Minerva just smiled at Am laughing at her, "Hey I'm getting older, my minds going." she joked with her friend. It was nice to get to joke with Am again, it had been way to long. School was just so crazy this term and so much had gone on. "I get that not much else is going on. I feel like Homework and classes are taking up all my time. If it wasn't for Ethan being in most of my classes I would never see him. He has to study for OWLs as well as keep up with classes, poor guy."

She then thought for a bit, "Who is Adam, I have never met him, right? Ronnie is another one I haven't seen for ages. I really need some major friend time I guess." SHe smiled a bit, but it wasn't completely a lie either.. she really could use some major friend time.

Ameliah laughed a little. "Yeah, they're cracking down on us too. Apparently third year is NOT to early to prepare for OWLs. It sucks you can't have much time with anyone... I haven't really had much time either." She had JUST caught up with a bunch of her friends though nothing from Harvey. Am suddenly remembered that that was something she hadn't told Minnie yet. "Harvey and I had an argument a while back...." She had no idea how to tell the whole ordeal.

"Oh, Adam is the brother of another of my friends before Hogwarts. Her name is Callidora, she's one of Eimear's friends from Beauxbatons. Adam just transferred here from the French school." Right into OWL year too, poor guy. "Anyways, me and Logan caught him and Ronnie kissing at the Broomsticks. They said something to each other and just ran off." Whatever it was though, Ronnie seemed awfully excited about it. Made Am wonder exactly where they were going.

Torparticus- Post 1
 

So, onto the next spell. Jory was still apprehensive about this one, he really hated the felling that came with it. "But it must be done,'' he said, hoping to encourage himself.

"Torparticus!'' he exclaimed jabbing his wand at his hand. At first he could feel nothing but then he started to feel a sharp prickly and numb sensation. "Uh oh,'' the Puff muttered as the feeling intensified a bit. But before he could brace himself for more, the prickling and numbness suddenly vanished. "Well, I guess I didn't put enough into that.'' He couldn't lie, he was sort of relieved the spell hadn't gone right. It was that much he hated the numb feeling.

Befelda thought Pres had memorized all the lessons, but then the girl somehow forgot some of it. Presley asked for the book to find the historical uses of the Wiggenweld potion, but Befelda rather scanned it and searched. "Hang on, I'll check it. I saw it a while ago...here!", she shrieked a bit.

"It say's here that a prince once used this potion to awaken a princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the Hag Leticia Somnolens. The prince first put some of the potion on his lips and then kissed the princess. Is that it?", she said to Presley. "Here, take a look.", she marked the page and handed it back to Presley to check what she had read.


OOC: I still have some questions here ready for you to answer. But if you want to stop, just tell me while RPing. Hehe.. :)

Minerva listened as Am talked about how busy she was with things. Guess it is that time of year when school just consumes the life of the Hogwart students. She couldn't say she was looking forward to the end of term though, because that would mean going to the States in the muggle world and not see anyone all summer again. It will be nice to see her grandparents though she thought. She then looked at Am weirdly... An argument.. with... Harvey??" That was like unheard of, right? No one ever fought with Harvey, or better yet Harvey never fought with anyone. He was always the nice one. Even in the past when she would go off on him, he would never raise a voice to her. "What about?"

She then listened as Am explained who Adam was. "Oh he was is a fifth year.. What house is he in. Ethan just transferred from there and is a fifth year as well. Wonder if they might know each other." Maybe they did, but they might not either if that school was as big as Hogwarts. She certainly didn't know everyone in school even though she did her best to try. She then smiled at the Ronnie/Adam talk, "Well that's nice they are both happy at least."

Ameliah chuckled nervously. "Yeah, me and Harvey...." The shocked look on Minnie's face was plain as day. Well, he wasn't exactly being Mr. Nice Guy. "Well, we found each other at the owelry, and so I asked him why he broke up with me - Eimear sent me a letter saying Harvey wanted her to tell me that he wasn't interested. He kind of went all beserk, yelling and saying I was a liar. Apparently he had gotten a letter from me saying I was dumping him." That part still dumbfounded her; she had never sent such a letter. "Eventually, I asked him why I would even break up with him and he said - this was before Logan and I, mind you - that I just wanted to 'Run off with Logan'," she said with a sad tone. Just the memories made her cringe, but with suspision more than agony. What had made him believe Am would do such a thing?

"He's in Slytherin," Ameliah answered. "I don't think he's met many people yet, so probably not Ethan. He just recently met a girl name Gwen though. He kept saying she was irritating, but from his description she was just like himself," she said with a laugh. "And yeah, I've never seen Ronnie happier. She keeps giggling and blushing all the time."

Sowwy it's late!
 

