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SPOILER!!: Penelope, Rooney, Haddie
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Thankfully, they were saved by their Head of House as soon as Roo finished talking. He straightened up and stepped back beside Penelope and shook his head. "I've no idea, Sir. I just got here. Penelope said that Miss Hadley was unlike herself with the books and...not responding to anything." And now she was on the floor. "Can we take her to the Healer, Sir?"
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Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Booooook!
Need book.
Must get book!

Oh, how the zombie girl struggled, futilely, against the immobilization. It did not matter there was no point to her struggling, that she wasn't gonna break the spell. That didn't even register to her. All that mattered was finding the book. Finding it and taking it and bringing it to the edge of the forest. That was her point, her purpose.
Boooooooooooooooooooooook! Outside she laid still and motionless, but inside the girl was straining and struggling like never before in order to get her limbs working. To get up and continue her search for the book.
Hadley get up. Find book! HADLEY GET UP!
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Mr. Kitridge was here to save them! Maybe he would make tea. Oh yeah, about Haddie being tied up and immobilized. "I'm not sure what's wrong with Haddie. She might be cursed or possessed or something. It looks like she's searching for some kind of book. She was standing here, taking books off the shelf and throwing them on the floor, and Haddie didn't respond when I tried to talk to her. Haddie was moaning booooook and her eyes looked blank and it was scary and I might have panicked and tied her up and immobilized her. Really I was just worried about her safety and the books being damaged. I think she needs to see the healer." Everything was going to be okay. Mr Kitridge was here, and he would know what to do.
Penelope saw her cat Orion coming down the girls dorm stairs and walking towards her with something in his mouth. What was -? Oh no. That was almost definitely a bra that he had found in the mess upstairs, and she was fairly sure it was one of hers. "Orion! No!" It looked like he hadn't destroyed it, which was good. The cat dropped the undergarment by Penelope's feet and meowed at her. She glared at the cat. "Bra thief." Penelope hastily grabbed the bra off the floor and shoved it in one of her overly large robe pockets to hide it. Her face was tinged red with embarrassment. She was absolutely horrified that her cat had done that in front of Rooney and Mr. Kitridge. There were boys here. Not a time when she wanted her cat to be bringing her underwear. Why couldn't it have been socks? Ahem. That had not just happened, or so she would like to think. "Someone went through all of the girls dorms and tipped the nightstands over, messed up the beds, and emptied all the trunks. It's an awful mess up there. Everyone's things are everywhere. There might be some damage to furniture and students' possessions. I think it must have been Haddie, because of her strange behavior here." That explained why the cat was finding things he shouldn't. She thought she had cleaned up the majority of things that her cat might steal, but apparently not.
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This was all so confusing. Rooney just wanted to know what was happening, but Penelope was repeating herself over and over and apparently needed tea so badly in a crisis like this. "Miss Penelope, please.." This couldn't be really happening, right? In a moment, he was going to wake up, he was sure of it. But Rooney still looked between his Head of House and the Head Girl, expecting one of them to have an answer. He was fourteen, and had little experience compared to them both. They had to know what was going on.
"Has she eaten anything? Was she eating when you got here, Miss Penelope?" Or had she just been trashing the dorms? "Maybe she's hit her he--ohmy." He spotted the garment in the cat's mouth before Penelope did, and he raised a hand to cover his eyes out of courteous behaviour. His mother worked in fashion. His aunt was a model. Rooney Bronwyn knew that piece of clothing. And he could not be looking.
So he turned away and crouched again by the young Ravenclaw, gently checking her hair for blood.
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Had Haddie eaten anything? How was she supposed to know that? Did Rooney not understand what she had already said twice, once to Rooney and once to Mr. Kitridge? "No, I don't think she's eaten anything. She was just trashing the dorms and our library as far as I can tell." It was exactly like Penelope had told Rooney. Haddie had been throwing the books on the ground when she got here. Food. Did they have food? Strawberries? Carrots? "I want food." What? Rooney had mentioned eating and now she was hungry. Could they get food after bringing Haddie to the hospital wing? Penelope looked hopefully at Mr. Kitridge. Food?

