Jacob, Satine, & Dallin
 

Just as Vashti had really begun to relax, something happened. Well, Jacob happened. Suddenly his bum was on fire and it had set fire fire to the sofa he'd been sitting on. Vashti immediately dropped her book on the chair she'd been sitting in as she stood and quickly drew her wand. Fortunately in those few seconds, the fire on Jacob's bottom had gone out and the purple-haired girl was starting to put out the fire but asking for help.

That fire was spreading fast.

"AGUAMENTI!" Vashti cried, aiming her wand at the burning sofa and running towards it to get a better aim. Water spewed from her wand and onto the fire, but it still didn't seem enough. "Everybody! C'mon! Help put it out!" It didn't occur to her at that moment that some of the younger ones might not know how to cast Aguamenti yet.

"Oh a fantasy fan." Jim answered in a cheerfully friendly tone. "Not that... I've read them or anything. Any good?" Lies. He so had. He might normally have added 'books are for losers' but... well.... he was in the RAVENCLAW common room and there was a time and a place.

And it would have been an out and out lie anyway.

"You reckon it changed you?" Jim asked in regards to this whole... going away to other schools thing. An insightful sort of question really.

"A little bit of crazy is a good thing." He glanced around the room. Just a LITTLE bit. Some people in the place had... a touch too much of it. James smiled at Satine.

"Yeah. Its home, what can I say?" Nothing wrong with Wiltshire. He smiled at her giggles.

"Yeah well, don't get too distracted by the shiny or you won't see anything coming." Or what was behind it and all. Life lessons according to one James. S. Wilkes.

He looked up at the ruckus with the couch and the fire, but made no move to do anything.

I mean really.

What was wrong with his housemates that they couldn't just handle it with one aguamenti? Or you know, Aqua Eructo? Or even put a bubble head charm around the thing and let it burn itself out?

"Any body got marshmallows?" He ventured to the room at large.

Shaking his head, Dal came to his senses. He pulled his wand out of his pocket and hurried toward the couch. "AGUAMENTI!" he yelled. After casting the spell, he scampered away from the charred couch. He wasn't getting close to that thing, even if the fire got put out.

Hearing talk of marshmallows, Dal turned toward the speaker. Dang, he'd be asking if anyone else had some. He shrugged helplessly at the kid, although roasted marshmallows actually sounded pretty good.

Ya know, since he was away from the fire and stuff...

Robert had just sat down and enjoyed reading his book. Suddenly, circumstances in the common room changed.. One of the sofa on fire.
"Maybe I could try, AGUAMENTI!" water came out of his wand. But the fire was not extinguished.
"Hey, maybe we should put out the fire together?" asked Robert to a girl who are older than him. "Please, help!"

Marshmallows...hahaha!...to the Fire peeps...
 

Satine continued flicking her wand back and forth and water sprayed everywhere. She glanced towards the couch but all she could she now was smoke from the water hitting the fire. She couldn't even tell if there was still a fire or not. And at that, the smoke started consuming the whole room. ...o great these robes are going to smell like roasted nasty old couch for forever and a day...did someone say marshmallows...yummy that did sound good.....

She started coughing and said through the smoke, "Can someone open the window or something or we are all going to choke to death and personally this isn't the way I wanna go..." she said coughing as she let out a little giggle...."Plus we can't see if the flames are low enough for marshmallow roasting yet..." she said with a wink towards Jim...not completely sure if he could see it through the smoke.

She glanced back where she came from but could only see a blurry outline, "Hey Dal! How's this for your first day in the CR? This beats almost anything...I mean adventure...smoke...nasty smells....and a cute purple haired girl jumping up to save your life..." she said trying to break the tension in the room...I mean it wasn't like it was that bad of a fire right?...

Guess they'd have to wait and see when the smoke cleared who and what was left standing...

to all putting out the fire
 

The other bad thing about fire - putting it out caused quite a bit of smoke and steam. And coughing. Lots of coughing. Vashti heard something about marshmallows and opening a window, the latter of which she decided to listen to. She stopped the water coming from her wand then waved her free hand in front of her face to keep the smoke out of her face as she moved quickly over to a window, managing to get it open after a couple tries with the latch. Finally, fresh breeze blew in, diluting the awful smell of roasted sofa and smoke in the room.

