Munchies (Silas)

[nixnight]

Nix sat in the great hall with a plate out in front of her with a few sausages and a fair dew bits of bacon and then three books open around her. Her history of magic book was covered in green highlighter and her potions books was coated in doodles that she was trying to look pastel finished her essay that was due in later that day. Her DADA book was only open to hold her essay flat and the book was as clean as it could be, but nix soon grew bored of doing her homework and then reached out and jabbed at a bit of bacon with her fork before hearing movement behind her

[silas]

Silas entered the Great Hall, it was a little late for breakfast, though there was still some food left out. Though a quick glance at the Hufflepuff table told him that there wasn't any coffee left. Perhaps one of the other tables would have some. Silas looked around to see a Gryffindor girl, she was in his year, but he couldn't place her name. Regardless Silas made his way to her, noticing that she had quite a bit of homework that she was working on. Perhaps it might not be the best idea to bother her at the moment. Though it would be rude to just take the pot of coffee which was kind of in her work zone without asking. "D'you mind if I take some of that?" asked Silas, gesturing to the coffee.

[nixnight]

Nix heard a voice and snapped her head up and her bright green eyes looked over a red head like her and she smirked before nodding. "drink too much and your hair will turn brown" she warned with a chuckle before she turned back to her history of magic book and snapped it shut. Her essay was three inches short but she could sweet talk the teacher in to letting her off by she really couldn't be bothered with her potions essay, DADA was too long so she'd be fine there. She rolled her eyes at her hatred for for potions before resting her head on the side of her hand and looking up and down her table before stabbing another sausage

[silas]

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"I think I'll take the risk," said Silas with a smile picking up the pot to fill up his cup. Unlike many a Weasley Silas didn't mind his red hair, what he did mind was the fair skin that came with it, he sunburned very easily. Silas brought the cup to his lips, he would typically put milk and sugar in his coffee, but he wasn't going to take the time to track them down at the moment, black would do. Unable to just leave at that, Silas took a quick peek at what the girl was working on. "Potions essay?" asked Silas, sitting down and being well aware that he was at the Gryffindor table, "sorry, you don't mind do you?" He probably should have asked first.

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[nixnight]

Nix felt a shift beside her and heard the bench creak as the boy spoke again and turned to see him sitting beside her and she tilted her head to one side a little ,"don't worry about it, you don't seem to be lifeblood and stuck up over it or trying to take over the world so I'm good" she said as she righted her head before nodding it softly. "I hate potions, it's all got to be exact and explodes if it goes wrong" she confessed as she pulled her DADA book towards her and piled it on top of her history of magic book and potions essay, she really couldnt be bothered today. She pushed the two books and hated homework away from her so they were next to her bag beside her plate on the table before she took another bite from her speared sausage and then rolled her eyes at herself ,"sorry, I should have said before I warned you. Pure coffee with only water will make your hair go brown and you face go blue" she said as she remember a prank she had pulled a month back and then tried not to laugh at the memory. "I'm nix, and failing potions but the first bit sounds better" she said before holding a hand out for the hufflepuff to shake if he felt like being friendly, which nix doubted as most people didn't like being around her

[silas]

Silas chuckled a bit, truth be told not a lot of Weasleys were purebloods anymore, ad those that were typically didn't use it as something to claim that they were better than everyone else. He himself was a half-blood and completely fine with it, Silas saw no reason to be snooty about blood purity like the Malfoys were. He half-frowned when Nix told him she didn't like potions, it was one of his best subjects. He wondered why Nix had continued it after her OWLs if she hated it so much. "True, there's not much room for error," said Silas, reflecting on his own experiences with the subject. He raised his eyebrows when Nix told him about the coffee, not sure what she meant by it. He sipped the black coffee, it tasted just the same to him. "I'm Silas," said he when the girl introduced herself, taking her hand and shaking it gently, though still firm all the same. Silas offered Nix a smile before sipping his coffee again.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and nodded her head before pulling up the boys name from her memory, Silas Weasley. Her eyes narrowed and she gave a snigger ,"I'm a Night, we're third cousins" she said with a small chuckle. She normally hated allowing other to know that she was really a pureblood as it allowed normally put people off a little but she knew the weasleys were people like her so she trusted this other person. Add to the fact that he was actually choosing to be near and not fleeing now that he knew her name, she smiled and dropped the boys hand before taking a final bite of sausage and then twisting on the bench so she could sit cross-legged before she lifted a hand to her hair and ran it through the long red mess until her hand bumped the bench and she felt her hair just stop. "It does mean that a fair few of the slimies are also related to me but it's nice to know I have a relative that shares my red hair, even if he does like coffee too much" she said with a snigger before trying think of classes she shared with the other boy

