Well, the snowman building competition was fun, but now Kourt was really cold. What she needed was a cup of hot cocoa and a roaring fire. She rubbed her hands briskly together as she stepped through the entrance doors. Perhaps she could find something in the great hall.

Before she could get there, however, she noticed a small girl nearby and then heard a thud as books tumbled from her arms. Concerned, Kourt hurried in the girl's direction. "Hey, are you..." Her question trailed off as she caught sight of what had apparently caught the girl's attention.

"Merlin." She whispered. That was the same snowman that the Minister had thrown his cane out. She knew that things were different in the magic world, but never...never before had she heard or seen a moving snowman. "What in Merlin's beard is going on?!"

Jez glanced at the girl, still dazed. "I don't know. It was just here when I came in ... moving around." Jez bit her lip. "What's with the cane?" she asked, confused.

Ewww. Her foot had just got really wet. She'd gone up to her dorm, to change out of her wet clothes from playing in the snow, and was just able to go and get some food. But now her feet were really wet. Maybe she should've kept her boots on, instead of these dolly shoes. Because her tights were all icky now. She'd have to find someone to use a charm to dry them for her. Because there was no way that she was going to be going all the way back up to her dorm to change her tights, and find some new shoes. "What..." She murmered, staring down at the puddle. That was really big. She was sure that there had not been puddles there before.

She looked up, and the her eyes widened. Was that a snowman? And why was it moving through the entrance hall. "Interesting..."

Making sure she'd gotten all the snow knocked off from her boots before she set foot back into the castle, Stella couldn't help but blink as she stepped back inside after the snowman competition only to see half the floor covered in puddles. Apparently she shouldn't have worried about making a mess, and she glanced around to see two younger students talking, and another who had just stepped into the room. Maybe they knew what was going on, and she took another step towards them to ask. Until she saw movement in her peripheral vision and turned her head to see one of the mangled snowmen from the competition roaming the entrance hall. Definitely something weird going on, and she hoped it didn't mean the disgusting Minister was going to come back for his cane.

"Qu'est-ce qui se passe ici?", she murmured to herself, before continuing on her way to the non-enchanted beings in the area. The firsties. "Was the snowman in here when you got here, or is he new?," she asked, continually turning her head to keep the snowman in her sights. Something made her not want to lose sight of it, like it might attack them if they weren't careful. Who knew what had made it start moving around, after all.

Kourtney stared at the moving snowman for a few moments. It was making puddles wherever it went. Was it going to melt? That wouldn't be good...Perhaps they should try to find a professor? What if the snowman was planning something...not good?

"Umm..there's a guy outside who claims to the Minister and he threw his cane earlier and hit a snowman. He looks like the same snowman, but he...wasn't alive...then."

She turned her head then as an older girl approached. "He was here when I came in..."

Looking back in the other direction, she smiled slightly towards her friend. "Careful Indy...it's all wet."

Nate was in his way to the kitchens, definitely NOT to use Accio Brownies to swipe some, well, brownies. Aaaaaand there was a snowman. With a chunk taken from it's head. Nate had seen these things before, but the third thing was what was confusing him: the Snowman was moving around? As Nate stood transfixed, he heard footsteps, which he ignored until he heard a loud *thunk* and some splashes, and turned to face the sound. "Oh, Jez, hi!" he said. He didn't want his motives questioned, so he decided to take charge of the conversation. "What's?..." was all he could get out.

Jez bit her lip, looking at the older girl, two first-years, Nate, and then the snowman in turn. She edged closer, wand out and pointing at it. She knew she shouldn't but it was so tempting ... She was actually hoping for a dramatic result.
Jez prodded the snowman with her wand.

Ooh. Kourt was here. Indy moved over to her friend, linking her arm through her friends arm. "I know....my tights are all wet." At least she didn't have trousers, then they would be really wet. Indiana eyed the snowman carefully. It looked weird. Why was there an moving snowman inside. "It's making a mess..." The house elves would not be pleased, and someone would have to clean this mess up. Someone was not going to be happy at all. Indy frowned, watching the snowman. It better not come near her, she really didn't want to be soaking wet again.

Waait. What was that girl doing. "Whaaat.....are you doing?" She stared at her fellow house mate. Seriously? Poking the snowman. Was this girl stupid or something. Clearly. What if the snowman like got her wet. That would not be clever. Indiana was going to be staying well clear of that snowman.

And she poked it. Of course she poked it, this is Jez we're talking about. Nate wanted to lunge out and yank her from the Snow-Zombie's reach, but he was stuck where he was. He looked around and saw others there, too. "If anything happens to her, could anyone help me carry her?" he asked. Not a pleasant thought, no, but it was a necessary precaution.

