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Bazinga 09-04-2012 11:23 PM

Alexa is a bit of a dumb dumb.. polar opposite then Min.. Yikes..
 
Alexa started wondering around the Hall after she was done eating. No one at her table seem to want to try and talk with her and she wanted to see around the Hall. She wasn't paying attention from looking up at the ceiling and bumped into a table. Looking at the table she saw a bunch of food and figured it was a student table, but then she looked up at the people and realized they were not students. This must be a teacher table, wow Alexa hadn't seen this many teachers in one place before. Her private school didn't have this many people and of course her home was just her parents.

Looking at them she had a thought pop in her head, "So are any of you mean? I have already heard the healer is evil, but I was just wondering if anyone else was evil or if it was just the scary healer?" Her lack of social skills made her lean over the staff table closer to some of the teachers without thinking they might not like that nor like her leaning near their food.

Pips 09-05-2012 12:26 AM

Headmistress with Red Hair, Lainey, Toddles, and Beezley and Toddles at the end :3
 
SPOILER!!: Headmistress with Red Hair
Quote:

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11188034)


Annie had to admit, the way the elves addressed her was amusing. Weren't they so much sweeter now that they worked for her? She would have brought Pinky along to work with them too, had it not been for the fact that he needed to be taking care of her boys back home.

But anyway, they were still being interruptive. They were naive and unaware of the going-ons of the feast, but.... they couldn't just stay here and listen, could they? Anastasia glanced toward the people at her table and noted that the adorable baby elf had crawled up to Lainey's lap and was currently drying off her face.

Awwwwwwwwwwww. Well why not. They should stay, if only to provide amusement for dinner. "No no, Pips, don't be sorry. Thank you for the plant." Her smile came back and she gestured for the elf to deliver the plant up to the table where Cassandra had indicated it could go.



"Scary plant?" Annie echoed the little pink elf who'd just spoken to Cassandra. "It's not scar--- know what, Beezley, I'll just take that off your hands, mmkay? You and Pips can sit on the edge of the dais, if you'd like, and I'll come visit with you once I finish my speech. Will that be okay?"

She would have invited them to sit with the students, but that wouldn't really be proper, having elves at the table and all. So instead, Annie flicked her wand into her hand and quickly levitated the plant away from the elves' tired arms and onto her side of the table. She settled the plant into a spot near her chair, but no so close that it would get knocked off if somebody scooted back, and then continued on with her speech. Better finish it before something ELSE happened this evening.


"Now then, warm welcomes aside, I have a few start-of-term notices to give out. First, I'd like to thank everyone for their cooperation during the... train incident earlier." Anastasia's speech and expression took on a serious, authoritative tone. "Such an abnormality occurs only once a blue moon, and I assure you, students and staff, that no more abnormalities will occur under my watch and tenure as the Head of Hogwarts. I will do my personal best to ensure the safety and education of all students at Hogwarts remains protected at all times. You should all always feel safe and welcome at Hogwarts while you call it your home, and even after you graduate and find yourself a new home.

"Second, I plan to work closely with the Board of Governors in a more symbiotic relationship than prior history dictates, and I also plan to make some changes around Hogwarts that will hopefully benefit all who are effected by this esteemed school of magic." She smiled congenially, confidently at this part and raised her hands in an open arms gesture. "And finally, with all that has been said and done this evening, I would like to invite you to dig in to the feast that has been painstakingly prepared for us by the wonderful Hogwarts House Elves. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns for me, please come to my suite on the second floor after the feast."

There. Now they could eat, for as Headmistress Truebridge lifted her hands, the food Pips, Beezley, Toddles, and the other elves had prepared magically appeared on all five of the Great Hall tables.



Pips shouldn't be sorry? "No, no, Headmistress with Red hair. Elvsies is very sorry. Elvsies is getting out of Headmistress' way now, they is. They did not want to bother Mistress! That would be very bad, very bad indeed. What could be worse? .. THE PLANT. At least that was over. That was almost as bad as disappointing the Headmistress with Red Hair. .. But.. she wasn't upset?! She would let them stay?! "Headmistress with red hair is very nice to the elvsies, she is. They is very honoured to be here and working for Headmistress. Elvsies send they's best wishes for Headmistress and the year and the big scary leafy plant." Yes, they did. They were very pleased to be under Mistress' watchful eye. "Elvsies is going sitting now, they is. Elvsies ironing they's ears can wait for Headmistress with Red Hair."

He followed Beezley and Tippin and Nimma to the dais.. but before he could go.. Where was Toddles?!

SPOILER!!: Mistress Barbecue
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz (Post 11188451)
Lainey shrugged and nodded and dripped in response to Rae. As it turned out, she suddenly lost her appetite anyway.

It wasn't SHOCKING to find a baby house elf in her lap. This was Hogwarts, after all.

She STARED RIGHT BACK with Big Grown Up Lainey Eyes. STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARING WAR ON.

"I taught a class on how to barbeque house elves once." She hadn't. But hahaaaaa. See who blinks first now.

"Hmmm?" She was a little busy here, battling a house elf. Lainey didn't want to go swimming right now. Later, maybe. "At least where people can see, anyway."

"Oh that sounds serious," Lainey took the Missing Bat Poster, but kept her EYES ON THE ELF. SUSPICIOUS ELF WAS SUSPICIOUS. Suspicious plant was even more suspicious, but Lainey would let the Expert Planty-affiliated Bunbury handle that. She'd recognize how SUSPICIOUS that was, surely.

The staring continued through the rest of the speech. STARE STARE STARE.

"That Gryffindor needs help finding her bat. Did you STEAL it, Elf? Do you know where it is? Bet I can find it before you."

With that, Lainey stood with the elf cradled in her arms, then DUMPED the elf in the lap of Amoroso (though.... gently-ISH sort of kind of maybe some). She strode from the table to find a bat, but not before DRAGGING THE TRUNK ALONG behind her again.

And bopping all the Professors again. BOP BOP BOP BOP. She headed towards the tables of STUDENTS.



And then the nice Mistress who Toddles was bothering.. wanted to barbecue them. OH. Oh no, "... Mistress.. Mistress, please, no barbecuing the elfsie. Elvsies is only trying to deliver big scary pink plant to Headmistress with Red Hair, they is. Elvsies is sorry they let Toddles out of they's sight, they is. Elvsies is taking Toddles away." He winced as Lainey stood up with Toddles in her arms, as he suspected she was going to go barbecuing. But he was relieved when Toddles was dumped in someone else's lap.

SPOILER!!: A baby elf who is NOT getting a treat, mind you ;)
Quote:

Originally Posted by Toddles (Post 11188639)
No, Toddles was not going to come back over there Pips! Not when Missis was all wet and yucky, Toddles had to do his job in caring for the Misses. Toddles liked her hair too, he didn't have any.

Oh and see the Headmistress with the red hair is letting the elfsies stay for the feast! That meant he was going to get to see everyone eat the potatoes he dipped his toe in. FUN!!!!

"The misses is pretty even though she is wet and yucky." Yep, Toddles liked when the masters were pretty not all of them were though, Nope. Since Toddles had done a good job wiping the Misses's face he expected her to hug him or tickle his feet or SOMETHING fun but no, she stared at him.

Toddles stared back. His eyes were probably a bit bigger.

"Barbeque? Is that a game? Toddles hasn't heard of that one before. Will you teach me?" More STARING.

Suddenly he was up and being held like a baby, the good kind that he was, but then she DROPPED HIM IN A MASTER'S LAP! AHHHH. The pretty Misses didn't want him anymore? Was it because she thought Toddles stole the little girl's bat? "Misses, I promise Toddles didn't steal it, honest!" He didn't steal things, just the shiney but that was his friend.

But know the Misses was saying she could find the bat first and started to run off to beat Toddles, A GAME. Toddles was going to get to play with her! "No wait, wait, waiiiiiiiit. Misses, Toddles will find it first, he will."

And Toddles bounced after the Board's VP, tapping around her knees to try and hold her back so he could win.



"Toddles! Pips thinks Toddles should sit with the other elvsies and not bother the Mistress," the elf said wearily. He wrapped his long fingers around the baby elf's wrist and tried to tug him out of the other lady's lap. "Toddles must behave, he must." He spoke in a hushed, urgent whisper, as to not bother any of the Masters or Mistresses. "Come now, Toddles. The other elvsies is sitting over there, they is."

TODDLES. That meant.. COME NOW. Hiccup . Hiccup. HICCUP. Pips was overcome by a fit of the hiccups. He must have been really nervous right then.

Toddles was not coming. "Toddles should listen to Pips. Other elvsies over there, they is. If Toddles is not good, Pips will get Nimma." Oh, yes, Nimma knew how to handle the baby better than he did. "Toddles doesn't want Nimma to see him is being a bad bay elfsie."

SPOILER!!: Beezley
Quote:

Originally Posted by Beezley (Post 11188718)

"AHHHHHHH!" Beezley called out again, and this time she did cower in fear. Barbecued house elves? Beezley knew what barbecuing was. Beezley had barbecued some in the kitchens, she had. She gasped as Toddles was tossed into the lap of a man at the big table.

Poor Toddles. Poor, poor Toddles.



"No, Toddles. Noooo," Beezley whispered, gesturing for the baby elf to come back. She was following the Barbecuer, She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Trusted! "Toddles come back. Toddles is in danger," Beezley continued to whisper. Beezley stretched her arms out wide, trying to scoop Toddles up.

Toddles was too far, though. Beezley hung her little elfish head sadly. I'll never let go, Toddles. I'll never let go.

How would she ever break the news to Nimma?!



BEEZLEY. Thank goodness someone had stuck around to help Pips herd Toddles over to the dais. "Beezley! Pips tries to get Toddles, but Toddles isn't coming. The elvsies is getting barbecued by Mistress soon, they is. The elvsies must get Toddles out of Mistress' lap," he said, indicating the new lap that Toddles was located in.

BUT. Just then.. Toddles JUMPED out of her lap and started chasing the Mistress!

Oh no.

"Toddles! TODDLES! be a good elfsie! Good elvsies doesn't chase Mistresses, they doesn't!" Pips waved his arms frantically in the air and began to chase Toddles around Lainey's legs.

Poor Pips would have to iron his ears all the way off tonight.

Hiccup.

Tristan Christiansen 09-05-2012 12:50 AM

"Merlins skyld!" he said out loud. "In Norvay, our huset alver- errr how you say? House elfs? zey are nefer zeen. Nefer heard." He said indignant. "Zis iz not good. No?" He looked over at Lainey who seemed grossed out by them too. "HeadMisstress. You must control your table." He said his voice think with the accent of his people.

Droo 09-05-2012 01:20 AM

Hecate turned to Pips and said "Do you think you could tear yourself away from Toddles long enough to do your job, and get me some tea? Her voice was calm, and soft. She'd usually be angry and sending hexes about.

Ian sat and listened to the speech. He clapped when she finished and smiled. Once the elf and the plant came into the picture, he began chuckling. He laughed a jovial laugh, when the Runes professor got angry at the elves.

Cats and Dogs. Living together. Mass hysteria!

BanaBatGirl 09-05-2012 02:21 AM

most of all of you.... house elves we shall speak more laaaaaater... in the kitchens
 
As soon as her speech was over, Anastasia sat back down to dine and pick up on her conversations from earlier. She would speak to the House Elves AFTER she ate.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harold Lagerty (Post 11187711)
"Oh you do now? Well you must tell me more about him." Hops was VERY interested in this new bit of information. He would have to tell Cassandra for sure. A new positive light needed to be shed on all things Hogwarts including its Board of Governors.

"Well," Annie loaded some green beans, roasted potatoes, and pork chops on her plate. She picked up a dinner roll and started buttering it gently. "His name is Sylvester Rook, and we went to Hogwarts and Healer's School together. His opinions of the Ministry are... similar to yours, I'd say." She raised her brows and bit into her roll.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lezleighd (Post 11187599)
Gemma plastered a smile on her face...it was still very genuine because she had lots of practice keeping this exact smile on her face...after all, this was the smile she gave her mother every time she was asked about why she didn't have a boyfriend...inside she screamed but outside her demeanor was flawless, "It's actually just Miss Cerulean, but it's easier just to call me Gemma..." she said with a friendly wink at the Headmistress. "I know you are busy tonite with all of our guests but I would love to drop by your office and catch up...We were at Hogwarts together and I'm sure we ran into each other a few times..." she said with a little bit of excitement...of course she remembered the woman but she wasn't sure if the woman would remember her since she was a few years younger.

Anastasia chewed sI lowly and then smiled at Miss Cerulean. "Sorry about that, Gemma," she shrugged, not really caring at all whether or not she'd offended the professor. "Sure, drop by when you can. Or maybe I'll stop by your office."

Gemma wasn't the only one who could get around the castle, after all.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188090)
"Hello! Bonjour! Salve, for our Latin speakers. My name is Selina Skylar for those of you who don't know me. First of all,..." She handed each of them a flyer.

Really? Did the girl just say Latin speakers? Anastasia snorted aloud. Literally NO ONE spoke Latin any more. It was a dead language, used only for titles of fancy papers and mottos and such.

