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She turned her attention from the portrait and felt instantly relieved when she saw that it was the nice librarian who had gotten the slap of the century. Yeah...he was never gonna live that down as far as she was concerned... "I don't think anyone got hurt...--but my Chocolate frogs are still inside." She added the last part as an afterthought. It was best to let him know too. The more persons working on a solution increased the chance for success.
"And I don't think The Fat Lady had anything to do it with...it was more like some kind of invisible presence...kinda like a ghost, that hauled us out and dumped us here." Though she wasn't completely buying the story that the portrait had been sleeping the whole time. Come on, who could sleep through all that and a bunch of puzzled lions??
"Good." Leo stated with a small sigh. It would have been much worse if some of the lions had been injured in the eviction from the common room. Luckily that was not the case. Locked in candy however were the least of their problems.
"Hmm, invisble force or even a ghost hauled you all out here. Odd very odd. I doubt though that the ghosts living in the castle are sinister enough to do this to all the houses at once." Leo thought out loud.
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Mell Four months he had been here and besides his little stint in bringing the twelve Christmas trees into the Great Hall, this was the first time that Seb had set foot into the castle since the opening feast. And it was the invitation he had received during that feast, for the reason why he was here on the seventh floor.
He rubbed the back of his neck as he stood at the top of the stairs and looked in the direction of the Divination Tower. Calista seemed like a nice young woman and he was berating himself for taking so long to take up her offer. But he had been rather busy and for some reason just a little nervous as well to come here. He had no idea why though.
As he walked down the corridor however, the sight of quite a lot of Gryffindors hanging around in front of the Fat Lady's portrait, caused him to raise an eyebrow. Why would they be out in the corridor? Seb gave a quick glance in the direction of the Divination tower once again before sighing deeply and heading over to where the students and Leo by the looks of it were milling around.
"Is there a problem here?"
Leo was inspecting the area around the Fat Lady's portrait feeling like a detective when the Groundskeeper came up to them and asked what was going on. It was slightly odd to find the groundskeeper here in the towers but Leo was glad for the extra adult presence. It might help keep the lions calm.
"Evening Seb. It seems like all the four houses including the lions have been evicted from their common rooms by some type of super natural force. I ran into a few badgers and Professor Magnus earlier who also had been evicted." Leo explained to bring the man up to speed.
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Mell Well...that certainly was a problem.
Seb had seen some unusual things happen at Hogwarts but he had never known the common rooms not allowing access, let alone throwing the students out. He frowned, not something he did very often if ever, and was just about to ask Leo what he thought when Kurumi sidled up to him and he raised his eyebrows at her question.
"I hope not." he answered honestly. "I did check the gates before coming up here and everything seemed in perfect working order." Unless the enchantments had broken in the time it had taken him to walk up to the castle.
Over hearing Seb's conversation with the Gryffindor prefect he shared what he had discovered earlier with them.
"This is probably totally unrelated to why the common rooms are now locked, but my most expensive fishing pole have been stolen from my office. I noticed it earlier today after I got back from lunch." Pulling out the reel from his robe pocket he held it up.
"This is the only thing that remains of my fishing pole."