Herbology NEWTs are TOMORROW!!! Ahhhh!!! Just thinking about them make her want to die, all year she's been studying, and now... She ACTUALLY NEEDS TO DO THEM. What will happen if she messes up? What happen if she forgets everything? What will happen if something doesn't go even well?!

And the Herbology NEWT is tomorrow... Why does her favourite subject need to be first?! Why??? She usually doesn't get so excited by these... things, but know she's more hyper than a five year-old boy at his birthday, and more stressed than the time her mother gave a speech at her brother's wedding. She's probably so... INSANE, because her life is depending on it! Why can't she just faint and wake-up after the NEWTs end?

She ran hysterically into the library, in her school uniform (which is REALLY rare and rather creepy) towards the Herbology section, and began taking random books, big and small, old and new, off the shelves, and placed them on the table and began reading so quickly that she either forgot reading a sentence or read the same sentences over and over, because she didn't understand A-NY-THING. AHHHHH!!!!

Stella relax, it's only a nasty exhausting exam, nothing to be stressed of,she thought to herself taking a deep breathe. The Ravenclaw began reading the book as slowly and as calmly as she can.And every time she began to feel stressed, she hit herself with the book and returned reading it.

EEEEEPPP!!!!! Tomorrow it all begins... she thought. She banged her head with a book. "Ow, Stella that really hurt," she said to herself. Great... She's wearing school uniform and talking to herself. FREAK.

"What do you know about it?" Really. Jim could TOO be made at someone for 'having feelings' as Neptune-as-Jim had said. She didn't KNOW. She didn't GET what it all was. He wasn't sure anyone did anymore, but whatever.

As for the potion...

...

"If you drank a potion and saw someone who was polyjuiced, would the effects be towards the actual person or their temporary exterior?" No really. If he drank it right now, would he suddenly l-word Fallon? Or Finlay? Or himself? Or Neptune?

He kind of wanted to experiment. He held the vial up and examined it.

...

"You know, if that really were Fallon, I'd be a lot more polite." Jim pointed out to Neptune. Just because, well, he was always nice to pretty girls. He turned his attention towards Finn-as-Fallon, sure now. He didn't need to know HER well to tell, he knew Finlay enough for both of them.

"...Yeah you'd have had more luck if you'd brought her with you. SHE could stay, if she were here." Jim-as-Neptune answered softly Really. Pretty girls went a long way towards softening Jimmy up.

But he didn't tell him/her to go. He didn't care remember? He was still trying to tell himself that and had to force himself to pretend like he was done talking to Finn-as-Fallon.

He fixed his eyes on Neptune-as-Jim instead.

"How much longer do we have?" Of this polyjuice business.

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"What do you know about it?" Really. Jim could TOO be made at someone for 'having feelings' as Neptune-as-Jim had said. She didn't KNOW. She didn't GET what it all was. He wasn't sure anyone did anymore, but whatever.

As for the potion...

...

"If you drank a potion and saw someone who was polyjuiced, would the effects be towards the actual person or their temporary exterior?" No really. If he drank it right now, would he suddenly l-word Fallon? Or Finlay? Or himself? Or Neptune?

He kind of wanted to experiment. He held the vial up and examined it.

...

"You know, if that really were Fallon, I'd be a lot more polite." Jim pointed out to Neptune. Just because, well, he was always nice to pretty girls. He turned his attention towards Finn-as-Fallon, sure now. He didn't need to know HER well to tell, he knew Finlay enough for both of them.



"...Yeah you'd have had more luck if you'd brought her with you. SHE could stay, if she were here." Jim-as-Neptune answered softly Really. Pretty girls went a long way towards softening Jimmy up.

But he didn't tell him/her to go. He didn't care remember? He was still trying to tell himself that and had to force himself to pretend like he was done talking to Finn-as-Fallon.

He fixed his eyes on Neptune-as-Jim instead.

"How much longer do we have?" Of this polyjuice business.

Neptune-as-Jim ... looked at... Merlin... FINNY?

...

