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Charles Hollingberry EraAll historical records pertaining to Ministry of Magic RPG under Minister for Magic, Charles Hollingberry [IC March 2097 - present; OOC November 2018 - present]
Here is it folks, the big kahuna! The line out the door was definitely worth the wait once you reach the queue leading to the Main Buffet section of the food court. Tray after tray of steaming dishes and cooled tables of salad wait for all you hungry workers. There's plenty of it to go around, too, so don't you worry. Keep in mind what you might want, because there are far too many choices to make it a last minute affair. Now what will it be, the Caesar Salad....or the steak and kidney pie? Eat up!
• HuffleStud • Knight of The Zodiac • Manly Beard-Grower • Cicatrice de Harry •
It had been quite a morning for Val, he had reports to file regarding the distant terrestrial planet a few galaxies over. There had some extra activity surrounding its orbit that he was investigating the age on in order to determine the entire galaxy's age itself and... well, given the amount of work required he had to take his lunch break eventually. One of the best things on working in the lower levels was the prime location on the food.
As Val approached the Food Court, he began to realize just how famished he was. The aroma of the food today was quite strong, quickening his pace. He wasn't a Foodie by nature but today seemed to suggest otherwise.. and then he arrived. Val collected a plate and took a moment to gaze intensely on the selection. Kidney pie, Bangers and mash, Fish and chips, Toad in the hole.. such heavy foods. Ordinarily the French man would choose otherwise but today... today... The sight seemed to have been lost on him for a brief moment before an inner voice spoke to him.
He had to have it.
NOW..
Val's eyes seem to have lost its usual intense look, glazing over as if mesmerised. He looked down at his plate. There's no way all of that can fit on the plate. He dropped it letting it smash on the floor. He was far too famished to waste time putting it on the plate as he climbed over the bar onto the trays of food. Ignoring how messy his clothes were getting, he took a sausage and bit into it.
Mmmm.... Merlin was good.
He didn't even finish the rest before he scooped up some mashed potatoes and stuffed it into his mouth next. Mmmm.. He wanted more. Using his other hand he scooped some more mashed potatoes and proceeded to mash his hands onto his face surrounding the mouth as if forcing his cheeks to vacuum up the potatoey goodness.
As Val approached the Food Court, he began to realize just how famished he was. The aroma of the food today was quite strong, quickening his pace. He wasn't a Foodie by nature but today seemed to suggest otherwise.. and then he arrived. Val collected a plate and took a moment to gaze intensely on the selection. Kidney pie, Bangers and mash, Fish and chips, Toad in the hole.. such heavy foods. Ordinarily the French man would choose otherwise but today... today... The sight seemed to have been lost on him for a brief moment before an inner voice spoke to him.
He had to have it.
Val's eyes seem to have lost its usual intense look, glazing over as if mesmerised. He looked down at his plate. There's no way all of that can fit on the plate. He dropped it letting it smash on the floor. He was far too famished to waste time putting it on the plate as he climbed over the bar onto the trays of food. Ignoring how messy his clothes were getting, he took a sausage and bit into it.He didn't even finish the rest before he scooped up some mashed potatoes and stuffed it into his mouth next. Mmmm.. He wanted more. Using his other hand he scooped some more mashed potatoes and proceeded to mash his hands onto his face surrounding the mouth as if forcing his cheeks to vacuum up the potatoey goodness.
Laurel headed down to the Food Court accompanied by the growling and loud hunger sounds her stomach was making and it was heard by others too which was showed by the stares she got from other employees. Blushingly embarassed she had quickened her steps to get out of their vision. Laurel had eaten a big breakfast, more than usual even but she was already famished and it was not her fault. She did though loose track of time and had forgotten to eat her regular fruit snack when she had been interpreting prophecies and creating the orbs for them in the hall of prophecies, but she usually didn’t get this famished...It was weird.
