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Hazel Constance Ridgebit (wichehazel) wrote in attheclose,
@ 2011-04-12 14:27:00

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character: ernie macmillan

Who: Ernie Macmillan & Hazel Ridgebit
What: Hazel hasn't spent the whole of her holiday waiting to see Ernie again. Honest.
When: Wednesday, 12 April, evening
Where: Hufflepuff common room
Rating: Lowish.

It wasn't that Hazel hadn't enjoyed being home: hers and David's and Cadwy's favorite dishes cooked for breakfast and supper; afternoons with embroidery hoop in hand with her mother in the sun room or the garden, when the weather allowed for it; donning her slicker - too small for a full season now, but Hazel's mum insisted she might grow a bit yet, and Hazel held out hope for an ample bosom - and sailing out with her da on the Hagtooth Helga. There was so much for her to do, to keep her busy and her brothers, too, to keep them from thinking about what waited for them back at school, Hazel knew.

But she had something else to look forward to, and though Hazel knew it was selfish and stupid, stupid, stupid, by the end of her holiday she was eager to return to school if it meant getting to see Ernie again. Sure, she'd made a bit of a fool of herself the last time she had seen him, and he probably didn't like her that way, anyway, but Hazel found she didn't mind so much. If it made her a bad person to have something good to look forward to, to not worry for a moment about her best friend, her housemates, her mum and dad, her favorite teachers... then Hazel supposed she was a bad person.

At least she wasn't as bad as some others.

Of course she'd been too nervous about saying something really dumb the first few evenings back from home, but now she descended the stairs from the girl's dormitory, knitting in hand, prepared to say hello or at the very least sit and stare.

Hazel spotted Ernie, likely working on homework or whatever it was the Head Boy had to keep him busy in addition to everything else, and crossed the common room to where he was seated, smiling shyly.

"Hi, Ernie. How was your holiday?"

Good start.

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erniemacattack
2011-04-12 08:33 pm UTC (link)

Ernie had not spent his holidays doing revision. Instead he had locked himself in his room where he managed to sleep away nearly the whole of the holidays, much to his mother’s concern. He'd come out for the necessities, of course, for meals and what not, and both his mother and father had asked what was going on at Hogwarts. What were they doing to him at school that was causing him to act so unlike himself.

And the answer was always the same. That they were doing nothing.

To him.

Ernie had managed to stay completely out of the way of the Carrows, really. No detentions, no real consequences. But he had witnessed too many horrors for that to be any comfort. In fact, it was the opposite. And his time at home had been incredibly valuable in terms of gaining his resolve back. It was time for him to do something. Rather than sit back and try to pick up the pieces before they shattered beyond recognition.

None of this, however, was the sort of thing he'd dare tell Hazel, so instead, when she asked about his holiday, he smiled widely at her, gesturing for her to sit down. He was actually really quite happy to see her. Things always seemed so much better when she was around.

"Hullo, Hazel. My holiday was nice enough. It was just nice to get away for a bit. Spend some time with my family. What about you?"

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wichehazel
2011-04-13 12:29 am UTC (link)

"About the same," Hazel replied, happily taking the chair beside him but trying not to look too pleased about it. She settled her knitting in her lap - a hat for one of Brenna's friends, who was having a baby in July - and smiled. "I was actually surprised by how much more I saw of my brothers when I was home, and they're here at the castle, too."

Even Cadwy, who'd been sorted in to Hufflepuff, didn't want much to do with his older sister unless he was frightened, or sick. She supposed it wasn't very flattering to seem like you needed somebody, when you were a boy, and twelve.

"David actually asked me for help with his Potions homework, though swore me to secrecy. He's in Ravenclaw," she added, just in case Ernie didn't know.

	wichehazel 2011-04-20 01:28 am UTC (link)
	Hazel reluctantly released Ernie's hand at his suggestion, taking the tray in both of her own. "If you think my Charm work is so poor, I guess I will carry it," she teased, smiling all the same. "Care to show me how the Head Boy would do it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)