"Well, Headmistress..." she said moving close to the woman so she could whisper... "The ice cream being served here at Hogwarts is laced with Alihotsy and some other... happy... ingredients. That's why some students and some... staff... have been acting... odd. The syrup is made to counteract the ice cream." She explained.

Letting go of his arm, she rested her hands on her knees, gripping them as she stared at the floor and continued taking deep breath after deep breath. Oh, her dead spider pet was in her line of vision. How...horrible.

Eh, it was too far away to pick up.

Oh, Airey, talking 'bout something. Her spider. Still too far away. Her rose too? Goodness, he was just destroying everything of hers. Though she could fix it with magic. But her wand was allllll the way in her boot. Siiiigh. Too far away. "It's...eh." She waved her hand lazily at it, letting it drop back to her side. "Isfine."

It'd eventually leave her anyways, like everything else in life it seemed. Family. Ambrus. Her kitty that ran away to the circus when she was younger. Spidy was dead now too, even though it could be fixed. Leaning back against the table, she quite the breathing techniques because WHAT WAS THE POINT ANYWAYS and stared over at the entrance. Uuuugh, everything was so far awaaaaay. That was like...a MILE. Sliding to the side, she leaned her head against Airey's shoulder.

Sitting straight took too much energy.

Ethan continued holding Minerva, rocking her a bit to comfort her in her sudden depressed state. He couldn't imagine the toll of going from one extreme in mood to the next must have on her and he just felt awful she had to go through this. All the ice cream victims had to go through this by the looks of the room. Yes, he had been desperate to find a cure for this outbreak, but he hadn't thought about what it might do past stopping the hyper!crazy.

He pulled away slightly to look at her as she stopped her words abruptly, then shook his head hearing her next words. "No.. no, she didn't.. she wouldn't do that." He reached his hand to her face and wiped away the tears. But he honestly didn't know what to tell her. She didn't really believe him about the ice cream being contaminated, certainly she wasn't going to understand that this was some sort of antidote rather than a poison. Besides, anyone would rather feel the elation than the despair.. she wasn't going to understand this at all. And it really wasn't the right time.

"What?" He looked at her curiously for a moment as she whispered something about the Healer, then he turned to look behind him. "Um.. I don't know, I think she left," he said once he turned back to her and having not seen Tillstorm again. Why did she want to know where she was? She wasn't buying into the theory that they were working against her, was she? Though after that detention, he wouldn't be surprise if her thoughts went there..

She looked at him horrified, how could he sit there and say no.. He was in that room with her when all the bad happened. They tricked him.. The ice cream.. the candy.. the bugs. So how was this any different. Saying it was an ice cream party and slowly poisoning her. She hadn't noticed anyone else being the same way, she was to upset and sad to even care about the rest of the room. She just wanted to curl in a ball and sleep or cry or both. Why was he just saying Lafay wasn't poisoning her. The woman must have it out for her. When did the ingredient get put in though. Could it have been when she did the aloe. The aloe.. Minerva looked at her red arm and burned robes. Her tears started again.

"No.. she did.. she did.. why else would I feel this way. Something is wrong." She heard the panic in her voice. She felt it in her chest. Putting her head in her hands she tried to take deep breaths. Why was she so upset and why wasn't Ethan believing her that she was poisoned. As she continued to cry she heard his words. "She left..." but.. but.. the headmistress.. She was here, right? Was she still here. If Lafay poisoned her she needed some adult to help her, but did it really matter she was already poisoned would they be able to do any good. "She probably wouldn't have been able to help whatever poison this is anyway.. or she was part of it." Minerva said in her panicked voice.

Right. They were doing this, then.

Grabbing a clean spoon, Dylan flashed a grin at Cassia before dipping it carefully into her bedazzle cauldron. No, he would NOT be enjoying the topping a bowl of ice cream. In fact, he wasn't going anywhere NEAR a bowl of ice cream...So, scooping just a little bit up...the Slytherin paused.

"See you on the other side." PUN.

