Vlimia looked up and saw a boy that looked somewhat familiar. "We might have met, but I'm forgetful too. I'm Vlimia, by the way." She replied, stroking the beautiful bird's speckled feathers. "Oh, this is a Jobberknoll. It never says anything untill it dies, and then it lets out a scream consisting of everything it's ever heard in it's life." Vlim explained, smiling at the little Jobberknoll. She watched as Nate pulled out a sketchbook and pencil to draw the Jobberknoll. "What do you think we should name it?" She asked him. "I think Marina would be nice." Vlimia added.

Tayla walked into the sanctuary and wondered what she would do first. She wasn't confident enough to feed the animals. She worried she might feed the wrong thing or possibly get her hand bitten.

"I wonder where the kneazles are..." she thought as she wandered around, looking for the magical felines. After a few minutes, she spotted one resting under a tree. She walked towards it slowly. "Hello there..." she said gently. The kneazle lifted her head up slightly with her ears at attention. She stared at Tayla curiously. "Hi there...Kneazle." Tayla smiled, hoping to encourage the animal to either stay put or come closer.

The feline swished its tail and rest its head again. Tayla realized it might already be used to seeing Hogwarts students. She continued moving closer and then carefully sat against the tree, near the kneazle, which didn't make another move. "I'm going to pet you now," Tayla said, thinking her voice might keep the kneazle from being alarmed. She lifted her hand and gently put it on the kneazle's back, observing what the creature would do. She stroked it gently.

Tayla grinned. "So you like that don't you?" The kneazle gave a nice purr and continued to rest.

Once she stepped in the Magical Creatures Sanctuary, Lea Carter looked around to find herself the next victim a friend. Of course her prey choice was not going to be an animal. She preferred fellow students. She was just there because she liked animals; especially the magical and fiery ones.

And when it came to choosing a victim friend, who could be better than a friend of the brother? Smirking a bit, the dark haired little girl walked to the fifth year Gryffindor and stood right beside her crossing her arms. She gave her a cold look.

''You!'' Yes, you! ''What are you doing here?''

Kurumi got on all fours and began crawling towards the hole. Was the creature in there? "Mr. Niffler..." Oh, wait. Was it a Miss? Kurumi didn't want to offend it, not that they were proud like hippogriffs or anything like that. "Are you in there?" Kurumi crawled a little closer, the necklace Jonathan gave her hanging loosely around her neck when...

Kurumi jumped and her hands slipped out from under her, causing her to land chest first on the ground. Ouch.

Still, she recognized that...tone. Another student was similar to it, but they were usually much colder and the burning sensation in the back of her head was stronger...which meant. "Hello...Lea," she replied with an awkward smile. "I'm...trying to get the niffler out of his hole here so I can feed and groom him."

Had the older girl just...?

First letting out a loud and rude snort, Lea started to laugh at the girl on the ground. It was loud but short and when it was over, she was all back to giving her belittling looks.

Hello? Had she seriously said that?

''A Niffler?'' Yes, surely enough the young lioness knew what a Niffler was. She had read about it before. It seemed kinda boring except the sudden idea that she could use one of them for stealing stuff, shiny stuff. ''Why don't you get yourself busy with something much cooler?''

But this was a prefect. Prefects never did anything cool so Lea was not going to argue about it. Instead she eyed the necklace she had and an evil smirk appeared on her face shortly before she moved foward and grabbed it. ''Why don't you offer THIS to it?'' holding the necklace tight she attempted to pull it. ''Give it to me!''

Kurumi pushed herself up off the ground and attempted to dust herself off a bit. "Well, all creatures need taking care of, not just the cool ones." Kurumi was sure that Lea knew that but, she was a Carter after all. Cool and exciting had to be in the equation or else everything was a no go.

Then, Kurumi THOUGHT she heard something move within the darkness of the hole, but it could very will have just been her imagination. There was a lot of movement in this area after all.

But then...Lea did something that was NOT okay with her. Not now. Not with everything that was going on with her mother and her illness and Jonathan leaving school until next term. "Lea. GET YOUR HANDS OFF IT。。。 NOW," she commanded, right hand twitching towards the wand in her pocket and left hand on Lea's as they attempted to pull off her necklace. All the while the necklace caught the light and reflected light into the hole.

