Originally Posted by Watson

If Lisa were a mind reader, she would have answered Remy’s question about Serena being the next Harry Potter with a smirk and the reply of ‘She’s even better than Harry Potter, mate’. But she couldn’t read minds so instead she focused on her friend’s interesting reaction to the mention of the Flamesteed twins. Did she detect a slight rogue on Remy’s cheeks? She brightened her smile a little more when Remy mentioned that she had hung out with Atlas and planning on hanging out with him a lot. “They’re nice!” Both Flamsteed boys had their quirks but Lisa was fond of both of them even if Atlas had convinced her that her Kneazle was out to get her aaaaaand had gotten their hands stuck together. The blush on Remy’s cheeks was a little telling so Lisa pushed a little further. She didn’t know which Flamsteed her friend liked better but assumed Atlas was the one because she had named him. “Theeeeen you should also him to be your plus one! Everyone needs a dynamic duo for a show! Or triad unless Aries brings someone…?” she mused.

Lisa Nam always thought she had good points and prided herself on convincing Remy to audition next year for the school play. “Yay! I’m glad,” she beamed with a round of applause (clapping as she circled her hands). She smirked, quite pleased with her good doing here in this moment, before turning back to the show at hand.

“I don’t know but we should introduce them!!!” beamed Lisa. Remy’s excitement over their siblings studying the same thing was infectious and Lisa, too, was already plotting about how she could force their siblings to be friends or better MARRIED so that Remy and her could hang out all the time. Even though she had gone through a phase of tryying (and failing) to get her to go after his ex-girlfriend and then reluctantly giving in and deciding that Aboli was nice and that she liked her, her mind was already working on a plan. “I’m thinking a June wedding would be nice,” she commented to her friend, pretending that the two of them had just had a conversation about their two siblings getting married.

She gave Remy’s hand a squeeze when they were on stage before following the task at hand. Hiding the little balls. She went about doing that and then looked to Remy and then Pippa for the next task. And the Ravens went to work- what magnificent creatures of intelligence. Lisa was in awe (and frankly proud because SHE WAS LIKE A RAVEN well as a ravenclaw) as she watched them find all the balls. Lisa clapped her hands again before bowing her head to Miss Pippa and heading off the stage.

“That was so neat! What intelligent creatures!”

Originally Posted by MadAlice

Pippa had moved Baldur back to her third of the petting area when he was finished with his treats, so he wouldn't get jealous of Troy and Cressie when it was their turn, and by the time she had settled herself back on the platform, one of her volunteers was standing there in front of her saying she was done hiding the balls. "Excellent!" Pippa beamed at her, and then cast a glance around the room to see if the other girl was finished, too. Hopefully she was, because Pippa needed to finish up this part of her show soon so things could keep moving along.

Turning back to the audience, Pippa went on. "Here in one side of this contraption," pointing to two tube-like objects now sitting on the stool-transfigured-into-a-table, "there's a tube filled with water, and on the other side there's a little basket thingie containing some of Troy and Cressie's favorite treats. But as you can see, it's too low in the tube and they can't reach it.," Pippa motioned to the two ravens who had flown over to the table and were now taking turns in trying to stick their beaks into one of the tubes to pull out the treats, unsuccessfully.

"But if they find the balls we've hidden and put them down the other tube, it will raise the water in the first tube until the treats are high enough for them to grab. Let's watch and see if they can do it." And here Pippa stood back and turned to watch her raven pair. Sure enough, eventually Troy and Cressie began flying over the room looking for the balls, which they found soon enough, and one by one, they flew back to the platform and dropped each ball in the water-filled tube, pushing the water over to the other side and raising their treat basket higher and higher. Finally Cressie managed to pull it out and the two mates eagerly shared the treats between them.

"So let's give a hand to all the ravens, and also to our two excellent volunteers," and here Pippa beamed at Remy and Lisa. "And if anyone wants a closer look or to talk more about adopting a raven, please see me over in the Magical Menagerie section."

Satisfied with the way the ravens behaved--so much better than the jarveys--Pippa let Troy and Cressie perch on each of her arms as she ended the spells she'd placed on everything and levitated her equipment back to her corner of the room. Now there was just the finale to go, but that would come later, after the other shopkeepers had had a chance to speak.