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grangerfan8 
"Maybe I know you well enough that a greeting's not needed," She slide her glasses back on her face and drew her wand, watching Beezus for a moment. "I'm not mad anymore." Dora had too many other things on her mind to stay mad at the other girl. She was also trying to get stuff off her mind, and feelings like irritation did her no good to keep around.
Nodding her head, she leaned forward and concentrated on both her gargoyles. After a moment, she waved her wand. "Piertotum Locomotor." The gargoyle instantly sprung to life and Dora stared thoughtfully. "Stand up, and fold those wings." They weren't needed. The gargoyle did as told and seemed to her to be watching for more commands.
"I don't know yet. Maybe his own type of dance." She mused, still watching her gargoyle.
Lack of greeting because you knew someone well enough? Well....Dora had quite a point. Friendships spoke in different mediums. But still, it was always good to have a set of pleasant greets for people, friend or not. She wasn't going to push that matter in though, it was relief enough that Dora wasn't mad at her anymore.
Beezus only shrugged and returned her attention to her gargoyle which stood stationary on its hind legs on the table. What dance did gargoyles do, huh? "
Do you supposed we can just tell it to dance and see for ourselves what kind of moves they perform? She didn't wait for the younger girl to reply though for the Prefect had her wand aimed at her stoned toy again as she said, "
Piertotum Locomotor!"
Not wasting any time, she tagged on, "
Okay....dance."
Hello, stone guy. Dance? Never heard of that word before? The gargoyle stayed on its spot, unmoving. It didn't seem to understand what her command was so she decided to boss it again, thinking that it had probably just gone a tad deaf. "
I said....dance." Still....no motion whatsoever. "
I think it's one of the restrictions Professor Bellaire had mentioned. The gargoyle can't dance because there are a variety of dances and it needs the steps before it can combine those to perform a dance. But if we tell it to flap it's arms or wings....that can be considered a dance, no? A chicken dance." Yeah. She could try that......but not after she'd just went and sneezed hard.
Nigel and his vacuum. Geez.
Sneeze. Sneeze.