Rorie looked over to the sudden entity standing next to her. Kevin, was it? "I don't know, I just got here." She casually rested an arm on Kevin's shoulder, only to widen her eyes at Kace two seconds later. He didn't remember her?!!! How dare he?! Then again, she did grow up a bit. "I'm Rorie. We went to Disneyland together a couple years ago, dude."

He was trying to get her tell zander she liked him?? Bahahahaha, you didn't need a confidence potion for that.
"What do you need me to do, Puckenstein? Should I take him out or just shut him up?"

Kace rolled his eyes when Puck said she had a hangnail. Classic lying material right there. "Riiigggghhhttt Puck." he nodded and smirked. She told him he won't win this dare? He raised his eyebrows in a challenge and said, "I thinkkk I will." He was sure of it. Now she was trying to change the subject? He shook his head and laughed, "Well he dared me to lick the outside of a car window. He wanted me to lick a gummy off the dirty covered ground which I think I got sick over." he shrugged. He was fine eventually just had a bad sore throat. Hold on she had a deal for him but she stopped short. "Sooo what is the deall..." he tried to pry it out of her.

He turned his head and saw she was talking to Rorie. She seemed uncomfortable with the situation and he smiled even deeper.



He was still looking to Rorie and he remembered. "OOOHHH RIGHT! You are Declan's sister?" he asked to be sure. MAN it had been awhile! "It is nice to see ya again." he nodded towards her. He was making a motion to give a hug but he decided against it. He raised his eyebrows at Rorie saying to take him out. "Hold on we need no violence here..." he said raising his hands up. "If you want physical contact I suggest dueling." he said pointing to where the dueling club would be.

The real reason why Kevin was here was because he had heard Rorie yelling the word fight. Three times. But he was visibly disappointed when there wasn’t much fighting. He looked to his side when the Slytherin girl placed her arm on his shoulder to lean on and he glared at her before brushing the arm off of him. “Don’t touch me”

He didn’t leave her side though and turned back to looking at his Prefect Puck and Kace. “Did they drink that potion?” he asked the Slytherin girl because especially Kace was being..not himself. At least not how he knew him. But then he heard something that made him raise an eyebrow. ‘He’s making me tell Zander I have feelings for him’ Not to mention that her face looked so red when they looked at each other.

“You….like Zander?” Okay sorry but at the moment he was on Kace’s side. Because he actually liked both Puck and Zander so if it was true…

And then more things happened with Rorie suggesting to shut Kace and Kevin rolled his eyes. “The dueling arena is just a room, the whole school can be a duel arena if you want to, now come on, fight!"

It didn't matter who! come ooon! fight fight fight!

Puck just raised her eyebrow and watched how Rorie was resting her arm on Kevin’s shoulder – this was interesting. “Nothing’s going on nope. Noting.” She squeaked out her pitch rising just slightly as she tried to lie about what Kevin had obviously heard….oh?

“I…well” she shrugged her shoulder and glanced at her nervously. “Silencing might be a good idea? I mean I am friends with him” Puck groaned and bit her lip. Oh gosh…Kace? In front of Kevin?

“I would never ask you to eat a candy off of the floor Kace,” she informed him as she crossed her arms over her chest. “There’s no physical contact in dueling,” she informed and groaned at them. “No one is going to go and hit each other” she informed and glared at everyone. “Look, I mean c’mon? Dueling is all just wands and stupid spell work not anything like actual fighting.” She informed and rolled her eyes.

Okay…so Kevin telling Rorie not to touch him did make her laugh and well glare a bit. “I took the stupid potion and told him to do something relatively harmless.” She glared at Kace a bit…and then the question Kevin’s question she just felt her eyes widen a bit.

“K-I…” she just opened and closed her mouth a bit as she stood there annoyed and confused and flushing like crazy. “I…he’s my friend” she informed him quite stubbornly as she stood there and sort of swayed where she stood. ”please don’t say anything.” she just squeaked out and stood there as she fidgeted.