The snowman whirled around, the first time it had acknowledged anyone's presence. Jez screamed as its branch arms hit her in the head, sending her sprawling backwards. The world spun for a moment, but then Jez was back on her feet, wand pointing at the snowman. Blood trickled into her hair from a cut above her eye. Ow, but Jez hardly felt it through a red haze of anger. "Confringo!" she shouted, shooting the spell at the snowman.

Annabeth's eyes flicked open, she sat up and put her hand to her head, she felt really dizzy and unwell, but the pain in her stomach had gone luckily, but her head was worse than ever, she looked up at Harvey, and tried to smile and get upo, but fell over again. She again put her hand to her head.

"Protego!" Nate yelled, casting at Jez's flying curse. Both spells dispersed into the air, creating a very small shock wave. Nate then walked over to Jez and pointed a finger at her wand. "Away," he said firmly. Oh, she was cut. "Episkey," Nate whispered, healing Jez's cut forehead.

Harvey saw that Ann tried to get up but fell again. He gently sat her up against him hoping that her body would get used to sitting and then slowly standing up. "Ann are you ok? how do you feel?" he asked concerned for her wellbeing.

Annabeth smiled faintly at Harvey, "Thanks, I'm fine-ish, my head is banging though," she said to him.

Having eaten some cookies in the Great Hall, Daichi had decided to move back to his common room to study. He really needed to work on his homework. He opened the door to the entrance hall with his shoulders for his hands were full with the cookies he sneaked out. He couldn't work without cookies!

It was cold and the Slytherin shivered as he walked down the few steps on the stairs, biting on a cookie before heading right. Only to stop death in his track.

He knew Hogwarts was magical and all but it still amazed him to see certain things. And a snowman walking around in circles was definitely one of them. Lucky, he hadn't dropped his cookies that would have been a DISASTER and he looked around.

"Uhm... is this normal?" He asked with a half eaten cookie in between his teeth and to no one in particular since there were already a few other students checking the scene out.

"Ok thats good. Here see if this helps" he said as he massaged her forehead hoping that the banging would stop.

"It does help a bit, I'm sure it will go soon, I hope!" she said smiling at him.

"I'm glad that it helps." he said still massaging her head "So what have you been upto lately?" he asked her.

"Thank you," she said smiling, "Nothing really, other than school work, what about you?" she said, her head still sore

"Oh nothing much either, school work and hanging with great friends such as yourself." he told Ann.

"Thank you Harvey, you are a great friend too! I'm glad that we met!" Annabeth said rubbing her head.

"I am glad that we met too." harvey said smiling at her still massaging the forehead. "Hows your head feeling now?" he asked her.

"I'm truly glad we met, I would have almost no friends if it wasn't for you!" Annabeth smiled, "A lot better thanks, although I still have a cut, but that doesn't matter," she told him.

"Awww I am now even more glad that I am your friend. Good, oh let me see" He came in front and looked at the cut "Oh I dont think its too deep, does the cut hurt?" he asked Ann

What kind of Muggle was Carter? He knew nothing, NOTHING about his Muggle life. It took all Destiny had not to scoff in his face, which wasn't really that much when he mentioned going to the Hershey factory. Her mouth was practically watering as she remembered those Muggle chocolates. The kind with the peanut butter.. "I want to go." She wanted to go right then, but school and all, pfft.

And she decided not to say anything about the security officers. She knew about free samples, and how little they were. She was going to need to steal!

Carter also didn't know about house elves and their evil ways. Destiny had tried to tell Mia, but she would have none of it. Carter, though, he was more likely to listen. "House elves are evil, you know? You should always wipe your spoon off before you use it."

She heard those elves use their potato sacks to clean the silverware.

Hmm.. that wasn't the reaction Destiny was expecting from Carter. She had expected him to ramble on and on and on about how excited he was to be doing it. She, on the other hand, was super excited. It was like.. she knew someone famous! "Of course I'd go!" They were free tickets. Free tickets that he would give her. That meant alot of bragging done by her.

Shrugging off his HUG!!!, Destiny once again linked her arm with his and continued down the steps until they reached the Entrance Hall. She could already smell the food and if it weren't for the question Carter asked, she would have been in the Great Hall already. She really didn't want to think about that.. she wouldn't say it, especially to him, but she was scared to be on her own.

Luckily for her, she wouldn't have to mention it..

WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN!?

Destiny first noticed all the other students hanging around, then she noticed a spell being cast and then she noticed what the spell was being cast at. Her eyes widened a little at the snowman moving around the Hall and then they narrowed at the girl who cast that spell. WHAT WAS SHE DOING!? Did she not know?

"Don't do that!" Carter was a Muggle, he should know why. Which was the reason she was pushing him forward, closer to the spell happy girl. "The snowman has come to life to sing to us all!"

Like that Muggle movie, obviously.

She then held her hand out to Daichi. She wanted one of those cookies.. since she wasn't going into the Great Hall anytime soon.