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Just outside the entrance to the Hogwarts Quidditch Stadium is a rundown building. This is where students and staff may store their personal brooms (make sure to use an Intruder Charm) and also where the school-owned brooms are stored. As you approach the shed, you notice a sign hanging on the door:
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No first year is allowed to have a broom at Hogwarts.
Quidditch equipment is NOT to be touched without express permission from Professor Tyner.
Once inside, you will see a shelf directly in front of you on which you can find various tools to keep your broom in tip-top shape. Tail-twig clippers, Fleetwood's polish, and a pile of rags are among the options you will see.
Oichi headed by the broom shed to see what she could do to help with the broom refurbishment efforts. After all, how could she or future students use brooms at the school if they were not rightly cared for. Therefore she waited for Mr. Tyner to give her instruction on what she could do.
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Text Cut: Tessa and Sander
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Originally Posted by UnicornDragonPatronus
Tessa stepped into the broomshed and took a deep breath. These were all the smells she loved- besides the dust. The smell of leather from Qudditch gear, polish of the brooms... she loved it all. She lived it, taking care of her own equipment. So, helping take care of the school's was the least she could do.
"Hello Professor, I'm Tessa Hedge," she said with a warm smile to the woman. "I've been meaning to speak with you about some flying tips- I'm hoping to try-out for a few of the professional teams this summer," she explained with an excited smile. But, that was for later. "Anyway, how can I help here?" she asked, looking around.
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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88
Sander looked up when he heard Tessa's voice. Even though the other students were talking amongst themselves, her voice seemed to stand out among all of them. He smiled and waved at her.
"Would you like to join me and work on polishing the broom handles?" Sander suggested to Tessa. Of course, Professor Tyner could assign to another task instead, but he hoped she would allow Tessa to work with him.
The broomshed was starting to get quite full. It hadn't been constructed with this high occupancy in mind. But, what was one more in the grand scheme of things? It was a nice enough day outside, after all, so they could always spread out.
"Greeting, Miss Hedge. It is truly a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Or at least she hoped it would be. "Certainly, my dear. Feel free to drop by my office any time." Then again, it was quite a long walk if she happened to be busy at the time. "Or set up an appointment if you want to be sure I'm free. Either way is fine." Good, she was here to help after all. Tiara hadn't been sure. Just as she was about to suggest a job, Sander piped up and offered Tessa a spot near him. "That sounds like a fine idea, Sander, thank you."
Text Cut: Marigold
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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104
Marigold was trrrryyyyyyying to pay attention to what West<3 was saaaayinnng... but his face distracted her. Sigh. She got the gist of the whole broomcleaning process, though.
She moved towards the bucket to soak stuff in when she noticed the Quidditch person. She didn't notice her before! With a nod and smile, she said, "Hello! How are you?"
Tiara gestured towards the door. "It's a beautiful day outside and I'm lucky to simply be alive, so I am doing well, thank you." What a thoughtful young lady.
Text Cut: All the Slytherins ever and Lucas
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Originally Posted by Lexers
So... how long had these brooms been left unattended for?
Lucas eyed the blunt clippers and made a face at the broom in front of him. "I'm sorry," he whispered to it. Poor thing.
But in any case, there was only one thing to do for this situation. A lot of tender love and care.
"Professor, is Hogwarts ever going to upgrade the school brooms?" Because these were all older than his Mum. And that was OLD.
Tiara went back to working on the broom she was currently trimming up. After a few moments, she noticed that she had somehow missed the memo that there was a parade going on. Yes, definitely a parade of green and gray. West seems to have persuaded his whole team to come! Forward thinking on his part. She decided to skip the suggestions of tasks as they all seemed to be joining their Captain and receiving instructions.
Scanning what was quickly turning into a crowd, she took in the progress. Speaking loudly, she said, "I think we're near halfway done, everyone. Well done, keep up the good work and good pace!" Now if only they would put this much effort into their academic studies!
Hearing someone speak to her, she turned quickly to locate the source. "Ohh!" she exclaimed as a line of pain shot from the base of her skull down to the tip of her spinal cord. Best to move a bit slower in the future, apparently. "Lucas, that is an excellent question. I have put in a request with the Headmistress, but so far there has been little progress." Meaning that Anastasia had glared daggers at her.
Text Cut: Adelaide
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Originally Posted by GrapehGrape
Adelaide nodded, setting her bag down next to the bench. She grabbed a bucket before sitting down next to West. He had left her some room after all. She grabbed her first broom and dunked it in the water.
She looked up at Derry and Theo. "Hey guys." After looking around the shed again it seemed almost everyone was here. Which was good because West had said he wanted everyone here to help.
"Almost forgot." She held the broom with one hand and reached down into her bag with others. Things clanked around for a bit as she fished around for a container. All right. This was one time an undetectable extension charm was not good. Ah. There it was.
Addi pulled out the container of brownies and set them down. "Take some if you want." Obviously that went for everyone there, not just her fellow Snakes.
Some of her other senses may be dulling lately, but smell was not one of them. "Brownies? Lovely, I'd love one!" Tiara reached for one and brought it up to her lips, savoring the delicious morsel. "These are the best brownies I have tasted in quite some time. Three points to Slytherin for sharing such a delight with us!"
Oh yes. She was definitely getting far too generous in her old age.
Text Cut: Dora
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Originally Posted by grangerfan8
Believe it or not, Dora didn't care about the condition of the school brooms.
Not even a little bit.
Why? When her own broom was in prime condition, and not crap like these school brooms where. She didn't even have any intention of coming out to this even though it was her free time what with all the classes she'd dropped, but the sixth year was here anyway. Part because of the stupid badge pinned to her chest, but mostly because almost all of her friends where here as well. And if she wanted them time, she had to care for brooms.
Entering the broom shed, she instantly regretted the decision however. Too crowded. But there was no turning back noooow, so she gave a small distracted salute to the professor and moved further into the shed. They seemed to be working in groups, and the most noticeable one was the Slytherin group surrounding it's captain. They seemed like the group to join, but for reasons she decided against it, greeting her snake friends instead and moving over to a much more appealing group.
The polishing group, or really Alice and Sophie. The other people just went seemingly unnoticed by the prefect. Snatching up the needed supplies and a broom, she went over and dropped down in a seat next to the pair.
