When Hadley Denaker awoke in the morning, all the hurt and anger from last night's feast was gone. Why? Because, "I AM A TEENAGER!!!" She announced the fact, loudly, to her entire dorm while jumping up and down and dancing on her bed more like a common five year old than a teenager.

But never-the-less, Hadley was thirteen. OFFICIALLY. A. TEENAGER! And everyone in her dorm knew it now, but just in case. "I am a teenager!!" This time she punctuated it by springing over to Freckle Face's bed and jumping around the sleeping girl, then back to her bed, then to the bed next to hers on the opposite side of Rachel's, and then...

A crash stopped her in her tracks. Her snowboard had slipped from where it was perched against the wall due to all the shakings of Haddie leaping about, and crashed into Rachel's nightstand, knocking everything off. OOPS. She gave her BFF a sheepish shrug and repositioned the snowboard against the wall. It was gift from her Dad. She asked for a magical broom, got a snowboard instead. So, to spite the man, she brought it with and was gonna enchant it to fly and thus be the inventor of Wizard Surfing. Oh yeah.

Okay. She was done. Grabbing her two-way mirror and Asher, Hadley bounded out of her dorm room and down the steps to the common room.

Clara grew tired of staring out the window once more and more students came into the Common Room. That bird she had been observing had also gone away by now. The feeling of solitude turned into a feeling of annoyance, and she no longer wanted to be surrounded by swarms of young ones and old ones alike, chatting on and on. It was all she had been subjected to for the past few days, and she just wanted some quiet.

She stood up and pushed the chair back in, and found her way to the dormitories. Finding the one for her year, she looked around expectantly, but found no one. A few minutes of silence would be good. She didn't think anyone would be incredibly defensive about which bed they would take, seeing as they all looked identical. Clara chose the one in the far left corner, by the window. All her stuff was here already, it's just that none of it was actually organized yet. Oh well. It was empty here anyway. It's not like she was going to be disturbed at any moment.

She had heard that Herbology and Potions lessons had started already, but Clara shuddered at the idea. She had never been good at Potions. Last year was the first year she skipped Potions and replaced it with Arithmancy, which was a huge relief. It wasn't that she was miserably failing. In fact, she was still doing above average. It's just that Clara always left the dungeons feeling sorry for herself. Thoroughly not enjoying lesson after lesson became draining after a while. Herbology always went a little more smoothly than Potions, but Clara barely had an interest in the subject. And since this was year of the O.W.L.s, she wanted to focus especially on the classes she knew she could excel in.

Charms was definitely one, Arithmancy...Astronomy...Clara shook her head, not wanting to think about her class schedule right this moment. She pulled out her wand from her robes and opened her suitcase with all of her materials. She took out all of her non-academic books and placed them gently on the nightstand. Then, she took her glasses and put them on top of the books. Only three books for the term. Should be able to balance themselves and not fall. Looking inside the suitcase, the only other thing worth taking out at the moment was the journal where she wrote her inner thoughts. Placing that under her pillow for now, she sighed and shut the suitcase again. It was all clothes and school materials, which she didn't need yet.

That's about enough cleaning for now. Clara leaned back with a heavy sigh, falling onto the bed already. Hoping she wouldn't fall asleep, she closed her eyes...

Penelope was sitting on her bed trying to charm her hairbrush to brush her hair for her. Were charmed hairbrushes a thing already? Enchanted hairbrushes might exist. If they did, it would be nice to have one. If not, she was going to invent the self brushing hairbrush. Did animation charms work on hairbrushes? She was going to try that. Would the charms wear off over time? Was there a way to make the charms permanent? Maybe she should consult her charms books or Professor Primeaux.

"Whoa!" The little girl gaped at the second year girl's dorm for all of seven seconds. And then she frowned. "The other room was better. Let's go back to that room!" This room was boring. All it had were beds, and nightstands, and large trunks at the foot of the beds. The other room wasn't boring. It had really high windows and they were high up so she could see everything! And it had really cool statue of a lady, and the ceiling was like a night sky and there was a fireplace and...