Rorie was two seconds away from giving Kevin two punches for not saying please. MANNERS, PEOPLE, MANNERS. She sent a small wave to Kace for finally recognizing her. Of course the correct recognition is: Declan's her brother, because she's obviously the most important one in the family. As for Puck's indirect confession..."IT'S ABOUT TIME."

Kace smirked and now Kevin didn't know Puck like Zander. Kace rolled her eyes at Puck when she totally lied about something going on. "You know if you wanna lie I suggest you don't do the whole high squeaky voice thing.." he winked and murmured to Puck. He seemed surprised. Well now there you have it! See Puck should just tell Zander she likes him and then the confusion would be cleared. He raised his eyebrows at Kevin when he wanted them to fight. "Yeahhh noo...I am not gonna fight my best friend just like how you wouldn't fight Zander yeah?" he asked Kevin with a raised eyebrow. Waittt hold on a minute she was going to silence him!? Kace raised his eyebrow at Puck and asked, "Are you really going to silence me Puck?" he challenged her.

At Puck's comment he snorted and she saw her cross her arms over her chest. "Yeahh okayyy I think you would let me eat candy off the floor.." he said not believing it one bit. "Unless I used the five second rule." he added in. He agreed with Puck on that one that dueling isn't the same as real fighting. Dueling would just get them out of trouble. "I mean dueling would just get us out of trouble. I mean no one wants to promote violence.." he said eyeing Kevin coldly. Relatively harmless? Well that is TRUE but he liked seeing Puck's reaction whenever he mentioned Zander. "Aww come on Puck you would do the same thing to me if I had a crush on someone.." he held his arms out wide.

Now he saw Puck fidgeting and now this situation was getting worse with Kevin in the room. Maybeee he should stop but he was gonna see what Kevin said first. He laughed at Rorie's comment and agreed with her. "THAT IS WHAT I SAID!"

Still leading the way, albeit at a fairly leisurely pace, Anastasia headed down the sixth floor corridor. "There's not much to this floor besides your classroom, hmm, Sophia?" The prefects' bathroom was on the fifth floor, then. Darn. She had been looking forward to see that spa-like retreat again.

It was probably a good thing that Tobias was so distracted with searching for a fresh page in his notebook as he followed the Headmistress along to the sixth floor. Otherwise he might have been, quite literally, bouncing off the walls, making comments about how it was 'JUST US GALS, THEN.' Yes. A very good thing.

Okay, so he had a clean page, and now he had to find- HUZZAH! A pencil. The teeny tiny stub of the very pencil he'd been issued at that first map club meeting. Toby had been wondering where that went. Apparently in his pocket. Who knew.

NOW he could get stuck into sketching the layout of the corridor.

"Are there any secret chambers up here?" Just, like, CHECKING.

Sophia brought up the rare behind their group of three. It would be virtually impossible for her count the amount of times she had walked up and down this corridor. There was really hardly anything interesting about this floor and for that reason she liked it.

"No but that just means it can't surprise me..or anyone." Which meant no student could possible think of escaping her if she cornered them on her floor because she knew every nook and cranny.

"There is a spare office on this floor. Some ghosts used to hang out there but snogging students drove them away." She frowned and eyed Toby. He wasn't one of thoooose students was he?

"I did ad the Irie room but that is just a temporary fixture..a mirage if you will."

"Have you made use of the sixth floor bathroom Toby? IS there any secret piping that we're unaware of?" Raised brow.

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Gabriel usually wasn't one to insert himself into a situation...but there was a Toby. And the redhaired Headmistress....and Professor Bellaire. Though, the latter of the three was quite terrifying. Gabe had at least seen the Headmistress smile before...but that didn't matter. This was all in the name of mapping and finding out secrets about his home away from home...and the truth of the matter was that he'd been feeling a bit out of touch. So, here he was.

...and it might've been a bit rude, but Gabe had been eavesdropping.

No, he hadn't personally seen anything amiss in the Sixth Floor bathroom...but he didn't exactly use that one, anyway. One of the perks of the badge was the Prefect's bathroom and Gabe took advantage of it. If not just for the better privacy...as just anyone could walk into the others.......and he was shy. Just to be honest.