NOW there was definitely some sort of movement, but Kurumi was obviously distracted.

''Of course'' Lea replied with a rather cold tone still holding and pulling the necklace ''Cool ones are for cool people like me.'' And that meant 'not for you' prefect! She could very well go and play with Flobberworms while Lea herself got the super cool Salamanders.

But...but...

The little girl's dark eyes widened with surprise for a moment when Kurumi raised her voice at her. That was happening to her for the first time. That was the first time anyone dared to yell at her in this school. Only her mother yelled at her.

HOW DARED SHE TO YELL AT LEA CARTER!!!???

Narrowing her eyes quickly, she gave the older lioness a deadly look while tugging on the necklace tigher. ''DON'T YELL AT ME!!'' It was not going to work apparently. Actually it had the very opposite effect on the first year. ''What if i have it? What are you going to do?''

Kurumi decided just to not say anything in regards to that comment. If there had been any doubt in the prefect's mind that this girl was not related to Josh Carter, that doubt had gone right out the window. Yeah, sure, cool people like her. Kurumi sort of just nodded.

And THAT look was not going to intimate Kurumi. She had far too many other things on her mind and fears right now than to have the glare from a first year concern her. "I will raise my voice to anyone who tries to steal from another," Kurumi said as she pried the girl's hands off her necklace. Kurumi quickly shoved the necklace under her shirt and made sure that it was all buttoned up. What would she do if the little lion's hands had managed to stay on her necklace, which they hadn't by the way, Kurumi really wasn't sure. She was unpredictable this term and it frightened her. In fact, unbeknownst to the fifth year, her hair was turning a hint of dark red. "So please don't try it again." Besides, their yelling was only upsetting the creatures in the sanctuary.

And then, the scurrying from inside the hole grew louder as the niffler pokes its nose out of it.

Where did the shinny go? Curious, the creature waddled out of its cave and went over to the smaller person, sniffing its shoe. OH? There was something shinny on here...

Just as Kurumi was about to turn her attention back to the hole, she saw that the creature had come out on its own. "Lea...don't make any sudden movements..."

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What was up with that look? Whatever it was, it worried Fina. And the way he started off. Oh no, oh no. He did not JUST say that HER Prefect of ALL people had been disrespectful. No. No. No.

Swallowing, she kept her focus on William as best she could, but once he finished, she glanced at the two Hufflepuffs he was talking to. Older Hufflepuffs. Who knew better.

"Where ... is the lobalug now? And are you trying to tell me that you provided no disciplinary action prior to my coming down here?" She said, giving him an inquisitive look. She found that hard to believe. "And perhaps... if it's okay, I'd like to hear what Treyen and Evelyn have to say about this.... ?" She needed the whole story. Because somehow she found William's story difficult to digest, just as he found Lockhart's.

"Because perhaps... their intentions ... weren't as malevolent as you're making them out to be." Not that she was implying they were entirely innocent in their actions, but she did like to see the good in people.

"The lobalug," William pointed to the bucket by his foot, "is about to be taken back to its home in the lake, since apparently YOUR Hufflepuff students," yes Fina, he WAS calling them out on that, "do not respect their elders enough to take them at their word."

Okay so he had disciplined them.... a little, but that was no big deal. "I might have neglected to mention that I took a few house points from them, but that is all I did before calling you down here." He nodded at the Hufflepuff Lady and waited to hear from the suspects. The CRIMINALS, rather.

SPOILER!!: Guilty Puffs

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Okay. First of all...HADLEY? HADLEY WAS HERE?

Evelyn stood up and stared at Williamson. Honestly, what was wrong with him!? She folded her hands in defiance as she watched him complain to her HoH. Despicable? For merlin's sake, they didn't do anything! This was getting to be beyond ridiculous.

Besides, if he wanted to be angry at someone, it should be Scabby. He was the one who asked them to take the precious lobalug, didn't he?

Evelyn gave a sigh of relief when Hadley seemed to be supporting them..somewhat. At least, she was willing to listen. Willy received a final glare before she turned towards Hadley.