"Cool!! Is that a ferret!?" Haddie ran to the caged ferret with all energy and hyperness of being her seven year old self again. The ferret bound over to her, happy and excited. "I think he likes me! What's his name?" Her hand was on the cage door already. "Can I play with him? Pleeeaase!?" There was a ferret in this room some that made it infinitely better than the previous room. Unless...Unless she took the ferret to the other room. Her eyes lit up with the idea.

Katherine's head was throbbing and she could feel that her rage was slowly consuming her. She wasn't so angry anymore, mainly because anger was a tiring feeling. She was just... crestfallen, but this didn't mean Haddie was off the hook.

Oooooooh, on the very contrary.

"We are not going anywhere!" she hissed. A small voice was telling her to be kinder, as Haddie was basically a child and not the teenager who had woken everyone up a few days ago by announcing that she was thirteen, but she shut that voice up. "We're staying here until you're back to normal." So she had better get comfortable. HOW had her parents managed to deal with her? Katherine had spent only 20 minutes or so with her, but she was already exhausted. She wanted to lie down on her bed, but she couldn't in case Haddie tried to run away. She stayed by the door to block her, and tried to organise her thoughts. Where to start?

"Yes," she said impatiently, "it's even yours. Its name is -" What was the animal's name? Katherine had no idea, even though she must have heard it a hundred times now. Which meant that she had become better at tuning Haddie out.

Or ignoring your friend's dearest animal, ignoring someone who could teach you a lot...

"Its name is Tucker," she lied as the two voices battled in her head, "but don't take it out now. You don't want to lose it."

She took a deep breath and looked at the blonde girl who was doing it all on purpose.

"Why?" she asked, even though Haddie didn't remember anything, was only seven, just wanted to discover the castle blah blah. "Why did you mess your potion up?" Just... why?

Why was Kat--she called Katherine Kat, because Haddie liked cats--so grumpy? And boring. She was really boring. The seven year old paced the room bored. "Why do we have to stay here though? There's nothing to do!" She looked around, but it was hard to believe she was really a 13 year old witch at a school that taught magic and had the ugliest uniforms imaginable. "It's boring! When is the stupid potion gonna work?"

She stopped. Her eyes went wide and her mouth dropped. "Mr. Poppy!" How had she not noticed her very best friend on the bed! Rushing over, the girl climbed up onto the bed and wrapped her arms around the beloved rabbit. She didn't even care he had a stitched up scar down the right side of his face. "He's my very best friend in the whole wide world!" The child's expression became a bit sullen suddenly and she relaxed her hug of the toy rabbit. "I don't have a lot of friends..." She admitted. "I bet you do though. Do you have a lot of friends?"

Tucker chirped desperately at her, and her tiny heart melted again. Poor boy just wanted to be out of the cage. She didn't blame him. Could they just let him out a little? But Kat was asking why she messed up the potion. Haddie curled her knees to her chest and stared somberly at Mr. Poppy. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to mess up." But she always seemed to. She guessed that didn't change even when she was thirteen. "I'm going to let him out." Haddie was off the bed and opening Tucker's cage before Kat could stop her.

Katherine sighed impatiently. It was getting harder to ignore the little voice in her head that was saying that Haddie was a kid and she ought to be nice to kids, but she said in a very stressed manner "Because, this is the only room you can't harm yourself and the potion will work when it will." Got it? Got it. She shook her head to herself. This was ridiculous. Haddie was wasting her time. She had done it on purpose, Katherine was sure. She was going to pay, though. Katherine didn't know HOW, but she was.

The older girl looked alarmed for a moment when the little girl uttered a name excitedly - but it turned out to be just a stuffed animal - a rabbit, to be precise. Okay, good. Katherine relaxed, but Haddie turned sullen. Why? She didn't have a lot of friends? This was absurd. The whole Ravenclaw girl dormitory was her friend - though, of course, she didn't know that. But Katherine also didn't think she had few friends when she was younger. People loved girls like her - funny, carefree, bold... But she also looked so innocent, and Katherine felt bad for a split second before she remembered why they were having this conversation in the same place: Haddie had messed up on purpose.

"I don't, either," she said and shrugged in a manner that showed she didn't care. And she didn't. Except for the moments when she'd secretly cried for being so alone an unwanted, but that was in the past. Now she - didn't need friends. "Don't worry though," she said a little bir more kindly, "you'll have lots if the stupid potion works."

Why was it taking so long?

