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[Eleanor Hope]

Despite the rough week Eleanor had, the Hufflepuff was in a good mood. She had finished handing out all but one of the flyers for the Wild Patch Club event and was now looking for her sister to give her the final one. It was fun being the Queen of Flowers. It meant she was in charge of everything that the Wild Patch Club was doing and she couldn't think of a better job. As Ellie began her search for her sister she knew just the place to look. Lily was always in the library doing whatever she does and so that was her first destination. Ellie hadn't been to the library for a long time and so she was looking forward to it. With a smile on her face, she walked through the double doors and into the room full of books. Ellie had never been a big fan of reading, but she understood why people liked books so much. They held all sorts of secrets and mysteries and there was no better place to go if you wanted to escape the real world.

It did not take Eleanor long to find her sister who had her head buried in a book. Without worrying about scaring her, Ellie walked straight up to her and beamed. "Hello!" she exclaimed. "I came to give you this, just in case you wanted to come." The Hufflepuff handed over the flyer to her sister, wanting nothing more than for her to come and check everything out when the time finally came. Better yet, Ellie would like it more if she just joined the club, but she knew that was never going to happen and would simply appreciate Lily's support more than anything if she was willing to give it.

 

[Lilyanna Hope]

Lilyanna had had a busy week. The weekend with Andrew had gone well and the exercises he was giving her made her feel a little bit better about herself. She had been getting closer to the man and was feeling more comfortable now that she knew he was only trying to help. It was tough finding out that she was different to everyone else but rewarding once she realised how lucky she was that she was getting help at a young age. The Slytherin sat in the library with her Defence Against The Dark Arts textbook open in front of her. She was writing a new page of notes on the unforgivable curses. They were easy to understand and diffrentiate and she was sure that she was going to do well in the exam when it came up, even though it wasn't her strongest subject. When she had finally written everything down that she needed to she closed it and proceeded to open a book about muggles that she had found earlier in one of the bookshelves. It was about electricity and Lilyanna was more than happy to flick through it now that she had finished everything she had to do. Her eyes scanned the page carefully as she read about electromagnetism and nodded at the book mentioning that electricity was similar to magic in a way. Lilyanna thought electricity was much more clever however and hoped she would be able to use it one day.

A loud voice had made Lilyanna jump. She recognised it immediately as Eleanor's and quickly looked up, wondering why she was all of a sudden so happy considering her walkout during their last Defence Against The Dark Arts lesson. The flyer in her hand then explained it. Lilyanna had forgotten her sister was now the Queen of Flowers but wished that she would just go away sometimes. The slytherin was clearly too bothered reading a book to worry about it, but took a deep breath and tried to listen to what she had to say. Taking the flyer, Lilyanna saw that the Wild Patch Club was holding another event and they were going to be putting together a time capsule. She found it rather interesting that this was going to be a thing. The people in the future would definitely appreciate a blast from the past, as long as there was more than just flowers involved. "What are you going to put in it? Isn't the Wild Patch Club all about flowers? Why a time capsule?" Lilyanna asked, hoping she had a suitable enough answer.

 

[Eleanor Hope]

Lily didn't seem as excited for the event as what Eleanor had hoped for, but she was unsure why she was expecting much else from her anyway. At least she didn't seem to entirely hate the idea or say something bad about it. Ellie simply continued smiling, more than happy to answer any questions that she or anyone else had. The Hufflepuff was obviously quite proud of what she was planning to put together and was not afraid of hiding it. "Of course the Wild Patch Club is all about flowers!" Eleanor exclaimed, answering her sister's question. "So we'll put flower crowns and stuff in there and anything anyone comes up with. It doesn't really have a theme, but I guess that's what makes it fun." Lily didn't really like fun things but Ellie was eager to persuade her into doing so. After all, life wasn't really much without fun. "A time capsule is great because who knows where the club will be in ten years time? The people in the future will be able to see how far they've come and be proud of themselves for what they've achieved. Isn't that great?" Ellie didn't expect Lily to agree with her, but a simple nod was all she was looking for.

Without even asking, Ellie pulled out a chair across from her sister and sat down in it. "And guess what else will be there?" Ellie smiled mischievously, feeling as though this will be obvious. "Foooooddd!" Eleanor beamed, hoping that might be enough to persuade her sister to come. After all, who didn't like food? "You can help me get some if you like. There's gonna be all sorts of candy to choose from and some snacks like biscuits and stuff too. Feel free to put something in the capsule too if you want." Eleanor continued to ramble on, not caring if her sister was not listening. She needed to tell someone about what was happening and Lily just happened to be the first person to come to mind.

 

[Lilyanna Hope]

Lilyanna listened as Eleanor started to talk again. The slytherin didn't think flower crowns were good enough to put into a time capsule. Flowers were supposed to get sunlight, water and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. Putting them underground was not going to give them any of that. However, Lilyanna read somewhere that someone found carbon dioxide under the ground once in rock form. That would have been very interesting to see and, unless Eleanor was somehow able to retreive carbon dioxide in the form of rocks and put that into the time capsule too, it was not going to work. Despite this, Lilyanna kept her mouth shut and let Eleanor continue on before speaking again. "The container or whatever you use must be tightly shut to prevent dirt and insects getting into it. The environment inside of it needs to be dry, meaning there should be no oxygen in it." Lilyanna explained, hoping Eleanor would take this into consideration.

