First day at the Ministry as Junior Obliviator.

A little nervously and hoping to make a good impression with the rest of the Ministry, Fenice stepped out of the lift on level three, and began to walk in the direction of her office, wanting to organize the desk in the time she had before her first task and before her services were required. As she passed her fellow co-workers she said, "Good morning! I'm Fenice!"

Ella returned from Constance's office with her new flower in hand. Not so scary after all... She thought happily. Luckily, she had brought a couple of flower pots filled with soil with her to work, wanting to brighten her space up with flowers of some sort. She figured she would step out and buy some seeds when she knew how much space she would have to herself. She hadn't unpacked them yet and she certainly hadn't expected her boss to give her a flower. Pulling the green pot from her box of things, she pushed the flower into the soil. If Constance knew her stuff, and judging from the amount of plants she had-she did, then this flower's roots would grow right into the soil. She smiled as she placed the pot right next to her lucky elephant. "Perfect." She said with a smile.

Kammy lifted her eyebrows and chuckled.
"What, you don't have one? They're all the rage right now..." She replied sarcastically, but good naturedly. "Ah, sorry. How can I be sarcastic when you dont even know my name yet...how rude of me...Kammy Patricia..." She added with a smile and held out her hand. She always was like that, overly herself with people shes just met...

She let her eyes pass over the pensieve...and sighed.
"Uh...I just thought I should buy one...being in this department and all..." She ran a hand through her light brown hair. "But I haven't had much luck, and i dont know where to store it, either..." Blah. Kammy was too tired to deal with it much.

Gabi raised an eyebrow. Was this girl trying sarcasm on HER? Gabriela Schultz?? After a moment of shock and wondering what snappy retort she should use on this girl, Gabi smiled. Rather than bite her head off, she decided this was a girl she could probably get along with. Sarcasm was Gabi's third language...the first and second being German and English, obviously.

"Nice to meet you Kammy, I'm Gabriela," she said, shaking the woman's hand. She peered at the pensieve and eyed it cautiously. "I can't say I've ever thought these would be useful up here, but you never know...what division are you in?" she asked. Certainly not charms, she guessed, since she couldn't think of a reason that she'd ever need to use on for her own job.

Jun walked at one of a purple cubicle who will be his work area for now. He chose the empty one at the corner. It was a little bit dusty. Jun decided to clean it before he put his item there.

"Scourgify." he casted. After he cleaned it, he took doraemon action figure from his bag and put it at his table. It looked childish, huh? But Jun loved it. Naoko gave it to him. He just smiled to see that.

Kammy shook her hand and nodded. She had s nice, normal name, unlike Kammy.
"Pleasure is mine," she said with a warm smile. She glanced at the pensieve and scratched her head curiously. "Gabriela."

"Well...I'm in the office of misinformation...I think. My job deals with pensieves...i think," so....Kammy still wasn't really sure what her job was...? that was...completely normal...right? The young woman opened a drawer in her desk and scowled at the papers stuffed inside...had someone been using her desk?!?! She was NEVER this disorganized!

Tsk tsk. This woman wasn't really informed on what her job was, and whose fault was THAT? Gabi still wasn't sure what her opinion on that woman was. She really hadn't see her enough to judge.

"So do you rewatch memories to see what REALLY happened or something?" she asked, knowing full well the woman might not know the answer. She looked at her own, prestine desk a few feet away and sighed. If only everyone were blessed with such fantastic organizational skills as she had been. "Need some help with that?" she asked politely, twirling her wand with her fingertips.

Kammy saw that look. She thought that Kammy was a HUGE slob. This wasnt true! Kammy was just having a bad...year. perhaps.
"I'm not messy, I SWEAR. You should see my flat...its neat and tidy..." She stated, a little defensively, and added, "I was a ravenclaw..so I had to be perfect all the time..." She shook her head, wondering when she had let this disaster happen to her poor desk!

At Gabrielle's next question, Kammy lowered her eyes. This woman was NOT getting a very good impression of Kammy...she was never this...unprepared. or ignorant.
"Well...I don't know...you know, paying a visit to the head's office wouldnt be a bad idea, huh?" And she shrugged. This was terrible. Kammy glanced at her desk and pulled out one from a few months ago. It was an old letter...why did she stil have this?!

"Uh...perhaps..." She shot the other woman a nervous smile and waved her own wand. The papers shot from inside the drawer and stacked into one large pile on top of her desk, only this time the pile was neat. Now for the sorting...

