Her newly acquired owl quite spoiled the tense mood by flitting back and forth like a hummingbird on a sugar high. Andi ignored Bartimeaus.

"A student wouldn't have enough time... or magic, to do what has been happening," said Andi more to herself than to anyone else. "Every door of every professor has apparently been written over, and no one has been apprehended. Either it's a gang or..."

She massaged the bridge of her nose. "Oh lord, this is fantastically... annoying."

Looking back at Rosalie he saw her smile at him. He smiled back. Then turning his attention politely back to Professor AMMZ he listened to Rosalie again and then nodded in agreement "So am I, Professor" he said looking earnestly at her.

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Whende nodded as well, though she was staring absently at the wall. She didn't seem to really be listening much. "Yeah, curiosity. Not student. Very trusted." Then she realized how idiotic she must sound. Shaking her head, she brought herself back to the conversation.

"Me too," she added to Patricks agreement and turned her gaze toward AMMZ for the first time since the conversation had started. "Hi, Patrick," she said, smacking herself in the head for being so absent minded for so long.

"Well look whos' awake he muttered back when she realised that she'd been asleep for so long "It's ok. Just warn me next time you go sleeprunning so I don't fall over the bannister." he said half-jokingly. Then he turned around and faced AMMZ and waited for her to make some sort of reply. With luck it might be an explanation.

Tag knocked on the Charms professor's door, shifting to and fro on his nervous feet. He knew AMMZ thought he was a bit of a loon, but the real lunacy case involving Kay trumped his own misgivings. He wasn't about to get caught in another situation like last night's, and next time would be worse. The professors should know what she was capable of.

Not hearing a response, he pressed his ear to the door. Voices. Lainey? The Headmistress? Tag hesitated, but something stayed him. He could never resist temptation.

"Actually you din't miss much,"Patrick told her, "it was just me and Rosalie telling what we knew." he kept it short and simple so as to avoid incurring AMMZ's wrath.



He noticed the noise outside of the door and immediatly fell quiet. "Sssh there's someone outside!" he said quietly to Rosalie and Whende. "Professor someone's listening at the door." he told AMMZ worried that it might be Lainey.

Andi had started to open her mouth to reply to the students, tell them that quite frankly, she had no more idea than they had. Of course, everything could be tied in with the book of mysteria, but unless Voldemortist was displaying some sort of delayed childhood with these stupid pranks; when there came another knock on the door.

"Come in," she said, snapping her fingers. The door opened sharply, revealing a rather revealing position of Tag's ear.

He'd caught only a snatch of muffled conversation when the door he was leaning on suddenly fell open. Tag staggered momentarily in surprise before catching himself on a chair (which was occupied by a rather huffy looking girl). He looked up to find himself the object of attention of what appeared to be a secret society meeting. Maybe they behead disrupters of their evil plan. . . the Slytherin looks capable. . .

Tag straightened himself, fully aware that he'd lost all sense of dignity. Remember the mission. "I need to have a word, Professor! Our Captain's lost her marbles!," he blurted out.

"Isn't Lainey your head of house?!" Rosalie hissed, feeling irritated that she was being interruted in the middle of a convorsation that mattered. Sure, she loved Quidditch as much as the next person, but this was ridiculus.

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"Stop bickering," snapped Andi, standing up. No matter how important the information Rosalie had, and it probably was pretty important, looking at the student's worried, irritated faces, if a student had, as Tag so neatly put it 'lost her marbles' then it was imperative that she be subdued.

Or maybe Andi just enjoyed hexing innocent students. You be the judge.

"If you feel we cannot speak of this infront of Mr. Seven, Ms. Hale, I can cast a silencing charm on the way, so that at least the time spent finding this student will not be wasted."

Tag was confused for a moment, unsure as to whether AMMZ had just defended him or threatened to gag and bind him. He plunged ahead. "Lainey's nothing to do with it." She never comes into the commons anyway, the staff are clueless about what happens in there. . . "It's Kay Harrison, our Quidditch Captain. She saw that message in the common room about choking, and went all nutters on us, waving her wand around and hexing the walls! She was screaming about some bloke Mithos, seeing people that weren't there. She set the freaking drapes on fire, Professor!" Tag gestured wildly. "And wouldn't let anybody leave, we were all hiding behind couches. She finally passed out. But when she woke up, Kay didn't remember a thing." That was probably what bothered him most. Kay had refused to listen to anyone about what had just happened, even Hawken.

"She could snap again. She's always got her wand on her. And there's nobody around to stop her." It seemed there was nobody around to stop anyone, anything. Or they're unable to. Tag dared not say the last thought aloud. He was scared enough.

Just couldn't take it anymore? Possessed? Andi didn't bother trying to figure out this kind of rubbish. She had her wand somewhere about her person, easily taken out when necessary (she didn't bother with 'if'). "Alarming indeed, Mr. Seven," she said absently, pulling open the door and ushering everyone out. "Do you know where else she might be?"

"Kay?" Whende whispered as she stumbled out of the room. Although she'd only met her a year ago, and they'd never been much of friends, she knew enough to know that Kay would never do anything like that. Unless she was brainwashed or something.

She waited for Rosalie and Patrick outside the door, fiddling with her sweatshirt and wondering what they were supposed to do now.

"Kay was storming down the hallways last I saw. Or she could be in the common room, studying for NEWTs. . . she's always studying for exams." The very place Tag had been avoiding since in the incident, since Kay had practically taken up residence there with her own personal library. He had to cross the room to reach his dorms, and had formed the habit of crawling on hands and knees behind sofas. He was terrified that she would blow his head off, or make good on her threats against his pets. Isabella was tied securely to his bedpost, and the others were all locked in the trunk, having made bedding out of Julia's Bugs Bunny cape.

Tag followed Professor Mao-MacDougal obediently into the hall with the others. If anyone could protect the Ravies from Kay, it would be AMMZ.

Irritably, Andi reached out a hand, detaining Rosalie. "Ms. Hale, I must insist that you stay with me," she said firmly, looking down the long hallway. "I might be overly paranoid, but with your knowledge right now, I don't think it would be safe. And furthermore, you haven't told me all you know and I must insist that I find out." She caught Whende by the hand as well, and then nodded curtly at Tag. "Lead the way."