"I think we should mark them. Permenantly," Theo grinned, at his new best friend. Cope even smiled at him. "With like a W. Similar to the Pirate P, they did in the old days. W for wolf or wolf supporter."

"We can get expelled for that." rejected Nataly. "We need to do something that won't get us into much trouble, but will be as effective."

"I'd rather be expelled, than maulled to death by a wolf!" Theo moaned, "Wouldn't you rather it as well? Plus if we got Melita on our side, she could brand them herself."

"That's right, but it's not logical. We need to think, not to do everything carelessely." she said convincly. "If we get Melita to our side, that would be a small victory. We can cast some Furunculuses on the werewolf lovers, and when they come to the hospital wing Melita will brand them. It's a win-win situation-it's not dangerous for us."

Satine looked up at Copernicus admiringly....what leadership...what an inspiration...she hadn't been really noticed all year and now she was lucky that Copernicus had liked both of her ideas.

She wrote WOLF at the top of her list in her best handwriting and continued keeping a list of everyone that was listed...

Her attention was taken away from her list when she heard a familiar name mentioned....


She realized that someone had mentioned her best friend, Iris. Deep inside anger raged at the fact that someone was accusing her best friend of such horrible things, but she knew they were right and something was telling her to ignore her friendship and that this was for the best and maybe her friends needed to be cleansed to come to this side...the side that up to coming into this room she was on the other....

Then two more names came to her mind, "Well, if Iris is involved in this horrible werewolf sympathizing, then that means Aaron Anderson and Fallon McCarthy, both Slytherins, are probably on the same page as her."

She felt her hand add her other two best friends' names to the list and her brain fought it but it was like someone else was running her hand and she even noticed that her writing was not her own....she screamed deep inside but something was controlling her.

Adrienne listened quietly as several of her fellow students were called out as werewolf supporters, as well as professors, and she couldn't help but feel a little happy that so far her favorite teachers or at least the ones she thought were cute hadn't been mentioned anywhere. And then that tiny voice came back, trying to remind her that she had nothing against werewolves, or their supporters. But just as soon as it showed up, her happy cloudiness came back and she nodded as the plans continued.

And then, almost as if she'd lost control of her body, she found herself raising her hand. As if she needed to be polite with all her new friends. "What about trying to find out who may be a werewolf supporter, or the poor students who were brainwashed into thinking they were, but aren't as vocal about it? Cause I know I could have a way to find out who they were." Another voice popped into her head, trying to get her to take what she'd said back. That she didn't want to reveal herself to all these people, and Grandmother would curse her if she did. But she couldn't stop herself. She didn't personally know too many vocal werewolf surpporters, and she felt she needed to show her worth to Copernicus somehow. She couldn't just sit here nodding the whole time.

Reese leaned back in her chair as her eyes slowly shifted around the room, looking at everyone that were suggesting things to Copernicus. "I think," she abruptly spoke out. "We should create a mob - well, we kind of already have one, but nevertheless, create a mob with pitchforks and just..." Where the HECK was she going with this? "I don't know. We might be able to scare the werewolfs out of the castle or something," she quickly finished. Ah, well. It all made sense in HER head. Maybe someone else can come up with a better idea to get those filthy creatures out of here.

He became thoughtful for a moment. He wasn't sure what her last name was. "I believe it's Bellaire," he said after a moment.

And for once in his life he totally agreed with Reese. This was a moment that he would never thought would arrive, and he couldn't believe what he was going to say next.

"Reese, you are a genius. Pitchforks! Yes, lets use pitchforks."

Reese pondered for a moment or so about what she just suggest. "Yet," she said once Torin agreed with her. "Just like what that girl mentioned before..." She pointed her finger to the Slytherin sitting not too far away from her (Nataly). "We don't want to get expelled," she continued. "I sort of spoke without thinking and we might get expelled for that." Oh, well. It sounded like a good idea at first, but once you thought out it, it wasn't so good. "Those creatures are the things that need to leave, not us," she added. "So, there might be a better idea out there." Looking away from Torin, she put her attention back on Copernicus.

Ainsley was meerly sitting there listening to everyone speak around her. At the names people offered as possible werewolf supporters to the ideas being suggested on how to handle them once and for all. Any other time she would have been strongly against any sort of behavior being mentioned but she found herself going along with everybody else in the room. Captive under the effects of Copernicus' spell and rolling her eyes at the mention of certain members of her own house falling under the list of supporters.