Then he carefully inserted the spoon into his mouth, swallowing the chocolate.

It was REALLY sweet...That much he know right away...but otherwise okay..."There. Help yourself to mine, as well." She obviously didn't need him ladling it out for her like a child...

Oh. Mr. Leobald! "YES, sir. Come right over here....and get some of my chocolate sauce." WIDE!GRIN for you, sir. "Just help yourself and stuff. Get however much you want...In fact, get extra..."

Merlin, the muscles in his face hurt...

...and Dylan had caught Alice declining one last time. The Slytherin sighed, giving her one last nod before she walked off. West would get to her. She'd take it from him...He was positive of it.

"Does anyone else want chocolate syrup?! Don't miss out!"

The downsided feelings were getting worst. Really, really worst that Beezus was feeling as though her knees had been robbed of a huge amount of strength causing her to actually lose balance. She grabbed on the Slytherin Prefect's arm for support. He was asking if she was okay. Still with teary eyes, she looked up at him and upon seeing his facial expression, her chin began to wobble. She could tell that Daichi wasn't feeling any better and that made her sad.

"I....don't feel so good." This was weird....and she didn't like it. "Idon'twanttodie." Why she suddenly blurted those words, she wasn't sure but one thing was certain.....she wanted to get away from the crowd and she didn't want anything to do more with the ice cream. That was why she was pushing the bowl towards Daichi right now.

She didn't want ice cream. She didn't want to talk to people. She didn't like how she was feeling. Could she go now? All she wanted to do was curl up on her bed....and maybe ask for Dylan hugs......but he was busy with other things so that won't probably be an option.

What kind of syrup did he made? Did it really matter? nothing in life matters... "I made chocolate syrup, i tasted some of my own potion earlier..." And now he thought back on it, he wondered why he had done it.

And now she was beaming brightly at him and all the Slytherin could do was try and give the girl a small smile as well. It did not work however and his smile faded. Could he sit in a corner? He had this sudden feeling to cry about how pathetic his life actually was...

"I don't know... i just...i had this weird thought of how pointless my life has been" why did he say that?


Die?!

The Slytherin's eyes widened at those words. First Raven spoke that she didn't wanted to die in the Forbidden Forest and now Beezus. What.was.going.on? "You're not going to die!" Why did she even think that? or...perhaps?

Daichi thought about her words, a new kind of depressing feeling swept over him and tears welled up in his own eyes right now. What if she was? He ...he didn't wanted to die either... "Why am i having these depressing thoughts?" he mumbled to himself just at the moment when he saw Beezus pushed her bowl of ice cream to him.

The Snake took it but did not eat from it. He never wanted to see ice cream again. Too much was too much. Placing the bowl on the table, Daichi spotted Dylan on the other side of the room, grinning and telling people to taste the potion he had made.

He then looked back at Beezus and felt sad again. YUSH...he knew what to do... Clearing his throat, the Prefect took a deep breath and shouted.

"YA! MONTMORENCY!!" He BETTER hear him!

"Thank you, Forrest!" Leo said after the badger first year had sprinkled his ice cream with chocolate. Turning away from the boy he looked around for Medea. She was at the party but now she wasn’t anywhere in sight, had she already left?

Oh Dylan....

Grinning wide Leo walked over and helped himself to the chocolate in the boy’s cauldron. "Thank you. You are quite generous master Montmorency." He said whilst he had poured two rich spoons of the captain’s chocolate onto his ice cream.



Going back to over to the young snake girl Leo focused all his attention on Cassia that was bubbling on and on about how they had brewed the syrup in potions class and sharing it with people at the party was there assignment. If he hadn’t been in such a happy-go luck mood then Leo might have second guessed eating any ice cream with syrup. But in his joyful and happy state he didn’t care or think twice before he dipped his spoon in his bowl and ate several mouthful’s of syrup laced ice cream.

The effect creeped up on him, he started to feel sick and unhappy. Meeting Cassia’s eye he said in a dull tone, no hint of happiness left in his tone of voice or ship in his step "Er, thank you dear. I think I'm done with ice cream now. Full up, can't eat anymore." Spinning around on the spot Leo quickly dropped his bowl and spoon on the nearest table.

