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Post by Darla Marsh on May 29, 2012 18:27:29 GMT -5
Darla had done almost nothing all day, except for walking around the corridors, seeing no familiar faces or professors who could direct her to her next class. Being a first year was hard, she decided, and she could only hope that it would be easier to find your way around when she was a second or third year. She knew nothing about this castle, except that it was long and confusing. Didn't they have a professor who passed out those little pamphlets with maps inside? Darla didn't see any. Darla was walking so rapidly, hurrying to find somebody who could help her find her way, that she almost didn't see it as she passed by. The library. Darla had not been in a town a week without seeing the library first. Libraries were full of learning and any answers you might need. Darla didn't have any homework, she imagined that the first day there was none, but she was curious to see what kind of books would be in a school like Hogwarts. Going inside to see for herself, she almost ran into a bookshelf. "Can I be that clumsy?" She wondered aloud. Darla was never clumsy. At least, she didn't think so. Nobody ever told her.... Seeing the shelves of books turned her to the real world. Piles of books, leaning against the shelves in neat rows. Darla wanted to spend the rest of her time at Hogwarts here, but she didn't have too much time before she would need to find a dormitory. Limiting herself to just looking and continued walking past what seemed like millions of books.
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Post by Saul Alexander Talvos on May 30, 2012 6:50:02 GMT -5
Saul hadn't been looking for the library, it wasn't his sort of place. Unless you really NEEDED a book, like for a homework deadline or in some sort of life or death situation where you needed to know something to survive, then he might just use one. But why under any other circumstances would someone actually choose to spend time in a place like this?
Trouble was, now that he'd found his way there (he admitted it would probably be useful sometime in the future to know where to find the books but he didn't have any homework on his first day, obviously) the Hogwarts library was so freaking huge he couldn't actually find his way back out to the corridor that would take him down to his dungeon common room.
This is ridiculous, he thought to himself as he roamed row upon row of books that showed no sign of letting up and revealing a doorway to freedom. He was sure the doorway had moved, as soon as he saw the rows of books he'd turned back around but couldn't see the way he'd come in for the life of him. This place was all just too weird. And the biggest trouble for Saul was that he was much too proud to admit he was lost and ask someone for directions. No, he'd rather wander aimlessly for days than do that.
As he turned about the end of one of the bookshelves he noticed a girl suddenly run forwards stopping herself just short of running straight into the bookshelf. Saul chuckled, though it would have been funnier had she actually hit the thing.
He shook his head and called out, "Well apparently so." In response to the internal question she seemed to have asked herself out loud. Clumsiness was one thing Saul wasn't cursed with, he took after his mother in that respect and was thankful for such things.
He then noticed that there was a doorway behind the girl which she must just have come in through. "Wait is that the way out of this damned place?" He said suddenly striding towards the girl, pointing back towards the doorway. "Where did you come in here from? All these stupid shelves look the same." Pride somewhat forgotten in his hope of escaping the books.
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Post by Darla Marsh on May 30, 2012 17:30:04 GMT -5
Darla turned around. She hadn't noticed another person in the library. Feeling foolish, Darla answered, "Oh. Yes, that's how I came in. Is the library really that big?" Darla was actually excited about the books. But the boy didn't seem so happy to be with her in her 'place of learning'. "Don't you like the library?" She asked as she almost ran towards the other shelves.
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Post by Saul Alexander Talvos on May 31, 2012 8:14:25 GMT -5
"At last." Saul sighed in relief as the girl answered his question and confirmed that just behind her was indeed a way out of the library. He was pretty sure it wasn't the same way that he'd come in but any way out of the endless maze of books was better than nothing. Hell the whole castle was a kind of maze but at least it didn't all look the same; made it some what simpler to navigate.
Didn't he like the library? She'd asked him. Saul snorted with laughter. "No," He said with a roll of his eyes. "Well I mean I suppose it might be useful for homework and stuff, but I don't really want to spend time in here unless I actually have to. But Merlin the place is massive!" He said looking around the room with a slight air of contempt. "My advice, leave a trail of breadcrumbs you can follow back if you go in any futher."
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Post by Darla Marsh on May 31, 2012 16:12:11 GMT -5
Darla looked back into the massive shelves, towering over her, full of books. A library this huge must be hard to navigate in. "Just useful? You can't be serious. What about when you're bored?" Darla didn't wait for her question to be answered before she plunged into the shelves. The library was like a forest, she decided, but not a dark, scary one. The books were like leaves, everywhere she looked, but the library was bright and exciting. But Darla had something else on her mind; the boy's response. Useful? Weren't libraries more than that? Maybe it was just to her. Maybe libraries weren't much to a person who didn't like to read. Maybe she sounded silly to be talking about libraries like she needed them......
