Originally Posted by Nordic Witch

Following Sarah to the book shelves Mr Kitridge did his best not to create pictures in his head of the torn pages since they would undoubtedly become more imaginairy the more he thought of it. It was silly to do that before he had all the facts.

Coming onto the scene with the books and its torn out pages lying on the floor like lost puppies Mr Kitridge stopped dead in his tracks. Eyes widening almost to the point of coming out of their eye sockets he pointed to the torn books with a visibly shaking hand. "Who did THIS? Who is responsible for this horrific act against the libraries precious books?" Letting his eyes travel over the students, Mr Kitridge's eyes stopped on the Gryffindor prefect. "Mr Gert, what has happened here? Do you know who did this?" he asked in a voice trembling with emotion.

Going over to the damaged books Leobald kneeled down on the floor and carefully picked up the precious book pages in his hands with warmth showing in his eyes and even a few tears. "Don't worry, little ones. I shall fix this. You will be back where you belong in no time. I just need to patch you up and you'll be good as new, good as new." He mumbled reassuringly to the pages. Rising to his feet Leo looked over at Sarah, Vickers and Laura. "Do you know if these are the only damaged books? Have you checked the rest of the library?"

Sheltering the torn out pages against his chest, Mr Kitridge just stood inpassive.

Mr Kitridge's worst nightmare was now fact.

Originally Posted by Nordic Witch

Mr Kitridge stood in a daze and just stared in front of him at the torn books on the floor. Who could do such malice? Who could not like books? This was all hard to grasp. Could the culprit still be in the library? Hearing but not really hearing the footsteps Mr Kitridge at first just stood and looked blankly at the boy as he spoke. Shaking his head some of the dazeness left him and Leobald fixed his gaze on the Hufflepuff standing next to him.

"Edmund….." Pause. "Can you pick up the books from off the floor carefully and bring them to that table?! he gestured towards a round table close by.



Still sheltering the torn pages against his chest Mr Kitridge licked his lips. “All right, you did right by guarding the books until I got here." Gideon was a prefect you could count on to keep his head leveled in a crisis. This was the second time Leo saw proof of that. He should tell Seren that he vividly tried to make a mental note off in his shocked brain.

Holding out the torn out pages to look at them he showed them to the prefect as much as the other students. "Why have the one(s) responsible torn out pages about maladies?" As a thought struck him he couldn’t help but start shaking so hard that the pages fell out of his hands. Opening and closing his mouth he tried to stop shaking. Don’t jump to conclusions. Cece could be fine. There is no need to worry her just yet and if he did and it was false alarm she wouldn’t be very pleased with him.

Trying to focus he looked over at Gideon and said quietly. "Please gather up all the pages and bring them along to the round table where Edmund is going." Leobald asked the prefect still shaking slightly and with widened eyes.



Turning his attention to the two girls and Vickers he said "I know I’m asking a lot of you three but can you please go and see if there are any other damaged books? I’d go myself but I need to repair the books." Studying their young faces he added "Keep your wands at the ready and if you see anything suspicious at all promise you won’t act on your own accord but come straight back and fetch me?" He’d probably collapse if a student got injured in this terrible mess to.

He counted on Vickers to watch over Sarah and Laura and to keep them out of danger. Hopefully whoever had torn up his books was long gone and if he wasn’t Leobald was definitely going to let him/them hear and taste his wrath.