"Professor Hadley, Scabby..er..I mean, Professor Scabior asked us to get the lobalug from this sanctuary. He said that the creature belonged to him and that we would be awarded in points. We kinda agreed to do it." Evelyn refused to look at Williamson as she continued rapidly, "So, Trey and I were just talking about how to remove the lobalug from the pond when Professor Williamson pounced on us and basically..started screaming without even bothering to listen to our side of the story." Evelyn finished and took a deep breath. She looked at Trey and hoped that he was okay with what she just said.

"Tell me, professor. Are we to be blamed for this?" Evelyn turned to look at Hadley again.

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OH, MAN! HADLEY ARRIVED.

Well, now Treyen seriously hated WWW. He was evil. A former Slytherin, correct? SURELY. There was no way this man could've been a Hufflepuff. Definitely not a Ravenclaw...and he didn't fit in Gryffindor.

Like Kurumi did. Hey, where was Kurumi?

The Head Boy felt the need to narrow his eyes at the man, but didn't do it. He remained calmed, or as calmed as one could be in this position. The Hufflepuff was merely going to WAIT until WWW discussed his theory...HEY! SEE! He knew who it was that had set him for this task! And he'd pretended not to know by ignoring his answer. Tsk, tsk.

Then Hadley wanted to hear their side of the story...and Eve was the first to answer. Well, the Head Boy was afraid of disappointing his Head of House, especially when she's been so forgiving to him.

The boy cleared his throat before speaking. "I didn't intend to disrespect Professor Williamson in any way," TRUE, he didn't call him a 'liar' and any other word he thought while arguing with the man. See, Hadley, the man even stunned the creature! He wasn't fit for this post, but this was no time to bring it up. "It was never my intention." It wasn't, really.

As far as taking the lobalug goes..., "Well, it's rather simple," IT WAS! "Professor Scabior was kind enough to ask for our help...and whilst I wouldn't have helped him any other day...," perhaps he was being TOO honest, "...I believed him when he said he was the rightful owner of this lobalug," he said, pointing to the bucket, "However, the creature truly has no owner, unless you count the merpeople at the lake." After all, they'd lent it to WWW. It wasn't entirely HIS.

What an idiot, WWW. "I don't take History, so I'm allowed to skip his lessons. On another note, that is irrelevant." ACTUALLY, History was one class he didn't leave...only he read the textbooks instead of listening to Scabior. Much better that way.

Eyes on Hadley, "I know it was wrong...," THAT was an apology WWW, take it or leave it.

So when Willy asked them if they were working for someone else, they wouldn't admit it, but when Hadley asked them, they would? Hmmph.

"Suuuure you didn't mean any disrespect, Head Boy," Williamson nearly spat. "If you knew it was wrong, then why did you STILL not just admit to what was going on and RESPECT my rules when I told you you couldn't have my lobalug???!"

He was getting so frustrated with these puffs and their endless circles of lies. As soon as Fina said her piece, he was dumping off that lobalug and going for a long walk away from here, likely a walk that would take him up to the Hog's Head.

Un-Hufflepuff like? Josephina listened as Evelyn went first, explaining and correcting herself about Professor Scabior having requested to take the lobalug from the Sanctuary. So really, OF COURSE, this was all Dash's fault. In some sense she would have expected it to be Jenkin's, what with his and William's prior relationship with each other. But Dash. Not surprising either.

From both of their stories, Josephina concluded one thing. That neither of her students was at fault. No. The fault rested entirely to not one, but TWO of her colleagues.

"No. You're not. I know that." She could tell that from the sincerity in both of their tones.


"But these Hufflepuff students," Fina said, now looking at William, because it was about HIM now. "Did respect their elders. They were merely fetching the lobalug because they thought it rightfully belonged to Scabior! They were doing what was asked of them!"

Wait. WHAT?!?!? Neglected to mention?! "How many is a few?" She said, now glaring at the Creatures Professor. UGH. UGH. UGH.

"Surely, you cannot blame them for their innocent intentions of doing what a Professor asked of them," she paused, looking at the two older students for a moment first and then back to William. "Even if creatures such as a lobalug, should belong in the Sanctuary and not with their owners. But that is a moot detail. They were doing what a Professor asked of them. And granted what they should have done was asked you first about it, rather than sneaking behind your back." Got that Treyen? Evelyn? Just ask. Don't sneak.