Her heart broke a little again when Haddie looked so somber. Maybe she was being too hard on the girl. Maybe Haddie had changed involuntarily too - like he lack of friends or something forced her. Maybe... Don't fall for it, it is just an act. You KNOW she did it on PURPOSE. This kind of people are losers, and you're going to win.

"Whatever," she muttered in the end. She didn't want to look too soft just because Haddie was seven years old. On the contrary, she hated the girl more. She stole her spotlight, and even though Professor Newton had said otherwise, he was definitely blaming Katherine for it.

Haddie was going to pay for this.

In her distraction, it took Katherine too long to work out who 'he' was. "No-!" she uttered, but before she could effectively shoot a spell to stop the girl, the bloody ferret was out. "Petrificus Totalus!" she cried as she pointed her wand at the ferret instead. Hopefully, the animal was a slow one and was hit by the spell; because she wasn't going to move one single finger to catch it if the animal ran away.

Abby walked into the dorm and saw Penelope busy with things and said "Hey Penelope what you up to" Abby just wanted to lie down and rest cause her head was in serious pain but she did well to mask the pain that would have been showing through in her face

"But, it's boring!" Ah the whining of a seven year old. This was the most boring room in the history of boring rooms. Kinda pretty though, but still boring.

Did she mention the room was boring?

At least she had Tucker the ferret was in here. He was going to be fun, she could tell. And then a swiggly jet of light erupted from Kat's wand hitting the spot the swift and energetic ferret had been a second before. Tucker bolted for Hadley, seemingly unperturbed by the fact she wasn't nearly as tall as she used to be. It just made it easier for him to climb onto her shoulder. Haddie swung her body so that she was between Kat and Tucker and stomped her foot dramatically. "Don't hurt him! He's my friend." She had lots of animal friends. "He's nice, see? He won't hurt you." She walked over to Kat, reached out and gently took the older girl's hand, leading it to where Tucker sat on her shoulder. "Pet him."

Then she made her way back to her bed and sat down, thinking about what Kat had said earlier. "You don't have friends?" Haddie sounded genuinely surprised. The little girl hugged Mr. Poppy and Tucker. Her legs swing from the side of the bed. It was hard to imagine the older girl, who seemed to have that I don't have time to bother with you attitude that cool kids had, didn't have friends. But that was something they had in common. "People don't like me because I make weird things happen all the time." At least that was what she told herself. She pretended it didn't bother her, but it did. Deep down it did. "Is that why you don't have friends?" Legs still swinging over the side, the little girl perked up suddenly. "I'll be your friend!! But you have to promise you won't hurt Tucker!" She paused a moment, thinking. "Are you sure his name is Tucker? He doesn't seem like a Tucker."

It was a great idea! They'd play dolls together, make up stories, play sports. And do all the things that best friends do and...huh? Did she hear that right? She'll have lots of friends when the potion works? "I-I will?" There was never a more disbelieving shocked expression in the history of disbelieving shocked expressions. Then she set Tucker down on the bed and started to leap and bounce as high as the bed would let her. She was going to have friends!! And Kat was definitely one of those friends. Wasn't she?

The little girl settled down from her jumping and bouncing and looked at Kat curiously. "We're friends right?"

Boring or not, they were staying and to make that point, Katherine folded her arms as if to say try walking over me. Besides, she had the Mr. Poppy or whatever here. Why didn't she play with that?

But anyways, of course Haddie had to be Haddie and open the cage. And of course her spell had to miss the bloody thing. The adrenaline peaked in Katherine's body as every muscle because ready to fight (or run). It felt like it was happening in slow motion - until the moment the thing perched on Haddie's shoulders. Huh? Wasn't it supposed to come hunt down her? Wait - before the animal itself could come at her, Haddie was - if this was a ploy to dislodge Katherine from this point and run away, it wasn't going to work. But they were coming closER and Katherine loved her pretty face TOO MUCH for it to be ruined by a stupid useless creature. She took half a step back and leaned backwards as dread filled her body.

"No, I-" Don't move away, this is a ploy, don't move - "I - yeah, so cute, yeah." Her hand barely touched it before Haddie finally moved away. There was a reason she didn't keep any of these animals - but of course, Haddie didn't remember that.

At least she didn't order the animal to attack.

