 Mischievous Niffler
Alice briefly turned to see which student had requested her not to harm the annoying house elf. It was Chloe. Trying to seem as calm as possible (which was hard after being yelled at by a colleague and having a house elf climb up her), she replied in a hopefully non-scary way: "I wasn't going to hurt him. I was only getting him off me. Don't worry." Well actually, she DID want to hurt him - but mostly that was out of anger which would fade away in an hour or so. Even in her rage, she knew it would be bad to be threatening house elves in front of the entire school - and she did not want to make the students more upset than they were.
Speaking of which, WHY in Merlin's dirty socks was Professor Wayland acting as if SHE were the one who had swallowed Dolly?! In her mind, everything she said was perfectly right and good in dealing with dangerous monsters - but this care of magical creatures professor clearly disagreed. If not for the headmaster ordering them to stop, she would have shouted something right back at him - and it would have been nastier than anything she'd said so far. At this moment she was tempted to slap him, but of course she did no such thing. Instead she lowered her voice to almost a whisper and said in her iciest tone ever: "Why don't we talk about this in private, all right?" His office, more than likely, as she doubted he would come to hers.
The headmaster's threating her to find further employment was not helping her mood improve one bit. How dare he threaten her like that in front of all their students?! How dare he act like it was something that she was poor at magic, when she had informed him (just as she had informed her previous two bosses) at the start of term? She was a history of magic professor, not a charms professor! Casting magic was not part of the job description, and why didn't her dear boss fire her at the start of the term if he thought her poor magic would be an issue at further employment? Clearly, he was just mad that she wanted to kill the creatures - and this was just his way of telling her to shut up!
But being a Ravenclaw, Alice was intelligent enough to guess that she would have been fired at the spot if she tried arguing. Besides, it would be wrong to argue anymore when students were in danger. So instead she merely nodded, her expression cold and distant. "I understand, Headmaster."
"Ravenclaws!" Of course she was not head of Ravenclaw house, but all staff had just been instructed to accompany their students back to their common rooms - so that was the group she was with.
It was only then that she noticed Dolly. "Goodness!" she exclaimed in surprise, clutching her chest.
This was all very UNRULY! |