Blue scrambled into the second room, bursting with pride that she'd managed to get through. But she couldn't get cocky yet. She ran straight over to the riddle, ran her finger under the words and gave a little jerk of her head, already pretty sure of the answer. The ghosts were still refresh in her mind from the last room and she felt around for another piece of crinkly parchment and pulled it out.

Her writing was blah but it was readable. She reread her answer and nodded, happy with it. Okay. She folded it over and shoved it into the slot.



Waiting...waiting...

Ira followed the rest of the students into the second room, feeling a bit open seeing slightly larger room than before. And there was another riddle! Ira hurried forward to read it, not wanting to be among the last ones to crack it.

Afterlife? Meaning a ghost.. A jolly ghost. Surely it meant the ghosts in Hogwarts. So yeah, Ira pretty much knew the answer.

Taking out another parchment, Ira quickly scribbled down the answer:

And now, all she had to do was wait. Wait for her answer to be acknowledged.

Wow. She was right within her first guess? That was quite a surprise to Nessie, maybe this wasn't going to be as difficult as she thought.

Step! She entered the second room only to find it looked almost exactly like the first, maybe just a little different in size. It wasn't long before she noticed the next riddle and headed closer towards it so that she coulr read it clearly.

Someone Jolly? Who was Jolly? Pout. A few people came to mind some of them even being the Hufflepuffs and youngsters at Hogwarts, but as she read on her mind went far away from anyone small and young. Now even in the afterlife...that meant this had to be someone dead and it had to be a ghost too.

Aha! She had it..or at least she had a guess that was. She once again scribbled down what she thought on her peice of paper and slipped it through the mail box.

Beezus stepped into the second room, immediately taking in that it was exactly as the first one although it seemed to have more space. She saw the riddle on the wall too, but allowed her classmates to read through it first as her eyes roamed around the room.

How many rooms more were they going to enter? How many riddles did they still have to figure out? And...what was the sole purpose of this activity in relation to Wizarding History?

Hmm.

Well, those will remain unanswered for now. She needed to answer the riddle first. After reading it silently, thinking it through, she scribbled her answer on her parchment and slipped it through the slot.

Hannah was definitely behind and she didn't like that one bit. She scrambled into the next room and read the puzzle quickly. She had to re-read because she didn't even know what she read the first time. She was going to have to calm down because right now she could not afford to guess wrong. She read it through one more time. Ok it had to be one of the ghosts. Yes...that so made sense and even would go with the first puzzle, but which one?

SPOILER!!: Answer

Fat Friar.

Another riddle way to easy! Alright, time for you to do some catching up, and enter roomthree! You don't want to lose ground.

OOC: You can still answer and try to get through if you haven't! I will continue to reply to everyone in all the rooms. No one is "too late.

Your parchment slips into the mail slot, but comes right back out! Looks like your answer was wrong! Try again!

Suddenly a mysterious force shoves you back and you find yourself glued to the wall. A message for you appears on top of the riddle.




Message for Alexa:

Cheaters get punished.
You will remain stuck to the wall until the first person reaches the last room.
Enjoy.
Next time remember, don't look at other peoples answers!

Elise entered the second room incredibly late and although there were still people stuck in the first room, she would need to hurry up and answer this riddle. Peering at the words of the riddle, she shook her head.

One thing that she could gather was that he used to be a wizard, and he was obviously male. Scanning the next few lines, summing up would indicate that he was friendly and fun to be around. She knew for sure that it was neither The Bloody Baron nor Sir Nicholas, but her mind got the answer almost instantly after she'd ruled out the impossible answers.

As your parchment goes into the mail slot the door swings open. Hurry into the next room!

OOC: You can still answer and try to get through if you haven't! I will continue to reply to everyone in all the rooms. No one is "too late.

This was wrong?! Well he never did see Merlin's ghost, so that would kind of make him out of there. Then he thought of a jolly old ghost he sees everyday. Wow Nate should've had this answer right away! How stupid of him! So he scribble out Merlin oon his parchment, and replaced it with this.

Your second attempt! This time your parchment goes through and does not come back out/ Hurry into the next room!

Blink. Blink.

What the...? Before she knew what was going on she found herself glued to the wall. Huh? This wall was a bit too affectionate if you asked her. Jeesh, if it wanted a hug all it had to do was say but seeing as she was stuck it was clear the wall wanted company. Or so she thought until she saw the note.

Ohhhhh. Hmmmmmm.

Did this mean she didn't have to bust her brain anymore until someone got to the other side?? As in...technically she was skipping History of Magic class? Merlin why didn't she think of this sooner and why couldn't other classes be like this?!?!? She wasn't supposed to feel good about this but...being stuck to a wall was kinda...neat...

"Sooooo," She said after a minute of just staring at the empty room. Her only company was the wall so she had to make good use of it. "Mr. Waaaaaall, you wanna hear a joke???" The wall didn't respond; her face dropped. "You're right, jokes are for babies--how's about a story of the time I ate a dozen chocolate frogs in under ten minutes???" Surely it would be interested in that. Still no reply. "Okay fine, what do yoooou wanna talk about?" Since it was just so picky.

