Closed Study Session

[Rosalind Montgomery]

Rosalind knew that it wasn't their OWL year yet, but she'd gotten some pretty average grades last year and she was a little bit ashamed. Not overly so - Rosalind knew her dad didn't care too much about grades. As long as she was learning and doing her best, that's what counted. The thing was, Rosalind wasn't really doing her best. She was doing slightly less than that. With that in mind, she'd invited her dorm mate Lorelai to a fun study session in the library (the 'fun' part was Rosalind trying to put a spin on basically sitting down and doing the work). She had her history of magic textbook open, reading it idly. "Remind me why I took history of magic again," Rosalind said with a sigh. "Or why I took any subject at all except herbology." Even her herbology grades weren't the highest they could be.

 

[Lorelai Gates]

Lorelai may have accepted her roommates invitation to study in the library, but that was hardly what she was doing. She was busy trying to make potions labels, bent over her drawings. She was working carefully with her tongue stuck out, keeping her pencil strokes slow and even. "Becauuuse," She spoke slowly, "It gives you both a greater sense of accomplishment and more to worry about," Lorelai replied. She studied her label a moment before moving to a different section of it. "How's the studying going?" She asked with a wry smile, knowing it was going terribly.

 

[Rosalind Montgomery]

Rosalind screwed up her face, trying to figure out how either of Lorelai's suggestions were a good thing. "Sense of accomplishment, huh?" she murmured thoughtfully. She snapped back to attention at Lorelai's question. "Ughh, it's a nightmare. I'm so over it. And this year isn't even meant to be the hard year. Wait," Rosalind said suddenly, "what are you doing? I thought we were going to study together!" Rosalind eyed the potion labels Lorelai was working on with curiosity. It was definitely more interesting than whatever was going on in Rosalind's textbook.

 

[Lorelai Gates]

Lorelai looked up with an impish grin, pausing in her work. "I am!" She declared. "I want to professionally sell cute potion labels- and I gotta practice to do that. It's practical but really fun!" She laughed, and decided she could pick back up in a minute, she slid the label over for Rosalind to get a look at it. "Daddy and Momma have already said they'll support me whatever I do, so I have the freedom of trying to get this to work," She explained.