Putting away her wand once they were at a safe distance, she casually shrugged. "And people don't like me, because I am more clever than them." Basically. And besides she liked to show it, but that was irrelevant.

Wait, what? Katherine was dumbfounded. No - Haddie didn't want to be her friend. And anyway, she thankfully had the attention span of a seven year, so Katherine didn't have to answer to that. Of course his name was Tucker, but who cared right now? And she would remember it soon enough, so all good.

"100% positive!" she said with a reassuring smile. Tucker, Dexter, Cooper - who cared? Not her. She hadn't cared before, and she wouldn't care in the future.

"Yes," she said as an answer. It was kind of cute to see kid!Haddie so hopeful and happy about having lots of friends. Apparently, she really didn't have many friends, but Katherine couldn't blame the muggles. Weird things did happen around wizards. Oh - Haddie was jumping on the bed.

"You're gonna fall -" and break the bed and that ferret is going to attack me FOR MERLIN'S BEARD SIT DOWN, Katherine wanted to scream, but she couldn't. Haddie was just a kid, a bed could easily be fixed, and she would catch Haddie before she hit the floor. As for the ferret, if that thing even FLINCHED...

Thankfully, it didn't take Haddie long to jump on the bed - to ask that question with the innocence of a kid. Katherine's blue eyes met hers for a moment as she struggled to answer. She didn't want to be honest as that would just break the kid's heart - even though the teenager version of that very kid hated and made fun of Katherine...

"This antidote isn't working," she said firmly in the end as she checked her watch, "come, we'll go visit the Professor. Your ferret should stay here and I mean it - you don't want it to ingest something it shouldn't in the lab." And with that, she made a gesture to leave.

The seven year old rolled her eyes sympathetically when Kat told her why people didn't like her. "That's a silly reason not to like someone." But then, even at seven she knew people were silly. Usually. "I like you, even if you are cleverer than me." See, they were great friends. Best friends even.

She hopped down from the bed. "You worry too much." Haddie jumped on the bed all the time and she never fell. Not once! Natalie did once though. It was hilarious. "Okay," she said. No tone, no protest, just a simple okay. Humming to herself the girl turned and picked up the ferret. "You have to wait here, Tucker. And we'll discuss a new name for you when I'm older." Because Tucker just didn't fit the guy. Haddie put him easily back into the cage. He was quiet tame and obedient to her. She liked that.

Then the girl turned and looked squarely at Mr. Poppy. "You too. You have to stay too." After that she positioned the two dolls and her wand on the bed before rearranging them a bit. No, that looked uncomfortable. She rearranged them again. And, there. Perfect. "Stay!" Haddie ordered the dolls and Mr. Poppy. "Ready, but you'll have to show me where it is, because I don't know." And this was a big place with too many floors and... "Can we get ice cream on the way?" she asked as she followed the older girl out of the room.

A few seconds later her head peaked back in, checking to see if the dolls had moved. They hadn't. She followed Kat down the stairs.

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Abby walked into the dorm and saw Penelope busy with things and said "Hey Penelope what you up to" Abby just wanted to lie down and rest cause her head was in serious pain but she did well to mask the pain that would have been showing through in her face

Penelope set down her hairbrush for the moment after Abby walked in. So far Penelope hadn't been able to get the hairbrush to continuously brush her hair, and a few attempts had ended with the hairbrush horribly tangled in her hair. "Hi Abby! I'm trying to charm my hairbrush. How are you?" Abby had been acting kind of weird lately, and Penelope hoped that Abby was okay. What was up with Abby?

Abby looked at Penelope and said "Well that is good I wish that I could tell you that I am good but I have not been well since the summer but it is a long story as to what happened" Abby knew she should tell Penelope as they were pretty much so old friends

One by one.

One by one. Every trunk emptied without thought. Every nightstand overturned without concern. Every bed torn apart without care. No book. Not in first year's dorm. Or second year's, or third, or fourth, or fifth, or sixth. Not even in seventh year dorm. No book. Just mess. Hadley had to find the book. It was her only purpose.

She had tried the boy's dorms first, but never made it that far. The stairs threw her off 20 times before she thought of trying elsewhere. She hadn't even registered the pain or massive bruise on her side.

With no luck, Hadley turned and shuffled blankly down the stairs.

