The way Lex saw it, she had two options, waste an entire afternoon muddling her way through an essay of which she didn't know what she'd be going on about or spend like two minutes getting a Firstie to draw on a card for her then find a Professor to give it to. The instructions said you had to find a Prof with a matching sign but let's be honest, did it matter? No. Would there be some mystical mumbo jumbo sprouting from the card when the right match is found? Nope. Perhaps the most important question was, how would the Professor know?

It wasn't like the woman walked around telling the others don't accept cards unless the kid was a match and if she did then Lex could very well say that anything was her sign if it made it work, so now...just choosing who to give.

The Gryffindor walked along the corridor, keeping her eyes peeled for anyone she might run into. This card was on a first come first serve basis. She didn't care who she saw, Lex had already decided she was giving the cared to whoever.

Only problem now was running into a Professor.

Professor Bellaire was on her way from the Irie and intent on making her way to her office out of this cold corridor. The irie room had been so warm she forgot to charm her clothes before leaving out. No matter, she would not be in the corridor long.

She spotted Alex and frowned slightly..

"Cambridge..." She received a nod. "I hope you're keeping out of trouble.." she said as she walked past the girl.

Even before actually seeing anyone, she heard footsteps moving along further up the corridor in the direction she'd been coming from. Hope, there was hope because those were heels and she couldn't think of any student who walked around wearing those. Had to be a Professor. Alexa drew immediate brakes and turned at the sound of her name. Her homework would be over and done with sooner than even she had imagined. "Hey Professor, glad I ran...into...you--wait!!"

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WHY would you keep walking when there was a Gryffindor with a present for you?? Granted she was sure the Professor wouldn't appreciate the gesture but this was homework and no one said anyone had to like it.

Lex hurried after the Professor, stopping infront of her to effectively block her path, offering the widest of grins as she did. "Are you in an awful hurry Professor? This won't even take a second, honest and you'd really be helping me out with my homework." Yes, play the homework card. Professors were usually more inclined to help when the purpose was academic...yeah?

And no, she would not stop following her until this was done. No need to be difficult.

"I am always in a hurry Cambridge."..a hurry to get away from the awful no manners, no home broughtupsy, zero home training, make your hair gray early, sent from hell students...but alas....

Her eyes narrowed a bit as Alexa blocked her path. She folded her arms and fixed the girl with a penetrating glare. Yep this had better be important.

"What home work could possible involve you blocking my path? Speak quickly."

Yes, of course, always in a hurry but she didn't say it was an awful hurry so really Lex wasn't going to feel bad about robbing her of her time. "I expect you would be Professor, what with how hard you work and how dedicated you are to bettering the students here." Still grinning here. There was no buttering up Bellaire but a Gryffindor could try, right?

The glare the woman sent had Lex taking a small step back but she wasn't prepared to move out of the way just yet. This had to be done. The firstie worked too hard on this card for it to go to waste and she'd paid them a sugar quill that she would never get back.

"The worst kind of homework Professor, the Valentine Astrology kind." Lex paused to fish the folded card from her pocket and shoved it toward the woman, just a liiiiittle bit forcefully. She HAD to take it otherwise Lex would have to keep searching and this castle wasn't exactly small. "See we had to find a Professor with a matching sign and you can be my matching sign if you want, I don't mind."

Just. Take. The card. It was burning a hole in her damn pocket, hideous thing it was.

Professor Bellaire pinched the parchment between her thumb and index finger and looked at it scornfully.

"How is this home work?" She didn't even know what the girl's sign was and she was hardly interested in finding out.

"I hope you know this will be in the garbage by noon."

hjfgsdjgfcy. That was HER question. Lex gave a small shrug. "You can ask Professor Smiles the next time you run into her but it was either this or an essay so who am I to complain?" This was the easier route to 10 points and the Gryffindor was all for it. Who cared how it classified as homework? Who cared that it didn't solidify what she'd learned during the lesson? It didn't matter because her father said Divination wasn't all that real anyway and she got an 'O' after falling asleep in that OWL. Kinda hard to take it seriously, you know?

And there it was, exactly what she'd expected and appreciated about Bellaire. She could see it was rubbish too.

"Quite frankly Professor--if I'm allowed to be frank--I wouldn't care if you incendio-ed it right in front of me. I didn't make it and I already palmed it off to you so I get the points regardless. In fact," Because she'd only just realized this, "it'd be best you destroy it, just in case. The list the Professor gave says you're a Virgo." And another shrug of nonchalance. "Didn't stop me from handing it to you but she seems the type to check up on things after so yeah...."

