Nothing else seemed to appeal to him at the minute, and so he was content with his pancake stack... and a LOAD of syrup to go with it. Yeah, this was good.

He didn't even bother with proper cutlery, because he thought himself skilled enough to manage a stack with only a fork. Granted this resulted in syrup going on and AROUND his mouth as opposed to IN it... but he wasn't about to complain.

With his fork raised halfway to his mouth, Zeke paused as a strange scene unfolded.

Just. What. ????

A niffler?

Zeke's concern was short-lived, because it was somewhat humorous... ahem, kinda, yes, no, maybe not. Only, when someone hear him laughed, he couldn't help but chuckle as well.

"Hey," Zeke greeted the smaller lad with a bro-nod.

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Turning around to see who had spoken Leo smiled in the direction of his still fairly new colleague "Good morning Beatrice, it is indeed a beautiful fall morning." Pausing to walk a few steps forward he asked "How's classes going? Are the students behaving?"

Beatrice smiled up at the Librarian, Leo. She really DID need to march herself to the library sometime. It was ridiculous that she hadn't already, considering how wonderful it was.

"Good morning Leo," she smiled, looking around again. Ahh, it was bliss. "I think fall must be my favourite season. What about you?" No better way to start a conversation than talking about weather!

She laughed, "Yes, they're wonderful. I was expecting a bit more stubbornness from those who particularly liked the previous Transfiguration Professor but," she shrugged, "Nothing really. It's good," Yes, a wonderful bunch of students they all were. "How's the library treating you?"

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Adi caught sight of two more familiar faces. "Good morning, Professor York!

"Adi!" Beatrice said warmly. "Hello dear, how are you?"

Little Miss Giggles. That's who Marsha was. Hehe. Adi listened to her chatter. "Gosh, you're quite the hard worker, aren't you? Sure you don't belong in Hufflepuff?'' He winked. Sure, he had been up early and after his early morning run what did he do? Spent his free time wandering the corridors and thinking up new pranks. LOL.

A running club? Ahhh! "What an awesome idea!'' High five him, Marsha! His hand was waiting in proximity so you could reach it. "Maybe you could even throw in some friendly competition in there if you divide up everyone into groups.'' Yeah, Adi was digging this idea! He was super proud of the little sister for thinking of this. "You bet! What time do you usually get started?''

Adi happily smiled at Beatrice. He had the urge to hug her for some reason but refrained himself. Some Professors frowned upon hugs when it was given to them. "I'm awesome! What about you?'' He held out his plate of biscuits, offering them to her. "Do you like cooking?'' he asked randomly.

Whoa to much was happening around her. It was seriously like noise and food overload but in a good way. Was that even a thing? If it wasn't it was now, she'd make it a thing.

Trying to focus on the food for a second she poked her fork at a bit of eggs before taking a bit, chewing and swallowing. When Adi spoke to her she grinned and nodded. "Of course, gotta eat the good food that's happening here." Like how could she not silly Puffer! "I should be going though, I just wanted to say hi. I was talking to Professor Airey about Pet Rock adoptions once again." So with another half smile she lightly bumped his shoulder before making her way back from which she had came.

Totally bypassing the Niffler incident (just so it didn't get her locket) she was all good. Slipping back up beside Professor Airey, Noelle and Austin. "It's a Niffler Noelle just calm down, the Professors and Headmaster will handle it." This much she was sure. Her locket was safe around her neck and Elvis was sleeping in the pocket of her hoodie, she made sure of this by lightly patting the pocket. Yup still there. Good. Good.

Oh yeah mentioning rocks... Hady smiled at Noelle. "Awesome congrats!" Kid seems super happy about her new rock pet. Glancing at Professor Airey Hady smiled. "Professor if there are anymore pet rocks left Elvis would love a sibling." A boy rock or girl rock didn't matter one bit. Just someone to keep Elvis company.

A chill pill??

Maggie gave Dante an incredulous look (like, how was he friends with this guy???) before rolling her eyes at Hugo. "I do NOT!" That was such a great comeback wasn't it? Not that she needed it. Because she was totally calm and he was just being annoying. Like. When had he gotten so annoying??

What was he doing over here with them anyway??