Had he just been food poisoned or had he attracted the flu?

Feeling very sad Leo felt a tear come to his eye as thought about his cat that still hadn’t found her way back to the library. What if Madonna was gone forever? The thought made him feel like moping out loud or even crying.

Scanning the room he spotted Medea sitting next to Airey not too far away from where he was. Deciding to go over to them Leo started to yawn wide. He just felt drained and super tired all of a sudden.

Just lifting and moving his feet forwards felt like a tremendous feat. Pushing himself Leo managed to drag himself over to where his colleagues were sitting. Collapsing next to Medea he engulfed her in a hug mumbling sadly. "Madonna will come back won't she?"

Life just felt pointless, meaningless. He just felt super tired and depressed.

Laura continued to eat the ice-cream and she continued to feel sad, she felt herself starting to cry and she had no idea. "I'M SO LONELY, MISS LONELY, I HAVE NOBODY!" Laura sighed as she tried to stop her crying but she couldn't, everyone hated her, even her family thought she was a loony and she was sure the Professor's thought she belonged in a mental home, she just curled up and continued to cry.

Sighing loudly, Medea slumped a little more, debating whether or not she really could make it all the way back to her office on the first floor, SO FAR AWAY, or just to sleep here. Airey's shoulder was comfy enough. A rock would've been comfy too.

What...was...this...?

Eyebrows raising, she tried to sit up, but that was a bit impossible with the way Leo was hugging her. Eh, whatever. This was fine. Though she had no clue Madonna had run away. Just ignore the fact that she had to take a few seconds to remember he was talking about his cat. "I don't know." the defense professor sighed again, hand twitching in some gesture to wave off the question. "Cats are such hard vork." You feed them, love them, comfort them, give everything, and they still go around scratching you and your furniture and IGNORING you and...and...

It was exhausting. She was exhausted. Life was...so unfair. She would've curled up if she could.

Laura had been curled up crying when suddenly she saw Professor Romanos, which was nice and even though she was really sad Professor Romanos was like a second family to her, when she had been naughty in her first few years, Professor Romanos had been kind and nice, and she had listen to her problems this term.

"PROFESSOR ROMANOS!!!!!" Laura screamed through her tears as she saw the one person she wanted to see, she didn't care who saw her, she ran straight over to the best professor and sat on her knee clinging to her. "Professor I'm going to fail everything and I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone." Laura could feel the tears flowing down her face." She didn't care that another professor was already using Pofessor Romanos as a shoulder to cry on.

After serving the kind Librarian, Forrest just walked towards his friend's cauldron to try his. For some reason Professor Lafay had told them to try someone else's, and he didn't want to miss the chance to try something that just enhanced the taste of ice-cream. Walking towards Tobias with his chocolate ice-cream in hand, he just grinned at him with a general happiness.

"This is great isn't it?" Smiiiiiileeeee.

Frooooooooooooown..

There was no use. He couldn't get out of it, but he felt like he should FIGHT more, especially since she started to smile at him. "Mine's caramel." He said, eyeing her as she picked up a spoon full of her syrup. He didn't like how he was probably the first one to try this. What if she had done her potion wrong? Pffft....... he was not happy about this. But whatever.

He placed a spoon inside his own cauldron and soon poured a good blob on top of her ice cream. Mmmm it looked yummy.

Hers however....

Ethan took a deep breath, looking back at Minerva, as she seemed to be in disbelief over what he was saying. Not that he was all that surprised.. what other conclusion was she going to come to? But he really couldn't say much to dissuade her.. she wasn't going to believe him if she fought tooth and nail about eating the ice cream. She just wouldn't understand that this was actually a good thing. Even if it felt like the furthest thing from that right now. In fact, he didn't know what to say to her at all.

