Post by isis on Dec 13, 2011 15:50:55 GMT -8
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((Please note this is the day of the Hogsmeade trip, so students and professors are more than welcome as are any other sort of character. Isis graduated May 2011 from Hufflepuff house, and she is one of eight octuplets, so it's quite possible your character may have known her.))
Saturday, 22 October 2011
3:19 p.m.
It was probably silly of her to choose today to go shopping for a costume for the masquerade being hosted by the Blaine family at her parents' manor, but what other time was she going to do it? She was scheduled to work most evenings this week except for Saturday and Sunday, so her sleep schedule was a little topsy turvy, and she preferred to spend as much of her spare time away from the area she worked in. Earlier today, she had looked in Diagon Alley for a costume she liked, but while she found a few possibilities, she wanted to look for a few more, so she found herself currently window shopping. The displays in Hogsmeade were always so much more festive in her opinion or at least less...stiff.
Finally, she reached one of the clothing shops in Hogsmeade that, based on their window display, seemed to have costumes and entered it, feeling more than a little out of place in her work uniform as she glanced at the various students. This place was more than a little crowded right now, and she supposed she understood why. At this rate, she probably would have to walk down to The Three Broomsticks before she could even try on more than a couple of costumes, much less see the entire selection. She knew she should have broke from Diagon Alley during lunch hour and came here instead. Students would have been busy eating, and she would have had an easier time of searching for a costume.
Nevertheless, the young woman looked around the store and was about to go for a nicer-looking Greek goddess looking costume when she found herself bumping into something soft yet hard all at once. "Sorry!" she quickly said and was about to go back on task before she noticed it was....