After shielding his eyes from another flash of light, Ludo blinked to see Liz sneaking around behind Peeves. He smiled as she put on some sunglasses and raised her wand to Peeves.
"Excellent, Liz!" he called as she cast twice.

Ludo glanced at the cauldron of potion, whatever amount was left after Peeves's attack. "Better try to salvage whatever's left and get it away from him..." he thought, taking out his own wand.

"Wingardium Leviosa..." Ludo muttered with a swish and a flick of his wand. The cauldron rose into the air, out of the poltergeist's reach. Ludo directed it above the heads over every student to the other side of the classroom. "Heads up everyone..." he warned.

Lowering his wand, he settled the cauldron in one of the empty student work stations.

Tobi, who was arguably among the taller of the student body crouched down. The last thing he needed was a cauldron of exploding fluid to the head.

Since his wand work tended to do more harm than good he often tried not to use it but for dire emergencies, but being blinded by the light surely qualified, so he gave his wrist a quick flick and pointed a Peeves, "Immobulus!" worked on Poltergeists.

Peeves flew over to the girl. "THHHHHHHHHPBT!" he blew a spit-filled raspberry in her face, then flew back to the cauldron to continue his bright and noisy mischief.

"That's PROFESSOR PEEVES to you! Watch out or I give you DETENTIONS!" He threw some of the liquid at the boy.

"Professor Pepe Potions Man is gone away; Professor Peeves is here to stay!" Peeves sang again, sploshing in the green liquid happily. He threw some potion toward Anna, hoping to hit her. "Potions Professor Pepe is lost, lost up in the to-wers!" He cackled happily.

Peeves flew up toward the cauldron, ducking behind it as the student cast a spell his way and dodging it. Instead, the cauldron stopped ascending and was immobilized. "Hah-HAH! Can't hit Peeves!" He tried to tip the cauldron upside down and dump it out, but decided that was too much effort and began flitting about the room, picking up potions ingredients from the shelves and throwing them INTO the cauldron instead. "Peeves will teach you how to make CHAOS POTION! Wheeeeeeeeeee!" He was having so much fun!

OH this is not good, not GOOD!

Tobi cast Banishing Charm after Banishing Charm, as Peeves threw Item after Item into the Cauldron. He wasn't sure was stopping everything And why oh why couldn't Peeves get the Hint and be Banished?

For good Measure he certainly tried to sent a few his way.

"HALP! Blasting curses! Accio Charms! Whatever you know! Who knows what could happen if he mixes his own ingredients in there!" Tobi howled.

Qaz was getting quite upset with Peeves. 'Oh this is silly, we'll just take away his toy and I'll suffer the consequences.' Qaz said as she directed her wand toward the potion. 'Evanesco!' and the potion disappeared.

'I suppose that's going to cost me dearly, but that twit Peeves could have done serious damage. Tobi, you might want to signal the all clear.' Qaz said as she went to a seat in the back and sat down.

Perhaps he hadn't thought this out all the way...
This was Ludo's number one thought aside from his constant muttering of,
"Not good...Not good...Not good."

He watched in desperation as the hexes and jinxes had no effect on Peeves. And as Ludo levitated the cauldron across the room, the undistracted poltergeist attempted to overturn the potion.

This would've been catastrophic had not he desided to throw new ingredients into the potion.

His attention turned to Qaz as she directed a draining charm at the cauldron. He was not sure as to if the charm had worked and the potion was gone...but Peeves (sorry, Professor Peeves) was still in the classroom, and Ludo was sure he'd make mischeif...potion or no potion.

Qaz assumed that the potion had disappeared from the cauldron, but as Ludo had moved it, she wasn 't sure. Either way, Peeves was still a problem. She was wracking her brain, but couldn't think of a solution.

Robert looked around unsure of what to do. That blasted poltergeist was up to no good again. He turned in his seat to find Lyra but couldn't find her anywhere. Where... His own level of nerves rose as people started trying to think up a way to get rid of him AND the ingredients he was mixing. Wracking his own brain for the few charms he knew he kept glancing toward the door hoping that wherever Lyra had gone she went and found someone...anyone....

”What ohmph!” Aggie founder herself smushed into Tobi’s chest. The boiled ham smell was stronger now, mixed with a honey cinnamon overlay. She wondered if he had been attempting to cure a ham before class. There was a whooshing sound and then a bang. Aggie was completely out of the loop for a few moments.

