Hmm...an observatory?[Cora]

[Brayden Christiansen]

He walked along the hallways slowly, looking for any possible place he could go and explore, because what else do you do when you have no classes to attend and your in a massive castle? Brayden had only been at Trio's Hogwarts for about a month, and he still hadn't found anything that you would suspect to find in a castle built more than a thousand years ago. Although, he hadn't really been anywhere serective, and they obviously wouldn't keep anything old and valuable right in the middle of a busy corridor, now would they?

As Brayden walked along the corridor, he came to the entrance to a tower marked 'Dallin Tower' which he had never seen before, so he walked inside. As he walked he noticed a sign with a summary of each floor. He skimmed over the page until he reached the 7th floor. It was and observatory, which seemed like a nice place to go at the moment, so he began to walk up the spiral staircase. As he walked up the stairs, more of the floors seemed to be dueling areas, with viewing galleries above them. At last he reached the door to the very top floor, and the Gryffindor stepped inside.

The view was amazing, you could see all of the lake, shimmering like a diamond as it reflected off the sun. On the other side of the lake, you couldn't just barely see the Villiage of Hogsmeade in the distance. The Forbidden Forest looked dark, even though the sun was shining brightly, but then again, is any place thats forbidden is ever very sunny and light?

[cora]

How bored could one child get...ten gajillion times bored. I doubt you even understood that, but that's okay neither did Cora. She really enver understood any of the words coming ou of her pretty little mouth. And she liked it that way. Sitting in the Mihael common room was the lonely Cora...doing what you might ask. Reading some boring class book thingy, that she completely and whole heartedly despised with her whole being. Studying was not for her.

Her ears perked up, too much time with cinnamon, at the sound of two girls chattering their way into the common room. Over hearing their oh so -not- secret conversation a mention of the Dallin Tower caught the spunky Mihael's interest. Oh, she was hooked. Hook, line, and sinker! She hastily closed the book, and threw it to the ground, and bolted from the common room. Freedom! Something to do, oh sweet love! Okay she could've left at anytime, but now she had a mission! To find the Dallin tower. How hard could that be.

Obviously quite hard. But alas she did find it, and was quite thoroughly over joyed to have found it all on her own. She stopped at the summary page, and nothing seemed to interest her until she came to the seventh floor. Yup that's the floor she wanted. She took a couple steps up the spiral ladder, and hastened her feet to get her up there faster. Not expecting anyone else to be in the room, she busted throught he door.

Cora practically came to a screeching halt...no brakes! "Oh! Hi, I..I didn't expect anyone else to be in here. I had trouble finding it. So I thought no one else could find it either. Wow, I'm retarded." She rambled for a couple seconds, catching her breath from running, full out sprint, up the stairs in her excitement. The view that she had come for totally forgotten by her. Her focus was now on the lonesome boy who stood before her.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

It was very peaceful up in the observatory, looking at all the scenery of the Hogwarts grounds. He noticed the old abandoned Gameskeepers Hut. It almost looked creepy, just right there, near the Forbidden Forest, with its windows black and moldy outer walls. There seemed to be a garden kept behind it before, although now it was just covered with weeds and vines that were wrapped around the fence. At the same time as he was looking and this derilect building, someone bounded through the door.
"Oh! Hi, I..I didn't expect anyone else to be in here. I had trouble finding it. So I thought no one else could find it either. Wow, I'm retarded." the girl said, looking embarassed.

"Do you do that alot? It's okay, I do. So your definatley not the only one." he said.
"Brayden Christiansen, 2nd year, Gryffindor. Who are you." he asked her, turning away from the glass walls of the observatory and looking at the girl.

[cora]

Well atleast he understood. That was nice. A nice change really. Where'd her twin run off to!? oi off subject. Cora listened to the boy intently as he told her his name, year and house. Oh a gryffindor. That's cool. She'd only met Mihael's so far. And that was fine with her but she wanted to branch out from the common room. And well she had. Here he was, the gryffindor she had been looking for, that she didn't know she was looking for. Again that probably didn't make any of the slightest sense. As he asked who she was a bright and wide smile graced her face.

"Cora Lynn, First year Mihael. It's nice to meet you Brayden. I like your name, it pretty...I mean handsome. Sorry I'm used to talking to only girls, there are few boys in the Mihaels." She stuck out her hand for a handshake. Just like her father had taught her...one thing he was good for other than being an overbearing...father. Over lord person, hitler type thing. Her smile was still planted on her face, not that it really ever went away.