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Post by Saul Alexander Talvos on May 31, 2012 17:03:47 GMT -5
Bored? Why on earth would he come to a library if he was bored? Surely that would just exasperate the problem.
Saul could not hide the look of utter disdain that crept over his face as he replayed her question over in his head. "Um, well if I was bored I certainly wouldn't come to a library." He said bluntly. "I'd go and look for something FUN to do, y'know, something to actually relieve the boredom, not increase it."
He rolled his eyes and voiced his next thoughts aloud. "Merlin you've got to be a Ravenclaw! Honestly books are ok, find me one that will help me get my homework done quicker and I'm all for it. But seriously spending time in a library for fun, you've got to be kidding me."
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Post by Mary Anna Hansen on Jun 1, 2012 14:39:46 GMT -5
Mary was out doing her normal stuff as the schools Liberian. Checking to see all the books are at it's place, all line up correctly and to check if some of the books are trying to eat each other. She didn't want that to happen again and therefore she would have might have to buy more books. Mary was walking by one of the table's were she notice a few books have yet to be place back in its spot, "Student's will be Student's!" She said to herself as she grabbed the books and began to make her rounds to were the books needed to be at.
Mary was on her last two when she came across a few students having a conversation about the Library. She then over heard the boy call this place boring. Mary couldn't help but smile as she came up from behind them, "If you think its so boring, then have yet to discover the magic that lie's within the books!" She said to the young boy, "Who knows! You just might find something the school has hidded for years inside them." She added as she smiled and place the last two books on the shelves. She winked the kids as she made her way down the other end of the Library.
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Post by Darla Marsh on Jun 1, 2012 21:06:24 GMT -5
Darla had not gone far before turning back to ask the boy a question on were the herbology books were. She needed to study, most students here know something about magical plants, and she didn't. Did they grow them like flowers in there gardens? She looked out of the shelves, and heard the conversation. She didn't know if the books were just normal books and the librarian said they were 'magic', the books were about magic, or if they could fly and have faces. She didn't know if she wanted to find out. Something hidden for years? Did she mean a secret, or something secret the school wrote for a student to find and unravel? She was getting carried away now. Darla needed more adventure in her life. Well, she thought she did. That's why there is books. "Excuse me," Darla asked, just as the librarian started heading the other way. "Can you direct me to the herbology books?
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Post by Saul Alexander Talvos on Jun 2, 2012 9:57:55 GMT -5
Saul rolled his eyes. Yeah right, the 'magic' of the books. Maybe the stuff that was in the restricted section yeah, that he might just be able to get excited and interested about, but the normal books that students could just browse through? Yeah well they were just books weren't they.
As far as Saul was concerned he would go to his classes to learn the important stuff and if he ever got a chance to raid the restricted section then he'd make the most of it, but if it never happened, well he was sure he wouldn't have missed out on too much.
"Yeah, whatever." He said dismissively as he shook his head. He looked to the girl who was asking something about Herbology books and said. "Enjoy your books. I'm going to try and find my way back to the dungeons. See ya!" With that he turned and wandered towards the doorway he'd seen her come in through. Even wandering the corridors had to be more fun than being lost in that maze of textbooks.
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Post by Darla Marsh on Jun 3, 2012 8:39:41 GMT -5
Let him leave, Darla decided. Someone who didn't like books didn't belong in the library anyway. She wondered why he even decided to come in anyway. She called after him. "Fine. I will enjoy my books. And you won't ever have the chance too!" She had made her point. She returned to the corner of the shelves and stared at all the books. She entered the shelves, not looking back. She could get lost in there forever, and she would not care. At least being lost in this maze of textbooks had to be more fun than wandering the corridors.
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Post by Mary Anna Hansen on Jun 4, 2012 13:41:28 GMT -5
Mary was only a foot away when she heard the young girl call for her and asked where she could find the herbology books, she smiled as she walked up to the girl, "Yes dear, it right down here by the Care of Magical Creatures section!" She said, "Watch out for the book of Monster's, it tends to pop out and attack, It wont do much harm!" She said with a smile as she turned away. She only took two steps forward before turning to look at her, "And you may call me Ms. Hansen!" She said to her, "Enjoy!"
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