Hufflepuff Common Room

Amanda thought of what Libby said. " Liv, that's really, really easy. Oh you have a point there, Lib. First to fourth... Hey you wanna join?"

"Fine, then, you have to use it as the main course in a candlelight dinner."

"Erm... Okay... With Wallace?"

"I dunno. I'm not a very fast runner. I can be the judge of who gets there first?"

"Okay! That way there won't be a she said she said fight!"

"Yes."

"Let's go race then!"

"You're on."

Amanda pointed to the door. "Onward my friends!"

and so they left.

Kelsi had decided to stay at Hogwarts in hope of hanging with her friends. Sadly, this time, Andrea, Fry, and Robin went home for the break. So she just sat there working on the homework set for the break.

Amanda sat by the fire, alone, the shadows of flickering flames casted on her face. She had a large hardcover book beside her, and three on the floor by her feet, all equal in size and wieght. A half way finished foot long essay in Potions was in front of her, as she bashfully moved her head back and forth from the book to her work.

Kelsi looked up from the simple paragraph questions that would be an essay rough draft for Charms to Amanda's mass amount of work. "Heh," she chuckled, and went to lean over her. "You've got a workload."

"Yeah. I wanna get the harder stuff out of the way. I did a question sheet for charms like an hour ago that was really hard... But now all I have is this, and then the rest of the week is constellations and dream charts."

"I find Charms easy. And wow, that sounds hard."

"It's funny. The dream journal is kind of fun, which surprises me..." Amanda shrugged, smiling. "I guess we all just have our top quality subjects. Like you and charms." Amanda held her head, sighing, "I wish I knew what I wanted to be. I could cut some classes that way... Maybe I should talk to a Proffesor or something."

"Charms is average for me. I find it easy, but I just get average. Transfiguration is my strength."

"Oh right, I remember you saying that. I get mixed up with those two subjects a lot of the time." By the time they were at this point of the conversation, Amanda had copied down 3 and a half more inches of her rough draft onto her final copy.

"How do you do that?" Kelsi demanded. "How do you talk and write an essay, so fast, without getting distracted? For me, I see a crack on the floor or table, and I'm off to dream world."

Amanda shrugged. "I'm basically just copying down what I wrote, so it's just the concept of looking down at the paper when we're talking... I just have trouble saying .... stuff... if I start... looking... really... hard..."

"Hmm..." Kelsi looked bored.

Amanda put down her quill. "Let's go do something fun."

"Oh, like?"

"Hmmm.... I dunno. We can't do a lot because we're suppose to be old and mature, but we can still have fun somehow..."

"We could mess around with the first years."