3rd Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

[apocalypsehow]

Five had been forced to scrub paint off himself after losing at paintball to his brother's coworker due to a momentary distraction. That distraction was in the form of a just infuriating text from his brother.

"I'm going to kill him," Five decided, staring at the brick of a cell phone and willing it to give him a response.

The only reason he wasn't doing this in his room was that he didn't want to worry Dolores.

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[utterly_alone]

"Why wouldn't it be?" Lydia countered. "It's honestly kind of strange nothing's been possessed in the time I've been here yet, with how much other weird stuff happens."

[imawizard]

Harry frowned and had to ask, "How long have you been here?"

[utterly_alone]

"Since January," Lydia replied. "How long have you been here?"

And did he somehow not know that things were very strange here? Had he missed Wednesday?

[imawizard]

"A few weeks. Not enough for casual possession, I think."

It was a much bigger deal!

[utterly_alone]

To be fair, possession was a fairly silly thing in Lydia's experience.

Lydia gave him a tiny smile. "Not to spook you or anything, but this seems like the kind of place where being prepared for possessed objects is probably wise."

[imawizard]

Prepare. Psh. Did she know who she was talking to?

"Seems pretty harmless to me so far," Harry said. "Completely mental half the time, but harmless."

[utterly_alone]

"Mostly harmless," Lydia agreed, tilting her head at him. "Not always, from what I'm gathering. But it's been pretty harmless since January."

Mostly! It had gotten kind of spooky in April, but it wasn't like that was exactly the worst if you asked Lydia, annyway.

[imawizard]

"What've you heard?" Harry wondered. He hadn't actually gotten the dangerous stuff. Just the weird.

[utterly_alone]

"God, has anyone told you about the volcano? I feel like everyone always tells me about the volcano," Lydia said, long-suffering.

Three people. Three people had told her about the volcano. But still.

[imawizard]

"...No one's told me about a volcano," Harry said.

[utterly_alone]

"So I guess like, two years ago, a bunch of people got kidnapped and taken to a volcano and held hostage there by a goatman," Lydia shared. "I think it might have been at Christmastime?"

Not that that made any of it less weird.

[imawizard]

"How did no one tell me that?" Harry wondered. It really felt like something he would have gotten a dire warning about!

[utterly_alone]

"Maybe it's been long enough? people forgot?" Lydia guessed. "I swear, I wish people had warned me about the other stuff. Like how I might turn into a totally different person sometimes."

[imawizard]

"Literally a different person? After this week that's actually not surprising," he decided.

[utterly_alone]

"Oh yeah, I turned into a fairy godmother for a weekend," Lydia noted. Also again on Wednesday, briefly, for some reason. "Wand and everything."

It was super weird, that wand thing.