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Looks like Bunz and some of the Professors are still trying to solve the Common Room lock out problem at the Fat Lady's Portrait.

Text Cut: It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Bunz and the Professor to save the day!

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Originally Posted by Lezleighd View Post
Gemma blinked and in that moment realized that maybe she hadn't really had wanted to help...she had just been being polite...but now she had already offered and was involved.

She smiled at the other professors...and instantly realized there were mainly the woman professors here...o yes send the women to do the job to insure it was taken care of correctly...WOMAN POWER!...she suppressed a little yelp in celebration and focused in on the task at hand.

The professor stepped forward beside the other professors and held up her wand and waited anxiously as the countdown came down...what could go wrong....right?

She fought closing her eyes and she flicked and said, ""Anfth Eeshtrak Fimbaarah!"
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Originally Posted by Roselyn View Post
On three, they would cast. The shields did little to help her uncertainty, but what had to be done, must. With a glance to each professor, Medea took a deep breath and readied herself as the Headmistress counted down. Wand aimed to the doorway, gaze flickering to the others out of the corner of her eye, anticipating the moment when the final number would be said...

Here's to hoping nothing blew up?

"Anfth Eeshtrak Fimbaarah!"
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Ahhhhhh another person was here! Annie nearly jumped again when Gemma popped up, her eyes flicking from Sophia to Medea to Leobald to Isabel to Fina and back to Gemma again.

"Yesss...." she answered the woman as if in a trance, before shaking herself. "Let's... have you cast a shield charm as well. On three, Gemma. Everyone."

On three. Three would be casting the counter-charm, and four would be casting the shield charm. So many threes.... "One," she started counting, hoping this would work. "Two." This HAD to work, because she was all out of ideas otherwise. The redhead raised her wand and pointed it to the common room door, "Three!"

"Anfth Eeshtrak Fimbaarah!" she shouted in time with Isabel and Medea.
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay View Post
Egyptian?

Isabelle bit her lip as she leaned in a bit to get a better look at the words Sophia's spell had revealed. She knew very little about that variation of magic, and the fact it seemed to be written in what Fina had pointed out to be blood, had her even more worried. Looking across at the woman, the chew on her lip got tighter and Issy began fiddling with her wand.

When Medea told them the counter-spell, she repeated it over and over in her head. It felt much like being back in a lesson right then. But she was going to have to help, it would take more than one of them to perform it. Flexing her fingers, she nodded across at her fellow professors, feeling the force of the shield that had been cast. "Ready when you are."

Now, what was it again? Anfth Eeshtrak Fimbaarah...
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Gemma hurried up the stairs towards the other professors...o how she hoped they had an answer...her Ravvies needed a good nights sleep soon...she was a little irritated since she had missed them all leaving headed this way to figure things out.

Just as she approached she heard them talking about the incantation...and it wasn't one she was familiar with at all...interesting...she thought as she cocked her head to the side slightly. She watched intently as she approached and stopped to the right of the little group.

She flicked her wrist and her wand shot out of it's wand holster. She kept it at her side and sweetly said, "Do ya'll need my help as well?" she said it tentatively hoping to not be intruding on the little shindig.
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Sophia snapped around when she heard Josephina's voice. Yeah it was blood alright. She gave the woman a small nod then turned to frown slightly at Leobald when he dropped his wand. Really he needed to pull himself together and not look shaky in front of all the ladies.

Gah not the time to worry about Leo and his social skills or apparent lack there of.

She didn't miss the look on the Headmistress' face either. She hadn't stuttered yes she had said Egypt and it seemed to mean something to the woman.. a lot of somethings actually.

Hmmmm... The small frown that had formed when Leo dropped his wand deepened.

"I..I don't know much about this charm to feel safe enough for Leo to be the only one casting it..I'll help reinforce the shield." She raised her wand. "Protego Maxima!" She turned to look around at the others..."Can cast the spell on three..." She said after the headmistress removed the fat lady's portrait. "On your count Headmistress."
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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch View Post
Egyptian magic.

To Leo that only meant trouble and complications waiting to reveal themselves but to Medea or Sophia it was probably just er fascinating and intriguing.

He was about to raise his wand and utter the incantation for the shield charm when Josephina's voice spoke next to his ear. Startled Leo dropped his wand. Crouching down to pick it up slightly embarrassed he said loud and clear as he held the wand up over them all. "Protego Maxima!"

