Fifth Floor Corridor
 

Here a door, there a door, everywhere a corridor.

Conan had followed. Well as far as he could follow. Treyen had been not far ahead of him. So where had he gone? He frowned. There was nowhere to go along here. An odd portrait though. He looked at the name. Boris the Bewildered. Who was Boris and why was he bewildered? Silly wizards.

Sarahloo <3
 

Alex had been eating, he had been practising, he'd been sleeping and he'd been staring out through the window. He was officially out of things to do to keep himself occupied. Classes hadn't started yet and for the first time he really wanted them too. He wanted to spend his days on the lessons, he wanted to get assignements, he wanted everything to keep him occupied. To keep him from thinking about her. Although it was much easier to decide not to think about her than to actually go through with it. Even when he wasn't thinking about her, he was thinking how good he was that he wasn't, which of course made him think about her. It was all an evil cycle.

He walked through the corridor with his eyes steadily at the floor in front of him. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. Perhaps breaking up with his girlfriend, well ex now, had been easier if he'd had someone he could talk to. Sure, he could talk to Leo, Emma, Savannah, Katelynn and the others but it wasn't the same to talk to them as to talk to his best friends. Not only did he miss Ellie like crazy, he also missed the company of his two best friends Chandler and Fee, who from the looks of it were both doing just fine without him. He sighed like a sad puppy, maybe they were all better off without him.

Chandler and Fee were two people he really missed (but of course he was too proud to tell them) but Ellie... Ellie was different, Ellie had hurt him. He missed her but at the same time, it hurt too much to think about her. Alex decided he didn't want to meet her, it was too early. It would hurt too much and it wasn't good if she saw him all mopey. But that was exactly what he was.

Mopey and alone. Complete and utterly...

Alone.

*wibble*
 

Back to Hogwarts. No matter how much she resented it, Ellie was back. Usually, it was her mum that was begging Ellie not to go. But this time, ever since the night of James' death and when... the boy broke up with her, Ellie wanted nothing to do with the school again. Her life was surely coming closer to its' end and Al- the boy had left her. Yes, it was Ellie's fault and she took almost all the blame for it. But she missed him like crazy. And now she was alone.

Her and Chandler's friendship had almost diminished since the night of the break up. And she was only really close to him and Chandler before. Yeah, she had Fee, Alex had probably already gone to her and told him how terrible of a person Ellie was. Fee probably didn't want to hear Ellie's story.

Ellie'd been walking around the school aimlessly for the past hour or so. She couldn't sit still. Her arms were folded across her chest and she was looking at her shoes. She didn't even know where she was, not that she cared. She was in her own, sad and depressed world. Ellie almost didn't notice anyone else was near. That is, until she ran straight into them.

"Mffgh." Escaped her lips when the collided. She nearly toppled backwards, but managed to regain her composure. "Sorry..." She mumbled, without looking at them. In all honesty, she was too out of it to care. She pulled her shirt down and looked up for a split second. She recognized the brown hair immediately. A gasp leapt out of her mouth. Alex. She couldn't move. She wanted to hug him. She wanted to kiss him. She wanted to run away. She wanted to yell. But she was frozen.

Alex wasn't really surprised he had walked into someone. Since he was in his own miserable, alone and dark world he had ran into a lot of people. He looked up to apologize as he usually did but when he saw who it was, there was no apology escaping his mouth. He didn't say anything. He just stared.

"Ellie..." he said, almost to himself. How could he had mistaken which day she would return to? He had already planned not to walk around the corridors when Ellie was back, he would be safe in his Common Room or on the Pitch but never ever somewhere public where they could run into each other. Even though he had managed to avoid Chandler

"I'msorryIwasn'tlooking." he said quickly and ran a hand through his hair. What was he supposed to say now? He had no idea, it had never been awkward between them , well apart from those times when he started to discover he had feelings for her.

Her eyes were locked on his. It had been so long since she'd seen him or heard his voice. And she missed it. She missed him. But she knew that Alex didn't miss her. She could tell. Ellie just wanted to talk to him, but he didn't want to talk to her. Well, he didn't say that directly. But Ellie got the hint. She broke his heart and now he wanted nothing to do with her. Fair enough. Now... She had two options.

Ellie could either try and make Alex see that she knew everything was a huge mistake. If only she could just talk to him and try to get what they had before back. Then her second option was to ignore him. Move on. Find something better. And potentially forget him. Because that's what Alex did about her. Or so it seemed.

Finally breaking the eye contact, Ellie moved her eyes back to her feet and absently scratched her neck. "Er, yeah. Me too, sorry." She muttered back. Now what? She didn't know what to say. She didn't know what to do. She knew what she wanted to do, but she couldn't.

It's good to see you." Ellie blurted before she could stop herself. Crap. She shouldn't have said that. Shouldn't have said that. But it was too late.

You TWO <3
 

Alex was about to say something, well he was about to figure something out to say when another person joined them. And it wasn't just any other person, it was his best friend. Or... Something.

All three of them stood there in silence, obviously no one knew what to say, and the awkwars silence grew longer. Suddenly he felt very out of place and like the third wheel. Ah how easy it would be if he could apparate, he would apparate straight to the Common Room. Or the Pitch. Or maybe the Kitchen, mmh foood... He didn't dare to look up at either of them, he just kept his eyes steady on the ground giving away a small awkward cough. Wait, he wasn't supposed to do that, then Chandler thought he was ill. His eyes flickered to his twin to see if he had noticed the little cough before he scratched his neck slowly.

"Erm, I guess I'll just... Go." he mumbled. To give the two of them some space. He missed both of them, like a lot. And truth was, he wasn't mad at either of them, they couldn't have helped what happened. If he'd just run into Chandler, he might have apologized but he couldn't do that with Ellie there. Besides, he was too much of a coward to do it. And Ellie... With Ellie everything was just too hard, she'd hurt him and it was too early for him to be friends with her, probably because he couldn't be just friends with that girl. Alex was pretty sure both Ellie and Chandler had it better off without him, which is why he started to take a few steps back.

Oh great. Alex didn't say anything to her comment. And the last thing Ellie wanted was to mess everything up. Oh wait, she already did. Ellie hated herself for it too. It was all a huge mess and she blamed herself for everything. And now everything was awkward as hell. Ellie was about to just run away when she saw another figure approach. Chandler Montague was standing next to them, looking just surprised as she felt. Great. An extremely awkward reunion the the Three Musketeers, two of which ruined everything they had.

Now what? What were they supposed to say? What needed to be said? While Ellie was at home, she always thought of the things she should say to Alex or Chandler when she got the chance... But now that they were both here, her mind was blank. God, she just wished everything would slip back into place. But that would never happen. Not now. Because Alex was starting to walk away and Chandler probably didn't want to talk to her.

"Alex, please don't go." Ellie said, reaching out and lightly grabbing his arm. "You can't keep running away from this." She said quietly. How she wished Alex would hold her again, kiss her. Ellie missed him so much, it hurt. It hurt to see him not care. Ellie opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. She didn't know what to say to either of them. She glanced at Chandler, wishing he would say something. A lump formed in her throat. Things would never be the same.

Descending the staircase down to the fifth floor, Kurumi jogged in place for a bit when she heard Eino speak. Kurumi wouldn't mind taking a break and Eino looked as though were melting. Maybe Eino shouldn't have worn long pants on their jog? "Alright," she nodded using the sleeve of her T-shirt to remove some sweat from her brow. Maybe they should do some stretches while their muscles were still warm. Stretching was very important after all.

