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Term 36: January - April 2014 Term Thirty-Six: Aging Staff and Students (September 2082 - June 2083)

 
 
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It would be rude to simply walk into Professor McCormack's office, so please knock on his door and wait for him to let you in. His simple, wooden door is almost certainly closed, but there is a good chance the professor is in so hopefully your wait won't be long.

There are a pair of antique-looking wooden chairs placed outside the door almost as an afterthought as if the professor wasn't really expecting any visitors. They aren't exactly uncomfortable, but probably aren't the type of chairs that one would spend any type of real time relaxing in. But it works to discourage students from hanging out for too long in front of Professor McCormack's office - they are simply placed there for you to wait momentarily for him to attend to you. He is a busy man after all - he has work to do and you have homework, or Quidditch, or something... right?


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How many History of Magic Professors had she had since she'd gotten here? It was basically a new one every year after Professor Scabior left and good ridins too. Mr. Vinteren had been golden, but he left too and the last one was only good for taking pictures of her grandfather to class and giving them optional essays, like those would ever get done. Snort.

Now she wanted to know what this new one was like. With any luck he'd be a Vinteren 2.0 then she'd MAYBE learn something in History of Magic...or end up right back here at the end of the year begging to be exempt from that exam. Either worked for her--

Holy kneazle!

Lex stopped suddenly when she got to what she assumed was meant to be the seating area for his office. She blinked, taking in the old chairs before walking to the door and giving it a few brisk knocks. Instead of sitting while she waited, she drew her wand and began poking at the chairs, testing the structures. It wouldn't surprize her if they fell apart. Merlin. No way was she chancing a seat on one of those.
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Cara walked to the waiting area...she needed to discuss somethings with the teacher.
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How many History of Magic Professors had she had since she'd gotten here? It was basically a new one every year after Professor Scabior left and good ridins too. Mr. Vinteren had been golden, but he left too and the last one was only good for taking pictures of her grandfather to class and giving them optional essays, like those would ever get done. Snort.

Now she wanted to know what this new one was like. With any luck he'd be a Vinteren 2.0 then she'd MAYBE learn something in History of Magic...or end up right back here at the end of the year begging to be exempt from that exam. Either worked for her--

Holy kneazle!

Lex stopped suddenly when she got to what she assumed was meant to be the seating area for his office. She blinked, taking in the old chairs before walking to the door and giving it a few brisk knocks. Instead of sitting while she waited, she drew her wand and began poking at the chairs, testing the structures. It wouldn't surprize her if they fell apart. Merlin. No way was she chancing a seat on one of those.
Once the staff meeting was over, Braith walked the short distance back towards his office. Such a busy start to the term but he had expected that and the man needed to make a few notes and adjustments to his plans before maybe a little light reading. So of course his office was the obvious choice. But what he didn't expect to see once he got to his door was a student waiting there. Was she to see him?

Braith watched the girl in red purposely as he approached. Poking his chairs, what? "Careful there, those are antiques," he said as he magically unlocked his office door. He could just see careless sparks shooting from her wand and burning his chairs to pieces. Perhaps bringing his found relics was not a good idea with careless children around if they did not appreciate their value. Beanbag chairs might have been a better option for them.

"So, what brings you here today, Miss...?" Class hadn't started yet so he hadn't had the chance to learn the girls name obviously. "Need to speak with me?" He was mildly curious about the nature of her visit and he gestured for her to follow him as he opened the door. "C'mon." It was a little more comfortable inside.

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Braith had dozed off in his office after spending a couple hours reading about Egyptian curses, his growling stomach snapping him back to the land of consciousness. He blinked awake and glanced at his watch. At least it wasn't too late, but he was quite hungry. Had he missed lunch? Though not really a set meal time right now, he vaguely wondered if he could still get something to eat in the Great Hall, then thought maybe he'd stop by Josephina's office since it was so close to see if she had any more of those delicious peppermint humbug cookies. They would be more filling than the candies he kept in his office and might hold him over till dinner time.

He stepped out of his office but before he could get very far he noticed a student hanging out by his door. Had she knocked and he hadn't heard? Oops. "Hello there," the professor said in greeting. "Did you need to see me about something?" Unless she was just exploring or something, he figured that was the reason she was here. "C'mon in." He turned back and returned inside his office expecting the girl to follow.