As she came into the buffet she spotted Val ontop of the bar, smashing his face with all types of food not caring that he acted like a 2 year old. Laurel opened her mouth to point this out to him but her eyes glazed over and when she chirped out eagerly it was in a totally different tone that first intended. "Is the mashy potatoes as gooeily delicious as they look Val? And the sausage and the kidney pie too?" Coming to a stop by the largest sallad bowl and looked down at all the vegetables, feeling her mouth water. Withouth another thought she stuck her head into the sallad bowl with her mouth open wide to eat as much as feel the vegetables on her skin and tongue…….
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SPOILER!!: Val and Laurel! <3
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Originally Posted by Charely Potter
It had been quite a morning for Val, he had reports to file regarding the distant terrestrial planet a few galaxies over. There had some extra activity surrounding its orbit that he was investigating the age on in order to determine the entire galaxy's age itself and... well, given the amount of work required he had to take his lunch break eventually. One of the best things on working in the lower levels was the prime location on the food.
As Val approached the Food Court, he began to realize just how famished he was. The aroma of the food today was quite strong, quickening his pace. He wasn't a Foodie by nature but today seemed to suggest otherwise.. and then he arrived. Val collected a plate and took a moment to gaze intensely on the selection. Kidney pie, Bangers and mash, Fish and chips, Toad in the hole.. such heavy foods. Ordinarily the French man would choose otherwise but today... today... The sight seemed to have been lost on him for a brief moment before an inner voice spoke to him.
He had to have it.
NOW..
Val's eyes seem to have lost its usual intense look, glazing over as if mesmerised. He looked down at his plate. There's no way all of that can fit on the plate. He dropped it letting it smash on the floor. He was far too famished to waste time putting it on the plate as he climbed over the bar onto the trays of food. Ignoring how messy his clothes were getting, he took a sausage and bit into it.
Mmmm.... Merlin was good.
He didn't even finish the rest before he scooped up some mashed potatoes and stuffed it into his mouth next. Mmmm.. He wanted more. Using his other hand he scooped some more mashed potatoes and proceeded to mash his hands onto his face surrounding the mouth as if forcing his cheeks to vacuum up the potatoey goodness.
This was wonderful.
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Laurel headed down to the Food Court accompanied by the growling and loud hunger sounds her stomach was making and it was heard by others too which was showed by the stares she got from other employees. Blushingly embarassed she had quickened her steps to get out of their vision. Laurel had eaten a big breakfast, more than usual even but she was already famished and it was not her fault. She did though loose track of time and had forgotten to eat her regular fruit snack when she had been interpreting prophecies and creating the orbs for them in the hall of prophecies, but she usually didn’t get this famished...It was weird.
As she came into the buffet she spotted Val ontop of the bar, smashing his face with all types of food not caring that he acted like a 2 year old. Laurel opened her mouth to point this out to him but her eyes glazed over and when she chirped out eagerly it was in a totally different tone that first intended. "Is the mashy potatoes as gooeily delicious as they look Val? And the sausage and the kidney pie too?" Coming to a stop by the largest sallad bowl and looked down at all the vegetables, feeling her mouth water. Withouth another thought she stuck her head into the sallad bowl with her mouth open wide to eat as much as feel the vegetables on her skin and tongue…….
The sense of touch HAD to be her favourite.
Or maybe it was the sense of taste.
“Touch,’’ Megan muttered to herself. Both of her hands were slowly gliding over everything that came in her way: walls, furniture, even one or two persons on their hands and faces. This was her behaviour for the past few weeks. Needless to say, she had received weird and shocked looks. She had meticulously researched on the human senses using as many scientific books that she could find. It was particularly interesting and intricating, the way the human body was designed. It certain made for the most promising and best host.
At least, this woman’s body was the perfect host.
“Smell,’’ said another voice in her head. Megan sniffed and sniffed. The Buffet area... SUCH DELICIOUSNESS lived here! “Move over!’’ Without so much of a please, she attempted to elbow the other two away who were stuffing their faces.