Liam <3
 

Simon had not been happy, he was annoyed, how could Treyen betray him like he had, the next time he saw him, if he ever saw him again that was, Simon couldn't care less if he never saw Treyen again, he was his Idol and he had told him off when this Slytherin Girl had pinched his letter and then started on him, well he hoped that Treyen and the Slytherin Girl would be happy together since it had been clear to Simon that Treyen was in love with the girl.

Simon sat down next to this person without looking to see who it was and feeling that the whole world was against him, he just suddenly said. "If your going to start on me then don't bother I'm in a mood and probably would do something I regret." Simon said slowly as he tried to keep calm, hopefully that would tell the person he wasn't in the mood to talk incase they felt like they wanted to.

Fallon was lost in her own thoughts about graduating and leaving to go to New York. It was a scary thing and she was still wondering how she would ever be able to live on her own, without anyone there. Well, Torin would live somewhere around her, but she would still be by herself. She would have to make friends again and they would probably all be muggles since she was going to a muggle art school.

She didn't even notice that someone else had joined her in the window sill, until his sudden outburst. She dragged herself away from her thoughts to look at...Simon?

"Simon? Are you all right?" Fallon turned so her feet were now hanging off of the sill. She looked at her friend in concern. She'd noticed that he had grown a lot since the last time she saw him. It really had been a while. She wanted to know what was wrong though because this just wasn't like him.

"I'm fine." Simon snaped, he still wasn't looking at the girl, he knew it was a girl from the way she spoke, the voice sounded sort of familiar but he was sure who it was and he wasn't going to look at them, he would make them go away soon. "I just wish people would leave me alone and stop annoying me when they can see I don't want to talk." Simon sighed.

"And why would I tell a stranger all my problems, I ain't that sad." Simon snapped again, oh he was letting it out now and the poor girl wouldn't know what hit her. "Or does everyone talk about me behind my back and say that I am sad I wouldn't be suprise, I suppose by ex-best friend Treyen told you I was stupid and didn't care about anything just because I can't get Divinations." Simon once again snapped.

Fallon was taken a back. She'd never really seen Simon like this. She was going to say something that would have come out rather rude, but the boy didn't look like he needed that right now. "Just trying to help. I'll just leave then..." She put her purse strap over her shoulder and was ready to leave...

...until Simon started to talk again. Wow. Something must have really been wrong with him. She wanted to ask, but he kept talking and she didn't want to interrupt. Once he was done, Fallon really didn't know what to do. She wanted to stay and comfort her friend, but he really didn't look like he wanted to be comforted. "Well...I don't know who Treyen is, but he sounds like a jerk. And Divination is a stupid pointless subject, so don't worry about it." She pushed herself away from the window sill and just stood there. She still didn't know if she should leave.

Simon was glad when the girl said she was going to leave, he couldn't help it, he needed to be alone, then she started talking again and Simon realised that this person just wouldn't go away, not unless he hex her or something like that and Simon wouldn't do it to a girl.

Simon looked up to ask the girl nicely to leave when he suddenly realised who it was. "Fallon." Simon said as he looked at her. "I thought you left last year?" Simon was confused now, maybe he wasn't thinking straight and he was seeing Fallon because that's who he was thinking about, Simon closed his eyes. "I'm dreaming aren't I?" Well if he was then he could do anything and get away with it but he had to make sure first, he felt the first tear coming into his eyes as he openned his eyes again but Fallon was still there.

Fallon could tell that Simon really wanted her to leave, even though he didn't seem to know it was her. She was just about to turn to leave, when Simon finally looked up and realized that it was her. "Hey." She chuckled a little as she sat back down, letting her purse fall to the window sill. "I didn't leave. I was just...busy." She didn't want to talk about her problems right now. She was here for Simon. That was, if he still wanted her there.

"You're not dreaming." She watched as he closed his eyes and reopened them, as if he was double checking. Fallon frowned as a tear started to fall down Simon's face. "Look, I'm sorry for not being here for you before, but I'm here now if you want to talk. Or I can still leave. It's up to you Simon." Either way was fine with her. She really did want to know what was wrong though...

Simon looked at Fallon, how did he know that this girl wasn't just saying that he knew what he would do, he didn't know how to make sure and so he just decided to tell Fallon what was wrong. "Well I got this letter and this Slytherin Girl took it and then Treyen came and started to defend the Slytherin Girl even though he's my best mate or was at the time and my idol." Simon sighed. "The next time I see him, I'm jinxing him and I don't care if he is a prefect or not." Simon said as he looked at Fallon.

Simon then continued. "Then I thought you had left without saying goodbye and I was sad because your one of my best friends and so I didn't know what to do, I read half the letter and there seems to be some trouble with something, but I'll tell you that later." Since Fallon knew Simon was a Prince he could trust her. "I know Treyen's in love with this Slytherin Girl and I'm sure that's why he betrayed me but still." Simon stopped as tears streamed down his face, he couldn't say anything else.

Fallon held back her sigh of relief when Simon started to tell her what was wrong. She listened to Simon talk and nodded when necessary. "It seems like that Slytherin had no right to do that. And your best friend really picked a girl over you? That doesn't sound like a good friend to me." She would never pick a boy over Iris and she knew it worked the same way for her. Best friends were supposed to be there for each other no matter what. "Don't do anything rash. In the end, it doesn't usually work out so well."

Fallon frowned. She was part of this. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to see you this summer or near the end of last term. There was just a lot going on with me." She nodded at the last part, knowing full well he would. She knew this could be a touchy subject, but she had to ask anyways. "Do you know the girl's name?" Not like Fallon would do anything bad to her...maybe.

She gave Simon a hug as he started to cry. Fallon really didn't like seeing him like this.

Fifth floor corridor. It's the first time Zara's ever been here. Hmm, wonder what can be found here. Nothing? No people? No students? No ghosts? No nothing?

Zara frowned, she was hoping to find some adventure. Find some room, but I guess adventured would have to wait until she finds a best friend to share it with. It could've been Matt if he was still at Hogwarts. Really, Zara never saw him anymore these past few days. He wasn't at classes. He wasn't at the common room either. Could he have just mysteriously disappeared? No, not likely. But where was he?

Sighing, Zara stopped walking in the middle of the corridor, and opened her bag, searching for something to do. Or anything that might remind her of something that she has to do. Seeing nothing but parchments, inks, quills, and some textbooks, Zara could only think of homework. She was almost done with everything. Just the Care of Magical Creatures homework left. But she'd do that some other time. Now, she wanted adventure. Looking back at her bag, she saw a reflection, something shiny. Curious to what it was she took it out, and found out it was just a hand mirror. An ancient hand mirror, might I add. It seemed rather odd, she knew she hadn't put it there earlier this morning. Oh well.

She took it out anyway, thinking of what she might be able to do with it. Deciding that it seemed quite odd of her to stand there in the middle of the corridor, she went nearer to the wall, and sat in front of it, her back leaning at the concrete wall. She looked at the mirror she had in hand, now what?

Maybe she might as well do homework instead. Frowning slightly, Zara was about to return the mirror and go to the library to do homework when she remembered she had another homework to do. Defense Against the Dark Arts. "Right, there was one about a mirror," she quietly mumbled to herself. Something about goals. Well, here goes.

Zara looked straight in the mirror and saw a little girl with soft brown hair that trails off in luscious curls. Goals, goals. Do this, Zara, and fast. You don't want anyone catching you there, looking at the mirror as you're sitting down on the corridor floor.