What Dante said next made her grin at him. N'aww. She reached out to boop his nose before walking off to find a place to sit. Preferably somewhere where they would be left alone and wouldn't have to participate in anything the professors had planned. Stopping by a random tree, she turned to look at the the boys.

"I hope you're talking about me." Because that was the only excuse for them whispering behind her back.

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Nothing else seemed to appeal to him at the minute, and so he was content with his pancake stack... and a LOAD of syrup to go with it. Yeah, this was good.

He didn't even bother with proper cutlery, because he thought himself skilled enough to manage a stack with only a fork. Granted this resulted in syrup going on and AROUND his mouth as opposed to IN it... but he wasn't about to complain.

With his fork raised halfway to his mouth, Zeke paused as a strange scene unfolded.

Just. What. ????

A niffler?

Zeke's concern was short-lived, because it was somewhat humorous... ahem, kinda, yes, no, maybe not. Only, when someone hear him laughed, he couldn't help but chuckle as well.

"Hey," Zeke greeted the smaller lad with a bro-nod.

Someone had spoken to him....How was he going to respond with a mouth full of sticky peanut butter and pancakes??

Looking up at the boy and trying not to look too crazy he nodded and held up a finger as if to say, 'Wait a second'. He chewed, and chewed, and chewed and finally with a hard swallow got his food down.

"Hi, sorry about that. I tend to put too much peanut butter on them but it's just so good." He grinned, his eyes darting back over to the scene with the Niffler briefly and then back to the slightly older looking boy. "I'm Milo, what's your name?" He eyed his drowned in syrup pancakes. Obviously he was someone who enjoyed smothering his breakfasts too.

Well maybe she did need a chill pill. Especially when you answer to that was loudly saying 'I Do NOT 'But what did Dante know. All you know is Dante was not going to say it outright like that. It would only make her defensive and maybe more mad or whatever was going on right now. "You know maybe we all need to relax"And Merlin, Hugo what was with that look. Dante almost cracked up completely. The eyebrows were just hilarious.

He cracked a grin and winked back.

"I have no idea and i don't think i want to. Trying to understand girls will only make you crazy"

Dante whispered back. Plus you would probably need a relaxing potion after all that thought.

"Unless you want to know what boys talk about when no girls are around. Then yes of course we are talking about you"

“Good morning” he smiled as Marsha noticed him waving and he walked towards her. “You were out for an early morning run?” he didn’t even know she exercised. That reminded him he needed to pick up his training again. “You’re not cold right?” he asked. “If you are try using the hot air charm” he advised ,it’s what’s keeping him warm at the moment. It might be fall but it was still chilly for his taste.



“I know, Professor” he nodded confidently as the man told him his answer had been stellar. He grinned slightly at himself but that grin faded away and was replaced with an odd spasm when the Professor suddenly moved his arm….WAS HE GOING TO FLY HIM IN TO THE AIR?!...no he just saluted.

The Gryffindor (really?) let out a short deep breath and then smiled as his Head of House tried to order his pancakes and waffles.




He jumped again when Professor Flamsteed suddenly yelled at another student and he snapped his head around to see what was going on. Had someone thrown food or something? But it wasn’t that, it was a cute little Niffler and Yoongi gasped. He had never seen one up close before! They didn’t have care of magical creatures at charms school. “It’s so cute!” he exclaimed.



Turning his attention away from the Niffler, Yoongi looked at Adi as he ate the disgusting blueberries. How did anyone even like those?! He could not grasp that concept. But biscuits though! “No I haven’t tried them yet” he said as he grabbed one but didn’t eat it yet. “I’ll eat my sandwich first” he laughed as Adi’s head turned to look at the Niffler as well. “Look at the Headmaster!” he said as he pointed his finger in the direction of the old man as he watched him run to the forest. “What’s he throwing? “ he asked as he couldn’t see it from here.



“No , none, I ate them all” he lied as he sat in a way so that the sandwiches weren’t noticeable. Obviously he wanted them for himself, maybe he would take some with him later? He grabbed his bag and put a few pieces inside of it. YAY for food right? But that also meant that the Hufflepuff could see them and he raised an eyebrow as Henric pointed at HIS sandwich. “Dis won?” he asked with his mouth full. Why’d he wanted his?! “Gwab yow own” seriously, he was not sharing a sandwich. And he pushed the plate in his direction.

