His Mark [Tom Riddle's son] DISCONTINUED

Aileen- Childlike behaviour

His Mark
[Knowledge is Power]

7th September 2016
Wednesday

The Ravenclaw common room was a cozy room, decorated in blue and bronze tones.
A cheery fire crackled in the fireplace and some students were sitting in comfortable armchairs and sofas and chatted about their last Hogsmeade visit or read a book.
My so called friends and I went straight to our dormitory, which was located behind a door on the right side of a row of bookshelves.
The dorm is a cozy space just like the common room.
In it were six four-poster beds, the curtains a rich blue color, with accompanying bedside tables, cabinets and shelves.
I made my way over to my bed, which was next to a window and began to rummage around in my suitcase.
I noticed some subtle scratches on the bed and trunk.
Well there's nothing amiss inside the suitcase.., I thought to myself as my eyes came upon my necklace on top of a now unharmed diary.
This can't be-
"Did you find anything?" The nervous voice of James cut through my thoughts.
I hastily transfigured a few rolls of parchment into a fat Rat and made it scurry across the room.
"Told you that it was a rat," I said over my shoulder as Momo jumped down from the bed and started to chase after it.

****
I finally managed to make my way down to the bathroom with my toothbrush and a small towel and was yet again taken by surprise by the overwhelming architecture.
A bath of bronze and, gray streaked marble.
Brass faucets in the form of eagles.
A bathtub, so big that three people would fit in it, and six shower stalls.
I suddenly noticed that one of the shower stalls was occupied, it was no longer transparent but completely tarnished blue.

Simon was standing at one of the three sinks and let water run over his toothbrush.
Gregory and James looked completely over the moon whilst playing around with the taps of the bath from which inexhaustible foam came out.
I shook my head at this childish behavior.

On the dark stone walls hung the painting of a mermaid with green hair and silver tail, which I probably wouldn't have noticed if the mermaid hadn't suddenly started to move.
"Oh, yes" Simon remarked and briefly took the toothbrush out of his mouth after seeing my surprised face, "all images- drawings and pictures alike, move in the magical world, they can also walk from frame to frame... I'm guessing that you have been too engrossed in your studies to notice that ," he said calmly.

Meanwhile, Gregory and James laughed full of childlike enthusiasm, as they shot each other down with foam and Aileen realized how primitive their humor was.

Idiots...

Suddenly a bar of soap landed in Aberforth's' shower and the next moment all the boys could see was pink foam coming out of the cubicle.

An angry shout, the towel was pulled inward and the door got slammed open.
"Ok," Aberforth hissed deadly serious; "Who was that?" In any other moment he would probably have scared the boys half to death.
However, it was the pink foam around his body that despite his energetic appearance made everyone burst out laughing.
Even I couldn't help a suppressed snort.
The blonde just looked too funny.

"Where's Daniel?" James asked suddenly.
"Well, hopefully far away," Aberforth expressed provocative and proceeded to open the door.
"Come on, During! Whether you have a rash or an ugly birthmark compared to your ugly face, it won't bother us", Aberforth sneered loudly up the hallway and Simon acknowledged the insult by looking at him weirdly.
"What did Xeny say? Keep some of your arrogance for the others!" He reminded Aberforth and proceeded to rinse his mouth under the stream of water.
He was, however, pushed head first into the sink by Aberforth and held in place.
"Don't worry, my ego is inexhaustible just like my revenge!"
"Who's Xeny?" I asked looking over at James.
"Xenon Sanders is Ravenclaws prefect, he doesn't like it when people call him Xeny."
****
Finally, Daniel came into the room and Aberforth paused for a moment, so that Simon could pull his head from under the water.
"So," Daniel said quietly, leaning casually against the doorframe.
"Who missed my ugly face?"
But then he looked closer at the scene in front of him.
"By Dumbledore's' ginger beard! I didn't know that you liked bubble baths Aberforth!" He said looking over at the blonde, who was still wrapped in pink lather.
"Yes During I'm seriously into it," said Aberforth arrogantly.
"You got a problem with that?" He asked and vainly placed a hand on his hip.

Daniels' serious expression slipped, and suddenly all of them started to laugh.
Even I managed to crack a smile.

Then all of them began to mess around with the soap and water, until half of the bathroom was underwater.
I participated moderately.
It's below me to play around with hygiene products, but then I remembered how the nurse had thought that I acted older too old for my age, and decided to at least try to change people's perception of me.
"Here goes nothing!" And with that I sent a stream of water over at James who proceeded to slip and fall on Gregory.

Father's now intact diary had long been forgotten.