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Derf had seen the glimmer too and it was uncanny how Hogwarts students despite EVERYTHING still acted like moths to a flame, you know? Though he himself was acting rather like a niffler in the moment, seeing something golden and shiny and moving towards it...but then it was gone. Vanished. And it made the Hufflepuff pause as several of his classmates swam by him and IN to the cave along with Jessa.
Dark ominious mystery. Portal. Monster.
"NO GUYS WAIT!" he called out, his hand gripping his wand tightly and at the ready should something unsavory come out.
Which it did - though Derf was EXCITED to see these creatures despite their Dark status. And of course the creatures were acting hostile, they had just swam up and invaded their space - were these, perhaps, some of the grindylows that the merpeople had domesticated? Didn't mean they were going to listen to them or anything but he still found himself curious in the moment.
AND THEN PEOPLE WERE SHOOTING OFF SPELLS AT THE GRINDYLOWS AND THERE WAS RYLEE WITH REESE AND SDLFJDSLFJSJFLSLFSJ
Had the grindylows even properly attacked yet? His curiosity had been preoccupied elsewhere for a bit too long. Oops.
Heart pounding in his chest, Derf kicked his feet wildly and shot through the water like a frog just as Ewan shot...water (???) out of his wand at a grindylow lurking nearby. But his focus was on Rylee who who frozen in place. Grabbing the younger lioness by the arm, Derf yanked firmly and roughly to throw her backwards. Unfortunately, as was with the laws of physics and such, it produced an opposite reaction that flung HIM further into the mouth of the cave and towards his water demon friends.
And he was fairly certain that a Summoning Charm only worked on flobberworms. Poor flobberworms. Terribly underrated creatures, you know?
Wand in hand, and his back facing the cave, Derf pointed his wand out into the lake's waters. "Periculum!" he shouted, a jet of red blasting from his wand and in the direction from whence they had all come. That would hopefully draw Professor Wayland's attention. And Bartholomew Henry. And, you know, maybe the merpeople could help with their pets since, technically, Hogwarts had just help them with the hippocampus.
In any case... the fifth wasn't taking any chances here. Grindylows one-on-one were one thing...but who KNEW how many were in this cave.
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