Now Gabi felt sorry for the poor girl. "Ravenclaws don't have to be perfect ALL the time," she assured her with a kind smile. She felt bad, the girl seemed to think she had been passing extreme judgement on her for being messy...well, maybe she had, but not KNOWINGLY. "I apologize, I hope you don't think I was being incredibly judgmental...it's a bad habit of mine, I don't even notice it," she added. She REALLY did have to work on that. Twas an awful habit.

"If it makes you feel any better I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing here either," she added with a chuckle. Sure, she knew what a Charms Developer did but she had no idea what assignment she was to be working on. Her current assignment was unpacking. And that was done. So now...socializing?

The coffee did a poor job at keeping her awake. She cradled the near empty cup in her hands. Mandie had started staying late at work, she was starting to run quite low in her Gringotts account. She rubbed her eyes and yawned, making her way over to the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee's work area and sitting down at her desk that was covered in various scrap pieces of parchment and faded photographs; both muggle and magical.

Ugh. Too much work for her tired brain! She leant back in her chair. Mandie smoothed her blouse and leant forward again. Better get started at least. She dipped her quill into her ink pot and started on some drafts.

Maine walked into the work area, tea flask in her right hand and a file full of completed paperwork in the other. Making sure not to trip over anything, Maine made her way to the Task Force's work area and set her file down, sorting through the leaves of paper.

Looking up, though, she found someone who seemed rather tired. Still holding her flask, she made her way over. "Long night?" she asked, her voice soft. She'd been doing paperwork all night, and honestly could barely cover up the eye bags.

Mandie shuffled some parchment at her desk and looked up, "Yeah. Got a situation with some green mice and color-changing salamanders." She smiled briefly at the woman, "I'm Mandie." She tucked her dark hair behind her ear and sipped the luke-warm coffee.

Her make-up was not well done today. She had slept in and only had time for a shower and breakfast; the make-up had been an afterthought when she had arrived at work that morning. She hadn't thought to touch up her nails, she noticed now as she glanced at her hand resting on the parchment, that the pale pink had chipped around the edges. "What division are you from?" It'd be good to meet some more from the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee.

Maine smiled as she peered at the woman's paperwork. That just seemed like a lot. No wonder she had eye bags, really. "That sounds interesting," she smiled, just slightly amused. "I've got desk lamps hopping around like humans. Not exactly easy trying to get them to stop it... Finite's not working." as it should.

Maine smiled at Mandie, still hugging her tea. "I'm Charmayne, though most people just call me Maine." That was just because she'd rip you head off if you didn't, but oh well... "I'm on the Experimental Charms Committee, Junior Task Force agent."

Ashley approached her desk with a steaming hot cup of tea and a furrowed brow. She had just got back from reading her first assignment ever as a Potion Identification Analyst and was eager to get going. She sat down, placing her tea gently off to the side, and pulled out some of her notes about potion identifiers. All she knew for sure was that someone had recieved a deep orange potion and the only ingredient was wormwood. She began flipping through her notes, wondering if any of her coworkers had any more information on the potion.

In the working area a rather aged witch appeared, dresses in purple and black. "hello, I'm Joining you. Just call me CADET7. You wouldn't remember my real name as its Welsh and very long. I've been on a special assignment reviewing some experimental spells. My background is in specialized Egyptian and Asian potions and spells, having studied at the University of Cairo and in Nepal and Tibet. The Ministry gave me some advance work and I,m here to report on the status. Could you point out the way to the department head's office"


Ashley pointed the way. "oh" she said, "do you know what potions have an deep orange color and Contain wormwood?"

Cadet7 looked at her and gently replied, "does it contain root of asphodel and sopophorous bean juice? If it does, it may be an improperly brewed Draught of Living Death. It should turn pink to lilac after stirring properly, but too often too much of the valerian root is added.
I would start to look at Golpalott's third law principles and use Sacarpin's Revelaspell."

Ashley thanked Cadet7 and directed the way to the department head office.

"Cadet7 reporting, as requested. Cadet7 sat in the chair next to the desk. "to bring you up to date on the status of the experimental charm, number 76-0122, Time and Space Placement. The first test went well. My report, provided under separate cover, outlined the time displacement, from 2076 back to 2012. The space displacement, limited to within the confines of Greater London, succeeded in achieving, in coordination with the time, a successful arrival at the Royal Festival Hall on 24 January, 2012' at 6 pm in the evening. It was only off by 30 minutes and represented a tolerable effort within the expected range of accuracy. Fortunately, no one in the muggle community was aware of my sudden appearance in the "costumed" attendees. Expecting the time variable to be greater, I selected a black mourning gown from the 1880's, but was lucky enough to be dressed appropriately for the event. Some how, I also became an attendee at the film premier due to winning the costume competition. Who knew. Get lucky sometimes. Maybe there is a bit of Felix Felicis in the potion required to go with the charm. Further tests. Will let us know."

