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DaniDiNardo · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2018, 12:46 PM

If you're wandering around the seventh-floor corridor and you suddenly have the urge to cover your ears, you know you're steadily approaching the Fat Lady's portrait. While it isn't an uncommon fact that the vocal portrait guards the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room, getting past the Fat Lady without the correct password is no easy feat. Her passion for tip-top security is just as great as her love for good food and drink.

Though the Fat Lady is very particular about who she allows to pass through the portrait hole, she really doesn't mind anyone hanging around in the corridor. At every opportune moment, she will insist that you stop to listen to her "amazing" singing voice or engage in very loud conversation about the latest gossip. Even the Gryffindors themselves have to put up with the antics of this loud and flamboyant woman -- sometimes she won't even let them inside their common room until she is satisfied with their response to her singing or finds the gossip juicy enough to go share with her friend Violet.

OOC: Please do not role-play for the Fat Lady.

**The Narrator** · 01-27-2019, 11:06 PM

For those of you who frequent the corridor by the Fat Lady's portrait, you'll notice a very glaring addition. It's appeared over night with no indication of who may have left it here. Any attempts to take it down physically will reveal it has been attached by a permanent sticking charm. Do you know the counter charm or the culprit?

Felixir · 01-28-2019, 01:57 PM

Having spent the last night awake until the early hours, finishing a piece of homework that honestly should have been done the day he'd got it, Abra was tousle-haired and bleary-eyed as he stumbled his way through the portrait hole. Once through, he stopped, seemed to suddenly realise he'd forgotten something very important (his shoes), and made to turn back around to go and get them.

Now, this corridor was very familiar to Abra, so it was no big surprise that as he turned, even as tired and inattentive as he was, he noticed the one very new, very glaringly obvious thing. He stopped, turned back, and stared at the new portrait on the wall with an extremely confused expression on his face.

"... Zoryn?"

ArianaBlack · 01-28-2019, 08:17 PM

...... It was time for breakfast and Abra literally just walked out the portrait hole without her???? Okay, listen, Zoryn didn't like following the rules as much as the next guy. But she really missed Quidditch. And if she was going to get any chance of playing for the remainder of the term, it would be because she followed the stupid house-arrest rules.

So she obviously made her way out after him.

"Uh, yeah," she popped out behind him, just as he realized he had left her behind. "Wake up, will ya?" GEeeeeeez.

It was only then that she realized he wasn't talking to her. Well, he was talking to her. HER head, anyway. Her head on a flobberworm's body.

HER HEAD ON A FLOBBERWORM'S BODY?????????

HER HEAD ON A FLOBBERWORM'S BODY !?!??!?

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-
HHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was the scream heard around the world.

Or at least around the entire Hogwart's castle, and maybe even a little beyond then. WHO THE HELL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS???????????????????

THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE MEANT WHEN SHE SAID SHE WANTED A PORTRAIT!!!!!!

Hey Ju · 01-29-2019, 12:06 AM

Anna had gone early for breakfast because she was starting to - GASP - worry a little about OWLs, which meant she would, for the first time ever, take up Ollie's offer to help her out.

Not that she was too happy with the prospect of--

Her thoughts were cut short when she heard a ridiculously loud scream coming from pretty close to the Fat Lady's portrait. The fifth year sped up and arrived at the corridor running, only to see two of her players just standing there.

Since when did Abra and Zoryn appreciate--

The Captain didn't even manage getting close enough. As soon as she spotted it, she lost it.

Goodbye, world. Anna Meriwether couldn't breathe from laughing so hard.

Felixir · 01-29-2019, 06:52 PM

It was funny, the first thing that sprang to mind when Abra saw the portrait wasn't 'wow, Zoryn's head on a flobberworm, where on earth did this come from?', though that was a close second. Before that, it was more along the lines of remembering that, along with his shoes, he had also forgotten Zoryn. But he didn't really have much time to process either thought, as the girl in question soon appeared and...