Satine listened to all of the suggestions and then one came to her that was so divious and evil that it couldn't have come from her own head....she made a confused look wondering if this had come from someone else's mind, but still decided to share..."Well, everything will be really hard to accomplish with the Headmaster being a supporter, so maybe the first thing we need to do is create some situations that discredit him and forces the board to remove him from his position." she smiled evilly for the first time...her sweet smile had been replaced by an evil one that seemed to creep up out of the fog.

She glanced at her list of werewolves, werewolf supporters, and plans for action towards them...she viewed her three friends' names in red and something clicked inside of her for a split second...she looked around to make sure no one was looking and mumbled something under her breath looking at the parchment with great interest....instantly the three names disappeared and were replaced with names of fake students....she glanced around and noticed that no one looked at her but then was instantly snapped back into her trance when she heard some more names and ideas being mentioned...

Satine glanced back up to wait to hear what their leader thought about her idea about the Headmaster.

"I think posters are a good idea, but we need the tide of popular opinion on our side too. Posters need to state our opinions clearly and strongly. I especially think the sticking charms are a good idea."

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"Is there anyone from the Quill here or has connections to the Daily Prophet?" she asked. "We can use newspapers to spread to everyone the fact that werewolves in Hogwarts ARE dangerous."

"They're under the thumb of the administration and the Ministry. I don't know if any of us are on the Quill, but would they be able to slide an article under the nose of the editor?"

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"I think we should mark them. Permenantly," Theo grinned, at his new best friend. Cope even smiled at him. "With like a W. Similar to the Pirate P, they did in the old days. W for wolf or wolf supporter."

"Something with a sticking charm? A button that let's everyone know they care more about Dark creatures than their fellow man. Think of a slogan, and we can get buttons out on all those students."

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"We can get expelled for that." rejected Nataly. "We need to do something that won't get us into much trouble, but will be as effective."

"She's right, though. We're operating under the radar for now, which means we need to be fast, silent, and secret. Later, once we have the support of popular opinion, we can come out of the shadows and loudly proclaim our role in all this."

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And then, almost as if she'd lost control of her body, she found herself raising her hand. As if she needed to be polite with all her new friends. "What about trying to find out who may be a werewolf supporter, or the poor students who were brainwashed into thinking they were, but aren't as vocal about it? Cause I know I could have a way to find out who they were." Another voice popped into her head, trying to get her to take what she'd said back. That she didn't want to reveal herself to all these people, and Grandmother would curse her if she did. But she couldn't stop herself. She didn't personally know too many vocal werewolf surpporters, and she felt she needed to show her worth to Copernicus somehow. She couldn't just sit here nodding the whole time.

"And what exactly IS this idea, Adrienne? How would you have us reveal our strongest foes?"

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Reese leaned back in her chair as her eyes slowly shifted around the room, looking at everyone that were suggesting things to Copernicus. "I think," she abruptly spoke out. "We should create a mob - well, we kind of already have one, but nevertheless, create a mob with pitchforks and just..." Where the HECK was she going with this? "I don't know. We might be able to scare the werewolfs out of the castle or something," she quickly finished. Ah, well. It all made sense in HER head. Maybe someone else can come up with a better idea to get those filthy creatures out of here.

"In time, that might work, but it's a dead giveaway for now," Copernicus wrinkled his brow. Really? Were they so bold that they wanted to rest straight into confrontation? Where was her Slytherin subtlety?

He tapped his foot a bit. "I think we need to start small. We have four major targets for now: Bontecou, Lupa, Morgan, and Kazimeriz. I suggest we split into groups and strike in waves. First wave will strike the werewolves, second will strike their friends." He paused, trying to gather his thoughts. "Each team can figure out what they want to do and where to strike, and that way we can be orderly about it."

Lasca listened intently as they discussed their plans of action. She nodded her head in agreement to most of the ideas, although she was a little iffy on coming out right with there protests. They needed to be subtle until they got everything in order.

While names were being given, something inside her paused. Two names jumped to her lips, however before her voice could betray her some spark of recognition ignited and the clouds dispersed for the briefest of moments. Then like a flash it was gone and the fuzzy clouds were back. Shaking her head in confusion the young Ravenclaw refocused on Copernicus.

