Dylan stepped into the Common Room through the entrance, not really expecting to see DRASTIC changes...

...but...

What...was THIS?

The Slytherin Captain paused immediately, wide eyes searching and taking in the disgusting sight before him. First things first...there was NO welcoming fire in the grate; a thing that had never failed to lift his spirits after Quidditch losses, bad marks, and stupid females. Then upon closer inspection, Dylan seen that layers on top of layers of dust caked every available surface in the room.

He whipped out his wand, eying EVERYTHING in disdain...but then remembered a rather important detail. His trunk wouldn't be upstairs...It wouldn't be because Dylan, who'd been so terribly excited about being LEGAL and able to perform magic, had shrank all his things down and placed them in the bag strapped across his chest.

HEADDESK.

Traveling light was traveling.

AHEM.

...And...if he were being honest, if the Common Room looked like this, he didn't want to step any further into it. There was no telling what state the Dorms were in. Sweet Merlin.

Unclasping his bag, Dylan went about fishing out the mini-trunk, pausing for a moment to magically clean a section of floor to lay it down. With things looking like this, he'd be keeping his things on his person. Yes. That was that.

Once it was back to its normal size, Dylan cracked it open and fished out his money back...and after doing so, sealed it back up, shrunk it back down, and put it right back where he'd gotten it.

NOT LEAVING MY THINGS IN THIS FILTH. /mini!spaz

Derry walked into the common room, expecting the warm comfort of the room her father had described to her but finding... Well... a dungeon. "What..?" she mumbled to nobody in particular. It was filthy in here... And really really cold...

She went over to one of the fireplaces and peered into it. Hmm... empty. But she could do charms well enough, just probably not strong enough to light an entire fire. She turned around to the rest of the room and hesitantly adressed the people closest to her... "U-um... should we m-make a fire?" Because she really was cold, and she wasn't sure if she should do anything about the mess or... what? She didn't know what was going on.

What in the....?

West blinked around and sorta wanted to immediately turn around and like... shield Theo's eyes from beholding this sight. Because Theo didn't do good with not-clean things and the common room didn't look so good at all.

"Someone needs to clear the fireplace first." Was all West said to Derry, hearing her speak from behind him.

....

......

He gave Dylan a look, lit his wand, and headed to the dorms.

"Yuck," Peyton scoffed as she walked inside. What happened in here? This had to be a joke from the elves or staff. She tip-toed her way in, just in case, and looked around. This wasn't what she expected to come back to.

She glanced at West. Yeah, someone needed to clear it. Not her, obviously.

Peyton noticed the Derry girl and nudged her arm with hers. "We should go check out the girl dorms." Meaning, she didn't want to go alone in case a giant beast came out.

West came back in having been in the dorms, still with a bubble head charm in place.

"So.... our stuff isn't there. At least not in the boys dorms. I checked them all and it stinks real bad. Real bad. Its... real bad."

Like it made the current state of the common room look like paradise in comparison.

"I'm going to go see if our trunks and everything is stacked somewhere and just hasn't been brought down yet, okay?" He looked at Dylan for approval.

what the hell!!?!?!?!

Ariana stood in the doorway just watching.. uncomfortably.. what was this!?

WHAT WAS THIS!?

Unacceptable, that's what it was, totally unacceptable... "What Happened!? Or didn't happen i guess." she was puzzled really.. first things first.. this place needed to be CLEANED.. even if that meant Ariana doing it herself.. #CleanFreakAlert she had always cleaned her dorm for her dorm mates so adding on the common room wasn't too bad.. she'd just use magic.. lots of it..

"i don't even want to KNOW what the dorms look like..." she said aloud to everyone in the room
just then Odessa came down the steps claiming their stuff wasn't there.. "Your stuffs not up there?" this was tragic.. she needed to go look.. and asap

Sonea entered the Slytherin common room with a relieved smile, happy to be back home again but stopped. She looked around her and frowned. This was not like the common room she remembered… It was cold and dirty inside the room and she looked unsure around her. She wrapped her arms around her and shivered but said nothing this time, she felt lost now that the place she had missed so much had turned into something… like this. “Little princess, stay inside my pocket, you don’t want to see this and it is warmer there” said Sonea worried for her little rat.

Right... someone needed to clear it. Well that's what magic was for, right? Her dad had taught her the cleaning charm, she'd had to clean the horses out with it to practice. She was going to mention this but then that slightly intimidating girl from the feast nudged her...

