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Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: #8000FF
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Amelia "Mia" Adair
Slytherin Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Leigh Upstead
Hufflepuff Fifth Year  x11
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Originally Posted by Felixir  So that's what they did. Tobes had gone with Soph back to the kitchens to drop the cake off, fully intending to come straight back as soon as possible to devour the thing. It was a shame to destroy it but cake was for eating, right? And eat it they would.
And now they were up at the seventh floor, and Toby had been trying to explain all about his pogo stick and how they worked and what was so fun about them. Mainly he'd just been so preoccupied with the fact that he loved to keep moving, and the pogo stick was perfect for a kid like him with boundless energy. Toby explained that you could do tricks, and that this pogo stick was one of the best you could get, and how you could jump super high with it. He even went on, in an weird and overly happy manner, and about all the times he'd fallen down the stairs while bouncing and gotten at least three concussions, because they weren't technically made for use on stairs.
He let Sophie walk ever so slightly in front of him, because Tobias didn't have much of a clue of where they were headed. Had he been down this corridor before? It seemed familiar, but Toby couldn't say before.
"-So this morning, when the post came, an owl delivered that pogo stick, but there was no note so I don't know who got it. Whoever got it really did their research though; it's one of the best. I've wanted one for ages."
Toby glanced around him. "Are we near your common room, then?" the Hufflepuff asked. He knew vaguely where the Claws lived, but only that it was in one of the upper levels. Every time he'd run into Soph up here it had always been way closer to the moving staircase. He'd never been down this particular corridor before; it was nice to know a specific place to go if he ever needed his best friend or something. Assuming they were in the right place, of course. "I don't see any barrels." The pogo stick thing was really cool, and Sophie had soon decided that he needed to bring it outside some time so she could try it, too. Once they hit the seventh floor, she led the way without thinking, still engrossed in all that was Toby and his pogo stick and his birthday and how cool his life was. "M'glad they got it for you, then. You deserve everything you've ever wanted today." She was being totally dramatic, but she MEANT IT. Hehe.
"Uh huh," she insisted, leading him just a little further to the base of a staircase. Giggling at him, then, she shook her head, "We don't have barrels, that's just you guys. Have you really never explored and spied on the entrances of other common rooms?" She totally had. All she had to do was follow the right member of a house her first term and act totally casual about it. "We have this knocker thing right up this staircase instead of a doorknob or whatever - it gives us a riddle, and we have to solve it to get inside. If we get it wrong, we have to wait for someone else to come along and solve it correctly. S'never the same or anything, always challenges us to have a ready mind and all that." She shrugged once, then started up the stairs, "You can come see, if you want, or y'can have a seat here and wait for me. I'll just be a minute or two."
Whether he wanted to follow or not, Sophie successfully answered the bronze eagle's riddle, raced up to her dormitory, and returned to Toby in about two minutes, a large box in her grasp wrapped in sky blue wrapping paper with a navy blue bow on top. "Got it," she said, sitting on the steps at the bottom of the staircase and offering it to him. "Happy birthday, Tobes." She was grinning big, reviewing the contents in her mind's eye, each object individually wrapped in its own wrapping paper inside the box. Just to tease him a little. Hehe.
SHE WAS SO EXCITED FOR HIM.
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