... assaulted Abra's ear drums.

Flinching violently, Abra clapped his hands over his ears and stumbled back a step or two, cursing his luck that he had to be in the direct vicinity of such a scream. He didn't take his hands away again even after it was over, in case it happened again, you know. "Merlin. It's okay, Zoryn. We'll get it down."

Clearly someone was playing a joke at Zoryn's expense, clearly, but who? When? How?

What?

Hearing laughter nearby, even through his covered up ears, Abra whirled around and saw Anna, just about laughing her head off. Immediately, his thoughts went to... well... to the obvious.

"Did you do this?" Merlin knew the two didn't get on and, student leader or not, Abra wouldn't have been surprised if Anna was behind it. He also didn't really know what else to say, as he was still in his shoeless (apparently this was important), just-woken-up state, and Zoryn was clearly horrified and Anna was laughing and just... just what was going on?

Turning back to the portrait, Abra reached up and tried to take it down from the wall.

Nope. Wouldn't budge.

ArianaBlack · 01-29-2019, 08:12 PM

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

And bREATHE.

Whoever did this was [i]dead[/] to her. They got her cheek bones all wrong!!!!

Zoryn didn’t even have the chance to reorient herself, however, as someone was BEING ANNOYING AND OBNOXIOUS right around the corner. Anna pancake-flippin’ Meriwether. “I swear to Merlin if this was you, you’ll never see the light of day again.” Harsh, but necessary. Zoryn Spinnet could take a joke.

Well.

As long as it wasn’t at her expense.

She pretty much GROWLED at the fifth year before turning her attention to Abra who was a) not wearing shoes and b) failing to remove the portrait. MUST SHE DO EVERYTHING HERSELF???

The Gryffindor MARCHED over to it and tried to help in taking it down, seeing as Quidditch practice wasn’t doing anything to build Abra’s muscle, apparently.

But. It. Didn’t. Budge.

Which only made Zoryn tug and pull HARDER, naturally. “WHY ISN’T IT MOVING!!!!”

Hey Ju · 01-29-2019, 11:09 PM

Anna could hardly stop herself from cracking up as her housemates spoke to her. "I WISH I were this talented..." She managed to say, leaning against the wall to take a deep breath and control herself... only to start chuckling uncontrollably again as she ran a hand through her hair.

Aw, Merlin, this school was priceless. "I hope we find out who did it. They deserve an award." She wiped a tear away as she watched them both try to get it off the wall.

Wait. IT WAS STUCK?!?!?!?

SKLDJFSNFKJLSNJKFLDNKFJLNSJK AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

The fifth year couldn't handle it anymore. She had now slid down to the floor, her laughter taking the place of Zoryn's scream in echoing through the corridors.

Oh, what a JOYOUS day, AHAHAHAHAHA!!! She couldn't decide if the look on Zoryn's face today was better than during the little... stunt during tryouts.

Nah. That was unbeatable, in her opinion. But STILL. Priceless.

WHO had done it!? She wanted to give them a fist bump.

Tazzie · 01-30-2019, 12:23 AM

EEEeeeeEEEE. What in Merlin's soggy socks was going on outside???! There wasn't a fire, was there? Because that SCREAM sounded like a fire alarm (and nope, nowhere as pleasant as the Fat Lady's ~~screeching~~ singing), or however a fire alarm the first year Gryffindor though it would sound like.

But no, there wasn't no fire when Harri stumbled out of the common room. Just three older students; the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain who was laughing hysterically on the floor, Prefect Abra and that girl who mister Prefect snogger had locked lips back at the feast who were trying to detach a portrait from the wall???

"Uhm..." Harri started, taking a step around because 1) she didn't want to be a part of whatever these older ones were doing 2) she was curious to see what was on the portrait that would warrant this sort of reaction. From all three of them.

Oh.

....Oh.

..........OH.

Ah, ah, ah.