"Of course she's doing it wrong. She's using a kneazle as her partner. Not wise." Because it was a kneazle. And Alice knew how she felt about those. Though right now she was simply jesting. She tossed a wink over at Sophie in greeting, and glanced at her broom looking ready to start. "You really should do something about your lions and their pets."
Tiara chuckled. She inclined her head in greeting towards the freshly minted Prefect.
Text Cut: Bart. *I* liked your spell, for the record.
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Originally Posted by Bazinga
Awesome.. The boy did play that was totally cool in Bart's mind. "Cool what position? I'm Bart by the way." In case the boy didn't know, but they were in classes together so he might know though Bart wasn't sure of his name. He probably said it in class, but his mind didn't focus in class, because most of the classes were so boring and lecture.. Merlin the lectures around here. "So do they only hire long winded people to teach classes?" Maybe the boy knew the answer, Bart really wanted to know it.
He was working on his next broom and pointed his wand when he heard his name. Now what did he do. He looked at the twigs thinking he did an awesome job. One thing he wouldn't screw up was a broom. Goodness no they were to amazingly awesome to do that, but the woman was saying not to use magic. He blinked at her, was she joking? This was a wizard school, right? He hadn't found himself in a muggle school some how did he? He glanced around and felt appalled that she wanted him to trim the muggle way. She did realize that would mean by hand didn't she? Which meant more option for error.
"aaa alright." He was still giving weird confused looks when he put down his wand. This was dumb, he wasn't a muggle and shouldn't have to do muggle labor. Sighing he started doing the twigs the manual way which was just awkward and now he wasn't sure if he was trimming them right. Good thing these were not his brooms.
Oh it was cool name boy and he had those weird trimmer things for Bart. "Thanks" He said in an annoyed ton as he started trimming his broom the borrrrring way. Leaning closer to the slytherin he nodded towards the offical, "Think she's not aware that the spell would make these more prefect and not as hacked?" It was so foreign to him to see manual labor things. He didn't even know muggle things until his step family moved in on him and his mother. Not that he minded the TV, games, and surfing. No those could stay but this work thing needed to go.
His annoyed looked left as he grinned and touched his face, "Nothin at all actually. It just started growin one day. Isn't it awesome. I'm not trimming it or anything. I'm going to see how far I can get it to go." He had never seen anyone his age have a full long beard, maybe he could get himself into the World Record books or something. He was sure of it with this awesomely Epic beard.
That's when his nose started sniffing.. It sniffed out something that smelled good. One thing that never failed him was his stomach. Someone really close to him had food. His brown eyes searched until "BROWNIES" It was brownie girl and her awesome and amazing goodies. "Can I have one.." Oh what was the snakes name again. She had given it to him when he was near her common room and got his first brownie from her. "Addi" That's it wasn't it?
Interesting. Based on what she had heard from others, she had been expecting quite the reaction from this one. Word traveled, after all. She was pleased to see that he gave no complaint.
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Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa
Oichi headed by the broom shed to see what she could do to help with the broom refurbishment efforts. After all, how could she or future students use brooms at the school if they were not rightly cared for. Therefore she waited for Mr. Tyner to give her instruction on what she could do.
A new Gryffindor walked in shortly afterwards. Had she met her before..? Tiara didn't think so. "Good afternoon, young lady. I'm Professor Tyner. And what might your name be?" she asked politely. Guessing that she probably needed and assignment, the official added, "We need a few more people to polish broom handles, if you'd like to grab some rags and a tin of polish."
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Sander gave Professor Tyner the thumbs sign when she acknowledged that broom handle looked good to her. He quickly picked up the next broom from the stack that was growing rapidly.
'Okay we're falling behind, Sander. We can't take all day here.' Sander chided himself as he scooped out another knut size of broom polish and applied it to the broom. Then he repeated the polishing process again. Applying, then buffing, applying and then buffing until the broom handle passed muster, before he placed it aside and grabbed another one.
He looked up and smiled when Tessa came over to join him. "Um....so far....I've polished five brooms. But I'm picking up the speed now." he grinned at her as he counted the polished brooms next to him.
"I'm glad you could come and join us. I was starting to feel like the odd one out. Everyone, I think plays Quidditch or is in the current house team. So there's a good reason for them to be here. Corny as it may sound right now, but I'm just here because I know that these brooms needed to be cleaned, so I decided to lend some elbow grease," he told Tessa sheepishly.
He got up from his seat, walked over and took another broom and started the whole broom handle polishing process again. Applying, then buffing, examining before applying a second coat, then back to buffing again. He was concentrating so hard on the task at hand, that he didn't even realize he had started humming again.
Somehow the humming helped him stay in rhythm...a rhythm that helped speed up the polishing process tremendously. Broom, apply polish, buff, examine, apply polish again, buff again, examine and place the finish broom aside. Then repeat the whole process again.
He was enjoying himself so much that Sander began to sing softly.
"At the broom shed, woooh
Talking about the broom shed, yeah
Come on y'all and sing it for me
Broom shed, woh, Broom Shed yeah
(Work and work) Well those brooms never seem to stop coming
(Work and work) Keep those polishin' machines humming
(Work and work) My fingers to the bone
(Work and work) Keep up, all this must be done before we all go home "
Soon the number of polished brooms began to grow. Sander smiled. The added help that Professor Tyner had requested from the students, made a lot of difference too.
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin
Ian had been so immersed in his work, he hadn't noticed the professor until Adi spoke. He looked up smiling, Thank you, ma'am.
Ian inspected the broom handle and was pleased with how it had turned out. It gleamed like nearly new and only slightly used. It reminded him of working on his dad's fishing boat whenever it returned to shore. Those wooden railings were a booger to get right up to his dad's standards, but he'd learned.
Ian shrugged. Never gave it much thought until you said something about beards. Quite honestly, the whiskers don't bother me now. Maybe they will later.
He listened to Adi as he spoke. Seemed he did recall some trouble. Aye. I remember some. I never got into it much. Kind of kept to myself a lot last year. After that, Adi brought up the tree again. He wasn't going to let it go obviously and so Ian should probably get it out of the way. He reached up with a rag covered hand and gestured to Bart. We were out there helping the groundskeeper and I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have when performing a spell and it hit Bart square in the chest and I levitated him. The groundskeeper took 10 points from me for carelessness. Ian chuckled a little and added Didn't make Bart very happy. He kind of squalled like a little kid while he was in the air.