There was chicken, sausages, salad, pies... oh, where to begin?
How about EVERYWHERE? The blond scooped all the things in reach in her hands and began to cram it all into her mouth.
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It had been a busy morning. Paperwork, permits, requests, denials, proofing, yada yada. It was one of those weeks where the paperwork seemed to be endless and her bum had practically been glued to her chair. She had added some cushioning charms to it, so it wasn't uncomfortable, but her legs were getting quite restless.
Since it was about lunch time, January grabbed a file folder that she could look over while on the go and headed to the atrium to stretch her legs and get a few more steps into her day - more than she would have if she had stayed holed up in her office.
You know, sometimes January missed her days back in the Creatures department, chasing ghosts and working out in the field. She had gained some weight since then, but she had also had a child ten years ago too, and her body hadn't been the sa--
.....
Strange noises and movements out of the corner of her eye had drawn January's attention from her file. And what she discovered ON the food buffets was quite... disturbing.
And so incredibly perplexing. January had to stare and blink her eyes a few times to make sure she wasn't imagining... adult humans... devouring the food buffet... like savages... IN the food. And January was... frozen.
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Having just left his morning classes at uni, Ronan hadn't even time to stop for lunch before making the mad dash over to the Ministry to start his shift. Something he was hoping to correct now by heading down to the food court.
As he reached the main buffet, however, it seemed like his body was going to be denied its much-needed subsistence yet again. The reason this time? People actually sitting in the food (including Professor Vance?) and shoveling it into their mouths as if they had been raised in a barn or something, with the Senior Undersecretary just....standing there watching. There was something very obviously wrong with the people on the buffet, since a quick glance into their eyes revealed blank stares. And still the Undersecretary was standing by, letting it happen, just like she obviously had with the Minister Nickels fiasco. "You're just useless in every situation, aren't you?" he hissed, brushing past the shocked Bones and towards the buffet.
"Oi, you lot! Why don't come off there now and let this mess get cleaned up?" Of course, he had his wand at the ready, just in case it was needed. Plus, two meerkat patronuses were sent upstairs to find Mr. Cullough and Minister Hollingberry.
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• HuffleStud • Knight of The Zodiac • Manly Beard-Grower • Cicatrice de Harry •
MMmm fresh potatoes, sausages, beans, fish chips. Val just couldn't bare to stop. This food was so GOOOOOOOD. His face, clothes were ridden with the food residue before he heard voices. Wasn't that Laurel, his brother-in-law's sister? It was! "Ith V-reh. GOO!" Val managed to spit out in between bites. He was sad each time he swallowed as that meant wasted time for not enjoying the food. WHen he saw Laurel stick her head in the salad like an Ostrich..
"Ha ha... AH ha haha." Val couldn't help it. It was funny. But.. some for reason he liked laughing. It was funny. Seeing people look at him a certain way and the sound of his own laugh was pleasing. But... just like the food, he couldn't stop laughing. "Ah ahahahahahaaahaaha!" The whole scene, his messy clothes. Him climbing on the bar. It was quite hilarious. And now he was laughing at himself over it. How funny! " AHahahahaha." Well, until he was pushed by Megan.
Val gasped. How dare she push him and get into HIS section of the food? "That's MINE!" Val scooped up some beans and had a thought. Wait. This is also funny. " Hahahaha, have some of this too. It's delicious!" He then poured it over the sections Megan and Laurel were eating from... before scooping up some of the salad and chicken to stuff his face with.
After some time he heard footsteps and a loud voice. Why? Why did everyone want to interrupt his food time? This glorious food was everything to Val in this moment. Something in him couldn't comprehend the situation at hand.
Val turned his head, showcasing all the mess in his face and front side of his attire. Seeing January and one of the younger Aurors-in-Training watching. "Hehehe..." Clean up? Now THAT was funny. "AHehehehe... Have some of this!" Then he scooped up some of the mince meat pie and threw it in their direction. " Ahehehahahahahaaha."
