Closed Unicorn Hunting

[Jonathan Boot]

Jono wasn't sure the exact series of events that had landed him here, right now, carrying an arm full of carrots across the Great Lawn with Peregrine. He was trying to act as normal as possible. Which was hard considering the aforementioned carrots.

"Maybe we should have gone with apples," Jono said, as if that'd be any less unwieldy as the carrots he thought, trying not to drop a few and mostly succeeding in shoving them awkwardly into his hoodie pocket. "Though maybe that's too much sugar content..." At least it would be for horses, Jono had no idea if unicorns had the same dietary concerns as horses. Heck, with how magic worked, maybe they ran on sugar and they should be walking around with pockets fill of hundreds and thousands instead.

 

[Peregrine Piper]

Peregrine probably should have read more about unicorns before deciding on this plan, she thought, but she was far too invested in it now. Jono had been interested, and Peregrine was all too happy to jump in and go on an adventure. She knew a lot about dragons, and other big scary monsters. As much as she liked unicorns, however, she feared there were a few gaps in her knowledge. Specifically, what they ate. But she knew reindeer famously liked carrots, and because they were similar (except they flew), it made perfect sense that unicorns would eat carrots.

"Um...maybe," she admitted, before shaking her head and standing a little taller. She had to be brave, she was a Gryffindor after all. "But I'm sure they'll like the carrots! They're nice carrots. And they're good for seeing, and unicorns are known for having good eyes." Okay, maybe that wasn't a hard and fast fact, but it sounded right. "They'll probably, um, know we're being nice, so that helps. Um. I think the fifth years got to see some in Care of Magical Creatures, so they mustn't be that deep in the forest...right? And we're third years, we can handle stuff."

 

[Mania Athanasiou]

Mania was bored out of her mind if she was being honest. There was nothing interesting going on around for her currently so she was more or less just roaming through the Great Lawn, keeping an eye out for anything that might be more interesting than the pile of homework she had waiting back at the dorm. Honestly it should of been a crime to already have so much to do, school hadn't been back for that long yet!

Nia squinted her eyes a little, the contacts she was wearing feeling a little stiff but better than going around without anything. Her hazel eyes spotted Peregrine, her roommate, with another boy from their year. Hufflepuff, she thought though she wasn't sure she would remember his name right. It was normal she supposed, just two third years walking through the lawn, except the duo were carrying an oddly big amount of carrots with them. Now this was something Mania wanted to stick her nose into, surely they weren't just carrying that many carrots with them to have a little picnic? As she walked towards them Nia could pick up snippets of their talking but not enough to know what was going on. "Ooh, what are you guys up to? Pleeeeaaaasseeeee tell me its more interesting than my homework?" Mania asked in a pleading tone as she reached them, she was not subtle enough to just trail the two to find out. Nope she was too nosy for such patience to be exercised.