Dear Merlin's Jelly Beard.

Did this kid have a stop button?

"No no no," interjected Daphne irately, her arms moving along, unwillingly, with Tino's constant movements. "You will be doing no spells at all. You leave that to--" people with sanity. "Celandine and I. Yes? Good. Now try saying I will never handcuff myself to Daphne Hopton again about seven hundred times."

While I figure out how to knock myself unconscious or run away from you.

"Oh yes Abby, because I carry hair pins around with me all the time" he drawled giving her a look. Oh it seems someone was not happy about being stuck with him. Well she should have thought of that before she decided to be silly. "I could but then that would make it easier on you and I'm not feeling that generous at the moment." Lawson gave her a wink and then dragged her around the room once more.

Karma had overheard someone talking about water not getting into their socks. She turned her head slightly to see Copernicus.

"Use Impervius on your items," she said. "It worked for Anna and myself."

She gave him a smile to see if he might try it.

Karma nodded her head at Anna's non-observational skills at that point in time. True, the opening and closing may have distracted her too because they were shiny. "I just didn't want to be the only lunatic in here." She grinned and tried to not laugh. Although she did feel better.

Now she got to laugh at Anna about being stuck together. She was smiling even when she rolled her eyes. "Oh you know I can't STAND you Anna. I mean, why else would I have gotten along so well with you?" She giggled slightly to let her know she was kidding. At least it wasn't a guy she was stuck to - that would make going to the bathroom very hard to do. "I'm not spazzing yet. When I have to go to the bathroom, then I'll panic."

Aha, so she agreed with her. Oooh, but ending all the spells. That would be bad. Cela was pretty much the brightest witch in school, so it was fitting to ask her. She also turned with Anna to look at Cela, smiling slightly.

"Um... ye-e-e-esss." Celandine agreed to the mousse observation and hung on to her wand for dear life, watching Tino curiously. "Do you know where we can get chocolate mo-u-uuss-sse?"

Cela's arm was swinginginginging like crazy. "I will never handcuff myself to Daphne Hopton again about seven hundred times." Celandine repeated, still watching Tino dance around.

"Hmm?" Celandine turned her head. "No. I don't think it would work at all. Abby cast before and the cuffs opened but they reset so any spell to change the cuffs most likely won't work. If I could cast, I'd use jelly fingers on my hand then glisseo so that the bones go soft and you can just slide your hand free. After all, its the cuffs that are charmed and not US. Then you can cast Finite on your hand afterwards to get rid of the jelly fingers jinx." Celandine explained her idea and smiled brightly at the two seventh years before looking at Tino once more and letting out a sigh. Apparently she and Daphne were stuck playing ring-around-the-rosie? Well...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Celandine started swinging her arms too, still gripping her wand tightly.

Raiden grinned as Copernicus Kettleburn blasted the snow and sleet away from them. He was a smart guy, for sure, but... well magic defied logic in the first place, didn't it? So why couldn't water do the same? Maybe it was angry that it didn't get to do magic stuff, so it was starting to now or something? Either way... it was filling places it shouldn't.

"Hmmm... I know that Tergeo will take the water out of stuff, but I don't know if there's a spell to make your socks warm and keep them dry. It would be really useful considering, though." Raiden wiggled his toes inside his damp socks and shoes. Nooooooot pleasant-feeling at all. "You can make up spells?" Somehow that idea had never connected in his mind. Spells had always just existed for everything, so he'd never really... thought about how they'd been developed. "I'd like that spell... considering the fact that I tend to find myself near water and cold a lot more often lately."

When a girl nearby suggested Impervius, Raiden looked at her and nodded. That would keep the water out, yeah, but it wouldn't make their toesies warm. Was there a way to combine that with a... maybe that hot air spell that people used to dry off their robes and stuff? To keep warm air in their shoes or something?

Well, certainly there was nothing more to be learned from this lesson. It didn't seem very bad. Amusing maybe, but nothing too sadistic. It wasn't like Lawson was making them wash their feet or some of the other weird lessons Berty Borr liked to come up with. The headmaster smiled to himself and then frowned, biting back a string of curses as the water, a mere trickle coming at him before, soaked his pants in a stream of water. Time to go. He struggled back through the small passage hole and was gone.

Abby looks up at Professor Lawson's hair. "You mean that hairstyle is natural. I would have sworn you used at least a dozen hair pins to keep it in place." Professor Lawson starts his pacing again. "Do you think you could slow down a little sir. I'm having a hard time keeping up with you." If I had known he was such a stuborn old bat, I wouldn't have bothered trying to prove my point. I thought I'd never say this, but I beginning to miss having Professor Kazimeriz for DADA. Oooh, if he steps on my foot one more time I swear I'm going to use the Jelly Brain Curse on him. Maybe he'll give me the key then.

