She might have been a little late meeting Ethan, but she had good reason. They were meeting in the library and she had to just do a double check of her hair before she ever went into the library. Now that she was here she felt kind of bad for making him wait.

As she entered the room and looked around, she saw him at the front counter. "Ethan, hello!" She gave a little wave and moved her bag to her left shoulder. The books were a little heavy she brought with her. "Do you want to go to the study tables to start? I brought my books that I told you I had. They should help you with the basic facial readings."

Once she made sure Ethan knew she was ready to start the little lesson, she turned her head towards the librarian. "Hello Mr. Kitridge, how are you doing today?" Could they use his face to study for this lesson? Maybe Ethan already asked.

Just when Ethan was about to reveal to the Librarian his mission for the day, Professor Cassie had made her presence known, causing the sixth year to turn and grin at the woman. Was there something different about her? Not that he’s blind, but he was just being the typical boy who is being oblivious of the extra styling of her hair, or if she had changed her lipstick’s colour for the occasion. If anything, that would be the job of the man who was standing behind the front desk. For the record though, he’s not aware of their relationship whatsoever.

“Hello Professor. Glad to see you here.” Because FINALLY, there was going to be someone who will teach him the art of Physiognomy. It was something that he hoped would be taken up in one of his lectures, but it seems that it’s not part of their class agenda. Given that fact, it drove the Slytherin to pursue the topic further because it’s something he knew that most won’t be aware of, and that it’s a tool that he can use to become the greatest detective wizard EVER.

Oh, and the heavy bag didn’t go unnoticed. “Here, let me help you professor.” Ethan took the liberty to carry it off of the professor’s shoulder, and hung it on his own. The Slytherin didn’t feel the weight of the bag, because he’s way too excited to start the session, plus, of course, he’s being a gentleman. Mordred taught him how to be one. Yep! “Of course, ma’am. Anywhere I guess? As long as it’s quiet…” Because he’ll be needing all the concentration he can get.

Ethan then shifted his attention to the Librarian next, and an idea came to mind. “Professor Cassie is going to help me with the basics of Physiognomy, sir. I was wondering if you have related reading materials for that? Also…it would be great if you join us Mr. Kitridge,” The Slytherin said giving him a grin. “It’s not everyday you get free, quality knowledge.” That should do the trick, hmm? He’s a Ravenclaw after all. Teehee!

SPOILER!!: Leo!

Closing his eyes for a moment Leo let Hady and Angel wait as he considered the dynamics and possibilities of the sleepover. It would definitely be a positive push for camaraderie between the girls and that was something he wanted to encourage. Opening his eyes Leo replied. "I think it's a good idea that is definitely worth making happen. We staffers aren’t planning any 'official' sleepovers this year to encourage bonding between students and houses so it’d be up to you two to plan and put it into action. I suggest hosting it in the Room of Requirement for privacy and security purposes."

Letting his gaze wander from one girl to the other Leo said It's up to you, how big you want to make the sleepover but it's probably wise to invite not everyone but a select few girls since if you make it too big it might turn into a catastrophe." As for the question about including boys or not he added."Since this is the first time you do this I think you can exclude the boys and focus on making something for girls and not something co-ed." Keeping it separate was better or Leo would have to worry about if Hady and Angel would ask prefects to join in to keep an eye on things or not.

After having given her explanation there was a moment in time where she was highly convinced that Leo was going to shoot down the idea instantly. In all honesty she wouldn't have blamed him as this was a HUGE idea but it so needed to happen! Shifting from foot to foot she waited in silence for his answer her eyes moving from him to Angel then back again. He hadn't given an answer yet so maybe his thoughtfulness to this idea was a good thing?

Hady couldn't help but somewhat hold her breath Leo opened his mouth once more to speak. And then he said it was a good idea! OH MY GOSH! Yeah! There was an instant grin on her face as she lightly nudged Angel with her elbow. Had she heard!

"We can do that. We can hand out special invites to those we want to come and possibly ask the elves to help with some small snacks... If it works out well then maybe we can try a larger one another time." The larger sleepover was just a future thought mostly. Right now planning and making THIS sleepover was more then enough. She had one more question about this though. "Do we need to inform the other Head of Houses and the Head Mistress about this so we don't get into trouble or will you be able to let them know you gave us the okay?" Cause really getting into trouble for spending a night in the Room of Requirement with a bunch of friends would stink.

