Herminny was walking down the 7th floor corridor on her way to the Gryffindor common room and saw Vindictus dressed in what she could only describe as taking casual too far, especially for a professor, and she just looked at him almost staring at how utterly rediculous he looked and then while trying to keep a straight face she asked Vindictus, "What are you dressed like that for".

Jillian was up at the Seventh Floor corridor. She posted up another poster, marvelled at it and then gave a big ROAR!

"Herminny!" Anna called out, not too many steps behind Jillian. She grabbed a poster and put it in the girl's hands. "Go Gryffindor! Yeah!!!!"



"Professor Vindictus!" Anna said, glancing at his ensemble before heading off once again. "Right on!" She gave him a thumbs up sign and then hurried off down the corridor.

Forrester came out in his Hawaiian shirt, shades, bull whip and his khaki pants. He crossed his arms behind Vindictus as he warmed up. "So, singing today? I thought about riding the banisters down to the ground floor. Wearing that will give you a bad chaffing." He would know....it happened to him just a few years ago. OWW!!!!

Herminny could not help but keep on staring at Vindictus get up untill she saw the Atronomy professor come by wearing a get up even more utterly rediculous then Vindictus's and was dumb founded by the words that came out of his mouth and Herminny exclaimed, "What, you and professor Vindictus plan to ride down the bannisters to the ground floor, the banisters are attatched to a moving staircase, are you two a bit out of it, thats dangerous, and singing, what"?

Forrester frowned at the pretentious Gryffindor girl. "20 points for accusing us of being 'out of it'. We're professors, I think we know what we are doing little girl. Run off now"

Chicken.

Herminny thought, these 2 professors aree clearly out of it but mabe that was not the best use of words since they were still authority figues whether she liked it or not but they sounded like they were about to go endanger themselves and I was just trying to knock some sense into them, but the way these teachers have been xcting lately I should have known that would never work and I would be on the loosing end of the stick, man, whats going on with my rational judgemeant these days. Herminny contemplated all these things as she walked off toward her dormitory but did not go inside cause she felt she had some unfinished buisness she would tend to soon on this current issue.

Neo, in his fuzzy niffler form, was walking down the seventh floor corridor. How he had managed to get all the way up there was a mystery unto his own, but he really didn't care. He just wanted something shiny to add to his collection of a locket and a galleon and frankly, those suits were WAY too big to drag all the way down.

Staying near the wall, he happily bounded down the hallway looking for some shiny-shiny.

"Nah, I want to singgg and slide down the corridor in socked feet," Vindictus grinned. "Dude, we won the Quidditch Cup! Rock on!" He put both hands in the air with the index finger and pinkie on each pointing upwards, and shook his head about like a rock star. This movement caused a shiny bag to fall out of his shorts pocket and onto the stone floor.

Neo came to a halt as heard the sound of something go "clink" on the floor. Shiny things went "clink" on the floor, RIGHTTTT? Curiosity perked, he took a peek and his need to grab the shiny thing. Slowly, he started to slink into the middle of the hallway and then ZOOOOM!

Neo POUNCED on the bag and took the top of it into his little mouth and then started to pull it down the hallway. If only that tall man won't notice...

"Hey! Let go of Macadrian's marbles!" Max shouted at the niffler. "Eddie, we need to get those back or we're toast!"

Eddie rolled his eyes, "Of COURSE you won the Quidditch Cup! You were playing against GRYFFINDOR!" Duh.

Just then there was a flash as something-someone?- pounced on whatever fell out of Max's shirt. "What the---" he started as the thing knocked him over on his bum. He lashed his whip out and wrapped it around the.....the niffler?

Eek!

Neo felt something wrap around his stomach. Held to his place, he started to squirm, mewing loudly. Let me go! Lemme go!

Herminny was watching all this and smiled doing her best to hold back a chuckle to Vindictus reaction to the strange animal from COMC showing up and taking Vindictus's shiny bag and whatever was in it.

Eddie pulled back on his bullwhip and drew the animal towards himself, struggling due to the squirming. Finally it was close enough and Eddie climbed on and pinned it to the floor.

"Now, then. Are you going to give it back?" he asked the creature.

Herminny looked from a safe distance and thought, oh no, the Astronomy professor caufgt the little creature and watched on to see what would happen next.

Neo was panicking. All he wanted was the shiny things! Unsure of what to do, he continued to try to get free. He cried and mewed, pressing his paws against the big man in hope of getting him away. But there was no luck...there was only one thing left to do.

The niffler bit him.

"YEOW!" Eddie yelled as he sat back on the niffler and examined his now bitten arm. "You stupid little...." he muttered as he tightened the whip around the stupid creature. Rule of thumb: Never bite the hand that controls the whip wrapped around you.

Herminny watched as she heard the professor and smled a little but then frowned again as she noticed the professor still had hold of the creature and watched on to see what would happen next.

Neo yelped. Loudly.

That thing around his stomach. It was too tight! Too tight! He continued to whine and squirm to try to get free, but not as much as before. He was losing energy and the thing around his stomach was painful. He whined and yelped loudly, hoping something would help him. Were they going to take him and put him into a cage?

Robert ran up the stairs very much out of breath with the very much large trophy in his arms and a big smile on his face. Not slowing down his pace he ran down the hall toward the common room. Turning the corner he saw two professors and a Gryffie up ahead and tried to stop. It then occurred to him that he hadn't changed into his sneakers and the shoes he was wearing were worn from Quidditch. Not gaining enough traction he skidded down the hall, the huge trophy adding momentum, and crashed right into the two professors. Looking up his eyes widened as he saw the trophy falling down on top of him and rolled out of the way a split second before it would have hit him with a resounding clang on the corridor floor. Oh dear lord.

"Oh shut up." Eddie told the niffler, not occurring to him that maybe the niffler didn't speak English, "I'm not going to hurt you," though the thing did deserve SOMETHING for biting him, "we just want the bag back." he got comfortable sitting down when suddenly....

The loud clang caused him to jump up and back down on top of the poor niffler. He scowled at the stupid boy. "Is that anyway to treat a trophy? 10 points from Ravenclaw for not giving the Quidditch Cup proper respect." He sniffed, then gave the niffler a scratch behind his ears.

Neo jumped when there was a loud crash and yelped again when the man landed on top of him again. As soon as he felt fingers touch his fur, he flinched, but found that the man was just giving him a little scratch behind the ears now. He was trembling lightly in fear, but his eyes had a new subject. Sure, he still wanted the bag..but that big shiny thing...it was soo...

Big and shiny!

Robert jumped up at the sound of one of the Professor's speaking and hurriedly picked up the trophy. Looking down at Forrester as he took points his jaw dropped, "But...I..." He looked toward Vindictus for help, after all he was his Head of House and it was an accident.... Swallowing he shook his head at Forrester's question, "No, sir. I should have paid more attention." His eye caught the movement to pet the Niffler and looked at it curiously. Was it staring at his trophy? Shifting slightly so it wasn't in view he looked back at the professor, "Do you need a hand, sir?"

Cela skipped along the corridor cheerfully, pom-poms still waving. She stopped at the sight in front of her, not because it was odd at all, but because it would be rude not to say hello, right?

"Hello Professor Forrester, hello Professor Vindictus, hello niffler, hello Herminny, hello Robert- you were so awesome out there today!" She smiled brightly around at them all and waved her pom-poms some more.