"Hey, that's YOU!" She exclaimed with glee pointing from the portrait to the other older girl who, if her memory served correct, had a name that started with Z. "That's so COOL!" And awesome and fantastic and just so bloody cool! Because duh, a portrait of yourself WITH a flobberworm body? Aaaah, coolest.

DaniDiNardo · 01-30-2019, 01:10 AM

He’d heard the scream, of course he had. It was loud, it was shrill and at the moment he couldn’t tell if it was danger or indignation. This early in the morning, he was hoping for the second. Given the direction, it could’ve been Gryffindors early to the caffeine high or a Ravenclaw experiment gone terribly wron—actually that one might have been a problem. He’d had Ravenclaw friends while in the castle and knew they could get up to about as much as any Gryffindor.

Malachi stood in the empty corridor, listening. One direction led him down the stairs toward breakfast and the other led to screaming. It was an obvious choice, one made more obvious by the continued screaming.

Merlin’s beard maybe it was urgent afterall.

Not willing to take chances in a place like this, the Headmaster broke into a sprint. Good thing he’d already been up here to run a matter by Kennedy. It put him close enough to get there in time....for....laughing....?

Wait what?

Malachi paused a moment to catch his breath while he looked about. Honestly, he wasn’t surprised to find a group of Gryffindors gathering. Not at all. He used to be in these gatherings. “What in Merlin’s....Merlin’s...” PHEW! Hang on, still needed a moment. It was a proper sprint. Oh sweet Circe his lungs. From the Astronomy Tower down then up Gryffindor tower before breakfast was not how he’d envisioned his morning. “Someone...” He gestured around vaguely to everyone present—even the Captain there on the floor—“Someone start explaining while I remind my lungs of what oxygen is.” Next time, he wouldn’t run so fast. Hopefully any danger would be able to wait until he got there on his own time. This wasn’t worth it.

Felixir · 01-30-2019, 03:03 AM

Abra was starting to get anxious. Big surprise, right? But for real, the portrait was not coming down - perhaps some sort of sticking charm was, quite literally, behind it - and Anna was still laughing and now one of the first years - Harri, that's right - was here remarking on the new artwork and all Abra could think of was how angry and upset Zoryn must be getting. He didn't want Zoryn angry OR upset, partly because she was a friend and that wasn't how he liked his friends feeling, BUT ALSO because he didn't want her to do something everyone would regret.

"It... just... won't... budge..." Abra gasped between each tug at the frame, socked feet slipping all over the stone floor the harder he pulled alongside real-Zoryn. It wasn't going to move, that much was certain. So, with this in mind, he stopped and withdrew his wand, ready to see if Avexis would work on getting it down.

... Just in time for the Headmaster to appear on the scene. Abra all but leapt in alarm at Trent's sudden appearance, almost flinging his wand away in surprise but re-catching it before it could fly out of his reach.

Ah yes. He supposed that scream would have been a, errr... mild cause for alarm.

"I just... we just came out here and saw this on the wall," Abra explained as Trent caught his breath back, trying to 1. imply that that scream had NOT been him and 2. avoid sounding like he was saying 'it-was-like-that-when-I-got-here'. Even though it totally was. "It won't come down, I was just going to try the unsticking charm." Because, you know, he assumed it wasn't a Hogwarts-sanctioned portrait, and had wanted to get it off the wall before Zoryn - the real life human not-Flobberworm Zoryn - exploded in anger.

Was that wrong? To try and take it down without reporting it first? Now that he was saying it out loud, Abra wondered if that was maybe the wrong order to go about things. But it had been a bit of a situation and he was reporting it now, and the Headmaster could see it with his own eyes and everything.

ArianaBlack · 01-30-2019, 10:27 PM

Anna's shrill laughter is what set Zoryn over the edge. MERLIN!! SHUT UP, ANNA!!!! Zoryn would’ve whipped her wand out and cast a silencing charm on the girl if it weren’t for the fact that she was so preoccupied with trying to get this blasted painting off the wall, an endeavor which Abra had given up on.

