"That's correct, Kurumi," he answered.

Agreed!

Vindictus was SO right. She felt the same way. Whenever she was watching at Hogwarts, she felt that she couldn't quite determine what was always happening on the field, cause it usually went by too fast.

When she was a kid, she had the CRUMMIEST eyesight! It helped to have commentators while watching Quidditch games. Of course, it was now fixed.

She was ready for this. So ready. She was sure she would ace it!!

Cardigan did have one question though, and it might be greatly apppealing to the others. "In some sports, they have two people "commentating", of a sort. Like they do it together, and sometimes it's more interesting that way. Will there be two, or just one?"

"Just one at each game. We might have two at the final two games," Vindictus replied.

That makes a whole lotta sense.

Since there weren't that many people here, it didn't matter so much. It just Kurumi, some Hufflepuff girl, and herself.

It seemed to her that more people would be vying for a spot...

Oh well, their loss.

Okay, okay. Enough of all that mind-banter. Let's get this party started!!

Embellish. Right. Kurumi was...pretty good at that once she tapped into her overly active imagination. Just needed to settle into that mind set. She was not Kurumi Hollingberry, the soft spoken Gryffindor who was also part house elf. Not that these were not true things.

Listening again at the announcer division, not something she had thought of asking since her mind was on the task at hand only, she simply found herself nodding again.

"Got it," she said with a small two finger salute as she held out her hand. "Ready for my scenario, professor."

Vindictus handed a pink card to Kurumi.


He then handed an orange card to Minerva.


Finally, he handed a lavender card to Cardigan.


"We'll go in the order that the cards were handed out. Kurumi will go first, then she'll be followed by Minerva, and Cardigan will go last," he explained.

"Whenever you're ready, Kurumi. Tell us what happened!"

Accepting her card, Kurumi read it over and immediately bit down on her lower lip. Oh Merlin...the card HAD to be about Anya and Alec and...well...Kurumi knew things about these two. She hadn't heard from Anya how things were going reeeeeeeecently, but she knew things from last term. Might as well draw on that, yes? Not to mention all the lion drama that was going on around the with Anya and...well...just yeah.

Kurumi leaned back in her seat for a moment, pondering how best to begin this description in an announcer fashion when....WOAH! Hold your abraxans. She was going FIRST?! Blinking in surprise for a moment, Kurumi didn't protest and instead read over the card one more time before standing up. She wasn't going to be able to do this sitting down. Too awkward.

So...in the Gryffindor's mind she was no longer in Professor Vindictus' office, but in the stands...watching this unfold. Here goes nothing, right?

"It's been a close match between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor thus far," began Kurumi, raising her voice just a little. "Those rabid badgers haven't been letting up and Gryffindor has been roaring their way through the goal hoops. The crowd is on their feet! Gryffindor Tag Kildare has began to perform an Irish jig as Gryffindor Seeker Anya Phillips spots the snitch and takes off after it like the entire fate of the world's gummy bears depends on her snatching it!" Kurumi thrust her finger into the air as though a tiny little Anya were present somewhere around the ceiling. "Hufflepuff Seeker Alec Summers is close behind as the snitch leads the pair around the pitch. Summers best Anya! The Badgers in the stands are chanting his name as he reaches out and... THE SNITCH HAS CHANGED COURSE! Both Seekers are now in a dive heading towards the pitch! Badgers are shouting something about doing it for the ice cream while Gryffindors are literally throwing gummy bears into the air.." Kurumi waved her arms around just a bit, mimicking the pretend people in the stands. Merlin this was awkward...but she wasn't letting it show on her face. "Who will catch the snitch?! Best friends vying for the same golden object! Both Seekers reaching out. Both Seekers approaching the ground at ludacris speed! IT'S ANYA! ANYA PHILLIPS HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH FOR GRYFFINDOR!"

Aaaaaaaaand...she was done. Could she sit down now?

CLAP CLAP CLAP.

"Well done, Kurumi!" Vindictus exclaimed. "You're up, Minerva."

