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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 20:15:36 GMT -5
"Your school was like that too?" Indigo asked. He seriously doubted it, considering Salem's reputation dated back to the seventeenth century. From what he understood, it was one of the strictest schools in the world, let alone the United States. Probably one of the reasons his parents had sent him there. That, and the idea that a school new to having male students would naturally be more peaceful. Safe.
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Post by Nova Shover on Jan 31, 2012 20:18:32 GMT -5
Nova shook her head, "No, but if you effed more than one person you're not worth a second glance, you know? Not to mention the whole double standard sh~ with guys and girls." She stopped herself after she had already said too much. So perhaps she needed to learn to shut her mouth.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 20:24:28 GMT -5
Indigo chose to keep his mouth shut about everything Nova had just said. There were so many layers of danger that he couldn't find a place to start, and wasn't about to tread through the valley of GirlFury. Double standards? A surefire way to get slapped or, at the least, the silent treatment. Her announcement that she'd slept with more than one person? Not touching it.
"So... like... why'd you pick Hogwarts? Or did your parents pick it, because it's open-minded and everything, but... they're tightening the rules here. They've been doing it since Professor Firebrand started standing in for Hells."
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Post by Nova Shover on Jan 31, 2012 21:01:54 GMT -5
"Well, I went to school in Georgia, went to the west coast for a change, that didn't work out, so I figured why not? Place has a hell of a reputation," Nova said, shrugging. It made sense to her, anyway. Perhaps it was also a large enough school that if she did have a slip up or two it wouldn't immediately mark her for life.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 21:06:53 GMT -5
"Yeah," Indigo agreed. And depending on which reputation she was talking about, it was probably all true. His parents would flip if they read the Daily Prophet, but he'd decided not to tell them it even existed. All they needed to know was that the place was impenetrable, and had a legacy of producing amazing witches and wizards. He shifted to his right foot, unsure what else to say.
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Post by Nova Shover on Jan 31, 2012 21:22:09 GMT -5
Nova took the time with Indigo not saying anything to glance around the area again and think back on what she had seen already on her trip from the train station to the school. "So what do people do around here?" she asked. "The town was kind of tiny." As far as she knew they all just sat inside with their noses in books.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 21:26:45 GMT -5
"Yeah, it's tiny, but if you're into Muggle stuff, the book store has an Internet cafe thing going on," Indigo volunteered. That was where he spent whatever time he could, though he hadn't seen the shop's owner except that once. "People hang out around the lake, go to the club in Hogsmeade, take the Knight Bus to London, whatever." He shrugged.
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Post by Nova Shover on Jan 31, 2012 21:35:48 GMT -5
Nova just kept her nose from wrinkling at the mention of muggle things. She hated the muggles in her family and any reference to that just left a sour taste in her mouth. "Have you been to London?" she asked, settling on that as a safer conversation topic that hopefully wouldn't land her in trouble.
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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 22:08:28 GMT -5
"Just once to Diagon Alley," Indigo said, "but it was with the parents, so all I saw was the stores we bought stuff in." And the ice cream shop, but he didn't need to announce that. He'd rather pretend that he had a fashionable distaste for his parents than start spreading around that he enjoyed having a sundae with them now and then.
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Post by Nova Shover on Jan 31, 2012 22:22:16 GMT -5
Nova more or less had everything she needed, even if a few of her classbooks weren't exactly the same. She hoped she could strike a deal with the professors over the ones that didn't match up. So she hadn't needed a visit to Diagon Alley, though one might need to be made if the teachers were anal. "Any big names I should know about? Second day of my last school and I pissed off the BMOC, probably shouldn't do that again."
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Post by Indigo Noble on Jan 31, 2012 22:31:40 GMT -5
Indigo gave a sympathetic grimace, then tried to think through the people he actually knew by name. "There are a couple professors who look like students," he said. "Transfiguration professor is hard to miss; tall, like five colors in his hair. He's pretty cool though. Uh, I don't know. Best thing you can do is get hold of the Daily Prophet. Apparently the last Big Man is the Deputy Headmaster now. Can't miss him, either."
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Post by Nova Shover on Feb 2, 2012 14:59:32 GMT -5
"Hmm." That was interesting. The school was ruled by those who were little more than students. If no one stood out, however, that meant that toeing the line had to be more dangerous than in other schools. "So are these kid teachers strict? Or do they just like not care?"
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Post by Indigo Noble on Feb 2, 2012 15:05:34 GMT -5
Indigo shifted, giving the question some thought. "It's a mixed bag," he said. "Some of them are too busy doing their own thing, but some of them have gotten strict in the last year. Like a year or two ago there were a lot of students going to Muggle London to get wasted, but Professor Firebrand started cracking down. The Slytherins hate him because he doesn't play favorites with them. Oh, and watch out for the Astronomy professor. She's this tall blonde snobby looking chick, gave out ten or fifteen detentions on the Hogwarts Express just getting here."
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Post by Nova Shover on Feb 2, 2012 15:26:36 GMT -5
"Good thing I'm not into star-gazing, then," Nova said, wrinkling her now-thawed nose. That was a class she had dropped as soon as possible. She wouldn't even still be in school if she didn't have a point to prove. She didn't need N.E.W.T.s to surf or make a name for herself. "What the hell did the kids to do earn those, though? Or is this place just detention heavy?"
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Post by Indigo Noble on Feb 2, 2012 15:30:22 GMT -5
"Some Slytherin had stolen some kid's iPod, and a couple new kids egged her into smashing it," Indigo said. "Then there was a fistfight or something, the Slytherin called the professor a b~ and one of the other ones sent a spell flying at her down the corridor. I so wish I'd been there, but I was way off at the other end of the train and had to hear about it from someone else."
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