Originally Posted by The1HBIC

Cece heard that the groundskeeper was bringing in Christmas trees to be decorated so naturally she made her way to the Great Hall to watch the festivities. She wasn't really feeling up to doing the decorating but that wasn't going to stop her from watching.

Walking into the Great Hall she looked around to admired all the trees but something else caught her eye...



Well lack of something else that is.

Scanning the very empty room that right now only housed twelve trees and some students, Cece made her way towards the groundskeeper passing Professor Kitridge on her way. "Really Leo, you guys moved out the tables just to bring in some trees?"

Not bothering to stop she continued walking until she got to the groundskeeper. "Mr. Gibbins, you do know it's customary to leave the tables in the Great Hall when the trees are brought in right?"

That's right, she was blaming this on both men. They were after all the only adults in the room before she came in.

Originally Posted by ♦ Peeves ♦

Snickering quietly to himself, Peeves moved through the throng of students in invisible mode making sure that he bumped into each and everyone of them. Until he came upon a Ravenclaw on her own and he picked up a long strand of tinsel and began to wrap it around the girl.

"LOOK! I MADE A MAYPOLE!" The poltergeist giggled, but not in a nice way as he made himself visible. "FEEL LIKE GOING FOR A SPIN LITTLE GIRL?"

Originally Posted by MyPatronusIsaMoose

"Come on Elliot!" Oakey shouted back to the Tea serving Ravenclaw girl."I'll calm down when Christmas has passed." get some Holiday spirit Elliot.

Oakey waved back to Mr.Gibbins as he told him he would need to us a levitation charm to get he stars on top. "I can handle those with ease." He gloated, it's not like he was attempting to levitate Mordy like tried last year in Charms class. It was a small decorative star, how hard could that be to place at the top. Placing the star into one hand he removed his wand from his holster and cast "Wingardium Leviosa".

The star began to float up into the air as Oakey slowly lifted his wand up. He walked it over to the nearest tree which also happened to be next to the She-Snake, Sierra Griengoth. He payed her no mind as he moved his wand up further and the star began to climb to the top of the tree. He abruptly stopped when Sierra asked where all the tables had gone. He looked around curiously as he had not really taken notice of the missing tables. The tree's were top priority to him at the time. "They were probably just moved." Oakey said to her focusing his attention back to the star and tree. "I bet they'll all be back in once we finish."
He was just about at the top when he felt a quick shove. It broke his concentration and the star came plummeting back down towards him. He reached his arms out and caught the decorative star just before it hit the ground, and swung around to Sierra angrily. He was about to speak his mind to the cruel Slytherin prefect for pushing him, when he saw from the corner of his eyes Peeves playing around with one of the other students.
He turned back around hastily and removed his glare from Sierra.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

"Ok Professor," Kat said and nodded. "I'll go start decorating those trees."

Kat looked around to see if she saw any familiar faces to hang out with. I mean, there were also some unfamiliar faces. At least she can make friends. Now... ok.

Where to start?

Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay

Okay, there was something different, wasn't there?

Isabelle stood in the doorway of the Great Hall with her hands on her hips, half watching the melee Peeves was causing over by the trees and half trying to work out what was different. Ahhhh. The tables. Strange. They weren't usually moved when the trees were being decorated, especially as the kids had to eat at this time of the day as well.

With Kurumi dealing with the aftereffects of the poltergeists mischief, Issy merely glared in his direction and shook her head. "Peeves, just for once can't you behave yourself?" she said, moving over to the area where the current decorating was going on. Where Leo, Cece, Seb and a few others were gathered.

"Have I missed all the good bits?" Issy asked, looking up at the impressive display already taking shape. "I must say removing the tables first is a new way of doing it. Did you need more room?" Because it was looking a little empty, even with all these trees around.

Originally Posted by Nordic Witch

"Finite!" Mr Kitridge murmured before he turned to face Miss Wheatborn who looked distraught for some reason. Registering what she was actually saying the librarian scanned the hall. Yes the tables were actually gone. Odd of course, but in a sense convenient since it gave them more room for decorating the twelve trees and the hall too if the student’s were willing.

Exchanging a worried look with Sebastian out of sight from the student’s Leobald said to Minerva. "I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation for the missing tables dear. Maybe the house elves or a professor even wanted to be helpful and moved the tables having seen the groundskeeper moving the trees towards the castle from a window." It sounded logical and most probable in his ears.

Shifting his gaze towards Sebastian Leo grinned "Of course Seb, feel free to call me Leo just like everyone else does around here on staff." Raising his wand again, he finished going around the grand tree with the Christmas lights before answering the groundskeeper’s question. "This will be my second term at the school as librarian. The work is more rewarding then I thought it would be."



The events that occurred next happened so fast that the librarian didn’t have time to do more than blink before Peeves had showed up and caused as usual TROUBLE. Freezing or rather not reacting as fast as the student’s standing around the girl who was the victim of the foulness Leobald let the Gryffindor prefect and what looked like a boyfriend rescue the girl from the tinsel before moving into action.

Pointing his wand at the Poltergeist Mr Kitridge demanded in a stern tone. "PEEVES leave the hall and its student’s alone right NOW or I’ll send for the BARON and the headmistress and neither of them will be pleased by your latest stunt. I already heard that the Baron was in an awful mood this morning do you really want to be reason why he has another one of his famous meltdowns? You only get ONE warning Peeves!" Nodding towards the exit Leobald fully expected the poltergeist to leave or he’d make sure his threat became fact. Even he had his limits.



Turning his back on the poltergeist certain that his threat would be enough to make the poltergeist leave Leobald softened his tone and features as more students showed up interested in helping out with the tree decorating. "Miss Dixon and Mr Muir you are most welcome to help me out with putting up all the Christmas spheres and other tree decorations. I’m almost done with the lights on this tree." He explained and offered with a gesture towards the grand tree in front of him. The big box of decorations was hard to miss at his feet too.



Trying to get the Christmas feel and calm into his frame of mind turned out to be fruitless when he heard the unmistakable voice of Cece accusing him and Sebastian for being the reason why the Great Hall was currently table less. Fixing her gaze Leo protested arms flailing. "I did NO such thing, but I’m the first to admit that it’s mighty convenient with all the decorating. It would be hard to maneuver around with 5 tables wouldn’t you agree?" He left it to Sebastian to fend himself from the accusation which was false and everyone knew it.

As if Cecelia wasn’t enough Isabelle showed up right after not throwing any accusations around per say but she might as well have given the way she commented the lack of tables. "Don’t you like it, its very spacious and airy now with lots of room to move around as we decorate?"

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah had walked past to find a commotion going on... feeling wierd to just walk past and not help she offered to help.. even if she thought she had WAY better things to do. "Can help with something?" she asked. Her friends were helping anyway - so it will be fun and it may be a good way to learn more spells and get points...

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sierra blinked. "So you mean you have to share everything you have with all the other people who live there?" she asked. That...might not be such a bad thing after all, though. If you wanted something somebody else had, you could just go and take it, right?

...but the Groundskeeper had to see about the tables, and from what Sierra could tell, he hadn't had a clue they were going to be moved. So quickly, too! There had just been people eating on top of them. Sort of funny when you thought about it...

Originally Posted by Davvy_Wavvy

Professor Bellaire had heard that the very good looking new groundskeeper was doing Christmas tree decorations so of course she had left her office to see how all that was going and to hopefully run into the man to get a word in. But then she noticed that the man cleared out the entire Great Hall. Why did he removed the benches?

She wandered over to where Leo was yelling at the school poltergeist and shook her head.

"You do know that won't work with him don't you?"

She looked around at the others there and gave them all a curt nod.