Ohhh lord.

This professor wasn't a happy larry now, was she? He buried his head low on the desk when she didn't even CONSIDER his answer. Perhaps he should be the one to make a wizarding fish pie.

PLIMPY PIE.

Merlin's beard, he could be a celebrity chef....

Anticipating anxiously for the next part of the class, Theodore STARED at the Hufflepuff that just froze completely randomly. Was it a prank, or? Come on, guys... There was a time for pranks, and it was NOT in an ultra cool lesson like potions. Like.... for REAL.

Theodore stared. And glared. GRRR.

So Potions was turning out to be TERRIBLE. With a capitol TERRIBLE. Why didn't she listen to Ira?! This Professor was meeeean and now some Hufflepuff was FROZEN. So many capitols today. Blue turned her gaze away from the plimpy (almost gag) and eyed the Hufflepuff prefect. WERE PEOPLE ATTACKING PREFECTS?

And Hufflepuff prefects, no less?

Blue had to warn Eve.

Nuffin would happen to her sisterrrrrr.

Nuffin.

Jeeeeeeeeez. SOMEone needed to chill the heck out. Like, seriously Lafay, chill your beans.


Dale shrugged and peeeeeeeered in at... Lewis? Was that his name? Anyway, so he peeeeered in and tried to see if maybe the dude's eyes were moving.

When the spell of electricity shot STRAIGHT PAST him, aimed at the prefect's feet.

Well... that was a nasty shock (GEDDIT?!), and Dale, for the second time that lesson, jolted (GEDDIT AGAIN?!) in surprise. This was not good for the way he was positioned, and the chair scraped from under him.

Before he knew it, Dale was flailing to the ground with a strangled 'ACK!' issuing from his lips, hitting the floor with a painful THUMP.

"...ow."

WHAT!? Plimpies could WALK!? Having not paid attention in past CoMC classes, Emmanuelle had not known this. She also didn't know any potions that contained plimpy parts. So she just listened as her classmate answered. Until some had just literally frozen right in the middle of class, that was. Then, she was trying to get a good look at what was happening. Well, people didn't normally just freeze like that...

Then the professor was asking if anyone had pulled something. If they had, it wasn't her. Nope she wasn't that foolish. Not this girl, no way. But she did make a helpful suggestion. "Maybe try splashing him with water...?" That's what people normally did when people fell asleep out of nowhere, maybe it'd work in this case too?

What...

WHAT WAS HAPPENING?!

As Nora tried to focus on the other answers, so maybe she would get something useful, she heard professor Lafay say something about testing everyone's wands... and what happened to that Hufflepuff Prefect?! Only the thought of her Head of House checking her wand terrified her, even though she had nothing to do with it. But, you know, Lafay was scary enough even in a... fairly good mood.

Did he SAY a wit sharpening potion? West looked at the professor in confusion. He hadn't mentioned scales either. How was he supposed to know specific potions when this was his first ever time learning any potions stuff?

No, he'd said some sort of potion for sniffing out trouble. Cos of she'd said nares were for smelling things. It was logical and clever. He peeked sideways first at Blue and then at Theo and noting they were all weirdfaced about something he looked around to see what was going on, just as the professor was saying stuff about punishments and wands.

Oh just some Hufflepuff not moving.

... and another one on the floor. Okay.

He shrugged and then went back to staring at the plimpy in front of him and trying to spot the different parts on the diagram.

Merlin, Professor Lafay had woken up on the wrong side of her beg today, hadn't she, or lair - since she was the Dragon Lady. Glenn rolled her eyes at the ceiling as Lafay interrogated the students who hadn't given answers like her. Thank Merlin himself that Professor Lafay hadn't attacked her for not giving an answer too. Jeez, Glenn PREFERRED not knowing what was in many of the potions they made.

Glenn opened her journal and copied a couple of notes.

She looked up from her note taking and gave Sophie a sympathetic glance as Lafay told her off. As she looked up, she saw Lewis just... standing there.
What was up with that? And someone had done this as a prank? WHY? AND Lafay was going to test their wands? Glenn instinctively clutched her rosewood wand in her pocket, she didn't really wand the Professor to touch her wand. Not that she had done anything wrong... she just didn't want the professor studying something that was HERS. Wands are supposed to be a reflection of yourself, right?

Blinking back at the Professor's response...Dylan felt...lost. Hadn't he said why? To make the skin look healthier, right? Yea, it had been a guess...An excellent guess, it seemed...but he had offered something...

...And why did she keep talking about vitamin D? Where plimpies simply rich in it? Like milk?...

The Slytherin was suddenly struck with the image of someone puree'ing plimpy parts and drinking it...like they would milk...Sweet Merlin, the things he thought about sometimes...

