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Pips Little Pips, the house elf, crept along the staff table with his head down. He was trying his very VERY hardest to clean the cups and spoons and plates and things without attracting the ire of the staff members, but it was unavoidable that he would be noticed. How could one ignore the occasional head-bashing or the dropping of an empty chair on his long elf-foot?
He mumbled to himself. "Pips is being sorry. Pips is punishing himself. No professors is having to eat off dirty things anymore." The elf twitched his bat-like ears.
India had snuck up to the staff table to say hello to her new Professors when, she spotted the batlike ears of Pip, the house elf her table had so berated. Evil, evil people. She gave him a quick smile.
"Hello, Pip was it? Thank you for cleaning the table - it was so very kind of you." She smiled. "I've got an idea for you eh - how about, don't hurt yourself...just think about it when you polish and then punish the tarnish on the silverware." She smiled. Maybe that would help? Maybe she was being nice. Pushy maybe? Annoying. A regular martyr for a cause she didn't even understand fully.