Oh... checking out the dorms, right... "Umm... sure hang on..." Derry took her wand from her pocket and pointed it at the fireplace. "Scourgify." she said, cleaning away the majority of the mess from the grate. Hmmm... She tried it again and managed to get it close to clean. Yep, mucking out horses with magic had definitely worked for that one... "Okay we can go now..."

But then West Odessa came back... with a bubble charm on his head. Uh oh, Derry didn't know how to do that one... She glanced sideways at Peyton Baltazaaaaaaaar (seriously they all had such cool surnames). "Maybe ours won't be too bad..." she said, holding her wand in front of her just in case... "...lead the way... I haven'ae been there before..."

Theo was just happy to get through to the common room, because long train rides made Theo's very sleepy and he just wanted to kick off his socks and CHILL on his bed, but...... stench. He was greeted by an unfamiliar STENCH. Covering his nose first, Theo just stood in the entrance completely horrified.

This was NOT worth a knut.

Nope, if he had to pay to get inside, he wanted 5* accommodation, please. Hogwarts, the stingy place.

"It's c-c-c-old." That had soon affected him more than anything else. His eyes darted over to the fireplace which wasn't on. Helloooooo, this was the dungeons, it needed heat, were these people stupid? Cue emotional breakdown.

..............

No seriously, he wanted to go home. Sulk.

A long train ride plus a really... terrible start of term feast resulted to an exhausted Kat. The prefect needed to rest and she was just so glad that they could finally get in the Common Room. Just when she thought about making her way STRAIGHT to her dorm, she felt like her heart stopped beating when she saw the common room.

... It was so filthy.

The smell. The dust. The unwelcoming glow of the fire in the fireplace. The beauty that was once in this common room was gone like it had never been here before. Kat covered her nose and tried not to pass out.

Merlin why.

Ew. Dirt.

Now time to go and see where he would be sleeping for at LEAST the next year. 'Cause of previous track records with schools and stuff. He wasn't excited per say, but he had heard SO much from other people about how wonderful Hogwarts was that he was interested. Impress us, Hogwarts.

...And unimpressed. This room was cold and dark and looked really tattered. The outfit of the furniture was not a problem because a couch was a couch but... hey hang on. Was that one gonna have a freak out? Heh. AWESOME. No seriously, could someone have a breakdown? That would be the BEST topper off to the first night at Hogwarts.

Someone break down. Anyone. It would be hilarious.

So Ascanius leaned up against one of the pillars in the room and just people watched. This was going to unfold one way or another, but whatever it was he was just going to standby and watch. And if they needed a snarky comment here or there, well then, he'd oblige.

Following West back in, Dylan noted what he'd said about the fire and agreed. Pointing his wand at the grate, the Slytherin provided a strong, forceful "Incendio!"

They had a lot of work to do and it was just best to go ahead an handle that heating source. It was deep and bone-chilling...and considering the dungeons fell underground AND was entirely STONE, there wouldn't be any relief from the cold without fire.


"Be careful!" You know, for selfish reasons. Baltazar was his best Beater. There was no telling what was waiting for them upstairs...


...Well, Dylan's stuff wouldn't be up there...

Ahem.

Cursing under his breath, the Slytherin rubbed at his face, mind racing. Where could the rest of their stuff be?! "You know, I bet it's still outside...or downstairs in the Entrance Hall or something. Yea, go ahead."

...And just to be safe. "Take a Prefect with you. It IS late and we don't need anyone trying to take points for something stupid." Dylan gave West MORE significant looks. "I've got it handled here."


...And then he turned to Logan...who he KNEW share his hate and distaste of messes. The ONE thing they had in common...outside of being awesome at Quidditch. "Where do you want to start?" Dylan asked as he removed his outer robe, unbuttoning his cuffs. He couldn't very well work without rolled up sleeves. It went against code...

Actually...

"Why don't you clear a space for that little girl to sit...and Theodore, too." His Chaser looked like...he was about to lose it...or something.

"It's okay. Remain calm."

Coming back down from the girl dorm's moments later, Peyton watched where she stepped. What if all of a sudden a sink hole popped out of nowhere? She didn't want to sink.

"There's no trunks or anything in our dorms either," she in formed the people around her. Not only did they have to live in these situations, but they've been robbed. Thank goodness she kept Glenn in her purse.

Oh. Well. There was Pretty Boy. And Theo, who looked like he might have a breakdown. She remembered last term. As well as his big head.