His face fell as she started tearing up again. Ethan felt so awful that this was a necessary side effect to start her on the path to wellness. The Prefect simply watched her, words failing him, as he could hear the panic in her voice. How could he explain that she had already been poisoned and this was now the antidote? Not when she was feeling the way she was..

Ethan cupped the side of her face in his hands and looked into her blue eyes. "No, Min.. I promise she didn't, please trust me on this?" What could he do to make her believe him? Honestly, he didn't know.. he had been trying for months to get her to believe him about the ice cream, he couldn't see this as being much different. Maybe he should just drop it, was it really necessary right now?

But if he could set her panic-strickened mind at ease, even just a little.. He knew what he could do. He took a deep breath and said, "It's not poison.. I'll eat some of it and show you it's fine." Could he really trust the Healer when she said nothing would happen to him since he hadn't eaten the ice cream? He wasn't completely sure, but maybe if it would help Min to see that she had nothing to worry about, then he felt he had to.

His own cauldron at another table at this point, Ethan looked around for someone offering their syrup. A nearby Slytherin was willing to give his up and was rather loud about it too. Looking in his direction, he tried getting his attention by calling out to him, "Oi! Slytherin Captain.. I'll take some of that chocolate syrup." The Prefect reached for a spoon on the table. No ice cream for him.. after this term, he doubted he could ever look at ice cream without feeling his stomach turn. Just a spoonful of syrup will do to make his point..

Peyton normally liked her ice cream all by itself, but these toppings looked totally delicious. Peyton licked her lips as she poured some creamy caramel topping on her ice cream. Green eyes gleamed in excitement. Happy, happy, happy, happy thoughts.

Scooping up a large amount of ice cream Peyton opened wide and GULP, the ice cream was gone. MERLIN that was yummy. She ate more ice cream, bouncing her shoulders.

YAWN.

Meh, meh, meh. The fourth year was feeling tired all of a sudden. Like she had flown a hundred laps around the castle non-stop. Bleh. Peyton set her bowl down and stared at it, no longer feeling excited. In fact, she felt sort of...weird. Sad.

That wasn't part of her mood. She liked being happy and stuff, but...Meeeeeeeeeeeeeh. Life sucked as of right now. Her shoulders hunched and she twirled a strand of hair. She needed a nap.

"Its the same ice cream, Alice." West said, eyeing her a bit and yeah there was a bit of concern and suspicion in his expression. Because those grins that she was sporting, they weren't just the usual HIM induced grins. Thems were ice cream infected grins, they were.

He looked at Cat and smiled at her.

"Yeah? I don't know if its any good, I didn't try it." West lied outright, not that there was any sign of the lie in his voice or his expression. He was getting much much better at lying. Y'know, on account of being a Slytherin. Weirdly though he was usually less inclined to do it too, it was just that this was a kind of emergency. And she looked a little... effected by the stuff. He reached out and gave her a quick little side hug squeeze thing. "You can have more if you want."

As for Alice.... she was gonna be difficult huh. He eyed his girlfriend again.

"You should try my syrup. And I'll try yours. You know, for house points." He'd try that first.

"Then why-"

But Toby stopped talking at once. He was used to bothering adults at home and he used to be an absolute pro at when to stop talking. Okay, so he would usually ignore that instinct without really helping it but that was because he always had NOTHING to do. Had there not been an ICE CREAM PARTY around them he might have gone into BOTHERBOTHERBOTHER mode but as it was there was ICE CREAM to be had so Tobias just left Professor Not So Smiley Face to her ice cream hating.

HEY LOOK IT WAS FORREST.

Tobias WAVED jovially at Forrest as he approached and continued doing so even after his fellow Hufflepuff was like right in front of him. Then he stopped because it was SUPER HARD to wave AND talk AND think about ice cream.

"Hi Forrest!" Toby outdoor-voiced down to Forrest ('cause he was still standing on the bench and all so... yeah, down). "This is SUPER great. What a GOOD IDEA." BOUNCE BOUNCE. "Hey, what syrup did you make?" Not that it mattered, 'cause Tobias was having ALL OF THE FLAVOURS and he was totally going to have some of Forrest's whether the other boy said yes or not.

