Post by Annalisse Childs on Jun 8, 2009 22:50:06 GMT -5
The Whomping Willow wasn't a very popular place for students to hang out, since every time one went near it they got their butts beat. For this reason, Anna was drawn to it and thus made her way towards it as she hopped down the steps after exiting the school. She wasn't a masochist or anything, she was just looking for an unpopulated place where she could a little reading done. She found herself a spot not far from the willow, out of reach of its blows but still close enough to watch it flail about, and maybe even watch some dumb boy try to test his strength against it and inevitably fail. No, there wasn't really any standing up to the Whomping Willow, as Anna found out when the tree so heartlessly ripped apart her origami birds years ago. She had resented the tree a bit ever since then, but she found it in her heart to forgive it when she realized that that was what the tree was there to do, for whatever reason. Perhaps to weed out the stupid students from the sensible ones? She hoped the tree had never killed before, but she wouldn't put it passed it.
Shaking those thoughts from her mind, Anna pulled a magazine out of her bag along with her book. The magazine was some muggle tween magazine that she had read cover to cover a few times now, but she hadn't brought it along to read. She only brought it along so it would look like she was reading it, you see. The Ravenclaw flipped the magazine open to a random page and sat it in her lap, then opened up the book to the place she'd left off at and sat it inside the magazine, picking them both up and beginning to read intently. The book, in case you were wondering, was Lord of the Rings. The disguise, so she wouldn't look like the nerd she was at heart.
Okay, so maybe the fact that she was in Ravenclaw basically stuck the nerd label on her from the start, and the fact that she was always excited to be in class and learn new things didn't prove it wrong, buut the things she did in her free time didn't need to further verify her extreme nerdiness. She blamed it all on her father. Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Star War, Star Trek, every zombie flick in existence, she'd grown up with all of it. Her room at home was plastered with posters of such things, while her dorm here was plastered with muggle and wizard celebrities, bands, and sports teams. Of course they were also things she was interested in, so it was all the same.
Anna yawned lazily as she read her book, off in another world much unlike the one she found herself in every day. That was the reason she liked these books so much, for real life sometimes got quite dull, even if you were a witch. Sometimes she wished she could spend a little time in the world of Middle Earth, for those elven folk sounded quite snazzy. Not like the house elves here at all, though they were lovely and the most helpful little critters she had ever come across.
Shaking those thoughts from her mind, Anna pulled a magazine out of her bag along with her book. The magazine was some muggle tween magazine that she had read cover to cover a few times now, but she hadn't brought it along to read. She only brought it along so it would look like she was reading it, you see. The Ravenclaw flipped the magazine open to a random page and sat it in her lap, then opened up the book to the place she'd left off at and sat it inside the magazine, picking them both up and beginning to read intently. The book, in case you were wondering, was Lord of the Rings. The disguise, so she wouldn't look like the nerd she was at heart.
Okay, so maybe the fact that she was in Ravenclaw basically stuck the nerd label on her from the start, and the fact that she was always excited to be in class and learn new things didn't prove it wrong, buut the things she did in her free time didn't need to further verify her extreme nerdiness. She blamed it all on her father. Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Star War, Star Trek, every zombie flick in existence, she'd grown up with all of it. Her room at home was plastered with posters of such things, while her dorm here was plastered with muggle and wizard celebrities, bands, and sports teams. Of course they were also things she was interested in, so it was all the same.
Anna yawned lazily as she read her book, off in another world much unlike the one she found herself in every day. That was the reason she liked these books so much, for real life sometimes got quite dull, even if you were a witch. Sometimes she wished she could spend a little time in the world of Middle Earth, for those elven folk sounded quite snazzy. Not like the house elves here at all, though they were lovely and the most helpful little critters she had ever come across.