Now let's get this over it.
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Was no one else fascinated about this? Medea had never been to Egypt, so being up close and personal to this magic in action she only read about, was a memory to hold. How unfortunate it was in their school though.

Just whom would...

Oh! Josephina. The more the merrier in this case. "Anfth...Eeshtrak...Fimbaarah." she repeated clearly for them to hear, though uncertainty crossed her features for a moment. "Best not to mispronounce it too much."

Even if they did have shields, dark magic was still dark magic, regardless of where it came.
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"Egyptian?" the word slipped from Anastasia's lips before she could think about what she was saying. It was like once she'd heard that word, nothing else mattered. She had quite a connection to the place, having taught there for a number of years and lived in Cairo as well... and now it was all coming back to haunt her. Like, literally. The redhead turned a shade of white normally only reserved for her favorite cashmere sweaters and nearly JUMPED when Fina finally popped up.

"I think..." she swallowed, realizing her voice had come out in a whisper, "I think we'd better make this as quick and painless as possible." She reached up for the portrait and took it off with a muttered counter to its sticking charm. "Sorry, Fat Lady." Annie propped her against the wall facedown. She'd just have to wait.

She gave a nod to Leo and a shrug to Josephina. "I don't know what it is." Did it matter at the moment? None of the students were missing as far as she knew. "Can you also cast a shield charm on us while we four cast the counter-sealing...spell?" Annie mentioned toward the Arithmancy professor.

Toward Medea and Sophia, thank Merlin for them, she added a soft, "Mind repeating that counter-spell?"
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It may have taken her awhile to get the message, but Josephina received the message to come up to the seventh floor corridor. After taken care of a few things, she hurried up the stairwell as fast as her short legs would allow her. Gosh she was so unused to the stairs. She heard talking though as she approached the portrait, where she knew to guard the Lion Common Room and stopped short at the sight of the crowd of professors already there. Why was she like the last person to arrive?



And ... what was that writing on the entrance? Was that ... ".... blood?" Fina spoke, almost inaudible, but enough to alert her colleagues to her presence, that she'd finally arrived.
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Leo gave off an inaudible sigh of relief. He was glad they weren't going to try and blast the door open.

He watched as Sophia used the spell which revealed charms at work and boy it was dark Egyptian magic too. Gulp. Leo glanced over at Medea hoping the resident DADA professor had a counter spell or something they could use to undo the dark magic with.

And she had a real tongue twisting spell. "I still need to protect us with a shield charm, right? The counter spell might rebound or cause other things to shift when the dark magic get's undone?" Leo asked. Dark magic was never simple.
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Originally Posted by Roselyn View Post
No blasting?

Well, better safe than sorry of course.

Medea stood by, glancing from professor to professor, to the headmistress, and back again until Sophia tried something on the door. Good catch. The words, not entirely foreign, but she didn't quite register just what it was until Egyptian magic was mentioned. Then...she smiled.

"Indeed." Her arms crossed, glancing to the group, rather excited. "Some perhaps could say it's a play off of vot vould be a sealing spell, used in precious tombs. Keep things out and in. The counter spell is in the same egyptian tongue: Anfth Eeshtrak Fimbaarah."

Quite the word twister.
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Originally Posted by Davvy_Wavvy View Post
Sophia frowned and stepped closer to the portrait. Hmmmm...she ran her hand along it then let out a loud 'hmmmm' once more.

"It just doesn't feel...right.." Her frown deepened and she stepped back from the door and looked at the professors gathered there.

"Actually yes I do. I'm pretty sure if we try blasting this door open the spells will rebound right back on us and Leo's shield will do little to stop it from hitting us." She rolled up her sleeves and cleared her throat.

"Lets see what we're working with here..sperevelio" She said with a flick then swish of her wand. There was a barely audible whizzing sound before a writing appeared written in what seemed to be blood on the entrance.

ramnar okran


"Merlin's holey socks!.....who..who would use such a dark spell?" Sophia looked at Medea..."This is dark Egyptian magic..can you undo this Medea?"
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Well, five blasts at once might make more of an impact, yes. Although the force which hers pinged back had her worried that so many might impact on THEM, even with Leo and his shield charm.

Isabelle folded her arms and started tapping her wand against her chin gently. She looked over at the others and took a deep breath. "I do get the feeling this will require something more intricate from us, rather than brute force." Because, as she's said, that hadn't worked for her last time. "What suggestions do you have?" she asked Sophia, echoing Leo's question. Brainstorming, people.
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O____O

They were going to blast the common room door open!

