Rosemary smiled as she accepted the Frog, "Thank you Professor.... And To you Lady Rosamund." She smiled as she tucked it into her bag for later as she simply listened. She would have preferred points but Chocolate Frogs she liked just as much.

Rosemary cocked her head, "Ohhh...... Tricky...." She whispered as she thought, "Compass?" She whispered to Ariadne questioningly.

Hannah raise her hand is it a dog she ask Rosamund.

OH YEAH. Choccie frog. Her type of treat, thanks professor she grinned, holding it in her hand. She looked at the sphinx. This lesson was getting trickier. Again she wrote down her notes



Soooo, she chewed her lip, an animal, that goes around in circles, so it repeats itself all the time but continues to move forward, and it is led. Soo, she carried on chewing her lip, a donkey? She shrugged, because donkey's go round paddocks and circuits in circles but they can still move forward if they want, and they can't complain. Because they can't speak, she paused and tapped her chin and the word led suggests an animal like a dog or a donkey.

She nodded, and frankly it seems more plausible with a donkey than a dog. She shrugged. That was probably an epic fail. Still

Having listened to the second riddle being spoken, the Slytherin paid attention, thinking it over. And...well, Isabelle made sense she supposed. Is a bell. Huh. Clever. OMG! He was giving people chocolate. He was giving people CHOCOLATE! She was almost too focused on the fact that Professor McFluffy was giving people the most evil food ever, she almost missed the third riddle. What? WHAT!?

Round and round...straight ahead...never complain...what, a five year old spinning in circles? That made sense too. Though obviously it was something round, and it went straight. A round thing...that went straight. Oh wait, the talk of a dog made her lose her train of thought. Good thing too. A portkey was probably not the right answer. Well...actually... "A...portkey?" she muttered, still thinking about it, and still...staring at the Professor. The holder of evil food.

Pfft.

Jacob had been half asleep all class, really it didn't matter to him... he wasn't allowed to pet it so what was the point in paying attention.

But riddles were fun, so Jacob listened somewhat at this point.

'I go round and round in circles...'

Jacob stared at the sphinx... like a a carousel... or someone who was really dizzy? Maybe both. He was dizzy on a carousel?

'...But always straight ahead...'

A mobile carousel with a dizzy guy on it? Maybe.

'...And never complain...'

A a very obedient mobile carousel with a dizzy person on it.

'...Regardless of where I am led.'

Maybe it wasn't the carousel... maybe it was the person... Some dizzy person goes around in circles... but thinks their going straight... Like a drunk? OOH! They were Drunk!

"Is it a Drunk man?" yes... of course. What else could it be. "Drunk people go around, and around... but they think they're going straight ahead. They never complain about where they're led, cause they don't know where they are in the first place... so what's there to complain about?"

Oh yeah... Go Jacob. So Smart.

Lulu was standing on the second rail of the fence. She liked rare and magical creatures as much as the next Muggleborn but Patterson also enjoyed staying alive and in the background where she could silently chuckle at everyone. She was saving the funny answers to her memory bank so she could retell them to Janie at a later time and giggle at how far fetched they were.

The first line of the riddle was easy enough. It was something round that went in circles. That sure limited the answers. Although Lulu supposed it could always be a pygmy puff, she didn't think they would take lightly to be rolled down corridors like a bowling ball. Not to mention they wouldn't always go straight and neither would bowling balls. If it never complained it had to be something without a voice, preferably dead.

Lulu waved an arm in the air as she tried to balance herself on the fence, climbing up higher. "WORR, PROFESSOR FUSSY!" she hollered, wondering if he could hear her over the yells of DOG, DRUNK MAN, and PORTKEY. "Is it a wheel, now?" she asked. "Ya know, like on wheelbarro's, and ca's."

Chris looked at his paper and began to jot down ideas."I go around in circles. Umm... Hmmm... This is complicated. Straight ahead in circles." Chris jotted down some terms. Brooms, snitches, snakes. " Oh Oh Oh!! Is it a broom! You can drive it in circles and straight ahead. It can't complain about where its led!!!!!" Chris said in a very excited way!

