The Common Room

Ravenclaw members common room

April sighed. Her potions homework was EVILLLLLL. She lifted up her quill and started sucking it. Thank God for Sugar Quills! She stared at it. It was quite cool how it was made. She smiled to herself. Heehee. Imagine if I made a sweet like that-Hey! That´s not a bad idea! April put her Potions homework away and started writing down spells.

((Another day...))

April stomped in and threw her book down on the table. Elemental Institution it was called. Written by some Muggle Born...((Heehee)). April opened to the contents page. Page 1- Famous Elementals... Page 5- How to control your Elemental powers April quickly opened it and started reading.

Must concentrate... Peace of mind... Find the will... Dear lord... What is this? The Bible?!

Morgana entered the common room and noticed April reading.
"Wow," she said in surprise. "That's a big book! Is it homework?"

Zeb glanced around the familiar room with a smile. "Here we are. Home sweet home. Except on holidays and weekends..." he added with a bitter note, remembering the new custody agreements between his parents.

He loved both his parents, no doubt about that. But he honestly wished there was a better way to split his time between the two. After all, how was he supposed to hang out with friends if during all his freetime he was in another country?

A notice is carved into the common room wall... impervious to magic and a red quill dangles beside it...

If you desire to join the ranks of Purger, please sign your name at the bottom of this notice... the ink will fade immediately and you will be an official member.
You must past all five of the following qualifications in order to join.

1) Not from a dark family
2) Muggle blood or Half-Blood
3) A desire to rid the world of dark familes
4) Obedience to the purger order
5) 12 and above in age

Signed,
Charles DeLanquar

Also do not discuss your membership with anyone else under pain of removal from the Purgers.

Ethan Addams was awakened from peaceful slumber by two of his Ravenclaws and almost dragged into the Common Room. In a half-awake, bleary-eyed state, he glanced around the area seeing nothing amiss than a lot of students being awake very late in the space between evening and morning indeed.

"Which one of you managed to snag my glasses? Everything's all fuzzy," he asked thickly while attempting to wake up his sleepy mind. Ethan had been up late working on an experiment of sorts and had only been asleep for a couple of hours.

A girl with tan skin and dark hair handed him a pair of glasses from within her robes. He couldn't remember the girl's name, but her face reminded him of a rather vigilant bird. Without a word of thanks in a temporary lapse of courtesy he placed the glasses on...

... and nearly died of fright upon seeing the notice upon the wall. Purgers recruiting... and one need be at least twelve?! The thought of fighting for his life against a child sickened the wizard. Not to mention the very thought unsettled him. There were lots of children in the school, and was fairly certain with dread that Ravenclaw wasn't the only common room to get a notice. It was just a feeling he had in the pit of his stomach.

"Everyone back to their dormitories, please. Shoo, go on..." he commanded, making a shooing gesture with his hands. Most of the Ravenclaws, though confused, did as asked. "Except you two..." Ethan added, catching the girl who'd given him his glasses and a young boy perhaps a year or so older than her.

"What can we do, Professor?" asked the boy.

"Find and wake the Headmistress, and ask her to come to the tower. I'll try to get rid of the notice," Ethan requested gravely, waiting until all the students had gone before starting to panic. How many had seen it? How many, if at all, signed up?