That's what they came here for right? They wanted a taste of the delicious food.
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With ears like his, it didn't take long for Maddox to hear the commotion coming from the food court. It'd been a quick run down to the atrium with every intention of disappearing back to level three but...well....he wasn't entirely sure what he was hearing. As it turned out, moving to the source to see didn't clarify things in the slightest.
Maddox came to a stop by January, feeling suddenly rather tired. Was it just him or did this entire scene look exhausting?
Someone would have to clean this up, someone would have to get these people off the-- "Megan?" Sweet Circe now he was obligated to care. What in Merlin's soggy pants was his employee doing up there with that pair (Val and Laurel)? No. Nooo. If he didn't ask, there wouldn't be an answer and he wouldn't have to put much effort into this.
With brows raised, he watched the young boy (Ronan) try to coax them off with words--because people who've obviously lost their mind enough to be on tables stuffing their faces and throwing food would CLEARLY respond to a few words. Quick guess, he'd never been a Ravenclaw.
When he was sufficiently worn out from watching the antics unfold, Maddox looked to January again. "As God awful as this sounds, we may need to do something about it." Couldn't just LEAVE them there....or they could but then if that got out later there would be inquiries and that sounded like a lot more work then ending it here. "Alright, wands out." He said, drawing his own. "First step is getting them away from the food, then someone have a look at them, see what's got them so zonked."
And with a flick of his own, he sent a levitating spell at Megan, trusting January and the boy to take the other two. No need to prolong the mess making.
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Evangeline was present, but not visible. Keeping herself disillusioned, as she had done for the last several weeks while she was on watch for the Senior Undersecretary, the Auror had followed the woman from her office, keeping silent. It was her job, after all, to protect her. While the job had been mostly mundane, there were always opportunities for something to happen, so Evangeline remained focused and consistent. As did her partner.
That day seemed to take an interesting turn when they arrived at the food court. She was skeptical at first, since it had been advised that January not eat food prepared by anyone other than herself, but her focus took a turn when she took in the scene that was happening ON the buffets. Once Mrs. Bones froze, Evangeline crept up beside her, wand out in case this strange scene were to come to something more.
Ugh, of course the YATI had to show up. She despised him. And to make matters worse, he had a loud mouth. That comment flagged him though, and Evangeline made a mental note to keep an extra eye on him. And perhaps request permission to look into his file. As he moved on, though, Evangeline placed a shield charm around the Senior Undersecretary. They both had jobs to do and her job was to make sure that Mrs. Bones stayed clean and uninjured while she did hers.
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Before she could take in more of the scene, January was taken aback by the comment that came from the young man that entered the food court next. "You're just useless in every situation, aren't you?" January's ears turned red, at first out of embarrassment, and then out of anger. Who was that? That thought he could talk to her like that? Did he know she could have him fired in an instant? It wasn't like her to do so, but she was almost tempted to considering the similarly worded letters that sat heavily on her desk.
Shaking her head from the thoughts and removing her wand from its holster, January brought herself back to the situation on hand, noting the two patronuses that the young man had sent away. And just a moment later, Maddox had appeared by her side, looking just as excited as she was to try and fix this... somehow. Clearly something was... off. And they would need to be detained. And examined. She nodded at Maddox's suggestion, which echoed her thoughts, and followed his execution - but not without noticing that some food that had been thrown at them had mysteriously bounced off an invisible force field that she herself had not put up. Though she hadn't expected her Auror to follow her, she was quite glad that they had.
January sent a levitation spell to Val with the intention of bringing him away from the food. Perhaps the snarky YATI would see and follow suit with the last one.
"Should we take them to your level?" she asked Maddox. Did this... qualify as a catastrophe?