Selina rose her hand, "A compass? Only because a compass dial goes around in a circle, but it always ends up pointing straight ahead or north. And it cant complain because it is a device."

Huh?

Around in circles but straight ahead? WUT. Make. Up. Your. Mind. Things don't go AROUND and STRAIGHT. Gawsh.

Yeah Millie had no answer for this one. She couldn't think of anything from Doctor Who, or Wicked or even Indiana Jones that would answer that question. WHICH SUCKED. So she sat there, trying to not glare at Rosie, because she had only answered one half of her question and now she was giving them confusing riddles that make no sense. Mean little sphinx.

Hmmmm. The other ones had been a little easier but this one was just plain obvious. "It's an egg!" Eino said with his hand raised. "Because if you put it down and bump it it will roll in circles, but the animal inside still grows and it can't complain because it's not born yet. Also, if it's led to your tummy it cannot complain and it's good." What else could it be? A delicious egg and nothing else!

Kurumi listened to the riddle and had to agree that a compass sounded like a plausible answer, but she ought to offer up another response. "Is the answer time?" Kurumi asked raising her hand. "Time is often referred to as moving in a circle, well, more like a cycle of morning, afternoon, and evening that is forever repeating and must always move forward. Well, unless you have a Time Turner, but that is an entirely different matter." She paused to collect her thoughts. "Those of us effected by time may complain that we do not have enough of it, but Time never does so itself and the part about 'no matter where I'm led' could refer to how we all use our time."

If Rosamund had it in her to laugh, Lachlan was certain she would be doing it by now. He was glad she wasn't doing it, of course; last thing he wanted was to hurt the kids' feelings somehow. "No," He said. MacFusty didn't know the exact answer himself, but he was certain it was not an animal. "Animals can complain, and they don't have to speak to do so," He finished, not unkindly.

Lachlan's head tilted to one side at Evelyn's guess. A portkey indeed made a whole lot of sense, but was it the answer...? "Rosamund?"

Rosamund smiled a cheshire smile. "No."

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Jacob had been half asleep all class, really it didn't matter to him... he wasn't allowed to pet it so what was the point in paying attention.

But riddles were fun, so Jacob listened somewhat at this point.

'I go round and round in circles...'

Jacob stared at the sphinx... like a a carousel... or someone who was really dizzy? Maybe both. He was dizzy on a carousel?

'...But always straight ahead...'

A mobile carousel with a dizzy guy on it? Maybe.

'...And never complain...'

A a very obedient mobile carousel with a dizzy person on it.

'...Regardless of where I am led.'

Maybe it wasn't the carousel... maybe it was the person... Some dizzy person goes around in circles... but thinks their going straight... Like a drunk? OOH! They were Drunk!

"Is it a Drunk man?" yes... of course. What else could it be. "Drunk people go around, and around... but they think they're going straight ahead. They never complain about where they're led, cause they don't know where they are in the first place... so what's there to complain about?"

Oh yeah... Go Jacob. So Smart.

Rosamund's sole response was an artful roll of her large eyes, while Professor MacFusty had to cough and pat his chest in order to hide to several chuckles attempting to come out of him.

A drunk man.

"No, Jacob," MacFusty said at last. "But I like the reasoning behind your answer." Mostly, he liked that it made him laugh. "Here," Lachlan said, offering the Ravenclaw captain a cauldron cake when he reached him. "Have a cauldron cake."

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Chris looked at his paper and began to jot down ideas."I go around in circles. Umm... Hmmm... This is complicated. Straight ahead in circles." Chris jotted down some terms. Brooms, snitches, snakes. " Oh Oh Oh!! Is it a broom! You can drive it in circles and straight ahead. It can't complain about where its led!!!!!" Chris said in a very excited way!

"But Broomsticks not always go round and round in circles," Lachlan pointed out, as he returned to his stool.