((OOC: Sorry it's short))

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[Brayden Christiansen]

Miheal? He hadn't made any frineds that were in Miheal, but now he did. So that was a good thing. Why did they even make the house Miheal? It wasn't a house thats been with the school forever, so why did they decide to make another house? I guess I'll just ask her later, he thought to himself.

"Cora Lynn, First year Mihael. It's nice to meet you Brayden. I like your name, it pretty...I mean handsome. Sorry I'm used to talking to only girls, there are few boys in the Mihaels."

Hmm, I have a pretty name, now thats cool. He held back a laugh.
"Thanks. You have a nice name, too. It's original, I think. I don't know anybody with the name Cora, but I like it." he told, turning back around to stare out to the grounds.
"So how'd you find out about the observatory. I just kind of ran into it when I was walking along the hallway."

[cora]

"How'd I find out. Well I was sitting all lonely like in my common room, when these two chatty kathy girls walked in. And well, don't tell anyone, but I have the amazing power to over hear conversations, and I heard them talking about it. It sounded interesting enough, so I decided on taking up the mission to find it...on my own. Now, here I am!" She smiled and threw her arms out to indicate that she was here. Her eyes drifted from the boy to the view.

Her breath caught in her throat. Instinctively she started to pull a pencil out of her pocket. One teensy tiny problem. No pencil, and no sketch pad. At the realization of thise her hand kind of did that open on close thing when you want someting, but your mind can't comprehend that it's not there. She pouted a bit, and let out a sigh. Drat. She'd just have to come up here another time with all her art supplies. rawr.

"So this is both our first time being up in the Dallin Tower. Exciting. Well I'm glad that it was you I will share my Dallin Tower first time experience with." She made it sound like it was a privledge. It wasn't, beucase honestly. Cora was nutso, but shh. Don't tell anyone. It might freak them out...just a little bit. It usually did. But her twin was the same way, so atleast she new she wasn't exactly alone!

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[Brayden Christiansen]

"Oh, I see. Your one of the few people who has the amazing power to eavsdrop. Thats cool, yes I have quite the power, too. It comes in handy many times, at least, I think so." he added the, 'I think so' part, because most people would probably think it more of a nuisance than a 'power' and they had both called it.
Most of what he said had come out of his mouth in a more expressionless tone. He was basically immersed at the scenery that stood outside of the walls, and he found it very, hmm, calming. Just to stare out at it and watch nature do its thing. He stood, watching the leaves on the tress move slightly, and a long tentacle brushed the top of the lake, make ripples in the water.
"Did you see that?! I bet it was the Giant Squid..." he said, looking back down at the lake, trying to see if it would show of another long, skinny tentacle to him.

[cora]

"Oh is eaves dropping what it's called these days?" She smirked as the sarcasm seemed to bubble out of her mouth. She loved sarcasm, it was the best. Most of her words dripped with sarcasm, but sometimes, on an odd day you could catch her in a conversation and have no sarcasm what so ever. But those days are few, so have a nice try attempting to get her on one of those days.

Looking at the water reminded her of her fish tank back home. It was a salt water take, with little Dory and Nemo fishies, and of course Flo no doubt. She smiled as she remembered her little pets that her sister and her shared. As she watched the lake, a long tentacle swept across the top. Her mouth dropped in aww. "Oh! Gee! I did see that. That was so cool. I forgot that mum told me there was a giant squid in the lake." her eyes focused on the lake, but from there on out all she saw were ripples gliding across the water.

Sad she wanted to catch the squid or octopus again. Weren't they practically the same thing. Well they were to her. Finding that there was a bench near the look out she sat down. Cora was never one to stay seated, or stay standing in one place too long. Part of her ADHD problem she'd had since she was a little girl. Her mum's side of the family had pushed her mum to get rid of it, but her parents refused saying it was what made her...her. And it did, and she was glad her parents didn't cure her ADHD with magic.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

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Brayden now was so close to the wall, his nose was this close (--) from touching the wall. He came out of his 'trance' and looked to see that Cora had taken a seat on a bench on the opposite side of the wall. "Hmm, I don't remember that being there before...O well, I probably just didn't see it." he said, walking over to the bench and taking a seat opposite of Cora. He felt his wand poke him a bit and blue sparks flew from his backside. "Trust me, that was the wand, not me." he said sarcastically, taking his wand out of his back pocket and setting it down in his lap. It was strange, how a wand would emit sparks or something, even if you just twirled it or, in Braydens case, sat on it. It was just another thing that made magic just so fascinatingly amazing!