She slunk down into her chair. What was he doing....? Exactly? Neptune still thought it best he go. NOW ... now was not a good time. "Finny... please...?" Please excuse her for being rude and for being ... well, rude. She'd make it up to him later. Did that translate to Finny-as-Fallon when she was in Jim-form??

Ehhh.

Of course Jimmy would be nicer to Fallon. In Jim-form, she rolled HIS eyes and pushed up out of her chair. "Will you walk with me?" Neptune-as-Jim looked at her GIANT boy hands and thought about offering Jim-as-Neptune one, but thought better of it and just clasped those big beasts together in front her/himself.

"I know lots about feelings, but I don't know how much time is left. I have to... I have to tell you something."

As for those other questions.... well. Neptune had had VERY similar thoughts about the amortentia and she wondered if she had looked the way Jimmy was making her look when she thought more or less the same questions. "Please, Jim?" Neptune-as-Jim inclined her towards the door, already ready to go.

Iris wandered down to the Library. That Transfiguration talk had really made her thought about what she actually knew about Animagi studies: very little. Sure, her independent study was good... but it wasn't good enough, clearly. Maybe if she ever wanted to leave the theory and get into the practical, she'd really have to go hunting for someone qualified to teach the subject... like, all of the subject.

Walking through all of the isles, Iris went in hunt of some Animagus books that she'd not read... some that would actually help her find names of people that would be able to help her in the next few years...

That confirmed it. These two were poly juiced, which meant he'd like approached Jimmy. Not good. Finlay-as-Fallon decided that he should like go. Now. Finlay eyed them both, kind of reverting back to Finn body language, and shrugging at them. It did feel really awkward, he'd go find someone else to bother. "I'll see you later Neptune." But he directed this to Neptune-as-Jimmy. Part of him didn't want to talk to Jimmy anymore, even though he really did miss him.

Without glancing at them, he turned around, and wandered off, to find Iris. Oh. Perfect. He could talk to her, and he knew it wouldn't be awkward, because like she was Fallon's best friend right? Well....as long as she didn't say anything about ihm. That would be awkward. "Iris..." Finn-as-Fallon smiled at her friend, as she approached her.

Animagus study... animagi... blah blah blah... The Hogwarts Textbooks were useless! Iris looked away from the book she was skimming through when someone said her name. "helloo?" She asked, looking to the person. Oh. It was just Fallon. "Hi, Fallon." Iris said simply, before sticking her head back into the book. It wasn't much use, really, but it was still interesting.

"What's up?" It just occurred to Iris that she'd never mentioned her interest in Animagi study to Fallon before... What with her going away several times over the years they'd known each other and with school and such... it'd just always slipped her mind... So she was just hoping that Fallon didn't question what Iris was reading, because that'd make her feel like a bad friend for hiding something that huge from her best friend.

Although... hiding big and important things from each other seemed to be something they liked to do... so it didn't matter that much.

This felt really weird. Because he knew that Iris didn't like him. And he was like Fallon right now, so he couldn't walk away. Because like that would be really rude, and he knew Fallon wouldn't like him to totally ignore her best friend. So he was going to have to try and sit through this awkwardness. He needed to check the time soon. He was pretty sure the polyjuice potion would run out soon. And being here with Iris when he was Finn would be very bad.

"Umm..." Whats up? He didn't know. Finn-as-Fallon shrugged. "I was looking for Finn..." Although like, he wouldn't be in the library so that really wouldn't have worked. He smiled at Iris, not bothering on asking her about what she was looking for. He didn't really care.

Tell him something? Jim-as-Neptune blinked.

"Yeah. Sure." He/she stood up and then after a moment of hesitation, offered his/her hand.

He looked over at Finlay-as-Fallon and at Iris...

... who apparently had no idea it was Finn? WELL Jim-as-Neptune was EVER so helpful.

"Goodbye FINLAY." Loud enough and blatant enough for the Head Girl to know that she was talking to Finn. Yeah.

He let Neptune-as-Jimmy led him away.

