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"Alright...sounds like a plan," Gideon said with a nod, going to work on more of the items directly in front of him using the spell. Frowning as one scorgify wasn't enough to a particularly nasty spoon, he was about to add another but instead looked up as Kurumi asked for his assistance.
"Certainly m'lady," he said taking the knife from her and handing her the spoon in exchange. The fourth year nodding politely at the other girl and boy who came up to talk to Kurumi, but remaining silent as at least the girl seemed willing to help. The boy seemed a bit clueless.
"Scorgify!" he cast on the knife this time it came out better so the boy placed it back on the table near his companion. Maybe now the other Gryffindor boy would understand what Kurumi meant by the word. "Guess some might need both or a double dose."
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sweetpinkpixie
Nodding to the second year as she set to helping, Kurumi's attention was back on the boy. "Nice to meet you too, August," she nodded. She had the urge to ask him if he had been born in the month of August, but Kurumi wasn't sure she wanted to know if there was another reason for it. Maybe get into the too much information zone?
Kurumi found herself blinking. Professor Scourgify? Well, she didn't know everyone at the staff table, so she supposed that it WAS possible to share a name with the Cleaning Spell. Hopefully, if that was the case, it wasn't an ironic one and they were a complete slob. "Not...exactly," Kurumi giggled. "Scourify is a spell. It cleans things, but itsn't too good against liquids. There is another spell for that." But this probably wasn't making much sense to him. "You...aren't too familiar with magic, are you?" That much was obvious, and it was adorable. "Don't worry, I didn't know anything when I came."
She picked up a plate with...erm...something on it.
"Want to give it a try? The plate can't get any worse than it already is." In fact, even if it broke in half that would be an improvement.
Then her attention turned to Gideon as he cast the spell to clean the eating utensil in her hand. Her cheeks flushed. M'lady? Kurumi's cheeks burned a bit brighter repeating the word in her head.
"Y-Y-Yeah..." she said, looking back at the state of the Gryffindor table. At least they were making a small dent in the disaster, right?
A boy about his age joined him and Kurumi as she helped him look for Professor Scorgify, who it seemed knew how to get these dishes cleaned like they should. But then the boy pointed his wand at one of the plates and it was cleaned after he said the spell.
"Oh. That's embarrassing." August said looking at the older Gryffindor girl who had then decided to help teach him the spell. "So I just point my wand at the plate and say the spell?" he pulled out his wand a bit awkwardly and then pointed it mumbling the spell and he watched as the dirt and grime was wiped clean off the surface. "Wow that's neat!" he said grinning brightly. August had just performed his first bit of intentional magic! When she said she hadn't known much when she got their either he grinned even bigger, she seemed to know alot now.
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BanaBatGirl
The closer she got to the Gryffindor table, the less she saw of Paulie. Or what she had thought she had seen of him. Frowning as she lost sight of her Lemonade Knight completely, Tori dropped onto the nearest open bench with a sigh.
"So the silverware's dirty over here too, huh," she sniffled a little, picking up a fork and dropping it back onto the table with a clatter. "Laaaaaaaaaame."
August had barely finished cleaning the plate that Kurumi was holding for him to try the spell on when another girl showed up at their table. She wasn't a Gryffindor but a Slytheirn, just like Sierra from Flourish and Blotts. Maybe she knew her!
"Yeah the silverware is dirty all over the palce, apparently. But you can use this plate that I just cleaned if you like." Yeah wanted to be nice, she wasn't bad looking to say the least.
"I'm August Goldstein, Gryffindor third year." Quote:
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Quirly
Scampering over to the Gryffindor Table in a flurry of little elfy hands and feet Quirly jumped onto the table and began collecting all the DIRTY DIRTY things!!!
"Sowwy soooooooo SOWWWY!" she squeaked and squealed as she made her way along the table. Her little arms carrying the burden of all the silvers.
"Quirly had beeen BAD BAD BAD!"
She hit herself in the head with a plate and began to eye off a fork.
Quirly would punish herself LOTS for this mess and dirtyness!!!
Lucky elf magic was pretty fast, though she should have done things right the first time. Levitating all the DIRTY stuffs in the air she made them disappear.
A single second later they reappeared, dropping from the air... almost like magic teehee... and falling into place on the tables shiny and silvery and CLEAN!!!
Quirly bowed to the studentsies.
"Quirly's sowwy for the dirty," she said nodding.
She then took a particularly shiny goblet and *THWAK*
"Quirly will be punished," she reassured them.
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Tori nodded seriously. "It's true! Don't you read the Daily Prophet?" Not that she did, but presumably they would be doing a story on this dirty dishes catastrophe. SURELY.
"Did you?" she called back, raising one eyebrow curiously. Heh. She was perfect for her House, what could she say? "Why did you call it, hmm? Think I'm not brave enough or smart enough or... whatever a Hufflepuff is -- for the other Houses?"
Careful with your words now, Knighty! Heheh. "Well.... that COULD have been part of it...." Tori started twirling one lock of red hair around her index finger. "How are you liking Hogwarts so far?
Other than... sitting next to weird girls with an apparent fear of birds... hmmph. Tori would have preferred Paulie was sitting next to HER, not... that girl....