However, he did use the Spare Office on this floor quite a bit. Nothing had come to his attention. So....

He cleared his throat...in a respectful way, of course. "May I join you...?"

She hadn't really been listening. More of looking. EVERYWHERE. Her head hadn't stopped moving since they'd started off and frankly, she was surprised she wasn't dancing around herself in circles yet. Probably because she had other feet to follow. And that's all she needed, feet and backs and she was set to let her attention wander....everywhere.

For a time she had even walked with her neck craned back to the ceiling. Just looking. Looking for anything interesting.

She had heard some of the stories about the things people had been finding in Hogwarts. Hidden passageways and even the Chamber of Secrets itself! So this time, this time she was coming.

Plus, it was a good way to learn Hogwarts while not dashing madly to class or getting lost in wand movements.

Her eyes flicked from the Headmistress to the Transfiguration Professor, realizing how far ahead they had gotten. Picking up her robes, Amur scurried after them, slowing as she drew up beside Professor Bellaire, her eyes going up to the woman as her lips twisted into a scowly-frown. "They're not very good at being ghosts then, if snogging students scared them away."

Really. There were a million-and-one ways to scare that pants off such distracted people. Especially if they were ghosts. Perhaps they needed lessons. Ghostly lessons in being ghosts.

Still....."Where'd they go?"

*POP!*

With a snap of her fingers, Argyle appeared in the sixth floor corridor. She had been cleaning in the empty rooms and tidying the corridors today. But now she found herself in front of a group of staff and students, and gave a gasp of surprise.

"Headmistress Truebridge! Professor Bellaire!" she squeaked, dipping into a curtsy. "Argyle was cleaning. Is the staffs and studentses needing anythings? Argyle can help if they needs her!" Argyle did so love to help those who lived in the castle.

Oh!

Look more students were turning up to join their little mapping party. Good, she didn't suppose it would do them much good to just have one student doing this...not that Toby's company wasn't much appreciated.

She gave a look to the prefect..frowning at first before giving him an acknowledging nod. "Well Mr.Banner..I hope your presence is more help to us than it was to that Slytherin student who unfortunately lost his life." IN other words try to make a mends. "Welcome to our little search party."

Miss Neverwinter received a side eye of epic proportions. Teenagers were so arrogant she could barely pretend to understand it. What? "Maybe they didn't fancy listening to the sordid business you students and because you think you own everywhere you land you knobby little legs on they left." And besides...Hogwarts ghosts were not in the business of scaring people.

"They went to the spirit room...only you lot found your way there too didn't you?" Were all her questions answered?

Sophia turned to the house elf. "Argyle...you have been here for a long time, haven't you? Are you aware of anymore secret entrances or rooms..nooks or crannies that we aren't aware of?" Were there crevices and corners where the elves were stashing things?

Amur blinked at the woman, and blinked again. Just....what?

As much as she knew this was a Professor, who stood a good few feet above her both literally and metaphorically, Amur couldn't help it. She just couldn't help the indignation that swelled within her, puffing out her chest and flattening her shoulders. Thankfully, it flattened her voice as well to an irate mumble-jumble of discontent, one which the back-turning Professor may or may not have heard. "I've never snogged anyone. I don't do sordid business. And while I may have knobby little legs, I use them for walking and exploring, but I do not think that everywhere I deposit my bottom, I own. Thank-you-very-much."

Seriously, were there students like that here?

"So excuse me. I would rather talk to ghosts any day than snog some weasel-nosed, zit-faced boy!"

Okay, so that last bit might have come out a bit louder than she expected. So sorry to the boys in their midst.

But frankly, she didn't appreciate being grouped in with such a lousy population. No-thank-you. Perhaps Professor Quigley had shared the book with Professor Bellaire and that's why she was so touchy.

She frowned at the back of the woman's head with an equal stink-eye, and upon doing so, finally recognized what the alteration in their group had been. An ELF? A house elf?! She had been so wrapped up in her huffing that she hadn't even heard the 'pop'.

