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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny  ...Tremble like a Tribble? Sophie snorted at that, thoroughly blowing her cover and peeking back around the corner at the approaching professor to give him a playfully baffled sort of look. "Superb word choice there." He always had a unique way with words, didn't he?
She rounded the corner properly to meet him halfway - she appeared a bit uncharacteristically bashful, though, and pressed her lips together in an embarrassed smile, eyes flickering briefly to the parchment in his hands. "Y'don't have to thank me, though. S'just... I thought people probably don't tell you what you deserve to hear often enough, so I tried puttin' it in word form on behalf of everyone." So really, if he wanted to thank someone, he should be thanking everyone, see? It wasn't just her own thoughts. "I've heard plenty of people say those things. Just felt like someone needed to relay them onto you."
For someone who was normally quite cool when it came to charming professors, she was already certain this was an unusually awkward interaction. She didn't want him to have to say anything, she just wanted him to have known the truth and boost his ego a bit.
And now he thought she was just some silly student, trembling like a Tribble.
...What in Merlin's beard was a Tribble? Ah yes, there she was. Grinning and shaking his head with mild amusement as the Ravenclaw finally peaked out, the astronomer ceased his forward movement and stood with his legs shoulder's length apart in a somewhat casual stance. Hands in his trouser pockets. That was a must when being casual. Along with rocking back on his heels because that was fun and also stretched his legs a bit.
And he appreciated the compliment, hence the smile and chuckle and soon followed.
One thing about Airey Flamsteed was that he tended to feed off other people's energies - minus the negative ones like boredom and disinterest that occasional occurred in his lesson when he got carried away with an explanation - so right now his nervous energy was feeding off Miss Brown's nervous energy. Rubbing the back of his neck, he tugged on the blonde hair his fingers could grasp and looked sheepishly down at the floor. First Valentines that were unfortunately connected to astrology and now this?!
Were students trying to kill him with kindness? Kindness and speaking to him about personal issues?
But then he was suddenly struck with the memory of his 4-year-old self seeing a certain alien intellectual on the television. A Vulcan revered for his unusual persona and intellect... His papa had been right. While his heartstrings were metaphorically being pulled right now, he did not allow his emotions to get the better of him. So instead of a misty eyed gaze, his smile widened and he took a few more steps forward to place a sincere hand on Miss Brown's shoulder. "Thank you, Miss Brown. That means a lot and I am truly touched."
No shoulder pat this time. Miss Cambridge had taught him that that just was not his thing.
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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo The team was here! Or well she'd told them all they were meeting here to get this done. After one quick look around Lex realized the Professor hadn't been kidding when he said how AWFUL it looked. Who's idea of pink was this anyway?? And all this glitter, who had time for this????? Sweet Circe they had to get this place looking normal stat.
The walls needed re-colouring. Nothing that a little magic couldn't help fix and the glitter...well they could vanish it right? Or have it all vacuumed up with that sucking charm Airey taught. 'Vacavus' or something like that. Either way, it would get done.
Lex turned with a wide grin to face everyone that had shown up. "Thanks for coming guys, this will mean a lot to the Professor. So to start we'll need some of repainting the walls and others getting rid of the glitter itself. There are a couple colouring spells to make life easy and suction to get the hideous glitter off everything. I say we split up?" They could switch duties but it'd work best if they weren't all painting/ vacuuming, yeah?
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Originally Posted by lemon He wasn't sure who ELSE was here, but Lex had invited him to help. And Dima liked her even though she was scary and bossy and weird sometimes.
So he had COME.
"Hi!" And... woah, it was sparkly. He wasn't sure exactly how all the glitter had arrived outside Flamsteed's office, or why the walls of his seating area had turned that horrid shade of pink (yes, he did know it all to well. His mum had awful taste, okay?). But they had to DO SOMETHING about it.
Too bad Dima didn't know EITHER of those spells.
"Can you show me the coloring one?" 'Cause he could PAINT, yup. Just with an actual brush and not a wand was all. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack
Why was Zander here in the pink, sparkly room again? Well there was one major reason: Because Lex had assembled a team. And he kind of owed her one for helping him against Culloden. Even though they really hadn't budged the Professor, her help had made him a lot more confident about the who ordeal. Not to mention the fact that she helped bring Beautiful Bentley into things. So he was all BEAMS for her and especially ready to help her now. Flailsteed, he was alright. The guy had kinda sorta, actually a lot, helped him to get over his fear of delivering a special something to his most favoritest beautiful professor ever. So he was cool. Helping Flailsteed wouldn't be too bad of a motivation either.
The third year listened carefully as Lex called out a set of instructions. AYE AYE Captain! The Gryffindor jus nodded his head enthusiastically. He was even wearing some old clothes that he wouldn't mind getting all dirtied up. Plus, he had some practice with cleaning messes throwback to the pillow fight with Kevin and Peeves. Right. But how would they fix the sparkles? Would... a vacuum charm work? Or just a regular old Tergeo or Scourgify? Maybe even a Poliotus charm to polish things off at the end? "I can help with the glitter, Lex!" Even though he hated all things pink... And all things glitter.
Taking out his wand, the Gryffindor moved all the way to one of the glittered couches. "Vacavus!"... Nothing. Of course. Nothing worked on the first try. Ever. Maybe it was just his thing. Right okay, "VACAVUS!" AND Woaaaaah that was a lot stronger than he thought! Before he knew it the glitter was slowly being sucked up and the couch was returning to it's normal leathered color.