Library.

Library had books.

Library had book.

Hadley go. Find. Take.

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Abby looked at Penelope and said "Well that is good I wish that I could tell you that I am good but I have not been well since the summer but it is a long story as to what happened" Abby knew she should tell Penelope as they were pretty much so old friends

Abby wasn't well? Penelope put down her wand and hairbrush and motioned for Abby to come sit by her. "What happened? Is there anything I can do for you?" Penelope was concerned for her dorm mate. She had known Abby since first year, and it worried her that Abby hadn't been well.

"OH. MY. GOD."

All her precious possessions were lying splayed all over the floor. Several of her makeup containers had been spilled, causing liquid to drain over the floor. Her bed was a mess. And so was everyone else's.

"GAA!! Miffy!" Because it had to be her fault. No one else would dare do such a thing. It had to be Miffy trying to impress Peeves again. Or maybe they were both doing it.

Her worm container looked safe, but she couldn't be sure. A wave of panic washed over her as she ran to check on them, hoping with hope against hope that they were okay.

They were. Kitty breathed a sigh of relief as she counted out all nine. "Are you okay Neechee?" She asked her worm as she gently touched him.

Gritting her teeth in rage and muttering foul curse words her mom would never have wanted her to repeat, Kitty straightened her bed and started picking up everything she could. Some of her makeup was ruined and had to be thrown away. She didn't touch anyone else's items.

Kitty's first reaction after cleaning up everything was to complain to Professor Kitridge. But then a better thought came to her: She would complain to the new headmaster.

Their journey through the castle to find shinies (and ALLLLLLLLLL shinies of ALLLLLLLL sizes, mind you) had been long. But up in the towers they had come, and it was in the Ravenclaw dorms where their noses led them to next.

Up up up up up UP THE STEPS.

SNIFF

SNIFF

SNIFF

This human dwelling smelled better than than the last one. There were also many more shinies to sniff out, and the nifflers began to file into the different rooms, digging into chests of drawers, trunks, pillow, under beds, and more important, chewing holes in clothes to GET TO DA SHINIESSSSSS.

Necklaces.

Money.

A butterfly hairclip?

All belonged to the nifflers now. But they kept sniffing for MOREEEEE.

She had been sleeping. But the rustling under her bed had startled her awake from her afternoon nap. What was that? Pulling her wand out from under her pillow - because that's where she kept it while she slept, what of it? - and moved ever so slowly, so as not to alert whatever or whoever was under her bed.

Without looking, she flourished her wand, point it under the bed at where she thought the noise was coming from. "Petrificus totalus!"

Whoever was going through her things was going to be sorry.

The little niffler didn't stand a chance. Petrified. It turned as rigid as stone, making a small noise before being rendered completely....still.

One of its companions followed suit, not really concerned with his pal but more concerned with finding LE SHINIES. It ignored the human in the human!bed and went riiiiiiiiight for the trunks, sniffing at it with eagerness.

SHINIES HERE?

SHINIES?

HERE?

SPOILER!!: nifflers

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Their journey through the castle to find shinies (and ALLLLLLLLLL shinies of ALLLLLLLL sizes, mind you) had been long. But up in the towers they had come, and it was in the Ravenclaw dorms where their noses led them to next.

Up up up up up UP THE STEPS.

SNIFF

SNIFF

SNIFF

This human dwelling smelled better than than the last one. There were also many more shinies to sniff out, and the nifflers began to file into the different rooms, digging into chests of drawers, trunks, pillow, under beds, and more important, chewing holes in clothes to GET TO DA SHINIESSSSSS.

Necklaces.

Money.

A butterfly hairclip?

All belonged to the nifflers now. But they kept sniffing for MOREEEEE.