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The young man saw nothing funny about this whole situation. At all. Especially having to quickly dodge a....ew....meat pie at least it wasn't a people pie, eh? one of the buffet-planted people threw his direction. He was in the process of raising his wand when two things happened almost simultaneously. The first being the appearance of the A&C head, the other being the appearance of a shield around Bones. "There's someone else here, someone disillusioned!" he exclaimed as a warning, casting a silent Revelio to hopefully force said person to, well, reveal themselves. After all, for all they knew, it could be the person responsible for the whole mess in the first place. Though, why they'd want to protect the Senior Undersecretary he didn't know...unless the person wanted to deal with her personally or something. Or it was her or someone associated with her that was responsible for this mess. Either way, one didn't graduate Hogwarts (or grow up with his mum) without learning about constant vigilance and that definitely applied here.
Did he know or care that his snarky comment may have made Shacklebolt and Bones suspicious of him? Not in the slightest. Though, if he knew about the letters, he would've been inclined to agree with them. Not the 'death' part, but everything else.
Anyway, he agreed with the A&C guy's words. That, after all, had been what he was trying to do, without the chance of injuring someone. Ronan wasn't quite so certain that levitating them was the best idea, though. All it would take was one accidental bump of the head on a doorway..... Seeing as the other two already had two of the people though, the Auror-in-training didn't see much room for argument. So, he sent a levitation spell at Former Professor Vance with a "Watch your head." What? He didn't want to hurt his former Divination professor.
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This body was the perfect host. She let her senses be open to all SMELLs, and TOUCHing and TASTINg just like she preferred it. She was in heaven. The food galore with all the veggies, pies, salads, sausages, fishes and the CHIPS it was just all so delicious and to be stuffing her mouth full to her heart’s content with no need to stop was just amazing.
Laurel was just so happy where stood with her head in the salad munching on a cucumber when she felt herself being shoved sideways. Gasping and getting automatically angry she looked over at Megan and hissed "What was that for?" Food shoving was so not okay in her book. There was plenty for Megan too. Turning back to the food she saw now that some of the beans that Val had threw over had fallen to the floor, getting the acute urge and want to lick the beans up with her tounge Laurel crouched down on all fours and to do just that. LICK! LICK! LICK! "Yummy Beansssssssssssssss!" she chirped happily.
Behind her Laurel heard feet moving and voices but she ignored them. FOOD was important nothing else. She registered a boy voice (Ronan) and man voice (Maddox) that sounded very familiar to her but she couldn’t for the life of her place them at all even if she would have done normally. Feeling herself being lifted up into the air Laurel shrieked anxiously "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I Want to Eat delicious foooooooood!" Grabbing onto the nearest fork and spoon she threw it at the boy with his wand raised at her. "You are supposed to be nice, why aren't you nice?."
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The arrival of a meerkat patronus to his office had certainly taken Charles by surprise, particularly since he did not know to whom the patronus belonged to other than it was none of his department heads seeing as he had clocked all those to memory for emergency purposes. But the silvery rodent had been so persistent that he leave his paperwork and follow that, well, Charles obliged and shuffled out of his office with his dark crimson robes billowing behind him...
...to the food court?
Charles was instantly on edge considering that here had been the source of much of the chaos caused by the former Minister, though there was a bit of relief in seeing that January and Maddox were already present - which also meant the presence of one or two aurors as well.
As for the scene at hand, well, under other circumstances he may have found it comical. It reminded him very much of his grandchildren - the triplets - at dinner time where all of them ended up wearing their spaghetti and very little of it actually getting into their mouths.
"I followed the meerkat...." he informed those not acting like complete toddlers just as the silvery patronus returned to its caster and dissipated into thin air. "Maddox. January. One of you care to debrief me?"
And yes, his wand was out in one hand. And a packet of yogurt covered raisins in the other. He had been snacking while doing his paperwork, you see.
