| Jarvey
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Just found this thread. Looks like fun! For starters, this was pretty funny... SPOILER!!: Vandals! Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro-Opera Jungian  Lannes walked down the damp dungeon corridors towards the common room. Turning to the door he came upon some graffiti off to the side. In the darkness of the dungeons it was near invisible, but when Lannes grabbed at his wand and said
"Lumos."
the dungeon corridor lit up. The graffiti was rather long actually, and Lannes was shocked to find it in such a nice castle. Drawing closer, he read some of the lines: After taking notice of this Lannes mused
"Well apparently Leroy's spelling isn't."
He took out a red pen and then began correcting 'Leroy's' sentence, but just when he finished he would find more. This entire dark section of the wall was covered with it.
"They have run-on sentences, they capitalize everything and their spelling is deplorable! What is this school teaching?"
He then set himself to correct the graffiti, making note of errors and replacing the misspelled words as he lectured on and on to no one. Quote:
Originally Posted by Antarctica! Humming to herself, Kiri removed the heaviest of her books from her bag and threw them onto her bed. She and Nancy had decided they'd show that boy Lannes around a little today, and Kiri did not want back pains afterwards. As she zipped the bag shut, she reminded herself not to forget about her Arithmancy homework later.
She hurried downstairs and out of the common room. Closing the door and putting on a smile, she turned around. "Alright, Lannes, let's g-..." Uh oh. Lannes was not there, waiting for her. He had run off.
She cursed inwardly. She'd told him what she'd gone to do. It couldn't have taken her more than a few minutes, but no. He was gone. Which was most definitely not a good thing. Kiri had no clue where Nancy was, either. She set off at speed down the corridor.
One corner down, Kiri found him. At least, she was forced to accept she had. It was unlikely she was hallucinating - even though the situation looked utterly bizarre. Lannes was peacefully scribbling away on one of the walls of the corridor. She hurried closer. "What," she hissed, "in the name of Merlin's dyslexic scribe do you think you're doing?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Nancy had dashed down the flight of stairs which lead to the Dungeons, and therefore also their Common Room, to simply throw all your stuff onto her bed in the dormitories before without another glance back if she hadn't just killed somebody by throwing a book at her she ran down into the Common Room again. She was late. Well, duh, obviously. She had been doing her Arithmancy homework, finished it actually, but of course had not looked at the time at all. And now she was late. Late for her and Kiri's showing this Lannes boy around Hogwarts. Hopefully she wouldn't be angry...talking of whom, where was Kiri actually? Or Lannes?
After a few unsuccessful scans around the Common Room in search for either of the two Nancy decided to go look outside in the Dungeon Corridor for them. Maybe they had already started without her. Running a hand through her dark-blonde hair she let her blue eyes wander down the corridor and really, there they were. "Oi! Kiri! Lannes! Sorry I'm late. I was doing my Arithmancy homework and sorta...uhm...forgot the time. So..." Nancy trailed off as she reached the two, her facial expression changing from surprise into a huge frown. "What the heck are you doing?!" Her blue eyes darted back and forth between the writing on the wall and Lannes who was holding a pen in his hand, before turning to stare at Kiri. "What is going on here?!" Please, don't let Kazi come now! They would be in soo much trouble.
Eep!! Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro-Opera Jungian There was a awkward silence for a minute.
A long minute.
Finally, Lannes responded.
"I'm fixing these Vandal's grammar, what does it look like?"
Lannes looked over and saw Nancy as well. He looked at both of them with his dark blue eyes, completely bewildered why his behavior struck them as odd. Quote:
Originally Posted by Antarctica! A few years ago, Kiri's parents had taken her along to an art gallery. Lots of strangely-dressed people had stood in little groups and stared at even stranger paintings, installations and sculptures. The art had made no sense at all to her - most of it had appeared to be random dashes of paint on white canvas. Or bent bits of metal.
It seemed to her, however, that one of the picture in that art gallery could have depicted the scene in front of her eyes. A young boy calmly correcting spelling mistakes another person had etched into a blackened stone wall? That sounded about right.