When Eleanor sat down in front of her and mentioned food, Lilyanna rolled her eyes. Eleanor would never go anywhere if there wasn't any food and so the Slytherin figured she should have expected this. "I don't want to help get food with you." Lilyanna told her abruptly, not thinking about whether or not this statement would hurt her feelings. At the offer to put something in there, Lilyanna thought for a while, wondering what that could be. "I don't know." she said simply, not even knowing if she wanted to go there or not. Maybe she would consider giving it to Eleanor first. "Can I ask you something?" Without waiting for an answer, Lilyanna began. "Why did you walk out of the Defence Against The Dark Arts lesson? It was just a spider. I mean, the professor wasn't going to kill it." Lilyanna asked this calmly, hoping it would not hurt her sister's feelings. She was just curious.

 

[Isabelle Vernier]

Isabelle was sitting in the library at a table by herself, trying to sort out all of her notes she had gathered so far. Some words she didn't quite understand and so an English dictionary sat beside her which she used every now and then to look things up. She would have much preferred if she could just take all of her notes in French, but unfortunately, she wasn't going to be able to do the exam if she only knew the answers in French. Sighing, Isabelle nonetheless continued to search every word up that she didn't know, hoping she'd eventually become more fluent in the English language.

A loud greeting from the table beside her caused Isabelle to look up abruptly. The Ravenclaw had to look twice as she was sure that the girl who the girl greeted looked exactly like her. She watched for a moment as they spoke and the girl gave the other girl a flyer. Isabelle had not received one of these flyers and so she listened carefully. A time capsule was going to be put under the ground by the Wild Patch Club at a park during the Brightstone weekend. Isabelle was unsure whether or not she wanted to go. After all, lots of people were going to be there and Isabelle did not like crowds. On top of that, Isabelle would not know how to contribute and so she figured she should stay out of it. Despite this, as the pair continued to speak, Isabelle continued to listen, looking in their direction.

 

[Eleanor Hope]

Eleanor smirked at Lily's words. She was always really cautious about everything and her obvious advice meant that she somewhat cared and that was all that the Hufflepuff wanted. "I know that." Eleanor replied with a chuckle. "Don't worry, I have it all sorted out and it's going to be the best Wild Patch Club event yet! I can't wait to tell Orwell about it." Ellie hadn't spoken to Orwell since last year and was unsure where he even was at that moment, but was positive that he'd somehow find out about it and be glad that he let Eleanor take up such an important role. "Why don't you want to get food with me?" Eleanor asked, frowning slightly. She knew Lily would tell her the truth and hoped that the truth wasn't going to hurt this time. "Maybe you can put a book in the time capsule!" the Hufflepuff suggested, throwing out any idea that might convince her.

When Lily said she wanted to ask Ellie a question, the fourth year sat up straighter in her seat, a concerned expression on her face. Lily didn't usually ask Ellie questions and it was mostly the other way around. However, when Lily asked it, Ellie's face turned from that of concerned to worried. Did everyone else have the same question? They probably all thought she was weird or something, but it was better than crying in front of the whole class. Nonetheless, Ellie was pleased that someone had the courtesy to care, even if it was her own sister, and especially because it was her own sister. "I-I don't know." Eleanor looked down, feeling quite stupid. There were many other spiders in the world and there was no need to react in such a way. "The Cruciatus Curse can sometimes kill though and it was Styx. Who knows what kind of things he could do? If I witnessed a killing, I wouldn't know what to do. I'm not looking forward to this week. The last curse is the killing curse and I'm not prepared for it." Eleanor explained truthfully. Her bubbly demeanor was gone and all that was left was worry sitting at the pit of her stomach. She shouldn't be so scared, but she was.

 

[Lilyanna Hope]

Lilyanna was glad that Eleanor had it all sorted out. It would have been embarrassing if she didn't and something had happened, mostly because it was such a simple thing to do and was hard to mess up. "Do you even still talk to Orwell?" the Slytherin asked. If Eleanor hadn't, there wouldn't be much of a chance of talking to him again and Lilyanna wasn't sure how her sister felt about that. Perhaps, sad? Andrew told her happy and sad were the most common and easiest emotions to pick out, and Lilyanna could easily rule out happy. "I don't want to get food with you because I have better things to do." Lilyanna told her, not realising how mean that could have sounded. "Maybe I'll put a book in, maybe I won't." Lilyanna figured books were too precious to keep underground, but she would still think about it.

Lilyanna listened as Eleanor began to explain why she didn't like their previous Defence Against The Dark Arts lesson. She didn't know how to respond and instantly regretted bringing it up. She didn't want to know anymore. "What do you expect? The killing curse kills so of course Styx has to kill something to be able to properly demonstrate it." Lilyanna could definitely see Eleanor walking out of the next lesson but there was nothing she could do about it and she was afraid Eleanor was just going to have to sort herself out on her own. However, she did not say that aloud as that was definitely a statement that was going to make her sad. Instead, Lilyanna quickly became distracted by an older girl sitting at the table beside them. She was clearly listening in on their conversation and Lilyanna gave her a dirty look. "What are you looking at?" she called over, hoping she had not heard too much.