Ooooh was that his bowling partner? Yoongi waited till he saw Milo looking in his direction and he waved at him but didn’t call him over as Zeke was already talking to him so he was in good company. We Gryffindors are so nice.

Hugo muttered under his breath not looking at Maggie "Yes you do..." and took a bite from his bacon. "I agree with you" said pointing to Dante "See Maggie? Let's relax. Do you want?" and offered bacon to her. Maybe some sort of greasy food would make her feel better? If not, well, he would just give up and leave it to Dante to handle.

Man, Dante sure was wise, he couldn't agree more with him. "True, girls are...weird. But...that compliment" he smirked again. Hehe. "Dante was telling me you look really pretty today" sorry, he couldn't help it.

Mmmm shiny, Niffler's shiny! It looked like a long handled comb, and THIS Niffler knew momma Niffler would be happy to get another comb

Niffler was enjoying his shiny when a little boy mammal (littledhampir) came and held out his hand. Niffler looked at little boy mammal. He doesn't have a shiny, though. Niffler sniffed at little boy mammal's hand but didn't smell a shiny either. Back his attention went back to his long handled comb shiny. PRETTY SHINY.

Niffler hardly even recognised LOUD YELLING from other big boy mammal, but the little boy mammal was still there, this time joined by a little-ish girl mammal (Sararara). AND ANOTHER SHINY! But Niffler wasn't SILLY, he saw that they were putting the shiny onto string. His brain wanted him to stay on the table, but his heart and soul wanted him to LEAP off and chase SHINY. His snout wriggled as he sniffed towards the little boy mammal and the little-ish girl mammal, and he found himself flying off the table in search for the SHINY on a string.

BUT next minute!!!

OH LOOK! Shiny hair mammal (Magical Soul) was waving around more shiny things. THAT got Niffler's attention. Niffler dropped his long handled comb shiny and turned to run under the table towards shiny hair mammal. AND LOOK - it was a BIGGER shiny long handled comb! Momma would be even happier. Niffler didn't even have to stop and think, he turned to the left and caught the BIG shiny long handled comb in his mouth, proud as peaches.

And all the while, Niffler could HEAR little and bigger mammals saying his name, and calling him cute. He was cute, he had the shinies at home to look at.

The finger being held up told him that his timing was dreadful... which it usually was, so with a tight-lipped grin, Zeke allowed the boy some time while shoving another bite of his own pancakes in his mouth. Mouths could not remain idle for too long, not when there was oozy syrup involved. That last thing he wanted was for that syrup to be all soaked up, it was so much better when it was fresh and slick and EVERYWHERE.

He chewed his food in time with the boy, but found he had a bit more chewing to do as the boy spoke. Milo! Milo was his name.

Swallowing and clearing his throat, Zeke replied, "S'alright, I'm Zeke... you're a first year yeah?" Cause his amazing skills at observation told him the boy was SMALL, like, young. YEAH. But seriously, "Peanut butter on pancakes though? I didn't know that was a thing." He knew that there were no real rules where these things were concerned, but peanut butter pancakes really were a first for him.

And oh look! Niffler was jumping at people again!

EVERYONE PUT THIER SHINY AWAY.

Sophie Brown was late, but not without good reason, okay? She'd been back at the common room first, reminding people that breakfast was OUTSIDE at ten o'clock sharp, then she'd patrolled near the Great Hall to make sure people didn't go there and went outside instead. Super responsible of her, okay? So her tardiness was justified, and roughly ten minutes after ten to catch the stragglers, Soph started her jog down to the picnic to finally join her classmates.

Anyone else who was wandering the castle was just gonna have to miss out. She was HUNGRY.

Approaching the gathering in a jog, Sophie looked for familiar faces as she neared. She first spotted her redheaded Slytherin prefect friend, but then there were professors, housemates... and... Zander Adair.

Perfect.

Breaking into a run, Sophie navigated herself through the crowd, launched herself onto Zander's back, and ruffled his hair. "Hi, boyfriend. Didja save me some food?" Or did he EAT IT ALL?

Also, hi Kaycee. The Gryffindor got smiles.

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The finger being held up told him that his timing was dreadful... which it usually was, so with a tight-lipped grin, Zeke allowed the boy some time while shoving another bite of his own pancakes in his mouth. Mouths could not remain idle for too long, not when there was oozy syrup involved. That last thing he wanted was for that syrup to be all soaked up, it was so much better when it was fresh and slick and EVERYWHERE.