Ah. So Ian did like beards. Adi wondered why. Beards just made guys look like rather hairy creatures. That was his opinion anyway. He now nodded as Ian continued speaking. "Yes, I remember you telling me you kept to yourself.'' Adi could never imagine doing that. He loved mingling with people and getting to know them. Finally! An answer to the Tree House question. ''It was an accident, wasn't it?'' he said, as he continued to polish. "I don't think the Groundskeeper should have done that.'' But Adi would dare not mess with the man. He was huuuge! "I think a warning would have been better.''
Adi laughed at the last added bit. "He did? I didn't peg him for squaller. I mean, he comes off as this tough, mischievous dude.'' Just goes to show how someone should never size someone up until they knew them more. Adi scooped up some more polish and rubbed it over the broomstick. This one wasn't badly damaged or faded so he didn't have to spend longer with it.
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Coming to the broom shed a little later than she had originally planned, Lux was not surprised to see that there were a lot of people already in there working away. Looking round clueless, she was happy when she spotted Sander and Tessa. Smiling, she made her way over to them. "Hey, guys. What can I do to help?" Because she did not want to just stand around here like a loser, and she wanted to earn more points for Hufflepuff.
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Originally Posted by Squishy
Coming to the broom shed a little later than she had originally planned, Lux was not surprised to see that there were a lot of people already in there working away. Looking round clueless, she was happy when she spotted Sander and Tessa. Smiling, she made her way over to them. "Hey, guys. What can I do to help?" Because she did not want to just stand around here like a loser, and she wanted to earn more points for Hufflepuff.
Sander looked up when he heard a familiar voice ask whether she could help. "Hi Lux. Well the Professor assigns the task, but she did say that people needed to help us with the polishing. So I guess if it's okay with her, you could help us too. Do you know how to polish a broom handle? If not, grab two clean towels from over there and I'll show you how." Sander told Lux as he continued buffing up the broom handle he was polishing.
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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88
Sander looked up when he heard a familiar voice ask whether she could help. "Hi Lux. Well the Professor assigns the task, but she did say that people needed to help us with the polishing. So I guess if it's okay with her, you could help us too. Do you know how to polish a broom handle? If not, grab two clean towels from over there and I'll show you how." Sander told Lux as he continued buffing up the broom handle he was polishing.
Oh, okay. Lux gave Sander a thumbs up. "Thank you, now I know what is going on." Even though the Professor needed people to help polish the broom handles, she wanted to be polite and ask her before starting anything. "I know how to, yes. And I will be back after I talk to the Professor."
She made her way over to where the Professor was, and smiled at her. "Hello, Professor. I am Lux and I was wondering what I could do to help. Do you want me to help polish the broom handles?"
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Originally Posted by UnicornDragonPatronus
She saw their Quidditch captain and she shot the girl a smile and wave. "Let me know if you need anything else done," she called over with a warm smile before she went back to polishing broom handles with Sander. She was also just fine with this job.
Was Tessa going to polish, too? Seemed like that Puffer she was working with knew how to do it right, and Alice knew that guy was fairly smart from his answers in classes, so she wouldn't worry too much. She gave Tessa another grin before returning to the broom she was rubbing polishing herself.
This was so much work. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by grangerfan8
The polishing group, or really Alice and Sophie. The other people just went seemingly unnoticed by the prefect. Snatching up the needed supplies and a broom, she went over and dropped down in a seat next to the pair.
"Of course she's doing it wrong. She's using a kneazle as her partner. Not wise." Because it was a kneazle. And Alice knew how she felt about those. Though right now she was simply jesting. She tossed a wink over at Sophie in greeting, and glanced at her broom looking ready to start. "You really should do something about your lions and their pets."
Finished up her polishing of the handle, Alice began counting to three hundred, waiting for the stuff to dry. Her concentration was broken by Dora, though, but she'd just wait for the haze. "Her kneazle's real smart. But I don't think he's an expert on broom care." And therefore wouldn't be much help with anything, save for fetching things.
"I don't have a problem with him if he gets me clean rags." She liked not moving. Yep.
Text Cut: Alexa
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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo
Alexa had only just taken the rag from her kneazle when she heard Alice...correcting her broom polishing....what? Lex scooped Felix up then looked to her. What did she mean she was doing it wrong? She was removing the dust then getting it done. There wasn't much more to it so thanks but no thanks Cap'n.
She thought of just ignoring Alice...and maybe doing something else since she was doing this wrong but then she was being called over and figured maybe it wouldn't be so bad letting Alice feel like she was right and in charge. It would certainly end better for her.
"Hey Dora and 'Claw person." She said, settling in next to them, with Felix slung over her shoulder again. Lex had seen the girl around and she'd seen her playing Quidditch before but she'd never actually gotten around to intros.
Alright, she was here. Make with the showing how to properly polish the broom so she could get back to it.
"Why did you bring your cat?" Alexa got looks. Felix was a lovely kneazle and all, but really? He would probably be whiny by the end of the day, what with twigs and polish globs accumulating in his fur. But Alice wouldn't have to deal with the grumpy pet, so it wasn't her issue.
Cambridge needed instructions, though. "Dip your rag in the tin and get a bit on it about the size of a Knut. Then start working it into the rag. Makes it warmer and, in turn, easier to apply to the broom. Should take a minute or two." Was Dora listening too? In case she didn't know how either. Alice wasn't sure how far her best's knowledge on brooms extended.
"Then rub it on the broom, don't rush, overlap all areas.. normal stuff. Wait five minutes for it to dry, and you'll know its done when you see a sort of hazy finish on the wood." Like hers looked like now. She demonstrated the last few steps on this broom, since it was ready and all. "Use a clean towel to buff off the dried polish in tiny circular motions. And then keep repeating those steps until you can see your reflection in the handle, which should take at least two run-throughs of the steps."
Got it? Good. Alice got a Knut-sized glob of polish on her rag for the second time around.
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and so i took an axe to a mended fence.___________________.______._________________ __________________________________..____this is why we can't have nice things, darling.