"First, be a good student at Hogwarts. Scratch that, there are many good students. Okay then, be the best student at Hogwarts. Second, be a great concert pianist like my mom was. Third, spend more time with friends and family. Fourth, read more books. Hmm what else?" She bit her lip as she thought some more. The girl in the mirror copied her actions. Well of course it will, it's her. "Err. Stop crying when you try to reach your toes. Be a better person with a happy personality. Become a great and wise witch like my grandma Eve. Be a friendly person to everyone. Spend my next six years at Hogwarts wisely." She was overdoing herself. These were simply too much goals. Now, to proceed to how to achieve them..ALL.

"Okay, the first one be obedient to instructions, study hard, and respect everyone, including magical creatures. For the second one, practice. Practice, practice, and practice some more. And feel the music I'm playing with all my heart and with full of emotion. Third, make a schedule, maybe and budget my time. For the fourth goal, just read and read I guess. And of course, retain them all in my mind as I read them," Zara smiled at her reflection. The girl in the glass' lips curved into a smile too. "Take the pain, and get used to it. And then, think more on the positive side of things. Just strive hard and do my best, then I'll be a great witch. Be friendly...well, just have a very nice personality and show kindness towards others and always offer help to those in need. For the last one," Her smile slowly grew into a wide grin. Spend her next six years at Hogwarts wisely. How is that? "Have great adventures, make a lot of friends, experience life, learn lessons, respect teachers, and spend every day like it's the last."

Happy with what she had accomplished, Zara put her mirror back in her bag. And stood up. She had goals. And she has to achieve them. Well, maybe the homework wasn't so bad after all. She walked away from the empty corridor with a huge smile, and a renewed heart. Singing a happy song, she skipped her way going downstairs.

Simon hugged Fee back, it was a good thing his girlfriend wasn't here otherwise he might have had some explaining to do, not that there was anything to explain, Simon just saw Fallon as a Big Sister type person, he remember spending a day with her when he was in his first year here but since then they had hardly seen each other at all and Simon was upset about that. "I don't care if I see Treyen again, his Prefect Badge is going missing, I'm going to try and make it say Worse Prefect ever." Simon sighed, that would get his best friend back and then hopefully they could make up, but Simon wasn't sure he wanted to be friends with Treyen again, even though they did dungbomb a Professor office and got away with it.

"It's okay Fallon, I'm just glad I was wrong and you didn't leave last year, I was worried I'd upset you or something and that was why you left without saying goodbye." Simon sighed. "And I don't know the Slytherin Girl but I do remember her ugly face." Simon said. "So I could point it out to you the next time I see it."

Fallon released Simon from the hug. The kid was like a little brother to her. Less annoying than her real little brother in fact. She missed seeing him. Fallon chuckled and shook her head. "That would be amusing, but you would definitely get detention for that." Well, he would if he got caught. Fallon didn't really know how sneaky the kid was.

Fallon frowned. "If I would've known that I was going to leave, I would've said good bye. Or try to write." She knew she'd failed at this before, but she wanted to forget about that. She regretted that always. She smirked. "Sounds good to me."

Simon looked at Fallon. "I think I might get away with it, if I could get someone to destract Treyen whilst I do it and then destract him whilst I put the badge back." Simon said truthfully. "I once got away with dungbombing a Professor's office." Simon give a little smile as he started to wipe the tears away.

"I hope you would." Simon said as he hugged Fallon again, he didn't want to know what year she was in because he had this feeling he knew since he thought last years was her final year, then this year must surely be it and that was something Simon didn't want to find out. "Cool, though don't hex her or anything she ugly enough as it is."

Fallon just shook her head and chuckled. It would be somewhat difficult to do that. Especially if this Treyen was in a different house than Simon. That would make things a lot more difficult to cover up. Now she was shocked. "Which professor? And how in Merlin's pants did you manage that?!" She had picked up that phrase somewhere. Possibly from Iris or someone else at the school. She raised her eyebrow questioningly.

Fallon gave Simon a slight grin. "I might as well remind you of this now: it's my last year at Hogwarts." She had a feeling Simon wouldn't like hearing this very much. She couldn't help that she was moving on though. Fallon giggled. "Depends on who she is. There's a couple Slytherin girls just begging to be hexed." Fallon probably wouldn't though. Her record was still clean.

Clutching a piece of paper in one hand and his plushed duck in the other, Daichi made his way through the castle , trying to find a place where he could ..in lack of other words.. "train" for the Defence against the dark arts assignment.

The first year had never seen the DADA teacher and wondered why he/she..it? wasn't teaching them properly , like how it was suppose to be. And besides that , NOTHING on the list would help him learn MAGIC. Daichi wasn't a hero when it came to performing magic and he wanted to become strong too ...waiiiiiit! Daichi checked the list in his hand. He knew he had read something about talking to yourself about your goals. Ah! there it is! but he needed a mirror. Greeeat.

Back to the REAL task he was here. Daichi Katharos was going to perform front rolls on this very corridor! He took a deep breath and looked around him once more , not wanting to embarrass himself. Yush! he could do this!. Daichi placed his duck plushy against the wall and one last time did he look around. Better do it now before anyone sees him...

He first balanced himself on the balls of his feet in a squat position.
Then he placed his hands on the floor in front of him.
He tucked his head in and let his body roll............to the side.

Daichi lay on his side in the middle of a corridor. Waaaaaaaah! he couldn't even do a simple front roll!

He jumped up on his feet , a thought coming to his mind. Why would he even DO front rolls? Why not just write them down and PRETEND he had down 50 front rolls? No he should write a few less otherwise it would look suspicious. He grabbed his special made DADA journal and wrote his "Activity" inside it. hehehe.

Ella wandered around the corner, on her way to.. somewhere. She had her sunglasses on and it was erm.. dark. Naturally, she had been soaking up the sun by the Whomping Willow but now it was cold, and she had headed back to the Castle.

Flipping her dark hair back, she suddenly tripped on something and face-planted..
Removing her sun glasses, nostrils flaring Ella turned to see what she had tripped over. She was going to hurt it a lot..
Narrowing her eyes she saw a toy duck, now lying flat on its back, wings in the air. She recognised it.. but she didn't know where from. Ella picked it up and placed it back against the wall.

Daichi heard a commotion behind him and he slowly turned around. What his sight greeted was something he hadn't expected. A girl had tripped over his plushed duck! Oh no! Daichi ran towards where the girl was picking up the duck.

"Are you alriiiiiight?!" he asked with concern in his voice and dropped to his knees. Picking up the plushed duck he hugged it tightly. "Mr.Duckles! phew your ok!" He then glaaaaared at the girl who had HURT his ducky. "Y-ya! what was that fo..." Daichi stared at the girl next to him with a frown. "Don't i know you?" She looked familiar..wheeeeere had he seen her before!? Think brain think!

Oh hell no! He did not just look at her like that. Standing up she stepped towards the boy, eyes narrowed. 'No need to look at me like that! If you didn't want your duck to get stomped on you shoudn't leave him lying around!' Putting her hands on her hips she looked the boy up and down. 'Hm.. your Daichi aren't you?'

She picked her sunglasses back up, and quickly wiped the dirt off them. Hmph. Thea had realised pretty much straight away that he was asking the toy duck if it was alright, not her. Stepping back, she continued to frown. 'People who love their ducks don't leave them to be trampled on.' She told him, matter-of-factley.