Ariadne entered the library in a haste to return one of the books she couldn't even remember when she had borrowed. She was in a haste because she was about to turn back into herself and didn't want that to happen in the library, as it would've been exceedingly embarassing. However, an interesting title caught her eye, and she forgot about the matter at hand, until her hair began to grow longer all of a sudden. 'Merlin, it's happening!' she freaked out, making a run for it, hoping she would arrive in the Gryffindor Tower on time.

Charlie Trina was browsing the stacks of books searching for a text that she needed to help study for a final. Where is it!?

Moving swiftly towards the library, Samira's movements could almost be described as skipping. Which is so wasn't.

The library was one of her favorite places in the castle. It was full of hundreds of books just packed with interesting information. You could find out anything here! And even though the library at Spinks Manor wasn't this big, Samira loved just snuggling up with a good book and getting lost in its contents.

Making her way over to the library shelves, Samira decided to brush up a bit on Charms. She let her fingers slightly trace over the spine of some of the books on the shelves, but other wise didn't touch any. Finally, she caught sight of a promising looking one on one of the higher shelves. She tried to reach up and grab it, but it was in vain. Aiden was shorter than Samira, and so she wasn't as able to reach things as she once would have been. There was no way she could reach that, she was too small in Aiden's body--er, no, when she looked like Aiden. This is not a body-switching potion...A summoning charm or levitation charm would be a smart way to go, but Samira didn't want to risk having all the other books topple down, too. So instead, she settled for standing back and glaring at the book she so desperately wanted.

Salander Lara stopped by the library, for the first time relieved that she was actually coming in here as somebody else. Salander wasnt known for his studying skills, not to mention that this place held a rather heartbreaking memory for him. But as Lara she oddly felt the novelty of starting new with this part of the school again, although it was curious to note that she still kept her eyes away from the lovely stained glass windows.

She made her way down a row of bookshelves, looking for a book that she hoped would help her with Ancient Runes, as she was totally confused with all the translations for it. Forget the OWLs, she was just trying to pass that class to make it to her 7th year.

She spotted the title a few shelves up and reached out. Reeeeeeaaached out again. Ok so her arm was a little shorter than it used to be. Heck she was just shorter period.

She huffed frustrated, jumping up and down trying to grab the spine. She ended up pushing the book even further into the shelf, making it close to impossible to get it now. She looked around for a chair, but everything near her area was occupied. She scoped for the rolling ladder but it was being used. Scowling she did what any desparate student would do in a library....

.... she started climbing the shelves.

She lodged the tip of her shoes against the shelf and looked back. The opposite bookshelf was just there, but her legs were too short to prop against it. She's gonna have to put all her weight on this one. Wincing as she was afraid that her weight might be too much for the shelves she climbed the next one. It didnt creak as bad as she thought it would, which was the one good thing about being a girl. If she ever did this as Salander for sure she would not only break the shelves, she might even send this toppling over and cause a domino effect.

Not that that hasnt happened to her before. Not on this side of the pond anyway.

She was finally close enough to reach the book, grabbing it frustratingly. Her arms were growing tired a lot quicker than she expected, and decided to jump off the shelf quickly, landing back on her feet with a not so loud THUD. Another good thing about being smaller and lighter, the noise factor immediately goes down by more than half.

Book in hand she glanced back at the shelf and couldnt help but smirk. So there were advantages to being a girl. They were lighter, smaller, and in many ways more flexible-- total sneak advantage. Something to remember in future plans heh...

This was the only time Witsy hated being four feet tall. It was easy enough to take the books down it was putting them back that troubled her. Witsy noticed a Hufflepuff intently searching for a book. Better not trouble her, she made a mental not.

She held up her wand taking one of the five books from her hand and guided it to the upper shelves way above her head. The book wasn't cooperating- more like her wand wasn't cooperating, but she didn't want to think that. The book rammed itself against the other books and she was pretty sure some of the pages have ripped. Double darn, she muttered.

