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NifflerFan · 09-24-2017, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

Paul REALLY wished he could do Occlumency right about now. It would be so helpful with know if students were lying or not. Then again, he wasn't entirely sure it was ethical to do that, so it was probably a good thing he couldn't do it, because then he might be tempted to use it in this moment, and yeah. Not entirely ethical to him might...make him feel bad later.

He took a deep breath and sighed. "Emmeline......why did you feel the need to come look in the middle of the night, then? You could have come here any old time, looked, and even lied to me then about what you were looking for." So of course, what he was saying....is he didn't believe her. And he hated the next part. His eyes were puffy from not getting ENOUGH SLEEP, CHILD, but he still felt...bad. Ish.

"50 points from Gryffindor," he said, somewhat sadly. "And detention. This Friday after your classes are done. With me. I'll be in touch to tell you what exactly your detention will be." He rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Being out after curfew is not a rule we enforce for fun or for our kicks and giggles, Miss Sparkes. We do it for your safety. Your parents send you all to us...to teach you, but they also entrust us with your lives. I have to do my duty, and I have to enforce the rules that are needed for your safety here at school. Especially with that hawk...we don't know what it's about yet, and we don't know where it's from. It could be a prank, but we just don't know yet, and the fact that you....are parading around after dark trying to solve the mystery is....." He shook his head. "SO I am very sorry to discipline you, but we can't have students wandering around after dark, and I hope...you will not do this again."

Ahem, also, "And you woke me up, Emmeline! I have alarms set on my meeting space so that when people come in or knock, I know they are there. I have no hard feelings for you, m'dear. I will escort you back to your dorm and inform Professor Marchand in the morning." Paul did not wish to awaken Gaston at this time of night; it might frighten him or something. It wasn't anything that terrible that he needed to know RIGHT this instance.

He felt bad, of course. Emmeline was smol. She was...a second year. But still. Paul might not be a strict enforcer of any uniform rules (something Regina got on him about), but this...this had to be done. And that hawk...did not leave him feeling partially okay. It left him uneasy. He certainly wouldn't be telling Emmeline this, though. "Come on."
.

There was LOOOTS of sniffling and sneaky tears going on. Sneaky tears 'cause Emmeline was totally sneakily wiping them before Professor Myers even noticed them, right?

"'Cause I th-though you'd s-say no... And I'm n-not a very good li-liar," she answered his first accusation miserably. Which was MOSTLY true; she was only normally decent at telling the kind of lies that involved leaving out the true parts of something, you know? 'Cept apparently she wasn't even good at those anymore, 'cause it was totally OBVIOUS that the possible Dark wizard didn't even believe her when she was telling the mostly-truth. The ONLY part she'd left out was that she thought that maybe he'd been the one to draw the blood bird. And... She had taken what Dora had told her last term to heart. About not hurting Professor Myers's feelings and stuff unless she had solid proof that he was an evil Dark wizard. Which was half of why she'd left that part out; the other half was that, obviously, if he WAS an evil Dark wizard, she didn't want to tip him off to the fact that she was suspicious.

She definitely should've asked Derf what he thought first.

AND THEN... "Fifty??! But sir--", she spluttered in shock. Total and utter shock, 'cause even Zoryn had never lost so many points -- and Zoryn had actually hurt a teacher (according to rumors) and done waaay worse stuff than sneaking out. The tears were definitely falling thick and fast now; the whoooole entire House was going to hate her for this.

The comment about her parents slowed her tears up a little, though, and she fixed the Herbology professor with a defiant stare: "Actually, my parents would be thrilled if I died here. They told me as much last term." She HATED it when adults did that; when they assumed that allll other adults were good people and that students were all just brats messing around and trodding on their wonderful parents' love. When hers had not only TOLD her the opposite, but one of them had landed her in St. Mungo's with injuries far worse than any she'd sustained at Hogwarts -- even when she'd gone into the Forbidden Forest last year.

It took her about a minute to realize that she'd actually SAID something like that out loud; she hadn't said anything about her parents to an adult that she didn't completely trust before, and she immediately felt weird and wrong about it so she gulped and went on in a much softer tone of voice: "Sorry, Professor. Um...never mind..." Not that she had expected Professor Myers to really know all of that, though she was kind of surprised that he didn't know that Cami was her guardian. Only 'cause Cami always spoke realllly highly of all of the other professors, including him. The thought of Cami finding out that she'd lost fifty points AND gotten a detention made the tears splash down her cheeks again, though; she HATED disappointing Cami more than anything else, really.

"I'm sorry, sir... I thought you sl-slept in the c-castle, and I d-didn't know about the alarms," she added back in her ~~sad~~ quiet tone. She tried to force her features into a polite smile but she couldn't really make them do it. Still, she'd been able to keep a SUPER polite tone of voice the whooole time ('cept for when she'd been talking about her parents 'cause talking about them always gave her a bad tone) so she went on:"It's okay, sir. I can cr-cross the lawns myself." She didn't think it was that far to the castle from here and she realllly just kind of wanted to get out of here before her sadness and shame and icky feelings turned into something worse, like anger. The slightly harder tone in her voice when she'd mentioned her parents hadn't been against the Herbology professor after all; it was anger and hurt and the loads of tangled emotions that she got ANY time she talked about her parents since last Christmas. When they'd started the process of kicking her out and---

And she realllly needed to go somewhere she could cry and maybe hit a pillow or something. Now, before she said something bad and lost even MORE points, since Professor Myers clearly hated her so much. The twelve-year-old aimed her still-lit wand tip at the floor and started carefully retracing her steps towards the door to the outside...

They were good now, right?

