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After Classes

Heading to the Library and running into @Ivan Solarus on the way to it


It was a cold day. Winter set in precedent than last year and a thick layer of snow covered the castle and the surrounding Highlands in eerie silence. Violet froze and pressed a couple schoolbooks closer to her chest as she walked down the corridors of the second floor after attending a charm class. It was one of her favourite subjects in her early days in Hogwarts.

She wasnt able to sucessfully mastered a single spell yet, as she got to Hogwarts just recently but Violet was confident that if she studied hard enough she would be able to make progress.
Her destination was the Library where she hoped to find clues on how to channel magic better.

She admired Professor Fresnel and her outstanding talent in teaching students. It was her perfect spellcasting that inspired Violet to try her best in mastering the charms and while many other students were already ahead of the first year she decided she wouldnt be put down by the fact that she was behind other students.

As she wandered down the hallway deeply immersed into her thoughts she happened to stumble into another student. "Ouch" she squeaked out as she walked into him dropping her books.
It was a vaguely familiar face she remembered from her first days in Hogwarts. Right! It was the boy that she asked if she could share a train compartment with. Looks like he became a Slytherin judging by the batch on his school uniform.

"Sorry for running into you Ivan, I seem to have been distracted by my thoughts." She apologized and bent down to pick up the books she had dropped.
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It was a long day for Ivan already, the classes may have just ended but he was already tiered mentally it was draining to be around the magicals everyday and listen to the constant questioning of sound logic.

He walked the corridors a bit absent minded working on his current set of mind numbing ideas that magicals have, seriously a fire place in a library of all places!

Having someone bumped into him had his focus turning back to the world around him noticing Violet he smiled having been later in the sorting he knew she ended up in Hufflepuff. Crouching down to help her collect the books he smiled and said "It's okay Violet, my mind was wondering as well, you know i would recommend once you go home you get a satchel or a book bag, it could prove useful to you instead of carrying the books in your hands, what if you had those blasted quills and ink and it broke over your books?" he smiled and handed her the books he collected getting up and offering her his hand to get up.

He brought his satchel a bit forward showing it, it is a well maintained and big leather book satchel in a dark brown color with obvious space for multiple books and multiple sections to it.
"I can say with assurance that having a satchel is better then having to carry the books in your hand" smiling a bit he asked "How is the badgers burrow treating you? I hope there is no problem with the less then magical upbringing there?"
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Talking with @Ivan Solarus


Violet took the books from Ivan and looked at the bag he showed her. Chuckling she responded "Thank you, I have a satchel but I didnt take it with me because I was only going to the charms class and dont need much for it." She stroke a flick of hair out of her face and continued "I think im getting used to Hogwarts, alot of it is still foreign to me and my studies consume most of my time so I dont really have the time to chat much with others. I mean, yeah, theres the thing that I havent been raised with magic around me." Her voice slightly shifted towards a slightly more distraugth tone "However if I study hard I should be able to keep up with the other students."

Afterall she wouldnt submit herself to the thought of giving up just because the subject was yet beyond her. It wasnt the subject that lacked in logic but her understanding of it and if others were able to master it then so was she, but she just didnt understand how to use magic in the first place. The feeling she had when the Wand did glow in Ollivanders store was long gone a faint memory and since then it never returned.

She looked at him noticing the exhausted look and asked in a worrying tone "You look tired Ivan are you feeling well? If you want I can accompany you to the hospital wing."
He didnt look fit at all and Violet wondered if he had to fight under the circumstances that he also grew up without magic.
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Ivan listened to you and smiled at your thoughts and statements "With that motivation you truly do belong to the house of the hard working. Don't worry about doing magic all my lovely wand has managed to do for me is shoot a few sparks out when I was making a point how dangerous it is to have one, he seems to be more temperamental then even me on my days where i get up on the wrong foot" he smiled a small smile before it faltered hearing your next few words.

He sighed it was becoming a bad habit, absent minded he rubbed his forhead and pinched the bridge of his nose taking a deep breath and saying "I will have you know that I take that as a slight against my beauty sleep i had 6 hours of it just last night!" it is obvius he is trying to deflect the question with a bad try at a joke.

Ivan was having an internal turmoil this was becoming more then a habit his big mouth opening before he was thinking, he really was hating it at the moment but he decided to press forward. Trying his best to give a charming smile, which in the end just seemed to be a sour and tired one he said "I sleep enough considering where i live in the Viper's Nest. I am well rested it's not the problem of sleep but rather of my own mind running me like a horse after 10 weeks of non stop riding." he looks at you a bit longingly for a few long moments before saying "I don't want to bother the nurse with this, but maybe a walk around in the fresh air will do me good"

@Violet Best
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Talking with @Ivan Solarus


"Ugh you wanna go out in that freezing cold? Im already suffering from hypothermia by just walking down the corridors." she shivered by just thinking about it and shook her head. "I was on the way to the library to get me some help there, let me pick up the books I need first." He seemed to be a bit bitter and Violet wasnt sure if there was something else that bothered him.

"Want to come with me to the library? Or we meet in the courtyard in like an half hour after I changed my school uniform to something more suitable. A walk wouldnt hurt I guess."
Her schedule was tight but to take the rest of the day off, sorting her thoughts and having a bit of distraction was also important. Afterall learning with a clear mind was easier than having to trouble with a clogged one full of worries and doubts.

Also even though it was forbidden to use the wand outside of the lessons she could try to practice the mending charm while talking a walk. In todays charm class they had a practical approach at repairing various items and something odd struck her, there were stories of wizards and witches not requiring a wand. So maybe the power comes from within oneself?
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Ivan smiled and leaned in closer to Violet whispering to her "I will tell you a secret, I grew up in this cold" still smiling like a loon he backed off and continued "You get used to the cold and even colder weather at times, so truly this isn't that bad once you are used to it" hearing of the library he visibly recoils as if struck "Please don't make me go there again, I lost already countless hours trying to navigate that nightmare"

Ivan hoists his satchel a bit and closes his eyes remembering his homework "However it seems I have been sentenced to torture in the pits of infernal knowledge and therefore must go to the library to find the necessary books for my own homework. he opens his satchel and rummages about it after a while pulling his wand and glaring at it "Why have you cursed me with the illogical side of the world, oh why thee cruel fate, why did thee hath chosen me, mine own existence is just pain and suffering now" done with the theatrics Ivan sighs "Hopped to annoy my wand into firing magic so I end up in the hospital so I don't have to do the homework but the fates have chosen that i shall escort you to the library" he offers you his hand and smiles "Would you give me the honor of escorting you to the library, milday?"


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