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[dimitri lupin]

For once the expression of suffering and despair wasn't staring back at him from the mirror. Thank God, otherwise people would have wondered what exactly Dimitri Lupin was up to making him look fresh out of a horror film. Of course, the fact that he finally looked decently rested and not For once the expression of suffering and despair wasn't staring back at him from the mirror. Of course, the fact that he finally looked decently rested and not so sick wasn't his choice. His body had taken matters into it's own hands and basically Dimitri had all but conveniently passed out in his dorm. Now it was nearing lunch and he was awake, more sleep could have been acquired but he felt enough time had been wasting recuperating. so sick wasn't his choice. His body had taken matters into it's own hands and basically Dimitri had all but conveniently passed out in his dorm. Now it was nearing dinner and he was awake, more sleep could have been acquired but he felt enough time had been wasting recuperating.

Pulling on a fresh shirt he searched around for his jacket he normally wore on the weekends, his cloak was missing to. Where had he left it? Halfway through his search, rummaging through his stuff that had yet to be ever organized he found some loose change and an old shirt ripped from the other night, but not his jacket. Oh well, chances were it was somewhere on the premises, at least within range of the Slytherin inhabited Dungeons. But then he paused, rummaging through his stuff had come to a standstill as couple of pictures he'd had in his trunk fell out. One was of the Lupin family, at least his sisters, mother and father and the second picture included family friends, namely the Weasley's and the multitude of cousins and even a couple of the Longbottoms. Growing up with these clans was an experience he would never forget though he couldn't say that it shaped his life at all. Maybe it only pushed him into the direction he seemed to be going much to their dismay and displeasure.

Sometimes he felt like an outcast within their confines. His siblings were not in the same house as he. He was the first werewolf in his family in a couple of generations. Not that lycanthropy was genetic, at least not to his knowledge or anybody's for that matter. There was no cure and it was simply the misfortune of being bitten that never seemed to escape the Lupin name. He picked up the photos and tossed them back in the pit called his possessions he proceeded into the Common Room where his jacket was laying on the arm of a couch. How it got there, he didn't bother to try and remember, now he would at least be protected against the chill of the castle in the night because he fancied a walk. Most people would have been at Dinner, though it was the weekend and Hogsmeade was often popular on such occasions, Dimitri would have much rather not gone out, instead he let his feet take him absent-mindedly to the Astronomy tower, where the view was nice at this hour.

For once a cloud covered the moon, good thing because it made all the gloominess of the grounds and view seem calming without the light. Made it mysterious and easier to look at, maybe he could think of something else for once.

[elizabeth marie parkinson]

IGNORANCE IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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n't take it the same tricks that once fooled me they won't get you anywhe
re i'm not the same kid from your memory now i can fend for myself and
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beth sat in the great hall, with no will to eat. she had eaten a large lunch earlier, and called in the kitchens half way through the afternoon for what turned out to be a not quite so light snack, leaving her with an empty plate at dinner. her friends pushed food towards her, but she shook her head, having eaten more than her fill during the course of the day. the plates upon plates of food stacked up in front of her now was making her feel a little queasy, and so, without excusing herself, she pushed her empty plate away and stood up, leaving the slytherin table. someone called out something behind her, a friend asking where she was going, but she didn't turn around and answer, because she didn't know the answer herself. once out of the great hall, she contemplated going outside, through the doors oak doors in the entrance hall, and into the grounds, but she didn't want to be out there in the cold. she looked at the door leading to the dungeons for a second, but shook her head, and made her way up the marble staircase. she wasn't sure where she was going, but she just let her feet do the work and take her where they wanted her to go.

she didn't feel like going to the slytherin common room, because she didn't want to talk to her friends - they had done nothing but irritate her all day. she wanted to be somewhere completely different, but she didn't quite know where that different place was. so she carried on, up staircase after staircase, not questioning her feet. her friends hadn't done anything in particular to irritate her, they just had. it might be because she had spent the entire morning writing a history of magic essay, and when she had finished the required four feet, they all begged her to let them copy, and when she refused, one spilt a bottle of ink all over her essay. of course, it was easily cleaned up, but surely friends weren't supposed to do that. then again, friends in general and friends in slytherin were very different things. still, different or not, she didn't want to put up with them all night. today was just one of those days where beth preferred her own company. her feet led her to a tower, and she followed the stairs, up and up the spiral staircase, until she got to the very top, and realised this was the astronomy tower. well, it was a damn sight better than the gryffindor tower.