Penelope couldn't help but laugh at how Rooney had reacted to the bra-stealing cat. The way he covered his eyes and looked away was funny, and Penelope burst into laughter. At least he had the decency to look away. This was probably just as uncomfortable for him as it was embarrassing for her. She didn't want boys staring at her bra. She was going to tell Haddie about Rooney and the cat when Haddie was back to normal. Penelope took a few deep breaths and stopped laughing. There was a serious situation at hand. Penelope sipped her tea as she watched Rooney examining Haddie. "I don't think this is just from her hitting her head or something like that. It's like she's not there and something else is controlling her body." Hypnosis? Imperius curse? Possession? There were a few things that Penelope could think of that could have caused this, and none of them were pleasant to think of. Poor Haddie.
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”Okay.. Iwasjustasking.” Had Penelope had to say it in that way? Had she had to make him feel like he wasn’t helping as much as everyone else was here? It wasn’t like she was the one to be held in high regard. No one knew that Miss Penelope wasn’t to blame for this. Maybe Haddie had just said something out of turn – she was good at that – and Penelope had fired spells her way. Roo pocketed his hands and stepped away from the body on the floor. Kitridge and Penelope could handle this themselves. He’d just tidy up the books before anyone really saw it. Because the books were trusted to the students of Ravenclaw house, for them to be strewn across the floor like this looked bad on them. It was not the sort of example he wanted to be setting.
”I don’t think food is important right now.” Roo gave the other Ravenclaw an accusatory look and rocked back and forth on his feet, unsure what to do. Or if her need for food was something to do with Haddie.
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Had she upset Rooney? Did she say something? Maybe she had sounded annoyed when she was speaking to him? Penelope didn't mean to upset Rooney in any way. It hurt her to see that she was hurting Rooney. Maybe the stress of finding Haddie like this was coming out at Rooney. This time when she spoke she made sure it sounded nice. "I'm sorry Rooney, it's just- never mind." There was no way that she could even begin to describe what she was feeling right now. "Thank you for being here and you're really helping." She hugged Rooney. Even just being there as support was helpful, and she knew she couldn't deal with this alone.
What had Rooney said about food not being important? Penelope stared at Rooney. "Food is incredibly important." Why couldn't he understand what she was mentally going through right now? Finding that one of your Ravenclaw babies had turned into an unresponsive zombie child was very shocking. She couldn't deal with that very well right now. Penelope looked down at the still tied and immobilized body of Haddie. "You'll be okay Haddie." Penelope's eyes were tearing up again. Look at Haddie, there on the floor bound in ropes because of what Penelope had done. Was it bad that she had done that to Haddie? Something was wrong with Haddie and she didn't know what it was or how it had happened, and there wasn't anything Penelope could do right now to fix it except bring Haddie to see the healer. She wasn't even sure if the healer would be able to do anything. Mr. Kitridge would be able to help her with this, right? What was happening to Haddie? Penelope was scared for Haddie and she just couldn't deal with this at the moment. Oh look, she was actually crying now.
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"Penelope..." She shouldn't have been crying. Crying girls stirred things in Rooney and he wanted to just hug them and pet their hair in the way that he liked people to do to his. "Hey, come on.." For a second, he pulled her away from the scene, nodding to their Head of House to say that he had this under control. Or, he thought he did. Rooney pulled some of the hair away from Penelope's face that had stuck to her tears and wiped them with the handkerchief from his pocket. "You want the first years to see you this upset? You're the Head Girl. You're supposed to be super strong." And he knew what made him feel super strong. Like he was the cream of the crop. Kissing.
But this wasn't the time or the place.
But Penelope needed it.
So just a quick peck was all she got, and then Rooney went back to crouching beside Miss Hadley's head.
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Rooney was sweet trying to comfort her. "Thanks, Rooney." Was she worried about other people seeing her in this state? Not really. Penelope was not happy that Rooney was talking about how it looked to first years. "It's okay to cry, Rooney. There's nothing wrong with crying. Even super strong people cry. Especially super strong people. Sometimes people just need to be upset, okay?" She was not really okay with people telling her that she shouldn't cry just because of how it looked to others. What she needed was to be able to take care of herself right now. "I just need a minute alone." Penelope walked up the stairs to the girls dorms, intending to go back down to the common room in a couple of minutes.
After taking a few minutes to compose herself, taking a few more deep breaths, and splashing cold water on her face, Penelope came back down to the common room. Most signs that she had just been crying were gone, and she was ready to deal with the situation at hand.


Leo pulled his gaze momentarily from Haddie's tied up figure on the floor to Rooney and Penelope as they filled him in on what they knew about what was going on with Hadley. Apparently Haddie was acting weirdly being unresponsive, moaning and having blank looking eyes. All were warning signs that something wasn't right with Hadley and definitely a cause for worry, if not panic. Flashing Penelope a warm smile he reassured "You acted swiftly and correctly Penelope! It was good of you to tie Hadley up and immobilize her for her own safety so that she doesn't hurt herself or a peer before we can get her to the healer to be helped and treated."

Before Leo could ask a follow up question concerning food Penelope's cat pranced down the stairs from the girl's dorms with a cloth garment that he identified as a bra which Penelope hastily grabbed and stuffed into one of her robe pockets. Leo let it slide to save the senior potential embarrassment.

The next news about the girl's dorms had Leo shake his head as he replied to Penelope. "I see, that's upsetting and odd. I'll go have a look at the mess in the dorms after I've taken Haddie to the infirmary to see the healer." Flashing a glance to Haddie he said "If Haddie is responsible for the mess in the dorms or not, we won't know until she is back to her normal self again." It didn't seem impossible though considering what she had been doing when Penelope had come across her here in the art nook.

Leo's gaze flashed from Rooney to Penelope as they hypothesised on what could be the underlying reason for Haddie's uncharacteristic behaviour. Shrugging he interjected as Rooney examined Haddie's head. "All guesses are as good as any at this point on what is ailing Haddie but until we get it confirmed from the healer I think its more likely to be a curse then a concussion." Like an imperius curse or something similar since she wasn't really---.

Leo didn't have time to finish his train off thought before Penelope broke down in tears in front off him due to the stress of seeing Haddie in this way. Rooney acted swiftly though giving Penelope a handkerchief and a comforting hug. Leo interjected his eyes finding Penelope's briefly as he reassured. "Haddie is going to be all right Penelope. I'm going to make sure of it. If the healer don't know what's wrong with Haddie then I'll ask our headmaster to reach out to St Mungos for their aid and knowledge."

When Penelope left for the dorms to dry her tears Leo approached Haddie, taking out his wand as he did so and cast a spell to lift Haddie's body into a hovering position up by his side. Gaze turned to Rooney and as Penelope joined them once more he asked "Do you too want to come along to the infirmary?"

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