Oh of COURSE Hadley was going to go and side with the Hufflepuffs over her colleague. OF COURSE. William rolled her eyes as she basically tsked at the students and then handed them cookies and patted them on their heads. Hmmph.

"They were doing what the WRONG professor asked of them," he grumbled. "And I forget how many house points I took, but they should be happy that's the ONLY punishment they're receiving for sneaking around and lying to me." Because they HAD lied when they hadn't told him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing BUT the truth.

Evelyn's eyes lit up in amusement when Willy started to complain to Hadley. Okay, the situation wasn't funny. AT ALL. But, this guy was just...hilarious. He was such a drama queen.

She was glad that Hadley was on their side. Thankfully. She looked at Willy with a slight smirk on her face as Hadley proceeded to defend them. Heh. Take that, Willy. She was sensible, that lady. Unlike the clearly over-reacting and obsessed with his creatures professor.

"Well, yes. We should have informed Professor Williamson first." Yeah. She probably should have thought about informing Willy. Huh. "I'm sorry."

WAIT, WHAT!? He forgot how many points he took? Well, she clearly remembered. "He deducted 20 points from each of us, professor." Yes, twenty. PFFT.

SERIOUSLY?!

WWW needed to let it go and man up.

"I didn't mean any disrespect." It was up to WWW to believe it or not, Treyen knew the truth, and couldn't care less if Williamson believed him or not, not after having those 20 points deducted anyway. Also, "Well, I know it was wrong now, otherwise I wouldn't have done it, don't you think?" Treyen still needs to learn when to keep his mouth shut, but really, Williamson, stop provoking him.

Of course, as Hadley talked, he listened, and nodded at the right times. He also particularly nodded as she finished. No sneaking around, got it, Professor. It's not like they could've ASKED WWW to give them the lobalug because Scabior wanted it, right? That would've been extremely silly. So, this time, the sneaking happened...but never again, Hadley, no need to worry.

AND HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY POINTS HE TOOK FROM THEM?!

Treyen was trying really hard to keep a neutral face, REALLY HARD. "Yeah, twenty each." So, forty total. FORTY POINTS, Miss Head of House.

But..., "The WRONG Professor?" Go on, explain that WWW.

Alyssa entered the sanctuary intending on seeing the lobalug that the Professor had found and was now in the pond out in the sanctuary. She had read up on what the creature was like in the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them textbook and wanted to see what it actually looked like in person...or in this case...creature. She did know that the creature was venomous and would blast it's venom at the person or creature, if it felt threatened. So Alyssa decided that she was going to move very slowly and carefully when she was around it, just like she would do with a Hippogriff.

But first she needed to know what it ate. She walked over to the bins of food supplies and looked inside it. As she was doing that, she felt something squirming in her jacket pocket. She reached in and found Nerfball. "What are you doing in here Nerfball? You're supposed to be in my sock drawer right now. Did you sneak into my jacket pocket when I wasn't looking? You know that you're not supposed to be in here...well okay technically you are, but not today." Alyssa chided her Pygmy Puff. Then she remembered something. She was going to test to see whether Nerfball would eat worms, dead rats and grass. "Is this your way of reminding me Nerfball? You are a smart one...yes you are." Alyssa nuzzled his face.

"Since you're here, stay very close to me okay. I don't want you to get accidentally eaten by any of the bigger creatures here. Let's see what we have here. Worms." Alyssa was definitely glad that she had worn her gloves before entering the Sanctuary. She picked up a worm and dangled it in front of Nerfball. Nerfball took one look at the worm and squeeked,"SQUEEE....squee..." and looked away.

"Okay no worms for you. Let's see a dead rat. Somehow I don't see you eating something larger than you, but I still need to eliminate that as something you won't eat, so here it is Nerfball. Sniff it." Alyssa tangled the dead rat by the tail and showed it to Nerfball. Nerfball immediately let out a LOUD SQUEEK "SQUEEE...SQUEEE" in alarm, squirmed and crawled back into her jacket pocket. She could feel it trembling inside there. "I'm so so sorry, Nerfball. I didn't mean to scare you like that. Okay no more dead rat. The dead rat is gone."Alyssa told him immediately dropping the rat back into the bin.

