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accio.brain 
"Tell me about it," Tancred agreed, taking a quick glance to make sure Richardson wasn't looking over at them. They technically weren't getting a whole lot done. They had only just decided which sides they'd take. Boring. boring, boring. "Yeah. I really don't know what to say anyway. If people didn't want animals to have transfigurations spells casted on them, then there wouldn't be such spells and it clearly wouldn't be allowed if it actually harmed the creature." He shrugged. This was a pointless debate - like Professor Richardson. Completely pointless.
Tancred had expected Cale to just snap when he had mentioned the word 'snogging'. Luckily for the seventh year, the Gryffindor Prefect took it in quite a better way that was like he had expected something about the whole locker room incident to be mention. "Oh. Well, I - as well with Mia - had expected that ... well ... we only heard your voice and Anna's. So ... you kind of get the picture that ... well," he said, feeling guilty for asking right out of the blue if he had snogged Anna in the locker room. Then Cale said something about a meeting. "A meeting? What sort of a meeting?"
Cale rolled his eyes. "Well, um...how's this...animals cannot speak for themselves. For all we know, we could be hurting them when we transfigure them, just like it hurts us wizards when we transform into other forms. Therefore, we should just not allow transformation on animals at all, to be safe," he said. Wow, that was a load of rubbish. He had just thought it up on the spot. Not nearly enough to support himself in a real debate.
He had had a feeling that Tanc wouldn't let this go. Hmmm, maybe he should get around to telling him the actual truth. Why not now while they were planning these pointless debates. "Well, erm, ok...it wasn't exactly a prefect meeting. You see, I got an owl a few weeks ago from something called the Order of the Mane, and it sent me a riddle and said it needed my help getting some treasure," he explained, casting a glance back at the professor, who seemed to be paying attention to something else, "And then I found out that other people got those letters too. So, that's who was meeting in the locker room." he finished. He knew that the Hufflepuff would likely ask him more questions, but he wanted to see how he would react at first. Shocked? Annoyed that he hadn't told him sooner?