The difference in temperature was normal to Hady as she left the dungeons behind and made way up the stairs. Most of the time she didn't even take notice to it anymore however this time...this time it was different. Reaching the Great Hall finally, her arm still resting casually around his waist she glanced beside her at Zeke. "Which table do you wanna eat at?" She asked with a small grin.

Tables really didn't matter much to her but honestly she hadn't sat at any table but her house table. However for her bestie she just might. Before she could think to much on it Zeke was talking and she couldn't help but smirk a bit. "Well lions typically have ways of finding what they're looking for, don't they?"

It was easy just chillin' with Hady, and now that they had reached the warmer air in the Great Hall it was even more comfortable. Zeke paused in the entrance and exchanged a look with Hady. Which table? He wasn't phased. "Whichever has the biggest stack of pancakes?" and knowing his luck it would probably be the Badgers. "I'll follow you, you pick." Ladies first and all, and really he didn't much mind. A seat at a table was just that to him, the people and colours surrounding it mattered little this time of the morning.

But then there was THAT comment, and he couldn't help but chuckle. "Are you suggesting that your the gazelle to my lion hunting prowess?" Because if so, then that was hilarious, and also a little ... odd. "Pretty sure a snake could take down a Lion easily, so don't think I'll be looking too hard for your type." He couldn't really so as much for HER though. Hady was one of the nicest Snakes he knew, though some others were nice too... but some were just down right scary and creepy and weird. If they really were animals, then those people would be coloured bright orange, yellow and RED. He'd avoid them like the plague as best he could.

SPOILER!!: Zeke

It was easy just chillin' with Hady, and now that they had reached the warmer air in the Great Hall it was even more comfortable. Zeke paused in the entrance and exchanged a look with Hady. Which table? He wasn't phased. "Whichever has the biggest stack of pancakes?" and knowing his luck it would probably be the Badgers. "I'll follow you, you pick." Ladies first and all, and really he didn't much mind. A seat at a table was just that to him, the people and colours surrounding it mattered little this time of the morning.

But then there was THAT comment, and he couldn't help but chuckle. "Are you suggesting that your the gazelle to my lion hunting prowess?" Because if so, then that was hilarious, and also a little ... odd. "Pretty sure a snake could take down a Lion easily, so don't think I'll be looking too hard for your type." He couldn't really so as much for HER though. Hady was one of the nicest Snakes he knew, though some others were nice too... but some were just down right scary and creepy and weird. If they really were animals, then those people would be coloured bright orange, yellow and RED. He'd avoid them like the plague as best he could.

Pancakes? Was that how he choose where to sit each meal? With a soft laugh Hady began walking once more taking them towards her house table. It was where she felt most comfortable but then again she couldn't exactly be sure about that since she hadn't sat anywhere else before. Oh well. Maybe next time. "Is pancakes all that matter right now to you?" She teased.

Hearing his laughter made her smile as she glanced over at him before taking a seat at the table. "A gazelle? Heck no! Do I look like one to you?" She questioned tilting her head slightly at him before she giggled. "I was simply meaning that I know you'd be able to find me without little to no trouble at all cause you know me so well." Actually he was like the only person that knew her this well other then her parents and Jaxon back home and then again maybe even that boy wasn't as good as he used to be. "However I like being a snake even if it does mean I can take down a lion." She winked playfully at him after that comment. It was something she'd never do, Zeke was to good of a friend.

Angel was totally not looking forwards to this, she had written her ode, and she had re-written it, technically she had two and she needed to decided which one she wanted to sing, because they were both just really bad and she didn't want to scare anyone at all with this ode.

Angel was totally happy that she had managed to get her sister to come and do her ode in the same place but she was regretting saying it should be the great hall because that was a big place and she was sure it would be very busy and now she was very scared about the whole thing.

Angel looked around the room and saw it was nearly full, that was great though it seemed her sister wasn't here yet so did that mean she could run away and hide instead of doing the ode for Pebbles.

She was late. Story of her life. People were just going to have to get over it. She had managed to make it to all of her classes on time, and that was about all of the energy she had for the promptness thing. AJ DID however walk VERY swiftly down to the where her and Angel were to meet. That counted for something surely.

Pounding down the last set of stairs, she came to a halt right behind her sister. Oh man, the place was packed. This was going to be awesome. Maybe she should go and stand on top of the lion table. That way she could be seen AND heard. "Ready to do this?"