Was she yelling at him? Oh dear lord she IS!
Daichi fell backwards as the girl was walking towards him, he saw how her eyes were narrowing and he heard his older brother's voice say to watch out. Because when girls eyes narrowed they were...scary. Daichi never knew what he had meant with that but now he did.

This.Girl.Looked.Scary~!

"I-i...eeh.." Daichi said intelligently and gulped as the girl was getting nearer. He unconciously held Mr.Duckles behind his back. "But..but.. it lay against the wall and , well, why were you even walking directly besides the wall and.." Daichi quickly held his hands over his mouth, preventing him from saying anything more. He took a quick breath and changed his sentence what he was saying. Better tell the girl she was right.. "y-you're right, i'm so-sorry!" he prayed, praaaaayed that the girl wouldn't hit him or worse..take away his beloved ducky!

During his prayer , Daichi looked up when he heard his name being called. "Y-yes i am" Where had he seen HER before?!

Changed charrie's name by the way XD
 

Thea was satisfied with his squeals. Rolling her eyes slightly, she stepped bath and crossed her arms. 'Do you always back down that easily?' She raised an eyebrow as she watched the boy practically tremble infront of her.

Popping her sunglasses on the top of her head she focused on the duck. 'The duck. Surely the duck would want you to stick up for yourself more?' Sure, she was the same age as this boy but he clearly could not handle himself in a confrontation. Thea punched her fist into her other hand. 'Where's the anger? Why aren't you angry with me for trying to confront you? I'm a girl!' Thea was totally against the shizzle that boys were.. fiercer than girls 'cause it wasn't true in certain cases. Thea was defiantly fiercer than Matt for example.. but Daichi wasn't as skinny as Matt. He was.. well not a bean pole.. but not fat.. obviously.

Placing her hands back on her hips she sighed. Turning her head to the side and pursing her lips she held out her hand. 'I'm Thea-Aurora Eden..'

Ah! so her name was Thea! He KNEW he had seen her before and he was riiiiight!

Daichi pouted his lips when the girl asked him if he always backed down so easily. Yeah well , DUH. he is sorted in to Slytherin. They rather back down and save their own skin than fight. "W-well..y-yes, I MEAN NO! no! " the first year gulped when he heard his own voice and he looked up again.

He watched as she placed her sunglasses on top of her head. The sunglasses looked pretty cool. Daichi admired how pretty the sunglasses where and...DAICHIIII focuuus!

Duck. She was talking about his duck...why was she talking about his ducky? Daichi clutched Mr.Duckles with his arms behind his back as the girl spoke. She was right though! Daichi had NEVER been the person to pick on a fight or ..sadly.. even fight for himself. But , he didn't know how. He was the kind of person that thought to much about what could happen AFTER that.

Daichi jumped visibly when he heard a slap against a hand. "I- i know you're a girl.." That's pretty obviously.. "But..but... " ooh think Daichi! say something really macho!

"I - i don't hit girls..."

Whaaaaat?! O__o

Simon looked at Fallon. "It was a few years ago, I can't remember the name of the Professor, but I just said that I was visiting her and that I was just in the area and my hands were dirty because I fell over." Simon laughed. "I'm sure she didn't believe me though she did tell me to leave, I think she didn't have enough evidence." Simon didn't want to mention Treyen had help with the dungbombing.

Simon sighed. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE." Simon wasn't going to let her leave, he would do everything in his power to make sure she stayed at Hogwarts even if it ment her failing her exams. "I don't want you too leave." Simon looked straight at Fallon. "You can't jinx her you'd get into too much trouble." Simon laughed it would be funny though.

Thea burst out laughing at his last sentence. Wiping her eyes she looked at him, grinning. 'You don't hit girls? What if one was about to.. curse you!' Thea whipped out her wand and swished it a few times. 'What would you do? You couldn't run.. the spell would still hit you!' She shook her head. 'It doesn't matter, I'm not going to, don't worry.'

She smiled as she saw him clutch onto his duck. 'N'aw, cute. But I think your the only one who carries a plush duck around with them...' Thea nodded slowly. 'And yeah, I am a girl. Thanks for noticing!' Thea smiled at him.

'I can help you with forward rolls too if you like.' Thea really did not get why everyone was finding them so hard!
The young lioness continued to STARE at Daichi.. but then she smiled again. 'I wouldn't hit you by the way, I've never hit anybody in my life!' Apart from one of her older brothers.. Marley. She ahd broken his nose actually.. best not mention that..

The little first year Snake jumped yet again when he heard Thea laughing. The sound was scary but what was even MORE scary was...the fact she had taken out her wand. "Waaah! please don't curse me!!" Daichi squealed and shut his eyes, waiting for the blow to come. It didn't even occure to him to grab his own wand.

Daichi waited and waited, but nothing happened. He dared and peeked through his slits and saw Thea had lowered her wand. S-she wasn't going to curse him? Dear Merlin , thank you! "I don't know many spells." he said truthfully. "The Slytherin prefect is going to give me lessons though! so i can become even stronger!" He was so pumped up to learn magic.

Knowing the coast was clear, Daichi grabbed his plushed duck and held it in front of him again. "W-well, i know i'm the only one with a stuffed duck but...but, Mr.Duckles is my hero!" He didn't know if he should tell more but thought that if Thea wanted to know why she had to ask him. Daichi didn't really like talking about it and he found it more comfortable when another subject came up. And to his luck , there was.

"You'll really help me with the front rolls?" he asked , his eyes twinkling. "Thank you! i just can't do it, that homework is weird." he pouted.

Thea grinned, and placed her glasses on the floor again. 'Okay, well put Mr. Duckles down.. away from me.
Folding her arms she walked down the corridoor. 'Watch, they're eeeasy!' Thea called to him down the corridoor.

Slowly crouching down she leant forward, placing her hands either side of her head and pushed her self forward. Standing up she held up her arms, smiling. 'See? Now you try!' Thea gestured to him.

'That's cool, about the Prefect helping you!' She sat down beside Mr Duckles, and waited for Daichi to have a try.

Fallon nodded. She really was curious as to what professor it was. They had to have known it was Simon and just let him get away with it. Then again, the professor might not have been that smart. Fallon really had nothing to compare it to without knowing the professor. "Wow. That really wasn't a good excuse." She shook her head and chuckled. It wasn't. "Ah. Well...at least you didn't get in trouble."

Fallon frowned. "Unfortunately: I have to. I'll still be around over the summers though." She would come visit everyone then. It would be nice. Fallon chuckled. "Well, I haven't done anything to get in trouble these past years at Hogwarts. I don't think I would get in THAT much trouble." Plus, she was close with a lot of people in charge.

Simon looked at Fallon. "I know it was, but as you said at least I didn't get into trouble." Simon was trying to think of the Professors name. "She was the COMC Professor last term." Simon suddenly remember that information. "Professor Saylen that it." Simon had finally remember who it was.

"Okay if you have too." Simon thought about what would happened if he tied her up in the dungeon though who would look after her in the Summer Holiday if he did that so that was a no go." Simon smiled at Fallon. "You haven't done anything yet, are you planning on doing something, we could paint this wall so it say Fallon Was Here if you want." Simon took out his wand. "Want to do it or not?"

Fallon nodded. "I did say that didn't I?" She really did think it was good. Getting in trouble was not good for you OR the house you belonged to. And Fallon had too many Puff friends. "I kind of remember her. I didn't take CoMC last term." Or this term for that matter. She didn't like the class very much.