She didn't even BOTHER to take the paper about the bat, as she wasn't listening anyway. Bats were not on the list of approved pets for Hogwarts anyway.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Umbrella Vinora (Post 11188093)
As the Umbrella Vinora was lifted from the arms of the small creatures to beside the newly appointed Headmistress, the plant shifted a bit more. It's long, green tendrils began to sway to and fro, as if dancing to a light melody unheard by others.

Annie finally had a chance to look down at the plant by her toes now, swaying as it was. "Hello, my pretty," she spoke softly to the plant. "Don't worry, we'll get you a nice, warm greenhouse as soon as the feast ends..."

SPOILER!!: House Elf Child
Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.



Good Merlin, hadn't Anastasia just told ALL the House Elves to have a seat..?!

She frowned as some girl--- who was ALLEGEDLY a Prefect ---attempted to interrupt their meal yet again. At least she was bringing them some food, right? And dessert came after dinner, so... Annie couldn't be TOO upset about it.

"Have any chocolate cookies there?" she sniffed toward the child. If not, she could just take the cookies back to her seat with her, Annie didn't CARE how pretty they were or weren't.

SPOILER!!: Beezley & Pips & Tristan
Quote:

Originally Posted by Beezley (Post 11188718)
At the sound of a loud clap, Beezley's little elfish legs began to shake. She turned and looked at the Missus with eyes widened in horror. She stared at the woman until she realized that no harm would come. Caring creatures? Caring they were. Yes, elfsies are. Beezley lifted her little elfish lips up into a wide smile. "Beezley is thankful, Missus," she said, giving a bow. "So, so thankful."

...and then Beezley looked again toward Missus Truebridge. Beezley knew her name. Beezley made sure to know this name by heart. She nodded. "Big, scary, leafy plant," she said, and then she widened her arms just to emphasize how big the plant seemed to her.

She grinned again when the plant was taken out their arms. Such a heavy plant. Beezley's arms hurt, but Beezley wouldn't complain. Beezley had a job to do. Accepting the orders she'd been given, Beezley took a seat on the edge of the dais.

"AHHHHHHH!" Beezley called out, spotting a leafy arm swaying in front of her face. She'd cower in fear, but she'd taken orders from her master, and her master had said to sit right here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pips (Post 11188836)
Pips shouldn't be sorry? "No, no, Headmistress with Red hair. Elvsies is very sorry. Elvsies is getting out of Headmistress' way now, they is. They did not want to bother Mistress! That would be very bad, very bad indeed. What could be worse? .. THE PLANT. At least that was over. That was almost as bad as disappointing the Headmistress with Red Hair. .. But.. she wasn't upset?! She would let them stay?! "Headmistress with red hair is very nice to the elvsies, she is. They is very honoured to be here and working for Headmistress. Elvsies send they's best wishes for Headmistress and the year and the big scary leafy plant." Yes, they did. They were very pleased to be under Mistress' watchful eye. "Elvsies is going sitting now, they is. Elvsies ironing they's ears can wait for Headmistress with Red Hair."

He followed Beezley and Tippin and Nimma to the dais.. but before he could go.. Where was Toddles?!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tristan Christiansen (Post 11188860)
"Merlins skyld!" he said out loud. "In Norvay, our huset alver- errr how you say? House elfs? zey are nefer zeen. Nefer heard." He said indignant. "Zis iz not good. No?" He looked over at Lainey who seemed grossed out by them too. "HeadMisstress. You must control your table." He said his voice think with the accent of his people.



Anastasia paused with her fork to her mouth, just about to eat the last of her potatoes as it was. She was all set to ignore the House Elves for now too. But the sharp, heavily accented voice of the Runes professor caught her off guard, and she set down her fork with a frown.

"Beezley! Pips!" the redhead spoke up, clapping just once. "Go back to the kitchens, please, and take Toddles with you." And Professor Lainey, if you could. "I will be down to talk to you later about the plant. Thank you for your service and hard work this evening."

She gave Pips a nod, signalling him to take care of this situation, and then sat back down to finish eating.

pundantic 09-05-2012 02:34 AM

SPOILER!!: Lainey, Bentley and Kurumi <33
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz (Post 11188451)
Lainey shrugged and nodded and dripped in response to Rae. As it turned out, she suddenly lost her appetite anyway.




It wasn't SHOCKING to find a baby house elf in her lap. This was Hogwarts, after all.

She STARED RIGHT BACK with Big Grown Up Lainey Eyes. STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARING WAR ON.

"I taught a class on how to barbeque house elves once." She hadn't. But hahaaaaa. See who blinks first now.



"Hmmm?" She was a little busy here, battling a house elf. Lainey didn't want to go swimming right now. Later, maybe. "At least where people can see, anyway."





"Oh that sounds serious," Lainey took the Missing Bat Poster, but kept her EYES ON THE ELF. SUSPICIOUS ELF WAS SUSPICIOUS. Suspicious plant was even more suspicious, but Lainey would let the Expert Planty-affiliated Bunbury handle that. She'd recognize how SUSPICIOUS that was, surely.

The staring continued through the rest of the speech. STARE STARE STARE.

"That Gryffindor needs help finding her bat. Did you STEAL it, Elf? Do you know where it is? Bet I can find it before you."

With that, Lainey stood with the elf cradled in her arms, then DUMPED the elf in the lap of Amoroso (though.... gently-ISH sort of kind of maybe some). She strode from the table to find a bat, but not before DRAGGING THE TRUNK ALONG behind her again.

And bopping all the Professors again. BOP BOP BOP BOP. She headed towards the tables of STUDENTS.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hera (Post 11188140)
SPOILER!!: speech, elf, PLANT! madness





















Seren had been lost in her own little universe, pruning away at her thoughts with excessive force, only to be brought back to reality just in time for the new Headmistresses speech.

She wasn't going to beat around the bush about it, quite frankly the sudden presence of the Board of Governors made her feel uncomfortable. But perhaps that was just her being silly, letting nerves get to her. Maybe...

Raising her juice to her lips, she took a small sip before setting it back down. The arrival of the house elves... including Toddles whom still hadn't offered her a personal apology for burning down her research shed... was a fun distraction, especially considering what they were distracting them all with. A PLANT!

It was official. Seren Benltey ENVIED Anastasia Truebridge. Sure she'd had her fair share of gifts in the form of plants, but she'd never had one of THOSE before. A part of her was itching to get her fingers on the petals!... it must feel like heaven, it certainly looked heavenly.

But alas.... back to the speech.

A small crease appeared on her forehead. Firstly, the woman was insane for thinking things at Hogwarts could be normal... that just didn't happen. The place was cursedinteresting. And secondly plan to make some changes around Hogwarts that will hopefully benefit all who are effected ...just sounded dreadful. Hopefully the Herbology budget wouldn't be cut.

SPOILER!!: Captain!



Oohh would you look at that. A familiar face. Seren smiled brightly at her Captain. Such an enthusiastic Lion, and such lovely manners too."Thank you Selina, I'll be sure to keep a look out for it."



Now... food.



As Selina continued to hand out each of her posters to all of the staff, she finally reached Bentley. It was really nice to see her Head of House again after such a long summer apart. Although she would not be so quick to tell her what she had gotten on her OWL for Herbology. She did not want to see disappointment in the woman's eyes. She respected her too much for that sort of look... but honestly she had studied. The redhead swore it on her beater bat's life... and she didn't joke about Mortimer. Especially not at a time like this.

Nodding to Bentley in appreciation, the sixth year said, "Thank you so much, Professor. Anything that you can do to help the cause would be much appreciated." Maybe Selina should make buttons to give to everyone who was helping find Mortimer. As as a sort of appreciation type thing. Also, it would be a good way to send out the word on her bat without being pushy. Yeah, she was going to invest in buttons.

Then she felt someone pulling on her shirt. Who in Merlin's right mind would ever interrupt Selina while she was seeking her bat? Did they have a death wish- oh Kurumi. Right.

The redhead pulled her arm away from Kurumi who was not so nonchalantly trying to pull Selina away. They could eat later. There were just some things in life that were more important than food.

O_____________o

She had to stop saying that. It was really starting to frighten her.

Everything that she was thinking suddenly got pulled away from her when a girl started to rant about finding her bat. THAT WAS THE TYPE OF ENTHUSIASM THEY NEEDED IF THE BAT WAS GOING TO BE FOUND! Yes! This was what they needed.

Pumping her fist up in the air, she said, "YOU GO GLEN COCO! That is what I am talking about people! Whose with me?" With her arms still raised in the air she turned to Lafay, "How 'bout you, Lafay?" Headmistress? Anyone?

Kaos.Doodles 09-05-2012 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo (Post 11188630)

Alexa hesitantly approached the meaner--not that she'd called him that. As she did she tried her hardest to remove any fragments of amusement or a smile...he took 5 points for her giggling, there was no telling how many he would take off if she approached him with her usual smile. For all she knew he might have thought she was being cheeky. Yikes.

Gripping the paper and pencil firmly in her still okay hand she took a deep breath then stood before him. For a moment she just stood there staring at him, wondering if he would say something first. He might of because he had to know why she was up there; it wasn't for the view!

Stare.

STARE.

But then she decided to scribble. Good evening Professor.

Once she was done with him she would probably make her way up and down the table.

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Originally Posted by CherryBlossomRose (Post 11188722)
Serenity joined Alexa. She wasn't sure what she was doing up here, especially with the professor who's silenced them. But whatever. So she came too. She thought about adding to Lex's note, but thought she's wait for Professor sir to come and reply before she said anything and lost any of her own points.

She had heard he was an ex-Snake so hopefully he had a soft spot for Snakes? Either way, she didn't want him to take 50 housepoints off her, or Lex. Actualky rather, Serenity. She felt bad enough Lex had lost 5.

Scabior was eating. He thought that was very obvious. See, there was a plate in front of him with half finished food, and some of that food, even seemed to be on his fork which had been doing its job, supplying said food to his mouth.

He was eating.

And the LOUD first years didn't seem to get that.

Placing his fork on his plate, he stared right back at the Gryffindor who shoved a paper in his face. "Save your good evenings." Grabbing the paper he crumpled it up, and tossed it right back to her. "Here-" He took out his wand, removing from both girls. "Inform West and Theo-" Actually....he looked over at the Slytherin table. Lainey was there..hm... "-to have Professor Lainey." He pointed. The dripping wet one over there with a house elf army behind her. "To remove their charms. It's alright, since I instructed it. Go tell them." He paused, and stared. "Now."

Back to his food.

DanialRadFAN01 09-05-2012 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Mell (Post 11187407)
And then his gaze cut to a very, VERY pretty young woman and he grinned at her. They were all so friendly here. Well except for you-know-who but he could deal with her. "It's a pleasure to meet you Ms Elwood. And yes you are correct. Sebastian Gibbins. But you can call me Seb." And then the Headmistress stood up to make her speech and he sat back to listen to what she had to say.

Merlin, was it bed time yet?

"Pleasure's all mine, especially since you're the newbie around here this term. I was in your shoes this time last year, do you like things so far--well apart from falling into the Lake?" Callie was trying not to laugh when she thought of it but a smile couldn't be stopped from appearing.

The Groundskeeper had a hard job keeping the school's lawns and such so precise and good-looking. "You should come up to my office in the Divinaton Tower sometime, the view is simply AMAZING. It would let you appreciate better all the work you do for us." Plus she could possibly get to know him better, he wasn't all that bad looking, although he looked a bit older than she was.
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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay (Post 11187494)
"Hello Callie! Good summer?" Isabelle practically had to mime the words and ended it with a thumbs up. The table had got an awful lot longer since last term.

"Eh, so-so." Callie mouthed to the brunette down the table, making a waving gesture with her hand and scrunching up her face. Yeah it wasn't a good summer but she wasn't about to yell all the depressing details of how she hulled up in her deceased parents' home all summer, alone.

Not something you shouted during a Feast.
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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188090)
As the new headmistress spoke, Selina made sure to tune into everything that she was saying. The redheaded lady's speech was well spoken, to the point and very nice although Selina would be lying if she did not sincerely miss the don't die advice at the end. Ah well, she knew that rule by heart now anyway. But once the lady finished her speech, Selina figured it was good a time as any to finish out her work to find Mortimer.

Honestly, Selina needed to cover all of her bases if she was going to find her bat in time for Quidditch season... or for his daily night ritual of story time and cookies before bed. The stories were for Mortimer, the cookies were for Selina. Oh how she missed story time. Her bat had been missing for just over two months now and she was finding it increasingly more difficult to live life without her bundle of destruction joy. She just missed her bat so much.

So with a determined look on her face, because maybe one of these adults had seen Mortimer or knew where he was, she approached the staff table. Although, once she arrived she realized just how elevated the staff table was from the house tables. It was like the Professors either wanted to demonstrate some level of authority during meals or they were afraid that the students would turn rabid one day and the extra height would help them stay out of reach.

Clearing her head of such thoughts, she was on a specialized mission, she cleared her throat attempting to draw the professors attention to her. With a calculated and monotone voice, as if she were reciting a small, practiced speech which was relatively practiced, she said, "Hello! Bonjour! Salve, for our Latin speakers. My name is Selina Skylar for those of you who don't know me. First of all, I would like to take this time to say how excited I am to spend another term with all of you as professors. You all are gifted witches and wizards. So cheers to this term, but, erm, more importantly I would like to draw your attention to something very important- this..." She handed each of them a flyer.

