SPOILER!!: Tyner and Felix
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Now where was she on this broom? Oh yes, she was going to start cleaning up the line that the right tail twigs were making. At least... she WAS, until a new wave of people started to arrive. "
Mr. Odessa, it is good to see you. Yes, your idea sounds good. I knew I had forgotten to bring something." She retrieved her wand from inside her robes and swiftly conjured a few buckets. "
I'll let you handle filling them, shall I?" He had likely seen the box of supplies sitting on the floor right next to her, so she didn't insult his intelligence by telling him where he would find it.
Soon afterwards, two Hufflepuffs walked in one right after another. "
It is indeed a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Sander. I trust you've met Mr. Tempus?" If not, there was no time like the present to get to know a housemate. Giving Toby a swift nod, she continued. "
I assure you, Sander, that Tobias is more than capable of helping you if you need anything." Perhaps the boy wouldn't need help, but as she'd never met him before, she really had no idea. "
Several of the handles need polishing, gentleman. I'd recommend starting there."
Just as she was finishing up those instructions, a young Gryffindor walked in (
Lexers). "
You start by reminding me of your name." Goodness, she had been getting quite forgetful of late, hadn't she? "
Then you may join Captain Odessa in his quest to clean all the tail twigs, if you are amenable."
Finally she returned to her own broom.
I think it's time to grab a pair of tail-twig clippers. She twisted around to dig into the box and let out a small
GROOAAAN. Why had her back been so painful lately?
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Felixir Even as he thought this, Toby's eyes gaze fell upon the Slytherin Captain, West, who was already here, and then at the others who were arriving. Tobias knew them all by name, apart from one, and... was that Sophie? And Caleb? Like, Newell. Wow, he hadn't spoken to either of them in ages. Like since Diagon Alley a whole year and a half ago. They got grins too. Tobias then looked back at West for just another second, then picked up the broom he was nearest and turned to properly look at Professor Tyner.
"Professor, d'you need us to do a proper soak of the tail twigs before we trim them?" Toby asked. He assumed so; these brooms looked kind of worse for wear.
Also, when Toby paused his grinning in favour of talking, one might be able to make out faint lines on his face that stayed, almost as a reminder of his excessive grinning.
"Alright sure." West responded to Tyner agreeably and began half-filling a couple of buckets with warm water, and then he measured a cleaning solution into the buckets too. Was that Toby kid going to join him then? Based on his question.. yeah? No? Whichever.
"Okay anyone who wants to help out over here, make sure you follow the steps right, okay? We can start a chain, pass the clean ones down to the clippers and polishers." He took a seat with a bucket in front of him between his feet, and two towels over his knee. West picked a broom up and submerged the twigs in the solution.
"Let it soak for a minute and then gently stir the broom in the solution clockwise ten times." He said. "Dirt effects how brooms fly. Its the first thing you should do if you're cleaning or maintaining your own broom too." Even before clipping or polishing. "Try not to slosh it too much either." He started stirring gently, counting in his head to ten times.
"Then we let it sit another minute and stir counter-clockwise ten times. Then we lift it out and let the solution drip back into the bucket. Once that is done we wrap the towels around the twigs. We do that so that the liquid remaining gets soaked up from the twigs, and also to keep outside gunk off the twigs while they dry. Then we can give them to polish people, and they can do the handles."
HOPEFULLY people doing polish knew what they were doing and all. West would just focus on this side of things.