Bucky was busy paying attention to Elly and she was going to ask her if she had cows. Now that would have been fascinating. Moon and Cows. Moooooo.

Then. SPLAT. Wincing she shook a finger at Patrick. She knew where he slept.

"I have one, Lainey!" Bucky called out crawling from underneath the desk. "Maybe Pinocchio got eaten by termites one day. You know, still wooden boy but then again he was turned into a donkey so he couldn't have gotten eaten by termites. Yeaah--Never mind me," she finished patting her hair. Ugh. Two showers. On the same day.

Not that she didn't like showering or anything....

He grinned unperturbed. She wasn't allowed in his dorm so no worries. He stuck his tongue out playfully and then resurfaced from under his desk. "Termites?" he said looking at Bucky as if she'd just said that the moon was made of green cheese.

Celestina raised an auburn brow at the boy. Gosh, the male race was so odd.

"Yes, termites. Those little bugs who like to feast on wood."

"I know what they are," he replied annoyed. "It's what they have to do with anything that confuses me," he finished. "Yes he's a wooden manequin but really, termites?" he continued sceptically.

Bucky rolled her eyes. Was this boy daft or he was pretending to be.

"Then why did you ask? Wood," she said raising one and then the other. "Termites," she added and moved her hands up and down as if she was weighing something invisible. "You make the math. So what if he's magical. He's still made out of wood and termites like wood. I'm sure if your head was made out of wood they'd be feasting on your brains by now."

Kennedy raised her hand and suggested, "Perhaps he decided to live amongst the bowtruckles of our very own Forbidden Forest! And everytime a student tells a lie, a tree grows a few inches! Actually, that can't have happened because the trees aren't nearly tall enough!" Kennedy giggled at the silliness of her answer.

Patrick sighed and rolled his eyes. Bucky was pretty strange sometimes. Not as strange as Whende but pretty strange nonetheless. Come to think of it he was probably pretty strange himself. "Of course," he said just to appease her. He didn't really beleive turning Pinocchio into a donkey was to protect him from termites.

"No no no!" She protested and nodded eagerly. "That's possible. I bet that ruddy little bowtruckle that attacked me during the first task wasn't Bobby Two Knuckles but Pinocchio. Or--not," she said and considered hiding underneath the desk once more.

Kerry who had been quiet for awhile, overwhelmed by the madness of paint in the room and the paint falling around her, suddenly got into the conversation.

"Ewww, could you imagine being made of wood and being attacked by termites...it's like having fleas on you constantly or something. That just gives me the creeps. And now, I'm going to be looking twice at every bowtruckle I see wondering if it's Pinnochio or not." Kerry laughed.

"Well, I don't think my idea of what happened is very good, but I'll share it anway.

I think the story of Pinnochio becoming a boy was sort of true... I think that his strings were removed and he looked like a boy, but being made of wood, he could never truly lead a boy's life...as transfiguration from wood to human life form is extremely difficult. So I think that Pinnochio was sort of stuck in limbo... half puppet, half human... not knowing what to do with such a boy ... the man who created him... Gepetto? Is that is name? Anyway... I think he used Pinnochio for his own good and I bet at some time or another we may have actually seen Pinnochio being used in a ventriloquist show at some carnival or other muggle event such as that. Pinnochio of course being the puppet the muggle would use in his show. People only think it's the muggle talking...but really it's Pinnochio the forever half puppet half boy." Kerry said, loving to create wacky theories that people had to challenge.

Eleanor snickered at the thought of the wooden boy being devoured by termites. She could see the whole thing in her head.
What if..She wondered.."What if Pinnochio and Gippetto never left the whale's stomach? What if they decided it to be cozy and instead took refuge inside the stomach of the whale for the rest of their natural lives?" Eleanor thought on this for a moment before..

~Now why would anyone want to live in the stomach of a whale? That's an idiotic idea..

~No one asked you..

~Think before you speak you stupid girl!

Eleanor became irritated.

~Shut up before I rip you out!

She forced smile and an awkward chortle, but it didn't hide her agitation very well.

Niky smiled at the boy sweetly. "Fourth year Huffie, and welcome to London," she giggled, for she had been born there and never left England for more than that week in Tokyo, curtosy of Hyde. She was just adding the finishing touches when she suddenly felt someone hit at the bak of her head. She was pulled down just in time not to recieve another blow, wich she soon realized it had been purple paint. She had to clean that out of her hair?! She hid under the desks, keeping herself from any more paint, although not very sucessfully. She eyed Christian curiously as he went to get his back, but she understood when the cutest kitten popped his hed up from the bag.