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"If any of you has seen this bat- please contact me at your earliest convenience. We appreciate your consideration and support. This is the best of causes..." Because what was better than reuniting a girl and her beater bat? THAT WAS THE QUESTION!

And this term seemed to have an influx in students approaching the raised dias where the Staff table was located which she assumed would be expected when there's a new Headmaster so it should be okay since that didn't happen very often.

The firey hair of the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain caught Elwood's eye and caused a bright grin to erupt on the blonde's face. "Selena! That's terrible to hear, but I hope besides that you had a good summer?" The girl was one of her favorite students so she sure hoped it had gone well for her. But before any real conversation could be made, the Gryffindor Prefect who brought the cookies was pulling Selena away. "I'll keep an eye out for your bat dear, also don't forget to stop by my office for our 'little meetings'."
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."

COOKIES.

Callie had been looking forward to the meal this evening since a week ago but the promise of dessert was something to stall her rumbling stomach. "Prefect Hollingberry, it's good to see you again, will I be seeing you once more studying the noble art of Divination?" She should, the girl had been rather good at it. Personally Callie thought the class should be a required course for all years but she didn't see that happening anytime soon. Siiigh.

The blone took a Hogwarts cookie and then one of the blue Ravenclaw ones as she waited for the girl's response. She could have two right?!
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Originally Posted by Destiny (Post 11188677)
Calista was nice, Vanora decided. And it had nothing to do with the fact that she thought her name was pretty.

Okay, it did have something to do with that. But just a little something. She smiled, "Thank you!" Her mother gave it to her. "Yours is pretty, and very fitting for a Divination Professor." Somehow. It just seemed like those two things went together. A subject and a name. Yup.

And just when she thought Calista was nice, the blonde had to go and get all suspicious on her. Was it because she came to the feast wearing jeans that she offered to let her borrow her dress? If she did take up that offer, was she allowed to borrow the woman's bracelets as well? Those were also pretty. "Oh. Thank you." Again. "Not quite sure where I would wear that to, but if I think of somewhere.." Vanora briefly wondered what else Calista was willing to let her borrow until her attention was brought down to the other end of the table once more. To the Board of Governors.

Who apparently could fire them. Huh. "I don't think that will happen." After all, that one Governor had just climbed over her chair. And bopped everyone on the head.

"Well thank you, my my... my mother gave me mine too." She nodded slowly, twisted one of her bracelets at the thought of her mom. Now that she thought of it though it was sort of peculiar how things worked out, she obviously wasn't connected to Divination as an infant.

Borrowing clothes would be fun, it's part of being a woman, right? This particular dress probably wouldn't be ideal for the barn or animal pens but for some night. "Yes, well you could use it if you were going on a date or need something for a feast or whatever." Yes, those were good occasions to dress up.
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Originally Posted by Tristan Christiansen (Post 11188860)
"Merlins skyld!" he said out loud. "In Norvay, our huset alver- errr how you say? House elfs? zey are nefer zeen. Nefer heard." He said indignant. "Zis iz not good. No?" He looked over at Lainey who seemed grossed out by them too. "HeadMisstress. You must control your table." He said his voice think with the accent of his people.

Callie looked down at the visiting Ancient Runes Professor as he spoke up, showing his distaste for the way the House Elves were acting and almost blaming the Headmistress for it all. Well....someone isn't very happy tonight, is he?

Elves, Lainey, Feast, Plant, and Headmistress:

As if Callie's senses weren't about to go into overload a million and one things all happened at once. Firstly when the Speech got to a lull and the Board of Governors were introduced, Professor Lainey started to whoop and shout in reaction. Yeah...she was definately some sort of clown on the side, definately.

Then House Elves and a HUGE pink plant arrived and Callie was so excited to see so many of them, she had only seen one or two last term cleaning but they never stuck around. They were so cute. And then the baby one was on the Lainey woman and she was running around with it at her heels.

"Oh look at it, Medea, Vanora, look! Teehee!" Callie started to giggle and clap as the clown (lainey) danced around and began running off to look for Selena's bat. Oh this was such a fun feast. But then Anastasia got somewhat angry and Callie immediately stopped clapping since that little scene was apparently not supposed to be happening.

Poor house elves were going to get a talking to it seemed.

Callie decided to just start eating her food--roast beef with mashed potatoes and green beans; she eyed her two cookies she was saving for later.

The1HBIC 09-05-2012 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mell (Post 11188656)
Turning in his seat, Seb gave the woman who had sat down right beside him a warm smile. "A pleasure to meet you Cecelia. And yes I am the new Groundskeeper. Sebastian Gibbins." He held his hand out towards the young woman. "I have a feeling you're going to have a busy night." There had been students with broken bones after all.

Cece shook the man's hand when he held it out to her. "Pleasure to meet you too Mr. Gibbons." He was no Waylon sitting next to her but he seemed nice enough. "Yeah, looks like I won't be getting any sleep tonight." Which really stunk because after that flight to school and the day she'd had, she was really tired.

Looking around the table she shook her head at how crazy things were starting to get. What was with all the elves and this crazy looking plant? Why did it have to be delivered now? And why was that crazy Lainey lady running from Toddles like that?

More importantly though...

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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11188757)
Looking at them she had a thought pop in her head, "So are any of you mean? I have already heard the healer is evil, but I was just wondering if anyone else was evil or if it was just the scary healer?" Her lack of social skills made her lean over the staff table closer to some of the teachers without thinking they might not like that nor like her leaning near their food.

WHY was this student up here being RUDE and DISRESPECTFUL? Both qualities Cece did NOT tolerate from children. Especially when that disrespect was directed at her.

Taking her and out Cece pointed it at the child. She was about to learn just how evil the healer could be... or at least get a taste of her evilness. With a flick of her wrist she cast "Langlock!" at the girl. Let's see how well she likes having her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth.

"Ten points from Hufflepuff for your rude and disrespectful behavior." The girl was lucky it wasn't fifty points. "If I ever hear you speak that way about any staff member again, there will be more than just points loss child. And get up off the table. This is NOT your bed."

Really, someone needed to teach this kid some manners.

Pips 09-05-2012 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Droo (Post 11188887)
Hecate turned to Pips and said "Do you think you could tear yourself away from Toddles long enough to do your job, and get me some tea? Her voice was calm, and soft. She'd usually be angry and sending hexes about.

The little elf turned to see a Mistress asking for some tea. Mistress wanted some tea? Serving was what Pips lived for. "Pips will get your tea right away, Mistress," he said dutifully, and popped over to the Kitchens to fetch her some tea. In a moment, he was back with a sloshing cup of steaming tea. "Pips has your tea, Mistress," he said, setting the cup down on a nearby saucer. "Pips hopes Mistress likes her tea, he does."

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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11188924)
As soon as her speech was over, Anastasia sat back down to dine and pick up on her conversations from earlier. She would speak to the House Elves AFTER she ate.

Annie finally had a chance to look down at the plant by her toes now, swaying as it was. "Hello, my pretty," she spoke softly to the plant. "Don't worry, we'll get you a nice, warm greenhouse as soon as the feast ends..."

Good Merlin, hadn't Anastasia just told ALL the House Elves to have a seat..?!

Anastasia paused with her fork to her mouth, just about to eat the last of her potatoes as it was. She was all set to ignore the House Elves for now too. But the sharp, heavily accented voice of the Runes professor caught her off guard, and she set down her fork with a frown.

"Beezley! Pips!" the redhead spoke up, clapping just once. "Go back to the kitchens, please, and take Toddles with you." And Professor Lainey, if you could. "I will be down to talk to you later about the plant. Thank you for your service and hard work this evening."

She gave Pips a nod, signalling him to take care of this situation, and then sat back down to finish eating.

Pips noticed Headmistress speaking to the big scary pink plant. Could the scary pink plant talk?! He hoped it couldn't, for surely it would tell Headmistress with Red Hair how bad of a job the elvsies had done. "Elvsies is going back to the Kitchens now, Headmistress," Pips said, nervously hiccuping again. "Elvsies is sorry for the trouble they is causing, they is. Pips hopes Headmistress is not too upset with elvsies."

In a hurry, Pips wound his long fingers around Toddles' wrist and gently tugged him away from the Mistress he was bothering. "Toddles is having to be a good elfsie now and come with Pips to the kitchen for ears ironing and beddy-time," he told him, leading him to the dais where the other elvsies were located. "Headmistress with Red Hair says elvsies is going now."

Just one more thing he had to do before he left. Pips reached up towards his mushroom-shaped nose and gave it a squeeze. "HONK." Task done! His nose-honking signaled the end of a task.. and their task was done, wasn't it? Headmistress with Red Hair had her scary leafy plant now. He wrapped another hand around Beezley's wrist and motioned for Nimma and Tippin to hold on to one of the other elvsies.

Pop. The elvsies disappeared into the Kitchens, leaving the students to eat their food in peace.

Roselyn 09-05-2012 03:45 AM

SPOILER!!: ummm...all the chaos. yes.
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Originally Posted by Beezley (Post 11187831)
When the plant shifted again, Beezley knew they were at the big table now. She knew, because she'd been in this place so, so many times. Elfsies knew their way around places where food was served. Yes, they did.

Now to give the big, scary, leafy plant to Missus Truebridge. Beezley could hear talking, and Beezley didn't want to interrupt. Missus Truebridge seemed as scary as fire, she did. Fire, just like her bright, red hair.

The elf cleared her throat as she stopped in front of the big table.

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Originally Posted by Toddles (Post 11187851)
The Elfsies had done it, they did what the red haired lady told them too! They did so good Toddles wanted to run around the room and dance like he loved to do. Big pink plant was still on his head.

No one spoke, not Pips, not Nimma, not Beezley, no one. So Toddles did.

"SPECIAL DEWIVERY!!!" There, that was that. Head lady wasn't still talking was she?



Now the plant was getting heavy and giving Toddles a headache so the baby elfsie snuck out from underneath it without the other elfsies seeing him and scurried under the table to look at all the pretty shoes. Toddles was told he couldn't wear shoes but his feet got cold, they did.

One in particular caught his attention they were VERY wet. Yucky. Toddle looked at them and slowly climbed up one tall leg and then the other. Suddenly his baby elf head popped up over the table as he SAT IN PROFESSOR LAINEY'S LAP.

"You're all wet Misses, want Toddles to help?" he slooooowly raied part of his pillowcase and wiped her cheek ever-so-gently-like. Big baby House Elf eyes.

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Originally Posted by Pips (Post 11187853)
Pips stopped in front of Beezley, cleared his throat as well, hushed Toddles, and began to speak. "Headmistress with Red Hair, the elvsies is bringing you big pink plant in big pink pot with big pink bow and big pink tag with Headmistress' name on it," he said, hiccuping nervously and pushing the plant in the lady's direction. "I is Pips and these is Beezley and Toddles and Nimma and Tippin. The elvsies is late and we is sorry. We is ironing our ears extra hard tonight, we is."

Hiccup.

"Is Headmistress with red Hair upset with the elvsies?" He asked, going into a hiccuping fit. He looked up at the big hoomans at the table and hiccuped several more times. "We is very sorry. We hope Headmistress with Red Hair is forgiving us."

.. And where had Toddles gone?! Into a mistress' LAP?!

"Toddles! Toddles mustn't bother the Mistress or Pips and Nimma is taking away Toddles' snack, they is!" he warned sternly. "Pips says toddles must get off Mistress now!"

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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11188034)


Annie had to admit, the way the elves addressed her was amusing. Weren't they so much sweeter now that they worked for her? She would have brought Pinky along to work with them too, had it not been for the fact that he needed to be taking care of her boys back home.

But anyway, they were still being interruptive. They were naive and unaware of the going-ons of the feast, but.... they couldn't just stay here and listen, could they? Anastasia glanced toward the people at her table and noted that the adorable baby elf had crawled up to Lainey's lap and was currently drying off her face.

Awwwwwwwwwwww. Well why not. They should stay, if only to provide amusement for dinner. "No no, Pips, don't be sorry. Thank you for the plant." Her smile came back and she gestured for the elf to deliver the plant up to the table where Cassandra had indicated it could go.



"Scary plant?" Annie echoed the little pink elf who'd just spoken to Cassandra. "It's not scar--- know what, Beezley, I'll just take that off your hands, mmkay? You and Pips can sit on the edge of the dais, if you'd like, and I'll come visit with you once I finish my speech. Will that be okay?"

She would have invited them to sit with the students, but that wouldn't really be proper, having elves at the table and all. So instead, Annie flicked her wand into her hand and quickly levitated the plant away from the elves' tired arms and onto her side of the table. She settled the plant into a spot near her chair, but no so close that it would get knocked off if somebody scooted back, and then continued on with her speech. Better finish it before something ELSE happened this evening.


"Now then, warm welcomes aside, I have a few start-of-term notices to give out. First, I'd like to thank everyone for their cooperation during the... train incident earlier." Anastasia's speech and expression took on a serious, authoritative tone. "Such an abnormality occurs only once a blue moon, and I assure you, students and staff, that no more abnormalities will occur under my watch and tenure as the Head of Hogwarts. I will do my personal best to ensure the safety and education of all students at Hogwarts remains protected at all times. You should all always feel safe and welcome at Hogwarts while you call it your home, and even after you graduate and find yourself a new home.