First, she sent a smile at Pretty Boy Ascanius and then walked beside Theo and patted his shoulder. They were teammates and he seemed in need of comfort and...well, it made her sort of sad seeing him cry last term. "It'll be okay." It would, right?

Theo wanted to clean, ohmygooooosh, he so did. But really, touching anything in this room was completely out of the question. And he didn't even have any hand gel on him because it was in his damn trunk. Note to self, always keep hand gel in robe pockets.

"I am calm."

It was better that the fire was on now, but still... THIS SUCKED. He was about to clear the way for the couch himself but he was suddenly being patted on the shoulder by an unnamed being.

RAT.

VERMIN.

SPIDER.

MAJOR!FLINCH.

Oh, Peyton.

Theo made an audible groan, and moved away from her patting. He kicked away anything in his way, and sat in front of the fireplace, holding his knees to his chin.

Kinda just wanted his mummy and a chocolate milk.

" ugh.. everywhere." she said pulling a sour face, this was gross, like there was Dust everywhere.. people we're complaining.. they needed to get out of her way and let her clean.. and Dylan.. she supposed.. maybe they should all just wait outside.. in coward in a corner or something.. this was just horrid. She rolled her sleeves up.. cause she already had her robe off and in her hand, clear a space for then to sit



..
Fine.

Taking her wand out she pointed it at the couch "Scourgify." and the amount of dust that lifted off the thing was almost appalling. she did that also to the other chairs around the room "have a seat.. it's all cleaned." maybe they could repair the slight damages with Repairo or something... maybe.. after they clean this place up.. "i'll start from the door and you can start from the stairs to the Dorms." she said to Dylan, you know split it up.. make it go a bit faster.

Kommoto slunk through the Common room. He looked around, and saw that everyone was already talking with each other, reuniting or finding friends. He gave a rueful smile. He made it to the boy's dorm well enough, and looked for his bead.

The common room was just as well kept as the cutlery. Everyone was conversing and cleaning the place up. Galena wanted to go home, these were not the conditions she intended to come to school in. When she went home for christmas break, she'd tell her grandparents to reconsider Hogwarts and convince them to send her somewhare different. She overheared West talking about grabbing the stuff from outside. Sasha's cage must still be down there, thought Galena "My rat is still in her cage down with the trunks"she said. "Only I don't want to have to pay again to get back in the room" maybe it would be best to let the others who were already down there handle the luggage. "Has anyone gone to the study tables yet?".

"Okay."

He looked at Kat and Daichi. And then at Kat again.

Obvious choice was obvious right?

"Hey Kat, wanna come trunk-hunting with me?" Yeah she would follow right? Or something. West wasn't sticking around. He had a Nile Monitor to save.

He left the common room, figuring that he wouldn't come back without his trunk anyway so a knut would be easy enough to find.

Cute. They were all cleaning. This Dylan guy... you know... the blonde one.... yeah. He was acting a little bit like Snow White and the other people in green were acting like his little dwarves or woodland creatures. Whatever metaphor you liked better. It was hysterical to see the guy with the badge clapping his hands and getting everyone to tidy up. Heh. Did he have an apron too?

So Ascanius was just going to stand here and watch them from the pillar. 'Sides he looked really nice at this angle so he was going to work it.

Of course, he COULD have helped clean. These people were helpless. They had all probably never REALLY cleaned anything in their lives. While Ascanius...? Well, he had lots of practice for reasons. But it was more entertaining to watch from here. So yeah, he was gonna people watch.

Watching... lots of watching. And looking good too. Don't forget that.

As Peyton moved to join a distressed looking Theodore Kinsley, Dylan just rubbed at his face. He wasn't going to push the younger dude...because that wasn't really something that was warranted...given the current condition of their Common Room. He wanted to freak out, too...but someone had to keep it together here.

Actually, most of them were doing an okay job with remaining calm...

So, no arguing. "Why don't you just take a seat and plan Quidditch strategies?"


...And back to Logan. "That's fine. I'm going to actually start here." He was indicating the space containing the couches and coffee table. "We'll need buckets, sponges...." Perhaps he could have someone go and get some of that cleaning solution he and West used on the Infirmary's waiting room last term....


BLINK!

There was that kid again....The one from earlier...

Was Dylan losing his mind?

The Slytherin blinked several times, trying to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him....No, the kid was really there. Hmm...


Oh. A new face. Dylan hadn't seen this one before...