[silas]

"Are we?" said Silas, thinking a moment, "I honesty never bother to trace my lineage, too complicated if you ask me." Typically with the older, pureblooded families they were all somehow connected someway, however distant that may be. It kind of coincided with Silas' theory that all magic began with one person, however long ago that was. Silas nodded, knowing full well what it was like to be related to some families. His Grandmum on his dad's side was a second cousin or something to the Black family, meaning that the Weasleys were distantly related to the Malfoys and the LeStranges. And that he did not like. "It's kind of a Weasley tradition," said Silas, referring to the red hair, all his uncles on his dad's side were redheaded, and he had many a cousin with the signature red tresses. "I just need a little caffeine to get me going in the mornings," said Silas with a shrug as Nix lightly teased him about his liking coffee too much.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and then nodded her head quickly ,"the night's stem from a black family, so we're not quite as closely related to each other as I am to the slimies from the Malfoys but I'm happier that I have someone nice to be related to" she said in an honest voice before she twitched her feet. Her socks and shoes were once again sittig on the floor under the table and yet she didn't feel cold at all, or didn't had cold feet at all atleast. She shifted herself so she was sitting side on to both the hufflepuff and what remained of her very meaty breakfast and then jabbed her fork in to a bit of bacon before taking a bite and then resting the fork on the plate again and looking at the hufflepuff once again

[silas]

Silas nodded along as Nix spoke, sipping his coffee casually and helping himself to a piece of buttered toast from the stack a little ways down the table. "Price tag that comes with an old family name I suppose," said Silas, "we're not all bad, though, I promise." He winked a bit before taking another sip of his coffee. He had gone through about half the cup at that point. He decided that he ought to slow down, he only ever allowed himself one cup in the morning- if he did any more than that he generally got a bit too energized. "So other than potions what have you got, there?" asked Silas, peering at the other books and papers Nix had out.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled at the comment from the other boy and nodded to the two other books ,"history of magic and DADA, I took those and potions along with charms, transfiguration and care of magical creatures" she said with a grin. She had taken a wide spread for her NEWTs and had been allowed 6 classes and was doing well in all aside potions, she had only kept it up as she knew she would need it for working in the ship but as soon as she could avoid doing it, she so would. "may I ask about you? Or is that rude?" she said before turning her head away from her books and rocking herself a little so she was facing the hufflepuff side on with her legs still crossed

[silas]

Silas nodded, it sounded like a pretty rounded education to him. He had decided to narrow his studies, he hoped to one day be a healer, or to teach potions or herbology at Hogwarts. Hence he had dropped anything that didn't pertain to those careers. Though of course he did miss divination, it had been a fun class, but he had wanted to focus on what he needed to succeed. "It's not rude," said Silas, setting down his half-finished coffee on the table, "I've got charms, herbology, transfiguration, and potions." His schedule was a tad bit empty in comparison to some of his peers, but Silas felt it gave him the time he needed to really focus on what he needed to learn for becoming a healer or Hogwarts professor.

[nixnight]

Nix nodded her head and then tried to think where she had seem the boys face before, it took her a moment but she soon remembered him sitting across from her in charms and giving her odd looks like everyone else when she was using spells under the table to get practise in. She smiled softly to herself before looking last the boy and out of the window to the grounds and chuckled softly, it was a bright day and the kind that nix would normally spend on a broom. She shook her head so that she wouldn't seem like she was spacing out before she nodded her head again ,"seems like your set for a planty kind of life with some little charms in it" she said with a laugh at her own low level joke

[silas]

"I guess you could say something like that," said Silas with a smile. He wouldn't have been able to so much as think of dropping herbology, next to potions it was his best subject. He had been about average everywhere else, but had been completely miserable in history. "But I was thinking of becoming a healer, specializing in plants and potions," Silas added, before picking up his coffee to take another sip. Of course, it would probably take him a long while to get to a specialist position, but Silas had every confidence that he would be able to do it at some point. He wasn't afraid of working hard to achieve his goals.

[nixnight]

Nix nodded her head at the new comment and then shrugged her shoulders, "I'm sort of set for a job, I've already landed a broom design contract for a friend and he wants me to work with him when I leave school. I'm fine with that but my only concern is that I'll run out of ideas and then get stuck and be useless" she said with the second sentence growing lower and quieter as she spoke. She wasn't really one to think of herself as very good, it was just the way she was. She loved to stand up for people and do well in school and everything but she was never one to really think all that much of herself