He chewed his food in time with the boy, but found he had a bit more chewing to do as the boy spoke. Milo! Milo was his name.

Swallowing and clearing his throat, Zeke replied, "S'alright, I'm Zeke... you're a first year yeah?" Cause his amazing skills at observation told him the boy was SMALL, like, young. YEAH. But seriously, "Peanut butter on pancakes though? I didn't know that was a thing." He knew that there were no real rules where these things were concerned, but peanut butter pancakes really were a first for him.

And oh look! Niffler was jumping at people again!

EVERYONE PUT THIER SHINY AWAY.

Zeke, he could remember that!

It seemed Zeke too was a fan of breakfast foods and that made his alright in Milo's book--unless he was like a bully or anything bad that he didn't know about yet. Maybe Zeke was on a probationary 'alright in his book'. Yes.

"Yeah I'm a first year. Also yes, peanut butter." He nodded. "It's really good, although I may add some syrup too." he grabbed the syrup from nearby, careful not to get any peanut butter on his sweater (still on backwards) and poured a bit on his plate. "THIS is really good." he nodded towards his addition. "You should try some peanut butter on your's." Because why not?

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Sophie Brown was late, but not without good reason, okay? She'd been back at the common room first, reminding people that breakfast was OUTSIDE at ten o'clock sharp, then she'd patrolled near the Great Hall to make sure people didn't go there and went outside instead. Super responsible of her, okay? So her tardiness was justified, and roughly ten minutes after ten to catch the stragglers, Soph started her jog down to the picnic to finally join her classmates.

Anyone else who was wandering the castle was just gonna have to miss out. She was HUNGRY.

Approaching the gathering in a jog, Sophie looked for familiar faces as she neared. She first spotted her redheaded Slytherin prefect friend, but then there were professors, housemates... and... Zander Adair.

Perfect.

Breaking into a run, Sophie navigated herself through the crowd, launched herself onto Zander's back, and ruffled his hair. "Hi, boyfriend. Didja save me some food?" Or did he EAT IT ALL?

Also, hi Kaycee. The Gryffindor got smiles.

Oh look the Head Girl had arrived!

From what little contact he had had with her so far this term (the occasional wave and brief greeting at the breakfast table or in the Common Room) Milo liked her. She was nice and always seemed to be smiling or laughing with someone.

He should definitely say hello. "Hi, Miss Sophie!" He said small, with a little wave over his pancakes to where she was sitting with some Gryffindors.

Norah grinned hopefully at the ickle Oliver, SURE the plan was going to work. And then there was another voice. But who was--oh. Olly was Oliver. MADE SENSE. Thankful that nobody could hear her thoughts for that very reason, she turned around to find the backflip girl standing with them. The one who'd REALLY broken the rules. "Ellery, right" She had her EYE on that firstie, she did. Imagine that. Norah Kittredge with her eye on somebody. Hopefully somebody was watching so they could appreciate this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

"Wanna help?" She wasn't entirely sure how the backflip one could help, considering there was only one string, but y'know. Maybe she had something shiny too. You never could tell, especially with people who could pull backflips out of their bums at random times. If the firsties really did want to keep the niffler as a pet, it'd be more fun if both of them caught it together. As long as Norah got to pet it too, 'cause she didn't go through all this trouble to still not get the chance to play with the fluffy. With her breakfast completely forgotten, she turned back to watch the cutiepie niffler's journey. "It's working!!" And theeeen it wasn't working. She watched the niffler go back in Professor Botros's direction. That wasn't fair, not everybody could have hair as shiny as him.

Ah, Leobald! "Good morning, fine sir. And honestly, I did not see any eagles. I have not stopped by the castle this morning." She had walked from her home in Hogsmeade, entering the grounds through the front gate. Therefore she really had not met anyone until arriving at the lake, by which point anyone present knew why they were there. "But I believe Miss Brown planned to wait around the common room and the Great Hall for stragglers." Always sensible, that girl.

And speaking of sensible, that was exactly how most people around were not acting right now, their Headmaster included. She was soooo tempted to yell 'For goodness sake it's only a niffler!' that her lips parted slightly in preparation. Did no one here know how to deal with the creatures? Their lack of Care of Magical Creatures classes was really showing right now.

