Humpbacked Witch Statue
 

"FELIX! NO!"

Lex bolted down a corridor, ran through another, must have gone up a flight of stairs...maybe...two...three? She couldn't tell anymore. Her mind was too preoccupied by the kneazle that had decided he wanted to play a game. A game she never appreciated.

She rounded the corner of another corridor, eyes firmly fixed on the kneazle and noticed all two late that he narrowly avoided a woman walking. Too late because before she could stop she headed right into her.
UGH. Lex fell back on her bum and looked up at whoever she had hit into.

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"Professor!" Professor...ummm...Professor...? Yeah, she'd leave it at Professor 'til she could remember. "I...uh...the kneazle..." Nothing else was coming out.

Glaring now. Ah. Cool. She sorta she saw that coming after running right into the woman. What she didn't expect was the tone and the floating kneazle.

When she first saw her raise her wand she thought either she or Felix might have been in for a hex or three and her eyes squeezed shut but the woman's words had made her open them. She tilted her head and stared curiously at the sight for a moment.

"I don't think he likes that." Lex said, reaching forward to grab him. The kneazle was hissing and aiming his claws at the woman but to no avail. All he managed to do was spin a bit and hiss some more. Clearly he didn't like it. Couldn't she tell?????

"I'll say I'm sorry I ran into you Professor, he is too." And again she reached for him. It might help if he stopped flailing around so much. She didn't fancy getting scratched for trying to help him. NOPE. Could she have him back now? Before he managed to hurt himself would be nice.

Raven was having much funner than she thought she would have exploring the HUGE castle. She had barely covered one floor and was now moving on. Her old school was one TENTH this size, and she still didn't know what the limits were.

Now she came upon a rather creepy looking statue of a humpbacked witch. That witch seemed to be staring at her. Nearby she also saw one of the teachers and a student and a Kneazel. To her surprise the kneazel was floating in the air, being held up by the teacher. The teacher seemed to be in a bad mood, so Raven walked on and tried to pay no attention.

Lex scowled a bit. "I suspect they do but not when their feet aren't firmly planted on something. I don't think he's use to that feeling." Floating wasn't what her kneazle did. No. He was usually too busy hunting other people's pets. Her brows crinkled and her scowl deepened. Felix was going higher and higher, screeching the whole time. There had to be some law against this.

Her eyes left the woman completely and she focused instead of her shrieking baby. At first she thought it wasn't possible but her scowl got even worse.

Her apology was wasted, ignored really. She didn't like apologizing, it wasn't something she did and here it was being ignored. Her eyes flickered back to the woman when she basically gave her a command. She sat forward, folding her legs when she did. Wouldn't you like to know. Lex continued staring up at her. Finally she stated rather proudly, "Alexa Cambridge, ma'am."

Lex glanced only briefly at the girl that walked by and got a warning from the Professor. She didn't matter all that much to her so she was quickly disregarded her and her attention was back to her kneazle that was getting more and more agitated by the minute.

Finally the woman lowered her wand. She extended her hand for him but didn't expect him to be dropped the way he was. Immediately she hopped to her feet and swooped him into her arms. He was a testy kneazle and she didn't want him getting any bright ideas. Nah. She liked him too much to see the woman try anything else on him.

Alexa looked up at the woman, listening perfectly to everything she was saying with an even expression. She watched the woman walk away. See to it that it didn't happen again?

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft.

Her kneazle ran wherever he wanted to. The most she could do was catch up to him. She didn't see him changing, especially not for someone who had him floating in the air.

She didn't expect a reply :P
 

Yikes! Why was the teacher glaring at her and telling her to move along? Well, she sure was in a bad mood. Raven would not have wanted to be in the other students shoes, she felt sorry for her. "I was ALREADY leaving" Raven muttered crossly. Then she quickened her step and left.

Astro post HW 1
 

Daichi grumbled LOUDLY as he dragged the stupid vacuum cleaner behind him that he had gotten from Professor Flamsteed. As he dragged it through the corridor, the Slytherin found a spot to begin with his homework. Homework, YEAH RIGHT! We know the truth Flamsteed!

GRUMBLE!

Stopping in front of the Humpbacked Witch Statue, the Prefect looked at it. He knew that this was a secret passage way to somewhere but he never knew what the password was. Must be something very stupid like this *Homework*... If they didn't get points for this he had not done it.

"What a FUN last year!" he huffed sarcastically. He liked Hogwarts because he didn't have to clean. He'd done that enough at home during the summer breaks. Which made him thinking. After this year he would go home! Crap, he needed a place on his own so that he didn't have to clean each and every day.

But before that happened he needed to earn some points first. Flicking his wrist, his phoenix feather wand fell out of the wrist holster and he then pointed it at the vacuum cleaner hose. "Vacavus!" he said and listened how the cleaner swooshed loudly in the corridor.

Ugh, even the sound was annoying. He had been okay with it during class because that had just been a game. although he suspected that the Professor used them to clean up as well Bringing the hose to the ground, the Slytherin began to move it over the stones so that the vacuum sucked up all the dust and dirt near the Statue.

While he was cleaning, Daichi agressively moved the vacuum cleaner back and forth. He was still grumbling some words under his breath and when he was done he quickly stopped the charm. Mweh, he should get extra points for doing this!

Erm... help?
 