[cora]

Cora smiled brightly. "Don't worry minde does the same. but it's like orange sparks. I think the sparks go with the personality of the person. After all the wand does choose the Wizard!" She pulled out her own wand, and twirled it aorund, letting a couple sparks fly out the end. "See, orange! huzzah" she set it in her lap. A lot of her things were orange. her cat was orange...her hair color used to be orangish, and she has some orange clothing. Orange was her color, I guess.

"So what do you do for fun around here? Got a girlfriend? Maybe just some really close guy friends." Okay so she was a bit nosy. But dang it! It was her nature, and she couldn't help it. Besides her full frontal attack, and barrage of questions was sure to get an answer. It always did. She turned her blue eyes onto him, finally looking away from the scenery infront of her. Her right hand settled on the concrete bench beside her. Idly tapping away. She couldn't stand the silence.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

"So what do you do for fun around here? Got a girlfriend? Maybe just some really close guy friends."

Wow, questions, questions. But, what are you supposed to do when you first meet someone? It not like you know everything about them, well when you first meet someone you don't knwo anything about them...

"Hmm, what do I do for fun around here. Well, Hogsmeade is a great place to go on the weekends, Honeydukes is a great shop. Most of the time I'm out by the lake, thought. It's a good place to meet people, because alot of people come out there, and yes, I do have a girlfriend. Nessa Hansen, shes in Hufflepuff. As for friends, I haven't actually met that many people, except for you, Sadie Radcliffe, a Gryffindor, and Avery Yoshiko, another Hufflepuff. What about you, do you have a boyfriend? Any close girl friends?" he said, asking her the same questions she asked him.

The sun was shining right onto the observatory, but it remained cool. Almost like, magic or something. Obviously by magic, dummy, Brayden thought to himself, feeling stupid at the way he forgot he was in a castle for magic to be taught and not even think about the fact that the rooms had to be magically heated or cooled.

[cora]

"Well I have my sister. And she's a close girlfriend. But she doesn't really count. I've lived with her my whole life. I'm a twin by the way." She smiled and kicked her legs a bit. "Um no boyfriend, I've only been at Hogwarts for a couple days, so I haven't really gotten around to meeting people. There's you...and well...you." She smiled. She hadn't really gotten out much. Just classes, and she was late to most of those, so she didn't talk to a lot of people. Her eyes drifted to her feet, but popped back up to meet his eyes.

"Okay! You wait right here! I'll be back in..oh wait. Just kidding I can do magic." She smacked herself in the forehead, giving herself a V8. She picked up her wand and flicked it saying out loud accio Sketch pad, and pencils. after a couple seconds, up the stairs came a sketch pad and pencils flying through the air. Thank you charms book! She flipped past a couple of pages with doodles. "ahhh okay! Describe your girlfriend to me. I'm going to attmept to draw her through your description. Kay?" She grabbed one of the pencil and set it to the paper, awaiting for him to start describing his girlfriend.

this test is also good to test boys if they're actually paying attention to the way a girl looks. An evil test, but a test the same! She could feel the sun on her shoulder it was warm, but the room was cool. Hallelujah, thank god for Magic. It's probably be a Sauna by now if they didn't have some type of magical coolant in the room. And sweat has never been an attractive accessory.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

Cora summoned her sketch pad and pencils and they flew up to her, all the way from the Miheal Common Room. "Good job!" he said.

"ahhh okay! Describe your girlfriend to me. I'm going to attmept to draw her through your description. Kay?"

What a strange question to ask, but then again, it wasn't that strange, or maybe it was? Oh, who cares. "Well, lets see. Nessa, hmm. She has a light tan and wavy black hair that reaches a bit below her shoulders. Her eyes are a chestnut brown color, and she has a cute little noise. When she smiles she has exceptionally white teeth, and cute dimples." he said, listing the beauty of his Nessa. He watched as Cora drew out what she thought Nessa looked like. He stared back out to the grounds as she sketched out Nessa. He wished Nessa was there, he hadn't seen her since she had gotten back to the castle after her vacation...