Woody the bowtruckle was lost. UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY LOST. A leaf from his tree was all he had. A lost one the wind had taken gone this way. Woody had ran after it. He had. And he had his eyes one it. He did. And then - WIZARDS. His dear DEAR leaf landed somewhere between WIZARDS.

Bye bye leaf.

Woody scuffed the point of his foot on the dirt. He wanted his leaf. He wanted it NOW. He was going to go get it NOW. He wasn't ready but he was going IN. Clutching his remainder leaf to his wooden little chest, Woody D A R T E D across the grounds, hiding in tall patches of grass, then picking up his pace.

Once on top of the table, Woody searched for his DEAR lost leaf, then realized WIZARDS EVERYWHERE. EEEEEEK.

Woody collapsed in a heap.

Don't mind him. Just a random twig on the table. SHHHHH!

Timmy skipped her way towards the picnic thing the headmaster had done. No guess that most students would be here. Because who didn't like food? Especially breakfast foods. Timmy never told anyone but her favorite food was actually pancakes with her favorite fruit on the side or in juice form. The fruit, that is. Looking around, she couldn't find neither of her friends yet. Maybe they had all eaten and left already. But they weren't really early birds to do so.

Then she spotted him. Approaching the boy, Timmy poked his side and spoke. "Haven't eaten have the banquet yet, have you?"

SPOILER!!: HEADMASTER FLYING SPATULA

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Botros placed Leo's order on a plate with a wide smile and pushed it towards the librarian. "Bon appetit." Next!

Uhhmmmm, Botros looked around him a couple times before taking one of the fruit bowls. "Natural sugar's okay?" He asked the girl right when people (kids) around him started squealing and/or telling him to watch out...?? Huh? Botros tuuuuurned around...

Aaahhhhh!

Botros blinked at the animal darting towards him. Him? What did HE have?? He raised his arms in case the creature wanted to steal one of his giant shiny utensils? That's probably it!

Text Cut: the UN-saving people, sheesh :P

AHHHHH! Everybody's shrieks were making him nervous even more!

Botros, who met many Nifflers in his life thank you very much, was not scared of the thing. He simply started... escaping. He turned away from the breakfast bar, arms still raised, and started loping his way towards the forest moving as fast as he could so the creature wouldn't climb up on him?

In fact! Botros threwwww the first big fork in his hand to the left direction and the spatula to the right, then turned to see which way the Niffler would go.... if at all?

SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOM

SMACK

Spatula. Direct hit. To his abnormally large forehead. GREASE BURNS!

It was a good thing that the astronomer had already been partly kneeling to protect Pebbles with the identified flying kitchen appliance stuck because it was not too much further towards the ground.

The man hit the grass with a dull thud and load OFPH as the wind was knocked out of him. But at least his baby blue suit was safe. Even if it did not go well with the red spatula shaped mark on his forehead.

HE HAD ORDER PANCAKES AND WAFFLES!

SPOILER!!: Austin

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When he realized the professor wasn't going to just give him one, he knelt down and looked at the box of rocks. They were all looking up at him, as if to beg him for a place to stay. He picked up one of the smaller ones, and immediately recognized her to be Rockanne. She was one of the first to be dropped in their lesson. "I think she will do just fine prof... I mean Admiral." It was only now, since he thought about the lesson, that he realized the professor liked to be called Admiral. He felt kind of bad for forgetting, but the man did say they didn't have to call him that outside of class.

"That would be awesome Noelle." It was Noelle right? At least that's what he thought the Admiral said. But he didn't have long to ponder, for a loud yelling came from behind him. Turning back around, he saw large amounts of paper flying through the air. A niffler, huh? He put Rockanne in his pocket to keep her safe, rubbing his thumb along her back to calm her down. There was no way a Niffler was going to get his new pet.

OWIE.

WAIT...WHERE WAS THE BEAST?!

Rolling on to his side - no grass stains as precautions had already been taken on his suit - he rolled up Pebbles like a human lint roller and clutched her in his arms until he came to a stop at Mr. Moore's feet. Which was not too far away from where he had done the initial fall.

"Rockanne is yours then," he smiled upon clearing his throat a few times. Oh, look at that. Adoption parchments right there on the grass. "Just sign this over to make it official..."