"Second, I plan to work closely with the Board of Governors in a more symbiotic relationship than prior history dictates, and I also plan to make some changes around Hogwarts that will hopefully benefit all who are effected by this esteemed school of magic." She smiled congenially, confidently at this part and raised her hands in an open arms gesture. "And finally, with all that has been said and done this evening, I would like to invite you to dig in to the feast that has been painstakingly prepared for us by the wonderful Hogwarts House Elves. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns for me, please come to my suite on the second floor after the feast."

There. Now they could eat, for as Headmistress Truebridge lifted her hands, the food Pips, Beezley, Toddles, and the other elves had prepared magically appeared on all five of the Great Hall tables.

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Originally Posted by Umbrella Vinora (Post 11188093)
As the Umbrella Vinora was lifted from the arms of the small creatures to beside the newly appointed Headmistress, the plant shifted a bit more. It's long, green tendrils began to sway to and fro, as if dancing to a light melody unheard by others.

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."

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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188090)
As the new headmistress spoke, Selina made sure to tune into everything that she was saying. The redheaded lady's speech was well spoken, to the point and very nice although Selina would be lying if she did not sincerely miss the don't die advice at the end. Ah well, she knew that rule by heart now anyway. But once the lady finished her speech, Selina figured it was good a time as any to finish out her work to find Mortimer.

Honestly, Selina needed to cover all of her bases if she was going to find her bat in time for Quidditch season... or for his daily night ritual of story time and cookies before bed. The stories were for Mortimer, the cookies were for Selina. Oh how she missed story time. Her bat had been missing for just over two months now and she was finding it increasingly more difficult to live life without her bundle of destruction joy. She just missed her bat so much.

So with a determined look on her face, because maybe one of these adults had seen Mortimer or knew where he was, she approached the staff table. Although, once she arrived she realized just how elevated the staff table was from the house tables. It was like the Professors either wanted to demonstrate some level of authority during meals or they were afraid that the students would turn rabid one day and the extra height would help them stay out of reach.

Clearing her head of such thoughts, she was on a specialized mission, she cleared her throat attempting to draw the professors attention to her. With a calculated and monotone voice, as if she were reciting a small, practiced speech which was relatively practiced, she said, "Hello! Bonjour! Salve, for our Latin speakers. My name is Selina Skylar for those of you who don't know me. First of all, I would like to take this time to say how excited I am to spend another term with all of you as professors. You all are gifted witches and wizards. So cheers to this term, but, erm, more importantly I would like to draw your attention to something very important- this..." She handed each of them a flyer.

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"If any of you has seen this bat- please contact me at your earliest convenience. We appreciate your consideration and support. This is the best of causes..." Because what was better than reuniting a girl and her beater bat? THAT WAS THE QUESTION!

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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 11188971)

"Pleasure's all mine, especially since you're the newbie around here this term. I was in your shoes this time last year, do you like things so far--well apart from falling into the Lake?" Callie was trying not to laugh when she thought of it but a smile couldn't be stopped from appearing.

The Groundskeeper had a hard job keeping the school's lawns and such so precise and good-looking. "You should come up to my office in the Divinaton Tower sometime, the view is simply AMAZING. It would let you appreciate better all the work you do for us." Plus she could possibly get to know him better, he wasn't all that bad looking, although he looked a bit older than she was.

"Eh, so-so." Callie mouthed to the brunette down the table, making a waving gesture with her hand and scrunching up her face. Yeah it wasn't a good summer but she wasn't about to yell all the depressing details of how she hulled up in her deceased parents' home all summer, alone.

Not something you shouted during a Feast.

And this term seemed to have an influx in students approaching the raised dias where the Staff table was located which she assumed would be expected when there's a new Headmaster so it should be okay since that didn't happen very often.

The firey hair of the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain caught Elwood's eye and caused a bright grin to erupt on the blonde's face. "Selena! That's terrible to hear, but I hope besides that you had a good summer?" The girl was one of her favorite students so she sure hoped it had gone well for her. But before any real conversation could be made, the Gryffindor Prefect who brought the cookies was pulling Selena away. "I'll keep an eye out for your bat dear, also don't forget to stop by my office for our 'little meetings'."

COOKIES.

Callie had been looking forward to the meal this evening since a week ago but the promise of dessert was something to stall her rumbling stomach. "Prefect Hollingberry, it's good to see you again, will I be seeing you once more studying the noble art of Divination?" She should, the girl had been rather good at it. Personally Callie thought the class should be a required course for all years but she didn't see that happening anytime soon. Siiigh.

The blone took a Hogwarts cookie and then one of the blue Ravenclaw ones as she waited for the girl's response. She could have two right?!

"Well thank you, my my... my mother gave me mine too." She nodded slowly, twisted one of her bracelets at the thought of her mom. Now that she thought of it though it was sort of peculiar how things worked out, she obviously wasn't connected to Divination as an infant.

Borrowing clothes would be fun, it's part of being a woman, right? This particular dress probably wouldn't be ideal for the barn or animal pens but for some night. "Yes, well you could use it if you were going on a date or need something for a feast or whatever." Yes, those were good occasions to dress up.

Callie looked down at the visiting Ancient Runes Professor as he spoke up, showing his distaste for the way the House Elves were acting and almost blaming the Headmistress for it all. Well....someone isn't very happy tonight, is he?

Elves, Lainey, Feast, Plant, and Headmistress:

As if Callie's senses weren't about to go into overload a million and one things all happened at once. Firstly when the Speech got to a lull and the Board of Governors were introduced, Professor Lainey started to whoop and shout in reaction. Yeah...she was definately some sort of clown on the side, definately.

Then House Elves and a HUGE pink plant arrived and Callie was so excited to see so many of them, she had only seen one or two last term cleaning but they never stuck around. They were so cute. And then the baby one was on the Lainey woman and she was running around with it at her heels.

"Oh look at it, Medea, Vanora, look! Teehee!" Callie started to giggle and clap as the clown (lainey) danced around and began running off to look for Selena's bat. Oh this was such a fun feast. But then Anastasia got somewhat angry and Callie immediately stopped clapping since that little scene was apparently not supposed to be happening.

Poor house elves were going to get a talking to it seemed.

Callie decided to just start eating her food--roast beef with mashed potatoes and green beans; she eyed her two cookies she was saving for later.



Just as it seemed to happen every year...the chaos began.

It started off slow, resulting in the house elves bringing up a rather beautiful plant to the table. Or so she thought. She was no herbologist but those waving tendrils were kinda creepy. Eventually, Medea found herself leaning against the table, over her food, staring down at the other end of the table where the smaller house elf had positioned itself in the lap of one Lainey.

Then the students started piling up here.

Cookies and something about a beater's bat...

Running elves...

Good Merlin, this was catching up to the amusements of end of term feasts. Isn't that when most of this stuff happened? The quiet chuckle that escaped her as Callie clapped was...unexpected. Ahem. She just settled for keeping the rest of the laugh in, shoulders shaking in the process. The Headmistress did not approve of the act after all. Ahem. Erm...

Food! There was something to focus on.

demented_death_eater 09-05-2012 03:50 AM

He's been here the entire time!
 
Vindictus was seated in his customary seat next to the current Headmaster Headmistress and he was lost in his own little world of planning Quidditch games and ways to encourage the Ravenclaws to earn points.

Suddenly, something snapped Max out of his fantasyland and he noticed the loss of sapphires. His gaze was quick to fall on the Ravenclaw House Table and he shook his head at them. If none of the other staff members were present, he would have started yelling at them to earn those points back! Perhaps one of the prefects or his new captain would bring the culprit to his office afterwards so that he could remedy the situation.

Then he realized that they were being invaded by House Elves.

Max leaned over to the new Headmistress. "Yo, Annie. Do you think they could bring us some chocolate?" Max asked casually and settled back in his seat.

PhoenixRising 09-05-2012 04:13 AM

*tries to catch up* ^___^
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 11186529)

Oh and Fina had arrived! Callie had gotten to know the Arithmancy Professor fairly well the past term and was glad to see another familiar face among the small sea of new ones seated at the Staff Table. "Evening Fina, that dress looks lovely on you." The woman sure knew how to work her House color.

Josephina was distracted, yes, she was. But looking over toward the blond woman, she smiled at her in return. It was always good to see Professors return for another year. "Evening, Callie! Thank you and welcome back! I trust you enjoyed your time off?"

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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11186680)
Oh yes, this woman was charming as well. Lovely lovely!

"Simply charmed to meet you, darling," she said, her words rolling off her tongue with an dazzling elegance. "Oh Arithmancy! I did rather enjoy that subject as a student, not as much as Astronomy, naturally, but a fascinating subject nonetheless."

A few students had come to the table by now, earning some more pointed eyebrow raises and Hmmmmmmmmmmms from the woman. When one more appeared, Ravenclaw judging from her robes, Marion leaned over just a bit to whisper to Josephina. "Tell me darling, is this a normal occurrence for Hogwarts students these days to forget their manners and approach the staff table before the Headmistress has given her speech?"

She certainly hoped that there would be better manners in her classroom, or out the door they would go. Out out! Shoo shoo!

Josephina tried not to grin too much at Marion, but her sweet, grandmotherly attitude was just splendid and refreshing. "Thank you. Yes, Arithmancy is rather fascinating, I must agree. And very consistent across the world. So is Astronomy, come to think of it. My sister and you would get along well, I'm sure." Her sister, the Astrophysics nerd.

But then, as the students began appearing the staff table, she really couldn't hold back the smile and laugh about it being a normal occurrence for Hogwarts students to forget their mannerisms. "Kids will be kids," Fina replied simply enough. Surely Marion Burbage would understand that one.


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Originally Posted by Cassirin (Post 11186758)
Another professor was staring. Hadn't Anastasia warned them to expect the Board of Governors for the feast this evening? Cassandra stared back before recognizing the woman as a former student.

It would make a lesser woman feel quite old.

She waved merrily.

And then she caught the wave from her former Defense Professor. Oh. Oh, how rude of her to be gaping. It was not like her, but she also didn't expect to see Cassandra Rae again, considering the woman wasn't at Hogwarts when she returned in 2071.

She waved back....


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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz (Post 11186909)
Lainey arrived to the Great Hall at last. She was wet, dripping even, and was dragging a trunk along behind her. The metal feet of the trunk made ear-splitting screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeches with every inch she moved, but the VP didn't seem to hear it.

Drip. Step. Drip. Step.

She paused at the Ravenclaw table to see if those kids from the Food Trolley were Ravenclaws or hat munchers, then carried on towards the table.

Drip drop. Step. Drip drop step screeeeeeeeeech.

Because most everyone was there, and it was too tempting not to, Lainey BOPPED everyone's head down the line of present Professors. Like duck, duck, goose Staff Table style. BOP. BOP. BOP. BOP.

FINALLY, the soppy ex-professors, ex-auror, current VP of BoG arrived at her chair. Beside Rae. Sup, Rae.

She lined the trunk up with the back of her assigned and usual chair by Rae, climbed on top of it, then went over the TOP of her high back chair to take her seat.

"Well. I lost my food." So that sucked.

And then was bopped on the head.

By another of her former Professors. Raising an eyebrow, she smiled and waved at Lainey.


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Originally Posted by Droo (Post 11187102)
He over heard the woman. "Hello professor Hadley."

And then she overheard a man speaking to her. Tilting her head to the side, she waved merrily at him, offering him a welcoming smile. Ah right, he must be one of the Board members.

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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11187164)
Annie stood and tapped her wand on her goblet, sending a clear ringing sound throughout the hall. She waited for absolute silence and, once she had it, began the traditional start-of-term feast.

"Greetings, students, professors, and visitors. Welcome to, or back to, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am your new Headmistress, Anastasia Truebridge." The Headmistress flashed a brilliant smile at all the eyes focused on her.

"This year, as you have surely noticed, brings a great many changes to Hogwarts. We have new staff members in our midst, myself included; new students, and new student leaders as well. Please welcome your peers with open hearts and allow me to take a moment to welcome our esteemed guests back to Hogwarts."

She looked to the Board, who knew to stand when their names were called. "Joining us at the feast tonight is the Hogwarts Board of Governors. Board President and former Headmistress Cassandra Rae-Branxton; Board Vice President and former Professor Anjelica Lainey; Board Secretary and Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magica Ian Amoroso; and Board Treasurer and Three Broomsticks Owner Harold Lagerty. Please welcome these wonderful guests, who make the funding and running of Hogwarts a possibility, with a round of applause."

Anastasia waited for the students to greet the board appropriately and, in the meantime, snagged a drink of water.[/color]

And before she could continue with greeting and catching up with those around her, Annie had stood up to introduce herself. Oh good, that meant food was on its way. Wait .... did she just introduce herself as Truebridge?! It HAD been awhile since she'd seen or spoken with Anastasia Bunbury, apparently, if the woman was now married.

But she was for certain that it was the same woman. Even though Annie was about four years older than her, they were housemates. And she could never forget Annie for that reason; besides the fact that the woman was a ginger and gingers were rare.


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Originally Posted by Destiny (Post 11186656)
And then there was a voice sounding from her other side.