Amur squiggled up to Bellaire's side and peered at the elf, her excitement sinking only a hair. It wasn't Toddles or Tippin. In fact, it was an elf she didn't recognize. But she looked friendly enough. Wait, were they trying to find secret corridors? Why wouldn't the Professor's know about these things? Given they worked at Hogwarts and all. Seemed sort-of-necessary. Of course, it also discounted the 'secret' aspect.

Hm, problems and contradictions.

Why... why was Bellaire looking at him like that. Something he said? Toby blinked in response to the eyeing and just sort of... went back to mapping things out. Ahem.

But OH, yes, the boys bathroom.

"I've been in there, sure," he replied with a nod as he looked up from the notebook. "Can't say I've ever seen any, uh... anything like that, though. I think the girls have the advantage when it comes to interesting bathrooms." But then, Toby was forgetting about the Prefects' bathroom, which was apparently pretty swanky.

Then, within a few moments, the group almost doubled. Gabriel Banner and a Gryffindor first year had apparently joined the party. Toby grinned at them and bounced on his toes even more fervently before, and waaaaaaved. Gabriel got an extra big smile and a "Hey!" because FRIEND.

Except as soon as Bellaire mentioned that dead student, the smile was immediately wiped from Toby's face and his bouncing... well, didn't stop, but became a little more subdued. This was, uhm... awkward. Again. There were some VIBES here, vibes Toby didn't fully understand on a account of not knowing a whole lot about what had happened with Gregoire. Soooo, Toby waited until the first year had Bellaire's attention and chose that moment to give Gabriel and encouraging, supportive kind of smile. Like 'you got this, bro'. Just in case he was getting anxious or something.

Wait... house elf? COOL! Toby waaaaaved to greet the squeaky newcomer.

Toby didn't even feel offended by the little Gryffindor's outburst about boys and stuff, even though he WAS one. Yeah, nah, not taking it personally at all. He just went on adding to his notebook while they waited to get the 411 from the house elf.

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Yes, Gabriel was with Toby there. As soon as Bellaire acknowledged him and brought up that bit of unpleasantness, the Ravenclaw paled and lowered his gaze to the floor. He still had nightmares from the ordeal. Not because of the boy that had died...but because of seeing something so violent.

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He was just going to stand there awkwardly, then. With Toby. Don't mind him.

With more people stepping forward and a house elf popping up, Gabe would just listen and keep his eyes peeled. No need to say much.

Well Anastasia was being quiet for once, falling to the back of the group beside Prefect Banner. Even thooooughhh Sophia had said there were no secrets on this floor, and even thouuuughhh she knew herself that there weren't any, the Headmistress was still poking the walls as she walked and nudging tapestries and checking under portraits for anything interesting.

Oh, then there was the house elf. Good idea, to ask her!

"Hello, Argyle," her low voice cut through the crowd. "How are you? Well? Not overworked? Too tired? Underpaid? Underappreciated?" Annie's blue eyes darted to THAT Gryffindor and back to the elf.

Argyle nodded her head at the Professor's words. "Argyle has been working at Hogwarts a very long time." The little elf looked up at everyone with wide, admiring eyes as she thought about the Professor's question. "Argyle and the other elvses sees the whole castle when they cleans it, but Argyle knows of no secrets around here." The nearest 'secret' place was the Come and Go Room on the fifth floor, but that wasn't so secret anymore. "Argyle can help look if you is wanting that, Miss."

When Headmistress Truebridge spoke, Argyle squeaked and curtsied again. "Argyle is very well, Headmistress! Argyle is very happy with the work, Argyle wishes there were more to do! We is all very happy here, all us elvses." She beamed happily at them all, so pleased to be able to share how happy she was.

Sophia didn't have the time nor the patience to muddle through the jumblings of the tiny Gryffindor. Whatever the girl had been saying, she was smart enough to keep it out of her earshot and that was all fine with her otherwise they would have to spend an unfortunate amount of time together down in the dungeons.

Her arms folded stiffly as she listened to the elf confirm what she already knew; there were no secret passages here and they wouldn't be finding anything.

