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Originally Posted by
Zoerawrr 
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Jake was confused. He looked at his desk... REALLY looked at it... lay his head against it and closed one eye to look down it... even got off his chair to lay down on the floor and look underneath it. Once he'd inspected the legs and even the CHAIR, he got back up and sat down again, looking over at Jimmy (who he didn't know) and Neptune (who he DEFINITELY knew) and chipped in, face totally deadpan, voice serious.
"I think you two have defective desks."
"Nothing wrong with my bloody desk!" Jimmy answered in obvious irritation, though it wasn't directed at the Hufflepuff.
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Originally Posted by
Mad Eye Touz
"And I dare you to come over here and try, James Sacheverell Wilkes, to add a rune to my desk." That was NOT over the top, thank you very much, " You have you OWN desk to worry about so worry about it. And WHILE you're at it, go ahead and add Ansuz to your desk."
Neptune's face crumpled, all her features, her posture. She didn't want to lose, or give up, or show that she... wanted to .. figure the desk out...
It just didn't work that way. Desks were dumb.
"For your communication and signals and lack of wise decisions. "
She threw a hand up... to cover that whole bit.
SIGH. No kidding. "And we haven't even started carving yet..."
"Yeah. Your desk? I've carved that up before."
Shrug. Sulk. Smirk-that-was-instantly-wiped-away.
His hand went up too, slowly.
"Professor... may I be excused?"
Yeah. You win, Neptune Bott.