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Before entering the classroom you'll see a big parchment sign next to the door in curvy noticeable letters that reads:
Task before entering the History of Magic Classroom:
Located next to the door is large rack of costumes, a variety of hats and masks as well as dress up make up and accessories like glasses and bags. Your task is to choose a costume and/or a mask from the rack and dress up as your favourite witch or wizard from magical history. (no creatures please, otherwise no limits.)
After you put on that costume, fixed that mask, adjusted your hat askew or added that last bit of eye-shadow so you look like the author Bathilda Bagshot or someone else famous from magical history then head into the classroom. Once fully inside you'll see rows up on rows of desks in pairs of three in a slightly misaligned order that leads up to the professor desk as well as the black board and on the wall to the left of the blackboard a large floor to ceiling book case. The air you feel is slightly on the crisp and icey side in the classroom even though warming spells are in place. A consequence of the winter weather and the fact that you are taught by a ghost.
Professor Helena is sitting on the edge of her desk, waiting for her students to arrive.
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Brooklyn did acknowledge that the likelihood of anyone just up and offering to be her partner without her having said she was looking for someone was slim. She just had come to the feeling that anyone who needed to urging to do so wasn’t worth being her partner anyway. Like, she rarely had said anything about needing a partner in the lessons in the past where she’d worked with Hady. And she hadn’t asked Ethan to make planets for her back in first year. There were plenty of examples of why she didn’t have to actually expend the energy in looking for a partner. Plus, she still hadn’t quite decided what their costumes had to do with giants, or what exactly they were going to be doing that would give them the experience of what it was like being a giant. Although, if there was climbing involved, she’d looked to see if Ethan was around. Since Benny was out of the question.
Her older snake ally was nowhere to be seen, though. Actually, aside from Dot and Hugo, she was seeing a serious lack of green in the room in general. Not counting the famous people costumes, but then hers was still green. She liked green. That was that, and it looked good with her hair. She’d been resigned to not having a partner, or having to get the Grey Lady to tell someone to work with her. At least, until she heard a familiar voice, and a nickname she really wanted to ignore. Except, there were occasions he wasn’t entirely annoying, and it did give her another example in her list of instances where she hadn’t had to actually do anything to get a partner. Therefore, after a moment or two more, she turned to look at Frankie with an exaggerated sigh.
“Okay fine.” But he wasn’t doing anything stupid. She’d toss a bird at his perfect blonde head if he did.
Well, look who wasn’t excited to have a partner. Frankie was about to tell Brooklyn that he changed his mind and would find someone else who actually wanted to team up with him. But he quickly got caught up in the ghost professor lady's directions. He made a face. So he was going to have to do all the dirty work? Great. Just great.
"Looks like you're going to have to hop up on my shoulders," the blond said, taking charge of the situation. "Unless you think you can hold me up, Brookie." He didn't think she could, since he was taller and weighed more than she did. Plus, he was stronger and faster and likely more determined to get as much candy as possible.
Then he remembered the other part of the activity that required them to shout out former History of Magic professors and Hogwarts Headmasters. Uhh. Right. They'd be lucky if he could name off two of each. So...
"You've got to do most of the brainwork," he added quickly, getting down on one knee before Brooklyn could suggest doing anything else. Frankie nodded his head stiffly and waited for the Slytherin to climb on. There was candy at stake, and he wanted it now!
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"Cool,yup! It will be!"Henric grinned back at Paulina. Okay...the rules were simple enough to understand. So they had to grab those candy baskets from that ceiling across the room together while one of them was propped on top of the other's shoulders.After that, they had to recite 5 former HOM professor and 5 former Hogwarts Headmaster/Headmistress before crossing back to the starting line. Pfft...easy! One problem...there was no way Henric would mount on Paulina's shoulders! The poor girl might had a hard time carrying him.
"Paulina,I can lent you my shoulders for the whole entire game, you just need to grab those candy baskets above,*ehem* you don't mind, right?"he asked her, his cheeks glowed a little red at the prospect of a girl on his shoulders.But it would be easy for him to carry her though and he was tall enough for them to reach those baskets.On the side note,where was his bestfriend anyway? He wondered if llia had already partnered up with someone else already.
