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Good Merlin, couldn't the Heating Charms hold themselves longer for 10 minutes? Shivering and rubbing his arms for some extra warmth, the astonomer removed his wand from his enchanted breast pocket and gave it a wave to try and repair the enchantments on the area. Should at least help for...a few minutes. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin  He walks over to Professor Flamsteed. Professor. I'm not sure if this means anything. It is interesting. Perhaps someone has found the Cailleach's staff and is using it to control the weather around Hogwarts? It was worth a shot any way. The astronomer turned his attention towards the Hufflepuff, hanging on the boy's every word. "Anything is a possibility," he nodded. "Will definiately keep it on the back burner," he continued, giving his noggin a firm pat with his head for emphasis.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty While she was scanning through the book, she asked something that had been bothering her for awhile now. "Professors, has anyone tried the Floo system?" Like, even briefly? Even just for a short communication? "Dodgy...at best, very dodgy," he muttered with a hint of a growl in his tone. That summed it up, didn't it? He could only assume that the extreme cold was causing some sort of chemical reaction to the school's powder and the fireplaces themselves. They were unreliable enough that he was unwilling to risk the transport of his suits though them at least.
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Originally Posted by Emms Simon turned the next dust covered page, carefully blowing on it first to get rid of the excess amount of dust. Once some of the dust had been removed, his blue eyes focused on the page that he was reading. His eyes widened as he read the text.
" After the nights grew long and the famine months upon
Woe unto those who had wronged her darkened soul
Morgan la Fay flew to the Star Temple on the hills of Avalon
on wings of jet black and contempt
To stone she carved - with talon fingernails -
the symbol of Winter’s wrath
Black magic she cast to curse the land
and bring forth winter eternal" he whispered softly to himself. HUH?!?!?
The young wizarding detective in training was stumped. What did THAT mean? 
Wasn't Morgan La Fay from around Merlin's time? And Avalon...The Star Temple. Sure, he understood some of the references from reading and watching some of those muggle things dedicated to the Arthurian Legends but still what did THAT mean? Simon had no clue. He read the excerpt and his eyes widened to the size of saucers when he read about a five month winter. Five months? How long had their winter been? It had been a long one but he wasn't sure if it had been less or more than five months. It certainly felt more than five months.
His eyes wandered down the page and then he saw the image. Squinting, he tried to see what was possibly written on it. There were a couple weird marks on the right hand side of the page. Were those runes? If they were, then the second one that he could see sort of looked like the letter 'H'- was that Hagalaz? Then the third one could be a flipped Laguz? He couldn't make out those symbols so perhaps he was getting way too ahead of himself. But what about the carvings on the temple wall? They were hard to make out as some of them had faded or had a large crack running through it. He squinted his eyes and then nudged Holmes. " Ethan. Look. here," he whispered pointing to the page that he had just read.
Before saying anything else, Simon figured that he should show THIS to the Professors. He raised his hand up simply and then began waving his hand rather quickly. " Professors? I found this description here in the codex. It's about a five month winter, Morgan La Fay, and the Star Temple of Avalon. I think you should both take a look at this," he said. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom Caleb wasn't really much of a researcher, but if there were extra credit points involved, he'd do it. He had no idea where to start, though. Thankfully, after browsing the aisles for a while, not finding much of anything, he heard some commotion nearby. Which was good, because his entire plan pretty much consisted of stalling until someone else found something.
Oh look, it was Simon, the Slytherin he'd met who was also in his year. COOL! He wandered over and peered over his shoulder at what he was looking at. Morgan Le Fay? Wasn't that some famous witch or something?
"That's odd, innit? Why would a witch want to cast a five month long winter?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. Had it been five months since THEIR winter started? He couldn't even remember anymore. Quote:
Originally Posted by Emms Simon nodded in agreement with Ethan’s observations. It did seem like a repeat that happened years ago but a question arose in his head. Did Morgan La Fay actually exist or was it all a bunch of hocus pocus fish-wives tales? Despite what others may have thought at this present moment, Simon felt as if they must have existed because this was the closest piece of information that they actually had to the do with the extreme winter weather that they had endured at their school for the past five months or so. “Right. That’s possible, but if it was somewhere in the castle wouldn’t we have found it by now?” he asked the group of students and the Professors. “Unless…” He paused and his blue eyes widened in realization of a possibility. Simon had answered his own inquiry.
Before he could explain the answer to that question, Toby had come over. Oh hey fellow friend! Simon gave him a friendly smile and then explained what they had discovered. "Well, there was this passage about Morgan La Fay, a five month winter, and the Temple of Avalon. Basically what the text is describing is how Morgan La Fay used a spell to make a five month winter and Merlin had to use binding runes to stop it," he began pointing at the excerpt from the epic poem, then the description, and then lastly the picture below. " Ethan's is suggesting that those carvings may have somehow been replicated in the castle. The problem is where are they in Hogwarts." Which lead to Simon's question.
“What if the runes are in a place that aren’t accessible to students? In a secret passageway or something? For all we know, it could be behind a portrait or statue,” he said. And moving all of those portraits and statues would be painful. Was there a spell that allowed them to locate runes. His brow furrowed when he glanced at the picture in the codex again. How did they know which ones would actually bind La Fay’s spell? And could Professor Botros re-bind the runes to stop the spell from keeping the school forever in the eternal winter?
Airey wasn't going to field any of the questions about carvings on the walls of the castle's exterior, or really anything pertaining to runes, as that was far from being his forte. Instead he looked towards the Ancient Runes professor with his mouth hanging open like a bass. Yes...what about all that?
But then his attention was pulled towards Mr. Simon and his most recent finding...and the moderate panic that ensued after. The runic theories being thrown out were giving the man a headache, so he was going to ignore those as well. "Let me take a look at that," he nodded as he leaned over the Slytherin and read the passage. Oh yes, this had been the story he had been briefly referring to at the beginning of the term in his lesson, so he was briefly tickled by having pieces of the story filled in. Briefly being the key word. Terminology was also seemingly pointing towards the winter solstice...just when had is started really getting cold around here? "Winter is extremely crippling to crops, Mr. Newell," he replied gravely with a brief glance towards Miss Cambridge as he recalled their conversation in the kitchen. She was leaving Javy's creatures alone still, yeah? "Especially back in the time of Morgan la Fay. Could very easily have been trying to weaken the kingdom this way." But that was pure speculation.
Dark wizards tended to have motives that were...dramatic and rather illogical.
And again, he glanced towards Professor Botros for all the runes talk because it was essentially going in one ear and out the other. However, something else caught his attention - and mostly because of conversations he had had with Medea over the course of the term. "Someone want to tell me what a chort is?"
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