"Lannes," she said to Nancy (how glad Kiri was she was there now) with forced calm, "is, as you can see, correcting spelling mistakes on the wall. I'm, er, not sure why he's doing that, though." She turned and glared at the boy. It didn't help that they were practically the same height - her glare was rather ineffective. "Why are you doing that, Lannes?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro-Opera Jungian The two stared at one another for some time again. Lannes was bewildered why she would be shocked by his actions. He then responded
"Because it is misspelled."
He knew there that his answer wouldn't suffice.
"You see, if we just walk idly by as someone makes a mistake, then they view it as an act of affirmation. Instead, I am merely showing these wretched barbarians that if they wish to be vandals, at least they should honor their pen and spell correctly. Now you understand."
He doubted if they did, or if they understood any of his actions. He thought to himself, wondering, they probably think it's weird that I can't catch a football ball, wait...that's a muggle sport... Quote:
Originally Posted by Antarctica! The surreal scene would not, apparently, end just yet. Kiri glared at the dark wall as if it was at fault for allowing students to scribble all over it. "Yes, yes," she said testily, "we know it's misspelled. I may not be in Ravenclaw, but even I can tell you it's not 'poofessor', Lannes. The point was... the point is..." She stopped herself, with difficulty, from pinching her arm to make certain she was not dreaming. Why was she discussing misspelled graffiti with this boy? She glanced at Nancy. The girl seemed to be as... confused as Kiri was. Not much help, basically.
"The point is..." A whiff of sulphur reached Kiri's nostrils. Ah, yes. That was what she'd wanted to say. "Look," she said urgently, "you know where we are, right?" Answering her own question, Kiri continued, "We're in the Dungeons. Know what else is here besides Slytherin? The Potions classroom. Professor," her hiss of the S was worthy of a serpent, "Kazimeriz's classroom. If he finds you, you're done for. Nancy and I too, by the way," she added as an unwelcome afterthought. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Nancy could only blink at the scene in front of her, with Lannes holding up this red pen obviously scribbling stuff onto one of the Dungeon Corridor walls while Kiri seemed to be just as dumbfounded as she was. This couldn't be real. No, it just couldn't. This had to be a dream. And a bad one that was for sure. A nightmare to be exact. A horrible nightmare. However, giving the thing a name did not lessen the badness of it all. And above all, some part of the 15 year old's brain told her that it was in fact not a nightmare at all but reality. Jeez! What had she done to deserve all this?!
Like in trance Nancy slowly directed her blue eyes at Kiri as the younger girl started to talk in hopes to bring some sense to this whole scene. However, this was not exactly the case. Correcting spelling mistakes?! "You are just correcting spelling mistakes?! Oh, that is just...that is..." Trailing off at a lack of how to go on Nancy gave Lannes an incredulous look as the boy started explaining why he was doing whatever he was doing just like it was perfectly reasonable. Which it was not. Which it was so not. "Oh, Kiri, listen, it's not that bad. He's right. We have to let the poor vandals know that they are suffering from a bad case of Dyslexia." You could harldy miss the sarcastic tone in Nancy's voice as she shook her head in disbelief while continuing staring at Lannes.
Nancy panted slightly as she looked back and forth between Kiri and Lannes, trying hard to not tackle the boy right then. And. It. Was. Hard. Clenching and unclenching her fists she tried to calm down while Kiri started talking again. But her words did not exactly help Nancy calm down. Not at all. Her blue eyes widened as she took in what exactly that meant for them namely a lot of detention, plus probably a lot of lost points for Slytherin. "Get away from that wall RIGHT NOW!" She more like barked at Lannes, her eyes shooting daggers at him. If he didn't follow her orders you could be quite certain she would find some other way to get him away from that wall. And he certainly would not like that. Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro-Opera Jungian Staring at both of them, Lannes then said the following two words in a perfect and slow pronunciation:
"Pish-Tosh."