Minerva looked at the card and couldn't help but smile a bit. Slytherin this was perfect.. Her best friend was on the team this year so she already knew some of the people on that line up.. Now to think, what position again.. Then she thought creative.. how to be creative with this, could she be not so nice.. Well as not so nice as Minerva ever was. Trying to think she listened to Kurumi go first. She did pretty good. Then it was her turn, did she have to stand like Kurumi.. She would be standing in the stands, she would just be talking. Hmmm.. what to do, she tried to think well she would follow Kurumi's lead and stand up.

Standing up she tried to visualize the pitch and then tried to visualize at least a few of the Slytherin players that she knew were on the team. Taking a deep breath Minerva felt her brain freeze for a second, looking back at her card she tried to calm herself.

"Loooook it's a bird, it's a plane, noooo Its Nessie Dixon with the Quaffle she is speeding down the pitch, look at her go folks such a great flyer, but look out her comes that quick and cunning Odessa. West Odessa is coming straight at Dixon he swings at the bludger, but misses it and Nessie zooms past him with the speed of light. She is half way down the pitch and it looks like smooth sailing, Puffers on your feet this could be an amazing flit for Dixon. Oh look even the Badger costume kid is getting into it jumping up and down. No..No wait, Dixon is really going to have to pay attention this time and it's Ariana Logan pulling towards her with her bat. Logan is always out to get someone ans with the rumors flying around her she will be taking that out on someone, she swings and hits the beater, but Dixon manages to dive down and miss the bludger. Dixon's leveled out and headed towards Richard Turner the keeper, but WAIT.. Watch out Logan hit the bludger harder then we thought, duck everyone here it comes. That was a close one for us in the stands... Now back to the real excitement Dixon is close to the keeper she flies towards her right.. now goes left.. headed down the center.. she aims and throws... HUFFLEPUFF WITH A SCORE.. Sorry Richard this is one girl your not winning against.."

Minerva's heart was racing and she felt it in her ears, she didn't know if she got their positions correct, but she at least knew some names. Oh and if Ariana would have heard her use some of that she would probably really use a bludger on her. Minerva gave all of them a look and felt herself blush a bit. Sitting down so that the final girl could go she let out a deep breath.

CLAP CLAP CLAP.

"Bravo, Minerva! It's now your turn, Cardigan," said Vindictus.

GET READY, FOR THE MOST AMAZING THING YOU'VE EVER...EVER...HEARD.

Cardigan thought that the others scenarios were amazing, but of course, hers was gonna bring the house down. She was more creative than an artpiece was mad by an artist! Say, if she wasn't amazing at this, Vindictus wasn't a loony head!!

Of course, she'd rock it. It took her a little more time than the other girls to think one up, but that wasn't a bad thing. If she was gonna rock this audition, well, she better thunk it through. One wrong word could be the difference between the best commentator known to Quidditch kind, and the worst.

Well, here it goes! At first, she sat in silence, waiting for the right time to take them by surprise. "LET'S GET READY TO RUMMMBLE!!!!!" Cardigan yelled, jumping out of her seat, doing jazz hands. "We've got some fighters on our hands! Sierra Greingoth and Spike Hutchinson are locked in a battle to death over the bludger! Those Claws just can't keep their talons out of it, can they? With a beater like Sierra, it's highly unlikely he'll be on it that long! And the Quaffle goes up! Down! All around!!" She moved her hand up, down, and then in a wild circle, to add emphasis to her words. That would do her a great deal of help! "The beaters are in a mad flurry to smack the daylights out of it! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?! The stakes are high! OH, LOOK!! Folks, keep your ground, cause this place's about to get CUH-RAZAY! The Bludger is in the area! Spike and Sierra, their bats at the ready, zoom in on it, their bats held high! HEY BEATTA BEATTA HEY BEATTA BEATTA SWANG! They both go in, swinging with all the might they can muster, AND IT'S OFF!!!" She threw her hands out and waved them all around. Who hit the Bludger??? "SIERRA GREINGOTH HAS TAKEN THE HIT, DIRECTING IT TOWARDS THE LUCKY RAVVIE CHASER!! MAN DOWN! HE'S BEEN KNOCKED OUT COLD, SENDING HIM IN A NOSEDIVE FOR THE FIELD, LEAVING SLYTHERIN TO SNATCH UP THE QUAFFLE!! West Odessa is now on the carry!! GO WEST GO!!" So, how was it??