If that was all sorted she would be standing here until the others were ready to move on as she was rightly ready to not be standing here anymore.

Gabe flushed when the Headmistress suddenly appeared beside him and tried to offer a smile...which failed...but he'd made the attempt, nonetheless. It was the strangest of things...but out of everyone present (excluding Toby), he felt most comfortable with the redhaired lady. Whenever he'd been forced to speak with her, she'd always been very kind and very understanding.

Thank you. That was very much appreciated.

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.....So, were they going to just stand here, then?

Empty jars clinked! and clanked! in his pockets, indicating Gabe was prepared to collect samples...if they came across anything of interest. Newness was welcomed in certain company. Two dangerous women? Gabe thought 'yes'.

That was NICE of Truebridge, right? To enquire about Argyle's wellbeing and everything? Toby usually heard not so nice things about House Elves from a variety of people but the Headmistress was being so nice and all, and it brought a smile to Toby's face. He watched the interaction for just a moment, because soon enough he was distracted all over again. His ability to focus had taken an early summer holiday.

Soooooooo back to the notebook and sketching out and stuff. Toby always had difficulty with this part but he really did try, though his little hand drawn floor plan was nowhere near as good as he'd seen other students manage. Still, all input was worth it, RIGHT? Right.

Toby looked up from his notebook again, smiled encouragingly at Gabriel, who was still looking a little pink, and then up at the Headmistress and the Transfiguration professor.

"Are gonna poke around in case there's something super super secret?" Like, more secret than what the elves might know about? No offense, Argyle. He finished the last line of the current sketch he was doing and reviewed what he'd drawn out. Yep, looked good. "I can't remember any clues from history about what could be around here, though, not like with that Chamber of Secrets business." Still, might be worth a shot? Though he was totes COOL with field tripping it to the various established areas of the sixth floor, too. ANYTHING was an adventure to Toby TODAY.

The irritation against Professor Bellaire's less than stellar statistical analysis was being widdled away by the presence of the elf. And that voice. That all too familiar voice. Amur's eyes slid over her shoulder and widened a little bit when they locked with the Headmistresses. Somehow, in her indignation, she had forgotten the woman was there.

And no, she didn't miss the pointed questions. In fact, they nearly had her sticking her tongue out at the woman. But she managed to keep it behind locked teeth on account of not wanting to loose it. No thank you. Nuh huh.

Pinching her lips together with two fingers, in order to avoid asking the elf her own questions, which she thought were unbiased, Amur slipped over to the two boys (Gabriel and Toby) and nestled herself between them. They were tall, kept her from the view of the Professor's and frankly easy to hide behind if she did end up saying something. She prided herself on being able to compete with boys, and defend herself all on her own, but at the moment when it came to going head-to-head against two Professor's, this seemed like the safer option. She was proud, not stupid.

She released her lips long enough to offer the boys a "Hello" before pinching them shut again. Too tempting to say anything more than that. Tooooooo tempting....

What was this? One of the boys was drawing? Standing up on her tipie-toes, Amur tipped her head and tried her best to peer at the drawing from the corner of her eyes. Why were they all sooo tall?

ALL the elves were VERY WELL, were they? "Mmm, good, good," the Headmistress replied to Argyle in a musing, thoughtful way. She gave the elf the SWEETEST of smiles, extending said smile over to THAT Gryffindor, and then edged through the group to continue their tour.

"If Argyle says there are no secrets on this floor, then I think we have to believe her," she said simply. "If you'd like to keep exploring, Toby, then have at it." She, meanwhile, was going to continue mapping for the sake of mapping. "Let's go to your area, Sophia."

There had been some zoning out...but Gabriel refocused once the Headmistress began speaking again. And with refocusing, he noted the Gryffindor girl suddenly standing between Toby and himself......

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He decided he didn't want to know.....whatever it was she thought she was doing....

...and yes, Gabe was following the Headmistress. There wasn't any samples to collect here...and he'd heard about the Irie room. Though, he'd never stepped foot inside, himself.