"So, how will we pick the groups?"

"With the sticking charm badges thing may it not create the opposite of what we want? I mean there would probably be some supporters who don't know of each other. If we mark them then we could help them know who to support as well. Also if they know who each other is and then feel threatened wouldn't they maybe start a counter attack of sorts on anyone who seems to oppose werewolves?" Reid asked getting more into Cope's plan. "Maybe if we do badges or things we should falsely mark a few of us here and that way if they do plan anything we would know." Reid offered, not really sure of the idea but trying to help anyway.

"Also I think that since we already know one Prefect is a supporter we should try to scope out the others, see where their opinions lie in all this. I'm sure that at least some of us have close relationships with some prefects and could easily get them to reveal what side they're on. If they're with us then we would have some extra help from someone with a little bit of authority and if not then we know of others that need to be taken out so that they cannot continue to influence the students who so blindly look to them for guidance." A small part of his mind was screaming at him for what he was suggesting. Rachel was a prefect. His beautiful trusting girlfriend was one and if they put his idea into action he could end up adding her to the list of people that they were planning to betray. No it's not a betrayal. They betrayed us for supporting these ugly creatures.

Ahh they would be split up into teams. Perfect. But like the girl asked he too wondered how they were going to be split up. He decided not to ask though since the girl already had. Plus he had a feeling that Copernicus would get to that before the meeting ended anyway.

Adrienne sat up a bit straighter as Copernicus addressed her suggestion, still trying to ignore the little voices in the back of her mind that kept telling her this was all wrong and that she shouldn't say anything. Risking a glance at Torin, who was probably the only one in there who knew (both the extent of what she was talking about, and how much she could lose), she took a breath. "Well, we could get into their heads. If they have fuzzy feelings towards werewolves, or anything we deem suspicious, we could add them to the list. And those people who are already there, we could determine if they could be swayed to our cause," she said, practically in a matter-of-fact tone, and before the voices could get any louder. And before she could stop herself. He had asked her to explain, so she knew she needed to. And people can't be against me, can they? I'm helping.

And then Copernicus had gone on to discuss how they should break into teams for their actions, and she settled back into her calm, vague stupor as she waited for her next instructions.

"If anyone of us is from the quill, tey can slip little hints in the articles. It can help us." Nataly explained.

Bontecou, Lupa, Morgan and Kazimeriz. That was a really long list of professors. But Nataly was sure they would be able to do it.
"How do we split into groups? And what will each one of them do?" she asked, curious.

"You're absolutely right." she agreed. "If we'll claim some of us, too, we will be able tp spy on them and ruin their plans. And we don't accept people into this group without checking their loyality. If there will be even one spy among us... it will be our end."

Satine continued writing down everything on her lists...one for werewolves...one for werewolf supporters and sympathizers...one for major targers...one for ideas....

She pulled out four blank pieces of parchment and wrote the name of the professors their leader had decided to target and focus on first.....Bontecou, Lupa, Morgan, and Kazimeriz...all in deep red...

"I think maybe we should figure out who is liked by the professors first..this would make it easy to infiltrate and surprise them with our actions...they would be much more likely to trust the students they like than those that already have issues with them...." she said looking at Cope for approval for her statements...she felt a longing to have his approval for everything she did...but she also didn't want to to disappoint him in any way...this was not her usual...she was very independent and by herself but his power and hatred felt good for some reason and she quickly squashed the little voice inside pleading for her to stop and think....


"Do you think we should have everyone sign up for who they feel they can help with the most?" she said never breaking her stare from their fearless leader.

LouAnn nodded, a little mechanically, when Cope said the group needed posters to clearly state their opinions, as well. "Perfect, and of course I agree," she said. "Just let me know if you need me to make anything and what exactly needs to be made, and of course I'll get it done."

"...and I'm on The Quill. I just joined this school year, and I've only done one article for the paper so far, but...we have another issue coming up soon," she said. She was over the Monthly Student and Staff Spotlight, so...hmm...maybe she could sort of work her spotlight around a few choice werewolves and their supporters. "Would you like me to do that instead?" she asked.

Once again, LouAnn nodded, agreeing with anything and everything Copernicus said. "Four groups...teams...I like it! Which team would you like for me to be on?" she asked him.