Burn it, trash it, feed it to a flobberworm. It was all the same to her. She was DONE and could feed herself now.

"You're lazy Cambridge and I hope you fail this because you did zero work in getting it done." She continued skenging the piece of parchment between her fingers as she looked at Alexa."And quite frankly, you are not allowed to be frank with me."

She started walking off but then stopped..."Who is professor Smiles?"

Lex's eyes widened a bit at the Professor's words. "Fail?" Were Professors even allowed to hope you failed? Seriously? "There are sacrifices I made for that card Ma'am, I'd hardly say I put zero work toward it and I'm not lazy, I just don't buy into this Astrology and matching signs or Valentine's Day stuff." Both were rubbish but you couldn't say that. No. Merlin forbid Professor Smiles beam at you and tell you how wrong you are with a smile.

Ugh. Creepy.

She watched the Professor go, but was taken aback by the question out of nowhere. "Hmm? Oh! Sorry, habit. I meant Professor Morgan, the new Divi Professor." Who was totally fine with being called Professor Smiles in case Bellaire was wondering or planning to take points. Ahem.

"There isn't a moment where she isn't smiling or beaming at us." Surely she must have noticed with all the possible interaction they could have.

Sophia waved off everything that Alexa Cambridge said. She just admitted to bribing a first year into making a crappy Valentines Day card for you because you did not want to write an essay.

"You're lazy Cambridge, end of story." Of course she thought Divination was absolute crocodile crock but meh..

The woman was creepy...very creepy but.."You'll address her as Professor Morgan in my presence Alexa."

There was just no convincing her was there? Lex was beginning to think not and in truth it didn't matter because Bellaire wasn't the one who'd be giving her points so..............yes, she was lazy, yes she got a Firstie to do it and no she was not sorry because Professor Smiles would never know the difference. It was no big deal and Professor Belliare didn't strike her as the type to go off tattling--especially not to a woman she just called creepy so....this was fine.

"Got it Professor, duly noted for next time." If there was every going to be a next time. Lex didn't make a habit of talking about the woman, this was purely for explanation purposes and it wasn't likely that her homework for the rest of the term would be card based.

The sixth floor corridor was the best spot for any clandestine spell work or goofing off, mostly because people generally only passed here in transit to somewhere else, and because it was always quiet. Mo pulled up in a particularly musty corner of the corridors, well around the corner from the Ancient Runes offices, and made himself at home.

It was cold, so Mo huddled up in the corner with a heating charm and waited on his partner in crime. Prettiest partner in crime ever.

The current circumstances of Hogwarts and the weather and the fact that it was growing ever closer to graduation time and impending exams had all combined into a sadness that she hadn't quite been able to shake entirely. So when Mo had suggested that they make their own summer, she was 100% entirely in for that. Trailed by Sharky, the Slytherin took all flights of stairs as quickly as possible and soon enough, she made it to the sixth floor where she found the boyfriend.

He looked cold. So did she. They were a matching pair.

"Hey." She slid in beside him to try to steal some of his warmth. She kissed his cheek and indicated to the basket she had with her. "I brought everything. And Sharky." Which was obvious because the feline was already seeking out Mo's attention and purring loudly as she did so.

Mo wrapped an arm around Cat when she sat next to him, hoping to share some of his warmth with her before they began working on their little project. When she said she brought everything, he hoped that included some snacks for their very sunny space.

"Good. I was thinking we'd start by warming this corner up and then... adding in some greenery. Should we put in a bench or a hammock or something? So we don't have to sit on the floor anymore."

Cat rested her head against Mo's shoulder and stayed there for a moment with all the intentions of zapping some warmth away from him. He was way bigger than she was, his body had more warmth than hers. She wasn't being greedy at all. Well, maybe just a little bit. She lifted her head and glanced around their space to see just what exactly they had to work with. "Maybe a bench with a really nice cushion. Or a hammock with lots of pillows." That was unhelpful in choosing, but she thought they both sounded quite summer-y.

She tilted her head upwards, looking towards the ceiling curiously. "How tall of a tree do you think we could fit in here?" A nice pretty tree!

It was nice giving Cat a little cuddle, even if his bum was getting cold and the longer he sat still, the more he felt the frigid temperature from outside creeping into the corridor. They needed heating charms and STAT. Finally, he let her go and jumped to his feet, offering her a hand up.

"I say hammock with pillows. I brought some twigs we can Transfigure into trees, and then maybe we can just add leaves for effect. What else would you like to see? Some flowers, maybe?" He unpacked the twigs from his satchel and stuck them upright along the wall using a sticking charm.