Her thoughts were quickly distracted by the sudden unmistakeable POP! of a House Elf.
"Well about time!" Tori admonished the poor thing, clucking as Quirly started beating herself up. AS SHE SHOULD, RIGHTFULLY SO. The elves were in BIG TROUBLE in Tori's book, so she didn't say a word about the elf's self-destruction. "What's the hold up? Did you have to cross the picket line to get here?!"
For of course elves on strike would be picketing!
Suddenly all Hell broke lose.
O____O
He leaned over to the new girl who arrived and whispered to her as he stared at the creature that was walking all over the table and picking up the dirty things.
"Is that a House Elf?" Why was it freaking out so much, who was it talking to? WHAT. WAS. IT. DOING?!
"Oh my gosh it's hurting itself!" August began to look around in order to find someone to help this....creature and then noticed the Slytherin girl laughing and then ordering the Elf around. She was a maniac!!
"Hey! That's not very nice. She's not your maid!" he said angrily. August was never raised to talk to anything that way.
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To see house elves you needed to know where to look, because you didn't see them around the castle often they were usually in their kitchen. Not all students knew about the kitchens but luckily Ness did.
"I can maybe take you to the kitchens one day." She said realizing he may not understand why she would take him to the kitchen.
"Its where the elves usually are." She remembered the first time she had been to the kitchens, it was quite an experience.
And of course she was right he was a Griffindor indeed.
"Well Griffindors are usually the brave ones." That was probably the most she knew about Griffindors. She wasn't one herself and so she didn't know too much about them as for Huffies she knew a lot more.
She nodded. She was a true Hufflepuff.
"Sierra?..I don't think I've met her before " she tried to think of anyone she knew that was named Sierra although no one came to her mind.
"Yeah maybe I suppose you could be Huffie". Hmmm... August a Hufflepuff he could be one. He was friendly and kind but she didn't know him well enough to decide if he could be a true Huffie. The sorting hat was. always right though so he was obviously better as a Griffie.
Scourgify? A Professor? Nessie burst into laughter. She didn't blame him though Scourgify could possibly be a professor's name. She imagined herself in class being taught by a professor called Scourgify. She found funny and she must have looked like a wierdo laughing crazily.
"Sorry" she apologised to August for laughing. She turned to face Kurumi.
"I can't believe I didn't think of Scourgify"Her brain didn't function very well when she was hungry and it was probably why she didn't think of using magic. She still felt stupid because she had been walking around the great hall looking for clean things to use when she could have just used her wand and cleaned them herself.
Out of nowhere something appeared at the Griffindor table. Nessie jumped out of fright but calmed down when she saw it was only a house elf. She smiled happy that the house elves were finally get everything organized. She was hungry and wanted to eat something now. She watched the house elf grinning.
"See there's a house elf" she told August getting a little over excited. She stopped smiling when she noticed the elf punishing itself. Why did elves always do that? She never understood it. She hesitated. She wanted to help the elf but she was a little scared to encase the elf would couse itself more harm.
"Oh that would be great I would love to go see one!" Ausgust said nodding at Nessie as she agreed to possibly take him to the kitchens to see them one day. No doubt they would have nice food to eat down there too.
Then she too was laughing at his small mistake of thinking a spell was the surname of a professor. It was an honest mistake afterall, he was a muggleborn.
"Hey that's not funny." he said chuckling a bit himself and laughing with his new friend. He watched as she too began to prepare herself to do the cleaning spell when then a house elf showed up.
He didn't want to see them anymore. Simple as that, they scared him.
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[INSERT QUIRLY'S APPEARANCE HERE!]'
Kurumi's jaw dropped when she saw one of the kitchen's house elves appear at the Gryffindor table. She thought perhaps she had seen this elf before, but they were not one of the ones she baked with. Probably had better things to do than to appease her and her cookie bug.
In the next moment, Kurumi had gasped, dropping her plate which...didn't shatter?
Looking down, and expecting it to be in bits and pieces on the floor around her, she was surprised to see that nothing was there. The house elf much have banished it just in the nick of time. In fact, the dirty dishes had been removed from the table - minus the ones that her and Gideon had already cleaned - and were now replaced with clean ones.
And wizards thought that they were above house elves when it came to magic. Sometimes, Kurumi really thought that witches and wizards had a serious superiority complex.
And then...the house elf was beating itself...AND POKING ITSELF IN THE EYE?!
Kurumi gasped again and began to flail before, things became a bit hazzy...
*THUD*
And Kurumi had mildly fainted from the shock of the elf trying to, quite literally, gouge its eye out with a fork. August was frozen in shock, mostly fear, as the House Elf began to beat itself with the goblets but he nearly lost all sense of consciousness when it POKED ITSELF IN THE EYE! This was horrible, he wanted to go home!
Then a bang behind him brought his attention away from the sad scene infront of him and he saw his newly aquatined friend, Kurumi was down, having passed out.
"Oh my god! Kurumi are you ok?" he said dropping his his knees and picking her head off the floor and holding it in his hand and fanning her with his other.
August looked around awkwardly to see if anyone else seemed to have noticed the fainting girl, she
was small, and then asked for help.
"Ummm anyone who can help her?"