AJ actually did spend a little bit of time on this ode to Pebbles because she felt bad for throwing up on Airey, and she forgave him for taking points from her because he was mad at the Pebbles thief and not her. Airey was not himself lately so she was going to look past the point deduction of his very cool fourth year lion that was unjustly made an example out of.

Her hair! She meant to put it in a ponytail before she made her way down, but she got sidetracked, okay? That was really easy to do. What was she going to use? AJ rummaged around in her pockets and found a rubber band. This will do. Without a hairbrush or a mirror she wrapped her hair round and round and made a bun on the top of her hair. Angel must be horrified. She gave her a knowing smile.

Norah spun the roll of spellotape around her index finger as she went on a hunt for the perfectest place for one of her Pebbles posters. She'd worked HARD on it, okay? The loss of Pebbles was probably the most tragic thing that had ever happened since the invention of mushy broccolli. She came to a halt right inside the entrance of the great hall, eyeing a blank stretch of wall to see if it was WORTHY of her MASTERPIECE. Not every bit of wall was. She'd already rejected three whole other walls on the way down here because they just weren't special enough. Okay, she couldn't really reach one of them, but the OTHER ones weren't special enough. Once her inspection was finished, she gave the wall a nod of approval just in case it wasn't sure she had chosen it yet, and stood on her tiptoes with the poster held aloft. She pressed the poster up with two pieces of spellotape, then took a step back. THAT was noooot straight. At all. The fourth year wrinkled her nose at the lopsided poster, moving one corner of it a little higher. She gave it another calculating look, but it really didn't look that much better than before. WHATEVER. People would understand it, anyways. It ahd to count for something.

Angel smiled as she saw her sister come into the great room, but then she suddenly saw her sisters hair and she wanted to comb it.

Must not touch!!! Must not touch!!! Must not touch!!! Angel was seriously wanting to comb it but she knew her sister would tell her off.

Angel now had to try and get her ode song, she wasn't really ready for this, oh no she wasn't ready she had a feeling everyone was going to hate her for this song and she was very scared about her own sister laughing at her since she had no idea how to write an ode what so ever.

"Oh Pebbles, Oh Pebbles,
Pebbles can't you see,
Your flying high, in the sky,
Like the Milkway.

Oh Pebbles, Oh Pebbles,
High up in the sky,
trying to light the way,
Like the star in the sky.

Oh Pebbles, Oh Pebbles,
Captain of the Enterprise,
Sending your ship,
Into a black hole.

Oh Pebbles, Oh Pebbles,
a rock on the moon,
You sleep there peacefully,
Until man took you.

Oh Pebbles, Oh Pebbles,
You came to earth,
Now we need to know the
Moon phases

Pebbles, Pebbles, Pebbles,
You lived there you see,
Now we need to know,
Your moon phases please,

There you go on the waning crescent,
Then you went on a full moon,
You left the moon and stars when the moon was new."

Angel suddenly stopped singing as the ode came to an end, she wondered if anyone was still trying to eat of if anyone was still in the Great Hall since she was totally crazy and her song was totally crazy.

There was one place in particular that you could usually count on being packed with people, which would be perfect when you were essentially forcing people to be your audience. And THAT place was the Great Hall. If Quidditch had still been on, Toby would have waited until everyone assembled for a game and read his ode there, and had actually totally dreamt that he'd done so. But then... all his dreams involved Quidditch, so it wasn't really that weird.

ANYWAY, he hurried into the Great Hall now, clutching a very annotated piece of parchment upon which his Ode to Pebbles was written. The ORIGINAL, in fact. Obviously, he'd be re-writing it in neat for Airey later. Toby was also sort of covered in smudges of ink. On his hands and his school shirt (mainly the sleeves) and even a little on his face. His ode wasn't even that LONG but it had taken a LOT of reworking; he may have done a lot of writing for school publications, but Toby was definitely NOT creative enough to have found this task easy at all. He sort of maybe hadn't actually slept. This poem was the product of a sleepless night and a lot of frustrated scribblings and crossings out. But it was done. Now just to force everyone in the immediate vicinity to hear it perform it.

"AHEM." The Hufflepuff cleared his throat loudly, still striding down the middle of the Hall. When he reached one end, he turned back and went the other way, pacing until he was done. "An ODE to PEBBLES."

Were they ready? Okay, good.

"Her eyes shine bright like distance stars, sunny smile lights the day... But all the light was flung afar, when Pebbles went away..." This was so sad????? Toby couldn't remember writing something so sad but apparently he HAD and he was already tearing up and poor Pebbles and SO SAD WOW. Okay, admittedly, the emotions might have come from the lack of sleep, BUT STILL. "She has a rocky history, and tends to disappear. Her whereabouts? A mystery, though many hold her dear..." That wasn't so bad, at least. Emotions were held at bay for a while longer.