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The young man saw nothing funny about this whole situation. At all. Especially having to quickly dodge a....ew....meat pie at least it wasn't a people pie, eh? one of the buffet-planted people threw his direction. He was in the process of raising his wand when two things happened almost simultaneously. The first being the appearance of the A&C head, the other being the appearance of a shield around Bones. "There's someone else here, someone disillusioned!" he exclaimed as a warning, casting a silent Revelio to hopefully force said person to, well, reveal themselves. After all, for all they knew, it could be the person responsible for the whole mess in the first place. Though, why they'd want to protect the Senior Undersecretary he didn't know...unless the person wanted to deal with her personally or something. Or it was her or someone associated with her that was responsible for this mess. Either way, one didn't graduate Hogwarts (or grow up with his mum) without learning about constant vigilance and that definitely applied here.
The silent Revelio sent into the air of the food court by the young auror in training was met with disappointing silence. Whether or not there was anyone lurking in the shadows, no person happened to appear after the spell was cast. In fact, nothing at all very interesting happened except for a tray of dirty dishes, left over food bits and used napkins appearing on one of the tables.
It seemed someone had not wanted to make the trip to the rubbish bin a few days ago. Smelled a bit, too, didn't it?
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Was Val going to fight her? Megan was more than willing and ready to fight back... WITH FOOOOOOOD! Fortunately or unfortunately, that wasn’t needed. “Thanks. Here, have some fish fingers.’’ And she threw a few at his face. He was on the bar and maybe she should join him. But what was the sense in that? Up there or down here, she still got food. Down here she got Laurel too. Megan idly patted her in apology. Research claimed that most humans liked human contact.
Megan was completely oblivious to the attention she and the other two were attracting. Her mouth was still full to capacity when someone called them out. Looking over, she saw faces, some familiar and some not. Was it that kid who called them out? The audacity. The blond paid no attention to him. Who did he think he was? Val had the right idea though. “Mashed potatoes for everyone!’’ Throw, throw! Handfuls upon handfuls were wildly tossed at them. Why not share the glorious and tastee foods? Megan’s research had told her that quite a lot of humans were food junkies.
Wasn’t that her boss? Yes, it was. The woman took proper aim. Didn’t want to have him miss out on these yummy mashed potatoes. She let the food fly. But what was this? Why was she suddenly off the ground? The phenomenon momentarily puzzled her. This was magic. Yes, this host was a witch and worked in the Wizarding World. It meant that a wizard or fellow witch was doing this. “Put me DOWN! I NEED TO EAT MOREEE! NEED TO TASTE!’’ She tried to thrash around in hopes of setting her feet on the ground.
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He'd heard the young man caution a heads up and truly became more alert. If the boy was incapable of casting a simple levitation spell without someone getting hurt then he'd rather remain at his sharpest senses for them both. Honestly, it was a simple enough movement and you controlled how swiftly and how high they rose, if he couldn't handle that then maybe someone else would have to.
Just in case, Maddox moved Megan a little to the right to avoid Laurel. Just case. No need for accidents added to the catastrophe.
The mashed potatoes she'd thrown...well...he didn't bothered ducking. It was a lot of effort, y'know? Blocking, that whole shielding business then continuing the the levitating. Oi vey. He'd pass on that. "My department works." He replied to January's question. It was hard to ignore the senseless shouting of the three but he was doing his best.
The Department Head did, however, feel a headache coming on when the Minister arrived, for no other reason than that the man was loud. Not quite Airey Flamsteed loud but he'd give him a good run before conceding. Thankfully, this was not one of those times. THANKFULLY."Walked in and found them having a food fight. Monstrous stuff, loud shouts, food everywhere, fighting. Wednesday, basically." It was, sadly, typical of the ministry by now. He yawned then, his canines on display but no particular urgency in his speech. "We're taking them back to Level 3 to have a look at them, make sure it's nothing more than a little midday madness."
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Ronan cringed as Professor Vance started crying out. See why he'd tried the coaxing first? Now things were going to get loud in here and they'd probably all have headaches by the time this whole thing was over. And, no, he wasn't going to share his aspirin with anyone (though these people would probably prefer their easily tampered with headache potions, anyway), before anyone asked. And now the fork and spoon headed his direction were proving why he'd given the witch the 'watch your head' warning as he dodged the flying silverware. He did manage to avoid hitting the floating woman's head against anything, however.