Glancing at the Divination Professor's dress one last time, wondering if she could pull off that color just as well, Vanora turned to the woman in yellow. Such a colorful staff. She really felt out of place. But, there was a smile on her face despite the feeling, and she nodded her head. "That it is." A great view.

For, you know, someone was was dressed the right way.

Which she would have mentioned, if the woman hadn't started talking to herself. Vanora was just going to try and be small once again.

Continuing with her greeting, she overheard the underdressed woman introduce herself as the new Magical Creatures Professor. Which would explain the jeans and boots, actually, if she just came from the barnyard.

"So Magical Creatures, eh? Welcome." To like being Faculty and all.


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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11188034)

"Now then, warm welcomes aside, I have a few start-of-term notices to give out. First, I'd like to thank everyone for their cooperation during the... train incident earlier." Anastasia's speech and expression took on a serious, authoritative tone. "Such an abnormality occurs only once a blue moon, and I assure you, students and staff, that no more abnormalities will occur under my watch and tenure as the Head of Hogwarts. I will do my personal best to ensure the safety and education of all students at Hogwarts remains protected at all times. You should all always feel safe and welcome at Hogwarts while you call it your home, and even after you graduate and find yourself a new home.

"Second, I plan to work closely with the Board of Governors in a more symbiotic relationship than prior history dictates, and I also plan to make some changes around Hogwarts that will hopefully benefit all who are effected by this esteemed school of magic." She smiled congenially, confidently at this part and raised her hands in an open arms gesture. "And finally, with all that has been said and done this evening, I would like to invite you to dig in to the feast that has been painstakingly prepared for us by the wonderful Hogwarts House Elves. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns for me, please come to my suite on the second floor after the feast."

There. Now they could eat, for as Headmistress Truebridge lifted her hands, the food Pips, Beezley, Toddles, and the other elves had prepared magically appeared on all five of the Great Hall tables.

But then, after the house elves presented the Headmistress with some plant thing.... and well, some other sorts of interruptions that Josephina hadn't really paid much attention to, she looked over to see that Annie was continuing her speech with some notices. Working closely with the Board of Governors? Making changes that would affect them? Yes, she was skeptical. Of everything the redhead spoke of, but now was not the time to judge.

Now was the time to eat. Thank MERLIN!

Helping herself to a handful of chips, which she added to her plate with some salsa, Fina had to admit she thought it was great the elves still served such a dish, despite Maya no longer being employed at Hogwarts.


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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188090)
As the new headmistress spoke, Selina made sure to tune into everything that she was saying. The redheaded lady's speech was well spoken, to the point and very nice although Selina would be lying if she did not sincerely miss the don't die advice at the end. Ah well, she knew that rule by heart now anyway. But once the lady finished her speech, Selina figured it was good a time as any to finish out her work to find Mortimer.

Honestly, Selina needed to cover all of her bases if she was going to find her bat in time for Quidditch season... or for his daily night ritual of story time and cookies before bed. The stories were for Mortimer, the cookies were for Selina. Oh how she missed story time. Her bat had been missing for just over two months now and she was finding it increasingly more difficult to live life without her bundle of destruction joy. She just missed her bat so much.

So with a determined look on her face, because maybe one of these adults had seen Mortimer or knew where he was, she approached the staff table. Although, once she arrived she realized just how elevated the staff table was from the house tables. It was like the Professors either wanted to demonstrate some level of authority during meals or they were afraid that the students would turn rabid one day and the extra height would help them stay out of reach.

Clearing her head of such thoughts, she was on a specialized mission, she cleared her throat attempting to draw the professors attention to her. With a calculated and monotone voice, as if she were reciting a small, practiced speech which was relatively practiced, she said, "Hello! Bonjour! Salve, for our Latin speakers. My name is Selina Skylar for those of you who don't know me. First of all, I would like to take this time to say how excited I am to spend another term with all of you as professors. You all are gifted witches and wizards. So cheers to this term, but, erm, more importantly I would like to draw your attention to something very important- this..." She handed each of them a flyer.

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"If any of you has seen this bat- please contact me at your earliest convenience. We appreciate your consideration and support. This is the best of causes..." Because what was better than reuniting a girl and her beater bat? THAT WAS THE QUESTION!

Blink.

Uh. What? Yes, Josephina took a flyer, but only because she was genuinely curious about the sanity of the Gryffindor Captain. Really; to lose one's beater bat and then to go through all the trouble of making out wrongly dated flyers. Obviously Selina had a room reserved especially for her at St Mungos. Or maybe all quidditch players did, but especially Selina.

Smiling sympathetically to the girl - because of her mental state, not because of her lost bat - she didn't offer to help find it though. Considering, it seemed as if Lainey and Toddles had that covered.


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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."

Well at least it wasn't a Gryffindor trait for them to be mentally unstable; that just seemed to fall unto the Captain only. She smiled warmly at Kurumi as she brought up her customary second-to-last batch of cookies.

"Thank you, Kurumi." She said, eying the specially wrapped pops one in particular. "They look lovely, as always."


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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz (Post 11188451)
"I taught a class on how to barbeque house elves once." She hadn't. But hahaaaaa. See who blinks first now.

"That Gryffindor needs help finding her bat. Did you STEAL it, Elf? Do you know where it is? Bet I can find it before you."

With that, Lainey stood with the elf cradled in her arms, then DUMPED the elf in the lap of Amoroso (though.... gently-ISH sort of kind of maybe some). She strode from the table to find a bat, but not before DRAGGING THE TRUNK ALONG behind her again.

And bopping all the Professors again. BOP BOP BOP BOP. She headed towards the tables of STUDENTS.

Oh and then Lainey was up and off again, but not before bopping them all on the head again. Except she was prepared this time, as she ducked - almost - out of the way, wincing slightly for effect more than anything.

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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11188757)
Alexa started wondering around the Hall after she was done eating. No one at her table seem to want to try and talk with her and she wanted to see around the Hall. She wasn't paying attention from looking up at the ceiling and bumped into a table. Looking at the table she saw a bunch of food and figured it was a student table, but then she looked up at the people and realized they were not students. This must be a teacher table, wow Alexa hadn't seen this many teachers in one place before. Her private school didn't have this many people and of course her home was just her parents.

Looking at them she had a thought pop in her head, "So are any of you mean? I have already heard the healer is evil, but I was just wondering if anyone else was evil or if it was just the scary healer?" Her lack of social skills made her lean over the staff table closer to some of the teachers without thinking they might not like that nor like her leaning near their food.

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Originally Posted by The1HBIC (Post 11188982)
WHY was this student up here being RUDE and DISRESPECTFUL? Both qualities Cece did NOT tolerate from children. Especially when that disrespect was directed at her.

Taking her and out Cece pointed it at the child. She was about to learn just how evil the healer could be... or at least get a taste of her evilness. With a flick of her wrist she cast "Langlock!" at the girl. Let's see how well she likes having her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth.

"Ten points from Hufflepuff for your rude and disrespectful behavior." The girl was lucky it wasn't fifty points. "If I ever hear you speak that way about any staff member again, there will be more than just points loss child. And get up off the table. This is NOT your bed."

Really, someone needed to teach this kid some manners.

After Lainey was gone, the house elves had quieted down some, she looked toward a young girl who made her way up to the staff dais. But rather than introducing herself, she immediately seemed to find solace in attacking the Healer, but also all the professors. Noting the fact that the girl was a new Hufflepuff, she frowned when the Healer took ten points from her for being rude. Okay, sure, it was disrespectful of the girl, but really?

Signaling to Alexa, she waved her down to her end of the table. "Excuse me, miss, but please, a word with you." She non-verbally cast Finite on the girl to end the jinx.

Marion Burbage 09-05-2012 06:07 AM

SPOILER!!: the little dear with the missing bat
Quote:

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188090)
As the new headmistress spoke, Selina made sure to tune into everything that she was saying. The redheaded lady's speech was well spoken, to the point and very nice although Selina would be lying if she did not sincerely miss the don't die advice at the end. Ah well, she knew that rule by heart now anyway. But once the lady finished her speech, Selina figured it was good a time as any to finish out her work to find Mortimer.

Honestly, Selina needed to cover all of her bases if she was going to find her bat in time for Quidditch season... or for his daily night ritual of story time and cookies before bed. The stories were for Mortimer, the cookies were for Selina. Oh how she missed story time. Her bat had been missing for just over two months now and she was finding it increasingly more difficult to live life without her bundle of destruction joy. She just missed her bat so much.

So with a determined look on her face, because maybe one of these adults had seen Mortimer or knew where he was, she approached the staff table. Although, once she arrived she realized just how elevated the staff table was from the house tables. It was like the Professors either wanted to demonstrate some level of authority during meals or they were afraid that the students would turn rabid one day and the extra height would help them stay out of reach.

Clearing her head of such thoughts, she was on a specialized mission, she cleared her throat attempting to draw the professors attention to her. With a calculated and monotone voice, as if she were reciting a small, practiced speech which was relatively practiced, she said, "Hello! Bonjour! Salve, for our Latin speakers. My name is Selina Skylar for those of you who don't know me. First of all, I would like to take this time to say how excited I am to spend another term with all of you as professors. You all are gifted witches and wizards. So cheers to this term, but, erm, more importantly I would like to draw your attention to something very important- this..." She handed each of them a flyer.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9...zs68o1_400.png


"If any of you has seen this bat- please contact me at your earliest convenience. We appreciate your consideration and support. This is the best of causes..." Because what was better than reuniting a girl and her beater bat? THAT WAS THE QUESTION!


Oh simply looooovely. Marion had almost forgotten how simply DIVINE Hogwarts cuisine was. Not food dear, cuisine. There was a difference.

She was just about to take another bite out of her mince pie when a rather spirited young lady approached the table and held out a poster about a missing bat. "Ohohohoho, Quidditch. I remember sitting in the stands watching my dear Henry play back in my youth," she mused as she accepted one from the girl. More to appease her really. She had other things she needed to attend to that did not involve the search of a missing bat.

Such as her first lesson which she hoped would be a blast. Hohohoho.

"Good luck dear in finding your missing bat."

SPOILER!!: the little dear with the cookies
Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."


Oh? What was this? Marion took out her glasses from her bag and slipped them over her nose to see what was in the box and beamed at what she saw. Oh how siiiiiiiiiiiiimply charming. Cookies! Hand made too no doubt.

"I simply muuuuust have one of those," she said as she clanked her heels across the floor to pluck one of the ones with the school crest on them as well as one of the yellow wrapped ones. "Why thank you dear," Marion smiled down at the girl. "I doooo hope to see you in my lessons."

Perhaps with more of these sweets even if she was trying to watch her figure.

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Originally Posted by Destiny (Post 11188677)
Where was a dying pet when you really, really needed one?

Not that Vanora really wanted anyone's pet to be dying, or anyone's pet to be dead for that matter, but she would have taken anything if it meant she could excuse herself from the staff table. And possibly not come back until after the feast. She felt like she was being stared at! Or, in the case of the woman who sat down beside her, she was really being 'hmmmed' at.

And what was she going on about? Informal meaning semi-formal.. That was just confusing. And it wasn't like she was dressed completely casual. Her shirt was nice.. ish. At least it was clean! "Extinction also means extinction. But I'm not talking to you about it." she shrugged her shoulders as if that comment meant nothing before turning her attention to the other side of the table.

Marion flexed one of her fingers and tucked some of her silvery hair behind her ear, trying to not show how siiiiiiiimply agitated she was with the comment that had just been made.

Extinction? As in dinosaurs? As in....OLD?! Why, how incredibly RUDE of her to say such a thing when all the astronomer had done was offer her some oooooooobviously needed advice on how to dress for a feast.

"Some opinions are best kept to themselves, darling," she replied in a huff as she tossed her napkin onto her lap unceremoniously.

Marion could put up with many a thing, but being called OLD was simply NOT one of those things.

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Originally Posted by Beezley (Post 11188718)
At the sound of a loud clap, Beezley's little elfish legs began to shake. She turned and looked at the Missus with eyes widened in horror. She stared at the woman until she realized that no harm would come. Caring creatures? Caring they were. Yes, elfsies are. Beezley lifted her little elfish lips up into a wide smile. "Beezley is thankful, Missus," she said, giving a bow. "So, so thankful."

Good thing there was a darling little house elf present to distract her from her fuming. It could only cause premature wrinkling around the eyes.

"Oh you are quite welcome dear," she said in her sing song voice.

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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11188757)
Looking at them she had a thought pop in her head, "So are any of you mean? I have already heard the healer is evil, but I was just wondering if anyone else was evil or if it was just the scary healer?" Her lack of social skills made her lean over the staff table closer to some of the teachers without thinking they might not like that nor like her leaning near their food.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASP!

What in holy Orion's belt was wrong with some of these students?! First forgetting manners about when to approach staff and now this! And from a Hufflepuff none the less. Oh dear hEAvens! Marion would simply haaaaaaaave to have a conversation with their Head of House to discuss the declining standards of the badgers.

This was siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimply awful!
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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188932)
Pumping her fist up in the air, she said, "YOU GO GLEN COCO! That is what I am talking about people! Whose with me?" With her arms still raised in the air she turned to Lafay, "How 'bout you, Lafay?" Headmistress? Anyone?