CLAP CLAP CLAP.

"Brilliant, Cardigan!" exclaimed Vindictus and he handed each of the young ladies a powder blue card.

"Sometimes you have distractions that are happening around you while you're trying to focus on the game. You have to make a decision - do you report on everything happening around you or do you make a reference to it? Let's see how all of you react."



He was quiet for a few minutes.

"Whenever you're ready, Kurumi"


OOC: I'll reply to all 3 of you when I get home tomorrow.

Somewhat flopping back down in her seat, Kurumi sat quietly while she listened to Minerva and Cardigan give their accounts of what was on their cards, but couldn't help but eye the window again. She was still going with her rogue snitch idea.

One the Slytherin was done and sitting down again, her violet eyes were back on Vindictus as he handed them another card.
Oh...wait...

Kurumi bit down on her lower lip a little as she realized that she may have jumped the gun a little bit with her first card - adding in what was going on in the stands along with describing Anya and Alec going for the snitch. Reading over the card again, Kurumi snorted softly at a few things. One, was West head butting people. No surprise there. He head butted everyone AND ate bugs. Then there was the bit about Lafay and Hadley going at it. Again, no surprise.

And then her head snapped up again. Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! She had to go first again?! Internally sighing, Kurumi nodded and glanced back at her card again to read it over before putting it in her pocket and standing up again.

"Ooooooooooooooooh! That has GOT to hurt! It looks as though Hufflepuff Chaser Edvard Messer has just been added to Slytherin Chaser West Odessa's loooooooong list of headbutted victims! At least this snake doesn't bite!" Kurumi began as she played idly with her hands in front of her. "A foul of Blatching has been called by Vindictus and Ella Bishop flies up to take the penalty sho----" Kurumi paused for a moment to mimic what would most likely happen if the two professors actually were going at it behind her. Wouldn't be instantaneous after all. "HOLY SNITCH! Looks like it isn't just the pitch heating up here Hogwartians! I haven't seen Lafay and Hadley going at it like this since Nessie Dixon pulled on Head Girl Evelyn Flores' hair!!" Sorry Nessie, but it was a connection that needed to be made here. And thank you Beezus for teaching her some Quiddich expressions! Using creature ones like she usually did just wouldn't be as exciting and relevant after all. "Hopefully Lafay won't set Hadley's robes on fire for that comment...BUT THE WAFF--- QUAFFLE IS BACK IN PLAY! Bishop hurtles the quaffle towards the hoooooooooooooooooooooops BUT Slytherin Keeper Dylan Montmorency sweeps his way across and makes a SPECTACULAR save and KICKS the quaffle back into play while sending an obnoxiously confident smirk towards the stands. The quaffle is picked up by Turn--- WOAH!" Kurumi ducked suddenly and nearly lost her own balance, using Minerva's shoulder for support. "Sorry!" she squeaked before continuing. "Seems like Montmorency isn't the only one pleased with that save as Lafay nearly took my head off just now with her Beater's bat probably for the comment about setting Hadley's robes on fire."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Kurumi was sitting back down now. Selina would be devastated. She had almost called it a waffle...

Old habits die hard.

Minerva listened to Kurumi again and held back a laugh when she almost said Waffle, that would be an interesting twist maybe she should have used it some how. Once Kurumi was done Minerva felt her heart pick up again. This time she was freaking out a little differently.. yes she had opinions about some of the professors, but could she really use it to her advantage with this. It's not a real match, they aren't really here, so she didn't have to worry about being used as a potion or worse points taken..

Looking at the card she thought for a second this time not getting up, just moving to the edge of the seat. Taking a deep breath Minerva put a shocked look on her face, "Here comes Odessa fast, maybe to fast towards Messer.. What's he doing, did YOOOU seeeee that, West Odessa just headbutted Edvard Messer.. What was that sna..Slytherin player thinking, surely that will be a penalty shot. Hufflepuff isn't being to laid back today, nope folks you can hear them scream at Vinidictus to make that call and he has listened. PENALTY SHOT FOR HUFFLEPUFF. Listen to those snakes hiss about this call and it doesn't seem like just the students are getting involved. Professor Lafay isn't to happy, Vindictus better watch out, who knows what Lafay will do." Minerva knew it could be pushing it, but she was trying to think of things that kept the audience interest as well as annoyed some fans like the commentators annoyed her back home during Hockey games.