With a quill stuck above his left ear, a full ink bottle and the very large index book opened up in front of him Leo was concentrating on putting in the new books that had come in last week. If he didn’t update the index he’d forget and then he’d be lost when he needed something. Being in his own bubble and writing an author’s name and the title of the book Leo didn’t acknowledge Ethan’s presence until he was about to dip his quill into the ink bottle. Shaking his head Leo flashed the senior boy a smile "Oh, hello! Sorry I didn't see you right away. I was so focused on the task I was performing." Having put away the ink and quill, Leo closed the large index book before he focused on the Slytherin boy. "Now is as good a time as any. What do you need help with?"

Before Leo could hear what exactly the boy needed help with his lovely girlfriend came over to them. Beaming warmly he greeted her with a small wink out the corner of his eye. "Hello Professor Morgan..." He noted that she had done something special with her hair but with a student present he would ask about that later. Putting the heavy book in its place under counter Leo asked. “I’m splendid thank you. How are you?”

Turning his attention to Ethan he said "Of course, books on Physiognmy. I think we might have one or two in stock." Hopefully it wasn’t one of the ones that had Cassie had brought with her in her bag. Using his wand Leo accioed over, two quite thick books relating to the subject in question; which landed neatly on the counter in front of Ethan and Cassie. "Have a look at those and see if they’ll be of any help. Since it’s slow right now I’m honoured to be asked to join you two." How he was supposed be of use was another story.



Leo wondering why they weren't bouncing around in joy doing cartwheels, he had after all not shot their idea down. In fact he had endorsed it. Eyes focusing on Hady he nodded "That seems like a good plan. The house elves will be happy to help with preparing the snacks and if it turns out to be a success then yes you might be given permission to host an even larger sleepover in the future." Leo was assured that Hady and Angel would make something if they stuck their two heads together and invited the right people. "No, I'll take care of informing the other Head’s of Houses, Headmistress Truebridge and the prefects of your little endeavour in the Room of Requirement. They’ll think it’s a great bonding activity too."

"Do you need anything else?" Leo wondered eyes glancing from Hady to Angel.

SPOILER!!: Leo!

Leo wondering why they weren't bouncing around in joy doing cartwheels, he had after all not shot their idea down. In fact he had endorsed it. Eyes focusing on Hady he nodded "That seems like a good plan. The house elves will be happy to help with preparing the snacks and if it turns out to be a success then yes you might be given permission to host an even larger sleepover in the future." Leo was assured that Hady and Angel would make something if they stuck their two heads together and invited the right people. "No, I'll take care of informing the other Head’s of Houses, Headmistress Truebridge and the prefects of your little endeavour in the Room of Requirement. They’ll think it’s a great bonding activity too."

"Do you need anything else?" Leo wondered eyes glancing from Hady to Angel.

EHHHHHH! Hady was extremely pleased now with this. Not only had Leo okayed their idea but he liked it, plus he said they might be able to host a larger one if things worked out! And they would work out. That Hady would make sure of. Then to even further her happiness both Angel and herself didn't have to go about finding the other Head of Houses or the Headmistress and explain this. It was all working out just great and she was very much ready to get planning.

"That all sounds great! We won't let any of you down, this sleepover will be awesome, Angel and I will make sure of that," she answered with a bright grin and a very firm nod of her head trying to hold down her excitement and keep from bouncing around as that certainly wouldn't be very Slytherin like. Cause there was noway she'd mess this chance up. As for needing anything else yes she did actually have another question which was completely unrelated to this topic.

"Um I did have one unrelated question... would you happen to know of a charm or a transfiguration technique...as I'm not sure which it was honestly that can turn a drink like a glass of water into coffee..well iced coffee or something like that?" She knew there was one or maybe a few but like she'd told Zeke her father wasn't fond of teaching it to her.

Well wasn’t that super sweet of him, Cassie handed over the bag that had her books in them, “Why thank you Ethan. You are such a gentleman.” Very good quality in a young man, hopefully through the years he’d keep that. “I think the study tables would be best. It would give us room to lay the books out and look through a few different ones.” It was always a good detective to cross check material, so she assumed Ethan would want to do that.

