Michelle (firstoffour) wrote in attheclose, @ 2011-01-18 21:34:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: michelle campbell, character: susan bones, date: 1997 - 06, etc: backstory, location: hogwarts - common room |
Who: Michelle Campbell and Susan Bones
What: Chatting
When: BACKDATED: Saturday, June 26, after Dumbledore's Funeral
Where: Hufflepuff Common Room
Rating: Low, I'd expect
This wasn't the first time someone Michelle knew had died, of course. The Triwizard tournament had happened Michelle's third year, and though she hadn't known Cedric Diggory very well personally, she had known him well enough to be affected by his death. All of Hufflepuff had. And once again, now in her fifth year, the school was having to deal with another death. It was taking a toll on her, and she was feeling a mix - sadness at the loss of the headmaster, anger at the circumstances, and fear. Quite a bit of fear. The rumors were that Professor Snape had been responsible, rumors which Michelle didn't know what to think about. She'd never particularly liked Professor Snape, but she also didn't think him capable of murdering Headmaster Dumbledore. It all seemed so bizaare.
There were also questions as to what this would mean for the future. She'd always heard that as long as Headmaster Dumbledore was at Hogwarts, it was a safe place to be. But now he wasn't there anymore, and that concerned her. She assumed that Professor McGonagall would step up as Headmistress as she had been the Deputy Headmistress previously, and while Michelle liked her, she wasn't Dumbledore. And it felt like they were on the cusp of something big in the wizarding world. People were being pulled out of school, and Michelle imagined that her parents, if they had any idea of what was going on, would have done the same.
Distracted by all these and other thoughts, Michelle curled up in a couch in front of the fire in the Hufflepuff Common Room, watching the flames.