"Okay let's see what else we have here. Ahhh...dead bugs. Will you eat dead bugs, Nerfball?" Alyssa picked up a small handful in one hand and pullled out Nerfball from her pocket. She offered the handful to him and waited. Nerfball stopped trembling and eyed the bugs in her hand. He stuck out his tongue and unrolled it all over the bugs, before sweeping them all up with his tongue and curled it back into his mouth. He chewed on it happily. "You like that don't you?" Alyssa smiled down at him scratching him on his belly right where he liked it. He started making a soft low hum which he always did when he was happy.

"Okay one more thing on the list. Grass." Alyssa bent down and pulled a small tuft of grass from the ground and offered it to him. He stared it for a couple of moments, sniffing it for a couple of minutes more. Alyssa was about to throw away the grass, when he unfurled his tongue and took some into his mouth. He chewed for awhile and then swallowed. Alyssa had more in her hand, but he didn't seem interested in it. "Okay so it's either you like it but you're full, or you don't like it. But if you didn't like it you wouldn't eat it, let alone swallow it. So I'll just take it as a tentative yes for now. Okay back into my pocket you go. Now please stay there, because I don't want you to startle the Lobalug in the pond. We definitely don't want it angry with us." She said making sure that he was securely hidden in her jacket pocket.

Before figuring out what food to feed the Lobalug, Alyssa pulled out the list that she and Taylor had created and completed the list.



Now that this list was completed, she kept tucked it back into her backpack and then filled up a small pail of dead bugs and made her way to the pond. She figured that since it lived in the lake like fish did, that maybe it would like the same things that fish ate. She knew that fish loved to eat bugs. She just hoped that the Lobalug would like it too and not get angry.

What the WRONG Professor asked of them? HUH? At this, Fina had to stare at William. Ugh. Seriously?

And wait, didn't he say before he punished them for trying to steal his lobalug? If he punished for sneaking around and lying, then that would have been a different story. But somehow, the 'conveniently forgetting' part, made her wonder if perhaps the students aren't the only ones who lied today.

"I don't think that's the point. Their actions were only because Professor Scabior asked them too." And truthfully, she doubted either them would have considered sneaking down to steal the lobalug had Scabior not to put them up to it.


And judging from the student's reactions, she was almost sure of it now than before that they would NOT have sneaked down to the Sanctuary had Scabior not told them to.

Wait. He took 20 points EACH?!? For something that wasn't even their fault?!?

Sure they lied. Sure they should have asked. But SERIOUSLY?

"Professor Williamson," she said, drawing a deep breath, as she worked to keep her cool. "These students .... Mister Lockhart and Miss Wellington, as they've most clearly displayed, did not mean harm to the creature. They only wanted that lobalug because they were told to fetch it for what they thought was its rightful owner. And even though lied to you. And even though sneaked down here, their intentions were for that of a Professor. Twenty points each for something as miniscule as doing something one of our colleagues asked of them, something they would not have done had they not been asked, is steep." End of THAT discussion. "Now that they've apologized for their wrongdoings, I want you to apologize to them." Sincerely. Or else.

"Just because a professor asks or tells you to go jump of a bridge doesn't mean you're going to, does it, Treyen, Evelyn." Williamson ignored Hadley for the time being and directed his words at the CHILDREN. "Honestly, I would expect more common sense and tact," or at least tactical strategizing, "from a Prefect/Head Boy about to be of age." Clearly, the kid just sucked at his duties or had somehow swindled Tate into making him HB.

He picked up his lobalug's bucket and checked on her/him while Hadley rambled some more, clearly no longer paying any attention to the woman. Poor wittle lobalug looked restless! Bless 'er (or 'is) wittle 'eart. William tsked at the little creature and only looked back up when Hadley stated his name again.

Blink. Blink. Blink. His brown eyes seemed unfocused on the woman when she SERIOUSLY asked him to apologize to the THIEVING STUDENTS. "You're mad," he stated calmly, shaking his head and taking a step back from her. "I have nothing to apologize for and they've done nothing to earn an apology from me."