HmmmmmMMMMMMMM now Tobias had an idea. Wasn't there like a reALLY REALLY REALLY SUPER DUPER SMART Slytherin here somewhere? Would his ice cream syrup be extra super good? Better than Toby's probably... and he wanted as MUCH from as MANY people just to make the experience super good.

WAIT A MINUTE THERE HE WAS.

"HEY WEST." MY HOMIE. MY MAIN MAN. BROOMSTICK PUKER. FRIEND. "Can I try some of YOURS?"

PLEASE.

Tobias even used his TOBY EYES.

Well they were the only ones he had so...

She could still taste the chocolate syrup she'd tried of Dylan's, the wonderful taste lingered on her tongue. She couldn't keep from smiling, until she saw him staring at her. What? It looked good. So she took some. Quickly..... Is he going to...Oh okay he's smiling now...so... She tentatively spoke again to the older boy. "Well thanks! Don't mind if I do!" This time she let him pour the syrup over her ice cream and he must've expected initially, and she enjoyed it the more traditional way. On top of ice cream, with a spoon. The whole she-bang.

She beamed back at him when he said he'd try her marshmallow syrup, but realized she's sat it next to the other cauldron, so she squeaked out a quick, "OhshootIleftmineoverthere! Berightback!" She rushed over, grabbed her little cauldron-o-'shmallow, and rushed back. She was fairly certain this ice cream had super powers, cause she wasn't even winded from all that dashing around. Getting back on task, she drizzled some of her marshmallow syrup onto Dylan's bowl of ice cream and watched with eager eyes, hoping he'd enjoy it as much as she'd like his. After a few moments passed, she asked curiously, "....So? How is it?" Though she was almost positive he would like it. Who wouldn't really?


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After sharing ice cream with Dylan, Eliza bounced around the room until she found Ethan and Minerva. Trouble was, she'd taken so long tasting syrups that she'd missed out on theirs entirely - and now she was feeling funny. Her steps slowed and her smile faded. This was...not what she'd expected. Why am I feel so weird now? she wondered. I...I don't...I don't really want to eat anymore, but...it tasted so good. But...what? She lumbered over towards her two friends and plopped down on the floor where Ethan seemed to be...comforting Minerva. "Hey guys...what's wrong?" She was concerned about her friends, but also... She felt really, really wrong here and thought she should say something. "I uh...I don't feel so great...Ethan?" It looked to her that Min was feeling pretty crummy herself, so she curled up on the floor next to her and tried to pet her friend's hair, wanting to help. She just couldn't seem to find the words to be of any use though, so she just kept on lying there, deflated feeling and helpless.

"But in the kitchen, enchanted ladles won't dump creepy syrup on my ice cream, see?" He had picked up on those fishy ingredients, hadn't he? "I'm good. I'm not eating any. Mo thinks there's something wrong with it, too." So she was right, because Cactus was smart, and he thought it was suspicious as well. Made perfect sense.

"Thanks, though. Cat? Ice cream now?"

She waved at West, then proceeded to grab Cat's hand and begin tugging her away. Alicehandling now.

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Eeeeeeeh???!?!?!??!??
What was going on? Professor Flamsteed looked awful! Oakey noticed very little interest in Flamsteed's tone when he brought up robots. In fact the Large Foreheaded Professor looked downright miserable? He looked around worried that Dementors had possibly found their way into the castle, but it wasn't cold and chilly and the only thing Oakey was truly upset and unhappy about was being at an Ice Cream Party. What he saw instead was almost everyone in here was either hugging it out, tearing up, or hanging their heads low. "The Hell kind of Party is this?" Oakey finally spoke up to no one in particular. He looked down at his Ice Cream and quickly set it aside on some table, and left it there.

Hell? Oh yes, that was where the astronomer felt like he was. More like spiraling down towards it because already being IN hell would imply that he had a destination and had his feet planted somewhere. Right now he just felt lost and confused and without his feet planted anywhere. No, not limbo either. That was a location.