Toby had reached the other end of the Hall now, and turned back to pace the other way, clearing his throat seeing as his voice had gotten all croaky. "She's not a simple moon rock, with her happy disposition. But now she's lost, OH DO NOT MOCK. Finding her is our MISSION." Like SPACE mission, did they see? Toby hadn't highlighted it much more, 'cause this was still a srs poem 4 pebblz. "Vanished from Airey's doting sight, like the moon in its 'new' phase. But soon we'll see her, shining bright, like a full moon's beaming rays." Did the moon HAVE rays? Toby thought they were more like moon BEAMS, but that didn't really rhyme, soooooo... yah.

Merlin. He was so tired though. Like... loopy tired. MerlinMerlinMerlin. Schmerlin.

... Wow. He was sad about Pebbles. SO SAD. LIKE REALLY SAD??? But Toby just had to get through this last part... and then go be sad about her on his own. Or look for her. Or both.

"Return home, Pebbles, safe and sound... home again, like the cycling moon. Lunacy will reign if she's not found. #BRINGPEBBLESHOME (please, and before June)."

...

"Please."

*wibble*

No, no. Toby wasn't crying. There was SOMETHING in his EYE, oKAY? He tried to get it out of there now, rubbing at the corner of his eye totes inconspicuously as he nodded his thanks to his audience of students and staff in the Great Hall (who'd really had no choice in the matter), and took his leave again.

... Grabbing a slice on the way out, of course, 'cause he was a hungry Tobes.

Angel wanted to do something with her hair, she could tell. As it was, her sister managed to keep her hands and comments to herself. Good. They weren't going to start off on a bad foot.

AJ made a movement with her hand as if to show her sister that the floor was hers. How cute, Angel had sung her ode. She listened intently to every detail, and when her sister was done, she got a standing ovation. Partly because she deserved and partly because she was already standing.

"My turn." Could she ride on her sisters shoulders? Too much? Probably. Instead she took Angel's hand and drug her deeper into the great hall. She wanted to be sure to get EVERYONE'S attention. She needed her notes. Where were they? Aha! Finding them in front pocket, she straightened them out. Now she was ready. Well, almost...

Looking around at everybody, AJ pointed her wand at her throat. "Sonorus." EEP. She had always wanted to try that spell out. Now it was go time. This was going to be quite dramatic. Her audience could thank Glendower for all of her acting lessons.

"My dearest Pebbles, where have you gone?
Your master is now mean and somber." Her hand clutched her chest and complete sorrow was written on her face.

"In your absence Airey is like a new moon.
For no sun is lit on his face.
It's as if there is no Airey at all." She whimpered a tiny bit for emphasis.

"Can't even throw up or poke your friends with moon sticks.
Oh no, not without you Pebbles...
For there is no such thing as a joke anymore.
Oh my dearest Pebbles."

AJ fell to the floor and rolled around. Back on her stomach she reached for an invisible object. The pain on her face was real. If you didn't know any better you would think had stubbed a toe in her rolling around scene on the floor.

"You are the sun to our entire existence.
Because without you there would be no moon
or moon phases."

Oh, my dearest Pebbles...
Whoever grabbed you...
I have one thing to say to you.
I hope you are 250,000 miles away from the earth,
like the moon is or else you'll be in big trouble mister."

Getting back up, she stared straight ahead without any emotion to show that she meant business.

"If you are on the moon I could always hop in my car and drive there.
I don't mind the 130 drive there if it makes my head of house happy again. Of course Airey is an Astronomy professor, and I bet he can build me a rocket. You better hope for some gravity pull from the moon to the earth because I will be there in 13 hours."

"Ohhhhh, myyyyy dearesttttt Pebblesssss...

Please come back to us..."

She made sure to really drag out that last bit, and to half sing, half screech it out.

*drops mic* AJ out.

Beam. Did everybody like it? Nothing like a little dinner and show, eh?

Eden had left the Greenhouse where that....monstrous Herbology lesson had taken place, still CLINGING to Gabriel Banner in utter dramatics. She was so....exhausted, just from that ordeal, and she didn't know how to feel, how to think....but she had hurried here.

Where had Clara gone? Was she okay? Eden hadn't seen her again and was hoping against EVERYTHING that she made it here okay...her and Cole...where was Evie? Damien? Nemo? Cole? Should she try to contact Phe in case....things got bad here?

