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Originally Posted by the fastest seeker

Andy might or might not be the last one. But hey, he was checking the grounds and those were far from here. Sort of. Anyway, he was here now. Apparently the book was not found, since everyone seemed to be discussing when he stepped inside. He nodded at no one and everyone slinking into the group with his hands in his pockets. Did the Gryffindor follow him? It was a bit crowded and he might have lost track of who was already here when he stepped inside. Yeah, that fast.

"Anything on the book?" He asked glancing at the grownups but expecting an answer from one of the kids, too. Those just loved to talk. "No trace of it on the grounds," Duh. Else he would have opened with 'the book was glimpsed somewhere'

"Yes. We're trying to capture the book using a runic spell." Botros informed the professor and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder in the restricted section's direction. "Unless you want to find out who's baking in there." It was a joke, Ab chuckled and nodded his gratitude to Leobald for allowing them to disrupt the library's neat arrangements.

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline

Okay so everything seemed to be proving fruitless. Benny hadn't found anything in the Gryffindor tower when he had been sent there on the errand. And his housemate hadn't noticed anything around there either. So then they had gathered back on the seventh floor landing, each with their negative results before heading further down to the sixth floor to search there as well. Well that's what he had found once he had finished with his search and managed to find his group..

And still there had been nothing before word was spread to decide to head back to the library. Slipping back to the area where the book club meeting had originally started, he found a few students and Botros there waiting while others had seemed to head into the stacks and the fourth year was just a touch confused. And maybe a little lost himself "What needs to be helped with?" he asked curiously.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel had just been sat there trying to figure out how they could get the book... maybe they could blindfold someone and then use someone else as bait... maybe someone like Alexa who was okay but a bit weird. "What do you need help with?" Angel really wanted to help the Librarian out... she felt a bit upset about annoying him earlier.

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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

Now, how could they help with this runic spell thing? "Angel, Ben, Lux..." she called out the names of the nearest students. "Let's clear off that table," she pointed to the nearest one to their book club area, "and get to work!"

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Originally Posted by emjay

Nessa was not a Runes person at all. She hadn't even taken it in school so she really didn't know the first thing about them, but Ab seemed to have something of a plan with this runic trap something or other and she thought she'd try to help out with that if she could. He did seem to spell it out a bit for them and she thought it was better than going off in search of baked goods. Even she thought that was a bit odd and somewhat off topic, but there were enough of them here anyway. Hearing Annie direct a few of the children, she pulled out her wand and headed over to the table they were clearing off and awaited instructions on how to say this incantation needed.

"Yes, thank you." Botros walked towards the cleared out table and started unwrapping those candy tubes. He struggled with the first one, hadn't had one of those in years. How do you-- get this-- oh! He got it, he got this. He started making a wide ring on the big table when a couple of students volunteered...

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Originally Posted by Squishy

A few more people arrived, and Lux sent them smiles. It was nice to have more people there to assist with putting a stop to this book. Mr. Kitridge was asking for volunteers to come with him and deal with whoever had the buns, but as tempting as the food smelled she wasn't sure about going. Maybe she could help here. "Professor Botros, can I do anything to help you draw the Runic Ward?" On top of being helpful, she could also improve her knowledge of Ancient Runes. Two birds, one stone.

He offered the girl a few candy tubes. "Here, you can do Othala in the center. Hop on the table, dear, and just like we did in class." He smiled encouragingly. She was on top of class this term, a future runes mistress perhaps.

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny

"I can help," she offered, crossing over toward the selected large table and helping clear the tabletop while smiling at the runes professor, Lux, Benny, and Angel. "I can draw a mean Algiz, if y'want our help drawing, professor." Unless he wanted to do it all himself to make sure it was perfect, for which she couldn't really blame him. No offense would be taken. "Or whatever y'need." She could be flexible in her assistance, certainly.

He threw a few candy tubes to Brown. "Yes, dear. Go ahead and start with Algiz. Exactly as we learnt in class."

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Originally Posted by Deezerz

Pushing some chairs out of the way to clear the area, Beverly went to stand near Professor Botros. "I'm good at runes, I can help." He knew that, yeah?

"Yes, you too. Here," He threw a couple of candy tubes to Wayne. "Do Uruz over here and over there." Botros pointed at the top and bottom of the table.

He started working on Nauthiz when he heard professor Tanner urge them to be quick about it. "Try to gather as many people as possible around the table, we'll have to invoke the spell together and the more wands the better and stronger it will be." He said, "Make sure the lines you're drawing are continuous, do not huff on the powder, do not tremble, your runes are as strong as your will..." He kept lecturing as they drew the runic spell.