Y48 Graduation Ceremony: Guests

[Professor Matt Alcott-Ward]

Out of Character:

Here is the area for invited guests, staff, professors and prefects to post while at the graduation. Please be reminded that you are also invited to start separate RPs that take place after the graduation ceremony has concluded.

 

[Mikael Nightray]

If there was one good thing about being a prefect, it was that Mikael could be at Elio’s graduation. He wouldn’t have been able to otherwise and he would have probably regretted not seeing it happen. It was so silly. Because there was only a small moment for each graduate. Except the Head Boy and Head Girl which he hardly paid attention to. But there was barely a minute between each of graduate as they were called up, got their diploma, and went back to their seat. So silly. And yet his heart was pounding as he heard Elio’s name called and he watched him as he walked up those steps, pride filling him at what Elio has accomplished. He was only there for a moment, but like everything that he does, Elio had made it count as he looked at everyone in the Great Hall, gave a small wave - whether in hello or goodbye didn’t nearly as matter as much as seeing his boyfriend smile so wide and happily - and clutched the diploma he’d worked hard for. He may have been just there, watching stoically for most of the graduation through the speeches and graduate roll until the very end when Terror was called - who he will probably congratulate at some point - but for that one moment Elio had been on stage, he knew there had been a smile on his face.​

 

[Kelsey Ariyah Boneheart]

It felt strange for Kelsey to be back in Hogwarts after so long and she hadn’t stepped foot here since she’d graduated. She would come to all of her children’s graduations now, because of course she would, and so she held Bryce’s hand as she watched her son walk across that stage and get his diploma. She clapped for everyone, but cheered harder for the kids who didn’t seem to have anyone. She hadn’t had anyone at her graduation, so she knew what that feeling was like. She didn’t want anyone to feel left out. When she saw him head down from the podium and walk towards the exit, she looked at Bryce and nodded, letting him know they were okay to follow him now.​

 

[Teddy Pirrip]

This graduation hit harder than the one Teddy attended last year. Maybe it was because the students walking the stage weren’t that much older than him and some of them were even his friends. It struck him that it would be him up there in just two short years and that he should probably start paying attention to the speeches because he might have to give one of his own one day. Zerrin went first who Teddy knew him from the Brotherhood and as Fraser’s brother. His speech was solid, but Teddy was thinking about how he’d take his own further. Then came Anisha. He liked Anisha, although her speech didn’t really resonate with him because he tended to do it all and achieve anything he set his mind to, it was still a good speech though.

He sat up straighter as the graduate names were called. A part of him wished there was some sort of magic to graduation like an Un-Sorting Hat, or even better a Career Sorting Hat, something a bit more magical to finish off seven years of magical education. Instead, they just took their diplomas and walked off stage. It felt oddly anticlimactic in a way. Maybe that thought was worth noting down to bring up in any future speech he may or may not have to write. But for now, he clapped for every graduate and called out, “Yeah, Elio!” when Elio crossed the stage, adding a whistle. He cheered for all the Brotherhood members and for Anisha too. There were no graduating Gryffindor Quidditch players but if there had been, he’d have made just as much noise for them. And then it was over. The whole thing had gone by so fast, it felt way faster than last year.