She looked back at the girl, hoping she wasn't distracting her. She quietly walked up to her, "Sorry if I'm a bit loud..." she looked to her wand and the books in her hand, "I don't know what's wrong with me today." She looked to the other books in her hand, "You're not by any chance looking for a book entitled..." she turned the book around so she could actually read it, "Potions and Environmental Contributions, are you?" she said half jokingly.

She held out her hand, "I'm Wisteria Hartly, Witsy," and smiled.

Trina Charlie strode through the library looking for her friend, or more correctly, herself. She knew the ins and outs of this library quite well, so it was saying something when she couldn't find her friend. "Here you are!" she said, giggling softly at the idea. "Or should I say, here I am," she whispered, after making sure no one would over hear them.

"If you're Trina, you should know where everything is," Trina Charlie scolded jokingly to her brunette friend. "What are you looking for?"

Trina Charlie fought the urge to wince as someone joined them. Their last encounter had been with what they had believed to be a friend of Charlie's. Now this was someone completely new to both of them, or at least to her. She smiled kindly at the girl. "Nah, you're not distrubing us at all. Trina here was just about to show me where a book was. What was I looking for again?" she asked, shooting a small shrug to her friend.

"I'm Charlie Manos," she said, extending her hand out and taking the other girl's.

"Don't go all feeling proud of yourself now .." Charles Said, finishing his sentence in a whisper as they entered the Library."And, just for the record, I didn't study anything yet."He smirked.

He then tiptoed towards the Bookshelves, looking around. The library was always a pretty place because it was full to the brim of books, and they never seemed to finish. He looked around all the students scattered around the bookshelves then let go of Cheryl grinning at her in a lead-the-way sort of look.

Charlie Trina jumped up and hugged her friend, "Tr-Charlie! How are you?" Squeezing Trina Charlie she let go quickly when a new person joined the duo.

"Hi. It's no problem. You weren't being loud at all." When the girl told her the name of her book, she smilled brightly, "Actually yes! That's just what I needed."

Elbowing Trina Charlie in the side as she made the statement of knowing where everything was, "Shush you." Turning to the girl, Wisty, Charlie Trina gave her a big smile.

"I'm Trina, Trina Jones. Nice to meet you. Charlie here loves to joke around. So don't mind anything she says. At all."

So this was odd... She had only been to the library once this term and no it wasn't to read. It was because she was bored and decided to go find someone to talk to and Emily was usually there. Nika walked in and went towards a random bookshelf. Does the Hogwarts library have any picture books by chance? So she began searching for a picture book because that's probably the only type of book Nika Adler will ever read, but it won't really look like Nika anyways so why does it matter.

The Helena clone started to get tired of searching and found a chair to sit down in. Maybe if she knew her way around the library things would be easier. So what is one supposed to do in a library when your not in your own body? Should she start screaming and get Helena into trouble? No. It would be fun, but she knows better than that. Getting up once more she reached for a random book and read. "School was founded by Blah Blah Blah in the year Blah Blah Blah." That's why she doesn't read.

Moving swiftly towards the library, Samira's movements could almost be described as skipping. Which is so wasn't.

The library was one of her favorite places in the castle. It was full of hundreds of books just packed with interesting information. You could find out anything here! And even though the library at Spinks Manor wasn't this big, Samira loved just snuggling up with a good book and getting lost in its contents.

Making her way over to the library shelves, Samira decided to brush up a bit on Charms. She let her fingers slightly trace over the spine of some of the books on the shelves, but other wise didn't touch any. Finally, she caught sight of a promising looking one on one of the higher shelves. She tried to reach up and grab it, having to stand on her tip toes to reach. Smiling to herself, the Slytherin clutched the book to her chest, moving out from behind the bookshelves. She went to go find a nice place to sit, and spotted Helena. Deciding that reading was better with company, she made her way over and gave a small smile. "Hi, Helena," she said as she opened her book and propped her feet up.

"Then Godric Gryffindor blah blah blah. Hufflepuff said blah blah blah..." Reading was miserable. She heard someone take a seat across from her and looked up. Nika's, well in this case Helena's, face visibly brightened and she just wanted to jump up and say hi, but then Samira said hi to some Helena girl. HMPH.