Marion cocked an eye brow at the little dear missing her bat. "I'm sorry darling, but that is NOT the woman's name." Marion would have suggested that the girl wash her ears out to hear properly, but the darling was already distraught over her missing bat and she simply could not bear to make the poor thing more so.

Even if she HAD been rather rude just now.

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Originally Posted by The1HBIC (Post 11188982)
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"Ten points from Hufflepuff for your rude and disrespectful behavior." The girl was lucky it wasn't fifty points. "If I ever hear you speak that way about any staff member again, there will be more than just points loss child. And get up off the table. This is NOT your bed."

Really, someone needed to teach this kid some manners.

Only ten? Hmmmmmmmmm... Marion may have been tempted to take away a hundred for such ruuuuuuuuuuuuude behavior. She would not stand for such behavior in her classroom. Nope. None of that. First sign of this and it would be straight out the door.

Perhaps with a visit to little Annie as well.

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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater (Post 11189015)
Vindictus was seated in his customary seat next to the current Headmaster Headmistress and he was lost in his own little world of planning Quidditch games and ways to encourage the Ravenclaws to earn points.

Suddenly, something snapped Max out of his fantasyland and he noticed the loss of sapphires. His gaze was quick to fall on the Ravenclaw House Table and he shook his head at them. If none of the other staff members were present, he would have started yelling at them to earn those points back! Perhaps one of the prefects or his new captain would bring the culprit to his office afterwards so that he could remedy the situation.

Then he realized that they were being invaded by House Elves.

Max leaned over to the new Headmistress. "Yo, Annie. Do you think they could bring us some chocolate?" Max asked casually and settled back in his seat.

Oh? Oh? OH!

Who was this studmuffin? Thanks to the first Mr. Studmuffin, Marion had recalled the whole sitting in alphabetical order thing and was easily able to figure out that he must be the Flying professor. Oh, no wonder he seemed to be in such fit shape. Why, she would simply haaaaaaaave to invite him to tea with her, especially seeing as they appeared to be closer in age than she was with the others.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 11189023)
Josephina tried not to grin too much at Marion, but her sweet, grandmotherly attitude was just splendid and refreshing. "Thank you. Yes, Arithmancy is rather fascinating, I must agree. And very consistent across the world. So is Astronomy, come to think of it. My sister and you would get along well, I'm sure." Her sister, the Astrophysics nerd.

But then, as the students began appearing the staff table, she really couldn't hold back the smile and laugh about it being a normal occurrence for Hogwarts students to forget their mannerisms. "Kids will be kids," Fina replied simply enough. Surely Marion Burbage would understand that one.

"Oh I am so glad that we agree, darling," Marion smiled as she finally tucked back in to her mice pie. "Why, you must introduce us sometime. Perhaps all three of us can have tea together." Oh yes, Hogwarts cuisine really was divine. Oh how she had missed it. How many years had it been now?

"That iiiiiis true," she mused as she sipped on her pumpkin juice. "I do not remember my housemates being quite so rude when I was a student however. I pity the poor fool who is the Head of Hufflepuff House. That one student," she continued as she pointed her fork in the girl's direction. "SIIIIIIIIMPLY appalling."

Hera 09-05-2012 08:37 AM

SPOILER!!: Kurumi!
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11188246)
Kurumi had been rather alarmed when Selina hadn't immediately stuffed her face with fried chicken like usual and instead had made her way towards the staff table with her stack of posters. Oh Merlin help them all. Kurumi had had juuuuust enough time to eat a couple bites of Shepard's pie and half a goblet of pumpkin juice before she figured it best to follow her best friend up to the dias....just in case.

Grabbing the gold box tied with a white ribbon, Kurumi made her way to the staff table with her feet dragging slightly. This was...surreal to say the least. Kurumi had been doing this, delivering cookies as a thank you for the coming term, as was custom in her town, since she had been a first year. And now...here she was...a seventh year...doing it one last time.

Of course there would be the closing feast...but that was then and this was now...and her heart was pounding in her chest like thunder.

Bowing to each professor as she passed, Kurumi approached the Headmistress where she bowed politely before speaking, and flashing a quick smile to the house elves present as she did. "Headmistress, Hogwarts Board of Governors, professors, good evening," she said, her voice surprisingly steady for the wave of emotions that were crashing over her small frame. "I'm Kurumi Hollingberry, Gryffindor seventh year prefect. These are just my way of expressing gratitude and appreciation for the coming term and to commemorate the start of it." She then set the box on the table and removed the lid which vanished the moment the edges had left the bottom half, revealing its contents to everyone at the table. As per usual, the box include the chocolate and vanilla cookies with the Hogwarts crest hand painted on them with icing. Yeah, we were looking at you Mr. Come-Work-at-the-Ministry-Cafeteria out of the corner of out eye for a brief moment. Besides those, Kurumi had made some special cookies. Cookies that didn't actually look like cookies. The idea had actually come to her over the summer and she had spent a good amount of time designing new recipes for each of the four sorts of cookies to represent the four Hogwarts houses. Under the red wrapper were raspberry ganache based cookies infused with chili pepper to give it just a bit of a kick. Those under the yellow wrapper were a sweet honey base with lemon zest. Green wrapper cookies were a crisp mint that was so crisp it overpowered the other flavor that was in there - which was lime for those with a good pallet. Finally, under the blue wrappers, were a blackberry ganache based raisin cookie. "Thank you for your time," she said, offering one more polite bow before tugging on Selina's sleeve to encourage her to go back to their table as well.

She did sort of eye the pink plant that was swaying and waving its vines around. Erm....maybe the house elves were right when they said it was scary...

Kurumi glanced over at Professor Bentley with an almost apologetic look in her eyes - her conversation with Selina from the table still fresh in her mind. Tomorrow, perhaps, she would go visit her Head of House in her office and offer a proper apology then. Now was not the time. The feast was meant to be a time of celebration and she didn't want her lions to think it should be anything less. Which is why she put a smile back on her face. "I'm looking forward to one last term with you as my Head of House, professor."



With the appearance of her Captain, it didn't at all surprise her that her cookie princess Prefect was close behind. It sort of pulled on your heart strings. Those little bakes goods filled with time, patience and care. Just for them. Seren beamed brightly at her Prefect, but faltered slightly at the girls words. Last term. Hopefully the time would go really slowly.
"I'm looking forward to it too dear," she replied softly. "Looking forward to this final chapter?" Because it really ought to be a positive and exciting time.

SPOILER!!: Selina
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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188932)
SPOILER!!: Lainey, Bentley and Kurumi <33






As Selina continued to hand out each of her posters to all of the staff, she finally reached Bentley. It was really nice to see her Head of House again after such a long summer apart. Although she would not be so quick to tell her what she had gotten on her OWL for Herbology. She did not want to see disappointment in the woman's eyes. She respected her too much for that sort of look... but honestly she had studied. The redhead swore it on her beater bat's life... and she didn't joke about Mortimer. Especially not at a time like this.

Nodding to Bentley in appreciation, the sixth year said, "Thank you so much, Professor. Anything that you can do to help the cause would be much appreciated." Maybe Selina should make buttons to give to everyone who was helping find Mortimer. As as a sort of appreciation type thing. Also, it would be a good way to send out the word on her bat without being pushy. Yeah, she was going to invest in buttons.

Then she felt someone pulling on her shirt. Who in Merlin's right mind would ever interrupt Selina while she was seeking her bat? Did they have a death wish- oh Kurumi. Right.

The redhead pulled her arm away from Kurumi who was not so nonchalantly trying to pull Selina away. They could eat later. There were just some things in life that were more important than food.

O_____________o

She had to stop saying that. It was really starting to frighten her.

Everything that she was thinking suddenly got pulled away from her when a girl started to rant about finding her bat. THAT WAS THE TYPE OF ENTHUSIASM THEY NEEDED IF THE BAT WAS GOING TO BE FOUND! Yes! This was what they needed.

Pumping her fist up in the air, she said, "YOU GO GLEN COCO! That is what I am talking about people! Whose with me?" With her arms still raised in the air she turned to Lafay, "How 'bout you, Lafay?" Headmistress? Anyone?



"I'll make it my mission... REALLY, I will." Because if her Captain/Beater needed her bat, then her bat she shall get. After all, if they wanted to have a crack at the Quidditch Cup this term then they'd need to have her in top form. A Beater without a bat was bad enough, but one with responsibilities. Yes. This was a mission to be undertaken by all Lions. Perhaps she ought to make a formal announcement/rule stating so.

CherryBlossomRose 09-05-2012 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles (Post 11188952)
Scabior was eating. He thought that was very obvious. See, there was a plate in front of him with half finished food, and some of that food, even seemed to be on his fork which had been doing its job, supplying said food to his mouth.

He was eating.

And the LOUD first years didn't seem to get that.

Placing his fork on his plate, he stared right back at the Gryffindor who shoved a paper in his face. "Save your good evenings." Grabbing the paper he crumpled it up, and tossed it right back to her. "Here-" He took out his wand, removing from both girls. "Inform West and Theo-" Actually....he looked over at the Slytherin table. Lainey was there..hm... "-to have Professor Lainey." He pointed. The dripping wet one over there with a house elf army behind her. "To remove their charms. It's alright, since I instructed it. Go tell them." He paused, and stared. "Now."

Back to his food.


As Serenity might have guessed, Mr. Saviour or whatever his name was not very happy at the disruption. Whatever. He crumpled up Alexa's paper and just threw it back at her. Someone was grumpy. Did mummy not do his baked beans as he liked them? Then took off their charms. Serenity didn't want to chance talking yet. Professor Lainey? Who was that? Serenity crossed her fingers Lex knew, otherwise West and Theo would just never have their charms taken off. Ha. Well, apparently they were at the Slytherin table so hopefully they would make themselves obvious to her? Wait he had pointed. It was okay. She would find them.

He stared at them and then ushered them along, before returning to his plate. "Yes Sir... Ur-Professor." Serenity finished nervously. She didn't like this professor.

Bazinga 09-05-2012 10:44 AM

Alexa has a mind of her own.The Minerva in me is jumping out of her skin..
 
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Originally Posted by The1HBIC (Post 11188982)
More importantly though...



WHY was this student up here being RUDE and DISRESPECTFUL? Both qualities Cece did NOT tolerate from children. Especially when that disrespect was directed at her.

Taking her and out Cece pointed it at the child. She was about to learn just how evil the healer could be... or at least get a taste of her evilness. With a flick of her wrist she cast "Langlock!" at the girl. Let's see how well she likes having her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth.

"Ten points from Hufflepuff for your rude and disrespectful behavior." The girl was lucky it wasn't fifty points. "If I ever hear you speak that way about any staff member again, there will be more than just points loss child. And get up off the table. This is NOT your bed."

Really, someone needed to teach this kid some manners.


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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 11189023)
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After Lainey was gone, the house elves had quieted down some, she looked toward a young girl who made her way up to the staff dais. But rather than introducing herself, she immediately seemed to find solace in attacking the Healer, but also all the professors. Noting the fact that the girl was a new Hufflepuff, she frowned when the Healer took ten points from her for being rude. Okay, sure, it was disrespectful of the girl, but really?

Signaling to Alexa, she waved her down to her end of the table. "Excuse me, miss, but please, a word with you." She non-verbally cast Finite on the girl to end the jinx.

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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11189099)

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASP!

What in holy Orion's belt was wrong with some of these students?! First forgetting manners about when to approach staff and now this! And from a Hufflepuff none the less. Oh dear hEAvens! Marion would simply haaaaaaaave to have a conversation with their Head of House to discuss the declining standards of the badgers.

This was siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimply awful!

Only ten? Hmmmmmmmmm... Marion may have been tempted to take away a hundred for such ruuuuuuuuuuuuude behavior. She would not stand for such behavior in her classroom. Nope. None of that. First sign of this and it would be straight out the door.

Perhaps with a visit to little Annie as well.


Alexa watched a lady wasn't sure who point her wand and then speak. Gasp this must be evil healer the other student was talking about. "alllalalalalalala" is all she could get out with her tongue stuck to the top of her mouth. She tried to think how she spoke to the staff, she just asked a question. Were you not allowed to ask questions at this school. That would be dumb she thought. Pointing to her mouth she tried again, "Allaalllaal" Then she looked around at the other teachers, they were just going to let her do that. Back up from the table she wanted so bad to say she knew it wasn't her bed that's why she wasn't laying down sleeping, but since she couldn't she just looked at the evil healer in shock.

Then Alexa saw two other professors looking at her. One older lady who didn't seem very nice either just glaring at her and then one that motioned for her and asked for a word. It was going to be hard to get a word out with her tongue the way it was she thought, but shrugged gave one last look at evil healer and went to the other end of the table. Just as she approached the lady she felt her tongue move. "Well that wasn't very nice of an adult, I thought this school was suppose to be for learning. All I learned so far is students telling me mean things." she looked up at the teacher, "did you undo my tongue? Thank you if you did, I can't believe that happened. Really I was just asking a question, are questions not allowed?"

sweetpinkpixie 09-05-2012 11:05 AM

*le declones*
 
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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11189099)
Oh? What was this? Marion took out her glasses from her bag and slipped them over her nose to see what was in the box and beamed at what she saw. Oh how siiiiiiiiiiiiimply charming. Cookies! Hand made too no doubt.