"The Penalty shot is being set up, but I think there is more excitement behind me at the moment with Professor Hadley showing her true badger spirit."In a little softer of a voice, but still in a commentator tone, "Hadley's tough, but I would rather not be using professor pieces in potions class so.." getting louder again, anyway... Messer takes control for his penalty shot, he looks determined, hopefully his head doesn't hurt to bad from Odessa's hard head hitting him. She sends the Quaffle sailing...it's going..it's going.. OHHHHHHHH tough break for the badgers the Slytherin keeper just catches it. The slytherin students go crazy and so does their head of house." Leaning down like Minerva is dodging something, "Watch out folks, Lafay has that bat of hers and if we remember from last term she can be pretty dangerous with it.. " Minerva couldn't help but give a little chuckle thinking about last term when she accidently lost her bat in the stands and it went towards Lafay and Lafay throwing it back. Leaning back on the chair she was glad to have that over.

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP.

"That was brilliant! Sometimes I think it's safer on the pitch than sitting in the stands between Professors Lafay and Hadley," Vindictus replied humorously. "Cardigan, it's your turn."

BEAM.

Cardigan was really excited about where this was going, seeing she had received a brilliant, rather than a bravo. Of course, she wouldn't say that out loud. It would sound like bragging! Bragging would NOT help her, but rather help the others! No offense.

EEEP!! Minerva had finished her commentation, leaving the snake to do hers. This one would require MUCH more thought and consideration, if she was gonna upstage the other's, as well as her own. Hard? TOTALLY.

After a few minutes of silence, she finally stood up, ready to present her next work of art. "KABLAM!!! West Odessa has headbutted yet another victim, aka Edvard Messer, causing the Quaffle to loosen away from his tight grasp. You mess with the bull, you get the horns!! She made pretend horns with her fingers, holding them up to her head and butting it forward slightly, just to add a little pizazz. Sadly enough, it has been recognized as Blatching, resulting in a foul. But Quidditch is Quidditch, and we mustn't mess with it! As they say, what happens on the pitch, stays in the pitch! Hang in there!" So far, so good? "Hufflepuff has been awarded a penalty shot!! This could very well turn the tides in favor of the badgers, to our demise. We won't let them past, will we!? Pause to let it sink in... To disagree or not disagree, that is the question! Professor Hadley and Lafay seem to be caught in a stitch over this play as the ever-so-eager players line up for the game changer. Professors, professors!! The game isn't even half way over yet!!! She put her hands out in a well?-what-am-I-supposed-to-do? position, pleading her case "to the professors". They had to understand! "Your waiting is gonna have to wait, cause the Quaffle should be up in 3-2, AND IT'S OFF!! Edvard Messer is back up again, Quaffle in hand! He FLICKS it towards the hoops ever-so-strongly, almost knocking the living daylights out of Slytherin captain Dylan Montmorency! BUT WAIT!!! With his quick wits and sharp reflexes, he easily fends it off, completely barricading the Puff's path to an easy victory!! Looks like Lafay's down and out of the blues, waving her legendary Beater's bat in the air like she just doesn't care!! Don't get too excited now professor! The party hasn't even started!!!"

With a runny red nose and dark freezing lips, Louisa ran down to their head of house's office. As soon as she reached the spot, she started pounding on the door, "Professor Vindictus! Professor Vee- Vindictus. It's an emergency!" Like... the entire house was kicked out of the common room and trapped outside the knocker door, COLD and confused. She paused and cupped her hands in front of her mouth, puffing out warmth at the cold numb skin.

Vindictus tried to ignore the pounding as he practiced his serious poses in the mirror. "Yes, I like this one. And this one," he said to himself and leaned with his hand resting in his chin. "This is a tough decision."

But the pounding was louder and he caught a few words that came through the door. Locked out? Odd. He got up and strode over to the door, throwing it open. "Are you telling me that the smartest students in the school are STUMPED by the new riddle?" he asked in a disbelieving voice and a gust of cold wind hit him in the face. Merlin, it was cold outside!