His cringe briefly became a smile as one of his patronuses returned to him, the Minister following. But, where was McCullough? Because he needed to know about this mysterious disillusioned person. What if they were the culprit, returning to the scene of the crime to watch in amusement?
And there went the other witch. Yep, brilliant idea there Mr. A&C head. Maybe next they could juggle them?/sarcasm "There's a little more to it, Minister. They're clearly cursed or possessed, just look at their eyes." So clearly not just a case of 'midday madness' as the A&C head had so eloquently put it. And yes, he was holding the information about the disillusioned person until he got a chance to tell his boss. Whenever he chose to show up.
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It was cute that the little YATI thought his simple revealing charm would be able to unmask the spells that Evangeline, a well trained Auror, had placed around herself. She was completely unfazed at his attempt to reveal her and continued her work to protect the Senior Undersecretary. If anything, it just made her more suspicious and irritated at the boy. There were bigger problems here than the Senior Undersecretary not getting hit by a glob of mashed potatoes.
January was doing her best to tune out the insane yelling that was coming from the three food buffet monsters and guide the employee she had on a levitation charm safely along. She did hear the exclamation of the young YATI, though, and... chose to ignore it. He was right, there was someone in the room, disillusioned, but it was the Ministry of Magic. Aurors were always working and often had secret projects to do, and she was glad that her own little private auror (for the time being) had been watching her back. She really didn't want to smell like mashed potatoes and fish fingers for the rest of the day.
She became slightly amused at Maddox's lack of urgency or concern, even though her personality was severely different and silently pleaded for him to act more concerned. The YATI did offer something useful, though, because January agreed with him. "I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed, Mr. Quigley." This was certainly not just midday madness. January just hoped no one had spiked the food again.
"We need to shut down the food court," she added. "If it's in the food, we can't let it spread." That would be the next step, after taking the... affected employees to quarantine.
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The levitation was beginning to be distracted. Magic really was marvelous but at this position, she could not reach any more food. AND SHE WANTED TO EAT! “Put me down, put me down this instant!’’ Couldn’t they see that she was dying to have the wonderful, yummy things? “Put me- YIKES!” The sudden shift of her moving away from Laurel took her off guard. Luckily, she wasn’t dropped.
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There were still mashed potatoes caked on a hand. Megan, without a second though, lifted it to her mouth and began to lick the potatoes off. “This stuff is so good,’’ she happily chirped in between licks. The woman was a lot too busy to pay any attention to the conversation being carried out by anyone.
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Charles was oblivious to the YATI's concerns regarding a disillusioned person - though were he aware that an incident had occurred he would have gladly assured the young man with a paternal hand on the shoulder and gentle squeeze. Of course after thanking him for his diligence and constant vigilance. It would have been a keen observation
As it were, however, the only conversation the Ministry was truly privy to was that of of Maddox and Janurary who were making haphazard attempts at explaining why Ministry personnel were acting like absolute toddles. INCLUDING some mashed potatoes to the side of his face. "....can honestly say...that this is not the first time this has happened," he mused with a smile rather than any indication of annoyance. "I believe we now have a sample to bring back to your department for test then, Maddox. Though I would like to believe that our extra security precautions and checks when it comes to the food served here has not failed us already." Which was said as he conjured a Tupperware-like box with his wand and scrapped the glop of buttery mashed potatoes from his face, promptly handing it over to the Accidents and Catastrophes department head soon after.
And if the food was tampered with and something already had slipped, there would be consequences for the food court employees and someone may very well be out of a job.
He had to agree with Carter and January. Perhaps was even a bit disappointed that their colleague thought so lowly of the employees here to write this off as 'midday or midweek madness. Unless Maddox spoke a brand of sarcasm that was lost on them all in the present moment.