"I simply muuuuust have one of those," she said as she clanked her heels across the floor to pluck one of the ones with the school crest on them as well as one of the yellow wrapped ones. "Why thank you dear," Marion smiled down at the girl. "I doooo hope to see you in my lessons."

Perhaps with more of these sweets even if she was trying to watch her figure.

Kurumi was a bit startled when the elderly woman had literally gotten out of her seat to take a few cookies and ended up blinking at her in surprise for a few moments before she fully registered that she was being spoken to. "Y-You're welcome," Kurumi squeaked in reply. "I'll be sure to be there." What subject was she teaching again?

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 11189023)
Well at least it wasn't a Gryffindor trait for them to be mentally unstable; that just seemed to fall unto the Captain only. She smiled warmly at Kurumi as she brought up her customary second-to-last batch of cookies.

"Thank you, Kurumi." She said, eying the specially wrapped pops one in particular. "They look lovely, as always."

"You're welcome, Professor Hadley," Kurumi smiled, glancing over at Selina again for a moment. Her best friend wasn't going to get on the table and make an announcement or something...was she? Kurumi would be right there to pull on her robes to try and get her down, of course. She really did fear for Selina's sanity right now. "I'm really looking forward to Arithmancy this term." As usual seeing as it was one of her favorite subjects.
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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 11188971)

COOKIES.

Callie had been looking forward to the meal this evening since a week ago but the promise of dessert was something to stall her rumbling stomach. "Prefect Hollingberry, it's good to see you again, will I be seeing you once more studying the noble art of Divination?" She should, the girl had been rather good at it. Personally Callie thought the class should be a required course for all years but she didn't see that happening anytime soon. Siiigh.

The blone took a Hogwarts cookie and then one of the blue Ravenclaw ones as she waited for the girl's response. She could have two right?!

..................noble?

Art, sure. Art was abstract and whatnot. But....noble? Erm...right. Sure. Whatever.

Kurumi somehow managed to keep a neutral expression on her pale features as she smiled and nodded in reply. "Good to see you as well, professor." Looneywood. To be entirely honest, Kurumi only continued Divination because of Selina and, well, she wanted to keep her options open JUST in case. Although, she really did not see how this so-called noble art was going to help her with her intended path at university...but one just never knew. "You will be seeing me in your lessons," she nodded. Whether or not that counted as study was another thing entirely.
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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl (Post 11188924)

Good Merlin, hadn't Anastasia just told ALL the House Elves to have a seat..?!

She frowned as some girl--- who was ALLEGEDLY a Prefect ---attempted to interrupt their meal yet again. At least she was bringing them some food, right? And dessert came after dinner, so... Annie couldn't be TOO upset about it.

"Have any chocolate cookies there?" she sniffed toward the child. If not, she could just take the cookies back to her seat with her, Annie didn't CARE how pretty they were or weren't.

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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater (Post 11189015)
Max leaned over to the new Headmistress. "Yo, Annie. Do you think they could bring us some chocolate?" Max asked casually and settled back in his seat.

Eeeeeeeeeerm....the woman HAD said that they were allowed to approach the table, hadn't she?

Kurumi ended up taking a timid step back away from the table before the Headmistress spoke again. "There are," she nodded. "The cookies with the Hogwarts crest on them." The icing was vanilla based however. Which was when she head Professor Vindictus demand for some chocolate as well.

Good to know. Kurumi had plenty of cookie recipes that involved chocolate and the Flying professor did always demand cookies from her each lesson she reluctantly attended.

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Originally Posted by Mell (Post 11188656)
He was just thinking about starting on his food when the Gryffindor Prefect was there and he couldn't help the broad smile spreading across his face. He had been extremely impressed with the way the young lady had handled herself out on the station.

"Thank you Kurumi." he said picking up a cookie and putting it to the side. He would eat it after he had eaten his dinner. "I really think someone should be making you something after your efforts tonight."

Truth.

While the Headmistress had made Kurumi feel a little uneasy, the smile that the Groundskeeper wore right now made all that go away. NOT that she was going to turn into a fangirl of the man by any stretch of the imagination she had only mildly done that with Professors Williamson and Zookara. His smile more reminded her of her father's....and his words made her cheeks flush slightly. "Thank you sir," she said with a polite bow and shy smile. "B-But that really isn't necessary." Really. Kurumi was just concerned for her housemates and fellow Hogwartians. She was sure that most of them they would have done the same if she had been injured. "I hope you are able to relax some this evening."

The man had had a rough night...and on his first at the school nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by Beezley (Post 11188718)
...but then Beezley saw one of the most magnificent things she'd ever seen. Cookies--BEAUTIFUL cookies! "Ohh, Missus," she said in awe. "Beezley thinks those are the prettiest cookies she's ever seen. So, so pretty." Her little elfish eyes seemed to sparkle as she took in the sight.

Looking down now, Kurumi BEEEEEEEEEEEAMED at the house elf who had complimented her cookies. BEST DAY EVER! "Oh, thank you very much Beezley. Perhaps you and I can bake and decorate cookies together sometime?" BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING AND alKJLJFDLFJJL.
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Originally Posted by Hera (Post 11189147)
With the appearance of her Captain, it didn't at all surprise her that her cookie princess Prefect was close behind. It sort of pulled on your heart strings. Those little bakes goods filled with time, patience and care. Just for them. Seren beamed brightly at her Prefect, but faltered slightly at the girls words. Last term. Hopefully the time would go really slowly.
"I'm looking forward to it too dear," she replied softly. "Looking forward to this final chapter?" Because it really ought to be a positive and exciting time.

Kurumi nodded. Slowly. Very slowly. Still somehow managing to keep her expression light, she nodded some more before answering. "I am not sure that looking forward would be the right term, but I hope I can make the best of the time I have left at Hogwarts," she answered honestly. Which meant that she really needed to sort her thoughts out before she let them eat away at her and ruin everything. "I never knew that time could pass so quickly."

Truth.

Glancing around the table again, Kurumi was pretty sure she was about to overstay her welcome and took the opportunity to bow once more. "I should probably get back to the Gryffindor table," she chirped. There was food to eat, pumpkin juice to drink, and then first years to lead up to the common room!

pundantic 09-05-2012 04:32 PM

SPOILER!!: Mommaaa Lion
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Originally Posted by Hera (Post 11189147)
"I'll make it my mission... REALLY, I will." Because if her Captain/Beater needed her bat, then her bat she shall get. After all, if they wanted to have a crack at the Quidditch Cup this term then they'd need to have her in top form. A Beater without a bat was bad enough, but one with responsibilities. Yes. This was a mission to be undertaken by all Lions. Perhaps she ought to make a formal announcement/rule stating so.



Her blue eyes must have sparkled when Professor Bentley told her that shew would be keeping a swift eye out for her bat. None of the adults seemed to understand the severity of a stolen/missing beater bat. Luckily for Selina, she had her Sherlock or Genevieve on the case. Although they still needed to invest in the monocle, mustaches, and appropriate hats if they were going to find her bat. That was a must if she had ever had a must in her life.

Beaming at Professor Bentley, she nodded her head to the lion queen and said, "Thank you, Professor. We appreciate the support." Really she did. And maybe she really should invest in those buttons. They could be fun and free advertisement.

SPOILER!!: The Nice Lady
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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11189099)
Oh simply looooovely. Marion had almost forgotten how simply DIVINE Hogwarts cuisine was. Not food dear, cuisine. There was a difference.

She was just about to take another bite out of her mince pie when a rather spirited young lady approached the table and held out a poster about a missing bat. "Ohohohoho, Quidditch. I remember sitting in the stands watching my dear Henry play back in my youth," she mused as she accepted one from the girl. More to appease her really. She had other things she needed to attend to that did not involve the search of a missing bat.

Such as her first lesson which she hoped would be a blast. Hohohoho.

"Good luck dear in finding your missing bat."

Marion cocked an eye brow at the little dear missing her bat. "I'm sorry darling, but that is NOT the woman's name." Marion would have suggested that the girl wash her ears out to hear properly, but the darling was already distraught over her missing bat and she simply could not bear to make the poor thing more so.

Even if she HAD been rather rude just now.



Okay, so the verdict was out. She liked this new Professor a lot. She was a bit of a nutter, but so was Selina so she at least understood her. Also, she seemed nice enough and some of the professors as of late could be quite terrifying. A nice, elderly Professor would be a good change. Plus, she liked Quidditch. Oh yes, they were going to get on quite well. Maybe she could convert this professor to root for Gryffindor at the matches. What? The other captains weren't here yet.

"Thank you, ma'am. I really appreciate the support. I just wanna bring him home." Also, she did sort of owe Carter an enforcing for his baby sister, which she could not do without Mortimer.

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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 11188971)

The firey hair of the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain caught Elwood's eye and caused a bright grin to erupt on the blonde's face. "Selena! That's terrible to hear, but I hope besides that you had a good summer?" The girl was one of her favorite students so she sure hoped it had gone well for her. But before any real conversation could be made, the Gryffindor Prefect who brought the cookies was pulling Selena away. "I'll keep an eye out for your bat dear, also don't forget to stop by my office for our 'little meetings'."

Next, Selina's attention was drawn to Elwood. In all honesty, Selina had missed the older woman's guidance this summer. She had become a staple of growth for Selina in a certain field, which she had never before had any control over. There were a lot of things that Selina really appreciated from her professors, but Elwood understood where Selina was coming from and could help her in a way that she had never had assistance.

But when Professor Elwood awkwardly reminded Selina that she had to stop by her office to pick up on their little meetings, Selina blushed. She hoped none of the other professors picked up on that. It was not exactly a skill Selina was proud of, but at least in Elwood's presence she was growing in controlling it. So she nodded furiously and said, "Right, ma'am. I'll be sure to do that as soon as the craziness of the year gets into full swing. And thanks for keeping an eye out for Mortimer."

However, at the precise moment Kurumi seemed to have had enough of Selina's crazed ramblings. The older girl gently grabbed her friends robe and yanked her away from the staff table and back to the Gryffindor table. Waving her hand wildly as she got yanked away she announced, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! WOAHHHH!"

PhoenixRising 09-05-2012 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11189099)
"Oh I am so glad that we agree, darling," Marion smiled as she finally tucked back in to her mice pie. "Why, you must introduce us sometime. Perhaps all three of us can have tea together." Oh yes, Hogwarts cuisine really was divine. Oh how she had missed it. How many years had it been now?

"That iiiiiis true," she mused as she sipped on her pumpkin juice. "I do not remember my housemates being quite so rude when I was a student however. I pity the poor fool who is the Head of Hufflepuff House. That one student," she continued as she pointed her fork in the girl's direction. "SIIIIIIIIMPLY appalling."

Still thinking about the small girl who was disrespectful in her questioning, she brushed it off however, when Marion resumed speaking with her. "Perhaps over the Christmas holiday. My sister works ..." she paused, rubbing at her temple momentarily. "At the British Ministry. But I'm sure she will visit home in Italy for the holidays, now that we're all up in the Northern hemisphere again, my mother insists on having us all." Hadley and Mancini family madness, really.

Oh good, she understood that about kids being kids. But then, Marion went on about the girl, who was a Hufflepuff and saying something about pitying the fool who is Head of Hufflepuff House. "Um..." she started to say, looking awkwardly from her water goblet to the girl to Marion and back to her water goblet. "I'm Head of Hufflepuff. And really, they just need guiding. Some of the students, they just ... they come from homes, and they feel privileged. Unsure of proper behavior. She's new." Not that newness was any excuse for rudeness, but it did explain that she wasn't accustomed to the Hogwarts ways yet.


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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11189235)
Alexa watched a lady wasn't sure who point her wand and then speak. Gasp this must be evil healer the other student was talking about. "alllalalalalalala" is all she could get out with her tongue stuck to the top of her mouth. She tried to think how she spoke to the staff, she just asked a question. Were you not allowed to ask questions at this school. That would be dumb she thought. Pointing to her mouth she tried again, "Allaalllaal" Then she looked around at the other teachers, they were just going to let her do that. Back up from the table she wanted so bad to say she knew it wasn't her bed that's why she wasn't laying down sleeping, but since she couldn't she just looked at the evil healer in shock.

Then Alexa saw two other professors looking at her. One older lady who didn't seem very nice either just glaring at her and then one that motioned for her and asked for a word. It was going to be hard to get a word out with her tongue the way it was she thought, but shrugged gave one last look at evil healer and went to the other end of the table. Just as she approached the lady she felt her tongue move. "Well that wasn't very nice of an adult, I thought this school was suppose to be for learning. All I learned so far is students telling me mean things." she looked up at the teacher, "did you undo my tongue? Thank you if you did, I can't believe that happened. Really I was just asking a question, are questions not allowed?"

As the girl made her way toward her end of the table, Fina cocked her head slightly. "This school is for learning, yes. Which also means that you should never take what a student says about anyone, staff or student, seriously. It IS very rude to cast judgments based on the opinions of others." She paused, letting this sink in. "As for questions, they are allowed, when asked appropriately. But calling out on someone being evil or mean, when you've never met them, is unjust and VERY un-Hufflepuff like. If you want to know what someone is like, don't take someone else's opinion of them, but get to them yourself and withhold ALL judgements until then."