AWESOME.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar Never in her eleven years of breathing did AJ think that she would be on glitter patrol. Her prefect had told her that Airey needed his little pink problem solved, and the image the first year had in her head was nowhere near as bad as the mess actually was. She slowed to a walk as she made her way to where Lex told her to meet up. "What the..." words, she didn't have them. This looked like a Valentine horror story.
"Where are the vacuums kept?" Oh right, magic. Magic would make this a lot easier for those that we're good at it. "Erm... What are the spells again?" And the wand movement. Matter of fact, a demonstration would be super beneficial. Once she got that done she would be super helpful. Pinky promise! Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo The first of their turn out!! Lex beamed at them and beamed even wider at Zander agreeing he would start the vacuuming. Getting right to it, she liked that, she did.
And LOOK, there was the little Ravenclaw she'd told to tag along. He was good minion company...for now anyway. She knew his loyalty didn't lie with her so she wouldnt' put all her hopes on him. Not even, nope.
Him asking about the pain and Zander already starting on the glitter made her think she might as well get rid of this hideous pink stuff. "Sure thing. We'll start over here." She said, walking over to the wall closest to them. When the others arrived they could get to the others if she wasn't there by then.
Lex stood by the wall, taking it in for a moment as she figured what be the best for use. One from an old Charms book. "The incantation is Colovaria and while casting you have to have the colour in mind. This wall used to be white and that's what we'll be getting it again. The wand movement is a point, easy enough right. Give it a try."
If he got it, she could move to another side of the wall.
And Aubrey was here too!! Lex grinned at the little lion and her dedication to getting the job done. She was actually just thrilled people showed up. Not everyone liked cleaning and being Prefect didn't automatically mean everyone listened to you.
"I know, hideous, right?"
While Dima tried his hand at that spell, Lex turned her full attention on this one. "Did you see Zander do it just now? It's not that hard once you concentrate. The incantation is Vacavus and it operates in much the same way as a vacuum so I'm sure it'll take the glitter away in no time."
Lex raised her own wand and gave a tap. "Vacavus!" And the woooshing started that lifted the glitter from the chair nearby. "See? Like that." Quote:
Originally Posted by Schroyers Right, this place was a mess. A sparkly mess.. He took a look around and pulled his wand, readying it.
"Vacavus!" He wasn't too loud about it cause there were other people cleaning and stuff, though he was curious where all the glitter being sucked up was going? Was there a magical Vacuum bag for his wand somewhere? Was the glitter going inside his wand? Who knew really. Quote:
Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl See, Penelope liked the color pink just fine, but this...this was pretty awful. Who's idea was it to cover this place with an awful combination of pink and glitter? Not the best idea, whoever did it.
But anyway, it'd be going away soon since Alexa had asked her and some other people to help clean it up. Shouldn't take too long either with all the people that were already here so far.
And since Lex was helping the ones who didn't know the spells, Penelope just decided to go straight to work. Vacuuming the glitter seemed like the only option for now since Lex and the little Ravenclaw kid were gonna handle the walls and that seemed the easiest to take care of.
"Vacavus," she cast at one of the chairs, carefully using her wand to get rid of every bit of glitter on it. Which was a lot. Merlin. Quote:
Originally Posted by lemon He tagged along, eyeing the wall just like she did. Was Lex OBSERVING it? Like deciding how much of a fight the wall was gonna put up to keep its color? Could walls even fight? Normal walls didn't but MAGICAL walls, those had to be different, yeah? Yeah?
Bring it on, wall. Dima was ready for you.
"Colovaria. Co-loh-VA-ree-ah. Colovaria." Easy enough, right? He pointed at the wall, a plain stretch of white in mind. "Colovaria!" There was a flash of red light, and then the change started. It was almost instantaneous, not slow as if the color was spreading, but a fade.
So it WORKED. "I did it!" Did he get a sticker or something?
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Alright, so now with one half of the couch taken care of, the Gryffindor turned to the other side. Merlin. This really was a huge mess. He had just assumed that the pink glitter was all Flailsteed's doing, but... apparently it wasn't. Fortunately for him though, this Gryffindor and Ravenclaw team was here to help! So yes, back to clean up.
The third year looked up at the mention of his name and smiled at both Lex and... The twin.. Which one was she? They were so similar it was actually kind of hard to tell sometimes. Or all the time. Yeah, mostly all the time. But yeah, if the firstie needed any help with the spell he wouldn't mind helping.
But right. Back to the point. He had a couch to clean! "Vacavus!" AH THE FIRST TIME THIS TIME! HA! Man. He was actually starting to get the hang of this! Awesome! He watched as the rest of the glitter got all sucked up. Perfect. The couch was looking great! Hmmm but it was most definitely missing something. Zander just stared at it for a couple minutes. Fixated. Thinking.
AHA! A polish! To make it all shiny without any glitter need. The Gryffindor smiled at the thought and held out his wand, "Poliotus!" Um. Okay. So he didn't quite have the hang of it yet.. "Poliotus!!" Thankfully it worked the second time, funny how it was always like that. Just plain funny. Ha. Anyways, now the couch was looking all shiny and man this leather never looked better! WOHOO! One couch done and... the rest of the room to go. Great.
There was....a LOT of noise going on outside his office. A LOT.
Sweet solstice were Javy and Piers back again to cause mayhem? Did he really want to venture out of his office to look? Not really, but this was where his Gryffindor curiosity got the better of him and, after slipping on his noise making slippers, walked over to his door and threw it open.
"Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy," he exclaimed as his feet seemingly gave off a coo-ing sound. There were A LOT of students out here...AND THEY WERE FIXING HIS SEATING AREA!
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH PRAISE THE COSMOS FOR NO MORE GLITTER!"
He said nothing more and simply stood where he was with a big doofy grin on his face as he watched the students at work.
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