She'd answered one of the questions on the announcement board. She wanted to earn points, so obviously she was here for just THAT. Well, she would have been here earlier if she hadn't been paralyzed in front of the mirror. Beverly wasn't a narcissist. No. It had been the few gray hairs on her head that had stunned her.
And now she was grumpy about it. SHE wasn't supposed to get gray hairs. Old people did. For Fawkes' sake, her GRANDMOTHER didn't even have gray hairs! Yeah, it was because of potions, but...THIS SUCKED.
Arriving at the broom-shed with a scowl on her face, Beverly heard what the Flying Official told the Gryffindor girl whom arrived a second before she had.
Polish broom handles? She could do that, too, yeah?
Not feeling like talking, the third year nodded a greeting nod at the older woman and walked toward the supplies. Watching her father care for his broom would finally come in handy. Not that she minded the time spent with him. She rarely saw him before coming to Hogwarts that she'd take any time to spend with him.
Grabbing a tin of polish and a few rags she walked over and grabbed an unattended broom.
Text Cut: Words cannot describe how hard I loved this!
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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88
"At the broom shed, woooh
Talking about the broom shed, yeah
Come on y'all and sing it for me
Broom shed, woh, Broom Shed yeah
(Work and work) Well those brooms never seem to stop coming
(Work and work) Keep those polishin' machines humming
(Work and work) My fingers to the bone
(Work and work) Keep up, all this must be done before we all go home "
Soon the number of polished brooms began to grow. Sander smiled. The added help that Professor Tyner had requested from the students, made a lot of difference too.
Text Cut: Lil Bart-Bart<3
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Originally Posted by Bazinga
SPOILER!!: Felix and Tiara
Awesome.. The boy did play that was totally cool in Bart's mind. "Cool what position? I'm Bart by the way." In case the boy didn't know, but they were in classes together so he might know though Bart wasn't sure of his name. He probably said it in class, but his mind didn't focus in class, because most of the classes were so boring and lecture.. Merlin the lectures around here. "So do they only hire long winded people to teach classes?" Maybe the boy knew the answer, Bart really wanted to know it.
He was working on his next broom and pointed his wand when he heard his name. Now what did he do. He looked at the twigs thinking he did an awesome job. One thing he wouldn't screw up was a broom. Goodness no they were to amazingly awesome to do that, but the woman was saying not to use magic. He blinked at her, was she joking? This was a wizard school, right? He hadn't found himself in a muggle school some how did he? He glanced around and felt appalled that she wanted him to trim the muggle way. She did realize that would mean by hand didn't she? Which meant more option for error.
"aaa alright." He was still giving weird confused looks when he put down his wand. This was dumb, he wasn't a muggle and shouldn't have to do muggle labor. Sighing he started doing the twigs the manual way which was just awkward and now he wasn't sure if he was trimming them right. Good thing these were not his brooms.
Oh it was cool name boy and he had those weird trimmer things for Bart. "Thanks" He said in an annoyed ton as he started trimming his broom the borrrrring way. Leaning closer to the slytherin he nodded towards the offical, "Think she's not aware that the spell would make these more prefect and not as hacked?" It was so foreign to him to see manual labor things. He didn't even know muggle things until his step family moved in on him and his mother. Not that he minded the TV, games, and surfing. No those could stay but this work thing needed to go.
His annoyed looked left as he grinned and touched his face, "Nothin at all actually. It just started growin one day. Isn't it awesome. I'm not trimming it or anything. I'm going to see how far I can get it to go." He had never seen anyone his age have a full long beard, maybe he could get himself into the World Record books or something. He was sure of it with this awesomely Epic beard.
That's when his nose started sniffing.. It sniffed out something that smelled good. One thing that never failed him was his stomach. Someone really close to him had food. His brown eyes searched until "BROWNIES" It was brownie girl and her awesome and amazing goodies. "Can I have one.." Oh what was the snakes name again. She had given it to him when he was near her common room and got his first brownie from her. "Addi" That's it wasn't it?
Cutty paused in his work of trimming to examine Tyner at Bart's question. H'mm. What was Tyner really like? What was her story? There was something he'd been meaning to talk to her about. An office visit, perhaps. But for now all he could do was shrug. Beards were more interesting, anyway.
"Dead awesome!" Cutty agreed with a nod, before he ran the back of his hand up and down his own chin briefly. "Mine's still growin' in a bit patchy. I keep shavin' it away. I'm hoping it'll come in more fully." And then Addi was there with her brownies. He did not partake this particularly time, having already had some earlier on in the year, but he did watch as others took. Then he carefully noted who seemed to enjoy them.
Snip! Snip!
The clippers were carefully guided around the tail twigs, systematically nipping away at the least helpful looking twigs. Cutty turned the broom around completely three-sixty to make sure he hadn't missed any bits. Due to the soaking it even smelled like a fresh new broom and he would know, he had one that would spend the rest of the school year being totally useless. Or not. Quidditch was an obsession to the students at this school.
Cutty put down the finished broom and went to work on the next that needed trimming.
I think we'll probably keep this going through the weekend. *nod*
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Text Cut: Lux
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Originally Posted by Squishy
Oh, okay. Lux gave Sander a thumbs up. "Thank you, now I know what is going on." Even though the Professor needed people to help polish the broom handles, she wanted to be polite and ask her before starting anything. "I know how to, yes. And I will be back after I talk to the Professor."
She made her way over to where the Professor was, and smiled at her. "Hello, Professor. I am Lux and I was wondering what I could do to help. Do you want me to help polish the broom handles?"
Clip, scan... clip, scan... Tiara continued inspecting the latest broom she had grabbed. She was satisfied that is was streamlined to perfection and put it in the pile to be polished. As she grabbed for another, she heard someone address her. "Hello, Lux. I am delighted to have you here. You may certainly polish handles if you wish. Alternatively, you may also clip tail twigs or wash tail twigs. The choice is yours."
Text Cut: LEMONY SNICKET
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Originally Posted by lemon
Was Tessa going to polish, too? Seemed like that Puffer she was working with knew how to do it right, and Alice knew that guy was fairly smart from his answers in classes, so she wouldn't worry too much. She gave Tessa another grin before returning to the broom she was rubbing polishing herself.
This was so much work. Sigh.