Ella knew Sophie was going to decline the offer to be set up with anyone right now and she did her best not to show how concerned she was, considering the erm...circumstances. Poor Soph. Boys were SO daft.

"I missed you too Laura, I missed both of you A LOT." And she smiled warmly at her two best friends, super happy that they were finally reunited.

Laura's enthusiasm over this Mick dude had Ella giggling and exchanging amused glances with Sophie. Her giggling stopped at the Oakey comment and she frowned a bit, looking down. She knew Laura and Oakey weren't ever going to see eye-to-eye but she was friends with both of them, so no bashing the boy pretty please.

Grin. "Yeah! I'd like to meet this AMAZING boy too." And see just how much awesomeness he really had. Mhm! Investigating timeee!

And then the Mordred topic and Ella saw Sophie's face and she kind of felt bad for bringing it up. "I...well he asked me if you were okay, actually." And she studied her friend for a reaction. "Soph, he's all sad cause you won't talk to him and-"

...But before she could say anything else, a boy was talking to them. AND taking pictures? Ella eyed the boy curiously and tried her best to do what he said, which was just to continue to talk to her friends...only she couldn't exactly discuss MORBID with an audience around. Blink.

OHHHH....It was MICK. Hmm..Ella gave an amused smile to Soph and BEAMED at the boy, eyebrows raised. "Well hello, Mick." Grin. "Laura has told us so much about you." GRINNNN. "I'm Ella, nice camera by the way."

But before they could talk too much longer, the boy was off again. Huh. That was fast.

Ronnie made her way down to the courtyard for a bit of fresh air. She had just finished all her work and was finally all caught up with everything. It felt really nice to know it was all done, now she wouldn't have to worry about having to do work or anything. Hooray!

She plopped down on one of the benches, taking a look around. Not many students were here today...she frowned. Darn, she was really hoping she'd run into a friend. Ah well. Maybe someone would be at the lake? She'd wait a little bit before going to find out.

Torparticus-Post 2
 

"Torparticus!'' Jory exclaimed once again, jabbing his wand at his hand. He wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. This time, he had braced himself for the numbish sensation.

He waited for a few minutes, expecting a combination of numb and prickling but nothing whatsoever happened. "That went well,'' the Puff muttered sarcastically as he realised he was having more trouble with this spell. Actually, he was half angry with himself for not getting it right and half relieved he hadn't gotten it.

Presley groaned. She knew that. Of course she did. Leticia Somnolens. That one she would remember for sure now. She tried to grab the book in the middle of the dance, but misstepped and stumbled to regain her balance. When she was finally upright and no longer in motion she checked the page. Yep, that was it.

By now they had run through several school years worth of trivia questions, and arithmancy problems Pres had to solve in her head. It was probably time to let the kid have a chance to study too. And Presley could always get Gwen to quiz her. Gwen was particularly brutal, and Prse didn't think the fifth year would have a problem telling Presley she was stupid for not knowing something.

She folded the book shut and set it ontop of the stack. "So, what do you need help with?" She asked, willing to do just about anything to help this kid with lessons after the help she'd been given.

Petrificus Digitirus #3
 

When Presley had set her book back to its stack, she was then asked what help could the girl give for her. She said, "Oh, just a little practice with the Torparticus spell. It's just a matter of minutes.", she added.

"Shall we start?", she asked Presley while pulling her wand out of her robe.

Pres cringed just a teeny bit. She wasn't looking forward to that prickly-numb feeling. But she'd promised to help, and probably Befelda wasn't really good yet, right? So she folded her legs as she sat down on the stone of the courtyard, and held her hands out in front of her. "Kay, show me your best shot." And please Merlin be good at aiming.

Torparticus #1
 

Torparticus - Post 3
 

Befelda stared at Presley as she pulled her hands out for aiming. Presley looked a little hesitant. She mumbled grinning, "Don't worry, Pres. I'll go easy on you. Besides, I've already practiced the spell with Awar before. I will do it only once, well, that IS if the spell worked on you.", she added, assuring Presley that she won't end up in the Hospital Wing. Befelda really wanted to make this quick and only once especially when she saw the hesitation in Presley's face. The girl doesn't like much pricking sensation, she guessed. So she must try her best and make it work on the first cast.

Befelda then sorted out herself, with her wand at the ready, aiming at the hands of Presley, she slowly but surely made a jabbing motion and in the end casted, "Torparticus!". Befelda then set down her wand and stared at Presley's hands. She turned her stare to Presley's face. "Well, what do you feel? Did it work?". Befelda was hoping the spell worked perfectly on her first cast. I hope it did.

