawing her attention. But, after a few minutes, she figured it out. And then came the ninth step. Caitlyn looked at it, slightly dumbfounded. She had a look at the beak thing and then the unfolded-beak piece of paper. After around fifteen minutes of racking her brain, though, she did manage to figure it out. In fact, she wasn't sure how she did it, but she knows she just did. The next instruction couldn't be simpler, and Caitlyn quite easily folded the bit away from sight to give the beak more depth. But, before the next step, we all know that number thirteen is an unlucky number. Caitlyn, for the second time that night, just stared at the piece of paper, completely dumbfounded. "Great, now the hands are in the way!" she groaned to nobody in particular. She put her head in her hands as she grumbled at the insruction sheet in front of her. Until, suddenly, it happened. She understood! Before she lost her idea, she folded the wing a bit up, put that bit here and this bit there and it was done. The raven was complete. While, yes, the instructions said to add those stupid-looking eyes, but Caitlyn decided to add different ones. She simply added black dots to either side of the bird's head. Then, after realising it was a bit plain, she got out picked up one of the dark-blue pens given to her for the errand and coloured the entire bird in."Finally..." she sighed in relief, happy to be fulfilled of her duty.
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In her happiness, she had almost forgotten about the final step, but, thankfully, she remembered it: the enchantment. She walked over to one of the house-elves in the Hall, before tapping him lightly on the shoulder. "Ehm...excuse me?" The house elf looked up at her. "I was wondering if you could add an enchantment to this raven, to make it fly. Hopefully it's not too much to ask..." The creature simply nodded at her with what she could only assume to be a warm-hearted smile as it raised its finger, pointing at the bird. The bird, all of a sudden, glowed with a light blue shine and fluttered into the air. Caitlyn was amazed and began thanking the house elf beyond what was probably necessary. The bird fluttered from her palms to wherever the prefect was. Caitlyn watched it fly out of the Hall before shrugging and going back to her common room. Hopefully she'd be rewarded for this.
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