The Bloody Baron

The Bloody Baron

Opposite of the first answer. Unhelpful. Unfriendly, unhelpful, sounds like some Slytherins I know. Which, actually, may be close to helpful. Shoot, what's the Slytherin ghost's name? He'd never met him, and he couldn't really remember his name right now. He's got chains and blood stains... But what's his NAME? The boy decided he was just going to have to write something generic. He fumbled for his quill, which was thankfully still inked enough to not have to deal with his inkwell. Who knew if this strange gravity would even allow that.

He quickly wrote 'The Slytherin House Ghost' on his parchment.

Originally Posted by Grisly Longbones

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

So….How was she meant to get this to the slot? O__O She kept floating upwards and she was getting farther away from the slot every minute! MEEP! Seriously?! This was NOT cool, Bro.

Folding up the parchment, the small blonde did her best to make her way over to the slot quickly, before she floated TOO high up. She made a sort of swimming motion as she went, trying not to bump people...though she totally did. "Sorry!" She squeaked, as she floated into an older boy. She totally couldn't be blamed for that, either. BLAME SCABIOR! Nod. Anndddd she slowly but surely made her way towards the slot. Hey! This was kinda like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory! Yeah! When they floated in that fizzy room! That was just a tiny tiny bit cool. BUT ONLY A LITTLE. Reaching out her fingers, the badger justtttttt barely managed to get her answer into the slot before she got too high up.



Merlin's beard! She really hoped she was right!

Originally Posted by evilblackdoxy

Flailing. Kurumi was definitely flailing now that she was FLOATING in the air. Completely disoriented now, Kurumi tried to somehow swim her way towards a wall so she could turn herself right-side-up since she was pretty sure that she was now right-side-down and sort of smashed herself against the BLINDING blue wall.

Okay, now WHERE was the mail slot thing now? Squinting, Kurumi glanced around the room and all the other floating students and tried to position herself so she could kick off the wall once she found the mail slot. OH! There is was! Shifting her body a bit more, Kurumi squatted against the wall and then PUSHED off with all her might to hopefully just send her shooting across the room and right towards the mail slot. Only problem? She was moving to fa---


*SMACK*

Kurumi quite literally face planted into the wall and her arm sort of turned in an awkward position that made it hard to slip her answer into the mail slot. Unsmashing her face for a moment, Kurumi managed to do so and then pushed away from the wall to floooooooat away.

Someone else could smash into the wall now...yep.

Originally Posted by Grangerfn1

Originally Posted by Jack-o'-LantERN

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Trying not to panic, the Puff tried to find the slot of the door so he could stick his parchment in. But the fact he was off the ground made it hard and the lights didn't help one bit.

He fought towards the door by clinging onto the walls. He was gonna fall...or so he thought but he just banged his head into the door. "Ouch!'' he exclaimed rubbing his head. "Stupid lights...'' Jory felt about for the slot and finally finding it, he shoved the parchment through even though he wasn't sure of the answer he had written down.

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

She managed to grab her quill and parchment in one hand and started pushing herself against the wall with the other. She wasn't so high up yet but she couldn't bring her feet down to the ground either, it was only when she approached the door and the message that she took notice of the mail slot getting further away from her.

KJFDGHDFL. She MUST hurry up, she could see Vivi and Max already giving their answers. Louisa stared at the message again, trying to focus so hard on giving an absolute answer instead of thinking about her floating self and the hand pressed strongly against the wall. It was fairly easy, considering they used puzzles to get into their common room so she fumbled with the parchment, letting go off the wall, and scribbled down her answer.



She slipped the quill through her collar, but not all the way down, to keep it safe as she put the parchment in her mouth and made more use of her hands by grabbing the wall and diving for the mail slot. She bumped into some hovering kids around but the room wasn't AS crowded so it wasn't aggressive. It took only a couple more crawling in the air to reach the slot, with one swift motion she took the parchment from her lips and into the mail slot she pushed it.

It better be correct.

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Now that she was floating (), it was even harder to read the riddle. Which Emmanuelle guessed was the whole point. But still, couldn't Professor Scabior just have written in disappearing ink or something? Instead of blinding them and running the risk of someone getting vertigo or something? Anyway, she found the riddle again (having lost sight of it in the surprise floating) and thought it over, floating higher (x2) the entire time. An answer came to her, but unlike the first two riddles, she wasn't that confident in this one. Maybe cause her thought process was interrupted by the light and floating? She struggled around with her parchment, finally swim-floating over to a wall and placing her parchment against it. Using the wall as a desk, Em scribbled her answer down quickly. Then she looked around to see how others were getting over to the mail slot.