"Oh, that sounds like a good idea, too!" LouAnn said, surprisingly agreeing with someone other than Copernicus for a change. A second later, though, her face sort of fell and a questioning look appeared on her face. "...but what happens if everyone signs up for the same person? What happens if only two of us sign up for one professor, while ten sign up for another? Do you think maybe we should try and make sure it's balanced?" she asked.

Jake actually raised his hand to speak. "I can go for Morgan," he said in a low voice. "I think it's fair enough to say that I am usually quite close to her," Jake sneered a little, digusted that he had ever been so close to a wolf lover. "I'l be in the group that goes for her. Insider, you know?"

Alex had been quiet, just listening to the conversation around her, while keeping her focus on Cope. She was glad that Damon hadn't revealed what his stance on werewolves was. "Put me in a group where we go after a man, I can bring him down easily." She said looking up. She didn't want to have to fully explain, but she could.

Lyra listened to what the other students where saying while staring at the ground. Hearing a girls voice, Lyra looked up and saw that..Satino? Satina? ..well it was a girl she had met once last year. Lyra nodded vigorously when she said the names..one name in particular. Fallon McCarthy. If she was a werewolf lover then she would have revenge for two things! Stealing HER crush and being a supporter.

Lyra grinned evily at the thought of Fallon but then it went to Evan. Her mind seemed to fight the wonderful fuzzy feeling in her head as she thought of him. She remembered that Evan had never told her he was a supporter of the Werewolf and she was very glad he never had. 'After this meeting i'm gonna tell Evan everyt--' Her eyes got a little unfocused and her own thoughts were replaced by someone else talking about making groups. Lyra struggled again to grasp her own thoughts but lost when she looked towards Copernicus direction, the nice yet angry feeling was back in her mind. "I don't mind in what group i'm placed" she said

"I'll take Lupa," said Kiri, quietly but distinctly. Still propelled to soaring highs of righteous indignation and companionship by Copernicus' speech and his complimentary words on everyone's bravery, she felt as if she could (or maybe should) tackle the main problem right away - the werewolf that had, so far, been tolerated, even befriended, by the students and the professors at Hogwarts. Kiri didn't quite know yet what exactly everyone was going to do, but she had a feeling that, if no ideas presented themselves, their leader, Copernicus, would cook something up. He'd figured the whole situation out, after all. He was very, very smart.

"I'm in Slytherin, after all, she's my... Head of House," Kiri went on, shuddering slightly. "Means it's my duty to get rid of her. And I'll have much easier access. She has an office in our common room."

She peered around at the other students in the room wearing serpent badgers. An ugly smirk played across her face that would have thoroughly surprised and unnerved an uninvolved observer. The look of rapt attention with which she faced Copernicus seemed almost feverishly zealous. As it was, however, no one who could have remarked on this was present.

Reese shrugged her shoulder. It was just an idea, but Copernicus was right. It WOULD be a dead giveaway.

She looked around the room again when people started saying which werewolf or werewolf supporter they would like to target. Her eyes landed on Kiri as the girl mentioned that it would be best for her to target Lupa since her office was in there common room. She liked the way the girl was thinking.

"I would like to be in the group that goes after Lupa," she said. "Since, like Kiri said, it's best for us since her office is in our common room."

Tiberius' mind was racing. Take on professors? Other students? He'd barely kept his head on straight after Willie Crocker followed by the melted shoes. He couldn't do this!

Except... that voice in his head that usually told him how scary something was? Agreed with him that he shouldn't do something? It wasn't there right now. Instead, there was this soft, persistent voice nudging him. Telling him that he could do this. When it came to THIS, he could manage. He could protect his school. Even if just for this. one. thing.

Tibi looked up at Copernicus, determined, despite the nagging feeling in his stomach. He was going to help!

"I took the liberty of drawing up some lists," Copernicus crossed his arms across his chest as words began to curl across the chalkboard behind him. "I suggest you meet with your group and come up with a plan for now. I suggest we strike the werewolves first, so the Morgan and Kazimeriz teams have a little longer to come up with something. You might want to coordinate with each other so your efforts parallel each other."

He stepped aside from the board to let them read. "If you have any questions before we go back to our respective lives, please feel free. Otherwise... let's get to it."