"This is simply correcting vandalism, not adding to it, the professor should be fine. I mean, really, look at this, so many contributors. Why, I've read anthologies with less contributors."
Then he resumed his usual speaking manner as he continued, pacing around the corridor.
"Why, I'd wager that this professor of yours is a rather understanding sort, and actually..." he then drew closer to both of them. "I wouldn't e surprised if you see the Slytherin points go up a little higher if he comes upon this scene."
At the end of her outburst and her sarcastic remarks, Lannes stood there, with a mildly confused gaze on her.
"Were those dyslexia comments sarcastic?"
A pause lulled for a moment and he sensed the answer was yes.
"Regardless, I honestly don't know why either of you have any reason to act so maliciously, most the time I hardly make note of your existence."
Lannes was confused by Kiri and Nancy, why they blow up just for someone correcting spelling mistakes. Despite this being such a trivial matter, it was troubling to Lannes, who was muggle born. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Pish-Tosh?! Nancy didn't even bother asking the boy what exactly it was he was talking about. It didn't matter after all. Because something told her that he was crazy. Completely, utterly crazy. And he so didn't get the whole situation. How dangerous this whole thing could be or probably already was. For all three of them. "I...uhm...you...Kiri?!" The 15 year old half-shrieked her friend's name in the end, looking at her, the panic obvious in her eyes, for help with this boy. Because, seriously, right now, she was at a lack of what to say. This was just too ridiculous.
...and he really had the nerves to actually ask her if there might have been a hint of sarcasm in her voice there. Still panting rather heavily after her little outburst Nancy simply stared at the boy for a few moments in disbelief. Turning on the spot once she really had no idea how to proceed or how to reply to his questions so the only thing she ended up saying, no, more like shrieking, was "Jeez!" Then after a few more deep breaths she added gulping once or twice, "You have no idea...you really don't. If Kazi finds you here. If he finds us here, we're...we're..." Dead? "You have no idea what he will do. Can you imagine how this must look to him?! This whole writing on the wall and You. Holding. A. Pen!" She emphasized each of her last words so maybe now he would get what he had gotten himself into.
Maybe. Okay, probably not. Quote:
Originally Posted by Antarctica! "He is not the understanding sort," Kiri hissed. "And stop walking around like that. I don't like being lectured." She crossed her arms huffily and listened to Nancy, but both of them could have been talking to the stone wall because Lannes simply did not get it. Unless, of course, it was Nancy and Kiri who didn't get it - but what was there not to understand? People were not supposed to write on walls, of course, but Kiri wasn't sure that correcting their spelling was any better. It was still scribbling around on a defenceless (even at Hogwarts) wall.
"'Correcting vandalism'," she said, unfolding her arms and making ridiculously hyperbolic quote signs in the air with her fingers, "would mean cleaning this wall. Actually, I think that could be what we'd be forced to do if Professor Kazimeriz happens to find out. It'd be every wall in the entire castle, of course." Kiri snorted. "Why are we even discussing this? Stop correcting the stupid mistakes. Oh," she added as an afterthought, replaying the boy's comments in her head, "and if you seriously think there's any way we would get additional points for this, I'll have to admit you're the best deadpan comedian I've ever seen." Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro-Opera Jungian OOC: I've been out of the town for a while, but now I'm back 
"Ah" Lannes said in perfect pronunciation, then stopped and stared at the two for a minute. Finally he realized that they were waiting for a response.
"Oh," he said pretentiously, "So that is your point? Very well then, I'll stop, though I honestly don't get your reasoning, mainly due to the fact that authority is punishment, not a cause. Regardless, if you want me to cease writing on walls I shall. So then I suppose we shall leave..." then in an instant he grabbed out the pen and signed on the wall Quote: Vandalism brought to you by Kiri Starstalker, grammar editing brought to you by Nancy Hudonson Throwing the pen up in the air he stood back and shouted over-dramatically
"Ahaha! I struck a blow for justice! No one can silence my pen!"
Then he ran down the corridor, cheering nebulous shouts of triumph in foreign languages.
Ok... it's kinda long. But funny!
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