She was about to break into the office, how hard would it be really to blow the lock up? Sure professor Vee would be displeased but the situa--

OH! He was inside, phew. "No actually, I'm telling you the common room threw us out and is now inaccessible." Breathbreathbreath, and she rubbed her hands together almost jumping on the spot. "I left just as professor Cerulean showed up." So... WHATSHOULDTHEYDO? Louisa was literally hopping on the spot trying to warm herself, she kind of forgot to wrap herself in a blanket before going out in the deadly cold.

He motioned for her to enter his warm office. "We need to bring them to the Great Hall," Vindictus answered as he opened a closet door. "Because there is no way that I'm going to beg Professor Bentley to allow us to share the Gryffindor common room. The dungeons are out of the question, and there's too much yellow in the Hufflepuff common room."

He pulled out his thickest winter robes and slipped them on. "Did Professor Cerulean say anything when she arrived?" While awaiting Louisa's answer, he grabbed his thick wooly scarf and wrapped it around his neck.

Her mind needed time defreezing, so she just leaned on one of the chairs smiling at the warmth of his office and blinking her teary eyes. Aaaaah! She saw him putter about but her real focus was on the amazing feeling of her toes in her shoes.

And the Hufflepuff common room being too yellow. She raised her eyebrows curiously, "Seriously?" Hmm. "We can't do that anyways, sir, because Slytherins were locked out as well. Two girls came up to us investigating, and I passed by the Gryffindor tower on my way down here and all the lions were crowded in one of the corridors." Nodnod. "So unless it's a conspiration by the Hufflepuffs, I think they should be locked out as the res to of us." He was wrapping his neck now and Louisa fixed her own scarf, expecting a freezing journey back into the castle. Ugh.

She should've asked Spike to be the messenger.

"She was asking the students about what happened when I left. I didn't stick around to hear more..." Uh oh? "An invisible force literally threw the students outside the common room, even those who were sleeping." The girl offered, trying to be helpful. Louisa was doing some late study in the library before she came up to the tower and saw the crowd.

"A what?" Vindictus asked in response to Louisa's mention of an invisible force as he walked towards the door. "Did you hear anyone mention Peeves? That prankster is probably behind this. Anyhow, we need to get everyone into the Great Hall while this is sorted out."

Louisa's face showed how surprised she was hearing it could be peeves. All the way down to the office and even before, she was thinking some wizardy international invasion of some sorts or... Okay okay, she got to stop reading mythical and historical books like crazy. "Umm.. no one saw Peeves around." Would a protagonist be able to throw hundreds of students out of their rooms and then lock the heavily magicked common rooms? If it was Peeves, Louisa's views on the prankster would change drastically.

Oh and yeah, get everyone into the Great Hall. Got it. She started backing away toward the door, "I'll... go do that now then." The Great Hall seemed more comfy than the staircase and the corridors. "I believe you sir are going to inform the headmistress...?" She said and asked at the same time.

"I'll be right behind you," Vindictus stated after Louisa's reply regarding getting the students into the Great Hall. But then she mentioned Bunzie Truebridge and he rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sure. But I betcha that someone has already notified her."

Too bad patronuses can't deliver gift certificates to expensive boutiques. Her irritation with me would dissolve into squeals of joy. But Louisa did say that something threw the students out of their common rooms and then locked them. Hopefully no one told her that.

He pulled out his wand and gave it a slight flick. A silver wild boar emerged from the tip. "Inform the headmistress that a mysterious force has barred the students from their common rooms and we're rounding them up in the Great Hall."

The silver wild boar snorted and rambled off into night.

"Let's hurry up and get into the Castle," Vindictus said to Louisa, "Before something else happens."

Well yeah, someone might've gone directly to the headmistress to inform her which Louisa refused to do since it wasn't THAT big of a deal. No one was dying and there was no raging fire eating the ancient walls of Hogwarts. Anyways, when Vindictus waved his wand and had his Patronus out in a second, Louisa envied the man and it was even possible that her eyes gave a sparkle.

Something else happens? Very realistic and pessimistic of her head of house, she was kind of proud. "Okay!" And she followed the man out of the office into the freezer night.