When Tobi finally pulled away she was able to see that Peeves was still busy terrorizing the rest of the group. Tobi was busy flashing spells around the room and mercifully he hadn’t set anything on fire – yet. However, his sweater vest had a big patch missing out if its back and his dress shirt looked a little singed. Just what is that potion? Aggie wondered as she sat on the floor looking around at the scrambling students. She wasn’t going to get up just yet. It almost seemed safer on the floor where the desks and the Tobi standing in front of her was the safest place to be while avoiding the flying potions.

It also, oddly enough, provided an interesting place to sit and observe the pesky poltergeist. He was weirdly, interestingly, and oddly attractive, if one liked bell covered hats and orange bow ties, and Aggie was one of those people. She giggled, then laughed, then clapped. “Oh Peeves! You’re more fun then I thought you’d be!” This was turning out to be one of the most exciting potions classes she’d ever attended.

Professor Headmaster Bontecou followed the two girls back to the classroom. Now this is what he needed: guides. Maybe he should hire a couple of students to be his escorts around the castle.... Something to consider later. "Why don't you two hang back here while I check things out?" he suggested before stepping into the classroom to survey the damage.

Qaz was very relieved to see the Headmaster arrive. Perhaps now Peeves would skedaddle.

Ludo looked around as voices came from outside the classroom. To his utmost relief, Headmaster Bontecou had arrived.

As Peeves created more chaos overhead, he stood up. "Er...welcome back Professor. We had no idea we'd be having a substitute for this class."he called out.

Upon reaching the door to the Potions classroom, Anna stepped back and nodded towards the door, motioning for the headmaster to enter first. If Peeves was still tossing the potion about, the students would need for the headmaster, not Anna or Lyra, to enter first. Hopefully the situation would be solved and under control within a few moments. "Oh, yes, sir. We'll be right here if you need us," Anna replied, peeking into the classroom trying to survey the situation.

"Nor I. I apologize for getting lost," he said and then looked over at the poltergeist. "PEEVES!" he shouted and pointed his wand at the fiend. Actually, the professor looked quite fierce. His normal appearance wasn't one that struck you as 'auror'... engineer or mathematician maybe but, not really dueling material. It was a lot like the difference between calm, serene, and twinkly eyed Dumbledore versus the Dumbledore who faced Barty Crouch Junior.

"Professor PEPE! You made it to class! Ten points from Ravenclaw for playing Where's Waldo on company time!" Peeves cackled and threw a glass bottle at the professor. He wasn't scared of a little lost wizard!

After a few minutes had passed, Anna decided to poke her head into the classroom to see if the headmaster had succeeded in getting Peeves to settle down and leave the classroom for good. "Pro---," Anna started to say. She stopped short when she heard the professor's booming voice call out to Peeves, who apparently hadn't stopped, settled down, or left just yet. Oh, no. This could not be good. Anna instinctively drew her wand, only planning to use it if she absolutely had to. Peeves was certainly not a force to be reckoned with...

"Ermmm....yo! Excuse me!" Anna called out, waving her left hand into the air and trying to get Peeves attention. She didn't exactly know what she wanted to say to him, but she'd think of something...right? "Oh, erm....hi," she mumbled, darting in front of the headmaster and catching the potions bottle before it could hit him. She held it tightly in her hand, not wanting to let go of it and allow Peeves the chance to throw it again. "Out, Peeves! Erm....please... We're trying to hold a class here, and erm...." Ohhhh, this was sooooo not working. What do you say to a frazzling out-of-control Poltergeist? There wasn't much she could say... "Peeves! I was just wondering, outside of causing chaos and disrupting the lives of others, what's the one thing you want more than anything else?" she asked, not quite sure where she was getting at with her random question.

Peeves paused, considering her question. He flew forward into Anna's face, his hands behind his back. He held his eyes wide and fluttered his eyelashes as though trying to look, perhaps, like a giant bush baby. "A preeeetty happy sweet pink thestral pony! Orrrrr..... To see what THESE do when you mix them!" With a whoop of glee, he lifted his hands up, revealing in each hand a bottle of noxious looking potions. He held them high over Anna's head and dumped them simultaneously, hoping to splatter the two potions together on Anna's head.

Deciding to stay strong, Anna stood in place, the Gryffindor in her telling her to not back down and to allow Peeves to test his little concoction. Taking a deep breath, Anna prepared for what she knew was coming---her hair was about to get washed with a potion bottle full of who-knew-what. When the liquid finally hit her, Anna instinctively squeezed her eyes shut, thinking for just a moment that she might just blow up, shrink, vomit, or die. When nothing of the sort happened, she slowly opened her eyes, thankful that she was still alive. She needed a mirror, though. Did she even have any hair left on her head??? Reaching her left hand into the air, Anna touched down on her head, thankfully feeling a head full of wet, sticky hair. Ewwwww. "Well then," she said, breathing normally once again. "I suppose all that's left is that pretty, happy, sweet, pink Thestral pony, right?" she asked.