So despite her un-characteristic behavior for a Hufflepuff, Josephina was not going to hold anything against the child. Not yet, anyway, which is why she asked next, "And what might your name be, dear?"


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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11189262)
"You're welcome, Professor Hadley," Kurumi smiled, glancing over at Selina again for a moment. Her best friend wasn't going to get on the table and make an announcement or something...was she? Kurumi would be right there to pull on her robes to try and get her down, of course. She really did fear for Selina's sanity right now. "I'm really looking forward to Arithmancy this term." As usual seeing as it was one of her favorite subjects.

Glancing around the table again, Kurumi was pretty sure she was about to overstay her welcome and took the opportunity to bow once more. "I should probably get back to the Gryffindor table," she chirped. There was food to eat, pumpkin juice to drink, and then first years to lead up to the common room!

Fina nodded politely at Kurumi. But the girl seemed preoccupied with other staff members and then, next thing she knew, the girl was headed back toward the Gryffindor table to enjoy the rest of the feast.

Droo 09-05-2012 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 11188932)
Pumping her fist up in the air, she said, "YOU GO GLEN COCO! That is what I am talking about people! Whose with me?" With her arms still raised in the air she turned to Lafay, "How 'bout you, Lafay?" Headmistress? Anyone?

Hecate's head had spun when she heard the captain. Her eyes narrowed. "I'm sorry, but do we know each other of a familial level? Are you and I... friends? I am PROFESSOR Lafay or POTIONS MISTRESS Lafay to you. I hae earned that amount of respect! Five points for insubordination." What idiotic student would lose their bat?! Her Lucille was like an extension of her arm and who in Hades depths was Glen Coco?!


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Originally Posted by The1HBIC (Post 11188982)
WHY was this student up here being RUDE and DISRESPECTFUL? Both qualities Cece did NOT tolerate from children. Especially when that disrespect was directed at her.

Taking her and out Cece pointed it at the child. She was about to learn just how evil the healer could be... or at least get a taste of her evilness. With a flick of her wrist she cast "Langlock!" at the girl. Let's see how well she likes having her tongue glued to the roof of her mouth.

"Ten points from Hufflepuff for your rude and disrespectful behavior." The girl was lucky it wasn't fifty points. "If I ever hear you speak that way about any staff member again, there will be more than just points loss child. And get up off the table. This is NOT your bed."

Really, someone needed to teach this kid some manners.

"You should have told her Vindictus is a sweety, and loved to be called professor Sunshine..." She smirked at her own joke. "That show would have been better than points in my opinion."

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Originally Posted by Pips (Post 11188994)
The little elf turned to see a Mistress asking for some tea. Mistress wanted some tea? Serving was what Pips lived for. "Pips will get your tea right away, Mistress," he said dutifully, and popped over to the Kitchens to fetch her some tea. In a moment, he was back with a sloshing cup of steaming tea. "Pips has your tea, Mistress," he said, setting the cup down on a nearby saucer. "Pips hopes Mistress likes her tea, he does."

She sipped her tea and closed her eyes. "It's passable. Next time, I will have some of my blends sent to the kitchen and you can take from those."

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Originally Posted by Marion Burbage (Post 11189099)
"That iiiiiis true," she mused as she sipped on her pumpkin juice. "I do not remember my housemates being quite so rude when I was a student however. I pity the poor fool who is the Head of Hufflepuff House. That one student," she continued as she pointed her fork in the girl's direction. "SIIIIIIIIMPLY appalling."

"Indeed..." Hecate said to herself, too far to be overheard. "Poor fool." and she chuckled into her tea cup.

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Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11189235)
Alexa watched a lady wasn't sure who point her wand and then speak. Gasp this must be evil healer the other student was talking about. "alllalalalalalala" is all she could get out with her tongue stuck to the top of her mouth. She tried to think how she spoke to the staff, she just asked a question. Were you not allowed to ask questions at this school. That would be dumb she thought. Pointing to her mouth she tried again, "Allaalllaal" Then she looked around at the other teachers, they were just going to let her do that. Back up from the table she wanted so bad to say she knew it wasn't her bed that's why she wasn't laying down sleeping, but since she couldn't she just looked at the evil healer in shock.

Then Alexa saw two other professors looking at her. One older lady who didn't seem very nice either just glaring at her and then one that motioned for her and asked for a word. It was going to be hard to get a word out with her tongue the way it was she thought, but shrugged gave one last look at evil healer and went to the other end of the table. Just as she approached the lady she felt her tongue move. "Well that wasn't very nice of an adult, I thought this school was suppose to be for learning. All I learned so far is students telling me mean things." she looked up at the teacher, "did you undo my tongue? Thank you if you did, I can't believe that happened. Really I was just asking a question, are questions not allowed?"

"Someone needs to shut this child up, before I take points for disrespect from her house as well." Hecate said loudly.

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11189262)
Kurumi was a bit startled when the elderly woman had literally gotten out of her seat to take a few cookies and ended up blinking at her in surprise for a few moments before she fully registered that she was being spoken to. "Y-You're welcome," Kurumi squeaked in reply. "I'll be sure to be there." What subject was she teaching again?

"You're welcome, Professor Hadley," Kurumi smiled, glancing over at Selina again for a moment. Her best friend wasn't going to get on the table and make an announcement or something...was she? Kurumi would be right there to pull on her robes to try and get her down, of course. She really did fear for Selina's sanity right now. "I'm really looking forward to Arithmancy this term." As usual seeing as it was one of her favorite subjects.

..................noble?

Art, sure. Art was abstract and whatnot. But....noble? Erm...right. Sure. Whatever.

Kurumi somehow managed to keep a neutral expression on her pale features as she smiled and nodded in reply. "Good to see you as well, professor." Looneywood. To be entirely honest, Kurumi only continued Divination because of Selina and, well, she wanted to keep her options open JUST in case. Although, she really did not see how this so-called noble art was going to help her with her intended path at university...but one just never knew. "You will be seeing me in your lessons," she nodded. Whether or not that counted as study was another thing entirely.


Eeeeeeeeeerm....the woman HAD said that they were allowed to approach the table, hadn't she?

Kurumi ended up taking a timid step back away from the table before the Headmistress spoke again. "There are," she nodded. "The cookies with the Hogwarts crest on them." The icing was vanilla based however. Which was when she head Professor Vindictus demand for some chocolate as well.

Good to know. Kurumi had plenty of cookie recipes that involved chocolate and the Flying professor did always demand cookies from her each lesson she reluctantly attended.


While the Headmistress had made Kurumi feel a little uneasy, the smile that the Groundskeeper wore right now made all that go away. NOT that she was going to turn into a fangirl of the man by any stretch of the imagination she had only mildly done that with Professors Williamson and Zookara. His smile more reminded her of her father's....and his words made her cheeks flush slightly. "Thank you sir," she said with a polite bow and shy smile. "B-But that really isn't necessary." Really. Kurumi was just concerned for her housemates and fellow Hogwartians. She was sure that most of them they would have done the same if she had been injured. "I hope you are able to relax some this evening."

The man had had a rough night...and on his first at the school nonetheless.


Looking down now, Kurumi BEEEEEEEEEEEAMED at the house elf who had complimented her cookies. BEST DAY EVER! "Oh, thank you very much Beezley. Perhaps you and I can bake and decorate cookies together sometime?" BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING AND alKJLJFDLFJJL.

Kurumi nodded. Slowly. Very slowly. Still somehow managing to keep her expression light, she nodded some more before answering. "I am not sure that looking forward would be the right term, but I hope I can make the best of the time I have left at Hogwarts," she answered honestly. Which meant that she really needed to sort her thoughts out before she let them eat away at her and ruin everything. "I never knew that time could pass so quickly."

Truth.

Glancing around the table again, Kurumi was pretty sure she was about to overstay her welcome and took the opportunity to bow once more. "I should probably get back to the Gryffindor table," she chirped. There was food to eat, pumpkin juice to drink, and then first years to lead up to the common room!

MERLIN THE COOKIES!!! Delicious... "Oi! Girl... uhmmm prefect kid. Over here. I need some of those as well... don't worry, Lafay can't have any... she's watching her figure." He teased looking at her. He then looked at the Gryffindor girl with the missing bat. "Yeah. We're friends, I can call her that."

"We are NOT!" She said glaring at him. They were acquantances... whatever.

Bazinga 09-05-2012 11:31 PM

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"Someone needs to shut this child up, before I take points for disrespect from her house as well." Hecate said loudly.
Alexa looked at the professor who was being loud. Wow not only are these teachers mean they are loud as well. She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it again not wanting her tongue put to the top of her mouth again, so she just glared a bit at this professor. Did she just say to shut up a child, how nice of a teacher to want to shut a child up... This school just seemed to be getting better and better Alexa thought. She then turned to the teacher who was started to talk to her.

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As the girl made her way toward her end of the table, Fina cocked her head slightly. "This school is for learning, yes. Which also means that you should never take what a student says about anyone, staff or student, seriously. It IS very rude to cast judgments based on the opinions of others." She paused, letting this sink in. "As for questions, they are allowed, when asked appropriately. But calling out on someone being evil or mean, when you've never met them, is unjust and VERY un-Hufflepuff like. If you want to know what someone is like, don't take someone else's opinion of them, but get to them yourself and withhold ALL judgements until then."

So despite her un-characteristic behavior for a Hufflepuff, Josephina was not going to hold anything against the child. Not yet, anyway, which is why she asked next, "And what might your name be, dear?"
Well then, Alexa was now being lectured that her questions were rude. Really? She just was asking, how was that taken rude. Alexa tried to think if she was really rude or not, but she didn't feel that she was. She asked these type of questions to her parents and they never told her she was rude. Alexa decided she wouldn't call the evil healer evil to her face anymore, even though she was evil. "Well she did stick my tongue to the top of my mouth, so I think I might have gotten that one right." She looked towards the healer again, but looked away before the evil woman could make eye contact. She then looked up at the teacher, this one was actually being nice. "My name is Alexa.. Alexa Chan"

BanaBatGirl 09-06-2012 02:09 AM

annnnnnd end of feast :)
 
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 11189262)
Eeeeeeeeeerm....the woman HAD said that they were allowed to approach the table, hadn't she?

Kurumi ended up taking a timid step back away from the table before the Headmistress spoke again. "There are," she nodded. "The cookies with the Hogwarts crest on them." The icing was vanilla based however. Which was when she head Professor Vindictus demand for some chocolate as well.

"Really," Anastasia leaned forward and took a cookie, starting to munch on it since she had just finished with her regular meal. Hmm, not bad. She finished the cookie and then downed it with a bit of pumpkin juice, offering the girl a polite smile once she was finished.

"Not bad, Ms...." House Elf. HE. That'd be her name to Annie, from now on out.

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Originally Posted by Pips (Post 11188994)
Pips noticed Headmistress speaking to the big scary pink plant. Could the scary pink plant talk?! He hoped it couldn't, for surely it would tell Headmistress with Red Hair how bad of a job the elvsies had done. "Elvsies is going back to the Kitchens now, Headmistress," Pips said, nervously hiccuping again. "Elvsies is sorry for the trouble they is causing, they is. Pips hopes Headmistress is not too upset with elvsies."

In a hurry, Pips wound his long fingers around Toddles' wrist and gently tugged him away from the Mistress he was bothering. "Toddles is having to be a good elfsie now and come with Pips to the kitchen for ears ironing and beddy-time," he told him, leading him to the dais where the other elvsies were located. "Headmistress with Red Hair says elvsies is going now."

Just one more thing he had to do before he left. Pips reached up towards his mushroom-shaped nose and gave it a squeeze. "HONK." Task done! His nose-honking signaled the end of a task.. and their task was done, wasn't it? Headmistress with Red Hair had her scary leafy plant now. He wrapped another hand around Beezley's wrist and motioned for Nimma and Tippin to hold on to one of the other elvsies.

Pop. The elvsies disappeared into the Kitchens, leaving the students to eat their food in peace.



Annie watched Pips fetch a cuppa for Hecate, who apparently wasn't even satisfied with it, and then frowned when he finally left. That was unnecessary... she did not need to call the elves for a simple cup when she could have summoned one just as well on her own...

Oh well, at least they were gone now. She'd be seeing them soon, the little dears.

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Originally Posted by demented_death_eater (Post 11189015)
Vindictus was seated in his customary seat next to the current Headmaster Headmistress and he was lost in his own little world of planning Quidditch games and ways to encourage the Ravenclaws to earn points.

Suddenly, something snapped Max out of his fantasyland and he noticed the loss of sapphires. His gaze was quick to fall on the Ravenclaw House Table and he shook his head at them. If none of the other staff members were present, he would have started yelling at them to earn those points back! Perhaps one of the prefects or his new captain would bring the culprit to his office afterwards so that he could remedy the situation.

Then he realized that they were being invaded by House Elves.

Max leaned over to the new Headmistress. "Yo, Annie. Do you think they could bring us some chocolate?" Max asked casually and settled back in his seat.

"I'm sure they could, Max," Annie answered somewhat tartly as she blotted her mouth with her napkin. "I'm about to go speak with them now as it is. If you'll excuse me...."

She placed her napkin on her plate and stood, levitating the plant with her as she walked away from the table. She'd just go put this plant back and then see that the Governors got to their quarters well enough....and THEN go speak to the elves...


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