"Yeah..." She chuckled lightly. Of course she had to. She didn't want to, but that was part of growing up. She hoped no one got any crazy ideas like she did when Torin left. That would be bad. "Eh. Dunno. I think that would be a little too extreme though." It would definitely be fun to do...

Simon smiled at Fallon. "Yeah you did say that." Simon laughed, he was glad that he hadn't lost any points when he did the dungbomb thing, though he still wanted to do something so people remembered Fallon. "She left at the end of last term otherwise I might have gotten her again this term." Simon didn't like her at all.

Simon smiled at Fallon. "Come on, it won't be that extreme all we have to do is put some writing on the wall and then charm it too change colour." Simon smiled. "And how will the Professors know who did it if we run for the hills." Simon winked. "Please, I think everyone would remember you if you do that."

Zara was roaming around the castle again. She hasn't been to the fifth floor ever since Ancient Runes class ended so she decided to take a look around and see if there was anything new. Then she heard a couple of students talking. Talking about painting the wall. Uh oh.

Actually, Zara would love to join in, but she already thought about this before. If ever she did decide to go paint the walls, they'd get caught. But that wasn't the part she was hesitant about. It's just that once they do get caught, that professor would make them erase it all, so hard work equals wasted. She hid behind a corner and listened more as she took a peak at who those two was.

TwistedHearts - I saw your post, pretending Fallon doesn't
 

Fallon nodded. CoMC wasn't really that interesting of a subject. She'd had fun with it her first couple of terms and that was it. It wasn't as bad as some of the other subjects the school offered though. Potions for example. That was stupid. "That wouldn't have been fun."

Fallon looked at the wall. She thought it was a really cool idea, but the good girl inside her was still telling her no. It was far too early in the term for her to get into trouble for something so trivial. "Maybe closer near the end of term. It just doesn't...feel right."

Simon had seen the girl sneaking about but decided against saying anything because if she wanted to talk she would come and talk too them, looking at Fallon and sighing he pointed his finger at her. "Fallon your not a coward are you?" Simon said whist he waved his wand in his other hand. "We won't get into too much trouble, there is no Professor around to tell us off." Simon wasn't going to give up on this.

Was she a coward? Fallon really didn't know the answer to that question. It just seemed...wrong. Which was probably the exact reason she'd never done anything that could get her in trouble before. She would have just felt too guilty. "Maybe..." It was the truth. She wasn't sure. Fallon looked around and bit her lip. She still wasn't so sure about this.

Simon looked at Fallon, she was really acting as if she was his big sister at the minute, in someways it was good but in other ways it was bad like she was there if you needed too talk but if you come up with something as good as he had now she didn't want too know. "Please Fallon." Simon begged, he was hoping Fallon would do it.

Fallon could tell that Simon wasn't too happy with her reaction to this. Now he was begging and it was making it harder for Fallon to say no. She really didn't think it was such a good idea to do something like this this early in the term. "Erm..." She looked around nervously. She couldn't believe this kid was actually having some effect on her decision. A negative one in her eyes...

Simon could see Fallon was finding it hard to decided but Simon really wanted to do it and thought it could improve Fallon's image in the school and it needed improving, if Treyen had been here he would have done it, maybe he should make it up with his friend so he had someone to do funny stuff with. "Please Fallon." Simon looked up to Fallon if she wouldn't do it he would go to plan B.

Nope. Fallon couldn't do this. She was just going to get up and tell Simon that she didn't feel right. Yep. That would work. "Simon..." she said as she pushed herself up from the window sill. "I'm sorry. I just can't do this. It doesn't feel right." She smiled down at him even though she felt guilty for saying no. Oh well. It just didn't feel right to her.

Simon was angry. "Your a coward and you know it." Simon shouted. "Why don't you just admit it." Simon didn't know why he was picking on Fallon she was one of his best friends and like a big sister too him maybe that was why he was doing it. "I'll Hate you forever." Simon said as he put his wand away and making sure it looked like an accident he stamped on her foot. "Oh sorry." Simon said as he looked around to see if there was a Professor about because normally this was when one came.

Fallon's jaw dropped. She had not expected Simon's mood to change like this. He seemed really angry all of a sudden and just because she didn't want to paint her name on the walls. She was speechless. Especially when he said that he would hate her. It just didn't seem like he actually meant it, but she guessed he must have because he stepped on her foot! It kind of hurt and Fallon was really glad that these were older shoes. Her converse would have been ruined otherwise. Fallon hadn't uttered a word since his outburst. It had kind of scared her...

Simon looked at Fallon, the little Prince could get moody when he didn't get what he wanted. "I am P.." Simon started to say then stopped. "I am Simon Leonarder the Third, The Great." Simon smiled then suddenly remember himself. "I'm sorry Fallon." Simon sighed. "I'm just used to getting my own way." Simon was telling the truth there.

"Si-" Fallon was going to tell him to calm down but was cut off by him talking again. She had a feeling he was going to say that he was a prince and she knew that could have been bad if there was someone else around them. And then he was apologizing. Fallon realized that there may be something more to Simon than what she was used to seeing. "It-it's all right. Don't worry about." She was still shocked.

Simon smiled at Fallon. "I'm really sorry." Simon sighed, "My cousin disappeared two terms ago and since no one seems to tell me what's going on I've sort of got a bit of a temper, I am trying to stop it because I don't like having a temper." Simon sighed. "And with all the touring and not being allowed anywhere on my own it's so bad." Simon had no idea why he was telling Fallon all this maybe it was so she could understand.

Fallon listened as Simon told his story. She loved the boy to death, like a little brother of course, but this was not a good enough excuse. But she couldn't bring herself to be mad at him either. She really hated her emotions and the fact that she couldn't stand hurting people. It made her life difficult. "It's okay. I understand."

Simon could see that Fallon was really mad with him even though she wasn't showing it. "I really am sorry." Simon sighed, he was never going to get mad with Fallon again. "I mean it." Simon was crying now, he had ruined everything, he had no idea what had gotten into him this term. "I'll go now since I can see that's what you want." Simon sighed as he ran off down the corridor.

Karate, Karate. Nika's gonna try Karate! Because it went so well last time.... Well it's not like she had a choice. This stupid DADA assignment refused to get any easier. If she had to do Karate one more time she's just gonna blow. The only reason she has somewhat of an idea of how to do it was because of those movies they show.

She gave the air a weak punch as she sorta half yelled, "Hiya." For dramatic effect. She did a few other ninja like moves before she decided to stop. yeah she's gonna go to the common room now and pretend like this never even happened.

Okay, that was weird. What had just happened? Oh, right. Nothing. Seeing as the two seemed to lay off on their work, Zara saw Nika across the corridor. She came off yelling, "NIKAAA!" And when she reached the place where Nika was she asked, "What're you doing?"

Fallon still was in shock when Simon kept apologizing. She wanted to tell him that it was all right, but she really didn't know if she believed that at this point. Fallon just blinked as Simon ran off down the corridor. She didn't know what else to say and she didn't know if it would help at all. She walked down the corridor and spotted to young Gryffindors. Fallon smiled at them before heading on her way, completely confused about what just happened...

Zara noticed that the girl smiled at them. Uh oh, did she know Zara was there a while ago listening to them? *gulp*

"H-hi," she said, more of a question than a greeting with a nervous smile on her face.

Fallon smilled at the girl who had said hello. "Hi." She seemed young. Probably a first or second year. Fallon figured that was why she seemed so nervous. Talking to an older student did that to firsties sometimes.