Yeah, he wouldn't be standing up again. If they wanted chocolate frogs or cauldron cakes, they'd have to come get them.

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Selina rose her hand, "A compass? Only because a compass dial goes around in a circle, but it always ends up pointing straight ahead or north. And it cant complain because it is a device."

"No," Rosamund answered to the young Gryffindor, and wondering why were the Gryffindors the seemingly smart ones, as opposed to the Ravenclaws. She had heard that the members of the house of Rowena needed to answer a riddle in order to reach their chambers, and yet none of them had gotten hers right.

Rosamund wondered just how often the Ravenclaws slept in their own beds. "But that is a good answer. Professor, I believe this one, too, deserves, a.... one of those things."

They looked revolting.

Lachlan picked up both boxes from the floor and said, [b]"Selina? Chocolate frogs or Cauldron Cakes?" Also, she would have to stand up. He wasn't doing that anymore.

An egg would have made sense, except that, "But wouldn't an egg's complaint come in the form of it breaking when it bumped against something?"

Rosamund let the girl talked until she seemed to have no more to say. When she smiled, the sphinx's smile was almost friendly. "Are you sure you are not part Sphinx?" This was a complete, of course. [b]"You are not, however, correct."

Some loud child was not only giving him a nickname he'd not approved of, but also balancing on the paddock's fence. Lovely. "Patterson! Accidents. Accidents could happen if she didn't get away from that fence, and the last thing he wanted was an injured kid during his first class. Get off that fence at once and come here." To get a cauldron cake or a chocolate frog, because if Rosie's smile was any indication, Lulu Patterson had the correct answer.

It had taken the students a slightly prolonged amount of time, this time, to come up with the correct answer. She smiled again, feeling her confidence grow more than, truthfully, it should.

"There are four brothers in the world that were all born together;
the first, he runs and never wearies,
the second, he eats and never fills
the third, he drinks but remains thirsty
and the fourth, he sings a song that is never good.
Who are they?"

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Belle wondered. She was never rlly good at riddles anyways. She copied the riddle down in her book, "Hmm could it be a animal like a dog? Could it be the moon or a wheel because they go around in circles." Belle thought logically.

Isobel was not good at riddles. She always got bored and didn't bother figuring them out. She'd give this one a try though. She thought, and thought and...this was hard! Take it slowly, she told herself.

Runs but never wearies? How was that possible. OOOH- A vampire! But, no, that couldn't be the answer.

Eats and never fills? She didn't see how that was possible either? Unless as they ate it just kept coming out. ...That would be really gross, and she just pushed it out of her mind.

Drinks and remains thirsty? This was hard!

Sings a song that was never good? Well that could be anyone.

Then Isobel thought of something. Water ran, and it couldn't get tired. So she decided that water was the first brother. Isobel took out a piece of paper and wrote that down. Then she thought that it would be logical for the brothers to be the elements, so she looked to see if it made sense. Earth? Earth drinks in water and air for it's plants, and it can never get full. Well a plant could, and die, but the earth itself couldn't. Fire ate things in it's path and it never got full. Isobel raised her hand.

"Are the brothers Water, Fire, Earth and Wind?" Then she remembered that they had to say why. "Water, because it runs and never gets tired. Fire eats things in it's path and can't get full. Earth drinks in things but thirsts for more." Did that make sense? Finally..."And Wind sings songs, but it usually causes destruction if it's too strong."

Sierra looked around the room as her classmates made guess after guess. A compass? Could be. She hadn't really been sharing any thoughts on any of the riddles so far, but she actually did have an idea about this one.

...and it wasn't a compass.

"What about a wheel?" she asked, her hand in the air. "It goes round and round in circles, causing it move to straight ahead." You also wouldn't hear any complaining out of the wheels either. Not like they could talk even if they wanted to.

YUMMY! Jacob grabbed the sweet that was offered. Good. Mister McFeeder was useful for something.