[cora]

Cora listened intently as her hand and pencil flew across the paper. back and forth almost like a type writer. tch tch tch tch tch DING! If her hand made noises that's what it would sound like. She let out a soft giggle at her thoughts. She was a crazy one. Doing the best she could with what he gave her. Darkening a couple of the edges, and shading in some spots. She deemed the sketch finished. And surprisingly it didn't take her that long. Ooh father would be proud.

"Um okay. Don't laugh. Because I don't know what she actually looks like and this is the best I could do." She turned the sketch pad over to show a stick figure in the middle of the page with wild and crazy hair, and big eyes. She cracked up laughing at the look on his face. "Just kidding!" She tore off the stick figure page and showed him the real drawing. "Is it close to what she looks like..at all?" Her eyes looked hopeful. She'd tried this many time before, but of course she'd never hit it spot on. So maybe this time was different!

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[Brayden Christiansen]

In what seemed no time at all, Cora was done with her drawing. "Um okay. Don't laugh. Because I don't know what she actually looks like and this is the best I could do." She held up a drawing of a stick figure with crazy hair and giant eyes, and then laughed hysterically. Good, I didn't think that was the real drawing... he thought. She tore of the page of her scribbled masterpiece and showed the real thing.

She had gotten everything he had told her about Nessa, it was really good.
"That's really good! I wish I knew how to draw like that, cause....yeah, I can't draw anywhere close to as good as that. And for not ever even meeting Nessa, it makes the drawing even better." he told her.
"Do you have any other drawing in there that I could see?" he asked her.

[cora]

That brought a smile to the brunette's face. Oh he liked it. But she kind of liked the stick figure drawing. It's was cute. With it's crazy hair and bug eyes...whoo. Bug-eyed-crazy-haired-girl-stick-figure that's it's name. Indeed. But then he asked if he could see more. She hugged the sketch pad. "um...Yeah I guess. But promise not to laugh! You have to promise. Wand Swear. Cross your heart and hope to die, stick a wand in your eye!" She exclaimed. She had to have this security measures. Her drawing was something of kind of showing her internal whatever to other people. It was a scary thought to show them her insides,

Not literally of course, just figuratively. Because she can't draw her insides because 1) she doesn't know exactly what they look like and 2) She's enver seen them and 3) Who would want to draw the mess of intertwining organs. Not Cora that's for sure. Her brain kind of fogged over a bit as she started to go to memory land.

It was about when she was 7 and had tried muggle school. It was art time, and while all the other kids were painting stick figures. She was calculating where to put the house, and the dog, and the mother and children. Where to put the trees that surrounded the house. And well by the end of art time She hadn't drawn or painted anything! Because she wanted this picture to be perfect. After that the kids all made fun of her. But she never returned to muggle school after that.

Dream land off. "Do you promise?" She said this on a more serious note. Her blue eyes looking into his eyes. Hoping he would promise not to laugh. Not even one inkling. Well unless it wasn one of the funny pictures she drew...but those were in the funny sketch pad. This was the regular doodle/serious artwork pad. Note to Self: Write names on sketch pads So she had a bit of an organizational streak. It wasn't big enough for her to make her bed, or clean her side of the dorm room. Another Note to Self: Clean dorm room side.

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[Brayden Christiansen]

Looking back at the drawing, he knew that Cora had to have some other excellent drawing in that sketchpad of hers. I mean, if she could draw that good, why wouldn't she draw? She asked him to sware not to laugh, this time, a more serious tone in her voice. "Yes, I promise, I swear," he said with a serious tone. "Stick a wand in my eye!" he added.

He stretched out his hand, waiting for Cora to set the sketchbook in his hand so he could look through the drawings. He coughed a bit irritably, but only in a joking way. With his hand still out-stretched, he snapped his fingers impatiently, pretending to be annoying, and then laughing. "Sorry, just kidding around."

[cora]

Cora nodded slightly as he promised to not laugh at her heart and soul. She lossened her grip on the sketch book, but as he snapped his fingers at her she wrinkled up her little nose and stuck her tongue out at him. How mature, but then again Cora had never been mature. At all, in her life time. Well okay, maybe a couple times, but like she'd remember them......................Nope. No remembering of those times.

