❝ i'm chaos walking . . . ❞
❝ then i'll walk with you.❞
「 Liliana Granger knew chaos like the back of her hand.
It confronted her, challenging her to find calm wherever she could.
But some days...
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❝ He's lost his marbles. ❞
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Liliana had to hand it to Quirrell, as the weeks passed, he started to look paler and thinner, but he didn't look like he had cracked yet. It made her feel guilty for having held him responsible for Harry's cursed broomstick, even if it was for a fraction of a second.
Every time they passed the third-floor corridor, the quartet would press their ears to the door to check that Fluffy was still growling inside. Snape was sweeping about in his usual bad temper, which surely meant the Stone was still safe. Whenever Harry passed Quirrell these days he gave him an encouraging sort of smile, and Ron had started telling people off for laughing at Quirrell's stutter.
The Granger sisters, however, had more on their minds than the Sorcerer's Stone. Hermione had started drawing up study schedules and color coding all her notes. Harry and Ron wouldn't have minded, but she kept nagging them to do the same. Liliana, meanwhile, had started taking daily walks again now that the weather was improving. So, she opted for a simpler study method: Flashcards and note revision.
"Hermione, the exams are ages away."
"Ten weeks," Hermione snapped. "That's not ages, that's like a second to Nicolas Flamel."
"She's got a point, you know," Liliana said as Harry showed her a 'What is the cure for boils?' flashcard.
"But we're not six hundred years old," Ron reminded the pair. "Anyway, what are you lot studying for, you already know it's an A."
"What am I studying for? Are you crazy?"
"No, but you sure sound it," Ron muttered as Hermione practically glowed red with all her pent up stress.
"You realize we need to pass the exams to get into the second year?" she continued, missing his comment. "They're very important, I should have started studying a month ago, I don't know what's gotten into me..."
"Besides," Liliana chimed in as Harry flashed her another card, this one reading 'List the three ingredients of a Forgetfulness potion', "pushing it off will make reviewing the material all that much harder."
"What's the point?" Harry shrugged, now showing Liliana the list of antidotes to common poisons. "I'll learn it all by quizzing you, anyway."
Liliana narrowed her eyes at him a bit as his lips curved into a witty smile.
Unfortunately, the teachers seemed to be thinking along the same lines as the sisters. They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren't nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon's blood, or with Liliana practicing a multitude of wand movements. Moaning and yawning, Harry and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with them, trying to get through all their extra work.