"Hello..." It was only polite...and with her being NEW to him, that mattered. "...I'm Dylan......Do you know Scourgify? If you'd like, you could go straighten up the study tables."

All help was welcomed and she had inquired about that specifically...and it was minimal enough to not cause a bunch of damage IF she was rubbish with the spell...


...And West was out.

It was a good thing Odessa was one of those people that took initiative. Hopefully he'd find everyone's stuff....So that Ariana Logan wouldn't barbecue anyone...

Chick was SUPER scary when miffed. She didn't scare HIM, obviously...but she was startling to others.


Oh, look. Penelope's boyfriend. SQUINT.

Why was he just standing there...eying them all up? "Are you going to help?" It wasn't said with attitude...More exhaustion, like Dylan felt. The past couple of days were starting to wear on him..."Listen, I know you've got this whole 'I'm bored with the world' thing going on...but could you pause that for a second and find me materials? Are you good with transfiguration? Or finding things to transfigure?"


.............SUDDENLY....LIKE WHOA OMG! A MISTY BOA CONSTRICTOR APPEARED!

Dylan paused in speaking with Stark to eye the patronus. What...in the hell.....?

STARE.

"West found the trunks..." He loudly informed, whipping his wand in an epic fashion to start conjuring buckets, sponges, and stuff of the like. The Captain had a plan....and everyone knew Scourgify only went so far.

Turning his attention back to Stark, he arched a brow. Well?

O_________________O

Stepping in to the common room, Christina couldn't believe what did she just see. It was... REAL? This was such a big mess! Oh my.... NO! Don't complain much, Christina! Complaining didn't help much, it just make the condition become worse. She said to herself. So, she needed to do something! And watching people around only wasn't helping, Jung.

"Erm.. Is there something that I could help?" She asked to the captain. "I'm.. Christina, new student here." Well, maybe it wasn't a good time to introduce herself but she just didn't want to be rude, right? She was okay for doing anything right now even though she's tired. But, she also couldn't take a rest if this place was such a mess.

People watching. People watching. Huh. Fascinating. And LOOK another hot chick walked through the door. Jeez. Did Hogwarts grow them all on trees? Everywhere he turned there was another one, so this school wasn't so bad, yeah?

But before he could wink, smirk, use gorgeous or beautiful or all of the above someone was talking to him. Or in this case talking AT him. And it was the authority bearing, blonde badge wearing person... and NOT the leggy, hot one. No, it was the bloke.

.............

Blink, blink. Was he seriously on him about this right now? It was not a huge deal. Sure, the Common Room wasn't perfect- it had a lot of drawbacks- but it wasn't terrible. They all needed to live somewhere. It was livable. Mr. Hughes always said suck it up and that was what they all needed to do right now.

Although, this blonde guy did not seem remotely satisfied with that. Nope. He wanted everyone to pitch and work together to promote house unity or whatever.

DRAMATIC SIGH. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

He pushed himself off of the pillar and walked slowly down the steps. With obvious condescension in his voice he smirked, "Transfiguration? Wrong guy." Pause, "What do you need me to do?" Forced smile. See? He could do this team player thing t-

Ew. Nope, nope.

Peyton shrugged and decided to give Theo his space. Everyone dealt with situations in their own way. And currently she was dealing with THIS situation calmly, though on the inside she was cursing at every dusty surface.

Merlin. She wanted to hit something. Most preferably with her bat. And she didn't want to clean. That wasn't her job. Her job was to come to school, get an education and play Quidditch. Simple as that.

With a small scowl, the fourth year pointed her wand an ornament and muttered, "Scourgify." There. Done.

Oh! A BOA! WITH A MESSAGE.

A warm feeling bubbled in her chest. She beamed in the Captain's direction. Her their trunks had been found. She really hoped Thor was okay. He had to be okay. The inside of his carrier had been charmed to be all cushion-y for his safety.

Peyton wondered how long it would take West to bring their stuff down here. She imagined him like Santa Claus. Without the white beard and red suit, of course.

"D'you think he can carry everything down here?" she asked mainly Dylan since he seemed close to West.

The real question. Would he bring her belongings here first?

Kat was considering trying to start cleaning and scourgify-ing and tergeo-ing the common room when she heard someone call her. She looked at West who was the one who did so.

Trunk-hunting. Heck, yes. Even the name sounded fancy and cool. "Yeah sure," Kat said and followed West out. It was kind of obvious that he wouldn't pick Daichi he expected Kat to follow him and stuff.

That was West Odessa, you know.

#Westy