"She was dead?" Hepzibah asked her sisters in shock. "Thats so unfair. She doesnt look a day over 30 and here I am all... all... saggy!"

"No, my dear... you are perfection itself. I wasn't sure how Cassy dearheart created Libri Liber, but that's the only way I can think of." She took the pot and poured them all tea on Angie's behalf. "You were dead. How was that?"

Lainey sighed loudly, hoping these ladies would take a hint. "I wouldn't know what it's like to be dead. I died, but I was never truly dead." Lainey's tone was growing more fierce, more ragged. "Not that it's any of your business, but I was a ghost and now I'm back." Lainey was huffing and puffing.

"Since you lot are so keen on the questions, it's my turn. Why are you sniffing me? The students tell me you were in my office before now, too. What are you doing? I have some very private things in here..."

Niky headed up to Professor's Lainey's office again. She notice the door was closed, probably for a reason, so she knocked on it first. She still had to recieve her points for sending the peppermints down to Professor Virohsa, and she had her reply with her. She awaited to see if Lainey would answer to the door or she would be too busy.

Maya watched as Professor Lainey's tone got.. A bit fierce. She blinked in surprise. She would have been a little angry if they had sniffed her office.. And Professor Lainey was dead? What were they talking about? She blinked multiple times. She clutched her bag tightly. Suddenly, there was a loud RIP and all her books fell down. She gasped. " No! " she said, falling to her knees and grabbing as many books as possible. All these old, hardcover books. None of them were damaged badly but the bag had ripped in half.

Ryan watched in confuzzled as this conversation took place, he saw Proffesor Lainey getting annoyed now, he wondered what was happening, why were the sisters still intent with the proffesor, was she in trouble? All these thoughts went through Ryans mind as he waited, for the sisters to go, he wanted to ask the Proffesor a bit more, about the Admiral and things, but he didn't want to say anything in front of the sisters.

Hester got to her feet. "Sisters, we will leave now. We have made Angie Lane upset." Hester motioned for her sisters to take their leave, and they did. Hester moved around Lainey's desk, and despite the look on Lainey's face, Hester embraced her. It was a hard, solid hug.

"We did not mean to upset, Angie Lane. We love you, Angie Lane. You are perfection and more special than anyone we've ever met. You'll have to excuse our excitement." Hester lowered her voice, and became very serious suddenly," Angie Lane do you have it?"

"I don't have anything...," Lainey grumbled, trying to get out of her fierce embrace. "I'm just Professor Lainey, and there's nothing special about that. So, if you'll excuse me I have students to attend to."

"We will be back, Angie Lane, Professor of History. We have some more searching to do, but we love you. This office, this smell, it's one we haven't had...," Hester trailed off. "Good day, Angie Lane." The Salem Sisters were gone.

Ryan was a bit scared of what had just happened, then again, since they had arrived, Ryan had been a little scared of the Salem Sister's, when they had left the room, Ryan, seeing that the proffesor was upset, just asked one question, one of the questions that were only on the fringe of his vivid mind, "Proffesor, who or what is the admiral?" Ryan asked, he had remembered what one of the Salem sisters had said, that the Proffesor had made everyhing up about it, and that she had it. But Ryan beleived that all the Proffesors at Hogwarts were good and honest, and he would be on Proffesor Lainey's side if the sisters made any more accusations. After all this, he waited for Proffesor Lainey's reply.

Hepzibah got up from her seat, smiling sweetly at the dear professor, "You are special my dear, not just Professor Lainey." Hepzibah took grip of one of Lainey's cheeks and gently pinched it, smiled and left after her eldest sister.

Ryan watched the last of the sisters walk out of the office before turning back to Proffesor Lainey and waitng for a reply to his question.

Phoebe walked down to Lailey's office to see the two Hart sisters very annoyed as they brushed past Phoebe. She shrugged and thought it might have to do with the stories going round about these sisters. Phoebe knocked on the door and waited with some other students for the proffeor. Phoebe was becoming more and more curios about these Hart sisters, they seemed pretty dodgy and defiantly suspicious.