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It was the holidays soon and Botros hadn't had a proper talk with his former protege yet. However, this was the best opportunity for them to have a nice tea and chat. After getting inside from the freezing weather outside, Botros brushed off the snow from his gloves and coat then walked up the moving staircases until he was at McCormack's corridor. He had a wrapped up present for the young man, a welcome-to-hogwarts one and a happy-holidays one.

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It was the holidays soon and Botros hadn't had a proper talk with his former protege yet. However, this was the best opportunity for them to have a nice tea and chat. After getting inside from the freezing weather outside, Botros brushed off the snow from his gloves and coat then walked up the moving staircases until he was at McCormack's corridor. He had a wrapped up present for the young man, a welcome-to-hogwarts one and a happy-holidays one.

Once at the door of the office, Botros knocked softly with his gloved fist.
One more homework essay to read and grade, then he was going to reward himself with a little nap, once he transfigured his chair into a foldaway bed with a wave of his wand. He felt like he had been grading papers all day as the owls kept coming, which was great actually, he certainly wasn't complaining. He could just use maybe use a break.

Merlin, some of these kids were creative. It was really refreshing to see and he was busy thoughtfully read over the most current essay delivered via owl today when he looked up at hearing a knock on his office door. He finished the sentence then set the parchment down and got up to answer the door.

"Oh.. hey Professor," Braith grinned at the man upon seeing him as he opened the door, slightly surprised that it wasn't a student. And yeah, old habits died hard, he supposed, still seeing him as teacher before colleague. "What a nice surprise, Ab. Please, come on in." He opened the door wider and moved aside so the man could step inside.
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Cutty pulled up to the outside of their visiting professor's office, his eyes darting about in search of the clay for their homework. And, there it was just where the Professor said it would be. He moved over to it, stuck his hand in the noticeable increase of moisture hitting his skin as he realized the clay had been spellbound so that it wouldn't dry out. Good idea on behalf of the sellers or perhaps Professor McCormack had done it himself. A wrapped cube was brought up by Cutty's hand and he, oddly, sniffed it. Muddy and earthy, like you'd expect, but not like normal clay he'd worked with before. The boy gripped the bundle and let it squish itself way between the spaces formed by his spread fingers.

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With an Alexa at her heels, Alice trudged her way through the corridors and to Professor McCormack's office right after breakfast was over. They had homework to do, and Merlin knew the two girls had already procrastinated on the assignment long enough. But since the first floor was on their way up to the common room and all, now was a good time to go grab that clay.

"How do you even pronounce that?" she asked, halting to a stop in front of the box near the door. "Fey-nce.... Fa-eiii-nce.... Fai-eh-ence..."

Whatever. It was just clay, and Alice grabbed a big chunk of it, then plopped down right there in the hall.

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This was a disaster in the making. Legit. One didn't FEED Alexa Cambridge then expect her to do work after but there was nothing to be done about that now. Procrastination was catching up with them and as much as she wanted a nap, they needed to get this done.

"I dunno. I'm not gonna try." Strange words right after breakfast? No thanks. Give her brain some time to proper wake up first, jeez.

Lex grabbed a handful, then another...just in case. "I don't think we need a lot of this, yeah? It's just an amulet. Shouldn't be that big." Even while she said that she took another handful. Mistakes happened ALL the time and guess who wouldn't be walking back down 4762945 stairs to get more? THIS GIRL. After the little mishap with the planets during Astronomy homework, Lex had no confidence that Alice would have shared her clay either, so yeah, taking extra.

"Let' go--" Alice was sitting on the floor. Lex blinked wondering how serious she was but after a moment of staring it seemed legit so she plopped down next to her.....Right then.
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"But we can make funny shapes with the extra. Like runes. Or Quaffles. Or bad words. Or we can throw bits of it at Hufflepuffs." Alice spoke with all seriousness, already beginning to mold her clay. She knew that the amulet could be in any shape and that her symbol from class had to be carved into it, but it felt like a better idea to make both of them the same.

'Cept... what was her shape again? It was hard to recall, so Alice just summoned it, and it suddenly came flying through the corridor after a few minutes of waiting. Ta-da.