Finished up her polishing of the handle, Alice began counting to three hundred, waiting for the stuff to dry. Her concentration was broken by Dora, though, but she'd just wait for the haze. "Her kneazle's real smart. But I don't think he's an expert on broom care." And therefore wouldn't be much help with anything, save for fetching things.
"I don't have a problem with him if he gets me clean rags." She liked not moving. Yep.
"Why did you bring your cat?" Alexa got looks. Felix was a lovely kneazle and all, but really? He would probably be whiny by the end of the day, what with twigs and polish globs accumulating in his fur. But Alice wouldn't have to deal with the grumpy pet, so it wasn't her issue.
Cambridge needed instructions, though. "Dip your rag in the tin and get a bit on it about the size of a Knut. Then start working it into the rag. Makes it warmer and, in turn, easier to apply to the broom. Should take a minute or two." Was Dora listening too? In case she didn't know how either. Alice wasn't sure how far her best's knowledge on brooms extended.
"Then rub it on the broom, don't rush, overlap all areas.. normal stuff. Wait five minutes for it to dry, and you'll know its done when you see a sort of hazy finish on the wood." Like hers looked like now. She demonstrated the last few steps on this broom, since it was ready and all. "Use a clean towel to buff off the dried polish in tiny circular motions. And then keep repeating those steps until you can see your reflection in the handle, which should take at least two run-throughs of the steps."
Got it? Good. Alice got a Knut-sized glob of polish on her rag for the second time around.
Goodness, Miss Fischer could teach a seminar on this stuff! Tiara nodded her approval, but refrained from interrupting her when she was on a roll.
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She'd answered one of the questions on the announcement board. She wanted to earn points, so obviously she was here for just THAT. Well, she would have been here earlier if she hadn't been paralyzed in front of the mirror. Beverly wasn't a narcissist. No. It had been the few gray hairs on her head that had stunned her.
And now she was grumpy about it. SHE wasn't supposed to get gray hairs. Old people did. For Fawkes' sake, her GRANDMOTHER didn't even have gray hairs! Yeah, it was because of potions, but...THIS SUCKED.
Arriving at the broom-shed with a scowl on her face, Beverly heard what the Flying Official told the Gryffindor girl whom arrived a second before she had.
Polish broom handles? She could do that, too, yeah?
Not feeling like talking, the third year nodded a greeting nod at the older woman and walked toward the supplies. Watching her father care for his broom would finally come in handy. Not that she minded the time spent with him. She rarely saw him before coming to Hogwarts that she'd take any time to spend with him.
Grabbing a tin of polish and a few rags she walked over and grabbed an unattended broom.
House points. This was all for house points.
*Grumps*
The parade of late Slytherins just kept coming. This one, like the previous few, chose to jump right in rather than ask her for instructions. Tiara, intent on her work, gave a nod of greeting when they caught each other's eyes, but said nothing. This particular broom needed quite a bit more TLC than the previous one.
A new Gryffindor walked in shortly afterwards. Had she met her before..? Tiara didn't think so. "Good afternoon, young lady. I'm Professor Tyner. And what might your name be?" she asked politely. Guessing that she probably needed and assignment, the official added, "We need a few more people to polish broom handles, if you'd like to grab some rags and a tin of polish."
"I'm Oichi and I'm glad to help. I will be glad to polish the broomsticks to shine like tap shoes just as my broom in my dorm does", Oichi replied with a smile. She then walked over to the supply area and grabbed some polish and then attempted to get a broom around the mirage of other students polishing brooms and ended up slipping and dropping the polish in her hands which burst and went everywhere. "Professor, I've got a bit of a problem here.", Oichi said sheepishly.
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Good. The twigs on his broom were all clipped and polished. Nice and easy. He glanced over and saw West, the Slytherin captain, watching them all and he knew that he was probably keeping track of who was there and what they were doing. Yes, we see you Mister Captain. Good thing Caleb was here despite his achy knees!
Onto the broom handle. He took a bottle of broom handle polish and one of the old rags nearby, dumping a generous amount onto the cloth. He then took it and started to shine the handle, smiling as the small patches of dirt and grime came off with ease.
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Lux beamed at Professor Tyner. She seemed really nice, and Lux really did want to help out as much as possible since she loved Quidditch despite her fear of flying. "Okay, thanks, Professor. I think I will help polish the brooms." Nodding, she headed back to where Sander was and grabbed one of the unpolished brooms and a few clean rags.
After dipping the rag into the softened polish, she began to apply it to the broom handle in small circles that overlapped each other. As she went, she started to hum along to the song Sander was singing as it was rather catchy and made working more fun.
When the broom was covered in a coat of polish, she waited a little for it to dry before buffering it off and starting the polishing process all over again.
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Lux beamed at Professor Tyner. She seemed really nice, and Lux really did want to help out as much as possible since she loved Quidditch despite her fear of flying. "Okay, thanks, Professor. I think I will help polish the brooms." Nodding, she headed back to where Sander was and grabbed one of the unpolished brooms and a few clean rags.
After dipping the rag into the softened polish, she began to apply it to the broom handle in small circles that overlapped each other. As she went, she started to hum along to the song Sander was singing as it was rather catchy and made working more fun.
When the broom was covered in a coat of polish, she waited a little for it to dry before buffering it off and starting the polishing process all over again.
Sander glanced over at Lux and smiled at his young friend when she immediately began working on polishing the broom handles. Picking up another clean rag, he opened up the container, scooped up another knut sized portion of polish before replacing the lid back over the container. Then he warmed up the polish he had scooped up before applying it to the broom handle. When it was evenly spread out, he allowed it to dry before picking up a clean towel and began buffering it off.
He then applied a second coat of polish and repeated the process again. Once he was done, he examined the handle and gave it a passing grade when he could see his reflection on it. He placed it next to the stack of polished brooms before picking up another broom and returning back to where his group of fellow broom handle polishers sat.
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"I'm Oichi and I'm glad to help. I will be glad to polish the broomsticks to shine like tap shoes just as my broom in my dorm does", Oichi replied with a smile. She then walked over to the supply area and grabbed some polish and then attempted to get a broom around the mirage of other students polishing brooms and ended up slipping and dropping the polish in her hands which burst and went everywhere. "Professor, I've got a bit of a problem here.", Oichi said sheepishly.