Oh he hadn’t asked Leo yet and her eyes lifted to her boyfriend’s as Ethan asked him to join the fun. “I’m doing very well Mr. Kitridge. We could really use someone like yourself that have very nice natural features for a reading.” A slit blush went over her cheeks at saying this and she looked down a bit as if she had noticed something on the floor. She really probably didn’t need to even look at his face to do an accurate reading, she had studied it many times.

Taking in the books he had put in front of them, the blonde divination professor smiled, “These would work just fine, thank you.” Her growing smile on his words that he would join them, “Very well, shall we head to a table?”

While the two adults did their...thing, Ethan kept himself oblivious to it all and eyed the newly acquired books that Mr. Kitridge had. The Slytherin wondered about the topic of said books, but soon realized that he was slowly getting distracted. He was there to research and learn about Face Reading and not get distracted with other information. The right distraction came along when specific books were summoned and placed before him. Ethan’s face lit up and looked back at the Librarian. He seriously did not expect Hogwarts to have one, but...who was he exactly kidding right? “This will definitely do, sir.”

Oh, and he’s joining??? COOL!

Ethan took both books and carried them on his shoulder because the volumes were too thick to even tuck under his muscled arm. Surely, it doesn’t show disrespect to the books right? He’d rather carry them on his shoulder secured, than under his arm which has the high probability of slipping and dropping said precious books to the floor. Mr. Leobald Kitridge will kill him if that happened. No, he didn’t want his grave to say ‘Death by Books’. Nope.

Turning to Professor Cassie, “Don’t mention it professor. I mean, I owe you a lot already.” Free lessons, eh? He’s totally winning at life. “Yep, sounds good to me. Let’s...go?” he asked as he looked from the woman to the Librarian. Wait...was he missing something? The blushing, that he saw. Josie does that a lot of times when he’s around, and he’d always assumed that the Ravenclaw was just shy. Hmm.

“Right...study tables.” Ethan nodded to both, and turned to walk towards the tables.

Merlin. Adults are weird.

”Oh… no. Not Gryffindor Benny. My cousin Benny is a seventh year Ravenclaw, Benedetta Blane.” She smiled wide. She knew that most people called her Benedetta if they were outside of their family though, so it wasn’t shocking that the Librarian didn’t know her by Benny. ”Yes, my Grandparents and Great-Grandparents were all students here as well.” She grinned at him, happily.

Reading the back of the book, Marsha’s smile grew wider and wider. ”Thank you Professor, this sounds perfect.” She held the book close to her chest as if it was a precious load. ”Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of it.” She grinned at the man and with one more quick look around the library added, ”I’ll be back soon, I need to go to class now. Thank you for all of your help.” She smiled once more, then walked away from the desk to go and pick up her books for her next class.

Smiling broadly Leo said "I'm sure you won't, have fun arranging it!" He was about to lower his head to the parchment closet to him when Hady asked him one last question. Pulling a hand through his curls he said thoughtfully. It'd probably be better if you asked Professor Bellaire about this or Professor Quigley. The only charm I can think of is conglacio for keeping your ice cream cold longer and that wasn’t what you were looking for at all." Totally unhelpful, but he couldn’t help it. He suddenly had an urge for ice cream and lots of it.



Nice natural facial features? If those complimentary words had come from a student and not his girlfriend and colleague Leo would have excused himself quickly remembering something he had to do in another part of the castle. However this came from his girlfriend and thus it was okay. Tidying up the front desk he left a little note in case there was an emergency and then rounded the counter to where Cassie was standing. "Yes, let's go over to the study tables. How does physiognmy work exactly?" Leo wondered out loud as he silently gave Cassie’s left hand a squeeze for the compliment before letting go. Starting to work towards the study tables he wondered. "Is physiognmy a divinatory art you can practice on yourself in front of a mirror or do you need help from someone else?"



"Oh Benny is short for Benedetta. Lovely name by the way." Leo commented. With so many relatives it almost sounded like the Hanover family was one of those old wizarding families that were somehow related to the majority of wizards and witches around like the famous Black's and Weasley's.

