 Little Fox | ½ of Lauralie | Ravenclaw with a Hufflepuff heart and a Gryffindor soul | #HouseNATARIANA
Tessa's gaze passed right over a younger student (Mark) who was....chewing on the Head Boy's robes and landed on Toddles. So much was happening so quickly that the number of students who seemed have itches went largely unnoticed. She had been so focused on waiting for Eleanor, Soraya and Alfie to show up, which they soon did, but Toddles' shouting was hard to miss, even with the blanketed noise of confused students and professors alike. His Fluffies... Why did that sound so familiar???
His Fluffsies...the pink furry creatures....were they one and the same?
What did Headmaster Trent mean by 'a situation'??? That was...vague, wasn't it? What happened if they fed them or held them or whatever? Surely they needed to know that. To be prepared. Maybe they didn't, but Tessa wanted to know anyway. And 'dearly loved, dearly missed'??? That wasn't something you said unless........
It was at that moment that she heard Zoryn (VERY loudly) come to the same conclusion she had. That Professor Dopple was.....dead. She blinked. That was a very strange thing to try process, especially when it hadn't been confirmed. She wasn't close to Dopple by any means, she liked her alright - she was okay - but.....she was dead? That was.....something she didn't know how to process. And to make things worse, Professor O'Hara was addressing the Headmaster rather loudly and Tessa heard the phrases 'They all must DIE!' and 'ratface vermin', which seemed...a poor way to handle the situation. She exchanged a look with Soraya. This was madness. She clutched the hands of her boyfriend and little sister and kissed their cheeks before they went to join their Head of House.
Then, - just when she thought things couldn't get any more chaotic - she heard a voice. Dopple's voice. For a moment, she thought she had gone crazy, which, really, would be understandable in this situation, but no.....other people seemed to have heard it, too. She turned slowly and stared, bug eyed, at the GHOST of their Charms teacher. Professor Dopple was a ghost. An unexpected laugh escaped her lips. This was.... Wow. Wow. 'Has a Professor been injured?' Uh, yeah, you could say that. Shock made this situation...almost funny, but she still thought it even more shocking when students, seemingly unfazed, informed the DEAD PROFESSOR that she was, well, just that - dead. And they didn't do it kindly, either. 'You're a ghost' wasn't exactly the most sensitive thing to say to a person that didn't even realise that they were dead. Wow. And 'made a meal of'????? Who said things like that so casually?????
She was wrong again. Things could get even more chaotic. It seemed that Toddles had heard Professor O'Hara's rant about killing the creatures and was NOT happy about it. Tessa's head whipped around just in time to see the house elf FLING himself at the History of Magic professor, crying out that no harm would come to Fluffsies.
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This was madness. |