And keep that blasted furry thing way from him.

WHERE HAD IT GONE?!

SPOILER!!: Noelle

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Noelle was admiring her pet rock. She was in loooove. She turned to Austin, and smiled. "Yes! We will have to! Oh and yes! My name is Noe---" She was interrupted by yelling.

Wait?? Wait?? What was happening?! Why were there papers in the air?? And what was THAT?!?!?

The professor was freaking out. If the professor was freaking out, she should be freaking out! But, she had a huge rock sitting in her lap. Suddenly, she realized how big the rock actually was. "WHAT IS THAT THING?!? Professor are you okay?!" She wasn't sure if she could move to check on him.

And she was stuck.

What if that thing ate her?!?

Groaning, she pushed Dwayne off her lap and managed to get up. "What do I do?? What should I do??" Where was Sabbie? Her levelheaded person?? He'd know what to do.

And since he had rolled by more parchments...

"I will be fit as a fiddle if you sign this form," he grinned as he offered her the parchment properly this time. "And keep that furious treasure-hunting furry terror away from me."

Those long noses of theirs were meant to suck blood. Was she aware? Like a rodent mosquito.

SPOILER!!: Hady

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Whoa to much was happening around her. It was seriously like noise and food overload but in a good way. Was that even a thing? If it wasn't it was now, she'd make it a thing.

Trying to focus on the food for a second she poked her fork at a bit of eggs before taking a bit, chewing and swallowing. When Adi spoke to her she grinned and nodded. "Of course, gotta eat the good food that's happening here." Like how could she not silly Puffer! "I should be going though, I just wanted to say hi. I was talking to Professor Airey about Pet Rock adoptions once again." So with another half smile she lightly bumped his shoulder before making her way back from which she had came.

Totally bypassing the Niffler incident (just so it didn't get her locket) she was all good. Slipping back up beside Professor Airey, Noelle and Austin. "It's a Niffler Noelle just calm down, the Professors and Headmaster will handle it." This much she was sure. Her locket was safe around her neck and Elvis was sleeping in the pocket of her hoodie, she made sure of this by lightly patting the pocket. Yup still there. Good. Good.

Oh yeah mentioning rocks... Hady smiled at Noelle. "Awesome congrats!" Kid seems super happy about her new rock pet. Glancing at Professor Airey Hady smiled. "Professor if there are anymore pet rocks left Elvis would love a sibling." A boy rock or girl rock didn't matter one bit. Just someone to keep Elvis company.

The throbbing in his forehead subsiding slightly, red mark still very much present, Airey sat up criss-cross-applesauce to look towards the Slytheirn.

JUST a niffler? JUST?

He gawked at the young woman for a few moments before reaching up to physically close his mouth with his free hand.

"Four remain," he squeaked, gesturing towards the box. "Flint, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite are all still looking for their forever homes."

Simply chuckling at Mr. Hyland's response, the astronomer reached for the spatula that had knocked him on his bum and squinted at it as if judging it for not being a flying waffle into his mouth instead of a flying hazard to his head.

Oh YES, that was a good idea. Norah was the one who was a genius. Olly grinned at her. "Thanks." He took the badge on the string and held it toward the niffler. It was like fishing, except for something furry instead of something slimy. So much better than fishing. And it was WORKING. The niffler started running toward them, and toward the shiny badge. YES YES....NO. Just as he thought they had it, the niffler ran back in the other direction. Toward the headmaster. Olly frowned in frustration and turned back to the older girl. "Do you have a plan B?"

OH LOOK! "HI ELLERY!" Too loud? It didn't matter because they were outside, which meant he could use his outside voice all he wanted. He grinned at his sister and pulled her into a tight sqeezy hug. "Don't worry, I will get it for you." He would have tried his hardest anyway, but now that Ellery wanted him to he would try his hardest-er. Big Brother to the rescue!

WHERE WAS THE HEADMASTER GOING? He looked like he was trying to escape! As he headed toward the forest, the niffler also ran after him. It was not deterred by the fork or the spatula, either. Oh no. The first year scampered after the headmaster, hoping his niffler wrangling team (Norah and Ellery, obviously) would follow and help.

"It's not going to stop chasing you, sir! If you just let it climb on you, I can grab it as soon as it stays in one spot for more than a few seconds." But if it was on top of the headmaster's head, he was going to have a slight issue with the height. That was where the rest of his team, namely Norah, came in.