She took the offered hand and to pull herself up from the floor and immediately set about to bouncing a little, not too much considering they were in a mostly confined space, but enough to keep the blood flowing around in her body and to maybe warm herself up a bit. "Hammock. Okay. Yes." After everything else, though. They had trees and warmth and flowers to create. Caterina plucked a few flowers from her basket and wiggled them at him, "Brought those too." Did they look familiar? They were the ones he'd given her on Valentine's Day. Still in full bloom, thanks to magical aid. Pretty, pretty flowers. "I figured we could duplicate them." And even as she was saying so, she was looking for the perfect spot to put them.

"My cousin taught me how to fold up pretty little paper birds and charm them to fly and sing." So, obviously they should have some singing birds, too.

Mo left the flowers to Cat as he stepped back from the carefully placed twigs and pointed his wand at the first one. He trusted her to make things lovely, and he had a sort of complicated spell to complete. He'd read up on this one, but hadn't practiced it in truth, so when he pointed his wand at the first stick, it took quite a lot of concentration to make one hunchbacked-looking tree. Not bad for a first try, but he wouldn't be hanging a hammock from it.

"I know those flowers," he cast a glance at her lilies before returning to his spellwork. "I didn't know you kept those, Cupcake. Nostalgic of you." He moved on to the next tree, focusing on growing the trunk without any roots to disrupt the floor. Just a solid, wide trunk that could hold up a hammock. He did a little victory dance when it worked.

"Which cousin?" She had a million.

She had definitely decided where to place her flowers but Cat wanted to watch the tree creation happen. She paused, crossed her arms and stood very still, as if that would have helped to make it work better. "I have some others too. Like the ones from our 'first' date." They were all dried up now and pressed and saved in the box where she kept special things. Mo knew that, though. He'd seen the box and its contents. "I like to save special things."

Cat grinned when Mo's tree grew properly, "Nice victory dance." It reminded her of her apparition test, actually. Hehe. She was going to put some of the flowers near the trees, for sure. With a twirl of her wand, Caterina set about casting non-verbal spells on the flowers, duplicating them into several clusters. Pretty! "Pietra. You met her at Christmas."

Mo transfigured the last stick into a tree, and then he was able to step back and take a look at what Cat was doing. Her little clusters of flowers were very pretty and very spring-like, and they also gave their little corner of summer a very pleasantly floral scent. So pleasant that Mo sniffed his way over to Cat, dropping a kiss on her cheek, and then moving on.

Heating charm time. "I should come up with a proper victory move for when I score a goal in Quidditch. Something that little kids can do at home to annoy their parents and then say 'I'm just like Mo.'" It was impossible to imagine that there would ever be little kids looking up to him, but Mo sorta liked to think about it. Maybe, right? "Pietra. The little blond one? I remember her. Is this warm enough or do you want it warmer?"

Cat grinned at the kiss and made pinchy fingers at Mo as he passed by. Hey boyfriend. Hey there. "Promise that you'll show me all the options so that I can make my vote? I want to do your victory dance too." She bounced over to him, "I want to be like MO." With another grin, she kissed him on the cheek. "I think that is adorable, Marcus Orion. You're going to have so many fans."

She bounced again, this time because she remembered that she was cold. "More. Please. We need more warmth. I'm already wearing a long sleeved shirt and a sweater and your hoodie and a coat and I'm still cold. I don't generate enough body heat." Too small, Caterina. She gave him another kiss on the cheek and twirled off to retrieve the colored papers that she brought so she could make some birds for them.

"You'll be expected to perform it every time I score. Obviously," Mo tugged her hair and grinned. It was nice to already have the number one fan spot taken. If Mo NEVER played professional Quidditch, she'd still think he was the greatest Chaser who ever lived. And he wasn't. That was devotion.

Mo increased the heating charm. Significantly. "All my favorite clothing keeps disappearing into your closet, Caterina. How many of my hoodies do you have right now?" Because he had zero. Mo moved on to trying to transfigure a hammock out of a pile of string and shoelaces with only limited success.

Abby found herself in the sixth floor a bit cold but she hoped to meet some more people as she wanted to get a few more friends before the end of the term

Still tired of being stuck in the castle, Simon made his way up to the sixth floor to explore. Most of his days involved taking a walk around the castle just so he could lose himself and re-find his way back to his own common room. It was working really well because Simon wasn't really able to get lost anymore. He knew his way around Hogwarts quite well.

Humming to himself, he saw another girl up there. Oh hey! It was someone that he didn't know and she seemed pretty friendly. He gave her a wave and then approached her. "Hey! Are you exploring too?"

Abby looked at the boy and said "Hey yeah i am exploring too but i am tired of being stuck in the castle"