Daichi placed Mr.Duckles on the floor behind him and turned around to watch the other first year as she started to roll on the carpet. Woah what? that went too faaaast! So she placed her hands in front of her and ..just let her body roll? BUT that's what HE did too! why couldn't he do it?

He wanted to give it another try though, now that Thea wanted to help him he felt more excited. "Ok, i'm trying again..." he walked to the middle of the corridor. "I know right! we're going to train in the room of ..reqocosius..or something like that." It was a big name that he couldn't remember....

Daichi kneeled down and held his hands on the carpet, he held his chin in and let his body fall forward. He felt himself roll aaaaaaaaand. "Woohoo i did it!" he shouted throughout the corridor. Atleast he thought he had done it. In reality he only rolled sideways and ended up facing the wall instead of facing the corridor.

Thea nodded as she watched him walk up to the end of the carpet. 'Oh, the Room of Requirement?' She asked grinning. 'That'll be fun!'

Then she started to clap as Daichi's feet eventually went over his head. 'You did it!' She cried, grinning. Gently, she took a hold of Mr Duckle's wings and made him clap too. 'One down, fourtey-nine left to go!' She said to him, winking.
Sighing, Thea's eyes scanned the dark corridoor and she watched the torches flicker on the walls, casting shadows on the walls.

Nika smiled as she heard a familiar voice calling out her name. Why is it that every time they meet it starts out with yelling? "ZARRAAA!" Oh yeah what is Nika doing. Oh no. Here comes the mental forehead slap. She was preforming "Karate". Right. "Oh Erm... well you see... I was trying Karate?" She probably looked like a mental monkey though. No wonder Zara looked confused.



She turned around as she heard Zara say a weak hello to an older slytherin. "Hiya! I'm Nika." She smiled at the Slytherin. Well it seemed a bit awkward so Nika thought she would help make it, not so awkward. Unless she only made it worse.

Seeing as the girl's face didn't seem to show any sign of knowledge that she knew Zara was listening to her earlier conversation, her smile began to be confident a bit. "Hello. I'm Danielle Zara Griffiths. But call me Zara instead."

"OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! Karate, huh? I wanna try to. Count me in. Please oh please, NIKAAA." She made a puppy dog face. She hasn't done karate yet. Stinky DADA homework. WHYY OH WHYY?!

Fallon smiled at the two younger Gryffindors. "It's nice to meet you Nika and Zara." She actually preferred the girl's first name over her middle. Oh well. People had their preferences. Fallon had a feeling she was encroaching on these girl's conversations. "Am I interrupting something? If I am I can leave..." Fallon really didn't hang out with a lot of younger students anymore. But she would if they wanted her to stay...

"You know that room?" Daichi was stunned when he heard that Thea knew a room so hidden. He shrugged it off quickly though. It didn't matter anyways. "Yeah i'm really excited about it! Ever since i got here i can't do many spells, i mean i couldn't even do a simple Aguamenti charm in Divination!" he sighed deeply. "But i'm going to train and become the best!" Yush!

Daichi's twinkling eyes looked at Thea as she started to clap at him for doing the front roll (totally wrong but whatever...) He LAUGHED out loud when she grabbed the wings of Mr.Duckles and started to clap it too. But his laughter died away when she said he had fourtey-nine left to go. "But i don't wannaaaa!" he pouted. Daichi saw Thea sighing and he too looked around, it had become dark already.

Presley was singing at the top of her lungs when she skipped into the corridor. She saw that there were other people there and froze. "Er, sorry," she mumbled. Presley had a fairly nice singing voice and she loved to sing, but not in front of others. She always felt like they were negatively judging her. She was so embarrassed to be caught by these people. They proabaly thought she was a freak or something. "I, er, yeah." she babbled. She couldn't find the words to explain her strangeness. Presley had just realized how strange it really was that she was singing in the hallways. Idiot. she told herself. Just walk away. She turned, and headed the other way down the corridor.

Nika beamed at Zara. Oh yes, she was going to pretend like she was great at Karate. "Sure! We can do it together! Do you know how to do Karate? Because if you don't know how I'm sort of a pro." She said nodding. Okay if by pro you meant watched a couple of old jackie chan movies from way back when then yeah, Nika's a pro.... Hehe. But Zara would see sooner or later that she's really not. Let Nika have her fun while she can.

"No, No." She said waving it off with her hand. Nika had the urge to hug the girl. Well she is a slytherin by the looks of her robes and Nika hasn't hugged her yet. She only has 18 hugs so far and is in need of more. But would now be the right time? How to bring it up with out making things awkward.... Well that isn't really going to happen is it... "You can stay if I can have a hug?" Yeah okay she tried. "I'm not creepy or anything It's just that I'm in this sort of well... contest." Yeah okay she's not going to explain any further.

"Nono, please stay." Zara said. Well, unless the girl felt uncomfortable being around with younger students. Gryffindor younger students, too, might I add.

Then turning to Nika, "Wooow. Seriously? Where'd you learn them all?" She asked, amazed at her friend. After that she listened as Nika offered a hug to the Slytherin. Oh, right. That national holiday stuff. Uh oh. Not agaaain. XD

She looked away from the older slytherin girl and looked at Zara quickly and listened to her ask the unavoidable question.

Nika blushed. Okay. No getting out of this one. She might as well tell Zara. BUUUUT it would have been so much fun pretending to know so much about Karate. She looked at Zara and whispered, "Well erm you see.... There is this dojo. Did you know that dojo rhymes with yo-yo?" WEll that "change of subject" was a fail.

Zara blinked. Dojo? OOOHH, it does rhyme with yo-yo. She nodded, completely oblivious to the fact that Nika avoided the question. "Dojo. That sounds cool. What's a dojo anyway?" She asked, sitting down on the floor. Zara was getting tired of standing there. She'll have to watch Nika first doing karate anyway before she herself could try it. After all, Nika was a pro, right?

rearranging wording a bit to make sense
 

Fallon turned so that she was still facing them. They wanted her to stay, so she was going to stay. She was listening to their conversation about karate. It was pretty entertaining. Fallon always wondered what it would be like to know karate, even though it was clear that neither one knew what they were talking about

...and then the one called Nika was asking if she could hug her? Okay..."Umm...sure." She was really confused about this. "What kind of contest exactly?"

Amy was running and hiding from angry teachers who wanted both her neck and her homework. And she wasn't going to detention, thus, she would hide. It was the only thing to do, but since the big explosion thingy when her arms and hands had got seriously burned, there were teachers skulking around every corridor, looking for any rife arsonist who might decide to set a couple of children alight. Because, the liklihood of that happening was HUGE. Obviously. -_____-

And so she had ran, up every single floor, looking for a hidey hole..

OOF! She cried as she crashed into something. She looked up, then, apon seeing it was a human being, turned a fetching shade of beetroot. OhmygoshI'msosorry she burst out, tripping over her words. Could she go any more red.

Yes. Yes she could

James stood up and helped the girl up off of the ground. "Are you okay?" A Southern American accent said. "I'm sorry I was in the way." James told her. He could tell that she was embarassed or nervous because her face was getting redder and redder. "I'm James Heywood." James smiled a sweet smile. "But I like to be called Jay, it's just easier." James smiled down at her.

WELL THIS WAS AWKWARD

James didn't know what to say to her because he felt awkward. "What were you running from?" Jay asked the girl. "Oh, I'm a Fourth year Ravenclaw. Well this is really my first term at Hogwarts." Jay flashed a smile.