Oichi? What a unique name! "Excellent. Everything you need is right there," she explained, gesturing to her right. Tyner followed her progress visually for several moments, which turned out to be a good thing, as there was a small mess to clean up. "Not to worry, dear. Reparo," she said with a wave of her wand. The container instantly fixed itself. Some of the polish had come out, but most of it remained safely ensconced in the confines of its tub. "No harm done, Oichi." The professor gave the girl a warm smile to indicate that she was not upset.
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Lux beamed at Professor Tyner. She seemed really nice, and Lux really did want to help out as much as possible since she loved Quidditch despite her fear of flying. "Okay, thanks, Professor. I think I will help polish the brooms." Nodding, she headed back to where Sander was and grabbed one of the unpolished brooms and a few clean rags.
After dipping the rag into the softened polish, she began to apply it to the broom handle in small circles that overlapped each other. As she went, she started to hum along to the song Sander was singing as it was rather catchy and made working more fun.
When the broom was covered in a coat of polish, she waited a little for it to dry before buffering it off and starting the polishing process all over again.
That was one happy Hufflepuff! "I'm happy to hear it, my dear. And thank your for your willingness to help out an.. well, to help out." Yes, she had been about to say 'old woman' instead. Yes, she was crying internally a bit at the moment.
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Ah. So Ian did like beards. Adi wondered why. Beards just made guys look like rather hairy creatures. That was his opinion anyway. He now nodded as Ian continued speaking. "Yes, I remember you telling me you kept to yourself.'' Adi could never imagine doing that. He loved mingling with people and getting to know them. Finally! An answer to the Tree House question. ''It was an accident, wasn't it?'' he said, as he continued to polish. "I don't think the Groundskeeper should have done that.'' But Adi would dare not mess with the man. He was huuuge! "I think a warning would have been better.''
Adi laughed at the last added bit. "He did? I didn't peg him for squaller. I mean, he comes off as this tough, mischievous dude.'' Just goes to show how someone should never size someone up until they knew them more. Adi scooped up some more polish and rubbed it over the broomstick. This one wasn't badly damaged or faded so he didn't have to spend longer with it.
Ian kept working the polish into the handle. Yes. It was an accident, and I don't blame the groundskeeper. I mean we weren't exactly in the ground. We were on the top level, so I suppose there was some danger. Ian grinned a little as he thought about Bart up in the air yelling. It almost made him laugh.
Well, you know that everyone has a breaking point. I didn't expect it either, but Bart and I haven't exactly gotten off to the best start. Ian examined the broom he was working with and was pleased with his progress.
Bri walked into the broomshed. She saw that there were a bunch of other students there as well. She hope she wasn't too late. "Umm Excuse me, Professor Tyner, do you still need any help?" She asked softly
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SPOILER!!: Tessa, Theo, & Bart
Adelaide looked up as she heard one of the other girls (Tessa) ask if she could have one. "Of course." She had made extra so everyone could have some anyways.
She turned her attention back to Theo. "You're welcome." Obviously she would continue making them for the team throughout the year. It was kind of her thing.
Oh look. There was Bart. Addi learned names quicker when she gave people food for some reason. Made it stick a bit easier. She gave him a smile as he seemed to remember her name. "Yep. That's me. Take a couple if you want, Bart."
Adelaide then turned her attention to her fellow ginger (Derry). "I like the hat Derry." It was nice, but it wasn't normally something Derry wore. Definitely more something up her alley.
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The broomshed was starting to get quite full. It hadn't been constructed with this high occupancy in mind. But, what was one more in the grand scheme of things? It was a nice enough day outside, after all, so they could always spread out.
"Greeting, Miss Hedge. It is truly a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Or at least she hoped it would be. "Certainly, my dear. Feel free to drop by my office any time." Then again, it was quite a long walk if she happened to be busy at the time. "Or set up an appointment if you want to be sure I'm free. Either way is fine." Good, she was here to help after all. Tiara hadn't been sure. Just as she was about to suggest a job, Sander piped up and offered Tessa a spot near him. "That sounds like a fine idea, Sander, thank you."
Tiara gestured towards the door. "It's a beautiful day outside and I'm lucky to simply be alive, so I am doing well, thank you." What a thoughtful young lady.
Tiara went back to working on the broom she was currently trimming up. After a few moments, she noticed that she had somehow missed the memo that there was a parade going on. Yes, definitely a parade of green and gray. West seems to have persuaded his whole team to come! Forward thinking on his part. She decided to skip the suggestions of tasks as they all seemed to be joining their Captain and receiving instructions.
Scanning what was quickly turning into a crowd, she took in the progress. Speaking loudly, she said, "I think we're near halfway done, everyone. Well done, keep up the good work and good pace!" Now if only they would put this much effort into their academic studies!
Hearing someone speak to her, she turned quickly to locate the source. "Ohh!" she exclaimed as a line of pain shot from the base of her skull down to the tip of her spinal cord. Best to move a bit slower in the future, apparently. "Lucas, that is an excellent question. I have put in a request with the Headmistress, but so far there has been little progress." Meaning that Anastasia had glared daggers at her.
Some of her other senses may be dulling lately, but smell was not one of them. "Brownies? Lovely, I'd love one!" Tiara reached for one and brought it up to her lips, savoring the delicious morsel. "These are the best brownies I have tasted in quite some time. Three points to Slytherin for sharing such a delight with us!"
Oh yes. She was definitely getting far too generous in her old age.
Tiara chuckled. She inclined her head in greeting towards the freshly minted Prefect.
Interesting. Based on what she had heard from others, she had been expecting quite the reaction from this one. Word traveled, after all. She was pleased to see that he gave no complaint.
A new Gryffindor walked in shortly afterwards. Had she met her before..? Tiara didn't think so. "Good afternoon, young lady. I'm Professor Tyner. And what might your name be?" she asked politely. Guessing that she probably needed and assignment, the official added, "We need a few more people to polish broom handles, if you'd like to grab some rags and a tin of polish."
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Cutty paused in his work of trimming to examine Tyner at Bart's question. H'mm. What was Tyner really like? What was her story? There was something he'd been meaning to talk to her about. An office visit, perhaps. But for now all he could do was shrug. Beards were more interesting, anyway.