Lawson stopped walking and stared down at Abby, "Well at least I take the time to actually do my hair" he muttered as his eyes flicked over her hair and then back at her face. He snorted as he pulled her along with him again. "You're not the first person who has said that." He was regretting not letting the girl out of the cuffs but he was determined to make a point but he was thinking the silencing charm was going to come in very handy soon.


ooc: Oops sorry should have mentioned that. The way to get out of the cuffs is to simply slide your hand out...if you can. The cuffs have only been charmed not to open.

"Oh, no. If you ever feel as if you're the only lunatic around, just look my way, and you should feel all better," Anna jokingly said. She laughed lightly at her own little joke, hoping to give Karma the impression that she wasn't really being serious. Neither she nor Karma were lunatics, of course. Karma seemed to be in a rather joking mood anyway, though, as she quickly followed up with a joke of her own. Anna playfully stuck her tongue out at the girl, then glanced back down at the handcuffs. Oh, my...she hadn't thought about the whole bathroom situation yet, though...

...but then Cela was answering their question. Anna listened carefully, blinking ever so often at the answers the Ravenclaw girl was coming up with. Whoa. That was complex, yet she didn't see why it wouldn't work. "Hey, thanks, Cela," she replied, nodding once at the girl. She turned back to Karma and gave the girl a questioning expression. "I say we go for it. If this doesn't work, then we can always try something else. Okay, sooo....hmmm...how about I cast the jelly fingers and glisseo, then once were free, which hopefully we will be, you can cast finite," she suggested.

Taking in a deep breath, Anna swished her wand around in the motions she'd been taught, then cast the jelly fingers jinx on their hands. She didn't stop to see if they'd be able to get out. She went right into the Glisseo charm next. "Glisseo!" she called out, still swishing and flicking. Alright, if this worked, they'd be able to slide their hands out, then Karma could cast finite.

OOC: Mel, I didn't RP us getting out, as I was unsure as to whether or not that part was up to you.

Abby snickers. Vanity be thy name Professor Lawson. She looks at his free wrist and notices he's wearing a wrist watch, and it has a leather strap. "I'm sorry about that last comment sir. It just I'm not used to be out smarted like this. I must admit you are the master here. I was wondering if i could borrow your wrist watch ofr a moment please." If this doesn't work, I guess I can try using a quill. Abby looks over at her desk. It is covered in snow. I hope a still have a quill under all that mess.


OOC: I thought of that, but I wasn't sure a sixteen year old's hand would be small enough to get through the cuffs. When in doubt, I google. Found some interesting ways to get out of handcuffs. Let's see if Professor Lawson agrees.

Raising an eyebrow at Abby, Marcus undone the strap of his watch and handed it over to her wordlessly. Oh this should be interesting. He waved off her apology with his hand. "No offense taken Miss Wright." He lent against his desk and watched her avidly to see what sort of trick she had up her sleeve.


ooc: As long as it's creative I am sure he will.

Abby raises Lawson and her arms. "I'm not sure this will work. I've only seen it demonstrated. My Muggle Studies at Barrows was a muggle magic tricks fanatic. His favorite magician was Houdini." Abby takes Professor Lawson's wrist in her free hand. She takes the tongue(?) of the watch strap's lock and places it in the key hole. Abby moves it around until she thinks she hears a click. "Professor Higgins did this with a black pair of handcuffs. He used a muggle paper clip to open a pair of handcuffs like these. If this doesn't work, I may try using a quill. That's the closest thing I have to a paper clip."

Oooooh. The lightbulb above Karma's head went off as she understood the way that Cela had explained it. Being able to pull your hand out would be the simplist option, but with the handcuffs shrinking, it would have proven to be hard. Yikes, Jelly Fingers Jinx? Hmm. That would be a little awkward to have to look at, as if her hand wasn't there at all. EEEEP.

"Thanks Cela," she said brightly, smiling.

Karma took a deep breath. She wasn't too fond of her hand being useless, especially because it was her main wand hand. But she would have to do it seeing the handcuffs were being a pain. She looked down at the cuffs, wondering what kind of spell Lawson had put on it.

Once Anna began talking again, Karma turned her head up to look at her partner. She nodded at her suggestion of her casting Finite, but was still a little weary about the rest of it. "Alright. I hope this works. And, I wonder how weird this will feel." A few seconds after she had spoken, Anna cast both of the spells on them. "Oooh, that feels really different." Her hand looked like Jell-O in the shape of a hand. Hehe. It kind of tickled as well. "Alright, now Glisseo. Hopefully it will work this time."