Was the fire finally out? Or...harmless enough to roast marshmallows or whatever?

Now that that was taken care of, Vashti could finally answer his question, though she had to cover her mouth and cough a couple more times before she could speak. Finally, she nodded. "They're very good. I've lost track of how many times I've read them." 'Twas a shame he hadn't read them too. "Have you seen the movies?" He might not have, if he wasn't around many Muggle things, but she certainly didn't know whether he was or not, so there was no harm in asking, right?

Eino shivered at the mention of muggle motor vehicles. And good thing, too! Hogwarts wouldn't be safe with those around, running over students, and... animals? Then he realized roadkill wasn't a shortcut, but animals killed by cars. "This is must disturbing! Someone ought to do something about those things!" Yes, Eino would have to gather YWHO and lead them into a protest against cars and all other sorts of moving machinery. "I see." Eino paused and thought for a minute after Mr. Jimmy mentioned using the roadkill. "I ought to collect many roadkills and make a hat for you for this most exciting idea." Eino took a step back to examine Mr. Jimmy's face. Yes, a possum hat, with an owl on top of, several rats tails all around, with perhaps a long tail in the back. That would be perfect for him. "Now I must be on my way, thank you for all the help!" He said and darted out of the common room.

"You could, I suppose so." Eino was trying to accelerate his learning progress, so to speak, or at least his parents wanted him to. What better to do that than to get a head start by reading the textbooks for advanced classes. At least that is what he expected the girl to be reading. "What is the name of the book that you read? What are its contents? Would you consider them educational? How smart, on a scale from one to ten, have you gotten since you began reading it?" Those were fair questions, weren't they? He thought so. How else was he going to know whether it was a good book or not.

Jacob could hear people yelling but he was a bit dazed from the impact.

After a few minutes of people fighting the fires, and Jacob coming back to his senses. He realized after taking in a breath that the room was filled with smoke. He started coughing, still on the ground. Jacob felt around the ground for his wand, but as he picked it up, it felt lighter than usual.

He opened his eyes to see why, the smoke made his eyes watery, but he distinctly saw only half a burntwand. The other half laid as a pile of ash next to him. Jacob coughed slightly but a small whine escaped between the coughs.

*has read all posts directed at me. Acknowledges but... fire*
 

He looked at Neptune for a good long minute and then with a sigh, Jimmy stood up, vanishing the remaining smoke with an irritated sort of flick of his wand.

The fire was finally out. Who the heck taught these guys how to conjure water? They all sucked.

"What a waste of a perfectly good couch." He said and walked over to Jacob, eyeing the remains of the boy's wand.

Wow. Hah.

He offered his hand. "Probably you should go to the hospital wing man. I hear the healer's hot."

So.

Good reason to go.

Jim eyed the couch again.

It wasn't... all THAT bad he supposed. Probably they could fix it.

Fire smothered our convos...will return to them shortly...:yes:
 

With a window open, the smoke seemed to clear out quickly..now the smell on the other hand...dang it...

Satine glanced around to see what the damage was...well the couch wasn't horrible but it wasn't amazing either...

She looked around the room realizing that it was pretty empty at the moment...everyone must've left before the excitement or in the excitement or something. She looked towards burning butt boy with her left eye brow cocked up and a small smirk on her face...always some type of smile on her face. She walked over to the boy that Jim was standing over.

"Well, I think he's right maybe you should go to the Hospital Wing and have that.." she pointed in the vicinity of his butt...didn't get close but kind of awkwardly pointed out his butt area from afar..."checked out..." she said with a shurg of her shoulders.

Turning back towards the couch she said outloud, "Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this?" she asked more to herself but she said it loud enough for anyone to answer. "If not, we'll have to go tell the Head of our house..." a shiver went down her spine as she glanced at those left in the house and realized that of everyone in the room she would prolly be the one that would have to go tell him.....dang it double...

ditto what they said *nod*
 

"I don't? Well, that's a first. If people talk to me first, I'm perfectly fine with having a conversation with them," Stephen explained. It was always because he sometimes came off with the wrong attitude when talking to someone or anything of the sort. "Nah, in a way, I admire your purple hair," he nodded knowing the time his brother made parts of his hair purple. "Anti-social like if friends asked me to hang out with them, I'd actually rather stay home and hang out with like my family or my best friend. I don't like being around people sometimes,"

Ain't that the truth?

