What was the one moment
at Hogwarts where you felt happiest?
Jenna James: Last year, During the last Quidditch match, as a Slytherin Prefect
and Co-captain of the team, we secured our victory and held the Quidditch Cup
and the House Cup for the first time since the school was rebuilt.
Darcie Dracel: Oh Good Merlin… When the Dark Lord didn’t kill me in his lair
back in the Forbidden Forest and let me go with only two acid splashes to the
face and a bout of the nightmare curse?
Kiara Draten: Probably at one of the oh-so-infamous Hufflepuff sleepovers. It
was probably some of the funnest times I had here at Hogwarts, when I was able
to let loose, and goof off with the others in my house.
How would you describe your personality when you first arrived at Hogwarts?
How is it different than now? In what other ways have you changed?
Cassandra Kilsby-Steele: When I first arrived, I was unsociable apart from to
those I knew very well. As it is, the fact remains true, but I simply have had
more chances to meet new people. I don't often get along with people younger
than me, yet the vast majority of the school is so, and being Head Girl requires
one to talk with the rest of the school, for better or worse.
DD: When I first arrived to Hogwarts I was quiet, reserved and focused upon my
studies as I got to know my fellow students slowly. Second year was when I went
through metamorphosis and became what I am today, overly-confident, domineering,
and indecisive all while still focusing on my studies though. One doesn’t pass 9
OWLs with a low or average amount of intelligence.
JJ: Despite popular opinion, I believe I have grown a great deal as a person in
my time at Hogwarts, I have something of a reputation for hexing students to the
hospital wing, and inflicting a great deal of cruelty on those around me. If one
were to check their records, it would be noted that I have not been responsible
for a student's placement in the Hospital wing since my third year. And that was
inside the dueling chamber. I'm afraid people's imaginations seem to run away
with them quite a bit in a magical world such a ours. Although, I do admit,
these assumptions by the general population have always served my purpose of
keeping a great deal of the students out of my hair, so I have done nothing to
correct these misinterpretations.
What was your best subject?
KD: My best subject has always been Muggle Studies. It just fascinates me that
there is a study of human beings that aren't magical, and I can easily relate to
it.
JJ: Potions and/or Herbology, I also excel at Defense Against the Dark Arts...
surprising no?
CKS: Potions. I simply enjoy the atmosphere of the class. And Defense.
What was your reaction when you became a prefect?
JJ: At first I was surprised, then after taking a look around, I realized there
weren't many students to choose from.
CKS: Quite surprised, seeing as I though that the two Prefects would be my two
best friends Alison Fitcher and Morgana Soulfire, but I got the position instead
of Morgana. Also, I was the youngest in my year and wondered in someone older
would be more adequate. Keep in mind that I was the first generation of
Prefects, and it was my second year.
KD: I was actually stunned. I mean, when I heard there were going to be Prefect
titles given out, I wanted it so badly... so I strived to do better and stand
out, and it payed off. I was eager to start with more responsibilities, and
excited to share it with other students.
Who were your most significant relationships with at Hogwarts? How did these
relationships affect you?
JJ: I have two best friends, Calypso Cronus, and Cassie Kilsby-Steele. They've
kept me sane.
CKS: Jenna James has kept me sane thorugh the years and Cassivellaunus Cronus
has made sure that it's not too sane.
DD: There is only one individual that I can clearly mark as my enemy, my
archenemy, and that is Jenna James. The reasons for the development of the
hatred are rather fuzzy but I do know it occurred when I was ousted during my
second year. Slytherin was a divided nation at that point, but honestly, I
couldn’t tell you why she got so bitter and pissed over the incident. Anyway, I
find her someone to constantly strive to be better than and that’s enough for a
rivalry.
JJ: Enemies... well there's one person the entirety of the wizarding world
probably knows about. Darcie Dracel. A rival ever since she was kicked out of
Slytherin in our first year. The details are private, I'm sure you'll
understand. However, for a time she did make me become a better dueler... out of
the necessity I seem to have for keeping my scalp attached to my head.
What are you planning on doing when you leave Hogwarts?
KD: To tell you the truth, I really want to get into a muggle studies type of
career. At first, I wanted to be on top, I wanted to work in the Ministry of
Magic, in a muggle division. However, after thinking long and hard about it, I
would be much happier to work here, at Hogwarts, maybe as a possible Muggle
Studies professor in the future.
DD: I aspire to further my dueling career to become a dueling master and to
return to Hogwarts to be a dueling officiator and aid students in learning the
sport. There is also a tinge of want to get married one day and pass on my
magnificent genes. Wouldn’t want all this to go to waste would you?
CKS: Go home to China and live off the family money.
If you could go back in time and change one thing about your years here, what
would it be and why?
DD: Honestly…I would have to say I’d go back to second year and control myself
better than I had. It’d change the course of lots of things but I could live
without the infamy, I think.
KD: I am sort of restating something I've already touched on, but I wish I could
go back to my second year, and just live life a bit more as a child, instead of
jump-starting into adulthood. I also rebelled a bit in my second year, and
nearly lost the Prefect title I worked so hardly on getting. So I think going
back and correcting a few mistakes in my second year would make me more happier
in the present time.
JJ: I'd say it comes down to a tie between two events. One, the most recent,
being a potions lesson in which Dracel messed up a simple potion and turned my
hair blue... for which i have not, as of yet, found a cure for... and it has not
worn off.
The second, being an occurrence in my third year. Auror Trimble, then
'professor', warned me of a horrendous detention if I were to send one more
student to the hospital wing as a result of a duel in the chamber. Being a bit
on the rebellious side, and never one to be partial to aurors, I pushed the
limit a tad far with the hospitalization of one Sariss Ravon. My sentence? To
scrub bedpans in the Hospital wing with a toothbrush, no magic, and wearing the
ugliest candy-striper's uniform you've ever seen.
Yes, I would definitely go back and change that one.
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Thanks for taking the time to talk with us, and congratulations Class of
2010!