Karma couldn't feel anything in her hand, but could hear the clank of metal on the ground, and her arm touching her side. She could feel the robes anywhere above her hand, but nothing else. Picking up her jinxed arm with her normal hand, she wiggled it around a little bit. "Haha, look at that. It's kind of cool." She looked back up at Anna, and snapped out of her little daze. "Right. Ahem." Pulling her wand out of her pocket with her free hand, she pointed the wand first at her own hand, and muttered, "Finite Incantatem!". Wow, her hand was coming back to life now, and it was slightly numb. Geez, that was weird. She attempted to put the wand in her freed hand, but it fell right out. Snorting, she bent over to pick it up. "Well alrighty then. Your turn. Finite Incantatem!"

She didn't wait too long to see if it had worked on Anna when she started dancing slightly. "Now I can go to the bathroom by myself. YESSS." Erm. Did she really just say that? And how many people heard it? Oh well, it's not like she hadn't been embarassed before.

He could have stopped her the moment she had made her intentions clear on what she was doing but he found it rather fascinating at the lengths she was going to. Lawson, cleared his throat and swallowed back the laugh that was determined to escape his lips.

"It won't work Abby, the actual cuffs are charmed not to open. But good try though." His eyes glanced over to Anna and Karma and he nodded in approval. "You may want to ask Miss Toussaint, how it's done. I do believe she has worked it out and has been good enough to pass onto others her findings." he nodded his head towards Anna and Karma. "As you can see they are now free."

Abby looks over at Anna and Karma. "It can't be that simple. I thought we couldnt' use magic. I thought about wiggle your hand out of the handcuffs ages ago, but my hands are too big to make it through. My compliments, professor. You fooled me but good."

"My name is Kita! It's nice to meet you Nancy," Kita said to the girl as she followed her back to her desk. She scanned the room and looked at what the other people were doing. They seemed to be tying themselves up. Kita suddenly realised what they had to do just as Nancy walked up to the professor's desk and retrieved a rope, chains and muggle handcuffs. Woah! Kita thought. Nancy placed the items on her desk and asked me which one she wanted first. "I think we should go with the easiest," she said, "Let's try the rope!"

As soon as she'd casted both the jelly fingers jinx and Glisseo, Anna clamped her eyes shut. She'd honestly always been a little freaked out at the thought of any part of her body being hit by any of those jelly-type jinxes. The outcome reminded her of squishy foam or something, and to think that right now, at this very second, her hand resembled squishy foam...that was just a little too much to think too closely about. Nevertheless, her curiosity was starting to get the best of her. She could almost feel her hand wiggling around, and she was beginning to think that it might make her feel better to see just how jelly-like her hand really was. Slowly, she opened her eyes, bringing her gaze first to Karma, then to their hands. They jelliness wasn't really that bad, but Anna couldn't wait for Karma to cast Finite.

Anna swallowed, then looked back up at her partner. She stayed still and quiet while she waited for the girl to cast. When she finally did, Anna's felt a weird sensation in her hand, almost like it was sort of putting itself back together again. "Wow. That was strange. Freaky. Weird. Cool," she said, turning her hand around and around and looking at it from all angles. She giggled when Karma mentioned going to the bathroom by herself. "Yes, it's good to know we don't have to accompany one another there, isn't it?"

She put her wand away, then turned back to Cela. "Good thinking, Cela. Thanks again for the tip," she said. The sound of Professor Lawson's voice then caught her attention, and she strolled over to where he was standing. "Cool lesson, sir. Have a good day!" With a little wave to Karma, Anna grabbed all her materials and left the class.

Abby raises Professor Lawson and her handcuffed arms. She taps her handcuff with her wand and says "Engorgio!" Her handcuff triples in size. Abby easily removes her hand from it. She then taps her wand on Professor Lawson's handcuff and says "Engorgio!" His handcuff also multiplies in size. Abby slips it off his hand. She then performs the Reducio Charm and returns the handcuffs to their normal size. Abby then hands them to Professor Lawson. "I have to admit. I enjoyed being your constant companion. Do you think we could do it again?" Abby bats her eye lashes at the good professor.

It was not beyond Tino's keen observation that the other partners were finding ways of getting free, and that class was quickly wrapping up. TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE!

"Look! Over there! Is that a squirrel?!," cried Tino, pointing at the far wall (and taking Cela's hand along). While the girls were distracted by his genius red herring (or rodent, rather), Tino quickly tipped his wand hand towards the nearest set of cuffs and whispered something that sounded very much like 'Uithoisdnommindeek!'. He meant for the cuffs to shrink. Something else happened instead.

