Hermione groaned and sat up, and she headed for the bathroom along with Rhiannon. “Quidditch practice, half ‘n hour,” the wiry brunette croaked, then stumbled back down the hallway leaving Rhiannon to get ready. Rhiannon didn’t even mind when a bleary-eyed Katie Bell poked her head into the dormitory while Rhi was still pyjama-clad and curled up on the bed listening to Hermione’s book read itself quietly. So the return of regular Quidditch practice came as a welcome reprieve.
That was what the wizarding world saw her as – Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, and while most of the hero-worshipping students at least by now knew her real name and identity (more from collecting bits of information about her like rare trading cards rather than any particular support), it was unpleasant to be confronted with the very tangible reality of her reputation. Now there were almost fifty new students, most of whom were a year younger and somehow that small gap had an uncomfortable number of them fleeing from just the sight of her, accosting her between classes and in general deferring to her like she was some kind of child hero. She hadn’t been confronted with it the year before given she was of a similar age to everyone else, there had been some whispers but not much more. Outside of classes, Rhiannon found that the awkward scene with Colin Creevey indicated a wider problem. Rhiannon wasn’t entirely sure it counted as teaching, but he probably didn’t have Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head so, incompetent had to be a small win over deadly. Magical injuries, minor fighting.įollowing the disaster that had been their first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Professor Lockhart had refrained from any further attempts at practical lessons and instead ran his classes as sort of roleplay sessions retelling his greatest adventure stories, with a rotating cast of unwilling volunteers from the class as assistants.
Use of a slur, briefly discussed context of slur including a link to real-world racism.
Magic accident resulting in sensory distress. Content warning: Unfair treatment by a teacher and unfair punishment as a result.
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