[Owlery] owls and thoughts (open!)

[ethan]

Ethan smiled at the Slytherin girl and held his hand out to greet her. He was taking a big chance with her here as unlike the Slytherin boy who seemed quite friendly, the girl still held a look that Ethan interpreted as a look that was really to Hex him at any moment. Still, Ethan couldn't help himself and his hand outstretched to her in greeting before he could stop himself.

Assuming the girl took his hand, he outstretched it too the other girl, the Ravenclaw, keeping his hand as low as possible out of reach of the demonic owl. Ethan usually loved animals and usually they returned the emotion but obviously the bird was knarked for some reason and was taking it out on everyone but it's rescuer. Still, Ethan didn't blame it, he'd be angry if he'd just got petrified. Ethan then extended his hand to the Slytherin boy and finally introduced himself.
"I'm Ethan Howard, pleased to meet you all.....but it seems the owl isn't as thrilled" he smirked before using a nearby window ledge to seal the letter properly and choose another owl.

It was when Ethan went back to choosing a carrier for his letter that commotion broke out behind him, but Ethan looked up and chose to ignore it. It was then he realised the Slytherin was digging his nails into the Ravenclaws shoulder. Coughing he strutted over and pulled the Ravenclaw behind him, his form towering over hers.
"Dorian you say? Look, violence towards her for doing something she believes isn't right. The bird may have hurt you but that's not her fault" he said in a defensive tone.

"It's no big deal now alright? Your healed, the bird's away from you, end of story. Please leave the anger issues to others, you seem a nice guy and anger doesn't suit you".
The girl seemed to be coping well with the Slytherins, a sense of 'no crap taken here' aura surrounded her, but it was in Ethan's nature to be protective. It especially wasn't fair that he was picking on a girl, possibly a rather old fashioned view, but that's just how Ethan worked. He didn't like to see people being bullied, whether they could handle themselves or not.

Now it seemed everything was working out, Ethan smiled and watched Polaris get her hawk like owl and ask about letters. Looking down at his hand, it still clutched the cream envelope although slightly creased now.
"Do you think your owl could deliver this for me?" he asked, wafting the letter and showing a shiny gold coin in the other.
"It needs to be pretty speedy"

[Angelique Juliette]

The little icky Claw girl of course had to use her logic to see both sides of the situation. Gagging sounded really good right about now Angel would do it all over the girl's shoes. Gross yes but it would probably gross the other girl out more. Lucky for her it didn't happen and Angel managed to calm herself. Dorian on the other hand was being rather friendly to her. Angel simply shook her head rolling her eyes.

The other boy held out his hand to Angel and she had half a mind not to take it. But she promised that while she was being an apprentice she would behave herself. Holding out her hand to him she put on a fake smile that replaced her scowl. "Angelique Juliette nice to meet you." Really it was anything but nice but she kept that to herself.

He was preparing to mail some letter, Angel meanwhile was getting rather bored with the whole thing. Who cared about that stupid bird, or the annoying Ravenclaw monster lover. Even the not so bad looking Hufflepuff boy couldn't cheer Angel up. Maybe there was something interesting going on in the common room. That's where she was headed when the other boy spoke. He addressed Dorian who was being mean to that Polaris girl.

Angel suddenly became interested. Ethan or whatever his name was had been trying to sweet talking Dorian. Telling him that violence was uncalled for. Obviously he wasn't a Slytherin. Violence was their bread and butter, being mean to others a treat. Angel thought Dorian handled Polaris a bit too gently but she had been wrong about that. All that niceness was covering up his true intentions. She was curious to see how he would take being confronted. Angel enjoyed watching confrontations they were more fun especially when she hadn't caused it.

[Polaris Stormwrath]

After being somewhat ushered out of the way, Polaris smiled at Ethan. "Ah.. Of course, he's pretty fast once he gets going," She said with a smile, "Free of charge."

This was quite the situation they were in, Polaris and the hufflepuff, Ethan. Up against two Slytherins, the guy didn't seem half bad, but the girl was the worse. They always were. Ego's and long fingernail's were a deadly combination for all the plastic Slytherin 'posse' girls, so vain. Polaris stifled a small laugh at the Slytherin girl, keeping her straight face. Did she have to image the girl crying in front of a mirror because of a blemish? Ah, enough of this tomfoolery.

After a moment, the Ravenclaw simply stood back and supported Ethan, yet watched him believing he could handle his own if a fight broke out. It more than likely would, since that girl looked like she was about to pounce on anything that moved. But that wouldn't matter, she was sure that neither of the two would like to have razor sharp jaws being clamped around their neck.

"Perhaps later we all could catch a round down in Hogsmeade." She offered with a faint smile. Hopefully this would cheer them up and blow the whole situation over.