Smiling at her partner, Paulina listened to the instructions. They seemed simple enough. Thank Merlin she had the foresight to read up on Hogwarts since coming to the school because otherwise she would know nothing of the history.
"Yeah, sounds good!" she said when Henric offered to carry her on his shoulders. "If I get too heavy let me know and we can switch." After she had grabbed down the candy bags of course. Hopefully he wasn't heavy because she wasn't the strongest person even though she wasn't totally weak.
"Okay great,come up then." Henric bent down to kneel on his knee and gestured for her to mount on his shoulders. It wouldn't take too long for them to finish the activity. He believed Giants were simple minded creatures, they would only go for one thing at a time. The mission: GET those candy baskets down.
"Don't worry,if I get too tired ...I'll request a piggy back from you on our back," he joked. "By the way, can you name all of our past HOM professors in Hogwarts, I know it will be quite a challenge for you. I'll try to come up with a few." Henric reached up to take her hand so she wouldn't fall off while she adjusted herself comfortably on his shoulders. He didn't think it would be comfortable of course. Henric would make sure he locked his arms around her legs to ensure her safety."You okay up there? I feel like I'm carrying a sack of feathers on my shoulders.Are you sure you eating right? Its a little concerning..."Henric teased before easily lifting himself up with Paulina on his shoulders.
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Seemed that everyone was getting a partner and Hugo was standing here all alone. He should go and ask someone, yeah, that would work. When he was about to do it, he saw Dot waving at him. Great. "Let's be partners then" no need for looking around anymore. Thanks Merlin. "What do you think we're gonna be doing?" asked Hugo with his arms crossed.
Especially since they were dressed up.
"Alright, partner," Dot slipped her Quidditch goggles out of her hair and into place over her eyes. The rubber was uncomfortable against her nose, but she bet that she looked pretty cool. A little cool. Coolish. "So you can get on my shoulders, because I have excellent upper body strength, but maybe I should climb onto yours instead?"
She was supposed to be easy to lift now, right? Or that was the theory, in spite of the fact that her ballet teacher told her that she was too tall to lift.
"D'you even know five Headmasters and History professors? I know a few, I guess, but only the famous ones." She held out a hand to Hugo, fingers wiggling, to get help to climb up on his shoulders.
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Did he want to partner up? Rooney blinked at the offer from the Head Boy and shrugged. "We need to be giants, or somethi--" That was when their Professor started to talk again and explain the task ahead of them. Now, Rooney didn't want to announce it to everyone, but he was very in tune with the names of past Professors and Heads of the school. At one point, he was able to recite them in reverse order back a hundred years. But no one needed to know that. Giving the Head Butthead a shove, Rooney whispered that he would be his partner and then continued to listen to Professor Helena.
Sweets.
It was a good job that Rooney had a sweet tooth, but these Professors were either trying to rot their teeth or get them addicted to the sugar in the sweets.
"Mrs Zander Adair, you're going to have to hold me up." Because there was no way that the second year was holding him up or leaving him to list what they needed to. No way. "I know more names than you." And his head didn't weigh fifty thousand tonnes. "Now crouch down so I can get up." Was Miss Sophie Brown watching him tell her boyfriend what to do? Was she? Did she think he was funny?
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See, this would be entirely different if someone were just going to sit on his shoulders... But they were both standing? Er. This whole activity sounded like a death wish. Except well, he supposed the Grey Lady knew what she was talking about. 'Cause she had to be an expert on all things death, right? So... She wasn't purposefully trying to get them all killed, right? Unless she really did know what she was doing and that was exactly what she was going for here. It was questionable.
And also, Zander was feeling very glad that he was going to work with a younger student then. It'd make the whole standing on shoulders thing much easier. But he couldn't help but glance over at Benny and Adi. Sweet Merlin, they were about to have some fun with this. Omg. Hopefully they didn't collapse or anything. Praying for you, Atreyu.
Anyways, back to the little kid. O__________o had he just called Zander... 'Mrs'? The Head Boy gave the kid the wildest look, but otherwise didn't mention it because maybe the boy was confused or something. Er. Clearly his badge said Head BOY... Erm. Yeah. Well, anyways. Uh.
