Assumptions & Judging Glares
Danica Lestrange has learned to live with that.
Everyone she has met has assumed the worst of her, that she was a cold-blooded death eater just like her mother: the infamous Bellatrix Lestrange. Danica has learned every...
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After the feast ended, the two Ravenclaw Prefects led the first years up to Ravenclaw Tower. Danica tried to find a time to slip out of the line and go to Dumbledore about changing her house, but that time never came. Once all of the Ravenclaws reached a door at the top of a spiraling staircase, an enchanted knocker on the door came into view and it proclaimed,
"I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?"
Danica had heard about each house's common room needing a password to get in, but a riddle? She began thinking about all of the possible options before an older boy questioned, "The word is 'echo', right?"
"Correct," said a soft, faint female voice.
Danica looked up to see a ghost that was a young woman with long dark hair pulled back and she was wearing a long grey dress. The ghost floated above the students and then she disappeared into the Ravenclaw Tower. The door then opened up for the Ravenclaw students and the Prefects held it open for them. The first years gasped as they entered their new common room.
It was a wide, circular room lined with floor-to-ceiling windows providing excellent views of the Quidditch Pitch, the Black Lake, and the mountains behind the Forbidden Forest. Bronze and silver silk drapes framed the windows and the domed ceiling was midnight blue and painted with stars to resemble the night sky. Towards the back of the common room, a staircase branched off to the right and to the left, that led to the boy's and girl's dormitories.
A grand statue was in the middle of the room and Danica concluded that it was Ravenclaw's founder: Rowena Ravenclaw. Sporadically spread out throughout the common room were armchairs, sofas, and small worktables. Along the wall in which the door to enter was located, a large bookshelf was found, and also a bulletin board was beside it. Bookcases were additionally found scattered about the main room. A large fireplace was the central point of it all and framed pictures surrounded it.
Danica was still in awe at the sight of the Ravenclaw Common Room before Penelope got her attention by saying, "First-year girls, this way."
Danica, Juliet, Lia, and two other girls proceeded to follow the older Ravenclaw up the right staircase. It was a narrow spiral and started to get smaller and smaller before it opened up to reveal a spectacular dormitory.
There was a large heater centrally located in the dorm, with five beds alongside the walls with wooden desks attached to them. The beds were covered in a dark navy blue bedspread with silver and bronze accent details. Tall windows, similar to the ones in the common room, were placed along each of the beds to give the girls a stunning view of the Forbidden Forest.
Penelope left the girls to themselves and Danica found her trunk and Pandora at the foot of one of the beds.
"Well, um, I'm bad with introductions, but hi, my name is Isla Fraiser," said a girl who had emerald green eyes with golden blonde hair.