"Shut it down, January," he nodded in confirmation. "I assume you have all the assistance you need in securing the area." Which was a silent not to her disillusioned companion. "Carter, assist with the containment and transportation of these employees to level three with Maddox. Perhaps this can even be a training exercise in investigation and interrogation for you if Maddox deems it necessary."
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For all his attempts at encouraging everyone to pretend this wasn't happening and not an issue that would need actual involvement, the others were still insisting this may be something serious. January was right, he would be disappointed. Maddox could already tell. This was going to end up being A LOT of effort--a lot more than he'd anticipated when he left his office.
Life lesson? Yeah, there was one somewhere in this. Stay in his office.
The Department Head looked to everyone present again, just....checking if they were all really going through with this. Looked liked it. Sigh again. Alright, best get this show on the road. "Follow me then, we'll take this lot to the training and trial room. There's a fair bit of equipment we can make use of while we assess their current state of being."
If they all insisted on handling this, then that was as good a place as any.
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Yes, he insisted on handling this. Was it not, after all, an Auror's job to keep everyone safe? This definitely fell into that particular job description. Though it still bugged him that a) absolutely no one but him seemed concerned about the disillusioned person in the room and b) there was still absolutely zero sign of his boss. Sigh. Also, leaving Bones to doing an-wait a minute. He, a very competent caster himself, not being able to reveal the mysterious person plus the Minister's words seemingly aimed at the Senior Undersecretary....it was all adding up in the YATI's mind. No one had ever accused him of being unobservant. Realization dawning in his blue eyes, though the rest of his face maintained the same expression, he turned to Bones. "Okay, time to come clean. Which of my coworkers is your mysterious protector and why do you feel the need to have one?" Though, he did already have an idea. Only one Auror hated him enough to try and make a fool out of him, after all.
Training. That sounded good right about now. "Great." He floated Vance in front of him and followed Quigley towards his department, throwing a hard look towards Bones and her as yet unknown protector. This wasn't over. Not by a long shot.
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With all the discussion that was going on, Megan was still oblivious. Her fingers were now licked rather clean and her eyes were on the table again. “You should put me down,’’ she said calmly, and not directing the comment at anyone in particular. “I want more food.’’ It had literally just occurred to her that she could closely examine this deliciousness to determine the ingredients to make the food by herself. The other option would be to use the internet or cookbooks These were both viable as Megan had learnt recently.
The blond’s ears perked like a cat’s when she heard she and Val and Laurel were being taken to a training and trial room.
West was starving, as usual, so he decided to double task his meeting with Jacob with lunch. Thankfully the buffet had been reopened and they didn’t need to leave the Ministry to grab some grub. The smells coming off the line were amazing. Stomach grumbling, West started scooping out spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, slices of roasted turkey, and some sort of casserole that appeared to be filled with various meats and cheeses.
Once his plate was full, he glanced over his shoulder to catch Jacob’s eye to let him know to jump on in line and fill up a plate.
West was starving, as usual, so he decided to double task his meeting with Jacob with lunch. Thankfully the buffet had been reopened and they didn’t need to leave the Ministry to grab some grub. The smells coming off the line were amazing. Stomach grumbling, West started scooping out spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, slices of roasted turkey, and some sort of casserole that appeared to be filled with various meats and cheeses.
Once his plate was full, he glanced over his shoulder to catch Jacob’s eye to let him know to jump on in line and fill up a plate.
The cases he had been working with before lunch had really made him work up a big appetite. Jacob was really glad that the food court's buffet was back in buisness. Eating lunch outside of the ministry each day had been expensive and time wasting since he often couldn't bring his work out with him around muggles. The whole department was working in overdrive in preparation for the quidditch world cup.
Some minutes later Jacob stepped into the long line of people after the short walk down from G&S catching West's eye who had already filled up his plate with food. Jacob did the same, adding vegetables, mashed potatoes, slices of roast beef and some meatballs to his plate. Joining West he said "Hey mate! Shall we find somewhere to sit?"
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