FINE. She’d do it herself.

She yanked with FOUR TIMES the force and pulled with ALL her body weight, only stopping to GLARE at Anna. If looks could kill, Anna would’ve been long gone. Turning her attention back to the task at— UUFFFFFFFTTTTT !!!! ANNA MERIWETHER WAS ASKING FOR IT! Letting go of the portrait, the Gryffindor whipped out her wand and… Fortunately did not get much further.

Because, yes, Abra was right. If Zoryn had been given even ten more seconds, she would’ve definitely done something that everyone would regret. But fortunately for the lot of them, two things happened to prevent the third biggest disaster of term 51.

1. A first year.
Zoryn was about to unleash her fury on the child (who did nothing wrong, aside from simply annoying Zoryn with her sudden presence), but then she said what now? Cool? COOL!?!?!

She could work with cool. Straightening her back, the Gryffindor GLARED at Anna once more before turning back to Abra and the smol child. “It’s fan art,” she wasn’t bragging. (She was bragging.) “Most people aren’t popular enough to have paintings made of them.”

Because listen, here’s the thing. A part of her loved this. Loved the attention. Loved the fact that everyone was still talking about her. Loved the fact that she was the center of attention in this given situation. Loved the fact that people envied her so much that they went out of their way to paint a portrait of her. Bad press was still press. And despite the fact that her scream had been a genuine reaction in horror, anger, and absolute embarrassment—really, she liked that attention too. All it took was a first year, apparently.

TAKE THAT AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR FAT BUM, ANNA!

And…

2. The Headmaster.
“What Abra said,” she confirmed. Had he just come back from a jog this early in the morning? Good on him, keeping in shape and all that. He was old, old people needed to exercise more, otherwise they’d all end up looking like Professor Dopple.

But yes, anyways. What Abra said with the addition that Anna was being obnoxious and annoying, but what else was new? “But… I don’t think I hate it that much anymore, sir. So it can stay.” Because obviously she got to call the shots on this sort of thing. Y’know, authority and all that jazz.

Yes, you read that absolutely right. Zoryn's demeanor did an absolute 180 in the matter of a few short minutes. Just another day in the life of a real-life drama queen. She'd be here all week.

Hey Ju · 01-30-2019, 11:10 PM

The looooooooks! Those LOOKS weren't exactly helping Anna with her laughing. Zoryn looked like she could spit fire and that was too funny. Nearly as good as tryouts, ahahaha.

Aaahh... Anna wiped a few more tears as they ran down her cheeks, taking a deep breath and looking away from the scene for a second so she could breathe. Merlin... HAHAHA!

Then one of the first years came out of their Common Room and complimented the painting. NYEHEHEHEHEE, aw, Merlin, this was too good...

But then that seemed to be exactly what Zoryn was looking for, as that literally made her go from fire-breathing monster to a calmer, big headed.... flobberworm, she supposed.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Her own inner joke made Anna - who had stopped laughing so loudly and was starting to recover by the time the Headmaster was catching his own breath - crack up all over again.

Never mind Zoryn seemed to be accepting the painting now - or trying to convince them she had. FAN ART, THOUGH, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Sweet Merlin, the older girl's way of processing information was VERY STRANGE. In an amusing way. Wow, what a WEIRDO. The strangeness almost sparked Anna's curiosity... if only she cared enough.

WHICH she didn't. This Captain was, in fact, too busy finding this whole thing TOO amusing still.

Especially Zoryn's wave of fake appreciation for the 'fan art' - LOL - all of a sudden. Wowzer. Kind of sad, really. But more funny than sad, she had to admit.

HAHA!