WAIT!

She's that Helena girl! "Hi, Samira," So she's guessing Helena and Samira have met? The two are both in the same house and year so it was a given. Now here is the problem, is she supposed to pretend she's Helena or say she's Nika in Helena's body? It was the same problem that occurred when she was talking to Cove. So she chose to stay in character until questioned. "How have you been?"

Samira's eyes flickered up from her book when Helena addressed her. She put her thumb in the middle of the page she was on and closed the book lightly. "I'm fine," she answered with a smile. "Just spending my free time relaxing. Term's almost over, so I'm trying to make the most of being in the castle." Samira cast a wistful look around the library. "This is one of the places I'll miss the most..." she mused, almost to herself, then turned back to Helena. "What about you? Are you done with the year?"

Little did Nika know, but her hair was suddenly turning pink/red again and her height was slowly decreasing. "Yeah, me too. I'm going to miss Hogwarts over the holiday." Well maybe Helena wouldn't, but Nika surely would. She smiled at Samira and began to think how well this conversation started off unlike the one with Cove. Luckily Samira knew Helena and luckily Nika refrained from tackling her friend this time. Nika's skin became a little tanner and her hair started to become shoulder length again, yet Nika was completely oblivious. Why must she not pay attention to anything at all!?

And slowly, but surely Nika was fully Nika again.

Samira shifted her legs so that one was crossed over the other. She started to put her book away when she noticed something peculiar. Was Helena's hair turning...pink? Samira knew that anything could happen at Hogwarts, but she was pretty sure this wasn't normal. "Er..." Samira unconsciously pulled herself back as though Helena had some kind of contagious disease and clutched her book tighter, like a shield. What was going on? Samira's mouth was agape, and although she realized it, it wasn't until she finally realized what was happening that she snapped her mouth shut.

Of course, the Polyjuice assignment! Samira herself had just changed back not half and hour ago. She started to say something, then stopped. Nika didn't seem to realize she was changed back, or else she would have said something. But no, the Gryffindor was completely ignorant. Trying to hide her grin, Samira straightened up and said, "Er, sorry. Though I saw a bug..." Not one of her best excuses, but it would do. "So what are your plans for the holiday, Nika?" she asked casually, not giving away anything.

Witsy smiled, "a pleasure." She looked between the two, "Are you studying for your Owls?" Figuring that's why they were here.

"I'll keep that in mind," she said in a partial giggle. "Here it's all yours. It actually wasn't the book I originally wanted I just grabbed it last minute when I was late to get somewhere. I do need a potions book, though. You wouldn't know of a good one to look out for, no?" she asked hopeful.

What was Samira staring at!? Was there something wrong with her hair? Was it frizzy or something? Nika suddenly started to become very self conscious-- Oh. A bug. Alright? "Well I'm not actually--"

Wait what? Nika? How did she know?

Nika quickly pulled her hair towards her eyes and saw the pink color and she could feel her cheeks burning red with embarrassment. "Oh." Well that's awkward. Not only was her hair pink at this point, but her face was too. "You got me?"

Trina Charlie giggled as her friend hugged her. "I'm good, this whole thing has been kind-of crazy," she said, knowing her friend would understand that she meant the polyjuice image. She looked up at the shelves, wondering what her friend was looking for when they were interrupted.

She winced at the elbow, and had to smother a giggle at the thought that perhaps Charlie would get the bruise instead of her. But, they had only switched images, not bodies. It was still a cool thought. Trina Charlie shot her friend a grin before turning back to the new girl.

Trina Charlie grinned at Charlie Trina's statement. "That is true," she said with a true Charlie grin.

She shook her head. "Just finals. Those are bad enough," she said with a sigh, shooting a wink at Charlie Trina. At the girl's question, her twisted her mouth in thought. "Well, I can tell you what Trina would suggest, because she suggested the same thing to me last year," she said, hoping that Charlie Trina would follow her lead. "The '101 Potions To Know Before Stirring Things Up' is a good book, it has some good tips to know," she explained. "I hope it helps."