If anything, he could concede that the twenty points...each.... was a bit harsh, but the two had seriously not made him even WANT to reconsider giving them a single point back. Hufflepuff was in the lead, anyway, so why was she getting her panties all in a bunch?

"Look, I've got a lobalug to return to its 'proper owner,'" and yes he did make air quotes for that, "plus a dozen other animals to check on and make sure no one is trying to steal THEM." He shot Treyen a glare with that statement. "So if you'll excuse me...."

William started walking off without waiting for a real dismissal. As far as he was concerned, this herd of Hufflepuffs and their leader had better not be in his Sanctuary when he returned.

He was HATING Williamson so much right now.

TOO MUCH. Yet his expression was the same. Perhaps the fact that Hadley had come to their defense managed to make him shut out for the first time, but he had soooo many things he wanted to say to WWW. Unfortunately, he wasn't going to. His hands were tied. And he wasn't losing points in front of Hadley, or ever again for that matter.

How could they have hired HIM?!

Even Saylen knew how to punish them without making them hate her, right? Because RESPECT was better than HATE, Williamson. Not even Scabior was hated by the Head Boy, and when he lost points to him Treyen had been doing nothing, quite literally too. But. WHATEVER. He should just avoid Williamson altogether.

AND YES. TAKE THE LOBALUG TO THE LAKE!

Treyen was of age already, but that was hardly the point, and it wouldn't help his case either, so...his eyes were on Hadley. Not on Williamson. AND...how incredibly disrespectful on his behalf...Hadley wasn't mad. ALSO, he didn't need an apology. He was DONE. He could start walking away, no?

The glare...went unnoticed. But Treyen knew very well what WWW had meant. His eyes were still on Hadley, though. "Actually, Professor, we should probably leave him to his animals." He said to his Head of House. WWW gets along better with them, anyway.

Evelyn blinked. Willy's reaction to Hadley was just..preposterous. He called Hadley MAD. MAD. Gosh, this guy was just beyond rude. Honestly, she'd been expecting more trouble from Scabior than from him. Oh, yeah. Why on earth didn't he mention Scabby? It was his fault, after all. Everything was his freakin' fault.

Back to the lobalug. "Yes, Professor. You should. I REALLY hope there aren't others who are trying to steal your lovely creatures as well." Sarcasm. Frankly, she couldn't stop herself. He'd been so annoying since the start but that was definitely no excuse. Huh. Hopefully, she wouldn't lost more points. She bit her lip, her eyes on Hadley.

Hair tied back in a pony tail with her bangs and a few loose locks falling around her face, Kurumi made her way towards the sanctuary with every intention of practicing the Peace Inducing Charm on a creature or two, probably one of the more shy creatures that didn't usually like people around people so that she could attempt to get closer to one. That is, until she had run into August on the way and she had become sort of distracted from thinking about charms. She hadn't really been herself recently, especially after being called into Lafay's office. The potion was still in her sock drawer, and the Gryffindor felt very uneasy about the whole thing.

Still, she had left August with a somewhat forced smile and continued on her way knowing August would probably catch up with her later. Could she use the Cheering Charm on herself? She had forgotten her notes with her to read the specifics, so maybe she couldn't? Or could?

Sitting down on a log, Kurumi removed her wand and just held it in her hand. "Hagolus...Hagolus...Hah-GOO-Loose..."

August was kind of worried about Kurumi, you know? He hadn't really noticed how upset she seemed to be as of late until this afternoon when he passed her on his way in from feeding Bruce, his turtle some grass in the Courtyard. She had been leaving to go out onto the Grounds herself and he knew he needed to catch up with her.

After rushing into the Great Hall and grabbing a chicken sandwhich for himself the lion walked back into the Entrance Hall and found a large vase which he slowly lowered Bruce into for safe keeping while he was away. He tossed a piece of lettuce from his sandwhich in there and took off out the door. He would have just brought him along but there was no telling where the Prefect had gone.

As Auggie headed out along the lawn, he saw Kurumi headed towards Professor Williamson's compound, and when he caught up with her she was going into the creature sanctuary. He slowly followed, watching her as she sat on the log. He probably should be just staring at her like that. It was rude and so not like him; she was his friend.

"Hey Kurumi, what's up? Coming to play with some animals? Or hex them to do your bidding?" he joked, eyeing her wand hopefull that would make her smile at least.