Minerva looked at her and a frown grew on her face. That didn't sound like Harvey at all. Not that she didn't believe Am, but it was super hard to believe he would ever do something like that. "That's odd, it doesn't sound like him at all. If you both got letters, did you ever ask this so called friend if it had something to do with her? Maybe she wanted you two broke up and did a very rude and nasty thing?" That's all Min could think about, it was just a weird situation. Not that it really mattered now, they both seemed happy with other people.

She then smiled, "Oh a snake, well he will meet many people soon enough. There are plenty of nice Slytherin he will meet." She at least had one good friend from that house and knew of a few others. She knew some jerks as well, but she wouldn't mention that. "Well I'm glad Ronnie is happy with him, that's all that counts."

Cora shrugged. She guessed that whatever had been bothering Nora earlier wasn't bothering her anymore. On any account Cora wasn't going to stick to THAT subject.

At the mention of Hogsmeade, Cora blushed a little. That was where she had met Ethan. Well, not really met him, but that's where he found her hat. "Yes, as a matter of fact. I have been there. It's wonderful." And then, Cora added, "We should go together sometime. Have you ever been?" Cora asked. Well, obviously Nora would have gone already, it's not like she had been held hostage in her own home for two years.

Presley's right hand jerked toward her wand as an automatic response when the spell was said, but amazingly Befelda's spell still hit it. She shook the numb feeling. Merlin. If the firstie had hit her left hand, Pres could do a simple finite and be fine, but as the girl had hit her wand hand, there wasn't much Pres could do but wait it out. "Um, what did you need help on?" Pres asked. The spell was pretty close to perfect, and would easily pass any practical exam. "Your spell was just fine." So why in the hell had Presley let herself be tortured? Stupid decisions.

Befelda knew it from the start that her cast worked. She had practiced the Torparticus well before this with Pres. She noticed that Pres was sort of waiting as her hand was still cursed. "Thanks! I knew it, it did work on you. Alright, hang on and I'll make it stop.", she said to Pres Jovially as she readied her wand again and targeted at Presley's cursed hand. She quickly casted, "Finite!". She stared at Pres' hand and noticed that the hand was beginning to normalize gradually.

"Sorry for making your hand numb. I really appreciate your help.", she said with a smile spread on her face.

Thank Meriln the girl knew how to cast finite. Presley shook the feeling away from her hand, stood up and gathered her books. "Hey, not a problem. Thank you for all of your help. If you ever need anything, just come find me, I'll be happy to help." Because, thanks to Befelda reweiving with her, Pres felt about 20% more likely to pass all of her OWL's.

Torparticus #2
 

Befelda was thankful when Pres' hand had normalized. She's so thankful she's pretty well in casting Finite. "Oh, good thing you're alright. I just noticed I'm really doing well at casting Finite. Anyways, thanks too and no worries. Anytime you need me, I'm just lurking around. I usually hang around here and at the lake.", she added as she kept her wand inside her robe.

"So where are you heading then? Are you done studying for your OWLs?", she asked Presley. Suddenly, her stomach rambled and she just felt that she was almost starving. she then asked Pres, "Hey, do you want to eat? I'm starving. I only had a glass of milk and couple slices of bread this morning. Perhaps this practicing thing has really starved me. I'll be going to the Great Hall, wanna come?", she asked Pres, trying to know if she wants to accompany or eat with her.

Torparticus-post 3
 

Again, Jory jabbed his wand at his wand at his hand. "Torparticus!'' he exclaimed, concentrating hard, feeling more determined to get it right this time. "Come on, work, work,'' he begged silently. He couldn't stand the thought of having to practice this repeatedly without proper results.

And it did! There was the sharp prickling and then followed by the numb feeling. "Ouch!'' he said hating the needle like boring that his hand was taking but at the same time he was very much pleased that the spell worked. Well, he got it to work, anyway.

Need her? Pres didn't need the kid, she'd basically been using her. Then Befelda started rambling about eating in the Great Hall. Well this was awkward. She actually thougt she and Presley were going to be friends? Presley wasn't nearly of the same mindset. "Actually, I have tea with a friend scheduled in a couple of minutes. But thank you for your help." She didn't. Elliot was busy with Maxwell, and she was Presley's tea-time friend, but it was a smooth way to inform Befelda that while she was grateful for the help, they were four year apart, and not friends.

Befelda was surprised and was taken aback when Pres refused to go with her. Though it was a negative outcome, she didn't expect it to be harsh as they are not really on the same year and Pres is in the higher grade. Besides, she's been busy with her OWLs so she needs no disturbance or anything from a First year like her. She quickly replied, "Oh...ok. Guess I'll just see you around. Good luck with the OWLs.", she said, though a little bit dismayed, she got off her feet and walked back straight inside the school and headed towards the Great Hall.