A bolt of lightning shot from his wand. Just milliseconds before everything went black, Tino heard the sound of 200 volts connecting with metal, and then he felt it.

Tino's life flashed before his eyes. It was terribly boring.

"No problem." Celandine smiled and watched the two seventh years leave without even offering to help her. Gee.

Next thing Cela knew, her hand was sort of lifted and pointing at... "A squirrel, where?"

And then...

She felt the electricity zapping through her body and reminding her briefly of a particular incident involving falling out of a tree and being punished by a professor.

She passed out and slumped into Daphne and Tino's joined arms and slid to the ground in a frazzled little heap.

"Squirrel?" were Daphne's last words before her body shook uncontrollably. Through her blurred vision, she managed to 'catch' Celandine and slide down, hair buzzing with electricity and flaming charred shoe laces on her still feet, towards the ground.

Tino awoke to the smell of burnt hair. His eyes squinted open to a dizzy view of the ceiling, where he realized there was a permanent ring of white following his vision. Holy smokes. What had happened? Tino lifted his head, revealing a fried-looking hairdo.

Girls were on top of him. He must be dead. Nobody was moving except him. He'd killed his best friends! "OH LORD I'VE KEEEELED THEM!" Tino whispered, terrified. Death by electrocution! Oh, the injustice! "You're too young to die!," the boy croaked, trying to move his arms so he could pull them up. Unfortunately, his attachments were impeding his progress. Every time he tried to reach for someone, he jerked someone else's arm. Finally Tino came to the resolution that he was stuck. He didn't want to kill the girls AND break the arms of their cooked carcasses.

Where was the smell of that smoke coming from?

WUH?!

Raiden looked up from where he was sitting on the floor at the strange sound, just in time to see Daphne Hopton, Celandine, and their handcuff friend go all funny and fall to the floor.

"Copernicu-" he yelped, his voice catching before the words fully escaped. He was already on his feet, his shield charm gone before he was fully up. "Celandine!"

And Daphne Hopton. But he didn't have enough breath in his lungs to get another name squeaked out. With quick, unnaturally long strides (for him anyway) he rushed to them. The guy was already awake and stuffs, but... Cela and Daphne Hopton...

"Stay still," he said sharply to the boy who was attached to his two friends. He was moving about and... jerking them. Carefully he touched Daphne Hopton's hand, the one attached to the boy. They'd been saying something about the Jelly Fingers curse, and then trying Glisseo... So he'd do that, then. Tapping her hand gently, he mumbled the curse under his breath; her fingers went wobbly. "There's that at least... Glisseo!"

With a little bit of tugging, he managed to get the handcuff off Daphne Hopton's wrist. There was one at least. Glancing at the boy again, his eyes trailed to the wrist linked to Celandine's.

"Don't... move. Okay? What did you do?" Daphne Hopton was breathing, at least. Good. Good. Raiden shook her shoulder gently. "Daphne Hopton?"

His other hand carefully touched Celandine's attached-to-Daphne hand. Poke. Poke.

Something was wailing near her and Daphne's instinct was to reach out and...pat rather roughly whatever it was that was making that horrible sound. "So loud," she murmured, slapping Tino's forehead noisily. This alarm clock was odd. In her daze, she didn't quite notice that her shoe laces were still smoking slightly, the flames having gone out due to lack of material. Nor did she quite understand why someone was touching her and shaking her shoulders.

Why? Eyelashes fluttering open Miss Hopton stared up at Raiden through frazzled blond hair. "Kururugi...why are you--Not a squirrel?" Why was she thinking squirrel all of a sudden?

Oh. Squirrel! Sitting up quickly, Daphne felt a tug on one of her wrists--which, as it dawned on her, was still attached to Celandine. "Cela!" exclaimed Daphne, scrambling over Tino. "Oh, gosh. Are you okay?" Daphne reached out for her wand but fumbled--her fingers were jiggly. Ohhhh! Jelly Fingers. Explained why she suddenly was free of...Tino. "Tino. I'll deal with you later!" huffed the blond elbowing him slightly as she tried to accommodate herself. "Raiden. Raiden. Fix my fingers so we can get Celandine's hands out the handcuffs."

Huh. Diane once again wondered if students at Hogwarts were under the effects of a confusing concoction. It certainly seemed so when this boy started screaming about dead friends. The more Diane felt was the smell and heat passing by her. A heavy cloud of smoke covered the pile of bodies in the floor, and the boy who had approached. When the smoke cleared, besides the later, was little Diane watching curiously.

"Baby oil would work too," she commented, rather for herself after watching this boy perform some sort of jelly charm. Yep, rather unhelpful.