Penelope was just wandering down the third floor, not really aiming to go anywhere in particular. Just anywhere and anything that would let her procrastinate more on the homework she didn't want to do. And as she turned down one corridor, she saw something strange. Not the humpbacked witch, no, that was something she was used to passing by. There was something - or, well, someone - else there that she was pretty sure she'd never seen in Hogwarts before. A goblin.

What was a goblin doing at Hogwarts? Didn't they work at Gringotts?

"Hey," she said, walking over. "Whatcha doing here?" Not trying to be rude or anything. She was just curious.

Oh. Human child. Perfect. Maybe he could just take her? "How comfortable would you be acting as collateral?" he asked.

Oh wait. That wasn't why he was there. He reached into his pocket and flashed his shiny security badge. "Head of Security of Gringotts. I'm looking for the Hospital Wing." he said turning his head and looking down the hall. He then readjusted his Security hat. He just wanted to put emphasis on his spectacular title.

Act as...what? "What's collateral?" Wouldn't know if she was comfortable with it if she didn't know what it was, right? So it was good to ask.

Oh hey, he had a badge. Not a prefect or captain badge, but it was still shiny. So that was cool. And he was from Gringotts, so at least she was right about them working there. "Oh, it's just right down that way," Penelope replied, pointing down the hall. "Turn the corner and go down a ways and it should be there."

Sturnik waved a hand in dismissal. "Nothing to worry about. I shouldn't take back more than I was told to." He had a list. Plus he wasn't quite sure if his bag was breathable or not. That wouldn't make very good collateral at all.

He looked down the hall then nodded. Down the and around the corner. Should be there.

"Carry on." he said before heading in the direction the human child had pointed out.

Oh. So...no collateral? Okay then. She wasn't gonna do it if she didn't even know what it was. "Alright then," Penelope said with a shrug. She wasn't gonna worry.

But...it then occurred to her to wonder why the goblin needed to know where the hospital wing was. Was he hurt or something? St. Mungo's too far? He was already hurrying down the corridor and she considered following him...but then decided against it, and continued down the way she had been going before.

Colley!
 

Cat had been making her descent towards the dungeons intending on hanging out in the common room for the rest of the night. She'd made it to the second floor before realizing that she'd left her favorite quill in the library. After doubling back again, she headed around a corner just in time to stay out of the way of the sliding girl.

With an impressed whistle, Cat kept off to one side so she wasn't in danger of colliding into the girl. "You know, you'd have the same effect using Glisseo on the stairs, so long as it isn't moving." Cause like, that'd be some back luck there.... but rather fun too...

She was sliding, she was sli-"-WOAHKAY!" Elodie's arms span, and her feet twisted turn her direction, and ultimately brought her to a stop. So, yeah, she supposed she really wasn't to do this when there was the potential for other people to be about. But, blue eyes falling on the 'intruder', she found that it was no more than another student. Which was better than it could have been.

It could have been an angry professor who did not approve of her pajamas, or her slippers. The cookie monster and frogs weren't everyone's style.

Raising her eyebrows, her hand went to her hip and she considered what was being pitched to her. "I'd rather that with a tray though." Even with the staircase moving, that stuff could be awesome! Plans? Woah, maybe.

She decided it would have been better if she just stayed out of the way, just in case the other girl decided to take a running leap down the hall next. The first thing she'd learned about Hogwarts was to always expect the unexpected... so she was READY.

Not ready to get bulldozed over by someone, but ready to jump out of the way if need be.

"Now that I think of it though, it sounds like a surefire way to land yourself in detention, with a broken arm to boot." But perhaps that just made it sound more fun?

The urge to go and slide again was rampant, but the urge to stand here and pull this girl in on the statue's makeover was even worse. A hat, to begin with. A hat, some glasses, maybe some facepaint. Oh, the possibilities were endless! Her eyes flitted between both the girl and the statue, only returning solidly to the other female when she spoke.

Detention? Boo, that wasn't where Elodie wanted to end up.

But it still sounded so fun! Even the broken arm wasn't too much of a put off. "But still fun, and possible to not get in detention if you wear a mask," she supplied, pondering over the idea of it herself. "Maybe one day." Maybe when she could get enough people to want to do it that they couldn't punish everyone, right? Ideas, baby!

Well, either way, Cat was planning on avoiding detention as well as she could. Though she wasn't going to try too hard at it or she'd never have any fun, right? "I bet the professors are super bored with all the budget cuts, they've probably been sitting around comparing evil ideas for detentions, I mean, how ELSE are they supposed to have any fun?"

Really. Think about it now.

"You know who should be wearing a mask?" Her eyes shifted towards the witch as if she were a willing participant in this conversation and wasn't supposed to know she was actually the one being talked about.

Or maybe, just maybe this girl was right. "Potentially," Els mused, a quizzical look crossing her face. "Or maybe they're planning some sort of prank themselves?" She would do, if she was in their position. Maybe she'd be considering quitting and things too, but that was a different topic of sorts. Elodie liked the thought of those in responsible positions planning something with the mind of a playful child. Maybe she'd pitch it to people. When she wasn't too busy.

But evil detentions were kind of worrying. Not that Els was a student who got detentions, but if there were evil plans in place, now she was pretty terrified to step out of line even once.

Her eyeline followed that of the other girls and Els smirked, nodding her head. "She could do with a complete makeover," HINT. HINT.