no one else was up here - of course not, the astronomy tower wasn't the most visited area, especially when there wasn't an astronomy class going on. it was too early for an astronomy class, so beth had no worries about being interrupted, unless someone else had decided they could take no more of their friends and came to the same place she had. but so far, no one. she sat on the parapet that ran around the top of the tower, and looked out over the grounds. the moon was hidden behind a cloud, and so the world below her had a mysterious air to it, despite the fact she had been in the grounds countless times, and explored as much of it as she could find in her first and second years. she hadn't found anything - of course she hadn't. what was there to find? grass, hills, the boathouse, the edges of the forest, there wasn't much to hold her interest. there was a small clearing she had found in the forest, quite close to the edge, where she used to go to do her homework when she wanted to be away from her friends.

she looked around as she heard someone coming up the staircase. she wondered for a moment whether it would be someone she didn't want to see, someone who would ruin her day further, but she was pleased to see it was someone she knew. dimitri lupin, a slytherin, in his fifth year. she didn't know him well, but she had spoken to him before, seen him around the common rooms, and she at least knew him a little. "hey, dimitri,"

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[/COLOR] DIMITRI LUPIN.
LYRICS;[/COLOR] IGNORANCE - PARAMORE.
TEMPLATE BY;[/COLOR] SPACE CADET. of CAUTION 2.0.
IMAGES BY;[/COLOR] wreckoftheday ! of CAUTION 2.0.
WORDS;[/COLOR] SEVEN TWO TWO. SHORT. o.o
NOTES;[/COLOR] I FIGURED SHE WOULD ALREADY KNOW
HIM, CAUSE THEY'RE BOTH IN SLYTHERIN? o.o[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[dimitri lupin]

The sun had long since dipped beneath the horizon line and the site of thick and grey clouds almost made Dimitri smile. Such weather dampened the mood of any normal person, but he was not normal at all. There was that one key difference. The clouds did not make his day gloomy, nor did it make him happy by any standard, it was his version of a normal sunny day. The moon hid behind the clouds and did mock him from the long distance it was at. Such a cruel thing. Not only did it steal its light from the life-giving sun, but it took Dimitri's humanity bit by bit with every full moon. His mind wandered from the usual and to the recent letter he had received from his mother. It was ridiculous, like ever letter was sent from the same template and only dates and some names were changed. The usual greeting and assurance of their love, and questions about his younger sibilngs of course. That was all they worried about. Dear younger brother and sister, and the last minute question about his own well being.

Having son in Slytherin and a werewolf must have been excruciatingly difficult for them, but they sure showed those particular emotions in a funny way. Today was spent sleeping and avoiding social contact, which wasn't very hard for Dimitri. Not quite the people person, he had never quite developed that skill as a child, always hiding and avoiding ridicule while his anxiety built up. But that didn't mean that he didn't have friends or know a variety of people becuase he certainly did know people. All the faces were familiar to him, and most of them he could fit a name to whether or not they even knew he existed. Still it was hard to ignore him, a Lupin in Slytherin after all, while his two younger sibilngs sat in the warm Gryffindor Common room, he felt the cold glares and stares in the Slytherin Dungeons, there were only a few friendly faces he had managed to meet, but slowly they were getting used to the idea he noticed. Still he would wait out the storm, there were better battles in the future he was saving his energy for.