Maya frantically stacked the old, hard-cover books into stacks of 20 each. She had about a hundred. Maybe even more. She wasnt sure.. And she couldn't have cared less. She frantically checked every book for ripped pages. Other than the old books being called ' Olde Fairy Tales ', there was nothing strange about it.

Knocking on the door to Lainey's office, Ron stood there, and crossed his arms. It had been a great time since he had seen his ol' Head of House, and he had missed her dearly, and had decided to pay her a visit. He sat there looking around, he hoped that she would remember him.

Phoebe noticed a girl busy with stacking many books. As Phoebe was just waiting for the Proffesor she walked over to the spmewhat familiar girl. "Hi, I'm Phoebe" She said putting out her hand friendly. "You seem like you need some..." Phoebe quickly grabbed a few books that were about to fall of one of the piles. She caught them just in time, "Help?" Phoebe said ending her sentence smiling.

"I have no idea who the admiral is, Ryan. Ask one of those batty..., "Lainey paused to pull her act her act together. "One of the Salem Sisters about it." Lainey shoved a peppermint in her mouth before opening the door to waiting students. "Everyone in. Tell me your problems."

Entering the office, ron looked around and laughed a bit.

"What if it isn't so much as a problem... but rather an old student looking to say hello to his former HoH?" he said , following it up with a slight cough

"Just so long as you don't sniff me," Lainey laughed, opening up her drawer and filling his hands with peppermints. "How's life been treating you?"

Maya shook her head to the girl. " I'm afraid not. These are very antique books. I like to keep them in perfect condition. " she told the girl. She walked over to Professor Lainey. " Well, Professor, I was wondering if you'd like to take a look in my fairy-tale book collection. They're very old.. Some are in foreign languages, also... I'll leave them in your office if you would like. " she offered, the old books in the corner of her office. A ripped bag was clearly noticeable.

"Are you kidding?!" Lainey gasped, coming around the side of her desk to inspect the books closer. "My next class is on some more of these so-called 'fairy tales', so these might come in handy!" Lainey smiled. "I'd be honored to keep them in here. They'll be safe. Those weir... well, those Salem ladies might sniff the books, but no harm done."

Maya blinked slightly. " Well - theres alot of classic storys, such as the wooden doll, pinnochio.. Or the litle mermaid.. So, yes. You may keep them - but please don't step on them or anything. They're from the 18th century to the 19th. They're very old and I like to keep them in good condition. Please dont - Um, do anything that could damage its pages. " she said, surprised. These books were very old - so old, they didn't have spaces between the words!

"I'll guard them with my life," Lainey laughed, tucking them back behind her desk. She petted them delicately. "Now... let's put these books to use and go have class." Lainey found the book she needed, and began to read it on her way out of the office and to her classroom.

"Okay, thanks Proffesor!" Ryan said as he left the office and walked down the corridor out to the staircase

:: Spencer knocked on Professor Lainey's office door.

After the strange conversation with one of the Hart sisters, his mind was on one thing. Find the book and hopefully cut a deal that will make Slytherin win the House cup.

He wondered how he was going to get something 'Lainey Smelling' to help him be the Hero of Slytherin. Then an idea popped into his head. His evil smile spread across his pink face and nearly touched his ears. It would have to work.

He wondered if he could get his sister in on the plan later, just incase he needed help with finding the book.

Spencer's imagination began to what the contents of the book might contain. It could be something stupid, like a witch fashion book. But if it was something more, he may just keep it. Or atleast give it to his Father. His Father collected books.

"Probably an old biddy knitting book. I wish I had more information." He whispered as he waited to be allowed in.

"Maybe the Professor isn't even in her office." He stated aloud as he pressed an ear to the door, attempting to hear if he could if someone was inside.

He leaned back away from the door and waited, everyonce in a while humming the songs he was singing earlier in the Halls.

He waited for quite some time. "She must be out doing something historical.. or hiding her book even further." He mumbled.

Checking around the hall once more, he concluded to perform his search from another angle. It would work quite well if he played it correctly.

He walked off and up the closest set of stairs. ::