Amy grinned at him, her cheeks slowly normalising to their pale standard. Ooooh American ehhhh. Yeah I'm fine she grinned at him, feeling relativley boring with her neatural british accent, nah its okay, when you're running away from La Flame you tend not to look where your going, it was my fault she nodded, grinning, Amy Samson, uh, well, just Amy I guess she shrugged. Pizza buddeh or purple dragon would make him run a mile. Nice to meet you Jay she grinned, once she was fully pale

James nodded and smiled. He listened to her before he spoke. "That's good." James told her. As long as no one was hurt everything was smooth sailing. Spaking of sailing he wished he could go sailing right now or riding his horse. "It's lovely to meet you Amy Samson." James said. "What year are you in?" Jay asked her.

Yeah Amy grinned, from the lack of reaction to La Flame, Amy knew. He was a newbie. Even the seventh years trembled at the sound of that woman. Seventh Years. THAT was how scary the woman was. And you Jay Heywood she grinned at him, oooh, he was new. EVERYONE knew about Amy...not. Fourth year Amy grinned, Hufflepuff, she nodded, aka, the cool house, she beamed. You?

James nodded. "I'm a fourth year as well. But I'm a Ravenclaw. It must not be as cool as Hufflepuff then." James laughed. "So when there is no school what do all of you guys do around here?" James asked Amy. He was pretty bored right now well not with her, she seems pretty cool.

Ooooh FOURTHYEARYOUSAY. Excitin-ness. She didn't know any Americans. That was cool. She knew one now. Though not a Puff, he was still cool, he was American after all. No, but nearly as cool she grinned, a smarty pants I'm guessing? She grinned.

Well, there is Diagon Alley Amy nodded, unless you go home, I tend to stay around London she shrugged, but sometimes you can go to Hogsmede and stuff she nodded

Simon saw Amy and this other person talking, that was no good, he needed a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Slytherin Jumper he didn't care which is was, but once the Hufflepuff looked at the House Points then he was going to be in trouble unless he could find somone who would be willing to give him there jumper if not he would have to steal one though he didn't want to do that.

Simon shouted in the corridor. "Does anyone have a Jumper I can lend?" Simon smiled, "I don't want a Hufflepuff one I want one of the other houses." He hoped no Professor was listening to what he was saying if they found out would he be in trouble though he shouldn't be really.

Eino was strolling down the fifth floor corridor in an especially cheerful mood. For November, the weather was particularly nice for a walk outside, but even better for a good old pogrebin hunt. "Surely they ought to be so cold I will see the rocks trembling!" He exclaimed to himself as he continued. And when those rocks moved - SNATCH! Progrebin caught! It had been a while since he had time for this, with all that work assigned by Lord Borr he barely had time to do anything, but today would be different!

Whistling, he hurried down the corridor until he reached a Hufflepuff student who seemed to want to change robes? "What a curious request!" Eino said suddenly to the boy hoping not to have frightened him. Was he trying to change houses? Eino wouldn't blame him! He had heard of a terrible incident that had resulted in the loss of fifty points. Maybe the boy was searching for a more, uh, prosperous House. Still, he couldn't be too sure. "Why is it that you see a different robe?" He asked leaning forward, very close to the boys's face.

Simon looked at the Ravenclaw Student, that would be a great idea but the problem would be if Professor Vindictus saw him. "Well I keep seeing Progrebin with this jumper on but when I take it off I don't see them anymore." Simon lied. "I'm Simon Leonarder De Simpson but you can call me Simon." Simon smiled, hopefully this Ravenclaw won't ask too many questions about the points loss, he just needed somewhere too hide out for a bit, he had this feeling once Treyen found out about the points loss he would be in trouble.

Progrebins!? Eino's eyes widened and he leaned even closer toward the boy. Did he just say pogrebins or was Eino hearing things?! "Hmmm..." Eino paused for a moment thinking. Maybe if he brought the boy along he could use him as bait to lure the pogrebins and prepare a trap! That way he could be able to catch many pogrebins at once.

Eino's planning was then interrupted by the boy's introduction. "Dear me..." That was along name. "It's nice to meet you Simon... Uh, Loanenrdesasieopion..." Eino could barely remember his first let alone the other four of five names he had. "My name's Eino." He took the boy's hand, even though Simon wasn't extending it, and shook it violently. He was very excited about this pogrebin-attracting robe. "Okay, let's go find the pobregins!" With that Eino took the boy by his robe and dragged him towards the moving staircase.

Simon looked at the boy and started to say. "Hello Eino, nic.." When suddenly he was starting to be dragged by the boy, this wasn't fair he didn't want to go out. "I'm Simon Leonarder De Simpson, How dare you.." Simon said calmly, luckerly he hadn't said he was a Prince like he nearly did. "You can't just drag people against their will." Simon sighed, surely there was a rule against, that saying that when had Simon caren't about rules maybe he had met his match with this kid.

"Eh, I'm sorry I can't come with you, I have to go see Lafay, something about messing about in her class or something like that." Simon lied again. "She scares me and so I don't really want to get in her bad books, maybe if you took my jumper and I took your then you can find the pogrebin on your own you don't need me then right?" Simon was hoping he could get going soon before a Professor came.

Eino tilted his head to the side trying to memorize his full name, but no, there was no way he could repeat all of that. Simon will no. Just then the boy began to scold him for dragging him. Eino was just so excited that he was very eager to put the robe's ability to test. "I suppose so..." He replied shamefully, lowering his head. Well, he didn't like it when others dragged him so it was only fair for him to be scolded for it.

"Woe is me!" Came out of Eino's mouth when the boy objected to follow him. Just when he was so close to a breakthrough in pogrebin hunting this had to happen. This wasn't the first time Professor Lafay had ruined his day, though. In fact, it was the two hundred and seventy sixth time she had ruined his day. "She scares me too..." Eino attempted to console Simon, at least that was something they had in common, they both of them feared the Dragon Lady. Then again, almost everyone did.

When Simon suggested that they exchange robes Eino hesitated. On the bright side he would be able to capture many pogrebins, or actually capture one for the first time ever, but on the negative side... He couldn't really thinking of any bad consequences. It was just exchanging robes after all and he couldn't recall a rule against it. "Very well!" He said removing his robe and hanging it to the boy. "Let's meet here in a few hours to exchange them back." That didn't sound too bad, a few hours wouldn't hurt anyone. Right?

Simon looked at the boy and smiled. "Eino have you ever had detention with Professor Lafay?" Simon asked. "Because if you haven't I can say you don't know how bad she is." Simon was being truthful there he thought the Professor was going to kill him that day or at least send him somewhere he didn't want to go.

Simon couldn't believe how easy this boy had fallen for his trick, though maybe he would come back in a couple of hours or maybe not, he'd probably have too otherwise when he went into his common room he would be told off for being a Ravenclaw in the Hufflepuff Common Room. "Yeah we should meet back here in a few hours." Hopefully Treyen would tell this boy off instead of him, taken off his robes he passed them over to Eino whilst taking the robes Eino was holding out, he quickly put the Ravenclaw one on. "I hope you find loads of Pogrebins." Simon smiled. "So what time should we meet?"

Eino shook his head then gulped. "N-no..." Thank goodness he never had detention with that woman, or detention at all, for that matter. Apparently Simon Loanenrdesasieopion had lived to tell the tale so maybe she wasn't that bad. Still, Eino would not want to experience it.