...And now some kid just fell out. A Hufflepuff...and then another...

Okay, Dylan liked to think he was pretty good with weird...but things in this class were getting a little...too much for him. His wonderfully awesome Head of House was acting irritable and frustrated, which wasn't too out of her ordinary, mind you...but on top of that, she had apparently damaged her hearing. She wasn't understanding their answers clearly or something.

Maybe the Professor...needed a few minutes break?

...And why had those two boys...fell out? Eyeing the scene for a moment, Dylan sighed.

Seriously. Just get up, guy. We have stuff to learn...and the good Professor obviously needs a few moments to gather herself...

Lewis was frozen? With what? and how? Jonathan looked at the professor when she noticed what was happening and was taking into actions as fast as she could by taking her wand out and bringing him back to a normal heart beat. Jonathan stopped minding his notes as his eyes, well technically everyone's eye, where in the commotion that is currently happening. Someone froze the Hufflepuff prefect, not that Jonathan was really worried but still, who would ever freeze a student on a normal day and especially during Lafay's lecture. Unless this student is completely and utterly suicidal.

Did anyone do this to him? Some sort of prank? Come out now and your punishment won't be as severe if I have to test each and everyone of your wands...

Obviously she had to ask who did it. Jonathan's eyes scouted around the class until it fell on Kurumi's... which was odd because she was giving Jonathan a glance but she didn't want to make it look it was obvious. WHOAH! WAIT! Was she actually thinking that he hexed her boyfriend? Please... With his clean reputation as a student, why would do such a thing. And besides, wasn't the two of them being partners was already a freezing point for Lewis.

Jonathan looked at Kurumi with a hint of annoyance in his face. Is this because he's a Slytherin again and that he holds the most grudge against Lewis. Well, that's really nice Kurumi, Jonathan's hands are clean.

Lewis didn't start moving again, not even when Louisa started yelling his name, drawing more and more attention to them. Actually, it seemed as if the Hufflepuff was blissfully unaware of anything going on around him as he just sat there, his eyes still open and fixed on Professor Lafay with a rather blank look on his face. It almost looked as if he'd been replaced by a life-like puppet that looked exactly like him but was just...lifeless. Motionless.

A few seconds had passed and it was RIGHT before Professor Lafay sent a spell at his feet that Lewis just blinked once and his lips moved to finish the word he'd started a moment ago. "-tion. Since they're supposed to be strong and-" Once again he stopped talking but this time not because he seemingly just froze but because he jumped slightly in his seat - lowering his raised hand in the process - when a small jolt of electricty coursed through him, apparently coming from the ground somewhere. Followed by the professor asking if anybody had played a prank on somebody.

That really wasn't funny. He wasn't in a good mood anyway and now this.

His eyes widened slightly as he turned to look at Louisa for some sort of guidance but he stopped half-turn, his eyes darting around when he realized that there were A LOT of people looking at him. A lot. Which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. "W-what's going on?" Lewis whispered, leaning towards Louisa slightly, a blush forming on his cheeks as he absently started chewing on his lower lip. Why was everybody looking at him? And why had somebody sent a spell at his feet?

BAM!

Lewis jumped again almost onto Louisa's lap for the second time in the last few seconds, when all of a sudden somebody (Dale) attacked the floor right next to him. What was he doing so close to his desk? "A-are you okay?" The Prefect cautiously moved off his chair to crouch next to the fallen Hufflepuff. That had looked rather painful. Did he need a nurse? HIs eyes darted back to Professor Lafay for a moment, a concerned expression on his face.

... someone did this to him?!! Louisa frowned and blurted out, "It's not a prank, professor. This has happened before!" She glanced at Kurumi a couple of steps away from them. Why didn't she just get out and say it?! That she'd frozen before too. In Divination.

Oh well, Louisa could.

Turning back to look at the professor seriously she went on, "Someone else froze in another class. I've se-."-tion. Since they're supposed to be strong and.

O______________o

Louisa utterly gaped at Lewis. "Merlinit'sthesame," she murmured to herself as the electric shock havoc happened. If Louisa wasn't staring at Lewis and getting confused by the hundred or so question marks popping up in her head, she would've laughed at the poor Huffie boy who peered at Lewis like an artistic painting.

Untangling the plimpy's legs really hadn't been that bad, but Stella's stomach dropped as the next part of the lesson had begun. They were discussing all the individual parts of the creature, which meant actual dissection was probably not that far ahead. At least right now it was all hypothetical, and she applied herself to just copying a diagram of the plimpy into her journal, once again wishing she could draw better. Her plimpy kind of looked like a stick plimpy, but at least it got the idea across. Although she'd gotten distracted by the fact there had been a question asked. She just hoped the professor hadn't noticed she'd been quiet. Of course, she rarely answered the discussion questions in lessons anyhow, but the woman seemed particularaly out-of-sorts today. Unpredictable, if it could have ever been said that Professor Lafay could be predictable. Stella wasn't particularly certain that was possible either.