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KNOT OF ISIS
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• translates to mean 'welfare' or 'life'
• represents eternal life and resurrection
• resembles a knot used to secure the garments of the gods
• used as early as the third dynasty, first for decoration
• unknown origin, perhaps a variant of the ankh
• associated with Isis and sometimes Osiris, Hathor, Nephthys, and Nut
• frequently appears with the djed pillar or column
• sometimes called 'the girdle of Isis' or 'the blood of Isis'
• often used as a funerary amulet made of red stone or glass

Knot of Isis then, was it? Following a quick inspection of the drawing, she began squishing her amulet into a shape clearly resembling the tyet. It was slow work, an assignment meant for more artistic hands than her own, but she gave it her best shot.
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All those things sounded promising and Lex wanted to agree with them....except maybe the Hufflepuff one unless they were willing to be specific with the Hufflepuffs they were aiming at. There were a few she'd have loved to hurl clay at but then there were others she'd pass on claying for obvious Hair Boy reasons.

"We can't go making bad words with 'em. They'll take points then this homework would have been pointless. Unless you mean make 'em for our own use but then no one would see and that'd be pointless too." They just couldn't win a case like this. Bad words just got disapproving looks. Period.

She took the clay in hand and began moulding it into a circular shape. "Reckon if we put some super vicious curse on this, hidden by a Rune the Professor would be upset--I think he'd be impressed and say we were paying attention then we could gift 'em to someone." And collect them later, obviously. It was still worth her grade you know.

Lex paused her shaping and gave the thing a curious look...there was meant to be something on it....

Oh! She could put that symbol she'd chosen in class. That...erm....shen was it? Yeah. It'd be perfect.
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"Bad words... that we can teach to first years. With clay." Nods. The best student leaders of the lot here, everyone, corrupting children's minds since 2083. "I don't know any super vicious curses, though. And if I gifted them to who I wanted to people would get mad at me." ... not that it was a reason to completely rule out that idea. They'd see.

Once she had a properly shaped tyet, tried to remember what was next. Carving... no... no, you couldn't carve into mushy clay, could you? So it was hardening, then. 'Cept what was the spell for that?

"D... Diro!" No? She knew SOME vowel sound came after the first letter', even though she wasn't sure which one. Alice thought that was warrant enough to try all of them. "Daro. Dero. Doro. Duro." With each incantation, she did the proper movement of drawing an unfinished 'D' in the air. On her last try, the amulet seemed to harden into stone.

So it was Duro, then? Noted.
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Teaching bad words to firsties didn't sound like the best idea. "They wouldn't know when to not use them then we'll get blamed. I don't take blame for stupid firsties. Ever." So basically what she was saying was they could so long as no finger pointing happened at the end of the day and if the finger pointing couldn't be avoided then they shouldn't be pointed at her. She had enough crimes to answer for thank you very much.

"I can show you some vicious curses." Lex offered with a casual shrug. "Got a whole book of them for getting badged, learned a couple of 'em already." But her absent minded shaping of 'shen' abruptly came to a halt at the next thing she said. Lex raised a puzzled eyebrow at her, trying not to make faces but Merlin this was hard. "Since when does Alice Fischer care about getting other people mad?" Serious question here Alice, this was worrying to say the least.

As she shaped the last of her symbol onto her amulet she watched Alice try the spell...good thing she had her you know because Lex had completely forgotten about that part. Yikes.

From her general observation she ruled out any of the first ones the girl had uttered but the last seemed to do the trick so....unfinished 'D', "Duro." Was that it then? Op! Yeah, amulet going hard as a rock on her. Alice was brilliant. Mhm.

They could leave now, yes? Before the Professor showed up and wanted a chat...though she wouldn't have minded that. Interesting man he was.

Lex looked down at her basically finished amulet and drew her wand. "Intaglio!" She drew her wand along the rough outline of shen she'd made in the clay earlier. Though if you asked her, diffindo could have worked just as well.
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"People won't know who taught 'em to the kids." Obviously. Unless the little rats told. "We can say our name is Theodore Kinsley." Because they'd believe two girls had the exact same name, mhm. "I gave you a whole book of them, too. Hexes and stuff. For your birthday some year." And did she really want to take up an offer to learn from Cambridge? No. No, thank you.

As for the next question... "I care when some people get mad. You care when I get mad." Heh. That came in handy, it did.

Focusing her attention back on her amulet, Alice tried to start carving. Only.. what was the incantation? She couldn't remember this one either until Lex started using it, and then it all came back. "Intaglio..." ... did they have to say a name for this as well? Just in case? "... tyet tyet tyet tyet..."

While she spoke, the seventh year drew out the shape of the Knot of Isis onto her stone amulet, watching in satisfaction as the symbol was cut. Voila!

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