"Morning, Yoongi." He got a 'Hello' nod from her. "Not a fan of blueberries?" Because she saw him gave away all the blueberries earlier. Why someone could not like blueberries. Its delicious. And not to mention its good for your health.

Eeewwww. Why do someone could eat biscuit? Didn't he know that it contained a LOT of sugars? Manicure? Offer? "I never offer you a free manicure, Mr. Prefect." Its a prize during their little competition and he already declined so no free manicure for you.

And Henric just got a side glance from her.



"Natural sugar is fine, Headmaster." She could eat natural sugar. "Than---..." She was about to say thank you when she heard commotion from other students. Whatsgoingon? She looked around and saw a Niffler. What's Niffler doing here? Was Headmaster invited the creature to this Breakfast event too? And suddenly she saw Botros escaping? And threw his spatula and fork away.

Good now the Niffler gonna chase it. Well done, Headmaster. But apparently his aim was not really good, probably being old and all, the spatula flying toward Airey and hit the Astronomer in the forehead. Ouch. That must have hurt. Was the man still alive? Yup. He still alive.

[B]"I can definitely see that."[/B] Candice eyed his over filled plate. That's SO many foods there. Was he usually eat this much? She didn't know that for a small boy he could eat that much. "Yeah. I can't eat sugary things and I don't eat meat." Health Food Junkies over here. And fruits were enough for her.

Candice was filling her plate with more fruits from the table when she saw Colt approaching a girl. BROWS. Was that the girl Colt was talking about? She should probably looked around before they noticed that she's spying looking.

Wait. What's a twig Bowtruckle doing on the table? She picked up the strange looking twig.

When Dante, too, suggested they all relax Maggie just rolled her eyes at the both of them. Boys. Seriously. She was totally calm. What were they even talking about. And she had been perfectly fine until Hugo had come along to ruin her...relaxed-ness. Yes. That. "Ew, no." No bacon for her. She wrinkled her nose at Hugo.

Turning on the spot for a moment she used her wand to clean the grass (which was probably not very effective) before sitting down on it. There should be like blankets or something. Bleh. Or one of the boys should've offered her their jacket to sit on. Oh well, now she was already seated. After being covered in swamp water she wasn't as squeamish about dirt anymore anyway.

Did she want to know what boys talked about when girls weren't around?

Not particularly.

She put a blueberry she'd brought into her mouth and looked up at the two boys. Dante had said that? "I look pretty every day." Was what Maggie said in reply.

But she did send a smile Dante's way too.

Drumming her fingers on the table, something small and very very quick caught Olympia's eye. Was that a twig or a..... noo it wouldn't be. She couldn't be sure. Quickly looking around the table, the third year began to look for something that would get it's attention and prove if the random twig was, in fact, a Bowtruckle.

Now, she knew they enjoyed fairy eggs and wood lice.. buuut she didn't think she would find any of those here. Olympia pouted. She didn't dare even reach a hand out to the Bowtruckle, she knew about those sharp fingers and the gauging out of eyes!!!!

The Gryffindor dragged her gaze away from the small creature and fiddled absent mindedly with a couple of leaves that had fluttered down onto the table a few moments before.

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BUT next minute!!!

OH LOOK! Shiny hair mammal (Magical Soul) was waving around more shiny things. THAT got Niffler's attention. Niffler dropped his long handled comb shiny and turned to run under the table towards shiny hair mammal. AND LOOK - it was a BIGGER shiny long handled comb! Momma would be even happier. Niffler didn't even have to stop and think, he turned to the left and caught the BIG shiny long handled comb in his mouth, proud as peaches.

And all the while, Niffler could HEAR little and bigger mammals saying his name, and calling him cute. He was cute, he had the shinies at home to look at.

Text Cut: lmao you guys

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"Wanna help?" She wasn't entirely sure how the backflip one could help, considering there was only one string, but y'know. Maybe she had something shiny too. You never could tell, especially with people who could pull backflips out of their bums at random times. If the firsties really did want to keep the niffler as a pet, it'd be more fun if both of them caught it together. As long as Norah got to pet it too, 'cause she didn't go through all this trouble to still not get the chance to play with the fluffy. With her breakfast completely forgotten, she turned back to watch the cutiepie niffler's journey. "It's working!!" And theeeen it wasn't working. She watched the niffler go back in Professor Botros's direction. That wasn't fair, not everybody could have hair as shiny as him.