Tazzie · 01-31-2019, 12:34 AM

Fan art? OoooOoohhhHH. And now the older student - whose head was most definitely the subject of the flobberworm portrait - appeared WAY cooler ~~maybe even cooler than the Gryffindor Prefect and Captain~~ to the eyes of the eleven year old . "REALLY?! You're famous here?" Positively beaming, Harri let her arm, that had been pointing all along, fall to her side and bounced a little on the balls of her feet because she FINALLY found the cool people! Harri wondered what the older girl had done that she ended up being recognizedby that kind of portrait. Did she fight for the rights of flobberworms? Whatever rights they may have?

Before she could ask though, the Headmaster skidded in the midst of their group, and a little TOO out of breath that Harri had a half-second about if any of the older students were equipped to do that chest compression thing on him if he ever dropped to the ground. But then he was talking, or more like wheezing out words so she supposed he was okay. Hullo, Headmaster!"

What's happening here? Well...

"Mhm," She nodded along to what Prefect Abra said which was seconded by the older cooler Gryffindor girl. Did she have anything else to add? Hmm, let's see. "I think she," pointing at the older cooler Gryffindor girl again, "is being acknowledged, sir. As the, errr...mother of flobberworms?" That sounded like an appropriately very cool title to her!

Also, was the Gryffindor Captain okay? She was laughing all by herself. Should someone get a Healer for her?

Lissy Longbottom · 01-31-2019, 01:00 AM

There was a very loud commotion going on by the Fat Lady's Portrait. Normally Nettie would keep her nose down and mind her own business ~~lol jk who was she kidding~~, since she was headed to her own common room entrance, but how could she possibly THINK enough to solve the riddle to the Ravenclaw common room when there was so much yelling?

So, curiosity got the better of her and she headed towards the Gryffindor common room entrance. As she got there, she saw a small crowd had already formed - the Gryffindors, obviously, and the Headmaster. No one else from the other houses were around, so it was clearly a Lion issue. That didn't mean she wasn't going to be nosy, though.

"What's going - " she began, until she saw...it. At first, she was horrified. What in the name of Merlin...and then she realized...OH MY GOSH. It was that ZORYN girl. To be quite honest, Nettie had never forgotten the time she tried to sell her a fake pool pass her first year, so the fact that she was being made fun of like this...well, she had to laugh. She bit her lip to try and stop herself from giggling but...she couldn't help it. A few chuckles escaped.

"So, is this were all the brushes in the art room went? Towards making...this?" she asked with a small grin. She probably shouldn't insert herself in to this but..."If it helps, no one has vandalized the Ravenclaw common room like this," she added. Being TOTALLY helpful there, because their common room was just down the hall and if they thought someone was out to get all the entrances, it clearly wasn't the case.

DaniDiNardo · 01-31-2019, 02:03 AM

He needed a moment.

He took the moment.

Okay, all good. Ready to Headmaster the situation as much as was needed even as he stepped by the first year who’d been pointing and Meriwether who he offered a hand to help her get off the floor. Was she okay? Perhaps he wasn’t the only one in need of a moment here. As he observed the painting, he nodded along to Botros’s words. They’d all come and found it like this.

Know what? The way that screamed sounded, he’d believe it. Spinnet must have been out of her mind entirely—a fact well confirmed when she so graciously let him know it could stay up on the wall. Definitely out of her mind. Sounded pretty typical to him.

“Right...” Malachi said, distracted as he reached his free hand over to tug at it. No kidding, this sucker was on tight. “That’s not happening. Let’s just clear that part up. Botros, you can go ahead with the unsticking. We’ll have this bad boy vanished then head down for breakfast.”

The Headmaster stepped to the side allowing the Prefect room to work while he turned with a very patient look toward Ainsworth. “I assure you, despite your optimism, that this portrait was not a compliment and Spinnet has never mothered a thing in her short, overly dramatic life.” There was no malice in his tone as he spoke, in fact it was so casual he may as well had been discussing the colour of his socks. Spinnet was dramatic and he dared any of them to tell him otherwise.