"You're welcome dear! Have fun in class!" Leo called after Marsha as she walked away from the counter with the borrowed book close to her chest. Turning to survey the parchments and books on the counter Leo decided he needed some coffee. It might freshen up his memory of what exactly he had been doing before he had been interrupted.

SPOILER!!: Leo

Smiling broadly Leo said "I'm sure you won't, have fun arranging it!" He was about to lower his head to the parchment closet to him when Hady asked him one last question. Pulling a hand through his curls he said thoughtfully. It'd probably be better if you asked Professor Bellaire about this or Professor Quigley. The only charm I can think of is conglacio for keeping your ice cream cold longer and that wasn’t what you were looking for at all." Totally unhelpful, but he couldn’t help it. He suddenly had an urge for ice cream and lots of it.

Hady gave a firm nod of her head. Arranging this was going to take time and patients. With Angel's help however she was sure they could get this done. "I'm sure we will!" They needed to speak to the elffies next it only made sense really. As he gave her the reply it wasn't exactly what she wanted but the snakette couldn't help but laugh quietly. Now she wanted ice cream as well! Good thing her next stop was to the kitchens. "I'll ask them the next time I have a lesson with one of them." There was no rush really with it.

Turning to Angel she gave a look asking she was ready to go or if she had anything else she wanted/needed to ask first.

Surprisingly there was a lot of color-changed stuff around the castle at the moment and Benny was running out of options. So sue him for the fact that he had almost forgot to finish it up before the due date. Heading into the library to study, he spotted the front desk and had a brainstorm. It was normal-colored wood still.

DId he dare color it?

Surely Mr. Kitridge would understand since it was a class project slash homework he was working on.

Still, he didn't necessarily want to get caught. So with as much sneaky calmness as he could muster, Ben approached the desk closer and slipped his wand from his pocket. His thoughts already slipping into focusing on the spell at hand. Then with a quiet yet solid ”Colovaria!” he cast on the desk. It was Gryffindor red in no time and he let out a sigh of relief. And now he was off to the study tables, his wand back in his pocket.

Nothing happened here yo.

The library wasn't exactly his favorite place to go to, but a lot of people went there. From his observations from outside of hte library that is. SO, that obviously meant he had to DO this. Here. He could do it.

With a few larger than ordinary parchments in hand that he was having trouble keeping a grasp on, he took a deep breath and stepped up towards the counter. "Mister... sir?" he asked, peaking over the counter and gently laying one of the posters atop of it. No, he did not just have a brain fart and forget the librarian's name. WHat.

"Is it possible... can you hang up this somewhere? In the library?... Pleaseandthankyou?"

Leo headed back to the front desk after dusting away yet another big chunck of cobwebs nest from around the library. It seemed like the amount of cobwebs had become more excessive lately. It was a fact he didn't appreaciate. It was starting to get irritating.

He had just taken a seat on the stool in front of the counter when a young blond haired boy in lion robes approached him. "Hello" he greeted with a smile. Pulling the poster a little closer, recognizing Airey's lost pet on it he said "Of course I can. Do you have an perferance on where i put the poster? Are you helping Professor Flamsteed looked for his lost pet rock?"

Wiggling his toes in his shoes, he beamed a little, standing a bit taller.

Booya! He was in.

"Yeeaaa, it's for a homework assignment but, he seems pretty sad about it," he trailed off, shifting his weight from one leg to the other, and then back again, and then...back, again. "But, umm, I... don't know? Like, can it be put somewhere where a lot of people would see it? Or something?"

Wherever that may be.

Looking over the counter at the blond youth he nodded thoughtfully. "I think anyone who lost their precious pet would be pretty sad don't you?" Scratching a hand through his hair on his head Leo hummed. "I suppose i can put it up on the library announcement board. Think that will suffice?" Regarding the boy closer he asked curiously "You're a first year right? How are you liking Hogwarts so far?"

He shuffled his feet a little, nodding his head solemnly, "Yeeaaa, I suppose so," he agreed, fiddling with the rest of the posters he had, but the young lad brightened at the librarian's recommendation. "Yea, that would be really cool. Thank you."

Him? Hogwarts? So far?? "Ummm...I like it," he nodded, "I like the common room and the lake and the grounds and the food. The classes are hard though," Which kinda killed a bit of the magic of it all 'cause it took up so much of his time.