09-24-2017, 05:32 AM	#18 (permalink)
NifflerFan DMAC Firecrab Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 739	Gryffindor for life Notorious Niffler Quote: Originally Posted by kayquilz Paul REALLY wished he could do Occlumency right about now. It would be so helpful with know if students were lying or not. Then again, he wasn't entirely sure it was ethical to do that, so it was probably a good thing he couldn't do it, because then he might be tempted to use it in this moment, and yeah. Not entirely ethical to him might...make him feel bad later. He took a deep breath and sighed. "Emmeline......why did you feel the need to come look in the middle of the night, then? You could have come here any old time, looked, and even lied to me then about what you were looking for." So of course, what he was saying....is he didn't believe her. And he hated the next part. His eyes were puffy from not getting ENOUGH SLEEP, CHILD, but he still felt...bad. Ish. "50 points from Gryffindor," he said, somewhat sadly. "And detention. This Friday after your classes are done. With me. I'll be in touch to tell you what exactly your detention will be." He rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Being out after curfew is not a rule we enforce for fun or for our kicks and giggles, Miss Sparkes. We do it for your safety. Your parents send you all to us...to teach you, but they also entrust us with your lives. I have to do my duty, and I have to enforce the rules that are needed for your safety here at school. Especially with that hawk...we don't know what it's about yet, and we don't know where it's from. It could be a prank, but we just don't know yet, and the fact that you....are parading around after dark trying to solve the mystery is....." He shook his head. "SO I am very sorry to discipline you, but we can't have students wandering around after dark, and I hope...you will not do this again." Ahem, also, "And you woke me up, Emmeline! I have alarms set on my meeting space so that when people come in or knock, I know they are there. I have no hard feelings for you, m'dear. I will escort you back to your dorm and inform Professor Marchand in the morning." Paul did not wish to awaken Gaston at this time of night; it might frighten him or something. It wasn't anything that terrible that he needed to know RIGHT this instance. He felt bad, of course. Emmeline was smol. She was...a second year. But still. Paul might not be a strict enforcer of any uniform rules (something Regina got on him about), but this...this had to be done. And that hawk...did not leave him feeling partially okay. It left him uneasy. He certainly wouldn't be telling Emmeline this, though. "Come on." . There was LOOOTS of sniffling and sneaky tears going on. Sneaky tears 'cause Emmeline was totally sneakily wiping them before Professor Myers even noticed them, right? "'Cause I th-though you'd s-say no... And I'm n-not a very good li-liar," she answered his first accusation miserably. Which was MOSTLY true; she was only normally decent at telling the kind of lies that involved leaving out the true parts of something, you know? 'Cept apparently she wasn't even good at those anymore, 'cause it was totally OBVIOUS that the possible Dark wizard didn't even believe her when she was telling the mostly-truth. The ONLY part she'd left out was that she thought that maybe he'd been the one to draw the blood bird. And... She had taken what Dora had told her last term to heart. About not hurting Professor Myers's feelings and stuff unless she had solid proof that he was an evil Dark wizard. Which was half of why she'd left that part out; the other half was that, obviously, if he WAS an evil Dark wizard, she didn't want to tip him off to the fact that she was suspicious. She definitely should've asked Derf what he thought first. AND THEN... *"Fifty??!* But sir--"*, she spluttered in shock. Total and utter shock, 'cause even Zoryn had never lost so many points -- and Zoryn had actually hurt* a teacher (according to rumors) and done waaay worse stuff than sneaking out. The tears were definitely falling thick and fast now; the whoooole entire House was going to hate her for this. The comment about her parents slowed her tears up a little, though, and she fixed the Herbology professor with a defiant stare: *"Actually, my parents would be thrilled* if I died here. They told me as much last term."** She HATED it when adults did that; when they assumed that allll other adults were good people and that students were all just brats messing around and trodding on their wonderful parents' love. When hers had not only TOLD her the opposite, but one of them had landed her in St. Mungo's with injuries far worse than any she'd sustained at Hogwarts -- even when she'd gone into the Forbidden Forest last year. It took her about a minute to realize that she'd actually SAID something like that out loud; she hadn't said anything about her parents to an adult that she didn't completely trust before, and she immediately felt weird and wrong about it so she gulped and went on in a much softer tone of voice: "Sorry, Professor. Um...never mind..." Not that she had expected Professor Myers to really know all of that, though she was kind of surprised that he didn't know that Cami was her guardian. Only 'cause Cami always spoke realllly highly of all of the other professors, including him. The thought of Cami finding out that she'd lost fifty points AND gotten a detention made the tears splash down her cheeks again, though; she HATED disappointing Cami more than anything else, really. "I'm sorry, sir... I thought you sl-slept in the c-castle, and I d-didn't know about the alarms," she added back in her ~~sad~~ quiet tone. She tried to force her features into a polite smile but she couldn't really make them do it. Still, she'd been able to keep a SUPER polite tone of voice the whooole time ('cept for when she'd been talking about her parents 'cause talking about them always gave her a bad tone) so she went on:"It's okay, sir. I can cr-cross the lawns myself." She didn't think it was that far to the castle from here and she realllly just kind of wanted to get out of here before her sadness and shame and icky feelings turned into something worse, like anger. The slightly harder tone in her voice when she'd mentioned her parents hadn't been against the Herbology professor after all; it was anger and hurt and the loads of tangled emotions that she got ANY time she talked about her parents since last Christmas. When they'd started the process of kicking her out and--- And she realllly needed to go somewhere she could cry and maybe hit a pillow or something. Now, before she said something bad and lost even MORE points, since Professor Myers clearly hated her so much. The twelve-year-old aimed her still-lit wand tip at the floor and started carefully retracing her steps towards the door to the outside... They were good now, right?