Cad narrowed his eyes, did he really want to tell this fifth year any more than he really had to? Okay, so he had asked first, but he wasn’t buying the whole wide eyed ingenue thing that the Slytherin boy was putting out there. If his wand had been working he would have considering casting a protection spell around himself but a glance at his battered wand showed that that wouldn’t be possible. Cad stuffed the remnants of his wand into the pocket of his school robes.

It was then he realised he still hadn’t answered the other student. ’I … well I…’ Cad cleared his throat, ’I pulled a prank in potions.’ even as he said it his brow furrowed again, it didn’t feel like something he would have done, and it say uneasily on his shoulders like a shirt that was too large to fit – the feeling caused Cad to tense his shoulders pulling back his shoulder blades so they almost touched.

Cad shook his head, trying to chase away the feelings that didn’t seem right -there was something about this that just wasn’t right. ’I need to get out of here.’ he said in almost a whisper, and almost entirely to himself. He started to move the chairs again, and where before he had lifted 3 or 4 at a time, now he lifted 2 stacked neatly, as though he didn’t trust his body to respond to task he had empirically performed only a few minutes before. ’Would you…?’ his questioned trailed off and thought it might be implied that he wanted the other boy to help him move the items that were barring their path.


Clue Leverett