She lamented over Truebridge. The poor woman didn't stand a chance, and neither did Noel Wallace. Eden wasn't feeling optimistic at all about their circumstances.

"I wish I could cast a patronus," she said softly to her Ravenclaw companion.

Dot wasn't feeling particularly keen on the way the Charms professor had herded them up here with prefect babysitters. Noel might be SPIDER CHOW right about now, and he was way too pretty to die. And the Headmistress... okay, she was old and probably had lived a full life, but NOEL.

Sigh. Dot moved her clinging to Eden, since the older girl was right there and she needed comforting.

"I feel useless and scared and really mad, and I'm not cut out for all those feelings at the same time." She was good at one feeling at a time, and this was like... ALL THE FEELINGS. All of them. She squeezed even harder. "Can you breathe?"

Soooo... they had made it!

Although they were all clearly shaken up, they had made it in one piece. Except Ilia. Poor Ilia. Adi wanted his Snakette friend back. But no one must want her more that Henric. He put a hand around his friend's shoulder to comfort him. "We'll get her back,'' he repeated.

Now where were the others? Adi had followed Moxley. Thankfully, Torie and Chris were safe but the others?

Following Moxley had probably been a good idea because Maggie had eventually ended up inside the great hall. Phew. And that seemed to have been the plan. Both Culloden and Moxley had said that that's where they were supposed to be going. Speaking of, was Culloden still there?

Maggie looked behind her to see but more people were filing into the hall so she couldn't be sure.

Instead, she walked further into the great hall, looking around to see if any of her friends were there. .......Right...... Not that she could see. Which didn't mean anything. They could be on their way. She spotted Dot however and was about to head over to the fellow slytherin when she noticed she was attached to Eden's arm. Yeah. No. Her brain wasn't up for anything that involved dealing with THAT.

So she stayed right where she was, occasionally looking around to make sure none of the acromantulas were following them.

Chris chased the adult caring Torie into the great hall and practically fell to the ground in relief as no spiders were in here. Could he cry now? Because he wanted to cry. He could feel that feeling in his back of his throat and wibbled his lower lip.

Finding a spot to sit down he dropped the shield and buried his face in his hands. It was too much. He was just a kid. He could have gotten EATEN!!!!!!

.

.

The clinging wasn't even weird at this point. In fact, Gabriel was staying just as close to Eden; both hands gripping hers like a vice. They'd just survived an acromantula attack. Together. All of them. And she'd helped him be the voice of reason when the others had wanted to rush off to their deaths. Needless to say, there was a new sense of respect for his housemate. He'd never realized they'd understood each other on this level.

As for the trek back, it had been less eventful than the battle itself; with everyone chipping in to help power their massive shield charm. It had definitely been an ALL-WANDS-ON-DECK situation. And with Quigley assisting them....Well....they'd not been opposed. Gabe thought, offhandedly, that the Headmistress would've been proud of their CONSTANT VIGILANCE. If she'd been there...

That thought didn't bring him any comfort. In fact, the 'safety' of this room didn't, either. They were safe for now...but how long would that last? How long until the next acromantula attack?

Hearing Eden muttering something, Gabe leaned in to respond; his tone defeated. ".....I've been trying...but it doesn't work for me, either." He'd almost gotten fanatical about trying to learn that bit of defense...but alas, it always ended in failure. To a Ravenclaw mind, the logistics made little sense.

...........Oh, there was a Dot.

"It's called being defeated."

Gabe leaned his head down, cheeks stained pink. They needed to be planning...and putting a strategy in place. They needed to get the Headmistress back...and Noel. There was a lot of things they needed to be doing...

Zhenya found herself in the Great Hall. She blinked, looking around. How did they get back here? All she remembered was spiders. Big, acromantulas. Acromantulas taking their Herbology Professor AND Hogwarts Headmistress, and a poor defenceless student.

Whhhoooooaaaaa. She swayed on the spot, blinking again. There were a lot of people here, weren't there?

Flashback. Professor Quigley was there at some stage, and now she remembered him giving orders to the Prefects, perhaps?

Well, whatever had happened, they were here now. She pinched her arm to make sure it wasn't a dream. To make sure she hadn't had a nightmare about all these spiders, but also to make sure their 'safety' in the Great Hall wasn't a dream, and in reality she was unconscious with the acromantulas.

Nope, pinch hurt.

What were they all going to do?

