There were plenty of people who could understand it because it was close to Latin, but she wouldn't be able to find a native speaker or a community where it was used. Then she carefully stopped thinking about her family and asked herself where she could find people who spoke the language written on the parchment in front of her. She rubbed her eyes, as though doing so could clear the fog in her mind's eye, and wrote down the words she and her mother and her uncle had spoken. She asked her power to compare her persistence with the average person's, and learned that most people would have stopped trying twenty-six questions ago. Fortuna wasn't there yet, but she felt she was getting close. There were only so many times a person could ask the same question without result before falling into despair. Dislikes having Dementors around the castle. Remus Lupin - Hogwarts Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and head of the “most likely to lose his job by the end of the year” club. Severus Snape - Hogwarts Potions teacher and the head of Slytherin House. She introduced Fortuna to the magical world and is pleased with her aptitude for her subject. Minerva McGonagall - Hogwarts Transfiguration teacher and the head of Gryffindor House. The Fat Lady - the portrait gatekeeper of the Gryffindor common room. Vexed by the antics of some of her junior housemates. Ophelia de Luce - a seventh-year Slytherin and Hogwarts Head Girl. Hermione Granger - a third-year Gryffindor student often found either running from one class to another, or staying up too late in the common room. The Dementors - the monstrous guards of Azkaban, they bring despair wherever they go, plunging Fortuna into dark nightmares long forgotten. Definitely someone a first-year should stay away from. Sirius Black - a notorious mass-murderer on the loose from Azkaban. The Simmons family - Fortuna’s foster family. A lover of cats and mystery novels, she likes being normal. Frail but proud, she’s fascinated by Jessica in spite of her ingrained prejudices.įortuna Floris - a first-year Gryffindor from a Muggle foster family. Her admission to Hogwarts brought her to a new world and created a gulf between her and her parents.Īstoria Greengrass - a first-year Slytherin from a Pureblood family. Easy-going and kind, she’s very talented with magic. There’s no way trusting him could possibly go wrong.Īngelique Martin - a first-year Hufflepuff from a wealthy Muggle family. Quick to smile and laugh, quicker to judge. Loud and a bit rough, she enjoys working out, her resulting strength standing out among her peers.Ĭandidus Craven - a first-year Ravenclaw from a Pureblood family. Jessica Coleman - a first-year Slytherin and the Muggle-born daughter of a noted bodybuilder. As a keen chemist and potions enthusiast, she inherited the wand of her Great Uncle Tarquin, whose experiments she hopes to live up to. Is paid in food from Hogwarts kitchens, courtesy of Flavia and Fortuna.Īlexander - a moniker Fortuna mistakenly attempted to bestow upon His Majesty, King George the Floof.įlavia de Luce - a first-year Gryffindor and the youngest of the de Luce family’s three daughters. King George the Floof - a regal canine that guards the Shrieking Shack from nefarious intruders. Is not in any way responsible for any coincidentally allergy-like effects Fortuna may have suffered since meeting him.

Harbinger - a noble feline that has deigned to permit Fortuna to care for him. 'Why, oh why did you have to ask our History professor, in front of everybody, if he floated around Hogwarts vanishing the evidence?' 'But Fortuna.' Flavia fixed her with beseeching eyes. I don't know.'įortuna finally had to look at Flavia as they both passed through the doorway of their classroom. Perhaps if a house-elf regretted a dusty mantle or crooked doily enough, they could continue their life of indentured, now incorporeal servitude. Nearly Headless Nick told me that a ghost happens when a witch or wizard dies and chooses not to pass on. I imagine there are poltergeists who are more obsessive about tidiness than about knocking over furniture. She may have been walking slightly faster.įlavia continued, 'As peculiar it is, I can even get behind the notion that the ghost used to clean your home for you without asking anything in return. 'I believe you when you say you remember a ghost living with you once,' Flavia said, on the way to their next lesson, 'and that she could communicate with you through cold drafts and brushes against your skin.'įortuna said nothing, directing all interest at the portraits along the corridor.

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