Looking up from her idle wand waving, Kurumi sighed heavily...and a look of disgust flashed across her face momentarily. Her? Hex animals? Had someone put something in August pumpkin juice? But then she saw the small smile on his lips and she somehow managed to return it.

"Not...exactly," she laughed half-heartedly, her eyes flicking down towards the wand in her hand. "I was thinking about using the Peace Inducing Charm on a creature...so not exactly hexing them." Obviously. That, and Kurumi just didn't hex creatures. She looked back up at him and shrugged her shoulders. The creatures all seemed to be rather calm at the moment, so they probably didn't need the charm. Walnut, on the other hand, could always use a good Peave Inducing Charm. That cat was a menace to himself. "Hey, do you think the Cheering Charm could cheer up the augurey?"

Of course, they would need to practice it first...and probably on each other. This could be interesting. Nothing ever went as planned when they were on task together. Prime example? The scavenger hunt for History of Magic.

Hmm, that was sort of a smile. Not the usual from her though.

August entered the sactuary fully now and slowly walked over to join the Gryffindor Prefect at her log. He plopped down and then turned to listen as she began to talk about homework. Homework when she was obviously feeling so lousy. He had heard her shout at Ellie about her mother...he just didn't want to make her feel worse, but she needed to talk about it. She would talk about it to him when she was ready, no need to push. She's surely talked to someone.

Back to the lovey-dovey, gooey feel good charms that Poppy Pink lady had taught them in that embarrassing lesson with all the slapping. Kurumi slapped him. hmpf. "I'm sure it would work if we concentrated hard enough." Yes, we. He was going to be staying and working with her. She was sad and you shouldn't be alone when you were sad.

"Should we start on it or something else first to practice?" he said pulling out his wand and twirling it in his fingers.

Concentrate. Right. One of the most important elements of spellcasting, wasn't it. Nodding, Kurumi pushed herself off the log and stretched her arms a bit, pulling her elbow across her chest and then repeating the motion with the other. She had seemingly forgotten about the whole slapping incident from class, but perhaps that was because she now had a new task to focus on. Or perhaps not.

"We should...probably try on each other..." she suggested. After all, the round pink woman who couldn't say the prefect's name to save her life had said that these spells were rather basic and nothing could go TOO wrong. Which translated, to her, as meaning that nothing would blow up. She turned around to face him. Just a simple point wand movement, right? "Um...I'll go first then?"

Taking a deep breath, Kurumi pointed her wand towards August, around his chest region, and spoke. "Hah-GOO-Loose." A silky cloud of violet smoke spewed from the tip of her wand and wrapped itself around the younger lion. Violet, that was a good sign. Hopefully.

"Uhh...sure." August stood up and walked forward to stand infront of Kurumi. This was first time he had been on this end of her wand directly but the last spell she used in his vicinity he had been enchanted to fall for her, so needless to say Auggie was a little nervous. "Ok I'm ready."

Taking a deep breath, the fourth year closed his eyes and waited. It was just a cheering charm right? What could happen?

The incantation was said and Auggie could practically smell the sweetness from the violet smoke poofing around him and then his eyes shot open. He was feeling much lighter, was it something he ate before? Was it his chicken sandwich? WAS IT A HAPPY CHICKEN SANDWICH?!

"HAHAHAHA!!!" Auggie burst into laughter thinking about the magical happy chicken sandwich that surely was the cause of this hilarity, forgetting the wand that was pointed at his chest. "Kurumi..." he said in between giggles. "You have to hear about this...ch-chicken sandwich I ate!"

Kurumi was sort of nervous as the purple smoke wrapped around August and eventually faded away. She really didn't want to turn August purple or melt him, so her body was very tense as she waited for some sort of sign from the Gryffindor that he was at least still breathing.

Which thankfully came...just not in the form she was expecting it to.

Startled by his sudden maniac laughter, Kurumi dropped her wand and immediately bent down to pick it up when...wait, huh? Kurumi's eyes shot upwards at August, who she half expected to be doing the Chicken Dance right about now, and just stared. He was joking, right? RIGHT?

"A chicken...sandwich?" Was this some sort of European humor that she just wasn't understanding?