With the Friar's excitable words echoing in his ears Sir Nicholas entered the prefect's event and floated over to where some sort of game was going involving gnomes. Floating up beside one of the school's prefect's (Minerva) and her companion (Mischa) he asked quite loudly. "Why in the name of floating blueberries are you throwing gnomes around? They haven't hurt anyone."

"Is it like bowling?" Sir Nicholas asked. He was of course referring to the game.