"Dead awesome!" Cutty agreed with a nod, before he ran the back of his hand up and down his own chin briefly. "Mine's still growin' in a bit patchy. I keep shavin' it away. I'm hoping it'll come in more fully." And then Addi was there with her brownies. He did not partake this particularly time, having already had some earlier on in the year, but he did watch as others took. Then he carefully noted who seemed to enjoy them.
Snip! Snip!
The clippers were carefully guided around the tail twigs, systematically nipping away at the least helpful looking twigs. Cutty turned the broom around completely three-sixty to make sure he hadn't missed any bits. Due to the soaking it even smelled like a fresh new broom and he would know, he had one that would spend the rest of the school year being totally useless. Or not. Quidditch was an obsession to the students at this school.
Cutty put down the finished broom and went to work on the next that needed trimming.
BROWNIES!!! Addi was the most amazing girl here right now did she know, because she should. Shoving them in his mouth he gave a giant grin. "fanf fou" he spoke as crumbs fell from his mouth. Swallowing hard he gave her another grin. "These are awesome!" She was his Hogwarts brownie maker that was exactly what he was going to think now. She was awesome brownie girl yep perfect name.
He was still grumbling to himself when he saw the professor look at him. Giving her a sarcastic type of smile he turned and started snipping the broom twigs. Having no clue if it was even or not since ya know he was use to magic not hand snipping. Sigh this was crazy, he wasn't a muggle.
Snip.. snip.. snip. hack...oops.
He hurried and trimmed it more trying to cover up the mistake he did. Setting it down he picked up another broom quickly so that it wouldn't be too obvious.
He looked up at Cutty's face and nodded, "It will dude, I'm not sure why mine did so well, maybe I have good hair genes or something. Or maybe step siblings genes can rub off on you." That sounded stupid but hey maybe, anything was possible.
The parade of late Slytherins just kept coming. This one, like the previous few, chose to jump right in rather than ask her for instructions. Tiara, intent on her work, gave a nod of greeting when they caught each other's eyes, but said nothing. This particular broom needed quite a bit more TLC than the previous one.
Ugh. That had been rude. Not the older woman, but Beverly. She just up and walked to grab a broom. She did nod, but with a scowl on her face. It wasn't the official's fault there were suddenly gray hairs on her head. It certainly wasn't the woman's fault she was grumpy.
Ah. Fudge. Conscience.
Setting the broom on a table Beverly walked over to the woman, trying to smooth out her frown. "Hi. Um...It is okay if I help out, right?" This was embarrassing. That's why you think before you act, Wayne. "Sorry for being late. I--" grew gray hair "--didn't mean to." Technically she wasn't lying.
She balanced herself from one foot to the other. Apology accepted, yeah?
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"Why did you bring your cat?" Alexa got looks. Felix was a lovely kneazle and all, but really? He would probably be whiny by the end of the day, what with twigs and polish globs accumulating in his fur. But Alice wouldn't have to deal with the grumpy pet, so it wasn't her issue.
Cambridge needed instructions, though. "Dip your rag in the tin and get a bit on it about the size of a Knut. Then start working it into the rag. Makes it warmer and, in turn, easier to apply to the broom. Should take a minute or two." Was Dora listening too? In case she didn't know how either. Alice wasn't sure how far her best's knowledge on brooms extended.
"Then rub it on the broom, don't rush, overlap all areas.. normal stuff. Wait five minutes for it to dry, and you'll know its done when you see a sort of hazy finish on the wood." Like hers looked like now. She demonstrated the last few steps on this broom, since it was ready and all. "Use a clean towel to buff off the dried polish in tiny circular motions. And then keep repeating those steps until you can see your reflection in the handle, which should take at least two run-throughs of the steps."
Got it? Good. Alice got a Knut-sized glob of polish on her rag for the second time around.
"He's not a cat Alice, you know this and you know he doesn't like being called that." Felix was a sensitive kneazle, the world just needed to understand that. "And I brought him because he doesn't like staying locked up in the Common Room so I figured he'd like some time out on the grounds." She wasn't like the dear Captain that kept a certain ocelot locked up most of the day. Hmph.
She agreed it DID sound like the girl knew what she was talking about when it came to broom cleaning so she'd at least nod to that before the girl got a what-nut size was it again? Eh? Lex got enough on the rag and started working it on, much to Felix's discomfort with the way her shoulders had to be moving.
When he was sufficiently irrated he sank to the floor and curled up by her feey. She was wondering how long that would have taken him. Pfft.
But back to the polishing. With it 'warmer' or whatever Alice had said she began rubbing it along the handle of the broom. Tight circle for now, just getting the polish in. Once the five minute wait started she would move to the other broom.
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Adelaide nodded, setting her bag down next to the bench. She grabbed a bucket before sitting down next to West. He had left her some room after all. She grabbed her first broom and dunked it in the water.
She looked up at Derry and Theo. "Hey guys." After looking around the shed again it seemed almost everyone was here. Which was good because West had said he wanted everyone here to help.
"Almost forgot." She held the broom with one hand and reached down into her bag with others. Things clanked around for a bit as she fished around for a container. All right. This was one time an undetectable extension charm was not good. Ah. There it was.
Addi pulled out the container of brownies and set them down. "Take some if you want." Obviously that went for everyone there, not just her fellow Snakes.
West grinned. See? He knew it was worthwhile having Addi sit right by him. Brownies. Yes. He'd even be supremely polite and only take one.
Y'know, to start with.
"You're the best, Adds." He paused to bite into it while he had a broom doing its one minute of soaking. That was plenty of time to demolish a brownie.
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He was late.
And not a fashionable amount, but properly and probably intentionally late. The idea of cleaning the broomshed was unappealing to Ascanius and doing it with a ton of people in a tiny space outside of his team was even more so, yeah? 'Cause he could deal with Slytherin high strung...Hufflepuff and co. not so much.
Anyway, he eventually made it down there and slipped in the door shooting West a smirk, "M'here."
See? He came. Ish.
"So I see." West eyed Ascanius for a second, kinda disappointed but also... well. At least he'd come? Sigh.
"Choose a station and get started... whichever you want." He indicated the polishers, the clippers, and then the people around him who were soaking tail twigs.
