Chapter 641 - Supervision Ⅴ (1/2)
Hogsmeade is full of students and shoppers despite the autumn, chilly wind that carries sweeping colored, fallen leaves across the cobblestones. Feeling an encroaching headache and rather hungry as lunch was long past due, Rowan finally snaps and whirls around to face her unwanted trailing companion. ”Potter, don't you have a date with Lily?”
Despite the chill in the air, James blinks and flushes a rosy pink as he says, ”Er, well, she is still on patrol.” James pointed at the figure of Lily just across the street, who was shouting at the fourth year, who had the brilliant idea to throw a dung bomb in the middle of the street after purchasing it from Zonko's.
”I'll tell you what, Potter,” Rowan crisply said. ”I will cover for Lily so that the two of you can go on your planned date.”
”Right,” James muttered as Rowan marched over to Lily, who had the fourth-year boy quivering in place as she chastised him for attempting to use a dung-bomb in the middle of the street.
”May I interrupt?” Rowan carefully said as Lily fixed her emerald eyes on Rowan and James, before softening and hardening again as she shooed the boy away, who eagerly escapes the clutches of the fierce tempered Gryffindor Prefect.
”Do you need anything, Rowan?” Lily asked as her gaze shifts between the two of them as if coming to some sort of conclusion.
”Lily, why don't you and James head off to your date?” Rowan sincerely suggested. ”I'll still be on duty for a while, and then we can trade, so I can have a bite to eat.”
”That sounds good, Rowan,” Lily murmured with a wry grin, before attempting to smile friendly-like at James. After her long day shepherding the students at Hogsmeade, she was not looking forward to her date with James, and much less explaining to her friend and housemate the truth that she did not hold any romantic feelings for James. She had been too much of a coward nor she had the heart to deny his request after his fight with Sirius at that time. She now bitterly regretted her kind, but a rather naïve reply. However, she had no other choice now and might as well make the best of it for the time being. At least, she'd earn herself a meal out of this.
Seeing Lily lost in thought for a moment, Rowan loudly says, ”Oh, don't mind me. Off the two of you go, I'm certain that the Three Broomsticks will have seating available or Madam Puddifoot's.”
”No need to rush us, Rowan,” Lily quickly protested as she came too. ”I don't think, James is going to run off and abandon me.”
”Well, time is precious,” Rowan stubbornly insisted as could not wait to get rid of James, because he had been severely grating on her nerves. It wasn't that he was being overbearingly chatty, it's just that he constantly seemed to only be observing her for no apparent reason but accompanying her without a word. And there was only so much she could take, before saying something she did not mean truly mean.
”Er, right,” Lily lamely said before turning towards James and trying to be cheerful. ”Well, we best be going.”
”Right,” James muttered back as the two somewhat awkwardly turned away and headed down the street towards Three Broomsticks. Both of them were lost in their own thoughts as each thought about their date, James couldn't help compare his first date with Lily to the present one, and Lily couldn't help but wonder what it would like to go on a date with another. Either way, it would make for a rather lukewarm date.
Seeing the two of them awkwardly walk down the street together, Rowan shakes her head at the sight but privately sighs with relief. Finally, she had gotten rid of Potter! Feeling rather cheery, she reaches into her mokeskin bag and pulls out another Ice Mice. She quickly pops the sweet into her mouth and shivers as she feels her teeth begin to clatter as she chews. It was a terrible, nasty quirk to have, but she blamed Terry naturally for the development of said quirk.
Not able to resist Rowan pops a second Ice Mice into her mouth, before sweeping down the student filled streets of Hogsmeade. The students mostly quell down as she starts docking points and assigning detentions if needed. She had just finished berating an overly aggressive snogging couple, before spotting the unusual, lonely figure of Sirius.