Gulp. At least the Headmistress wanted him to be in charge of holding up a shield charm when the women tried to break in. Leo nodded in confirmation. "I can do that." Hearing Sophia's comment he glanced over and asked "Do you have an alternative method to blasting the door open?"
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Hmm? Before long they were joined by other staff members who Sophia nodded at and then finally the headmistress joined them.

So they were going to try blasting their way into the Gryffindor common room? Was she surrounded by Gryffindors or something? Blast first think later?

She cleared her throat quietly. "Perhaps we could try something other than blasting?" She quite liked this dress and didn't want to have it singed.
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"Perhaps we shouldn't cast a blasting charm, then, if it's just going to bounce back at us..." Bunz frowned. She didn't like hearing that one of the most powerful spells at their disposal hadn't worked on one of the locked common rooms. It was a bad sign.

"Maybe Leo could cast a shield charm on us and hold it while we try... something," Annie suggested. "And we'll need to take down the Fat Lady as well." She nodded and stepped forward to remove the portrait.

...or to try to remove the portrait...
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Oh good, so she wasn't the only one that had shown up. Medea nodded and smiled slightly to those who arrived, finding the portrait of the fat lady that much more interesting now. Not because of the troubles the common rooms seem to be having, no, but...

Sophia's expression. Ahem.

Oh! The headmistress. Good.

Taking out her wand, the one question that popped up in her mind was answered by Isabelle. Well, that was good to know. Trouble for them but, indeed good to know. "Perhaps not one, but five blasting curses at once could...do the trick."
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay View Post
Spinning on the spot, Isabelle nodded towards the Headmistress when she approached, in acknowledgement of her instructions, and gave a grin to Leo when he walked up behind to join them. Right. So that was five of them then. If they couldn't band together and get it done, then this really was a problem.

Flicking her wand out, Issy gripped it tightly in her right hand and and flexed her wrist. She looked across at Leo when he spoke, clearing her throat to make a suggestion. "I tried using a blasting spell down at the barrels, but it just rebounded off and hit a wall. We should certainly protect ourselves if we cast all at once."
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Originally Posted by Nordic Witch View Post
Leo had escorted the Gryffindor student's down to the Great Hall and Seren before he retreated back up to the Fat Lady's portrait again. Spotting Isabelle, Medea, Sophia and the headmistress already milling about in front of the fat lady he first hestitated about joining them.

They were the professor's after all not him.

But when the headmistress beckoned him over Leo strolled up to the group of ladies catching the tail end of the headmistress orders. Unholstering his wand he asked all the women, but mostly the headmistress. "Do we cast our spells all at once or one at a time?"

Would the walls make the spells bounce back at them?
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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl View Post
Anastasia was the last to arrive at the Fat Lady's portrait, arriving not LATE but ON TIME. The rule was that the party didn't start until the Headmistress walked in. All the others were just early.

And this was certainly not going to be a party. Pausing at the top of the stairs to catch her breath, the redhead beckoned the librarian to join the group of the female professors and then she herself joined the group.

"All right, staff," she planted herself firmly in front of the Fat Lady's portrait and stared the woman down. "We've got four locked common rooms and four of us, plus Mr. Kitridge if he joins us. We need to start firing off spell after spell until we blast this thing open."

As for the Fat Lady? "Madame," the Headmistress put on her best smile, "we might need to move you...." before she was damaged in action.
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Oh, so Sophia and Medea were there too? They really were in for something complicated, weren't they.

Isabelle had climbed so many flights of stairs, having started down in the Great Hall, that she was slightly flushed in the cheeks. Taking a few deep breathes, she nodded her head at the two women and mustered up enough breath to speak. "Medea, Sophia... Called into action too, I see."

This really was serious.
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The message sounded urgent. The charms professor had an inkling why it did too so with the front of her swooping dress in hand, so she could move faster up the stairs, she arrived slightly and only slightly out of breath. There was no sweat though, she had stopped to dab the little beads away.

Aho, so Medea was there already..well if they needed the both of them this must certainly be something serious.

She dropped the front of her dress letting it sweep the floor again and moved closer to Medea.

Her expression, clearly said..'explain.'

