Room 308, Wednesday evening

[smartestone]

Hermione didn't really tend to make a big deal out of her birthday. The biggest thing was that she didn't have to worry about doing magic anywhere anymore and being reprimanded for it, and she really should look into being able to Apparate soon, now that she could. Though it would have been fantastic to have a class today, just because she was twisted like that. Currently, she was spending it reading, of course. Reading a thick tome on the American Revolution, because it always was interesting to see how the other side viewed things.

She really should be saved from herself, you know.

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[the_merriest]

Rikku sat cross-legged on her bed, bouncing. "We should have a party!" she insisted. Probably not for the first time. "We could go to the common room and have music and cake and it would be a blast."

[smartestone]

"I don't need a party, really," Hermione insisted, also probably not for the first time. And her mun's brain would crack right in half. "It really isn't a big deal."

[the_merriest]

"It'd be fuuuuun," Rikku bounced, and then sighed. "Okay. No party. You sure you don't wanna ... I dunno. Go to Caritas and send drinks to cute boys? Play music way too loud? Make some prank calls? I have a cell phone now. We could totally use that."

[smartestone]

"I'm sure," she smiled. "I don't want to make a huge thing of it. We could go somewhere this week as a post-birthday celebration if that would make you feel better."

[the_merriest]

"It's not about making me feel better," she laughed. "I just ... you know. If you're not into celebrating, that's way cool, I just wanna be sure your birthday doesn't get lost in the shuffle or whatever. Besides, your birthday means you have to get up to some mischief. It's like a law."

[smartestone]

Hermione raised her eyebrows. "I've never heard of that law."

[the_merriest]

"New law," Rikku said breezily. "Called the Birthday Act of whatever-this-year-is. It specifically says that anybody who doesn't cause some, and I quote, 'minor mayhem' in celebration of their birth will have their large and fascinating history books taken away. Or else hidden somewhere that Crookshanks can puke hairballs on 'em."

[smartestone]

"I don't like that law," Hermione said immediately.

[the_merriest]

"I know," Rikku sighed. "It's a mean law, really. But it's policed pretty strictly. And Crookshanks has some ucky hairballs lately. I think you may be stuck."

[smartestone]

"You're being mean to me on my birthday," Hermione pointed out, hugging her book a little.

[the_merriest]

"I'm not, really," Rikku said with her best innocent impression. "I'm trying to protect you and your books from the wrath of Crookshanks by getting you to have a little fun. That's totally not mean."

[smartestone]

"I have fun! Books are fun!"

[the_merriest]

"I kinda meant the kind of fun that involves talking to other people," Rikku said carefully.

[smartestone]

"I'm talking," Hermione said. "I talk to you, and Ron, and Harry, and I was even in a common room yesterday."

[isourking.livejournal.com]

Ron gave a wave to the bouncing girl. "Hi. I'm Ron. Sorry your roommate tends to be a stick in the mud," he said with a touch of humor in his voice.

[the_merriest]

"Hiya! I'm Rikku." She grinned. "And Hermione's way cool, but she'd be a heckuva prankster if she ever let loose a little. But she won't join the naked mutinies."

[isourking.livejournal.com]

Ron blinked. "Hermione? Naked what?"

[the_merriest]

"She never told you about the naked mutinies?" Rikku look hurt. "They're, like, an institution! They should be! And it's not like we were totally naked. I mean, I wasn't, right?"

[isourking.livejournal.com]

"Is that a course requirement?" Ron asked looking worried. "And is that for girls only?"

Deadpool's modern feminism class might have thrown Ron for a loop.

[the_merriest]

"It's not for class," Rikku said, as if that were the most obvious thing in the world. "We got detention for it last time but it was so, so, so worth it. And it's not just for girls, 'cause it was Seely's idea that we should be naked. I mean, not that we all were naked. I totally wasn't. But Seely just stripped like 'oh, hi there, I'm naked!' and then Alec did too and whoa, I mean, I wasn't gonna argue with it, you know!?"

[isourking.livejournal.com]

Ron was doing his best not to look at certain parts of Rikku especially as she bounced around a lot as she talked and WOW were his ears ever going red.

"Yes. Well I suppose that makes sense."

Well not to Ron. He's British you know.

"Um... And Hermione was there for these mutinies?"

[the_merriest]

"No," Rikku said. She stopped bouncing abruptly and sighed. "I even told her she didn't have to get naked. Most of the girls don't, right? It's more about, you know, mutinying and decorating the Vice-Principal's office, and okay, some of the people get naked but you don't have to. But I haven't talked her into going yet. Still trying."