Magnilda's Brother
Magnilda walked down the hall, irritation bubbling inside of her at having to help her brother with his homework. He was a 3rd year Ravenclaw who was quite small for his age, his hair blonde and his eyes the same color as his sister's. he constantly asked for assistance(or, rather, to Magnilda she felt like he was trying to get the answers or write his essays for him). He was quite smart, so why did he need any help? It began occurring to her that her brother was beginning to slack off a bit.
She approached the Ravenclaw tower, walking up to the common room door. The bronze eagle head on the door asked her a riddle. Instead of passwords, the Ravenclaws had their own intelligent way of keeping out students from other Houses: answering riddles. If one did not answer the riddle right, they were unable to enter. Fortunately for Magnilda and her brother, it was more than easy, so they were able to enter and renter as often as needed.
"What came first, the phoenix or the flame?" the voice in the bronze eagle head had asked.
"There is a never-ending circle." the Ravenclaw answered simply.
"Good answer. . ." the voice sounded quite pleased, and the door opened. She entered to see her little brother on a sofa, a book open in his lap.
"Callum, what is it you need help with?" she asked as she walked over to him, trying her best to sound more polite than rude.
Callum almost jumped and looked up at her, as if noticing her for the first time.
"Oh! There you are, Nilda. Where were you? You took so long. . ."
Magnilda couldn't help but think how childish he sounded when he complained.
"Sorry. Anyway, what do you need help with?" she repeated, wanting to avoid telling him where she had gone. She had a feeling that he would pester her until she finally gave in and told him that she wasn't only checking out books, but speaking to a boy as well. That made him very curious and annoying. She would rather he was annoying about asking for help on his homework instead.
"Hold on a moment. Where'd you go?"
Unfortunately for Magnilda, Callum had a natural curiosity that wouldn't stop growing. He was very smart, that was for sure. Despite his childish behavior, he learned to be just as bright as his sister. And to her, curiosity somewhat counted as intelligence, if used in that way.
"Oh, to the library, to return a book and get a new one." she held up the green book, which, she had utterly forgotten she was carrying. Callum stared at the cover carefully, as if suspecting fresh fingerprints from another person. His expression reminded her of Sherlock Holmes, somebody Hermione Granger had mentioned once; a muggle detective who looked for clues and whatnot. Something like that.
"Who else was there?
"Why does that matter?" Magnilda had snapped, folding her arms. "I checked out the book and left! That's all you need to know, Cal."
"I have a feeling you're hiding something from me. . ." he had replied in a sing song voice, grinning.
"Alright, fine! There was somebody else. A boy. You know Neville? Yeah, it was him. Well, we began chatting a bit."
"Ooooh is Maggy finally finding true love?" her little brother teased, wiggling his eyebrows.
Magnilda hid a blush, knowing that was unfortunately true. "Oh, quiet! And don't call me that!" she pretended to look as if she was going to hit him with the book. Callum flinched by instinct.
"So, homework or should I just leave you to it? Obviously you don't---"
"No, no, don't leave! Of course I do!" Callum's attitude had quickly changed.
Magnilda smiled, knowing she got him this time. "Good! Then let's get to it." her brother made room for her on the couch and she sat by him, helping him with his Potions homework. It was a two-parchment essay that was due the next day, in which classes started back up again.
Magnilda was excited to get back to her classes again. The weekend was a bit of a bore sometimes.
But her excitement at seeing Neville was more. She just hoped that if Callum ended up seeing them chatting during lunch, he would keep his mouth shut.