Oh! the knocker made Jacob do this one a few years ago... he was waiting outside for 5 hours 'til someone let him in. Evil knocker might do some good after all.

Jacob raised his hand. "It would be the five main elements. Water. It constantly runs, but it can't tire itself. Fire. It swallows everything, incinerating it to ash. Earth. It absorbs water, and liquid, without filling itself. And Air. It always whistles, the the tune it always the same, and never nice to the ears."

Oh yeah. Go Knocker.

Blimey! Eino hadn't thought of that. Maybe he should learn a charm to prevent eggs from breaking, but then he wouldn't be able to eat them. Woe is me! He thought. Enough of that though, onto the next riddle. Eino wasn't really worried about guessing right once he heard the riddle. He was rather sad that the poor brothers were so unfortunate. Well, he supposed not growing weary was a good thing, but to always be hungry and thirsty sounded very dreadfully terrible indeed. As to the singing, well that just won't do! Maybe a nice charm would fix his voice, or maybe he should just learn prettier songs that would sing good no matter what. He had heard sirens and naiads were good singers, but they weren't very nice so maybe they wouldn't offer him singing lessons. Eino made himself a note on the margin of his parchment. "Help the four unfortunate brothers." Whoever they were. Oh, right! The riddle. He raised his hand, then he lowered it. He hadn't the slightest idea.

Chris jotted down something that looked as earth. He drinks but remains thitsty. " I think the third is earth. Umm is the second fire? The fourth ummm.... think chris think! OH OH OH Wind! The first is water! Water because it runs down streams. Earth because it has lots of water that remains to stay. Fire, it will burn anything in its path and will keep going. And wind, it makes a sound of cold and not so soothing to the body!!!!!! My friend told me a similar one but not exact wording!"

Fussy sounded like her mother, save her Mother called her Lu or Lulu not Patterson but the tone was the same. Get down from that tree! Leave that garden snake alone! Don't jump over the neighbor's fence! Don't pick your nose at the dinner table! Quit pulling your brothers' hair! GET DOWN FROM THE ROOF, AT ONCE, YOUNG LADY!

"Awrite, ma-Sir," said Lulu, leaping off the fence. She landed with a thud, almost graceful had it not been for her long arms which she still didn't know how to control. The teenager bounded through the crowd of students to the front of the classroom. She did reduce her speed when within feet of MacFusty and watched him warily. "Yer called?"

Lady Rosemund was yapping again. Lu cast the sphinx a curious look over a small shoulder. That one was a little difficult to guess immediately. The first thing she could think of was North, East, West and South but that really had very little to do with the clues given so she started thinking about the elements. Someone was quicker to do so; a Puffer she didn't know. Not surprising--the fact that she didn't know them, that was, as she tried her best to pretend they weren't sleeping so close to her common room. Other students had the same thoughts, almost simultaneously. Patterson snorted.

"They sound awful, though!" exclaimed Lulu almost in a song. "Imagine having to be their sister?" continued the girl, a Glaswegian accent hanging thickly to the spoken words. "Their Mum must have it even harder! They'd be eating ya outta home all the time."

Oh my Merlin! Sierra had barely gotten the last answer out of her mouth, and Rosie was already spouting out something else! In a moment of haste and mild panic, she flailed a little, and her hand went up in the air.

Oh, wait. She didn't actually have anything to say--yet, although she did look at Jacob Blunt like he'd suddenly grown three heads and nine legs. "Yeah..., what he said," she commented. "The elements." Or something. Without taking her narrowed eyes off Jacob, she dipped her quill in ink and then turned back to her parchment to jot down some notes on what he'd said.

Yeah. Was that seriously the same guy who'd jumped aboard the old ship pretending to be a pirate?

Jude scratched at the back of his head, one dark brow raised precariously as he surveyed his peers, focusing on his housemates. How in the world did he not come back to the Common Room to find the lot of them sleeping outside, waiting on someone to help them in? Though, he admitted ruefully, one a couple occasions he had found a few of them waiting outside the door, but he liked to pretend that never happened. The boy supposed not all Ravenclaws were cut out for witty riddles, then; maybe they bettered at information retention or were too logical for the rhyme and reason of riddles.

