Selina Skies
January 01, 2022 7:06 PM
Head Student Vote by Selina Skies
The week leading up to the head student vote had shown that some students took it more seriously than others, with at least one student making campaign posters—a tradition which had started a few years previously (though Selina had not connected the dots that it was the student in question who had started it). Whether that would impress the voting population, remained to be seen, but Selina admired the determination.The fifth and sixth years had received notice that they should stay behind after dinner on Thursday, or return if they had dined early, and it was probably no great surprise that on that particular evening, the ballot box sat at the front of the room. Once dinner was finished, and the other years had dispersed, Selina stood.
“Welcome. As you probably know, you are going to choose the next two student leaders for the school. You may vote for any two students, regardless of gender. Please remember, this is not about who you like best, but about who you feel shows good leadership qualities. Please give it careful consideration.” She waved her wand, distributing the papers. “Once you have voted, please put your ballot in the box, and leave the hall quietly. Votes are considered private, unless someone chooses to discuss theirs with you.”
Subthreads: Vote for Ellie! by Anya Delachene with Alexander Pierce-Beales
...I'm not cut out for this kind of responsibility! Am I? by Morgan Garrett
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Selina Skies
Head Student Vote
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Anya Delachene
January 01, 2022 7:43 PM
Vote for Ellie! by Anya Delachene
Having done the voting thing the year before (twice, because there was a tie-breaker), Anya knew what to expect when the sixth and seventh years were instructed to stay after dinner. There had been enough notice, that she'd even taken the effort to put on a white t-shirt with a high amount of pink and blue on it as a campaign endorsement for Ellie (though she wasn't sure the My Little Ponies on it exactly made that obvious, but Rainbow Dash was awesome and the best pony anyway, and Pinkie Pie was hilarious, so Anya liked the shirt regardless).When she looked over the ballot, she was half-surprised to find her own name on it, though she guessed she shouldn't have been, since she was a prefect and all, even if the position had come to her by default. She had no intention of checking the box next to her own name though.
Ellie was far and away the best option, seeing as she had campaigned, and ran a club, and stuff, so Anya checked her name first. Then she looked over the other people on the list, deciding on their suitability based entirely on how well she thought Ellie wanted to work with them as a co-Head Student. She'd had some clues that Ellie was just a little envious of the time Philippe was stealing from Freddie and them hanging out as much as they used to, so Anya decided this was a good opportunity for the two of them to get to do stuff together again, and checked off the box next to Freddie's name.
Satisfied by her choices, Anya dropped her ballot into the box and headed back to Pecari.
OOC: Basic awareness of Ellie missing Freddie approved by her author, though it should be noted that Anya is not aware of the full extent of the issue.
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Anya Delachene
Vote for Ellie!
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Alexander Pierce-Beales
January 07, 2022 8:05 PM
Anything you say. by Alexander Pierce-Beales
Alexander still literally had no idea how to be dating someone but he was pretty sure he and Anya had been making it work for awhile now and he was kind of impressed with himself honestly. And her - he was pretty sure even Mab couldn't put up with him this long and she'd straight up adopted him. Still, as he saw Anya drop her ballot in the box and turn around, he couldn't help smiling a little. He was pretty sure he was supposed to anyway, but Anya actually even made him want to. Even if this whole thing didn't keep being a dating thing long term, he was glad Anya was his friend. He dropped his ballot in as well, moving quick so he could keep up with her easily and he brushed the back of his fingers down a short part of the top of her arm near her shoulder - he'd been experimenting very slightly with some slight touching, especially since the Ball was coming up and it seemed like touching might be a requisite of such a thing. Also, he did kinda want to."Hi," he said simply. Simple was good. Of course, it was also temporary as immediate panic set in. "I should've asked you first - I voted for you and Ellie. I know you wanted her to get it but I should've asked if you wanted to be in it. I think you'd make a great Head Student," he added. "For what it's worth." Which was probably nothing. His opinion didn't even matter that much to him, and that wasn't even in a self-deprecating way he just knew he didn't have very well-informed opinions about most stuff. Except about Anya being a great head student because that just seemed obvious. She was nice and pretty and funny and that was basically all Alexander looked for in literally everyone so she had a lot going for her.
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Alexander Pierce-Beales
Anything you say.
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Morgan Garrett
January 14, 2022 1:35 PM
...I'm not cut out for this kind of responsibility! Am I? by Morgan Garrett
Morgan had, she guessed, known that she was now in the category of People Who Were Considered Old And Responsible Enough To Vote For Head Students. She had also, courtesy of the campaign posters and stuff, known that the vote was coming up soon. She just hadn't really put the two facts together and had any particular thoughts or feelings about them until the exact moment she had a ballot in front of her. At this point, she did what she thought was the only logical thing and started to internally freak out.It wouldn't have been so bad, she thought despairingly, if Professor Skies just hadn't given them that speech about how the Head Students they, including Morgan, voted for would be the student body leaders next year, and how they, including Morgan, should take this stuff seriously and they, once again including Morgan, should think not about who they liked, but about who was best cut out for the job. She had no idea what head students really did (her dad had been Head Boy, she knew, but all he'd really ever said about the experience was that he had no idea how it had happened), but that made it sound like she was suddenly voting for president or something. Like it for-serious mattered. Which...it had been after Dad's time, but he'd heard about how some guy he'd played Quidditch with had been Head Boy when the school security spells had had a freakout which had banished all the adults for half a year, so it was, in theory, possible that it really did for-serious matter. And they were trusting Morgan with that kind of responsibility? She'd have thought the situation with Dude Dad Had Played Quidditch With would have been enough to lead to the revision of any and all rules which allowed any member of the Wilkes family anywhere near anything that important, and it wasn't like, despite her last name, that they didn't know she was related to David Wilkes - she'd seen her own school paperwork once, and Dad would find out about anything major that went down and involved her before her mom did, now that she was mostly in the wizarding world and not in the Kentucky one....
Rational Morgan knew, of course, that she was being overly dramatic, if only inside her head, but then - when was she ever anything else inside her head? It had happened before, in the whole of her life, but usually only during times when she was actually miserable. She wasn't miserable right now, so therefore, she was dramatic inside her head. Afterward, she fell into step with someone else and said, "Am I the only one who would have found that way, way less nerve-wracking without the speech?"
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Morgan Garrett
...I'm not cut out for this kind of responsibility! Am I?
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