Text Cut: Tessa and Sander
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UnicornDragonPatronus 
Tessa stepped into the broomshed and took a deep breath. These were all the smells she loved- besides the dust. The smell of leather from Qudditch gear, polish of the brooms... she loved it all. She lived it, taking care of her own equipment. So, helping take care of the school's was the least she could do.
"Hello Professor, I'm Tessa Hedge," she said with a warm smile to the woman. "I've been meaning to speak with you about some flying tips- I'm hoping to try-out for a few of the professional teams this summer," she explained with an excited smile. But, that was for later. "Anyway, how can I help here?" she asked, looking around.
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Sander looked up when he heard Tessa's voice. Even though the other students were talking amongst themselves, her voice seemed to stand out among all of them. He smiled and waved at her.
"Would you like to join me and work on polishing the broom handles?" Sander suggested to Tessa. Of course, Professor Tyner could assign to another task instead, but he hoped she would allow Tessa to work with him.
The broomshed was starting to get quite full. It hadn't been constructed with this high occupancy in mind. But, what was one more in the grand scheme of things? It was a nice enough day outside, after all, so they could always spread out.
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Greeting, Miss Hedge. It is truly a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Or at least she hoped it would be. "
Certainly, my dear. Feel free to drop by my office any time." Then again, it was quite a long walk if she happened to be busy at the time. "
Or set up an appointment if you want to be sure I'm free. Either way is fine." Good, she was here to help after all. Tiara hadn't been sure. Just as she was about to suggest a job, Sander piped up and offered Tessa a spot near him. "
That sounds like a fine idea, Sander, thank you."
Text Cut: Marigold
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Originally Posted by
ScarletCharm104 Marigold was trrrryyyyyyying to pay attention to what West<3 was saaaayinnng... but his face distracted her. Sigh. She got the gist of the whole broomcleaning process, though.
She moved towards the bucket to soak stuff in when she noticed the Quidditch person. She didn't notice her before! With a nod and smile, she said, "Hello! How are you?"
Tiara gestured towards the door. "
It's a beautiful day outside and I'm lucky to simply be alive, so I am doing well, thank you." What a thoughtful young lady.
Text Cut: All the Slytherins ever and Lucas
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Lexers So... how long had these brooms been left unattended for?
Lucas eyed the blunt clippers and made a face at the broom in front of him. "I'm sorry," he whispered to it. Poor thing.
But in any case, there was only one thing to do for this situation. A lot of tender love and care.
"Professor, is Hogwarts ever going to upgrade the school brooms?" Because these were all older than his Mum. And that was OLD.
Tiara went back to working on the broom she was currently trimming up. After a few moments, she noticed that she had somehow missed the memo that there was a parade going on.
Yes, definitely a parade of green and gray. West seems to have persuaded his whole team to come! Forward thinking on his part. She decided to skip the suggestions of tasks as they all seemed to be joining their Captain and receiving instructions.
Scanning what was quickly turning into a crowd, she took in the progress. Speaking loudly, she said,
"I think we're near halfway done, everyone. Well done, keep up the good work and good pace!" Now if only they would put this much effort into their academic studies!
Hearing someone speak to her, she turned quickly to locate the source. "
Ohh!" she exclaimed as a line of pain shot from the base of her skull down to the tip of her spinal cord. Best to move a bit slower in the future, apparently. "
Lucas, that is an excellent question. I have put in a request with the Headmistress, but so far there has been little progress." Meaning that Anastasia had glared daggers at her.
Text Cut: Adelaide
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GrapehGrape Adelaide nodded, setting her bag down next to the bench. She grabbed a bucket before sitting down next to West. He had left her some room after all. She grabbed her first broom and dunked it in the water.
She looked up at Derry and Theo. "Hey guys." After looking around the shed again it seemed almost everyone was here. Which was good because West had said he wanted everyone here to help.
"Almost forgot." She held the broom with one hand and reached down into her bag with others. Things clanked around for a bit as she fished around for a container. All right. This was one time an undetectable extension charm was not good. Ah. There it was.
Addi pulled out the container of brownies and set them down. "Take some if you want." Obviously that went for everyone there, not just her fellow Snakes.
Some of her other senses may be dulling lately, but smell was not one of them. "
Brownies? Lovely, I'd love one!" Tiara reached for one and brought it up to her lips, savoring the delicious morsel. "
These are the best brownies I have tasted in quite some time. Three points to Slytherin for sharing such a delight with us!"
Oh yes. She was definitely getting far too generous
in her old age.