"Party?" he said with even more disinterest. "Parties take too much effort."

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Ooooh, his favourite professor! Forrest flashed his best grin, but before he could treat him, he was dragged away by Professor Legilimency. Well... okay... Forrest eyed him with concern, but Professor Legilimency knew her job so... he shrugged and looked for others that wanted to try his PERFECT syrup.

Airey would have waved again at the boy, but it took far too much effort. He received a lazy look instead. Laaaaaaaaaaaazy looks.

SPOILER!!: Medea! with some LeoBALD in here too along with a dash of Laura

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Letting go of his arm, she rested her hands on her knees, gripping them as she stared at the floor and continued taking deep breath after deep breath. Oh, her dead spider pet was in her line of vision. How...horrible.

Eh, it was too far away to pick up.

Oh, Airey, talking 'bout something. Her spider. Still too far away. Her rose too? Goodness, he was just destroying everything of hers. Though she could fix it with magic. But her wand was allllll the way in her boot. Siiiigh. Too far away. "It's...eh." She waved her hand lazily at it, letting it drop back to her side. "Isfine."

It'd eventually leave her anyways, like everything else in life it seemed. Family. Ambrus. Her kitty that ran away to the circus when she was younger. Spidy was dead now too, even though it could be fixed. Leaning back against the table, she quite the breathing techniques because WHAT WAS THE POINT ANYWAYS and stared over at the entrance. Uuuugh, everything was so far awaaaaay. That was like...a MILE. Sliding to the side, she leaned her head against Airey's shoulder.

Sitting straight took too much energy.

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"Thank you, Forrest!" Leo said after the badger first year had sprinkled his ice cream with chocolate. Turning away from the boy he looked around for Medea. She was at the party but now she wasn’t anywhere in sight, had she already left?



Oh Dylan....

Grinning wide Leo walked over and helped himself to the chocolate in the boy’s cauldron. "Thank you. You are quite generous master Montmorency." He said whilst he had poured two rich spoons of the captain’s chocolate onto his ice cream.



Going back to over to the young snake girl Leo focused all his attention on Cassia that was bubbling on and on about how they had brewed the syrup in potions class and sharing it with people at the party was there assignment. If he hadn’t been in such a happy-go luck mood then Leo might have second guessed eating any ice cream with syrup. But in his joyful and happy state he didn’t care or think twice before he dipped his spoon in his bowl and ate several mouthful’s of syrup laced ice cream.

The effect creeped up on him, he started to feel sick and unhappy. Meeting Cassia’s eye he said in a dull tone, no hint of happiness left in his tone of voice or ship in his step "Er, thank you dear. I think I'm done with ice cream now. Full up, can't eat anymore." Spinning around on the spot Leo quickly dropped his bowl and spoon on the nearest table.

Had he just been food poisoned or had he attracted the flu?



Feeling very sad Leo felt a tear come to his eye as thought about his cat that still hadn’t found her way back to the library. What if Madonna was gone forever? The thought made him feel like moping out loud or even crying.

Scanning the room he spotted Medea sitting next to Airey not too far away from where he was. Deciding to go over to them Leo started to yawn wide. He just felt drained and super tired all of a sudden.

Just lifting and moving his feet forwards felt like a tremendous feat. Pushing himself Leo managed to drag himself over to where his colleagues were sitting. Collapsing next to Medea he engulfed her in a hug mumbling sadly. "Madonna will come back won't she?"

Life just felt pointless, meaningless. He just felt super tired and depressed.

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Sighing loudly, Medea slumped a little more, debating whether or not she really could make it all the way back to her office on the first floor, SO FAR AWAY, or just to sleep here. Airey's shoulder was comfy enough. A rock would've been comfy too.

What...was...this...?

Eyebrows raising, she tried to sit up, but that was a bit impossible with the way Leo was hugging her. Eh, whatever. This was fine. Though she had no clue Madonna had run away. Just ignore the fact that she had to take a few seconds to remember he was talking about his cat. "I don't know." the defense professor sighed again, hand twitching in some gesture to wave off the question. "Cats are such hard vork." You feed them, love them, comfort them, give everything, and they still go around scratching you and your furniture and IGNORING you and...and...

