It had been over two weeks since the fairies had first been introduced to the Ravenclaw common room. Rose was quite a handful at first, during the first week the creature had to attend all of the girl's classes, after Zoe once came back to find the girls' trunks picked apart and stuff strewn everywhere and bedspreads tied to the legs of the beds to make trip wires. One of the girls had the misfortune to find her lipstick destroyed, used as a coloring utensil to draw pictures that were too sloppy to decipher all over the walls. The pranks died down, the Ravenclaw eventually earned her fairy's respect, though a couple days ago all of the 3rd year girls had woken up with their hair in a variety of knots.

Rose sat on a toadstool in a wooden bowl filled partway with dirt. It served as the home for the creature, some moss for a bed, a variety of flowers for decoration, and various other small plants. Lily had put it together with things from the garden. The creature sat in front of a smoothed shard of glass stuck in the dirt to stand upright, which served as a mirror. Zoe stood behind the bowl, holding a hairbrush shrunk to doll size to brush Rose's hair.

The Ravenclaw ran the bristles along the underside of her creature's reddish brown hair, then along the top to smooth it down. The horns no longer scared her, she had quickly discovered they were more for decoration that attacking. "There you go Rose." The fairy smiled at her reflection as Zoe walked away with the brush, covered in strands of hair. Rose picked up a green thread and used it to tie her hair into a ponytail, as the human had taught her, while Zoe cleaned out the hairbrush.

The hairs weren't thrown in the trash, instead Zoe carefully picked each one out of the bristles and placed it in a pouch that, aside from the hair, was empty. She had plans for the fairy's hair that she hadn't told anyone. She knew the old Torret family tradition, one that had been discontinued generations ago when the manor was abandoned, each Torret would have a wand with a fairy hair core. However, the hair had to be collected peacefully, and the donor had to be alive throughout the collection.

Fairy hair wands were hard to come by. The core was not often used for several reasons, the first being it was hard to get fairy hair. Given the vanity of a fairy, you couldn't get the hair by shaving the creature bald or even cutting the hair. Fairies were good at evading, and tracking one down in the wild among endless hiding spots in trees was difficult. Even if you managed to capture a fairy, one hair could making you a wand an inch long. It took many strands of hair, all from the same fairy, tied together to create one long hair to make a good core.

Zoe slipped the hairbrush back into the plastic case she kept it in, just so Juni's fairy couldn't use it as a brush too, putting the case and pouch into her trunk, and turned back towards Rose. The pink-winged creature was now putting on her flower hat. "Rose?" Rose had learned to respond to the name, even though she didn't understand what the word meant, and turned around on the toadstool.

Rose flitted across the dirt and onto the side. The human knelt down in front of the fairy, so the two were almost eye level, before holding out her hand. Zoe caught the scent of mint as the creature leaped onto her palm, as the girl had taught the fairy how to use mint leaves as a perfume.

The girl began to hum a tune, and Rose started to dance across her hand, her movement similar to those in ballet. Zoe had been leaving picture books of ballet dancers in the room for Rose to look at, as the fairy couldn't read. The fairy couldn't understand language, but she knew rhythm and melody. She could dance to the beat, recognize by the melody the tone of the song.

Zoe watched her creature dance with a smile as she continued to hum the song, the fairy alternating from dancing on the human's hand to dancing in the air, moves fitting together smoothly at times, being jerky at others. Either way, Zoe couldn't be more proud of Rose.

Juni had a bit of trouble with her little green fairy at first, but now she had figured out how to get the fairy to do what she wanted. Unlike Zoe, she had not named her fairy. Nothing seemed quite right, so she simply called her fairy exactly what it was—a fairy. She had never been gifted with the art of naming, unlike a few of her peers, She was certain that Harlow was another one of the fourth year Ravenclaw girls who was talented when it came to naming—but then again, maybe Juni only assumed so because that girl was so freakin’ happy all the time.

The green fairy, Juni learned, had a tendency to behave better if she thought that Juni would play the harp for her afterwards.  She had even gotten her fairy to dance by playing a couple of different tunes. However, it didn’t stop the fairy from being a bit of a prankster before her respect was gained. The Ravenclaw looked over at her roommate and watched as she interacted with her fairy curiously. “Zoe, I haven’t named my fairy yet.” She said with a frown, “I can’t think of anything.” The last pet she had named was a green lizard named Lizzy. She wasn’t exactly creative about that kind of thing.

“My fairy’s is mischievous but she isn’t malicious. She likes music and she likes to dance, and she likes to make faces. The way I got her to respect me was to make faces back at her.  But I don’t know what to name her.” Juni gave Rose a weak smile. That name had been so fitting for the pink fairy—it suited her in color and in, well, everything. She was prickly and sweet, just like the plant that she was named after.  “How’s Rose doing?”

Zoe looked up from the fairy and over to Juni. She knew the green fairy hadn't been named, which, admittedly, she found a little odd. The Ravenclaw was pretty sure everyone else had named theirs, it was like a pet. You had to name your pets. But the girl didn't judge her dormmate. "I'm sure you can think of something," Zoe replied with a smile. "It's not like it had to be perfect."

Rose by now had noticed the source of Zoe's diverted attention, which the fairy didn't enjoy. Rose landed on the human's hand, facing the other human as she spoke. The fairy had gotten to know Juni as her friend's friend, therefor was nice enough to her. The two fairies didn't plot pranks against either of the girls anymore, nor had any desire to prank the human that didn't take care of her.

Trying to think of names, Zoe opened her mouth to answer Juni's question. However, at that moment, Rose leaped from her hand and darted over to Juni, stopping less than an inch from the human's nose. She was so close Juni might have felt a little breeze come from the flapping wings. The fairy smiled pleasantly, playfully tapped the girl on the nose, and turned, fluttering away, her wings clipping the tip of the nose as she went.

Rose went back to her home-in-a-bowl, picking up a raspberry and beginning to eat it pip by pip, and Zoe took this as an opportunity to talk to her fellow Ravenclaw. "She's fine, just as energetic as always. Your fairy?"

Still not having many ideas for names, the girl said the first few that came to her mind. "Well... you can call her 'Fae', it means fairy, which is simple enough. Or you could do something more like, I don't know, 'Faebelle'. Wait, no, that sounds too much like fable so 'Faebella'." Zoe thought for another moment. "Or 'Fabala'. That sounds pretty. 'Fabala' sounds like it would fit a green creature."

Zoe sat down on her bed, facing Juni. "I'm not that good at naming either, everything I make is short, simple. Like my name." She looked over at Rose, still eating the raspberry. One was usually a full meal for the tiny creature.

"I really do enjoy having these fairies. I wonder if Lovegood Sanctuary would let us adopt them, or something like them." Zoe turned back to Juni. "I might encourage someone in my family to get some creature from there, as I'm not sure my parents would allow something else in the house. We already have three owls and a cat." Plus she'd have to bring it to Hogwarts if she ever wanted to see it, and, unless Hagrid approved of it as a project, the Ravenclaw knew that wasn't allowed.