Melanthea leads Jay to the Gryffindor common room. "Champs!" She barks at the painting and it swings open. She hops inside, with Jay closely following her.
"Hey, no Slytherins allowed! A boy protests.
"I'm looking for a first-year girl named Euadne!" She calls, ignoring the boy. A petite girl steps forward.
"What do you want, mixed blood hater?" She asks rudely. You can practically hear the breath being sucked in by the older years.
"For one, you can stop calling me a mixed blood hater, because I'll have you know that my mother is a muggle, and if you even think that about me again, you'll end up in the lake. I want you to apologize to Isidora for calling her evil, and give us a bag of cookies right now to give to her."
"Yeah, right." The girl scoffs, "It's pretty obvious you two are just going to eat them."
"Give us a bag of cookies, or you'll regret it." Melanthea threatens.
"What are you going to do?" She scoffs, "Punch me? You'll get detention for sure."
"No, worse." Melanthea says, "I know your brother. He's told me things about you, and I will share them with the entire school."
"Like what?" The girl asks with a grin. Melanthea leans over and whispers something in her ear. The girl's eyes go wide, and she rushes over to one of her trunks and thrusts a bag of cookies at Jay.
"Here, just take them!" She yells. Turning around cooly, Melanthea says, "Apologize to your friend tomorrow." And walks out of the common room. "You can divide those in two." She tells Jay, "And have half of them if you want."