Before he had a chance to respond - the four elements, duh - two others had already answered, and Jude turned to the Quidditch Captain, brows now knitted in confusion. Had he heard him properly? Five elements, did he say?

At least they seemed to be getting this one easier. The most obvious answers seemed the most difficult - donkey, dog. Jude still chortled at the responses.

Jude wrote this off as a slip of the tongue, a matter of being too distracted in thoughts while speaking.

He scribbled the riddle down in his notes, and added the answers, with additional doodles. For effect, you know? Effect.

It was Lulu's response that made him laugh right out loud, though, with such vigor and enthusiasm he nearly toppled over his ink well.

Kurumi could hardly contain herself when the sphinx continued to tell them riddles. This was the BEST thing ever.

In her excitement, she forgot to answer the riddle that was being asked and her cheeks flushed when Rosumond asked if she were part sphinx. She wasn't, but that would be AN SUPER!COOL!AWESOME!AMAZING thing to be. But, she had to wonder if that would be possible. She would have to look it up in a book about genetics later.

Raising her hand, Kurumi decided to provide further analysis to the riddle. "I agree with the answer of Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind," she stated. "Water is forever flowing and weaves its way around all obstacles, fire is able to 'consume' many things and as long as it is lit will continue doing so, the earth will absorb water and still be dry in places, and the wind creates gusts that cannot really be considered beautiful song." Although, Kurumi did like the sound of the wind blowing through the trees.

"Awrite, Lulu," He repeated, though mostly to himself. Glaswegians and their accents; Lachlan was sure that were he not a Scot himself, he'd not understand a word they spoke. Picking up both boxes, MacFusty offered them to the girl. "Chocolate Frogs or Cauldron Cakes? Take only one." Not of each box. "Not of each of box. Just one."

Best to clarify.

"Isobel, Jacob, Christine and Kurumi," Lachlan called to the four students, and sort of waved the boxes of cauldron cakes and chocolate frogs for them to approach and retrieve theirs. "Lady Rosamund, one more riddle, please."

Rosamund nodded her great head to all the correct answers and then rolled her eyes at the professor. He was a bore. "As you wish."

"When one does not know what it is, then it is something;
but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing."

This one, Jude thought, was far more difficult. His brows furrowed, his forehead wrinkled, and even his nose scrunched a bit in thought. Think it carefully, he told himself, and he was certain he'd once overheard the Ravenclaw knocker saying something like this. A pink tongue poked out from between his lips as he contemplated.

Something when you don't know it... nothing when you do. So... it... was more significant when you had no idea? Was that it? Then... it couldn't be knowledge - that was more important when you had it, he supposed. He could feel the answer, on the tip of his tongue as they said. Ag, he shoul--

"A secret!" he blurted, arm in the air. "Duh! A secret. 'Cos, see, if you know the secret, it's not really anything, but if you don't know, and everyone's keeping you in the dark, it's something. And it sucks, that's what it is."

LIIIEEEESSSSSSS.

Lola quickly observed the Sphinx as she answered her previous question, who provided her with an answer that pretty much told her to lay off. No. Did the Sphinx not get her message? She wasn't about to give up though--no, she wasn't absuuuuurd. The Sphinx was a mighty liar indeed, because obviously there was some sort of a magical Sphinx friendship ritual (maybe she hadn't gone in depth but she was just observing her now).

And oh, now they were going to riddles.

STUPID RIDDLES.

Lola hated riddles--merely because she couldn't think up of any answers for them. But she worked her mind. OHHHH. Clever. CLEVVVVEEEERRR. Lola raised her hand high in the air, high hiiiiigh to get some attention (mainly from Rosie herself).

"Could it be a riddle, Roooosaaaamuuuund?" she questioned in a hearty tune. "Because, well. Riddles are nothing once you've solved them." No offense.