Then Gladin appeared. Malachi straightened some. “What missing brushes from the art room?” No one had mentioned it to him. “Is that all that’s missing?—I’m missing a box, while we’re at it. I don’t suppose it grew legs and walked but on the off chance it did, I’d appreciate you all being on the look out. It’s small, well stocked with what I imagine to be many treats from my wife and whoever finds it may have one thing from it.” The sacrifice he was willing to make. Come to think of it, a book he’d left sitting out in the prior week was also missing but...Er....he’d find that one himself. No need to bother them there. Ahem. Yes. The painting. Right. Removing. Breakfast. Jolly good.

Felixir · 02-01-2019, 02:42 AM

Wait. What?

Abra stared at Zoryn like she'd just sprouted an extra head. It was fan art? She wanted it to stay? He looked between her and Harri, trying decide if she was just putting on some kind of front, pretend that she liked the portrait to save face in front of the first year, but she seemed... genuine.

So, ultimately, she'd just blasted Abra's ear drums for absolutely no reason at all.

And also, was Anna okay? She was starting to sound like she was dealing with an over-exuberant cheering charm that wasn't wearing off; Abra glanced uncertainly around at everyone, before looking back at the portrait once more. Was it really that funny?

Huh? Oh. Abra looked back at Headmaster Trent again, and quickly nodded. "Right, okay," he said, and stepped a little closer to the portrait, decidedly not looking at the real Zoryn, given the betrayal that was about to take place.

As Trent spoke to the others behind him, including another newcomer, a young Ravenclaw girl, Abra got to work with unsticking the portrait. "Avexis," he said confidently, tapping the picture frame. He half expected it to fall down, so when it didn't, he tried again to physically take it down from the wall.

...... Uhhhhhhhh.

"Huh?" What? Had he for real just messed up one of the most basic spells, right in front of the Headmaster? He tried again, once more, with feeling. "Avexis." A tap. A tug. No budge.

Well. Well. This was... huh. That was definitely the Unsticking Charm, so, if that wasn't working, this was probably put up with... the Permanent Sticking Charm. And Abra didn't know the counter-charm to that; in fact, he didn't even think there was one.

"Uhh... sir?" Abra said, turning to look back at the headmaster, his tone sort of apologetic given he was butting into a conversation about missing items. "It's... not moving. I think it's, you know, stuck stuck." Like, permanently stuck stuck.

ArianaBlack · 02-02-2019, 12:22 PM

Okay, could someone please remove Anna? She was a pest. Zor made a point to ignore her. Instead, focusing her attention on the Headmaster, Abra, and child.

“Absolutely,” the Gryffindor checked her nails, suuuuuuper nonchalant. What? Fame didn’t just happen to anyone. It was truly a privilege. And Zoryn was now basking in, thank you very much. Until the Headmaster had to come over and do his whole thing. So…. The portrait wasn’t staying. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. The Gryffindor frowned, but didn’t protest. While she had made a point to say she’d want it left up… She didn’t actually want that at all. She just wanted the people here to THINK she wanted that. DUH. Because in the end, nothing could phase Zoryn Amari Spinnet. Ok? Get it? Got it? GOOD. (((((But also, if the whole school saw this, her reputation would be ruined. Fanart or not.)))))

……… “Hey!” Short, overly dramatic life???? (fair) (but also, HEY!!!!!!!!!) Did he KNOW who he was talking to?

Everyone needed to shut up yesterday because they all just kept giving Anna things to laugh about and all of this was starting to make Zoryn angry again.

Moreover, did Zoryn care about Trent’s missing box? No. Did she care about the missing paint brushes? No. Did she care about anything that this random Ravenclaw said? No.

What she did care about, however, was that this painting was stuck, stuck. “IT’S PERMANENT???” Hello yes, remember that part about pretending she liked it? Yeah. That was over now. “There’s a way to get it off, right?!?" Headmaster Trent best hope he had a solution to this because Zoryn was not a happy camper.