Having completed her report, Cadet7 drifted through the work area and coordinated her personal communication devices with the Ministry. Having assignments all over the world, her owl could not fly fast enough to deliver her office work. She had tried a hawk once, but that caused havoc the first and only timed she tried, and had to pay for three new owls that the hawk thought was lunch.

Well sometimes muggle devices do work..or at least give you a way to get to the post office close to where your parchment will be delivered.

Cadet7 sat at her desk and started to set the controls for the next test of 76-0122.

Yup, there was the box on her desk. It gave a lerch which meant that the thing was inside, Imogine brought some tea with her to her desk, but second guessed it because of how the enchanted teapot might react to it! She took a sip and opened the lid. The teapot was steaming and and jumping arround, it had a mouth with fangs that were nashing. She immediatly closed it back up.

She thought she better consult the other Junior Reversal Agent but they diddn't seem to be arround. She got started wthout them, hopefully they's notice when they walked in.

She was provided with a book of problem solving spells, she looked inside for anything that would help her. She found a spell that would shut the teapot's mouth while she tried to reveres the curse.
She practices the wand movement shown in the book a few times and then practiced annunciating the spell.
She thought she was ready, she re-opened the box, aimed her wand at the victom and said "Zipperious" and did the straight line movement with her wand. It worked! A zipper appeared across the mouth of the teapot.

Having finished her lunch break, Gabi re-entered the office and headed to her desk, ready to start delegating people and...stuff. She'd kind of just been plopped into this whole leadership thing, but she could handle it. She looked around for her fellow Charms Developers but couldn't see them anywhere, so she sat at her desk and started looking at the headlines of the Daily Prophet that had been plopped on her desk. She suddenly looked up when she heard someone walking past her and talking to the Department Head's office...

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Originally Posted by cadet7

In the working area a rather aged witch appeared, dresses in purple and black. "hello, I'm Joining you. Just call me CADET7. You wouldn't remember my real name as its Welsh and very long. I've been on a special assignment reviewing some experimental spells. My background is in specialized Egyptian and Asian potions and spells, having studied at the University of Cairo and in Nepal and Tibet. The Ministry gave me some advance work and I,m here to report on the status. Could you point out the way to the department head's office"


Ashley pointed the way. "oh" she said, "do you know what potions have an deep orange color and Contain wormwood?"

Cadet7 looked at her and gently replied, "does it contain root of asphodel and sopophorous bean juice? If it does, it may be an improperly brewed Draught of Living Death. It should turn pink to lilac after stirring properly, but too often too much of the valerian root is added.
I would start to look at Golpalott's third law principles and use Sacarpin's Revelaspell."

Ashley thanked Cadet7 and directed the way to the department head office.

"Cadet7 reporting, as requested. Cadet7 sat in the chair next to the desk. "to bring you up to date on the status of the experimental charm, number 76-0122, Time and Space Placement. The first test went well. My report, provided under separate cover, outlined the time displacement, from 2076 back to 2012. The space displacement, limited to within the confines of Greater London, succeeded in achieving, in coordination with the time, a successful arrival at the Royal Festival Hall on 24 January, 2012' at 6 pm in the evening. It was only off by 30 minutes and represented a tolerable effort within the expected range of accuracy. Fortunately, no one in the muggle community was aware of my sudden appearance in the "costumed" attendees. Expecting the time variable to be greater, I selected a black mourning gown from the 1880's, but was lucky enough to be dressed appropriately for the event. Some how, I also became an attendee at the film premier due to winning the costume competition. Who knew. Get lucky sometimes. Maybe there is a bit of Felix Felicis in the potion required to go with the charm. Further tests. Will let us know."

Having completed her report, Cadet7 drifted through the work area and coordinated her personal communication devices with the Ministry. Having assignments all over the world, her owl could not fly fast enough to deliver her office work. She had tried a hawk once, but that caused havoc the first and only timed she tried, and had to pay for three new owls that the hawk thought was lunch.

Well sometimes muggle devices do work..or at least give you a way to get to the post office close to where your parchment will be delivered.

Cadet7 sat at her desk and started to set the controls for the next test of 76-0122.