"He's so sweet! What's your name little fellow?" she asked momentarily forgetting about the paint war going on to stretch her hand out and gently scratch the kitten's neck, like most of her cats had normally liked. It was the cutest little thing! And the fact that his owner was being so caring of the kitten only made things better.

She stuck her head out from over the edge of the desk and checked the coast was clear before standing up fully, unsuccessfully trying to get rid of the paint on her now multicolored uniform and curly hair. "Well.. that's that.." she murmured a little regretfully. She'd have to use magic on these.

Suzy continued to fling paint. Then she saw kerry. She grabbed a whole bucket full of yellow paint and dumped it on kerrys head. "HUFFIES RULE!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and ran away.

"i dont think i would want to be a wooden boy. I mean first of all, no offense boys, who would want to be a boy, and most of all who would want to be wooden? I mean there are so many wood eating creatures you could be killed for sure."

Leo had enjoyed the lesson. He had his girl with him, no one would dare to disturb him. Until the paint war had started. Now that, wasn’t a good idea. The war had heen started by none other than their dear Professor Lainey. He had jumped on Lua and shouted “TAKE COVER!”’ the paints flew everywhere. He just made sure that the paints won’t touch Lua. But then Leo felt a paint ball hit his hair. “MAN DOWN, MAN DOWN” he shouted. “NO WAIT. HAIR DOWN, HAIR DOWN” he shouted changing his mind on the first one, but , everyone was just too busy with their own war. Leo left the paint on his hair and looked around. He found some paint , and took it in his hand glaring at the people around him. He fought hard. Throwing the paint all over the place, hitting everyone he can. He even hit Lainey once or twice, but he forgot. At the end of the war, Leo was…a master piece.

“I feel so pretty” he said his eyes tearing up. “Pinocchio must have felt pretty too” Leo nodded his head for a while. “But, poor boy wasn’t a real boy. He was woooooooodeeeennnn” he cried. “I’m sorry. I just get emotional at stories like these” he sniffled taking his wand out and turning his painted clothes into clean and fresh one. “You have any tissues?” he asked looking around for some.



When Lainey asked if they had wanted to be wooden, his eyes popped out. “Wooden?” he asked.”Ehh.Wooden?” he asked once more. “I ain’t on the wood thing ma’am I would prefer being myself okay” Leo told her as he found the tissue box. “Ahh there you are!” he sniffed as he took one and blew his nose. “Professor, never mention sad stories in class. They just break my heart” he sighed.

Kerry looked at Suzy and shuddered... "Hufflepuff?" She took out her wand and said, "scourgify" and watched as the yellow paint disappeared. Then she took the yellow paint from Suzy and painted half her face gold, and then grabbed red paint and painted half her face red..."Red and Gold Lion Pride!!!" Then she wrote Go Gryffindor across her forehead" She laughed. "If only I could draw a lion!...but this is much better then Huffie yellow..ewww!"

Suzy giggled as kerry painted her face. "You are crazy. GO HUFFIES!!!!!" Suzy painted er face yellow and black and then painted go huffies on her forehead.

Amelia just sat in the back amused by this class; she had seen Pinocchio when she was little, but wasn't that big a fan of the movie so she decided to remain quiet and listen to what others had to say.

Of course, she couldn't help but snicker at Kerry and Suzy because of their little painting fiasco. Wow... never a dull moment in Lainey's class! Even if she was not particularly fond of the movie of the day, it was still better than the horror stories of the long and boring history classes she heard about...

Rebecca smiled at Eliza as Eliza gave her some freckles and when she dropped the brush and said "Accio" then she turned her attention to Eliza "Is leo annoying you?"

"I have one professor he saved someone and then told the truth so muchthe blue fairy was happy and turned him into a real boy"

"Oi Leo put a sock in it please" giggled Rebecca

Lua eyed Leo ever more carefully as he started talking and coughing at the same time. Glancing sideways at Professor Lainey, hoping to shout out another order to refrain the students, until Leo glared. Seemed more than enough to scare them away anyways. She couldn't help but chuckle inwardly, then gave him a nod even if she wasn't sure why he wanted to go get more paint they had more than enough.

