Who: Daphne Greengrass & Susan Bones What: Daphne catches Susan up to some suspicious behavior. When: 21 February 1998, Monday. Night, shortly before curfew. Where: Hogwarts corridor...somewhere. Rating: G/PG. I dunno, Daphne isn't the sort to swear or get randomly violent.
As she made her way leisurely down the hall on her way back to the common room, Daphne made a mental note: falling asleep in the library was generally not counted as studying, even if one's head happened to be resting on top of the book pages. Learning by osmosis? Dubious. It seemed a sign, to her, that the loss of sleep this week due to odd letters from her father and increasingly annoying behavior from Astoria was long overdue for cessation. If she couldn't even manage to get through a few hours of applied studying, how was she supposed to be a her best in class? No, she was going to go to bed as soon as she got back to her dormitory.
It was true that she had chosen a rather roundabout way of getting back, though. Daphne suspected that curfew was drawing near, ad the halls were mostly abandoned, but she was in no particular hurry as she doubted she would be targeted as a troublemaker even if she was caught out a bit later than she ought to have been. She was mulling this over when, not far ahead, she made out the shape of another students. The dim lighting didn't afford her any identities, but Daphne could tell it was an upper year, and that she appeared to be...inspecting portraits?
Daphne slowed, tried to figure out what to do. She could turn down another corridor and ignore it, but she became aware of a familiar thrill that she hadn't felt since her fifth year. It had been an exciting thing to catch people making trouble, and to see the way their faces sometimes fell when they realized they were about to be in a lot of trouble, or the way some might try to fumble for excuses. Against her better judgment, Daphne passed the alternate corridor and approached the other student boldly but wordlessly. Sometimes it had been better to let students incriminate themselves without having to throw accusations.