❝Listening to you speak is absolute torture, Diggory.❞
❝Oh really Malfoy? Just looking at your unfortunate dye job is torture!❞
Arden Diggory, best known for being the Triwizard Champion's younger, charming sister, is also known for her endle...
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The Heart to Heart word count: 3776
"You're a dick!"
"It's not my fault I'm better than you, Oxton!"
"Bullshit. Rematch. Now!"
"What the hell are you two doing?" Arden cried out. She was sitting at the Gryffindor table with Lena and Ron, trying her best to study for Charms and understand more about wand magic, but the fight occurring right beside her was too distracting to focus.
Ron scoffed as he began moving the Wizard's Chess pieces back to their starting positions.
"Just a friendly game of chess here Arden, nothing else-"
"Friendly game my arse, you cheated!" Lena cried, slamming her fist against the table. Arden's eyes widened at her friend's short temper; she never normally was like this, but apparently competitiveness brought out her nastier side.
"How do you even cheat at chess?" Ron asked, throwing his hands in the air as he grew increasingly frustrated with the Hufflepuff across from him. "It's a game of intellect, it's not something you can just find short cuts in!"
"Why are you two going nuts over this stupid game?" Arden asked.
Ron scoffed, "it is not stupid, it is strategic," he defended. "Besides, we're playing for that chocolate chip muffin that is rightfully mine," Ron hissed, reaching his arm out to swipe the heated muffin placed beside the chess board. Arden rolled her eyes and snatched it from the table, causing the two to whine and beg for it back.
"You two are so thick," she laughed, pointing at the basket of many more only a little further away from them. Both Ron and Lena groaned and mumbled obscenities as they reached for one muffin each. Arden couldn't help but laugh at their childishness. She grabbed her things and made her way out of the Great Hall, rolling her eyes as the bickering between Ron and Lena began again with her absence.
Arden was on her way to the library, wondering to herself why she didn't go there initially. While walking, Arden's mind was swimming with thoughts as to why she couldn't use magic without a wand. She recalled her going into Ollivander's for her wand right before her first year at Hogwarts. She was with Cedric, and the two were there for a little over two hours before Mr Ollivander eventually gave a wand and told her to buy it without even testing it; each wand she attempted to use had left poor Mr Ollivander's shop with patches of soot from small fires, shattered glass, book pages shredded across the floorboards, and all sorts of mess.
Since then she had wondered if she was a squib, but being able to use magic with her hands ruled out that possibility. Arden wondered if there was more to her abilities than just being defined as 'wandless magic,' since there were some things she could do with her magic that others couldn't with or without a wand; it was as if she invented spells that she didn't even know the incantations to.