Angel walked into the great hall with the rest of the students, she had seriously wanted to go look for some help but she had a feeling the Professor didn't want her too, so she had followed everyone else here which apparently was set up for this sort of situation. Did that mean there was a panic button in here and when you pressed it all sorts of different stuff happened, like the table turned over and some secret equipment came out. "Professor where's the big red button, that no one is suppose to press but you press in emergency."

Yoongi left the two professors at the entrance hall and followed Professor Moxley to the safety of the Great Hall. He hadn't lowered his wand as he entered the Great Hall in case it was a trap made by the spiders and they were all in there as well. But he sighed in relief when that wasn't the case.

He felt awkward in here. He wanted to go out and fight yet at the same time he wanted to hide and cry. He walked to one of the nearest benches and sat down, looking horrified as he looked at the door of the entrance hall. How long were the Professors able to hold the spiders back? What if Professor Dakest died out there? He was the one who ran to his office for help. What if he signed his death right there by coming with him? Of course he would have been there one way or the other but it still made him feel guilty.

He ran a hand through his hair as he looked at the other students now. They seemed okay on the outside , a few injuries but nothing serious. Which was good. He was not okay though, not at all.

Abby entered the great hall with the rest of the students who had arrived from Herbology and wondered what was going to happen and whether they were safe in here from the Acromantulas and she was worrying about Lux as she hadn't seen her friend in a bit

Eden jumped slightly when Dot first...grabbed her, but she just instinctively moved a hand to pet Dot's hair without even thinking about it. She frowned at the younger girl's words.

"Welcome to Ravenclaw, where having too many feelings at once is a constant ordeal." She tried joking, but she only managed a half smile at her freckled companion.

The hall was slowly filling up with people from Herbology. Merlin. Eden could see the fear and anxiety etched onto her classmates' faces, feeling the tension in the air. It wasn't helping her own thoughts and feelings, but for such the emotional person that she was, she was handling it all fairly well. A tug at her heart rippled through her as she tried her best not to seem too worried about Clara...not in front Gabe, anyways. Guy seemed too stressed out already....

Speaking of Gabe, her hand was numb. She didn't tell him to let go, though. She'd regain the feeling of her hand back eventually, No big deal. She felt like he needed it right now.

"It's nothing to lament about right now," she muttered back to her housemate. Where was Quigley? She'd feel a lot safer once he was in here with them...or anyone else on staff. Any adult, please. And like, a real adult and not just sixth and seventh years who were of age.

She nudged Gabe sharply at his little tidbit. "Aaaay. We've not been defeated. We're not dead. Considering we're a bunch of school-aged witches and wizards--and we were up against acromentulas--I'd say we faired pretty well." She was calm and cool, and she believed what she said, but she did also feel like...so ugh.

Truebridge....and Noel..

Once he was set on the ground he felt like his legs were like jelly and now just wanted to collapse. The shield was still just dangling and he watched in a dazed look as Chris found a seat and sat down burying his face in his arms. Torie was shaking as he looked around them. Students were still coming in from the entrance hall, he'd saw Chris catch hold of his shield and run with them to the hall and he was grateful his best friend was okay. He was now worried about Jay too! Where was Jay? He really hoped his brother was safe! His face showed fear that Jay wasn't safe and the spiders had found him now too!

What had he been thinking, going and exploring the castle? Mum had always said the castle was safe, well it wasn't safe. Nope. There were spiders everywhere! Torie finally sat down next to Chris as he watched the doors to the Great Hall heading for the entrance hall. He was terrified that those spiders would end up in the Great Hall somehow. What the heck was the bottleneck thing the professor had shouted for them to create? Well if it was a spell, he wasn't going to be able to perform it. He stared down at his wand that somehow he'd managed to hold onto, the shield falling from his hand onto the floor.

There were...more people in here than Caleb had noticed in Herbology. Did that mean there had been spiders in OTHER parts of the castle too? Oh no, where was Sophie?! Was she ok?? He scanned the crowd looking for her as more and more students started to enter the Great Hall...although Caleb couldn't help but feel they were just making things easier for the spiders. Getting everyone in one place, like a herd of cattle...that would be a hungry spider's DREAM wouldn't it? Ugh.

Right, focus, he had to get his prefect hat on. "SLYTHERINS, please gather near me so I can take a head count!" he shouted. First things first - make sure all the snakes were here. Make sure no one else had been dragged into the forest...and then do whatever the professors had in store for them.