Text Cut: Dora
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Originally Posted by
grangerfan8 Believe it or not, Dora didn't care about the condition of the school brooms.
Not even a little bit.
Why? When her own broom was in prime condition, and not crap like these school brooms where. She didn't even have any intention of coming out to this even though it was her free time what with all the classes she'd dropped, but the sixth year was here anyway. Part because of the stupid badge pinned to her chest, but mostly because almost all of her friends where here as well. And if she wanted them time, she had to care for brooms.
Entering the broom shed, she instantly regretted the decision however. Too crowded. But there was no turning back noooow, so she gave a small distracted salute to the professor and moved further into the shed. They seemed to be working in groups, and the most noticeable one was the Slytherin group surrounding it's captain. They seemed like the group to join, but for reasons she decided against it, greeting her snake friends instead and moving over to a much more appealing group.
The polishing group, or really Alice and Sophie. The other people just went seemingly unnoticed by the prefect. Snatching up the needed supplies and a broom, she went over and dropped down in a seat next to the pair.
"Of course she's doing it wrong. She's using a kneazle as her partner. Not wise." Because it was a kneazle. And Alice knew how she felt about those. Though right now she was simply jesting. She tossed a wink over at Sophie in greeting, and glanced at her broom looking ready to start. "You really should do something about your lions and their pets."
Tiara chuckled. She inclined her head in greeting towards the freshly minted Prefect.
Text Cut: Bart. *I* liked your spell, for the record.
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Bazinga Awesome.. The boy did play that was totally cool in Bart's mind. "Cool what position? I'm Bart by the way." In case the boy didn't know, but they were in classes together so he might know though Bart wasn't sure of his name. He probably said it in class, but his mind didn't focus in class, because most of the classes were so boring and lecture.. Merlin the lectures around here. "So do they only hire long winded people to teach classes?" Maybe the boy knew the answer, Bart really wanted to know it.
He was working on his next broom and pointed his wand when he heard his name. Now what did he do. He looked at the twigs thinking he did an awesome job. One thing he wouldn't screw up was a broom. Goodness no they were to amazingly awesome to do that, but the woman was saying not to use magic. He blinked at her, was she joking? This was a wizard school, right? He hadn't found himself in a muggle school some how did he? He glanced around and felt appalled that she wanted him to trim the muggle way. She did realize that would mean by hand didn't she? Which meant more option for error.
"aaa alright." He was still giving weird confused looks when he put down his wand. This was dumb, he wasn't a muggle and shouldn't have to do muggle labor. Sighing he started doing the twigs the manual way which was just awkward and now he wasn't sure if he was trimming them right. Good thing these were not his brooms.
Oh it was cool name boy and he had those weird trimmer things for Bart. "Thanks" He said in an annoyed ton as he started trimming his broom the borrrrring way. Leaning closer to the slytherin he nodded towards the offical, "Think she's not aware that the spell would make these more prefect and not as hacked?" It was so foreign to him to see manual labor things. He didn't even know muggle things until his step family moved in on him and his mother. Not that he minded the TV, games, and surfing. No those could stay but this work thing needed to go.
His annoyed looked left as he grinned and touched his face, "Nothin at all actually. It just started growin one day. Isn't it awesome. I'm not trimming it or anything. I'm going to see how far I can get it to go." He had never seen anyone his age have a full long beard, maybe he could get himself into the World Record books or something. He was sure of it with this awesomely Epic beard.
That's when his nose started sniffing.. It sniffed out something that smelled good. One thing that never failed him was his stomach. Someone really close to him had food. His brown eyes searched until "BROWNIES" It was brownie girl and her awesome and amazing goodies. "Can I have one.." Oh what was the snakes name again. She had given it to him when he was near her common room and got his first brownie from her. "Addi" That's it wasn't it?
Interesting. Based on what she had heard from others, she had been expecting quite the reaction from this one. Word traveled, after all. She was pleased to see that he gave no complaint.
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Rosa Chispa Princessa Oichi headed by the broom shed to see what she could do to help with the broom refurbishment efforts. After all, how could she or future students use brooms at the school if they were not rightly cared for. Therefore she waited for Mr. Tyner to give her instruction on what she could do.
A new Gryffindor walked in shortly afterwards. Had she met her before..? Tiara didn't think so. "
Good afternoon, young lady. I'm Professor Tyner. And what might your name be?" she asked politely. Guessing that she probably needed and assignment, the official added, "
We need a few more people to polish broom handles, if you'd like to grab some rags and a tin of polish."