"Right well I figured you wouldn't wanna try 'n hold me on your shoulders," he laughed as he crouched down to allow Rooney to step onto his shoulders. Also, could they take off shoes for this because he had just cleaned his robes! Also, it was a really good thing that Rooney knew names because Zander could probably think of like three max. Ahem. What part about a lesson about giants screams 'you've got to know your headmasters'. Geez.
Also, why was he looking over at Soph so much? Didn't they have a race to win?
Just for good measure, the Gryffindor held his hands up so that Rooney could grab onto them whilst trying to balance on top of Zander's shoulders. This would be quite the adventure.
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Kaycee stared at the ghost for several seconds. Homegirl say what? It had been a hot minute since she remembered how to walk, sure, but shouldn't she at least remember that stacking people on top of each other wasn't a good idea?
Fine. Whatever. She was getting candy out of it.
She glanced at Cinna. "Me on top, right?" she asked. Had to be. She was smaller. And younger.
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Okay, Ava already got her partner. What's next? She listened to the ghost's explanation. Well, mentioning FIVE former Headmistress/Headmaster and History of Magic professors? How in the name of Merlin she could know that? This was her first time in Hogwarts and uh...
Wait a minute, she made a partner with the Head Girl. A Ravenclaw Head Girl. Grrrreeeeeeaaaaat!!!!
"You're lucky that I am quite light and small." The young lioness said to Sophie. "Come on, Soph! Carry me in your shoulder, I am ready to go!" Don't worry, Ava Burton was born to be a girl who's not afraid of height and injuries.
...Didn't anyone else think this was a very, very bad idea?
Okay, the history part made sense, and Sophie was not at all worried about the professor-naming part because she had that in the bag, but she was still thoroughly convinced that the Grey Lady was off her rocker and had NO idea how to be a professor. They couldn't just STAND on each other's shoulders, that made no sense! Perhaps it made more sense if they were allowed to use magic, or if the ghost had introduced them to some sort of... SOMETHING that would make this work way better, Soph would've been on board. But this was lunacy. At most, Soph probably had a few inches of height on Ava, and probably 20-25 pounds or so. She was SMALL, professor, she couldn't have an ELEVEN OR TWELVE YEAR OLD STANDING ON HER SHOULDERS.
Logistically it made zero sense. Zero sense. None. No sense at all. How was Ava supposed to get up there in the first place? How was Soph expected to stand up once Ava started to climb ONTO her shoulders? Soph couldn't support that much weight, she was a weakling! Her shoulders and back would BREAK, it didn't matter how light Ava was! She wasn't even sure how Zander would do with Rooney on his shoulders. The distribution of Rooney's weight would... be entirely on Zander's big broad shoulders, but that concentrated weight baring down on his shoulders could NOT be good. It just couldn't, even for a strong, buff guy like the Head Boy. Even if this activity was the other way around with Soph being the tinier one and getting on someone else's shoulders, she wouldn't have felt good about it. No, there was NO way this could be any good. This was bad, bad news, and Sophie Brown didn't like it one bit.
...But there was Ava, as excited and ready to go as ever. Her excitement was encouraging, and Soph forced a little bit of a smile. "Yeah. Lucky." She was in a sense, really. If Ava was a few inches taller and the same size as the seventh year, Soph would've been feeling even worse than this, but... Ava was pretty tiny, even tinier than Soph had been as a first year. So. They... could... at least give it a shot, yeah?
And in her nervousness, she didn't even think to see how Zander and Rooney were doing over there.
"All right. How 'bout, uh... d'you wanna... take your shoes off? Think they'll hurt." She didn't want the hard soles of her shoes digging into her. "And..." She was walking over toward the side of the room where they'd pushed desks over, and squatted down beside one. "Y'wanna... get up on the desk first, then climb on?" The Ravenclaw raised both hands up, where she'd hold Ava's hands and help steady her as she climbed on. "Or if y'think there's a better way of doing this, go for it." She was bent pretty low to the floor, so Ava COULD try to climb right up and on without climbing up on the desk first, if she really wanted to. "I'll try to help steady you." With her outstretched hands.