"Yup. Pretty good school, considering it's mostly populated with girls and a few boys around in school," Which was the reason Stephen always got in trouble. The girls there were full of themselves and always got the boys in trouble, "Nope, no luck whatsoever. They really didn't like me since I was a trouble maker. They always get me into trouble,"

Andd the firre peoplee :D
 

Neptune didn't want it? Really. Mann. That was typical really. He'd have to get Jimmy to tell him what that spell was that he used, because Finny was far to lazy to actually make one himself. And he was far too busy doing all of his prefect things.
Actually as a matter of fact....there was a prefect thing he should be doing right now? A fire? Someone had made a fire in the common room.

"Yeah...I'll make you one." He shrugged, as he stood up, just in time to notice Jimmy putting the fire out. He nodded as he best mate. At least someone knew how to manage things. Which was pretty good. Finn wandered towards the couch. "Erm...." He had a feeling head of house would find out even if they did fix it. "We should probably still tell him." Because like....that was a good thing to do right?

CaptCapt, Aaaanddyyyy, Tegz, Aaaanddyyyy.
 

Ellie turned her head a bit when she though she heard a familiar name. Maybe. It was really quiet, though, and the common room was pretty loud, so she couldn't be sure. But she had been right, and she gave a small wave to Spike. He could come over if he wanted, she supposed, and she turned back to James.

Fire?!

Oh, Jacob fire. No biggy.
And while older students were freaking out about putting the fire out, she remained calm where she was. Surely they could handle it better than her, right? Being older and such.

Though...it was taking them quite a while..

And James wasn't doing anything either, so surely she needn't worry.

And marshmallows. Heh. Ellie gave a small laugh. It deserved more, but there were such things as smoke and other people who might not think it so funny.

But when the whole fire situation was finally dealt with, she saw Jacob. On the floor. With a stubby wand.

Heh.

No, Ellie wasn't going to laugh. That was mean. And a faulty wand, that really was....awful.

She actually felt bad. So, she stood up and walked over to Jacob, offering her hand to help him up, but James had gotten there first.

No biggy, it was the thought that counted anyway.

And she stood there, watching for Jacob's reaction. He was too proud to go to the hospital, she would think. Especially after he ran out of there last term.

Salina raised an eyebrow, what was a first year expected to do? Well, all the spells worked for her so far...

"Reparo." she whispered, pointing her wand at the broken couch, then grinning at the result.

Being the great-granddaughter of Hermione Granger pays off.

Jacob looked around, and saw the kid Ellie was talking to offering his hand. Jacob took it and pulled himself up... He looked around trying to see the back of his pants... there was a whole and Jacobs undies were burnt but not gone. Phew... that would have been embarrising. "No..." he said to everyone who expected him to go to the hospital wing. Not this early in the term. And especially not for the same... or rather a similar reason as last time. Running into walls seemed to be a constant. And with the added flaming butt, Should would certainly send him to the crazy house... "No," he reapeted. "She's going to send me to the nut house this time" and then Ellie would take over the captain spot, then she gonna take over the school, and then the world... NO! he wouldn't let her. Jacob is supreme overlord! Not Ellie. "I just need to get changed." he said. There was someone else he needed to see first, especially now that he didn't have a wand. And he needed to tell the man that Ravenclaw lost a couch, before the man found out for himself and Jacob would be told off for that, first day, just like the fight with JD.

Jacob quickly ran up stair to his dormitory to change... his butt was still hot, and sort of stung. But he get over that and he needed to go to Vindictus about other things anyways. So there that was like 5 reasons to see Vindictus.

After getting new pants robes and undies, Jacob ran down stairs with a burning butt, and out the common room down, towards Vindictus's office.

Oh the quotes!! XD
 

Free post.
 

I am heeeereeeee =] this post's free
 

What was with all those students around here?! Couldn't a girl sit around with her unconscious cat quietly without all the laughing, screaming and talking?
Lifting her feet to the sofa, Louisa sat on one end of the couch cuddling her brownish kitten. Sometimes when she had those déjà vu of the incident, she'd burst into tears and embarrass herself in front of older students- which was so not part of her vision as a big girl.

She wiped the tears gathered in her eyes quickly before someone would notice them & start asking questions. She rested her head back on the sofa and closed her eyes (which burnt from all the crying) and was still at last.