She supposed her Annex being destroyed had a lot to do with what was going on here as well.
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Whatever she was doing before, it wasn't as important as receiving the message from the Headmistress for...whatever this was. Naturally, she almost assumed that anything having to do with the upper floors, well, there were indeed closer professors. Nevertheless, Medea hurried up the steps, two at a time becoming one at a time...and then...

She finally made it to the Gryffindor entrance, disliking stairs like never before.




AND

Looks like a meeting in the Spirit Room with the ghosts and the student Leaders....

Text Cut: Meeting in the Spirit Room


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The Grey Lady smiled a little smile and nodded back at the Baron...if she could've blushed she was sure her cheeks would turn red even after all these years...she turned back to the students with a serious face again.

"As you all know, the Common Rooms were locked and students were rudely thrown out of them. All of us..." she said motioning around the room to the other three ghosts, "had suspicions that it was Peeves..." she said his name with disgust, "but after trapping and interrogating him...he has revealed whom it is..." she paused to make eye contact with each of the students to insure that they were paying attention.

"We asked you all to bring your pets because we believe that they are the best way to be able to identify when this entity is around..." she paused and glanced at the pigmy puff on one of the students' shoulders...o how she wished she could pet the cute little thing, "We do not believe that it will hurt your animals, but they have a special sense that can detect when he is around..." she paused to see if the other ghosts wanted to add to that.

She took a long breath and then continued, "This entity is one all four of us have heard of, in legend, really..." she shook her head back and forth slightly and her eyes glazed over as she began to share, "He is a very tricky little entity that can not be trusted from a long time ago...actually none of us even knew that he was still around...but somehow this old pain has found his way into our beloved school and he must be stopped..." she paused again to see if any ghosts wanted to add anything....
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The Baron shimmered into view. Just because he wasn't visible, didn't mean he wasn't there... sometimes he just didn't like it when the children spoke to him.... sometime it meant he needed to talk back. But Hogwarts was at stake here... He nodded to the Gray Lady, as he usually did and kept silent and in a corner until someone either addressed him properly or Sir Nicholas, the Friar or his Lady needed him to give words.
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The Grey Lady instantly stopped her pacing/floating in circles as the first few students arrived...having students around always relaxed her...for a split second a smile spread across her face until she saw how tired the student leaders looked....and she knew it was because of being locked out of their CRs...shame shame...she shook her head slightly left and right.

"Hello lovelies! Thank you all for coming to visit our favorite meeting place..." she said as she glanced around the room and then she felt guilty because for a ghost it was great but for the living it was rather dull and gloomy...candles...yes she thought there were candles somewhere...

She floated towards a drawer and spoke to no one in particular, "Yes, I believe there are some old candles in this drawer and someone could use the Incendio charm to get them burning once they are in their holders..." she said in a rather monotone voice....she hated that she couldn't pick them up and light them herself.

The ghost floated back towards the students and decided that it was time to get this little meeting started, "The Friar..." she paused as she nodded at the ghost, "and the rest of us called you all in here to discuss something very serious...we have found out whom locked the Common Rooms..." she said crossing her arms over herself once again.
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Sir Nicholas stared at the cup so long that by the time Helena and Friar arrived he saw double. Shaking his head he nooded quietly to them. "Good, good. Did either of you see the Baron on the way here?"

It didn't take long either for the prefect's and captains to arrive with their pets in tow. "Good evening Gideon, Ms Lecium, Mr Schacklebolt, Kurumi and Ms Dixon." Sir Nicholas greeted with little wave's to each of them and big smiles to Gideon and Kurumi.

"Could somebody bring some light to the room?" There were candle holders in here if his memory wasn't failing. And besides he didn't want to spook the students. A dusty and dark meeting room with glowing ghosts was enough to give anyone nightmares.
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After tracking down some student help to assist them in their brainstorming, the Friar floated up into the spirit room. Helena and Sir Nicholas were already there, but to that he was not surprised. Especially that the Baron hadn't arrived yet.

"The students should be coming soon," the Friar whispered, looking around the room urgently.
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The ghost floated into their room and, eventhough it had a familiar and friendly feel to it, her expression was still of complete horror. She floated aimlessly in and instantly started floating in circles with her hands crossed in front of her....a million thoughts going through her mind, mainly one name pinged around inside of her head.....
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Floating into the dank and dusty spirit room Sir Nicholas sneezed 'ACHOO!'. Distraught and worried he silently hovered over to a white sheet covered table with only a cup on it filled with wooden potion stirrers.

Staring at it blankly he waited for the others to arrive.

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