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Yes, I'm aware... Derry thought, frowning to herself and reajusting her hat. She wasn't in the best of moods today... in fact, she'd rather be flying the brooms than tending to them, but she knew they probably needed it. She thought of her own broom - clean and incredibly well looked after - and it made her feel a bit sorry for these less fortunate ones. Sure, it was mental to be thinking about brooms as though they had souls... but it was probably a little left over imagination from writing that story... anyway, broom things.
"Yeah, okay, I'm doing it..." Derry brushed a bit of cut-hair from the front of her jacket, shot West a little apologetic smile for her bad mood, and walked over to help trim twigs. She could do this, it was far easier than cutting her own hair, she had realised, and she was going to look after these poor little motherless brooms.
West returned Derry's little smile but didn't say anything else as she went and joined the trimmers. Well at least she was here yeah? Even if she was late he was glad of it.
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Theo blinked a few times as he sucked on another fizzy sweet. "Sorry." He said sarcastically. Yes, gosh, cleaning brooms was so important. "I'll polish." He even tucked the rest of his sweets away in his pocket so that the polishing could get his full attention.
Well, he would start RIGHT after nabbing one of those brownies. "Hey, Adelaide." Theo smiled at Adelaide and then made his way over to her box of treats. "Thanks!"
Now...
What was he about to do?
Theo got a frown though. Yep. Go polish. Go do that. Go be sarcastic and unsupportive somewhere else. West wrinkled his nose a little and made a mental note to say something later. He sure wasn't shy about speaking up
when he had a problem that was for sure.
But back to it. That weird Hufflepuff was singing. Like.... a happy working song of some variety. Okay then. He smiled inwardly and finished his brownie, getting back to work.
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"Alright, no sweat. Here is what you do. Take one of these buckets here." He nudged one over, he'd filled it already with water and the cleaning solution so that would save time for her. "have a couple of these towels handy, they've all been charmed warm, but they won't burn you its just for the brooms for when you're done." West indicated the pile of towels and then looked at Grace to see if she was paying attention.
"So then we take a broom and we dunk the twig-end in the solution gently. Let it soak for about a minute, then we stir it gently clockwise ten times. Then let it soak another minute, and stir counter-clockwise ten times." Got that? Yes?
"Once you do that, take it out, let the liquid drip off, and then pat them down with the towels, and wrap them in the towels and put them aside so the people at the next station can grab them. Okay? If you get stuck watch someone else." Since there were a few others working at it now too.
Grace nodded as she listened to West. It didn't seem too hard. Not really. Though she hoped that she wouldn't get it wrong. That would be really bad. But she only had to dip, turn the broom a bit, then wrap it up. So yeah. It seemed pretty easy. She smiled at West. "Okay. Thanks West." Because her Captain was really good, and explaining what she had to do.
She spent a few more minutes going over the instructions in her head, because she really didn't want to get it wrong. Deciding then that she knew what she had to do, Grace picked up one of the brooms carefully, and dipped it into the water. She let it soak out for a minute, before turning it clockwise counting out the numbers as she did.
Smiling, she let the broom soak for another minute. This wasn't too hard actually. She kind of liked it. Then another 10 turns anti clockwise. Andd the broom was done. She lifted it out, before letting it drip, so the excess water came off. There we go. Finally Grace patted it down with the towels before wrapping it in the towel, and left it for the next person. Now onto the next broom.
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BROWNIES!!! Addi was the most amazing girl here right now did she know, because she should. Shoving them in his mouth he gave a giant grin. "fanf fou" he spoke as crumbs fell from his mouth. Swallowing hard he gave her another grin. "These are awesome!" She was his Hogwarts brownie maker that was exactly what he was going to think now. She was awesome brownie girl yep perfect name.
He was still grumbling to himself when he saw the professor look at him. Giving her a sarcastic type of smile he turned and started snipping the broom twigs. Having no clue if it was even or not since ya know he was use to magic not hand snipping. Sigh this was crazy, he wasn't a muggle.
Snip.. snip.. snip. hack...oops.
He hurried and trimmed it more trying to cover up the mistake he did. Setting it down he picked up another broom quickly so that it wouldn't be too obvious.
He looked up at Cutty's face and nodded, "It will dude, I'm not sure why mine did so well, maybe I have good hair genes or something. Or maybe step siblings genes can rub off on you." That sounded stupid but hey maybe, anything was possible.
snip.. snip.. snip
"That's probably it." CLIP! There was something about Bart. Everything he said seemed to go over well with Cutty. He always knew what he was talking about and that suggested to the Slytherin that they would be of the same mind when it came to bigger things. Yes, Bart would make for very nice 'hired protection' as Cutty was calling it. But what would he want in return? Large sums of sweets? Tutoring? Homework favours? Innoculation? What did Bart Maroon want most?
Snip-Snap!
Cutty lifted the broom and laid it across his own lap. Turning it slowly he could see spots he'd missed and places where twigs would soon be problematic.
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Bri walked into the broomshed. She saw that there were a bunch of other students there as well. She hope she wasn't too late. "Umm Excuse me, Professor Tyner, do you still need any help?" She asked softly
"Hmm?" She turned to locate the sweet voice that wanted her attention. "Oh, Miss Granger, hello dear. Yes yes, there are still half the brooms to be done. You may either soak, clip, or polish. The choice is yours." She pointed to each small group of students as she listed off each job.
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Ugh. That had been rude. Not the older woman, but Beverly. She just up and walked to grab a broom. She did nod, but with a scowl on her face. It wasn't the official's fault there were suddenly gray hairs on her head. It certainly wasn't the woman's fault she was grumpy.
Ah. Fudge. Conscience.
Setting the broom on a table Beverly walked over to the woman, trying to smooth out her frown. "Hi. Um...It is okay if I help out, right?" This was embarrassing. That's why you think before you act, Wayne. "Sorry for being late. I--" grew gray hair "--didn't mean to." Technically she wasn't lying.
She balanced herself from one foot to the other. Apology accepted, yeah?
Back to work, then. She had spent far longer on this particular broom than she had meant to, but she kept getting interrupted. She wasn't complaining about this, however, because it meant that there were so many people here willing to help out. "Yes, my dear?" she asked as another student approached her. "Of course! And as there was no set start time, you need not worry about being late. I am simply grateful for any time you can manage." The more the better, since it lightened her workload.
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