Deciding that the 'swimmers' had the best idea, she kicked off the wall and did her best butterfly stroke towards the door. Sure, it looked ridiculous, but it worked as she could see herself getting closer to the door. Finally she bumped into it (a little harder than she would've liked). She felt along the door, found the slot, slipped her parchment inside, and moved out of the way so that someone else could give it a go. She did remain near the door though, 'clinging' to the wall so that she would be ready in case she was right and the door opened for her.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva was seriously floating higher.. this was not good. She quickly forced her eyes to focus and try to read the riddle again. One thing came to mind, but could it be that she wondered. Not wanting to go up any further she quickly wrote on her parchment:



Then with all her strength she pulled herself down the wall to the little slot and put her parchment in. "Please open.. please open... please open.." she said to herself, but hoping the door would hear her and open for her as well.

Originally Posted by Harry174

Laura didn't like this idea at all, she wanted to be back on her own two feet, this was really starting to annoy her but she somehow managed to read the riddle and smiled she thought she knew the answer.



Laura was hoping that the door would open for her or she would be stuck in here, maybe forever she didn't know though.

Originally Posted by DecemberMoon

Eliza folded her parchment and held it between her teeth and she tried to push and glide herself back down towards the slot in the door. She wished she knew some sort of propulsion spell, but she did not. Maybe I could banish my letter through the slot? She stopped for a moment to think if that would work. It might...but only if I did it right. Best not to risk it. She continued to do what must have looked like swimming, trying to get closer to the door. Once she was within an arms reach, she stretched her fingers as far as she could, took the parchment from her teeth, and stuck it through the mail slot. Whew! I didn't realize we'd be exercising in History class! She did her best to back away from the door to give other students a chance to submit their answers as well. What a strange concept for a room. Why did he make it look like this, I wonder?

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

He wobbled this way and that just trying to get himself upright. It was then when he spotted the writings on the wall near the door--it was the riddle!

Its tough trying to read it all, keep himself from floating upside down AND think of the answer. Then it took another few minutes of struggling to get the parchment out and THEN write. So by the time he managed to push-glide-swim his way towards the direction of the door most students have gotten their answers into the mail slot. He crawled his way upside down the door towards the mail slot and finally managed to push the parchment through....

Originally Posted by hpluvr037

Still frantically attempting to swim through the air, the first year lost focus. "Questo è male!" Pao yelled, reverting to Italian in his distress.** This was NOT what he'd signed up for. He bumped into several people as his arms flailed wildly, which was quite impressive, given the much smaller amount of people in this room.

After what seemed like an eternity but was likely five seconds, he finally noticed he was staying stable enough in the air to read the neon writing. Okay, Mancini, think fast!

**Google says it means 'this is bad.'



Once he scrawled his answer down haphazardly, he renewed his efforts to swim for the door. "Come on, almost... there..." And with one final push he stuffed the bit into the slot.

Bloody Baron

Originally Posted by Cassandra

Despite the floating around, Tay finally thought of the answer. She mentally slapped her forehead as she scrawled down her answer on the parchment.

It was so obvious so why didnt she think about it sooner? Now she just needed to get over there some how. Tay tried to pull herself along the wall and finally managed it. She slipped the parchment into the slot, hoping it would work.

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Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

There! There's the riddle! Kat floated even nearer to it so she can read... First, Kat analyzed the riddle. EXACT opposite of the answer to the previous riddle... meaning the opposite of Huffepuff. That's your house, stupid head. Kat smirked. Right now, she was so sure it was the answer.



Then she slipped it inside the mail slot.

Originally Posted by xXxPandora

Whoa! Whoa!

She was literally floating. Did the room not have gravity? She looked around her peers and saw almost all of them still going on the riddle despite their flight from the ground. So they thought their weightlessness was part of an attempt to lure them away from the next door? Okay, okay. She'd have to work on that too.

"Bloody Quaffle!" Why, she was moving further and further away from the mail slot as she took longer.

Biting her bottom lip, Beezus reeled on the riddle again and after a few seconds of thinking over, she hastily scribbled her answer on the parchment. Then she kicked against the air and heaved herself towards and dropped off the parchment into the slot.

Originally Posted by nups21

Ira scrambled to think and try not to fly away from the riddle as quick as she could. She squinted into the light, and tried reading the riddle again.

Opposite the second answer? Wait, the second answer was Fat Friar. So.. opposite meant something like, say, Thin Friar? That was ridiculous! Shaking her head at her own stupidity, Ira read ahead. So this too was about a ghost? If so, Ira knew exactly who it was. Who was the unpleasant ghost after all?

So, quickly, she wrote down the answer, and kicked her legs to get down near the mail slot, and deposited her answer, before flying again..

Originally Posted by jujune29th