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Cinn-O-Bun 
Miles walked into the Common Room quietly and closed the door behind him. He looked around at everyone, talking...mingling...blissfully unaware of the schools issues and his own. Who said ignorance wasn't bliss... Swallowing he moved toward the centre of the room and cleared his throat, "Could...could everyone come here please..." he said not nearly loud enough to be heard. He glanced down at his hands that he had stopped and bandaged and then back up. "Excuse me...I need your attention..." he said a little louder and sighed. He was too short for this room. Looking around again he spotted the coffee table and stood up on it so he was several heads taller than everyone, "HELLO! CAN EVERYONE STOP TALKING!"
He waited for the talking to die down and people to turn toward the crazed man on the table...him. "I'm here to inform you of what's going on and why you were all asked to come here. As you have noticed...we're missing one Prefect...things have been happening. Strange things and Headmaster Tate has asked for us to remain in our dormitories. The school has been placed on lockdown." There...it was said, why did it make him feel sick. He looked around, or tried to as his vision started to blur. Shaking his head to clear it he opened his eyes waiting for the onslaught of questions.
Maura was sort of vaguely aware, like in the back of her mind vaguely aware, that someone on the other side of the common room was trying to get the attention of the whole room. But she wasn't curious enough to check it out until said person started yelling. She turned in her chair to raise an eyebrow at the guy disrupting her peace, and put her feet up on the arm so as to sit more comfortably, twisted around backwards.
Lockdown? Maura's face went blank. She could hardly believe her own ears. As far as she was aware, Hogwarts had only gone into lockdown a handful of times, and that had all been years ago. Something pretty terrible must have been happening for this to occur. Maura figured at ordinarily, she'd have a thousand questions bouncing around against the walls of her head, but they all flew out as she thought about the situation.
Oh, this was not good.