[Library] Looking for Harry

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<sub>Erin, feeling somewhat defeated on the Harry issue, looked at the two. Erin's shyness jolted in and she slowly backed away from everyone. She quickly turned around and started walking towards the door.

How stupid can I be? she asked herself as she replayed her actions, I don't even find him attractive yet I'm still interested.

Erin stopped and looked back once more. She shrugged, "I'll just catch up with them later," she mumbled before turning around and opening the oak doors of the library.</sub>[/color]

[Helia Ollivander]

She pulled her notebook back just before his hands slammed down in front of her. She looked up at him, beginning to find him irritating and entirely too full of himself. She made a face and answered him plainly, "I haven't a clue who Marcus is, but you'll be glad to know aliens have not yet invaded earth... At least as far as I know," she shrugged, then pushed Russells hands off the table and set her notebook back down. She heard the ever familiar creak of the library doors and turned to see who was entering... or leaving as the case happened to be.

'Perfect,' she thought gleefully. "Looks like your friend is leaving," she said airily, hoping that it was someone he was close to and would rush off to say good-bye or something of the like. She wasn't entirely sure if she wanted to share her wisdom on this particular subject with him... or really anyone yet. There were still a few facts she needed to straighten out, but she hadn't had much time recently for her historical mystery solving. Sure, she knew more than most people on the subject, and in a way that was more than she everwanted to know... but still, there was that annoying little voice in the back of her head that needed to know the exact details. She was hoping that acting like she knew everything would keep Rus from doing too much research.

[Russell Parkhurst]

Helia clearly wasn't going to impart her knowledge on him. Russell looked at Helia, trying to figure out whether or not she didn't want to tell him because truthfully (a rare jewel these days, with the Ministry being around) she didn't know or because she didn't trust he. Either way, she was a dead end, which was sad, really, I was just getting to like this one.

Hearing Helia, Rus looked to where she had motioned and saw Erin leave. Russell smiled after her, cleaver bird! he thought. He sat down at the end of the table and looked at Helia. "She doesn't like me much," he told her, "thinks I'm a little odd. She can't handle the oddness that becomes me so ... whatever!" He shrugged. He looked at her a little harder, his dark eyes gleaming. "So what are you doing in the library on a day like this?" He might have been a bit transparent but he didn't care, the subject needed changing.

[Helia Ollivander]

She raised her eyes to look at him as he sat down, "Just catching up on some homework..."she said, though at the same time she had to work to keep from sneaking a look in her book bag. She couldn't remember if that ancient year book was still in there or not... 'Nope, I left it in the girl's dormitory,' she remembered with a mental sigh of relief. "Yup, you know haven't had much time to study with the shop and all," she shrugged and looked back at her notebook as she scribbled down Bridgette Wenlocks theorys on the magical properties of the number Seven. True, she had only taken one Arithmancy class in her life, but numbers were important to a wand maker.

[Russell Parkhurst]

Russell could tell that Helia was a serious Ravenclaw who took her work very seriously. She obviously had to do something very important otherwise she wouldn't be staring so hard at her notebook. Rus felt a tad uncomfortable and a tad unwelcomed.

Rus tapped his hands on the table before pushing himself up. "Well," he said, "I can see you're very busy and everything so ... um ... I'll leave you to it!" Rus clapped his hands together and walked backwards. He mock-saluted at her before stepping behind a shelf and disappeared from view.

[Helia Ollivander]

'Why do boys have to be so damn dramatic?' she thought with a resigned sigh as Russell disappeared, silently closing her notebook, then slamming her head against the desk in front of her, "Oh! Ow, bad idea Helia..." she muttered to herself. She made a face, 'Why is it that it's always the egomaniac chick-magnets that hang around me?' she thought irritably. Almost all the guys she knew, or were close friends with, were narcissistic flirts. There was Fin who had ended up with Lisa, which turned out to be a good thing. There was Brian 'Oi, was that a big mistake. Yeah we got along, but then there was the shunning from all the Ravenclaw girls who had been crushing on him, then he disappeared and now he's back and he owns a club and he's all about other girls now...' she sighed. And now it seemed she'd end up going through some rigamarole with Rus too. How come all her good guy friends had to be so... weird?

But she was glad that she'd been able to throw him off researching Harry Potter... at least for the moment. That was some bad 'ness' [as her uncle would say] you got yourself into hunting for that one. A part of her wished she'd never made it to the HoM class that got her started on all of it. Even more of her wished she'd never gone to the Charms class that threw her even deeper into all of it.

Another sigh. Russell was still a good friend, and if he really wanted to know about the boy who lived, she might as well tell him what she knew.

After a moment or two, once she thought he would be a good distance away if in fact he'd left she said, "I'll tell you about it as soon as I know myself..." she then packed up her book bag and slowly left the library, the familiar creak following her out as she went to the girls dormitory to fish out the old year book.