Merlin, what had that little one eaten because he was HEA-VY! Moxley needed a moment after she put him down and the brunette found herself breathing in and out deeply. She was OKAY, yeah? She just needed to catch her breath! Perhaps some cardio in the near future would do her some good...hm.

Once she had regained the ability to, y'know, breathe, the muggle studies professor glanced around to see that those who had been following her had made it okay. Many were accounted for, as well as some students she hadn't seen arrive. This was good news. As soon as they were all in one central location, they could turn their attention to guarding the doorway. SPEAKING of, Moxley moved towards it with her wand at the ready, ushering those running inside towards the back of the great hall.

"Mr. Newell has the right idea! Prefects, please see if you can gather your housemates to try and get an idea of who is here and who is missing!" Keeping in mind that students were still on their way in.

Moxley, meanwhile, would be doing her best to keep the spiders out from her place by the entrance, hoping the professors still in the entrance hall would be joining her shortly.

"We aren't defeated until we stop trying." She had a little scorn in her voice, since it was the prefects who had forced them to give up and come back to the castle. If they were defeated, it wasn't because of how they'd fought in the greenhouse. The spiders went AWAY in the greenhouse, okay?

Eventually they did, at least.

She let go of Eden and gave Gabe a squeeze, on account of he looked like he needed it. Plus... "If Noel dies, it isn't your fault. We all let him down." It was everyone's fault equally. Maybe the fault of the prefects a bit more than everyone else, but MOSTLY equal. "We need fire. Spiders hate fire. Is that a thing? I think that's a thing."

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Eden jumped slightly when Dot first...grabbed her, but she just instinctively moved a hand to pet Dot's hair without even thinking about it. She frowned at the younger girl's words.

"Welcome to Ravenclaw, where having too many feelings at once is a constant ordeal." She tried joking, but she only managed a half smile at her freckled companion.

The hall was slowly filling up with people from Herbology. Merlin. Eden could see the fear and anxiety etched onto her classmates' faces, feeling the tension in the air. It wasn't helping her own thoughts and feelings, but for such the emotional person that she was, she was handling it all fairly well. A tug at her heart rippled through her as she tried her best not to seem too worried about Clara...not in front Gabe, anyways. Guy seemed too stressed out already....

Speaking of Gabe, her hand was numb. She didn't tell him to let go, though. She'd regain the feeling of her hand back eventually, No big deal. She felt like he needed it right now.

"It's nothing to lament about right now," she muttered back to her housemate. Where was Quigley? She'd feel a lot safer once he was in here with them...or anyone else on staff. Any adult, please. And like, a real adult and not just sixth and seventh years who were of age.

She nudged Gabe sharply at his little tidbit. "Aaaay. We've not been defeated. We're not dead. Considering we're a bunch of school-aged witches and wizards--and we were up against acromentulas--I'd say we faired pretty well." She was calm and cool, and she believed what she said, but she did also feel like...so ugh.

Truebridge....and Noel..

Oh, yeah. This was what it was like to be a Ravenclaw? No wonder she was always having to kiss smiles back on Kyroh's face and pinch Dima until he laughed and let Maddie paint her. And Thornton... "This explains a lot, actually. It must be very hard to feel so much all the time. I try to only feel one thing at once."

And sometimes not even the one thing, to be honest. "Thanks for letting me hug you. I respond to intense situations needing affection and reassurance. That's what my mum says." And her mum was a Healer and knew everything. "I have to go see Newell now. He needs attention."

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There were...more people in here than Caleb had noticed in Herbology. Did that mean there had been spiders in OTHER parts of the castle too? Oh no, where was Sophie?! Was she ok?? He scanned the crowd looking for her as more and more students started to enter the Great Hall...although Caleb couldn't help but feel they were just making things easier for the spiders. Getting everyone in one place, like a herd of cattle...that would be a hungry spider's DREAM wouldn't it? Ugh.

Right, focus, he had to get his prefect hat on. "SLYTHERINS, please gather near me so I can take a head count!" he shouted. First things first - make sure all the snakes were here. Make sure no one else had been dragged into the forest...and then do whatever the professors had in store for them.

Newell was on the list of prefects that had let Dot down in the greenhouse, but she still gave him a bear hug as soon as she reached his side. She forgave him for letting Noel and the Headmistress get murdered, but only because she'd already forgiven Gabe for the same thing. She squeezed him tightly and then let him go.

"What's going to happen next? Can I do something? I'm very helpful. And I'm pretty good at Charms. And I'm a ginger, so I'm easy to spot from a great distance. You could use me as a beacon."