She applied more red paint to her lips, for the fun of it waiting for Leo to come back with more paint, but choas errupted with paint fireworks. Lowering both the brush and mirror in her hand, Lua eyed the class with surprise. What was happening?


Before she was able to glance in a new direction, she spotted Leo jump at her yelling .. 'take cover'? Not sure what to do she wrinkled her body to hide within his figure, no clue whats about to hit them. Leo's yelling was making her even more confused about the stuff bouncing at them, or at him to be specific until a splash of paint hit her in the face. Rubbing her glasses with her sleeve to get clearer visibility of the classroom, she began throwing paint with Leo in every direction. You vaguely get the chance to cause chaos around Hogwarts and leave without a detention.

When her hands grew tired, Lua paused to catch her breath and perhaps clear some of the mess that was put upon her. It was useless, and Leo was acting rather weird? She shifted her glance on him and watched him as he explained that puppets' reasoning with a tear? Was that a tear on Leo's face? Whats so emotional about that Puppet? She cursed the heavens for not paying attention in class, maybe she would have understood his emotional state. In the meantime, she pulled a tissue from inside her robes and passed to Leo "Here you go hun" she said sweetly laying a hand on his arm with a small squeeze for comforting.



Lua glared at the girl with the sock comment, flicking her wand making a bucket of black paint fly accross the room throwing its contents on her face.

Eliza smiled at Rebecca as she felt something hit her and suddenly something wet ran down her back from her hair.Eliza put a hand on the back of her hair and felt something run down her fingers,she pulled her hand back to examine and gasped.Paint! Paint.On.Her.Hair!
Her Hair!!HER HAIR! She began running her finger through her hair franticly,trying to get the paint off but ended up making it worse!Her brown hair was now a tangled,matted,multicoloured mess of paint and hair!

She ducked as more paint was flung across the classroom. "HIT THE FLOOR!WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!" she shrieked,not really knowing what she was on about."THIS IS THE END OF CLEAN HAIR!" she put her hands over her paint-covered head and shut her eyes in a way to protect her hair from further damage.

Leo heard Lua's voice and turned around. She looked amazing; her red lips were still there, and there was some paint on her cheek. He blinked for a bit not realizing she'd given him a tissue. "MMkay" he mumbled still blinking at her. When she had squeezed his arm, his eyes widened.Leo's cheeks went completely red. "Uhbalabh" he mumbled, but he meant to say "Thank you" Why was he making a fool out of himself in front of her? He was her boyfriend, though, still.

He hadn't heard the girl's comment. Leo had been too busy looking at Lua. He saw her flick her wand, and loved the way she had hit the girl for his protection "God I love you" he whispered as he grabbed her and pressed her lips against hers

Ariana had absolutly no idea what was going on, all she knew was she was covered head to toe in paint, which was running down her perfectly painted face and onto her notebook. Luckily she knew the spell to clean it off and did so as she wrote down more stuff under her desk. She was getting nausous looking at Leo and Lau now, it was repulsive the way they were acting, seriously this was a classroom not a make out place. "Come off it!" she said exsaperatedly, and knew they wouldn't hear her.

She flicked some paint off her face, watching it hit the already messy floor and tried to listen to the professor."He finally told the truth about something and the blue fairy made him into a real boy, which was Gepettos wish" she said quietly.

Feeling herself being dragged by what felt like Leo's hands, then pressed his lips against hers, what was that for? she wondered.. Perhaps it was the red paint-lipstick, apparently it did wonders for Leo. Slowly she pulled herself apart placing her hands on his cheeks "hunny, I love you too, but we'll get in trouble" she remarked adding a smile "after class" she added with a wink.

Eliza opened a wondering eye to see Leo and Lua kissing.Again!She sat on her honkers and reached up in search of a paint pallet.Upon finding one,she smirked and threw the pallet towards Lua out of pure gut feeling,something in her made her hate Lua! That felt lovely.She then grabbed a tube of blue paint,opened the lid and aimed it towards Lua once more.One.Two.SQUEEZE! She squeezed the tube of paint with all her might.Maybe that would stop Lua from kissing Leo in class!

Rebecca laughed and thanked Eliza for retaliating but Rebecca retaliated aswell "Take that!!" she shouted as a blob of paint hurled at Lua then Rebecca flicked her wand and a paint bomb appeared and she threw it as hard as she could at Lua she heard a SPLAT as she turned back to Eliza "Here I'll get rid of the paint Scourgify" Then she turned back to Lua ready for a paint fight