Originally Posted by emjay

Once he had gotten the blue muggle vacuum that he had used in class from Flamsteed's office, Ethan headed towards the sixth floor. He remembered how dirty and dusty the corridor had looked when he had Transfiguration class, so he figured this would be the perfect place to start on his homework. Which he thought was a bit shady now that he had thought about it..

Sure, he got the correlation between black holes and muggle vacuum cleaners.. he learned that well enough to his own satisfaction in class. But this seemed to be some tricky way to get the students to clean and hide it under the guise of homework. If that was the case, he'd rather just use some cleaning spells and just get it over with faster.. seemed like a lot of unnecessary work. But whatever.. it was the assignment and he'd do it.

Glancing up at one of the portraits that lined the corridor, Ethan noticed it was covered in cobwebs and a thin layer of dust. He knew that Laura was meant to meet him here since she still had her own "homework" to finish.. which would be nice to have some company to pass the time .. but might as well get started now, right? Tapping his wand to the hose, he commanded, "Vacavus." Once he could feel the suction going through the vacuum, he lifted the hose to the portrait, pulling it along its width and collecting the dirt off of it.