Eino then took Simon's Hufflepuff robes and put them on. He took a good look at himself and he didn't look too bad in gold and black. He kind of liked it. "Ooooooooh! I can feel it! I can feel the magical powers of the robe." He told Simon as he examined the sleeves, the collar, the pockets, the trim, and so on. Surely this meant he would capture many pogrebins! "Thank you so much for your generosity. I promise to take very good care of it." Pogrebin hunting was dirty business though, so he would try to keep his promise. "At the end of the day, right before supper." That was his suggestion. That way he could spend the whole day hunting then retire to the Ravenclaw Common room at night.

Intruding, cos I found the right moment.
 

Conan was exploring. He wasn't outside, so he had to stretch his legs somewhere. And here he was on the fifth floor. He spotted, two kids. Arguing over robes. Or something like that anyway. He frowned as he got closer. He spotted one of the kids. "Eino?" It was Eino right? The rock guy. Yes it was him. But in Hufflepuff robes. He was a Ravenclaw right?

Wow this was confusing.

Simon smiled he was invisable at last, if Treyen was looking for him, he would never find him which was a good thing will all the points he had lost, maybe he could lost some for Ravenclaw before switching back, saying that if he did that then his plan would be worried so no he was going to try and behave for the next few hours until they switched back.

Simon looked at this boy said he could feel the magic, how stupid was he, maybe he needed to go to st mungo but he wasn't going to suggest that, Eino was doing him a big favour which he didn't know about. "Your welcome, I hope you catch loads and if the robes get a bit dirty it's okay I brought plenty." Simon said truthfully.

"Right lets do that, meet me back here just before supper." Simon smiled. "And remember to not go into your common room otherwise you might get into trouble for breaking in." Simon reminded the boy, as long as they stayed out of the common room they were okay because there was no rules against switching robes. "I'll see you later then and once again have fun." Simon smiled as he walked off.

Simon suddenly saw the Hufflepuff as he walked off, he was scared they would get caught so instead he ran off in the Ravenclaw Robes hopefully Eino could pretend to be someone else, but he wasn't sure as long as Eino was back by supper time they would be fine.

Just as he was fastening the last button on his new magical progrebin attracting robe, Eino heard his voice. Turning around he recognized his Hufflepuff friend, Conan, who had one upon a time lost his parents to the pogrebins. "Greetings, Conan!" Eino said waving. "Loo, we match!" He showed off his new Hufflepuff badge. They certainly did. "Say, what are you doing just now? I could use some help!" Perhaps Conan would like to participate in some pogrebin hunting again, and if the robe's power to attract pogrebins had anything to do with the fact that it belonged to a Hufflepuff, then Eino could get twice as many pogrebins with Conan there.



Eino listened attentively and nodded in agreement. "Understood!" He didn't want to get into any trouble so he would take this advice very seriously and avoid the Hufflepuff Common Room. Although, wouldn't he need a password to enter? "Thank you very much, Mister Simon!" Eino said waving at Simon as he walked away. Right, now it was time for some pogrebin hunting. Eino returned his attention to Conan. "Sorry, about that... So, are you free?"

Conan frowned. It was Eino. "Why are you in Hufflepuff robes?" Why did they match? It can't have been a good thing. Not good for Conan anyway.

He nodded though, very slowly, "I am free. What for though?" He didn't want to hunt for anything. Last time he did that he nearly lost his Mom. Never a good thing.

"I am wearing these robes because they will help attract pogrebins." Eino explained showcasing his Hufflepuff robes. "I suppose that means you will also attract pogrebins, which reminds me, would you like to come pogrebin hunting with me?" How could anyone turn down such a tempting offer?! Hopefully, not Conan. Plus, Conan had once or twice joined Eino for pogrebin hunting, so he already knew what to do. Maybe. It's okay, Eino didn't know what to do either, but he thought he did. "So?" He pressured the boy.

Conan's eyes widened. Attracting pogrebins? He shed his robes faster than you could blink. "Is it just the robes? Or all yellow?" he panicked. He was in the process of ripping off his trousers, and his jumper. Everything had to go. He couldn't be certain that he was clean.

He shook his head fiercely. No. No stone seeking. He was not doing it. Even if he had to walk around naked.

"I do believe is... both." Eino nodded his head and watched the boy take his robe off. He wasn't entirely sure what it was about the robe, he wasn't even sure if it was the same for all, but he hoped so. Conan did look rather anxious when he discovered the robe's magical abilities. "You oughtn't do that." Eino warned as he watched the boy ready to take off his jumper, but it didn't seem to make a difference. "I was thinking we should begin in the grounds." Eino contemplated ignoring the boy's nonverbal response. "We can set a trap by the lake. You can stand there to lure then, they surely must come for water, then we capture them!" It was brilliant plan, he thought. If only Conan agreed to cooperate.

Conan kept going, especially after he heard that is was probably the yellow. Suddenly he was just standing there, shivering, in just his underpants and socks. His clothes were in a neat pile in front of him.

"You should find someone else." Like Treyen. He would help. Not Conan though. He would never go out. Not outside, and not in his underpants. "Try Treyen Lockhart. He is nice." Of course he was. Conan loved him, secretly. A bromance love. Not anything.

"Splendid!" Eino exclaimed clapping his hands. Eino was delighted to see Conan in his underpants, ready to jump in the lake and serve as bait for the pogrebin. "That will do." Eino nodded and gestured towards the moving staircase. "We can find this Treyen on our way down! We should make the most of your motivation while it is at its peak!" Eino had never seen anyone so dedicated to pogrebin hunting as Conan was. It was chilly outside for him to offer himself to go in the lake in his underpants, but Eino couldn't fight the fire within the young Hufflepuff. This would certainly lead to a groundbreaking discovery in the art of pogrebin hunting. "Come along!" Eino said as he marched down the corridor headed for the staircase.

Conan still shook his head, "I am n..n...n...not going down to the lake with you." He was shivering quite a bit right now. He could feel his hair sticking up all over his body.

"Treyen is the Hufflepuff prefect. He is always around." Anything to delay this possible manoeuvre. "I'm not going with you." He rubbed his arms to relieve the goosebumps. He was cold.

"What clever thinking!" This Hufflepuff was just full of surprises. He wouldn't go with Eino because then the pogrebins would spot them and recognize it as a trap! He ought to be in Ravenclaw, or Gryffindor considering his bravery to go alone. "So I suppose you should go first..." Eino said rubbing his chin as he thought of a plan. "I will stay here, and watch them from afar." He looked around and spotted a window, ran towards it, took a good look, then returned to Conan. "I can get a clear view of the lake from this window, so when I spot them I will run down and capture them." A better plan could not exist. This was a groundbreaking day for pogrebin hunting.

Conan's mouth dropped open. This boy was crazy. Why did he not get the hint? "I am not going down to the lake at all," he shook his head. WHAT???? It was Eino idea to begin with. He was not going first. Even if he was going at all. "You should go. And I will watch from here and pounce," he nodded. Yeah suggest it so the boy would leave. Go away weird Ravenclaw. "You know what they look like better than I do."

"Not the lake?" Conan was probably thinking of a different, better location to find the pogrebins. Maybe he had more experience at this than Eino expected. "Where do you suggest, then? But I should advise you that if you're not planning on going swimming, you oughtn't walk around in your underpants." And that was very good advise, Eino thought. "Very well, I shall go then, and redirect the pogrebins to you so you can 'pounce.'" Not that he knew exactly what Conan would do, but he trusted him. With that Eino walked towards the moving staircase nearly falling a couple of times due to his new robe's length.