Commotion in Motion!

[Lydia Knotsworth]

The new term had begun and Lydia was enjoying all of her classes so far, but what she hadn't been enjoying was the fact that the Gryffindor common room was always so empty. It seemed her fellow housemates were all off studying or something similarly boring instead of mingling with each other. Lydia wouldn't stand for it!

She was an active and friendly girl and she wanted that common room full. She wanted kids making S'mores on the fire, sitting down for a ruthless match of Wizards' Chess, or goofing off and joking while pretending to do homework and one of the tables scattered about. Perhaps it was because she herself was bored out of her mind. She needed to do something, but she hated doing anything alone.

It wasn't that she was dependent, oh no. From an early age it was clear she was quite the opposite, very independent. No, she just preferred doing things like "studying" or playing a gae with others and not by herself. She enjoyed exploring and shopping with others. She liked company and that was all there was to it. Lydia was far too much of a social butterfly and without social interaction she became bored and easily irritated. She didn't just want the interaction - she needed it.

So tonight she'd do something about all the silence in the common room...

Lydia pulled out a knapsack from her trunk and grinned as she shut the trunk lid and headed downstairs. Once in the common room she set the knapsack down on a table and opened it, beginning to pull things out slowly.

First came candy and other sweets. Then she pulled out portable Wizards' Chess, prank items, fanged frisbees, a reusable hangman contraption, and various other wizard toys. From amongst those toys she pulled out some Wildfire Whizbangs. With a wicked grin she set them off in the common room and the hallways to the dorms, watching them zip around and explode noisily in bursts of brilliant color and interesting forms like dragons and monkeys, hoping the commotion would attract her fellow Gryffindors to come and play.