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ONE | OH, HOW WONDERFUL!
THE PASSAGE OF TIME IS SUCH A STRANGE CONCEPT—LIKE, HOW HAD SELINE BEEN A STUDENT AT HOGWARTS FOR FOUR YEARS ALREADY? What a simultaneously short and long time. Time seemed to be flying by in an instant (but it also moved really slowly when she was in classes like History of Magic? She'll never understand how a hundred minute lesson can feel like a hundred year lesson.) But, at the same time, she could barely remember her time before Hogwarts. Like, being a witch and going to Hogwarts has just become such a massive part of her life now. And she honestly can't imagine herself being a boring muggle. (Not that she's prejudice, her parents are muggles for crying out loud! Sometimes she wants to scream at the other houses and point out that, "hey! Not all Slytherins are evil muggle-hating bitches! That's just a select few!!!")
Seline felt as if Hogwarts had become her sanctuary. A place where she could escape the problems she faced at home. (Cough—her parents' constant arguing, it was enough to drive anyone insane—cough, cough. Seline wishes she packed a throat lozenge.) Not that Hogwarts was the best place ever, oh no—it was just way more tolerable than home. . . some inconveniences were easier to deal with than others, she supposes.
"Now, make sure you owl me at least three times a week." Cordelia Winchester said, doing the top button on Seline's coat up and she then flattened Denika's hair out, again—honestly, Seline thinks, she ought to invest in a flat iron or something. Is she going for the Hermione "I can't be fucked to do anything with my awful hair" Granger look? Both girls scowled at their mother, though Denika's scowl was less passive-aggressive—more playful—than Seline's. It had taken four years, but Seline's parents had finally gotten used to the wizarding communities strange ways. ("Honestly girls, this is ridiculous. Why doesn't some teach them how to use the telephone or something. . . ? Sending owls! Bah, what is this? The sixteenth-century?" — their mother upon learning that the only way she could contact her daughters was through an owl. . . !) . . . perhaps 'gotten used to' was a bit strong, it was more that they tolerated the wizarding world and it's backwards ways.