Penelope came out of the dorm bathroom to find that nifflers were eating her bed and digging through her trunk. At least they hadn't been eating the sink faucets in the bathroom. "Aaaaaah! Nifflers are eating everything! They're digging and chewing holes and destroying everything and stealing shiny stuff!" Why did this have to happen? "Hey! That's my hair clip!" No! Not the butterfly one! She liked that hair clip. "Stop eating my bed! Get off! No!" They were chewing everything, and she was pretty sure they were stealing her money and necklaces too. This was not a good day. There were nifflers eating her bed and her trunk. She should probably do something about that. The dorm was being completely destroyed. Penelope pointed her wand out and started firing spells at nifflers. "Incarcolvo! Incarcolvo! Incarcolvo! Incarcolvo! Incarcolvo!" Penelope tried to cage as many of them as she could. An emergency patronus message was sent to Mr. Kitridge in between rounds of trapping nifflers to alert him to the fact that the dorm was being destroyed by nifflers. "Incarcolvo!" Penelope grabbed a bottle of shiny glitter ink that had not yet been destroyed and poured it all over the middle of the floor. "Look at all this shiny." See shinies, nifflers? She would clean that up later. For now it was being used to bait nifflers.

The few nifflers currently ransacking this human's dorm all turned their heads at once when the glitter appeared on the floor. They ran as QUICKLY as they could towards SHIIIIIIIIIIINY.

However, the glitter dissipated as the snifflers ran towards it, the air pushing it out of a pile of glitter and more of a scatter of glitter. The snifflers became uninterested in it, and they had thus far been able to escape the cages the human sent their way.

Butterfly clip in its mouth, along with its fellows and their various booty they had managed to plunder from the dorm, they made their exit.....

The one was petrified under the other human's bed.

Leo had just been coming out of his office after clearing away some paperwork and letter correspondence with other libraries when the second emergency patronus from Prefect Wright in as many days reached him. Hastily scribbling down a note Leo stuck it on the door to the library as he hastily made his way up the stairs to Ravenclaw Tower. At least one thing Cassie couldn't complain about was that he didn't keep in shape. All the running up the stairs to answer eagle distress messages lately certainly made Leo keep weight or even lose some while he was at it.

Out of breath the Ravenclaw HoH entered the shattered senior Girl's dormitories and just gaped around for a moment at the total destruction that something had caused in a short span of time. Leo didn't know what to guess at since it could be a creature who had done as a malfunctioning spell.

Turning his attention to Penelope Leo asked "Are you all right Penelope? What did this? How much of your belongings are destroyed and/or damaged?" One thing was certain though. It was going to take some time to clean up the mess.

The small thud of a petrified intruder was satisfying, but as Nicky learned as she craned her neck to look under the bed, there were more of them. Nifflers. Kleptomaniac nifflers. But they'd made their way out of the sixth year dorms into the seventh and from the sound of it, Nicky wasn't going to go anywhere near that while whoever it was cast cages all willy nilly. Grabbing a small cloth bag, Nicky fished under the bed for the petrified creature.

"You," she said with an annoyed scoff, "are coming with me." She dropped the creature into the bag and tied it shut. She was going to go pay Professor Draper a visit. She looked back at her rummaged through belongings.

She'd deal with that when she came back.

Azura was excited about this next stop on Lunar's tour of Hogwarts, it was her dorm room, and not only that, there was someone special that she wanted Lunar to meet.. If Lunar was going to live here, the meteorite would have to learn to get along with someone..

"All right Lunar, this is my dorm room, this is where I sleep, and this is probably where you will stay at least while I am in classes and things like that." Azura sat down on her bed and smiled as she set Lunar next to her..

"Over there is Hattie's bed, just don't wake her up and you'll be fine. Along with Katherine's bed and Rachel's. They are all super nice, and I'm sure you are going to love them, but.. they aren't whom I'm introducing you too." She said with a warm smile down at Lunar as she turned and pointed to her pillow where a black fuzzy lump lay..

"Steveeeeee... Steve.. I'm back." The purple eyed girl whispered as she gently cooed at the black fuzzy lump and suddenly, it started to stir and the tarantula started to walk towards her..

"Stevee!" Azura said with a warm smile as she gently put her hand out and she felt the soft fuzzy legs of Steve brush against her palm as the spider moved into her hand.. "How are you baby?" She asked as she gently nuzzled him and then put him down, next to Lunar. "Steve, this is Lunar, Lunar, this is Steve, and I want you both to get along all right?" She picked up Lunar and got it close to Steve so the spider could check out the intruder..

"See Lunar is cool Steve right?" She said with a smile as she giggled a little, for as soon as she set them both down, Steve had gone over to sit on top of Lunar..

"Or.. you know.. comfy?" She giggled as she looked down at her pets and shook her head.