The Astronomy Tower was not abandoned tonight. Generally one did not visit outside of class, but it provided an excellent view of the grounds and of the gloomy sky at night, hence the idea of spending a while here was attractive to him. A brunette girl stood daydreaming as he was, acknowledging him. He knew her, she was in his house. Parkinson. Not somebody Dimitri knew terribly well, but well enough. "Beth." Dimitri said in response, his version of a hello. "Shouldn't you be at dinner?" Dimitri was in his own category of people where it didn't matter when the subtle things he ignored, like going to dinner, didn't happen and nobody really cared. Other people who regularly stuck to the schedule, skipped dinner and you wondered why? What was her story? Dimitri normally would have minded his own business, but he didn't quite feel like dwelling and getting lost in the maze that were his thoughts tonight. He would already dream them anyway.

"Nice weather tonight."

[elizabeth marie parkinson]

IGNORANCE IS YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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this is the best thing that could've happened any longer and i wouldn't ha
ve made it it's not a war no it's not a rapture i'm just a person but you ca
n't take it the same tricks that once fooled me they won't get you anywhe
re i'm not the same kid from your memory now i can fend for myself and
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looking out over the gloomy grounds, she was almost disappointed that no one was out. she would have liked to sit at the top of the astronomy tower, and watch everyone in the grounds below her. people were very different when they thought no one was watching, that was for sure. she liked to watch people, to find these differences, to try and work out who was who, and who was what they said they were. it wasn't the best past time, but it was something. maybe if the weather was better, or it was earlier in the day. she made a mental note to come back at a different time and see who she could see then, if anyone. her eyes flicked over to the lake, which looked wonderfully mysterious in this light. the surface of the lake reflected the clouds above like a mirror image, apart from the ripples that swam across the lake. she supposed the giant squid must be hungry, he usually only surfaced when he was.

beth's mind wandered back to the slytherin table in the great hall, where all her friends where. why did they need to be so irritating? couldn't they just accept she wasn't hungry, and drop the matter? instead of pushing more and more food towards her until she felt quite sick. but then, she was irritated before she even sat down at the dinner table. the entire homework scene - it wasn't as if it was hard to get the required four inches, the subject was actually easy to write about for once. her friends were just lazy. she never let them copy off her, although they sometimes let her copy. more fool them, in her opinion. surely they realised she wasn't going to let them all just copy from her work, regardless of any past 'favours' they said she owed. friends didn't call in favours - they just helped each other anyway. beth didn't help her friends with homework though. she was just odd like that.

she was glad that the person who joined her at the top of the tower was someone she at least knew, so she didn't have to have the awkward 'hi, i'm beth' conversation. she didn't enjoy introducing herself to new people. there were too many people in hogwarts, and beth preferred the majority of them as nameless faces, the less people she knew, the less people she had to try and maintain relationships with. she preferred her own company most of the time, and some people didn't realise that. sure, if someone was there, she wouldn't sit and ignore them - that was just rude. she would let the other person start conversation ; if they did, then she would talk back, if they didn't, she wouldn't say a word. it unnerved some people, she knew, but she didn't change, and the awkward silences didn't make her talk. if anything, she preferred an awkward silence to an awkward conversation.

but she was at least beyond the awkward stage with dimitri. "no,"

[/color] was her simple answer. "i'm not hungry,"[/color] she added, feeling that no wasn't a sufficient enough answer. saying no was a little rude, and despite the fact rude didn't bother her, she thought he at least deserved a little bit more than no. but as she didn't feel like talking about food, she took his next statement and said more about that. yes, the weather is nice. just look at the lake."[/color] she waved her hand in the direction of the lake, watching the swirling clouds dance across the surface, interrupted only by a tentacle waving about somewhere near the middle. "not nice enough for most though, i suppose,"[/color] she said, in way of explanation for the lack of students outside. "september nights aren't the warmest,"[/color] she said, almost to herself, pulling her jacket tighter around her.
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TAGGED;

[/COLOR] DIMITRI LUPIN.
LYRICS;[/COLOR] IGNORANCE - PARAMORE.
TEMPLATE BY;[/COLOR] SPACE CADET. of CAUTION 2.0.
IMAGES BY;[/COLOR] wreckoftheday ! of CAUTION 2.0.
WORDS;[/COLOR] SIX FOUR FIVE. OOF.
NOTES;[/COLOR] THE DEATH OF MY MUSEE. D:[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER]