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Emma Montmorency (#301199)
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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01  She had almost missed that Josephina had arrived ith all of her fussing over Airey's behavior and the way Medea was acting. She waved quickly to the Arithmancy Professor and called down, hoping that Airey's head would stay donw. "Evening Fina, congratulations on the House Cup for Hufflepuff." Josephina had been so busy moping and working on comprehending Airey's outburst and making sure he wasn't like dead and stuff, that she completely forgot about greeting her colleagues. She barely heard someone greet her and looked down the table to see where it came from. Oh. Calista. The woman was nice and all, even her subject was semi-fraudulent and lacking proof.
"Evening, Callie." Fina replied back, monotonously. Oh. The house cup. They won!? Staring for the first time at the Hall's decor, she admired it a moment before looking back at the blond. "Thank you. I'm proud with their behaviors this term." She was proud, even if she felt inadequate in some parts, at least one area of her life was good? SPOILER!!: the speech Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl Well this was it, she supposed. Time for the grand old speech. Annie's tummy felt queasy at the idea of talking, of addressing that empty seat beside her, but it could hardly be avoided now. People were getting hungry, Hufflepuffs were coming up to the table to try to talk to them, students were wanting to say their goodbyes...
She heaved a sigh and stood up. It would be better to just get it over with. She cleared her throat and waited for silence, then amplified her voice and began in a very somber and serious tone.
"Good evening, everyone, welcome to the end of term feast. As you all doubtless know by now, we lost a very important staff member last week. Our Groundskeeper, Mr. Alistaire Firth," she nearly choked on his name but tried to hold on to her resolve to be strong, "was attacked by dementors whilst defending his fellow staff members. This tragedy is completely unexpected and I accept full blame for Mr. Firth's current condition. I am so sorry that our Class of 2081 had to have such a stain on their year, and so close to their graduation as well." She gave a few of the tables sad looks.
"But the year does not have to end on an entirely bad note. Mr. Firth was a cheerful man, beloved by many throughout the school, and always working to improve the grounds and the educational environment of you all." She gestured toward the student tables in what was hopefully a cheerful manner? They had all thought he was handsome cheerful too, no? "Next school year, I am pleased to announce that we will be removing the hefty turnstile fees in the Great Hall and all four common rooms, and will be reducing fees and improving fundraising measures elsewhere in the school. We will also be working closely with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to get back our funds and to investigate the source of these dementors plaguing our school!" Damn straight! Here here! The redhead banged her hand on the table a few times to make her point.
"Now then, let's move onwards and upwards from here and enjoy the feast. Make sure you all congratulate Hufflepuff House on their..." how many was it now? "House Cup victory, Slytherin House on their Quidditch Cup trophy, and Hufflepuff AGAIN with their Gobstones victory. Now let's all eat and enjoy our time together!" Because you never knew how much you had left, right?
She put on a brave final smile just as the food, which was somewhat improved from the start of the year, appeared. But instead of sitting down, in a shocking turn of events, the redhead climbed up onto her throne-like chair and declared in a sing-song tone:
"IT'S FINALLY SUMMER, NO MORE DIRT! NO MORE OF THIS PLACE!"
Then she proceeded to hop down and begin skipping around the Great Hall, humming a made-up tune about summer and sunshine and flowers. WHO WAS WITH HER, EH? She was going to personally make it her mission to end the year on a better-than-dismal note. And then it was time for the speech, which started off just like any other traditional speech. Except for mention of ... Firth, in which unfortunately she looked towards the empty chair and felt sick thinking about it. He was so ... why did bad things have to happen to good people? It just wasn't fair. He was a Gryffindor; brave.
Wibble.
Hardly listening to the rest of the speech, as her thoughts were on the soulless former-groundskeeper, she then stared in shock when Annie suddenly exclaimed loudly about no more of this place. WHAT in Wenlock's was the redhead carrying on about?! Why was she so gleeful anyway?!? OH ............ YELLOW AND BLACK!!! Of course!
Well that just made a whole lot more sense now. Even if she herself didn't have the energy to ... skip ... she was just gonna sit there and watch the ever energetic headmistress celebrate for her. Quote:
Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 And the FOOD was here. After piling a mound of mashed potatoes on her plate, Callie then ladled some gravy on top and watched, mesmerized for a moment as it flowed down the layers of white spuds.