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SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOM

SMACK

Spatula. Direct hit. To his abnormally large forehead. GREASE BURNS!

It was a good thing that the astronomer had already been partly kneeling to protect Pebbles with the identified flying kitchen appliance stuck because it was not too much further towards the ground.

The man hit the grass with a dull thud and load OFPH as the wind was knocked out of him. But at least his baby blue suit was safe. Even if it did not go well with the red spatula shaped mark on his forehead.

HE HAD ORDER PANCAKES AND WAFFLES!

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WHERE WAS THE HEADMASTER GOING? He looked like he was trying to escape! As he headed toward the forest, the niffler also ran after him. It was not deterred by the fork or the spatula, either. Oh no. The first year scampered after the headmaster, hoping his niffler wrangling team (Norah and Ellery, obviously) would follow and help.

"It's not going to stop chasing you, sir! If you just let it climb on you, I can grab it as soon as it stays in one spot for more than a few seconds." But if it was on top of the headmaster's head, he was going to have a slight issue with the height. That was where the rest of his team, namely Norah, came in.

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"Natural sugar is fine, Headmaster." She could eat natural sugar. "Than---..." She was about to say thank you when she heard commotion from other students. Whatsgoingon? She looked around and saw a Niffler. What's Niffler doing here? Was Headmaster invited the creature to this Breakfast event too? And suddenly she saw Botros escaping? And threw his spatula and fork away.

Good now the Niffler gonna chase it. Well done, Headmaster. But apparently his aim was not really good, probably being old and all, the spatula flying toward Airey and hit the Astronomer in the forehead. Ouch. That must have hurt. Was the man still alive? Yup. He still alive.

When Botros turned around he saw that they were one man down...?? Oh, it was Flamsteed. What was that red mark on his forehead? He couldn't see from where he was jogging backwards, luring the Niffler away from the kids and more importantly his food.

"Okay!" He stopped escaping when he was a little away from the breakfast gathering, and looked for the creature. Was it still heading towards him? Or the fork? He was not shiny, excuuuuuse him.

Ravenclaw first years were apparently culinary geniuses, or at least, that's what Zeke could ascertain at this very minute. He was impressed, not only because the kid did something out of the norm and opted for peanut butter as his spread of choice for pancakes, but the fact that he ADDED syrup to the equation just earned him a round of applause.... never mind the fact that he had no hands to actually do so. Whoops.

"You don't have to tell me twice," he said, jumping right in and spreading some of the peanut butter (in a generous layer of course) onto his stack, with another drizzle of syrup for good measure. "Any other foods I should experiment with?" he asked before skewering a potion with his fork and leaning his face into his stack. There was no time to cut it off, he'd just chew from what remained.

And Merlin was it good.

So. Good.

Kid really was a genius after all.

SPOILER!!: Professor Airey!

The throbbing in his forehead subsiding slightly, red mark still very much present, Airey sat up criss-cross-applesauce to look towards the Slytheirn.

JUST a niffler? JUST?

He gawked at the young woman for a few moments before reaching up to physically close his mouth with his free hand.

"Four remain," he squeaked, gesturing towards the box. "Flint, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite are all still looking for their forever homes."

Simply chuckling at Mr. Hyland's response, the astronomer reached for the spatula that had knocked him on his bum and squinted at it as if judging it for not being a flying waffle into his mouth instead of a flying hazard to his head.

Oh my gosh!

Was he alright?! Hady blinked at the Professor several times. "Professor, are you alright? Do you need to see the Healer?"

Poor man appeared dazed. The fourth year wasn't sure if it had been because of what she had said about the Niffler whom she didn't find to be a problem unless it being attracted to shiny things got in her way. Or if it had to do with the spatula. The latter one looked like it had hurt.

Oh but wait! There were four more left! Here that Elvis you could get a sibling. Hady reached into the pocket of her hoodie and carefully brought Elvis out. "Elvis wants to know if he can meet Flint and Nephrite, he likes their names." Yes she knew a name was a name when she hadn't seen the rocks in question but it was a start. AND it was Elvis asking not her.