As her attention flickered back to her notes, however, she'd noticed that Blue had stayed in the lesson as well, which made her proud. At least it showed determination, even though the first year had still been looking at the plimpy with almost horror. Until there was a thump from nearby, and she tore her attention away from the plimpy notes to look over to see the Hufflepuff prefect apparently in a trance or something, and another Puff on the floor. Well, that explains the thump, she thought, reaching a comforting arm over to her DADA partner as Blue looked terrified of something. "I'm sure they'll be alright. I'm sure the prefect will, at least," she murmured under her breath, even as said prefect had snapped back into reality, before Professor Lafay had asked everyone if they'd been responsible. To which she simply shook her head. Her wand was still safely in its holster, where it had been since before the lesson began.

Huh? She gave them a choice? They could leave? But no. He's staying here thank you very much. Beside the plimpy is not that bad. Messer untangle the dead plimpy legs. Thank Merlin it didn't fell off when he untangled it. He wrote some notes in his journal while waiting for her next instruction.

What's wrong with Lafay today? Did she had a very bad bad day? Well, at least she hasn't breath fire yet. Or has she? Maybe he just has to stick to his journal. He started to copy the illustration to his journal. When he was done with his notes, he noticed Lewis was frozen.

Ummm..What just happen? Did the plimpy do that? But Lafay said they're dead. DEAD. And beside plimpy can't froze people, right?

His eyes darted between the infuriated Potions Mistress, the near-panicking Elijah, the frozen Lewis and the dead Plimpies. When he caught Lafay's glare of making him stay in his seat Vickers could only shake his head, making his eyes do the talking-- dead Plimpies... frozen Lewis.... dead Plimpies... frozen Lewis. Then in quick succession, Lewis started talking again, and jumping in his seat, and BAM!-- The peering Hufflefpuff (Dale) fell from his perch and was now flat on the floor.

This was too much for the Ravenclaw to bear. The problem perhaps of being too learned of books.

He shot out of his seat, backing away from his workarea until his back hit the supply shelves next to their table, both sleeved arms wrapped over his face with only his terrified blue eyes peering over them "Professor! Its a contagion! Lewis has it... he might've caught it just now.... " he said nudging his head at the fallen Dale "... I saw Professor Williamson freeze up too. It must be coming from the animals..." eyes the dead Plimpies "Its some sort of PESTILENCE."

Idly, West wondered to himself what plimpies tasted like? These ones came from the lake, which everyone knew was contaminated and eating the fish there would make you vomit into candy bowls, so he was smart enough not to actually take a bite.

... but he was curious.

They had legs like frogs right? Frogs legs were delicacies and all. Did French Wizards eat Plimpy legs? He thought he had better ask his dad about that.


He eyed the peduncle on his Plimpy and wondered about that too. Good for propulsion right? Where could a boy wizard get himself one of those?

Kurumi inhaled rather sharply when Lewis all of a sudden began talking and finishing his sentence. Kurumi hadn't even realized that she had stopped breathing and began to wonder for just how long she had been sitting there in her seat almost as frozen as Lewis had been. "Thank Merlin," she whispered under her breath. While it was a relief to see that he was seemingly alright, the Gryffindor still felt uneasy. Why had he it happened in the first place? The fact that he was acting like nothing had happened made Kurumi think that no one had actually done anything to him. No spells involved.

Biting her lip, Kurumi turned her head back to Jonathan, facing him properly this time, and bowed her head again. His face wasn't showing emotion, typical poker face defense of his, but Kurumi could see it in his eyes. "I'm sorry," she whispered. He should know what she meant by that. At least, she hoped she did. She would have reacted more, but she also knew that Jonathan wanted nothing to do with her. Probably her speaking right now was enough to annoy him. She was supposed to be invisible to him, right?

Eyes back on Lewis, Kurumi couldn't help but smile faintly. He was alright, hopefully, but then her gaze caught Louisa's and... This had happened before? WHY was Louisa looking at her like that?! Kurumi sort of just stared back in utter confusion. And then Vickers was talking about it being related to the animals....which didn't make much sense to her since they all had been in Care of Magical Creatures and touched things.

It still made Kurumi VERY uncomfortable that Louisa was staring at her. Hopefully Professor Lafay wouldn't ask the Gryffindor why, because she had no idea.