It was exhausting. She was exhausted. Life was...so unfair. She would've curled up if she could.

Fine? Well, that was better than not fine he supposed, so he would accept that answer. Although he really would have accepted any answer because rejecting took too much effort. Still, somewhere in the back of his mind he wanted to make it up to her. Squishing her spider that is. He just felt downright AWFUL about that. She had had that one for a long time, if he recalled correctly.

Oh, look, she was leaning on him.

"Lean on me when..." he started to sing before becoming too exhausted to continue. Not to mention it took so much effort to remember the words. And open his mouth to form words really. He was content sitting here just like this. In fact, he could probably fall asleep like this. It was, dare he say the word, pleasant. Perhaps the only real pleasant thing he was feeling at this moment.

Until Medea got heavy all of a sudden.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?

Oh, it was LeoBALD being all clingy on Medea and putting more weight on him. That's fine. Just, you know, go on not noticing that the astronomer was here. Nobody noticed him anyway. He was just a poor boy, nobody loves him. Just a poor boy from a poor family...

And then there was a student climbing on Medea too. What was the woman, a magnet? Seemed like too much effort to be one. What was interesting to note was that, as far as human magnets were concerned, was that the magnetism between he and her seemed to match up where as the magnetism between he, LeoBALD, and Miss Hyde did not. Yet said magnetism was a match of sorts with Medea. So...how did that match up? Meh, he didn't want to try to reason it out.

Too much effort and he sort of just wanted to fall asleep.

Not to mention whatever the conversation that LeoBALD was trying to have was boring. Why care if a cat beast ran away? Less work for everyone.

Cat was still wibbling a bit but side!hug!squeeze!thing from West made her feel a little bit better, but when it was over, she just felt like wibbling some more. Sad Cat was sad. "No, that's okay. I have some from Dylan." She scooped up some of the syrup in her spoon and put it in her mouth but even chocolate didn't cheer her up.

Sad.

Cat sighed a little pitifully when Alice mentioned Mo. Where WAS he anyway? Maybe that was what she was missing, the boyfriend person. Would he make her feel better? No? Yes? "Is there something wrong with it? It was tasty." But she didn't muster much enthusiasm to prove that point because now she was thinking about bad syrup and lack of boyfriends and she just wanted to cuddle a teddy bear.

Woah, they were moving. Cat didn't put up a fight at all, she followed Alice like a duckling. A sad duckling at that.

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"Well, Headmistress..." she said moving close to the woman so she could whisper... "The ice cream being served here at Hogwarts is laced with Alihotsy and some other... happy... ingredients. That's why some students and some... staff... have been acting... odd. The syrup is made to counteract the ice cream." She explained.

It's whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Bunz's mouth literally dropped open at Lafay's whispering. The ice cream was laced? As in, tainted?! "By whom?!" she whispered back urgently. Didn't the potions professor know how she felt about poisons and potions and laced desserts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There were some deep personal feelings being stirred up here, and memories too, none of which were good for the Headmistress. She looked around at all the happy ice cream eaters and suddenly realized that no one was actually as happy as they had seemed on the surface.

"I just want you to know," she added in a high, thin, strained voice, "I don't like this cure at all. As necessary as it may be." And even that was doubtful to her.

Yes, he WAS, wasn't he?

"It's no problem, sir. Happy to do it for you." Dylan nodded at him a few times before turning to others who were....calling his name?

Blink.

"Excuse me, sir..."

Dylan blinked some more as Wheatborn and McCarthy materialized at his cauldron. What....was going on here?

"Sure....." EYES FOR WHEATBORN. The girl looked positively distraught. "....Erm, is she....straight?" Like...was she okay? Looked like someone had just ran over her dog or something. Trying to shrug it off, the Captain conceded some of his chocolate sauce to the Ravenclaw...

Wheatborn clearly did not need any...

