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Life started off complicated for young Eleanor Ross after being born to a muggle mother while showing her magical capabilities at an early age. Growing up in a household where her mot...
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The reign of pranking seemed never-ending within the corridors of the castle as the Weasley twins were certainly living up to the promise of pranking every single student they came across. Fortunately, Eleanor had been able to escape becoming a victim, but she figured her time was coming as much as she was dreading. To put it off as long as possible though, she practically hid away in quiet corners of the castle with her knitting or spent most of her free time in the Hufflepuff Common Room. Her strategy seemed to be holding out well for her as she avoided all incidences, however, wherever she was, it seemed the pranks were close behind.
It was one afternoon as she was working on her Herbology assignment, reading over the basics of the noisy Screechsnap plant, while in the library. They had an essay due by the end of the week, so while she read along, her other hand was working to write down as much as she could on the parchment scroll next to her. Her back was turned towards the entrance of the library as she had left two available seats at the table for Cedric and Marnie. But, as the two figured they had better things to do, she found them empty for the duration of her time there. She knew they were going to regret skipping out on the homework session later on, especially Marnie.
Having to remove her jumper as she was practically sweating in the stuffy library, Eleanor was finishing up a sentence and went to pull it over her head, when she suddenly heard something whizz past her ear. It caused her to jump in her seat before she heard something shaking on a shelf nearby. Looking over, a book tremored until it was released from where it was squeezed in between two others and just in time as a Slytherin boy started walking past. The book launched out and within seconds, started attacking him as it knocked him to the ground.
For a few moments, Eleanor was in shock by what she was witnessing that she couldn't bring herself to move, but since she was the closest to the other student, he looked over at her with narrowed eyes.
"Well, don't just sit there!" he yelled over at her as he attempted to hold the snapping book away from his face. "Help me!"
Not particularly caring for his tone, Eleanor folded her arms, seeing as no one else was around to help him, he could have been a bit nicer about it.
"That's no way to ask," she informed him with a raised brow. The look of pure bewilderment crossed his expression, but seeing as he was losing the battle to the book, he really had no other choice but to give in to her demands.
"Please?!"
With a smile, Eleanor unfolded her arms and reached for her wand. "That's much better," she told him before aiming her wand and using the "flipendo" incantation, knocked the book back down the aisle. The boy scrambled to his feet once he was free and before the book could attack him again, he ran off, leaving Eleanor to stand there with a shake of her head.
"Whatever happened to manners around here," she muttered to herself, " not even a thank you."
The book flapped away down another aisle to terrorise more students while Eleanor returned back to her assignment, unbeknownst to her that the Weasley twins were standing very close to where she was.