And then there was another Hufflepuff down...and then Lewis was on the ground checking on him.

What in Merlin's sparkly underpants was going on!?

O___O

Okay so maybeeeee staying for this lesson had been a bad idea! Firstly, Ella had been right about her answer, WHICH WAS A GUESS, but still got snapped at. The second year looked down in embarrassment, nodding her head. Right, the dorsal finn, she should have known that?

And then...poor Sophie. If she didn't know then what was she supposed to do? Ella wanted to give her friend an encouraging smile but was too afraid too with such a annoyed professor walking about.

And Lewis! O__o Mr. Prefect! He had been-and then there was...

This class was just getting a bit out of control.

Aurora had been trying to sketch a picture of the plimpy to label - it wasn't going very well. She looked up to catch sight of the Hufflepuff prefect... frozen? What? She stared as the situation unfolded itself, taking everything in with a small frown on her face. Seriously? Vindictus had fainted at the Quidditch match, Lewis was frozen... and did Louisa say something about someone else freezing..? This was giving her such a headache...

Owie ow ow.

Dale winced slightly. He supposed, had it been someone else, he'd have laughed at the sight of them suddenly disappearing from view like that. But... it wasn't someone else, and he was juuuuust leaving that age that anything stupid happening to him was not funny.

But luckily, he was just entering that age where he could laugh at himself. Mostly he was surprised.

"I'm good, I'm good... no head injuries sustained and all that," he mumbled, rubbing his head anyway. "Who knew I could make a thump that loud..."

As he brushed himself off and started to pick himself up, he saw who was trying to help him.

Oh.

OH.

"Oh." Dale couldn't help but look sliiiiightly concerned for THIS guy more than himself. But he tried to cover the expression and smile a little. "You back with us now?"

THEN he followed the prefect's gaze.

OH.

"Oh."

Uh-oh.

Lafay did not seem to be the type of professor who would be concerned by his... tumble.

So yeah.

... oh.

What was going on right now with these hufflepuffs? The Prefect was frozen and the other one is now alright after he fell down on the floor from Professor Lafay's shock spell.

Nigel had no idea what this was all about. So he put his head down, put on some gloves, and started to poke his dead plimpy.

Puffers. There was a reason Elliot tried to stay away from them...causing trouble, freezing right in the middle of an er, interesting, class! And another one just falling all over the place...MERLIN! Elliot merely rolled her eyes, desiring so badly to just move on with the lesson. Send the blokes to the hospital wing, and be done with it! She scribbled mindlessly in her notebook, her eyes not daring to look at the plimpies. Ew.

Would someone do this? she wondered to herself. It seemed to be happening a lot lately, and to prefects, too. Or so it seemed. Weird. Maybe Elliot didn't want to a prefect. Was the job cursed? Eh, maybe!

The blonde glanced back at the puffers, shooting them ALL a VERY mean glare. Commotion. Lafay was simply not going to be a happy camper...at all. Which was never good for anyone involved.

Soemthings was going wrong. Very wrong. Whats makes a person freeze like that. Maybe the Chamber of Secrets had opened again? Sarah was about to yelll for mandrakes when she saw the boy move again. Thank Merlin... There was definately something going wrong. Yes, Sarah knew that it was freezing, but not freezing enough to make a person freeze.

Daichi frowned slightly when someone mentioned about a student being frozen. What where they talking about? He surveyed the classroom and his eyes fell upon Lewis.

...Why did that make him giggle? Seriously it was just a stupid joke from another student. And it seemed that Lafay thought the same when she asked who had done this. The fourth year gulped as he looked back at the front obviously not answering the question because he had not done this.

Surely the person who had done this would say it in a few seconds. But the longer they waited, the more annoyed Daichi got. He let out an irritable groan as he held his hands behind his neck. "Merlin's beard, just come clean about it so we can go on!" he mumbled.

Geez...he wanted learn how to open up this plimply, not this.

Nate was listening to everybodies comments, until he heard Vickers comment. That brought something else up in his mind. It brought up the orb from last year. "Vickers might be on to something. It could be an orb that was found last year because if I'm correct I believe that Proffesor Vinductus was the first one to touch it. Then during the quidditch game he froze up." Although he might've just lost some points for shouting out it didn't matter to him because he needed to say something that could help the students and staff.

Aspen slipped into a chair near West, carefully avoiding most of... the excitement. She cast a glance over West, over the rest of the class, over the Plimpy and Lafay, then settled her attention on her little brother. He seemed a little trouble, and she shifted her bag around and got settled. She'd just sit here with him. Particularly if weird things were happening, she'd definitely stay riiiiiight here. "Hufflepuffs," was all she said to him. Because... yeah. Hufflepuffs.