Herminny calmly tried to shoo the little vermon creature away to no avail, then she just sighed thinking what could this creature possible do and then continued to apply one label centered per envelope hesitantly trying not to touch the vermon creature as she want along.

The creature stared at Herminny for a few minutes and then Vindictus noticed a bushy tail. He moved towards the table just as the squirrel reared up on its hind legs and threw an acorn at the girl. Oh, Masterson's gonna get it. Messing with my detention. He's nuts! he thought as the squirrel chased after the acorn and ran out the cell door.

Herminny was relieved the vermon creature was gone and got back to work quickening the pace still careful to put one label on each envelope till she finished the the first stack and looked up at professor Vindictus.

"Are you human?" Vindictus asked incredulously. "A squirrel just hit you between the eyes with an acorn and you didn't even react!" He looked at the fan mail and tapped the pile of envelopes twice. She had barely even dented the work he needed her to do, and so he pulled out a box of letters that he'd already signed. "Slide these into each envelope and seal 'em. Use your own saliva but don't drool."

Herminny carefully slid what professor Vindictus told her to into each envelope and then licked an envelope and thought yuck, this tasted nasty but she kept going anyway putting what professor Vindictus asked her to her to carefully and licked each envelope and sealed it shut quickening the pace to get through with licking the nasty envelopes but still careful to do the job right.

What Vindictus failed to tell Herminny was that a single negative thought would cause a reaction. "Oh, that's a shame. Your tongue and lips are turning bright green," he said and the finished envelopes were removed from the table. He smiled at her. "Only 200 more to go."

Herminny thought I don't have a mirror down here and I rarely care what I or others look like anyway so my tounge and lips being bright green is not really a problem as long as I can still get the task at hand done and she continued to slide each of what professor Vindictus told her to ino each envelope licking each with her toungue going as fast as she could go and do the job right till she finished the 200 envelopes glad her toungue could finally get a break from those nasty envelopes.

Vindictus watched each move and shook his head when she finished. "I'm still not sure if you've learned your lesson," he told Herminny as he made the fan mail disappear along with the table. With a flick of his wand, the splintery stool reappeared. "Please. Have a seat."

Herminny took a seat back on the splinter filled stool and grimaced as she felt the splinters peircing her behind.

He then flourished his wand and pointed it at the wall. A large rectangle appeared and was sparkling for a few moments. Then an image slowly appeared. It was a life-size wizarding portrait of Professor Vindictus who was wearing his Heidleberg Harrier uniform. He was smiling and posing - from flexing his muscles to swinging a Beater's Bat and leaning on a Firebolt. "I want you to sit there and study this magnificent poster of myself."

Herminny stared at the photo of Vindictus wondering what on earth did he want me to do this for.

"You want to say something, so please enlighten me," Vindictus said and smiled at his own photograph.

Herminny was thinking this was her chance to say something nice, not to be mean if she ever wanted to get out of detention so she said, "You look good in the photo" thinking it was the truth.

"Just 'good'? Not 'breathtakenly handsome'? Just 'good'!" Vindictus replied incredulously. "There are people who would do anything to be sitting where you are. Do you know how lucky you are? I am famous! Look at my smile! My blonde hair, flowing in the breeze. Those muscular arms. Good? I look great - like a Greek god!" He brought his gaze back to his own picture. "Perhaps you didn't look close enough. Keep on looking!"

Herminny took a closer look at the photo and said, "You look good and hansome but thats not all I care about in a person, to look breath taking to me even in a photo I have to know you as a decent kind human being".

Vindictus turned from his own photograph and glared at the girl. "I don't care what you're looking for in a human being," he replied. "Respect. Learn what it means and learn how to practice it towards your elders and peers."

Herminny gave professor a sympathetic look finally realizing why she was ordered to do this detention in the Holigan Hole she had really badly disrespeced Professor Vindictus and she started to think what kind of person did that make her and started to feel sorry that she had said what she said to her professor.

Vindictus stared at Herminny for a good fifteen minutes as he watched his words sink in. "I think you've learned a small lesson in here today. You're dismissed," he said and held the cell door open for her.

"Wand." She said extending her hand and looking at the kid funny. "What are you, Russian? What does that mean?"

Alessia send to stinging hexes to his feet, just to make him jump. "Take your hands out of your mouth..." She said to him. "I didn't appreciate what you called me, so now you are to praise me. Starting now." She said waiting for the boy to start.

"You can't?" He didn't say he wouldn't... just that he couldn't... And he apologized... that was odd. She wondered... "Did you drink a potion or eat something?"

Raiden shrank back a step, as if the woman was going to hurt him. But when she asked him if he'd drank a potion, or eaten something... he saw hope. Maybe she would figure out what was wrong with him! He shook his head and, biting down on his tongue so hard he drew blood, motioned to his back, where the spell had hit him. Hoping she would realize. Hoping she would know what he meant. Merlin, please let her understand!