Sweet Sixteen

[Riley Mauven]

Walking up to the student lounge Riley slumped into a welcoming couch with a sigh. It was her sixteenth birthday today, but she didn't have any plans, in fact she hadn't even organised to meet up with any of her friends. As usual a package had arrived to her dorm right on time and she had eagerly opened it, knowing full well it was from her mother, and knowing it would be more clothes. Riley didn't have the energy to argue with her mother so when she gingerly unwrapped the present and found that she was right, she put on the new outfit and made a weak attempt to do her hair and even put on a spot of makeup. It was hard for her to believe she was sixteen, or even that she was sitting here, in Hogwarts, in her fifth year. Looking down at her watch the young girl wondered whether it was too early to head down to the Quidditch pitch, the common room seemed oddly deserted.