STARE.

"I'll have some of your marshmellow sauce on a spoon...as I am allergic to dairy products." TOTAL LIE...but no one needed to know these things. He'd been skating by SOME professors trying to stuff the disgusting mess down his throat...and he was NOT giving in now.

NO.

Anyway...

Dylan helped himself with a clean spoon....just like she had with his.

"Cheers."

HAHAHA why was Tobias waving so frenetically for so long? Forrest waved back, got another spoonful of ice-cream, and grinned sheepishly at Tobias.

"Aye aye!" Wasn't that a pirate greeting? Forrest let out another delightful giggle. His giggles wasn't hampered the bit by SAD people around them. In fact... maybe they lacked ice-cream? NOOOO! They had to share the MAGIC.

"AMAZING!" Yep, with ice-cream, he could stress TWO syllables of a word. "Oh I made chocolate. How about you?" Not that it mattered, as long as it enhanced the taste. "Can I try from yours?"

Wait Tobias who are you talking to? Forrest turned halfway and saw that super-clever Slytherin boy. Should he wait till Tobias finished talking to him, or should he serve himself from his syrup?

Bliiiiiiiink.

She was running...and so fast too. Lex would never catch her, why would she even bother trying. Standing right here seemed so much more legit. She didn't wanna go chasing anyone. The woman didn't like her very much anyway...

Cookies? What cooki--riiiiight those. She'd get around to those eventually, if she felt up for it...just not for now? She didn't know. Knowing was so much work and that 'meh' feeling had gotten worse. Alexa grimaced down at her ice-cream. Could someone remind her why she was eating this again?



Cassia was saying something, she was vaguely aware of that but she didn't think she was up for listening anymore. All she wanted right now was to head back up to her Common Room and sleep, sleep through that class she had later, sleep through the stacks of homework she had piling up, just sleep.

The girl was saying something about something...that much she understood. "Yeah...sounds fun...we can do that later right?"

Maybe by later she'd know what the girl was talking about too. Cassia would explain or forget then she wouldn't have to listen at all. It wasn't that she didn't care what her best friend had to say but you know when you can't be bothered to listen or care or anything? It was something like that. She'd understand.



Her lips twitched as if she was trying to smile but the smile wasn't coming anymore. The happiness and the ice-cream loving...it was like they both just...died. That was the only way she could explain it.

Lex looked to her own bowl of ice-cream then to Lottie's. A scowl appeared. "How are you eating that? And the fruits are so far away, are you really going to go get them." Wouldn't she rather just standing her with her best friend? Surely she'd realize how much less effort it would take. Ew. Lottie was still eating it. Her scowl grew deeper. Now she felt almost sick.

Why was there all that syrup still in her cauldron? That would take so much effort to clean.

Or...did she have to clean it? Could she just leave it like that? The Professor wouldn't mind, right?



Hair Boy was grinning and she was gonna try grinning back but her face wouldn't let her. It seemed set in a frown now...more of a scowl really. As far as she was concerned, she was over this party. It wasn't fun anymore. Nothing was fun, not even this ice-cream in her hand.

Lex rested the ice-cream on the table next to her and sighed heavily.

"Yeah, ice-cream, fun, Professor, chocolate." She nodded but it didn't have much in it, just her head moving the way it was meant to in order to convey a message. A message he got right? She didn't wanna have to go nodding again. Effort. Meh.

Just like with Lottie she was beginning to wonder how he could still be eating that. Seriously. Put it away.



Half way through his pouring Lex raised her hand for him to stop. This would take so much effort to eat and well...she wasn't much in the mood for ice-cream anymore. She wasn't much in the mood for anything if she was being honest. How much longer did they have to stay here to get their homework done. She tasted syrup and got people to taste hers. What more was there?

"I have a whole cauldron of chocolate flavoured syrup, you can just help yourself, the ladle's over there." She didn't feel up for doing anymore pouring. It was enough.

Her shoulders slumped as she leaned against the table. A nap, she would take a nice one of those after this was all over.