Quickly she hopped up from her chair and began to snake her arms out in front of her and sway from side to side, like a river--a river of flowing gravy. She performed her interpretive gravy dance for a minute solid before plopping back in her seat and stuffing some of the potatoes in her mouth before students arrived. ... and the energetic Divination professor too? Wenlock. What WAS she doing?! Dancing to the headmistress' skip?! Awwkkkwardddddddd.
And what was Alexa Cambridge doing down there to Erik?! She have something in her eyelash she wanted to show him? A chocolate frog piece?
And how come the healer got a hug from Oakey?!? She was his HOUSE HEAD and yet he hugs the healer?! Good vibes about badgers winning the house cup had passed cause now it was just her .... and herself ... and nobody there. Nobody remembers the dear numbers lady. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
Maybe catch a few Z's while he was at it.........
...............or not.
Lifting his head slightly, Airey turned towards the jabber and saw that it was the Arithmancy professor. What? Had she come to make fun of him too? Give him weird and judgemental looks? Hmmmmm? "Can I help you?" he asked lazily.
As if to avoid eye contact with his one colleague, he turned his head in the opposite direction and unfortunately met eye contact with Calista briefly enough to make his insides squirm again.
....... what? Having been distracted by all the shenanigans down at the other side of the table, she forgot completely about Airey's earlier outburst. Until he awoke and looked over to her for a brief moment. Which caused her to stare back, confused. Had she bothered him or something? Why was he talking to her again? She didn't address him ... did she?
"Uh... um..." Swallow. "You okay?" As quickly as she asked that, came another distraction and outburst from a student, which was just as well, cause then she didn't even notice Laura come and knock over Airey's goblet, spilling a drop or two of the juice on her jeans.
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Originally Posted by McFeisty PROFESSOR BOTROS! Mika wanted to apologize for not being able to finish making her Grandr. She had wanted to and then the soul-sucking beasts had rattled their way in. Seriously she was going to keep her distance from anyone whose breath rattled…even if it was just because of a mild case of Emphysema.
But as she got there the food and the site of a pot of hot water for tea made her stop momentarily. Her attention was grabbed by the headmistress’s skipping…but for now all she wanted to do was talk to Botros.
“BOTROS” she squeakily squealed as she skipped to the table and waved her hands. One hand on her hip the other one in the air. It was like something had possessed her some idea that is, the tune of a song began to vibrate from her throat in a humming sound. She was fighting the urge to sing. Nope no singing none nope. It didn’t work.
“I’m a little teapot,” she squeaked out. All of a sudden her voice got louder until she was practically scream-singing the words to the song. "I'M A LITTLE TEA POT SHORT AND STOUT" she was even holding her hand in the air like the teapot's spout. "HERE IS MY HANDLE" she inched the hand that was on her hips up slightly indicating it as her handle. "AND HERE IS MY SPOUT" she used the hand that was in the air and twisted the wrist up towards the sky.
"WHEN I STEAM UP HEAR ME SHOUT! TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT!" beaming she was beaming..."I LOVE TEA...tea is awesome tea cakes and tea...tea without tea cakes tea served in these gourds called Yerba Matte I had that earlier...TEAAAAAA do you like tea? TEA IS AWESOME." It would be a wonder if the entire school including those on the seventh floor hadn't heard her exclamation about tea.
Blinking she just stood there and beamed at the Professors. ... because a Ravenclaw was singing that classic nursery school song to the runes professor. Quote:
Originally Posted by Magical Soul The speech was good. Botros admired the headmistress' brave voice and he ducked his head in respect to the groundskeeper's mention. It was truly a tragedy. However, the solemn mood quickly changed to a piercing squeal produced by no other than the lady of this school. The old man winced and covered one of his ears as the crazy woman had a fit close to the of the Astronomy professor only different in spirit. What in Odin's Beard was that about?
Then, as if on cue, kids started walking up the dais and talking, singing, shouting to professors. Botros tried catching up to all the conversations and shenanigans but they were too loud, too scattered and in all honesty he was getting sleepy and had a long day tomorrow going to Egypt with the Portkey. He was still convinced those things were going to make him break a hip.
Food got his attention, instead. The runes professor who was just so ... admirable and a total sweetheart, really. Was there any need for the ravenclaw to be SHOUTING at him?! Probably not. Noting his attention on the food, she focused instead on him. On those cheeks. Those wrinkles. Those big ears.
And without warning, she wrapped her arms around him to pull herself close to him, whispering his ear, "you've got some schmutz on you, right there," and moved her mouth down and smacked a big kiss on those lips that one could only get after decades.
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