Hey Ju · 02-02-2019, 04:41 PM

Once the Headmaster approached and extended his hand to help her up, Anna knew she couldn't just ignore him. Still chuckling, but not laughing her head off anymore - she had common sense not to laugh right at the Headmaster's face, you know - the Gryffindor Captain took the man's hand and pulled herself up, choosing to stand just behind him to watch the rest of the scene.

Merlin, it was like she was watching one of those Muggle comedy sketches. HAHA!

Anna took it upon herself to be more discreet about her laughing ONLY because the Headmaster was there. She still didn't know him all that well - what if he was mental like Scrimgeour? - so she decided to be slightly more cautious. Which meant she was chuckling and suppressing louder laughs while standing there behind him.

Until he himself decided to join the comedy with the best line ever: '...this portrait was not a compliment and Spinnet has never mothered a thing in her short, overly dramatic life.'

That was it. Anna was proper gone again. And out loud, no less, right behind Headmaster Trent. So much so that she totally missed the Ravenclaw turning up and the discussion about missing things.

She DID, however, see Abra try - multiple times, mind you - to magically detach the painting from the wall, but... the thing remained there. And then Zoryn broke out of her faking appreciation for the 'fan art'.

Anna was trying - really, she was!!! - to not disrupt the scene too much with her laughing, and she stepped back a little as she covered her mouth and finally laughed more quietly. Oh, sweet Merlin, she wished she could film this.

Her abs were getting a proper workout that morning.

Sangeetha · 02-02-2019, 05:57 PM

Kaira had heard the scream from downstairs. She wondered what was possibly wrong. She decided to check it out. That is when she noticed a huge commotion in front of the Fat Lady's portrait. She approached the group of people and found the strangest sight - the Headmaster looking confused, a by trying a charm on a portrait. Wait, was that the portrait of a student? From the bewildered (and offended) look on the Gryffindor girl, she could totally tell that she had not intended for this to happen.

'Hello Headmaster,' she said, greeting Prof Trent. 'Wow..it's like a sphinx, but with flobberworm instead,' she observed. Oops, she had said that out loud. Oooh..sounded better in her head.

She looked at the Gryffindor captain laughing her head off. Was she affected by a cheering charm or something? 'Umm..Anna Meriweather, right? You good?,' she asked.

DaniDiNardo · 02-03-2019, 12:11 PM

There was absolutely nothing to stop the grin of satisfaction at Spinnet's protest. There was even an overly theatrical wink thrown at her. It was well worth riling her up for, the way she always took herself so seriously. No wonder Meriwether was having trouble composing herself. Luckily, the years had taught him more composure so he wouldn't be cackling away like the quidditch captain.

Nope.

He was calm.

Perhaps somewhat less so when Botros said it was stuck, but only just a little. "Oh for the love of Merlin." His frustration wasn't directed toward the boy, of course not. It, much like his gaze, were now on the portrait once more. Stuck? Proper stuck?

"Yeah...yeah there's a way." He assured when the calm facade finally slipped away from Zoryn. As he'd thought. It wasn't as flattering as she'd wanted the First Year to believe. Speaking of, another had wondered over. "We'll be leaving all the riddles to the Ravenclaws this time, Parker." It was a good reference to draw for, but he didn't think many of the Gryffindors WOULD appreciate the riddles were this really any form of sphinx.

To avoid a certain someone dying of a heart attack, he tapped the portrait with his wand and vanished it altogether. Hopefully no one had wanted it for a souvenir. Even if they did, couldn't afford to have it potentially circulating. He'd have told Botros to vanish it anyway.

"There. We can all head down to breakfast now. Problem solved. You will let me know if any of you ever find out who did this, yes?" Technically, only one and a half of them standing here was obligated to but a man could hope. "And my box!" Couldn't forget that bit.

ArianaBlack · 02-09-2019, 09:17 PM

………. She deadpanned.