Huh. She hadn't realized the Department Head was out, apparently. She sat up and straightened her skirt before approaching the woman...Cadet7 she said? Interesting name. She cleared her throat and held out a hand for a shake. "Hello," she said, plastering a smile on her face. "My name is Gabriela Schultz, I'm currently in charge while Miss Nightingale, the Department Head, is on leave," she explained. "What's this assignment about again? Sorry, it was hard to follow from my desk in the corner...I wasn't even aware anyone was working on an assignment," she added. Why hadn't she heard about this?? She'd have jumped on to help in a heartbeat!

GAbi? " Oh hello", Cadet7 replied. "Cadet7 is short for Claridwen Alexandra Dentron Elphin Taliesin, the VII. That's why I use Cadet7 . I was unaware that the department head was away. I just reported to the picture, as I usually do, due to my traveling schedule, so it was not unusual. I've used that reporting method many times when it is available at the Ministry liaisons in Egypt and Nepal. Well, to bring you up to speed as acting, and I don't know how much you heard, I have been working on some experimental potion-charm combinations. Traditionally I have received these at my last post in Cardiff, and was fortunate when the Brigadoonium charm was lifted, able to return back to London. I tested 76-0122' the time and space combination with some success. I guess it would be better for someone my age to try it, and not lose on of you young folks.". Cadet7 stood up proudly and stated,"I do not look my age, thank the Brigadoonium charm, for I graduated Hogwarts in 1935, a proud Gryffindor, and first in the class in potions and charms. I was also fortunate to have fellowships in Cairo, Tibet and Nepal, before I returned for specialized mortuary services and eventually a professorship in Wales."

GAbi looked at Cadet7 and asked "How long are you here for?"

"As long as it takes to get this next test plan approved.". Cadet7 expressed how glad she was to meet GAbi, and returned to her project plan.

She waited a few minutes for her co-agent to get there. Maybe they were sick today, so Imogine was left to do the assignment herself. She rather liked it that way actually, there would be no disagreements.

She tried some simple spells she knew such as repairo. But none of them seemed to work, the teapot kept jumping away. Then a little lightbulb went on, find out how the kid did it. "Revelio Wand Motions", Imogine said. And she was surprised that this worked. The wand movement that the child did was revealed, now all Imogine had to do was reverse those wand motions.
She tossed the wand onto the desk (cause thats the last thing the kid did), and picked it up again then waved it from left to right three times. The teapot was back to normal!

Blake walked through the desk area with a bubble over her head. Yes she looked silly, she knew that. But she would rather look silly and make it back home that night than to risk inhaling something foul and landing in an early grave.

That stain in the corner of he office had been identified, but they had yet to remove it. So far it was defying them with rabid efficiency.

Blake was going to remove it. That she was sure of. That stain might be strong, but she grew up in a girls home sleeping sandwiched between the Two Ton Twins. It didn't stand a chance.

[B]"Really? That sounds really interesting,"[/B] Gabi said. Why had she never gotten a chance to try and combine potions with charms?? It was a very interesting field to try and break in to, that was for sure. "Well if you need any help, just let me know, I'll be at my desk," she offered her, even though it sounded like Cadet7 had everything under control. Clearly the woman was experienced enough to handle everything without Gabi hovering over her.

She turned on her heel and headed back to her desk, resuming her reading of the newspaper.

Opening the box, Maine didn't realize that it was probably one of those hopping desk lamps she was assigned to. Darn. Now, she had to resort to chasing it around the office like a maniac. How did those hooligans manage to gt them to do this, anyway?!

"No, don't trash my desk! Come back!" she cried, chasing after it with her wand in hand. "Immobulus," she fired. And missed. "Come back!"

And now it was just mocking her.

Just as soon as Gabi sat back down at her desk with her papper, Imogine popped up and said "Im done my assignment!". She had not talked to the new department head yet, and decided that it would be a good thing to get to know her. "So how come you don't have a desk in the department head's office?" Imogine asked. "Why is your Desk out here?"

Brad slowly opened the door to the office and strolled in, taking a quick peek around the place. Hm. He was a bit late - family problems - and he hoped no one would notice. Quick as a flash he crossed the room and settled into his seat at his desk as if he'd been there the entire time.

"Yes, I had wondered myself if it was Draught of living death gone bad. The color threw me, though." She admitted with a smile. "Thanks so much for your help. I appreciate it." She added, nodding to her coworker.

Ashley put on her protective gloves and goggles and moved the unknown potion to the center of her desk, pointing her wand at it warily. "SpeRevelio!" She said, furrowing her brow. It was as her and her coworker had suspected...someone had unsuccessfuly tried to produce the potion, then gave it to one of the ministry workers. She frowned, wondering why someone would do such a thing.

Having accomplished her assigned task, she decided to find Gabi and let her know.