Ashley nodded and rummaged through her satchel, ushering everyone to an empty table near one of the corners of the hall. She got comfortable, paying no mind to the looks her companions were sharing, and began working on her Potions essay (because of course Snape already gave the class homework). She finished it with half an hour to spare, giving her time to relax a bit before her next class which was Transfiguration. That class was uneventful, and so was dinner. The Pierces weren’t around by then so Ashley assumed that they had thankfully gone home. As it turned out, she was wrong. She found this out the hard way because as she was heading back to her dorm from visiting Persephone, she bumped into none other than Graham Pierce.