Rowan skipped into the common room feeling rather pleased with herself. Not only had she run into an old friend but had made several new ones. She noticed a girl sitting alone with a small brown kitten. Noticing that the girl looked as though she had been crying, Rowan walked over to her and introduced herself, hoping to cheer the girl or at least take her mind off of whatever had upset her. "Hi, I'm Rowan. May I join you?"

Now that things seemed to be in order...for the most part...Vashti turned to the boy with a lot of questions. "The book's called The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and it's a part of the Chronicles of Narnia series," she began. "It's about the Pevensies and their cousin going to Narnia and spending time on a with the king and sailing to various magical islands. I guess it can be educational if you look for the themes and meaning of the story and all that." Well, perhaps that was more for moral values and things, but you had to be smart enough to read between the lines and all that. But how would that rank on a scale? "With 'one' being a brainless idiot and 'ten' being Einstein level? Um...I guess I'd say a four or five...maybe a six. I'm not sure, to be honest. It's generally considered a children's book, so you don't have to be a genius to read them, but most little kids probably wouldn't pick up immediately on the deeper meanings and such."

Vashti knew Ivory was talking to the other prefect and that he hadn't responded yet, but she felt like stepping in and asking, "Do you think some of us should go too?" As...witnesses or something? She didn't really know. Maybe more for moral support for Jacob and so they had a better chance of dragging him to the hospital wing because Vashti still thought he ought to go.

And then she noticed Louisa come in, and Vashti considered staying to talk to the girl. She hadn't seen her since that day in Knockturn Alley, and she'd worried for the second year and her cat, feeling a little responsible for what had happened. If she'd grabbed the runaway cat or run after her or something then that man wouldn't have mistreated the creature like he had.

But it appeared that Louisa was trying to sleep, so for now Vashti decided she wouldn't bother her.

Ellie walked in to the common room. And ALMOST DIED. Oh MERLIN, what was that ungodly smell? It smelled like... burning underwear? She looked around just as people were putting out what looked like the end of a fire. And someone was fixing a couch. Okay. That was... normal. NOT.

"What the heck happened? She asked to anyone and no one at the same time.

Awesome, and anyone elseeee?
 

Ah, Ellie was here. Maybe she could explain the riddle thingy? Before she could get there though, there was a fire in the middle of the common room.

He blinked repeatedly. This was NOT how he anticipated Hogwarts to be. He'd just spent ten minutes to get in the room, and now it had the rudeness to be on fire. Boy, he really wasn't wanted here, was he? He knew the stupid Hat had got it wrong!

As for helping? He hadn't the foggiest where the nearest water supply was. So naturally, he dived under the nearest table (so, he probably wasn't a Gryffindor either). Pulling his frogs out of his pocket, he stroked them softly. "It's okay, don't panic..." he muttered soothingly, though whether it was for them or himself was anyone's guess.

He didn't know how long he was there, but it felt FOREVER until the smoke cleared. He took the opportunity to peep out round the table leg.

"Is it safe?" he asked dubiously to anyone in the vicinity. "I'm not sure I'm meant to be here..."

Everyone I suppose.
 

He hauled Jacob to his feet and then just stood there while the boy tore off.

Nut house 'this time' kind of suggested there'd been a last time.

Riiiight. Well. Apparently the fire had caught him on parts that Jimmy was defintely not paying any attention to. If it had been Ivory, maybe. Satine? Sure. That tall blind girl that was just arriving? Yeah probably.

"Go to... why would we bother goin' to Vindictus?" Man. Man that guy. He was epic. James was a fan, more and more as time went by even though he had, to start with, just figured the Head of House would be washed up. Lies. He was sure that Vindictus could probably take on the entire school in a Quidditch match all on his own.

Not that he'd say that.


"Aren't Ravenclaws supposed to be smart?" He asked rhetorically, folding his arms across his chest. Really. Did they all just read all day and never practice a thing? Nobody knew how to fix stuff around here? Jimmy wasn't about to volunteer his services, that was for sure. He wasn't even a proper Ravenclaw.

He looked down in time to see, and hear, a little kid from under a table.

"You and me both, kid."

Cleeeearly Jimmy Wilkes had no business being a 'claw.

Clearly.