"Oh what, you think I'm just going to hand it over. No! I'm going to explain the drawings to you. It's much more fun that way." She playfully slapped at his hand, just so he'd take it back. After a couple seconds she scooted closer to him, so he had a better view of the sketch book that she now had tightly held with in her small white hands again. Here goes nuffin'

With a sigh she closed the book, and then opened it to the first page. This sketch book was fairly new so luckily there weren't many pictures with in it to make her be laughed at. On the first page it showed a girl, late 20 maybe early 30, and she looked as if she was about to do someting very evil. But of course it was her aunt, and her aunt was quite the prankster (just like little Cora). "This is my Aunt. Jane, she's evil. But in a good way." She explained.

The next page was of...who else but the amazing Gerard Way...nuff said. "Gerard way...what else is there to say?" She smiled and flipped the page.

Third page...a horses head. But not just any little horse head. It was a special horse head. It was a My Little Pony horse. her favorite Tv show. She didn't know which one it was, but it looked to be as if it was butterscotch. "This is a my little pony. I was bored one day, and well...I was bored. So I drew it. Fave muggle television show." Flipping the page now...

Fourth and last was a scenery. It was of a path in the woods. Trees tall lining both sides of it. It looked old, and it was probably why it was partially her favorite. That and it lead to their house just outside of Barcelona. "This is my driveway. It's long, and quite nifty." She beamed brightly.

"Um and that's it...for now. I have more back in the common room. Somewhere stuffed away in my trunk. What do you think?" Her eyes trailed from her drawings to his eyes. She really hoped he wouldn't laugh. Wel it was okay if he laughed at the my little pony one...that on was kind of odd and out of place, but whatever. She didn't mind if he laughed at that one. But the others, well they weren't really one's to laugh at.

[OOC: All pictures that I just showed go to the artists on Deviantart.com]

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[Brayden Christiansen]

She slapped his hand playfully and he snatched it back, with a gasp. "I have my wand, you know!" He said, laughing, knowing he would never hex someone for something like that, and the fact that he didn't know any hexes, but he will...soon.

She flipped through the pages, explaining each and every picture. The first one was a girl, who was her Aunt Jane. "This is my Aunt. Jane, she's evil. But in a good way." Hmm, evil, but in a good way? What was that supposed to mean? Before he could figure it out, Cora flipped to the next page. "Gerard way...what else is there to say?" Gerard Way? Who was he, he must be some muggle celbrity of some-sort. I'll ask about him later.

Cora flipped the page yet again, this time the sketch was of a pony. "This is a my little pony. I was bored one day, and well...I was bored. So I drew it. Fave muggle television show." Hmm, Brayden had never watched television before, another muggle thing again. Before he had time to ponder on what television was, Cora flipped the page. "This is my driveway. It's long, and quite nifty." Wow, she had quite a cool driveway, Brayden didn't live out in the country, he lived in a city, nowhere near a wooded area.

After she closed the book, he remembered his question for her.
"Oh, who is Gerard Way? I've never heard of him."

[cora]

Cora dropped her jaw almost instinctively! How could he ask such a question! "You don't know who Gerard Way it! He's the lead singer of My Chemical Romance!" She practically yelled at him. Not so much of a mother's yell of 'how can you be so stupid' but more of an excited squee of 'omg, wth!' kind of way. "hmm remind to take you to the muggle electronics room, and force you into listening to them sometime." mental note.

Her eyes drifted again, back out to the view. She stood quietly and walked over to the window. It was so beautiful. And now the sun was setting, and cast a hugh of pinks, and purples across the clouds and into the sky. and even from up here you could smell the Heliotropes from the garden down below. How magical, how nice, and calming. "It really is lovely up here. I'll have to come another time and attempt to draw it." She muttered. Not really to Brayden, but just to the room. as if the walls had ears, and she was making a promise that she'd come back to visit them. Just incase they got lonely, or something.

"Hey, you know what you should do Brayden!" Before he could reply she started to tell him. "You should bring your girlfriend up here. And instead of having say dinner in the great hall, pack a little lunch and then make it like a picnic, right next to the window, so you guys can see. And it'd be so romantic." There goes her mushy side. Her brain was now probably by a pile of goo on the floor. Cora had always been one for those movietale type dates. But of course it was more of the comedy ones where something bad happens but they make the best of it, and just so adorable!

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