What was this? Oh what was this--- happy, happy day! A studentsie got all stucksy to a wallsie! And ole Peevesie hadn't even done it! For once!


"MWAHAHAHA!" the poltergeist cackled, swooping through the wall the Gryffindork was glued to. He pulled a bright yellow box of candy dots out of his pocket and started pelting them at the girl as he cackled away. "LOOK AT YOU! GIRL! DON'T YOU EVER WASH YOUR PIZZA FACE?!?!"


He cackled again and got a red candy dot to stick to her forehead, followed by a sickly, sticky yellow one on the end of her nose. "EWWWWY PATOOOIE! ALEXA HAS WARTS AND PIMPLES!"

*shakes head* You should have known better XD
 

Lex continued rambling random nothings to the wall hoping it would eventually grow a sense of humour and respond. Jeeez, didn't it know that a conversation involved two peop--

WHOOOAAA!!!

Her eyes went wide when she heard a wild cackling. Merlin. Professor Scabior had left her in here to die. No wonder he stuck her to the wall... harder to escape...O___O

She was about to scream but then she saw that it was only Peeves. Oooo and he had a neat box in his hand! She watched him curiously, wondering what he'd do with it and was more than a little surprized when he started pelting her with the colourful dots inside. Pizza face...? GASP! "You mean they actually stick tooooo?!" She asked. If she wasn't glued to the wall then she would have been bouncing. "COOOOOL!" She giggled a bit when he kept sticking more and more. "Say, do you happen to have a bluuue one?" Hehe, she had dots all over--or warts as he called them. Meh. Dots were dots as long as they were prettiful, plus, now she had company.

^ famous last words
 

"NO BLUE FOR YOU, PIZZA FACE!" Peeves continued to cackle and toss dots at the girl's face. He landed two on her eyelids and cheered, making a noise akin to a Quidditch crowd. "HEY MYRTLE, COME CHECK OUT YOUR TWIN SISTER! SHE'S EVEN UGLIER THAN YOU, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE!"

He lauuuuuughed real loud at that one, looking about for an audience to appreciate his humour. No one? No? WELL THEN, HE'D JUST HAVE TO CARRY ON.

"Hey girl, hey, hey, heeeeey," Peeves abruptly stopped tossing the dots and turned upside-down. "How do you make a wizard cry?"

Lex pouted just a bit when he said she wouldn't be getting any blue. "But why?" She asked stubbornly. "Don't you know anything? I want blue so you should give it to me." Duh.

She blinked a bit when he flicked two on her eyelids but grew indignant when he started yelling. "How ruuuuude." She told him rather matter-of-factly. "I'm NOT ugly. If you want to know ugly then find a bloody mirror and gaze as long as you need to." The nerve of this thing. Hmph! Trying to ruin her free session--that was what this was...right??? "And I don't have a twin, I don't have any siblings and I don't want any. Don't you know I'm not good at sharing??"

Lex tried calming down a bit and she did when she happened upon a dot closer to her mouth and found out it was candy. SUUUUUGAR!!! Okay. All was forgiven.

He was even trying to tell a joke! See that you stupid wall? The Poltergeist knew how to appreciate jokes. "I don't know, how?" She asked curiously. This should be funny...right?

"BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH," Peeves shot back at the GryffinDORK. "I see your mouth moving, but all that's pouring out is a load of DUNG!"


Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadum-psh! Where's someone to hit the cymbals for him when he has a real good zinger? THE JOKE! The joke! Back to the joke! Peeves leered at the girl with all four of his teeth and then delivered the punchline.


"YOU TAKE HER....... WAND!" Peeves snapped his ghostly fingers and suddenly, Alexa's wand was in his hand. "BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAAH! MINE NOW, GRYFFINDORK!"

That's just cold O__O
 

Lex rolled her eyes at the poltergeist. Merlin, then people said she was immature. No way. After today everyone would have to start commending her for the level of maturity she had. Peeves was around for centuries yet hers was higher than his!

Moving on and ignoring his little statement she listened attentively for the punchline of the joke. This had better had been funny after his little rude remark.

She thought about that for a minute. "You take her--"

In the next second her wand flew from her side and was now in his little ghosty fingers.

O____________O

BDJFVDFUESUOFGSDJFSFVJBDGORR!!!

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" She shrieked, louder than the night the Headmistress had demanded her wand of her. It all happened so quickly and now her baby--she'd only recently gotten him back and now--NOOOO!!!! "Give it baaaaaaccccckkkkkkk!!!" As she yelled she tried pulling free of the wall. "It's miiiineeeeee!" She whined, in fact VERY close to tears. "Get off me you bloody wall!!" She screamed, still trying to break free to get her wand back. "Get offfff!" But it was no use. She was stuck and the poltergeist had her wand.

Just then the door open and Peeves was goooone. She tried her hardest to blink back tears. "You stupid door! Now you choose to open?!?!"

Her wand....she wanted him back..."Professor!! This isn't funny anymore!!!! Get this wall off me, please!!"