Was HE mocking her now too???? WHAT WAS THIS WORLD AND WHY THE HECK WAS THIS HAPPENING TO HER????

She was furious.

And wanted nothing more than to punch Anna Meriwether into the next Quidditch season. She was absolutely getting on the seventh year’s last nerve. KSLDJFA;LDSJFA;LSDKFJ RAGE. The Gryffindor turned, very nearly interrupting Headmaster’s Trent’s remarks on riddles and Ravenclaws to address the man, “Can't you do something about that?” And by that she meant Anna. Something that could be inferred by the nod towards the ridiculous girl. Like, come on. SERIOUSLY??????? She was sounded like a hyena. They were TRYING to do something about this atrocity and she was only making things worse.

Zoryn shouldn’t have expected anything more from the girl. Once an idiot, always an idiot. No wonder she stunk up the Quidditch field, she really didn’t have a brain in her head after all. All air.

And before she knew it, the portrait had been vanished and all order had been restored to the world which she once ruled.

Thank Merlin.

The Gryffindor crossed her arms, still visibly angry, before turning back to the only adult present, aside from herself. Because clearly, Anna was a child. And everyone else who was there was irrelevant (sorry, Abra). “…… That’s it??? You’re not going to find the person who did it!?” WAIT A BLOODY MINUTE HERE. She had kind of polyjuiced into another student and got a MONTH of house arrest and someone went and defaced school property (and her good name) and just GOT AWAY WITH IT?????????????????????? "They deserve detention for the REST of the term!"

Zoryn wasn’t a snitch, but “ten galleons says it was Carden.” Though... Zoryn had made several enemies throughout her seven years so to find the culprit… It very well may have to be a literal witch hunt.

But also. If it wasn’t Anna… It had to be Maxton. Zoryn was sure of it.

Kind of. Not really. BUT STILL!

Sangeetha · 02-11-2019, 06:49 AM

Wow, this one SURELY was a drama queen. She should probably star in her own soap opera. She looked at the seventh year half-amused, half-exasperated as she kept screaming her head off at the headmaster. She raised an eyebrow as she continued to stare at the girl. Looks like this was the infamous Zoryn Spinnet that she had heard about.

Carden? Why did that name sound so familiar? Oh, he was the guy that a bunch of kids had polyjuiced into. Oh well, he definitely had the right to hate their guts.

Felixir · 02-15-2019, 12:05 AM

This wasn't good. Did anyone else get the feeling that this wasn't good? Abra was getting the feeling that this wasn't good. Especially when it turned out that Zoryn really was less than happy about the portrait as she'd been leading them to believe.

Merlin. Abra's head. It hurt.

Abra bit his lip, unhappy with his role of the bearer of bad news; it didn't seem like Trent was too happy with this turn of events, and though Abra could see why, he still felt his anxiety levels spike just a little but. And tHEN there was another Ravenclaw arriving too, which - as Zoryn had now let slip her true feelings about the portrait - couldn't end up in a positive result. Everyone was going to end up knowing about this by lunch time, maybe take trips up here to see it.

Or... not. In the blink of an eye - literally, Abra blinked, and there it went - the newest Hogwarts portrait had been Vanished, to wherever Vanished objects went. And that was that.

More or less.

"Yes, sir, of course," Abra replied truthfully to the Headmaster, though he didn't think he was likely to come across that sort of information, at least if the prankster had their wits about them.

Zoryn still seemed to want answers a little sooner, and Abra couldn't exactly blame her. He did think it was a good idea to try and get her to calm down, but he didn't exactly know any good ways to do that. So... best to just... try and guide her in the direction of breakfast.

"Zoryn, I think we should get going to-" Wait. Waaiiiiittttt. Wait wait wait wait wait. "Shoes!" ........ "Uh, I mean... I just need to go get... something. Okayberightback." And he scrambled back through the portrait hole to go retrieve his shoes, whispering the password to the Fat Lady in the process so that none of the Ravenclaws present could hear it for themselves.

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