Chapter 49: Another Tradition

(A couple days later) Padma Pov

*Whoosh*

I look out the dorm window to see Ansh falling down again.

'Is it the 3rd time, or the 4th?'

"Looks like he is enjoying it." Says Penelope from my side.

"It does. My heart came out when I first saw him though."

"Yeah I expect that. Though I wonder who told him about those ruins?"

"I don't know, but I know it was a bad decision."

"Meh, let him have fun. He'll get bored soon. All of us got exited and did that when we first learned about it, the novelty wears off fast."

"Why weren't we told about this from the start."

"What are we supposed to do? Tell you to jump off the ceiling?"

"No but, you could have told us about the magic on the castle so that whenever we fall from a high place the cushioning charm is automatically applied. I got dizzy the first time I saw how high up we are when on the top floor."

"Didn't you see all the students sitting on the edge on higher floors? How do you think they get the confidence to do that? And it isn't really necessary to tell you about it, you get to know about it soon anyway. Every year someone falls down from high up, somehow, and then the whole year learns about it. Though it hardly happens that someone falls purposefully the first time itself, since nobody tells the new students about it. Wonder who told him? Anyway, pretty soon the entire Hogwarts will be joining him. It is one of those yearly traditions at this point."

I look out the window as Ansh falls down for the 100th time.

"Okay that's it. I going there."

"Why, believe me, he will stop on his own soon." Penelope asks.

"I am going to join him. That looks way too much fun to miss out on...….."

Ansh POV

I climb to the top to try again.

'Okay, this is the one, we can do this. Don't slow yourself down.'

"Hey! Why didn't you tell me?" I hear from behind me.

I turn around to see Padma.

"Tell you what?"

"About this fun thing. Who even told you about the cushioning charm on the castle? And you could've at least told me if you came to know about it."

"…. Of course a cushioning charm is applied. Why wouldn't there be? *sigh* Well now you know."

"Tell me the next time you find anything this fun." She says with a smile as steps up right beside me on the edge.

She suddenly grabs my hand.

"This is so that you don't get scared." She bravely proclaims while standing on trembling legs.

'*Sigh* Well, it is fun I guess.'

"Sure, I hold your hand. Miss I am scared."

"I am not scared. I just want to-"

I am not interested in hearing excuses, so I pull her arm and jump off.

"AAHHH...!"

We land on the ground with a softly.

"AAHHH"

"You can stop bursting my ears now, we are on the ground."

She opens her eyes and looks down at her feet touching the grass.

"Huff huff, that… was.. huff… SO MUCH FUNN! Lets do it again."

"Sure. Just don't leave fingernail marks on my hand again."

"Hey I didn't squeeze it that hard."

"Let us just go again."

Soon one by one, almost the whole of Hogwarts was jumping down.

'Today was fun.'

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Padma POV

Ansh flops down next to me at dinner and stares at his food as if he has a grudge against it.

"What did the pastry do to you?"

"Hmm? No, nothing. *sigh* Right, the pastry is innocent." With that he picks it up and stuffs the whole piece in his mouth.

….. which he takes out then since he isn't able to move his mouth.

"What happened? Just tell me. I may not be able to help you, but I will laugh at you."

"And how will that help?"

"It won't. I'll just get to laugh at you."

"... *sigh*" He then proceeds to ignore me and focus on his dinner.

But heck if I'll leave him alone.

"Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tel-"

"Girl SHUT UP! Can't a man eat in peace?" He blasts out.

"Not when I am here." I reply meekly.

'I should drop it, he is clearly upset about something.'

"*Sigh* Fine, I can't find any fans. I searched the whole of Hogwarts. And none, not a single fan in existence."

"…..Uhh.. why do you need fans for? It isn't hot at all." Weird thing to search for.

"I need it for the… for a ..Spell! that's right, for a spell." He replies, facing away from me.

"Okay, well if you really need it, you can probably enchant a hand-use one to fan you."

"Leave it. That won't help me."

"Anyway, what was your day like?" He asks me.

"Nothing interesting. Prof. McGonagall gave us an assignment, and another one from with Prof. Snape, the twins tricked their brother during lunch, that was fun. That was pretty much the highlight of my day."

"Hmmm. Okay, well I have to go and come up with some another idea. So, adios."

With that he gets up and leaves.

'Idea for what?'

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A/N: Damn it is hard to write a suicide scene and spin it off so that he doesn't die.

Seriously, open to idea. otherwise just one more chapter of this suicide thing cause I don't have any ideas left.(drowning already done).

And I need ones I can spin-off. Would really appreciate help here.