Ludo watched in wait. Surely the Headmaster would skip the telling off and go straight to banishing Peeves.

But then the Gryffindor girl decided to do some Q&A with Peeves and Ludo was not suprised to see him not take it seriously.
He gasped as the poltergeist pulled two potions out. He was going to dump them.
"No..." Ludo breathed. Too late. The potions were dumped on her head and Ludo waited for a BOOM...or some other gruesome event to occur. But nothing did...not yet at least.

He looked on, unable to react in time. The poor girl was doused with a couple of potions he'd been saving. The first was the singing suspension he made in preparation for his beginner potions lesson and the second was a hair raising potion. So, after the girl put her hands to her head it seemed the potion began taking effect, all of her hair standing up in all directions. And the next time she went to speak he was fairly certain she's burst into song.

"Peeves!" he shouted again, angrily. That was going too far. he could have killed the girl! But, then a thought sprang into his head. A vision of Peeves riding around the school on a pink thestral pony and he burst out laughing. He couldn't stop and nearly fell to the floor. With tears in his eyes he waved his wand in a rather complicated motion and cast a nonverbal spell which conjured a bright pink, ghostly, thestral into the air between himself and Peeves.

Aggie hadn’t stopped laughing/giggling since her exclamation upon realizing how much fun Peeves was. The potion dousing, as well as the thought of a pink thestral was funny. Professor Bontecou apparently agreed as his laughter filled the potions room with Aggie’s renewed and much louder laugh. Furhtermore, Aggie began clapping again.

“Oh! Haha!” Clap. “Haha!” Clap clap. It seemed like Aggie couldn’t stop laughing. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she wondered if there was something else she hadn’t discovered she was allergic too that was making her bonkers.

Anna giggled at the sight of the bright pink, ghostly Thestral. Well, Peeves had certainly said that the one thing he wanted more than anything else was to either have a pretty, happy, sweet, pink Thestral pony or to determine what certain potions would do when mixed together. From the looks of it, Peeves was about to get exactly what he wished for. Anna opened her mouth to tell the Poltergeist just what she'd been thinking, but as soon as she did, a strange, strange occurence happened. She found that that one thing she wanted more than anything else was to sing about her very favorite things. To make sure Peeves didn't feel left out, she'd tweak the song just a bit to add in his favorite things, as well.

So with that thought in mind, Anna jumped to the top of the nearest desk, raised her hands into the air, and began to sing.

Raindrops on puffapods and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper cauldrons and warm woolen mittens;
Brown paper packages tied up with strings;
These are a few of my favorite things.

Pink, ghostly ponies and crisp apple strudels;
Cruppies and broom sticks and schnitzel with noodles;
Wild dragons that fly with the moon on their wings;
These are a few of my favorite things.

Ghosts in white dresses with blue satin sashes;
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes;
Silver-white winters that melt into springs;
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the crup bites,
When the billywig stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.

Tobi found all this quite odd. Aggie was giggling madly, the REAL professor had finally made it, and ANNA was serenading them all. she was quite a fine singer at that.

It was all quite sweet really but the banging of Peeves Potion's hurler had given him quite the headache, and he did feel quite stupid with exploding potion, whatever it was, having burnt a hole in his sweater.

He dearly just wanted to go back to his Common Room and crawl into bed, pretending none of this class had ever happened.

Qaz just sat there smiling. Pink Thestrals, songs from ancient movies everybody was having a grand time, except for poor Tobi.

Qaz got up and walked over to Tobi. 'I'm sure it would be okay for you to run up and change clothes. I don't think that the Headmaster is in much of a condition to notice...dealing with Peeves and all.'

Elizabeth had hurriedly taken her sunglasses off as Headmaster Bontecou had finally arrived, and watched as he tried to rein Peeves in. Which didn't exactly work, seeing as now Anna's hair was standing on end and she was singing what sort of sounded like a song from the Sound of Music. But not really. And the headmaster had conjured up a ghostly pink thestral.

Trying desperately not to giggle, she ignored Qaz and the Gryffindor boy as she glanced at Ludo and Robert to see if they were having as hard a time trying to figure out what was going on as she was.