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"Okay great,come up then." Henric bent down to kneel on his knee and gestured for her to mount on his shoulders. It wouldn't take too long for them to finish the activity. He believed Giants were simple minded creatures, they would only go for one thing at a time. The mission: GET those candy baskets down.
"Don't worry,if I get too tired ...I'll request a piggy back from you on our back," he joked. "By the way, can you name all of our past HOM professors in Hogwarts, I know it will be quite a challenge for you. I'll try to come up with a few." Henric reached up to take her hand so she wouldn't fall off while she adjusted herself comfortably on his shoulders. He didn't think it would be comfortable of course. Henric would make sure he locked his arms around her legs to ensure her safety."You okay up there? I feel like I'm carrying a sack of feathers on my shoulders.Are you sure you eating right? Its a little concerning..."Henric teased before easily lifting himself up with Paulina on his shoulders.
And offf they went!
As Henric knelt, Paulina carefully climbed onto his shoulders. She didn't want to accidentally do something like kick him in the head or otherwise hurt him; that would be mean. As soon as she saw that no harm was done she relaxed.
"I THINK I can name some off, but I'm not completely sure. I read up on some things about Hogwarts, so at least I got that going for me." If she had real trouble maybe Professor Helena wouldn't mind Henric helping her out. It wasn't her fault that this was her first and only term at the school. She didn't get a chance to dwell on that, however, because Henric was making her laugh. "I'm a vegetarian and don't really eat junk food. I guess that's why I'm so light." At least she wasn't heavy, right?
As they started making their way across the room it was hard for her not to cheer because she was having fun. This wasn't a race and so long as they had fun everything was worthwhile.
So maybe the two Slytherin boys had decided to drop History for their final year. Or she just didn't notice them or they just completely forgot about her and partnering and all that jazz. But if there was one thing for certain was that the voice that asked want to be my partner? was so innocent sounding that Tia did not have the heart to refuse. Not to mention, upon glancing over to see who the voice belonged to, it was Norah who was quite brilliant in her own right - it was no wonder she was a Prefect. So pretty much it was either partner with Norah or some other choice who would probably be far worse. And who could refuse such an innocent face?
Smiling back at the fifth year, she nodded. "I do need one and I would love to be your partner." So that was a yes. Female brain power could totally tackle whatever it was Professor Ravenclaw would have them do!
Norah beamed at Tia. Did you hear that? She'd LOVE to be here partner. All the genuineness in her answer earned the Ravenclaw lots of points in her book, uh huh. Genuine answers were the best answers, aside from the ones that had special status for including super fun things like permission for pets and extra chocolate frogs. Not that her mum and dad had ever said yes to the pet thing, but that didn't keep her from asking over and over just in case they changed their minds. Even the prefect argument hadn't proven her worthiness to them yet, but in their defense the badge hadn't spontaneously transformed her into the World's More Responsible Individual, but she was working on it. "Sounds fabulous!" Now all that was left was actually hearing what the activity was.
Oh man. This was going to be complicated, but not for the reasons that History was normally complicated. Did the Gray Lady know that they weren't all ghosts and couldn't just float on top of people? Standing on somebody's shoulders was the real deal. It was a long way down from their, even from her shoulders which weren't normally considered to be very high above anything at all. "D'ya think...I should be the person on top or you?" Was this even going to work at all? Hopefully Tia had some grand experiences with this sort of thing, because aside from piggy-back rides, Norah had nothing.
Angel smiled as her friend Candice spoke to her. "Hey Candice, great." Angel couldn't wait to do this she missed her friend and hadn't had chance to speak to her about anything. "You know what, I don't know but not much." Angel was petite and 5ft 1, she was sure it was around 90 what ever it was. "What about you?" Angel didn't mind who went on who's shoulder, though she was now trying to think of a few professors or Heads that they had... had at Hogwarts.
OK! She had the partner thing checked now onto the activity.
Say what now?! Angel didn't know how much she weight? No matter. they looked like they're about in the same height and weight. "Maybe we could swap? You can stand in my shoulder first to grab the candy thingy and then after that you carry me to the finish line?" Sounds fair right? Since she was not a fans of candies its just didn't make sense to her if she was the one who grab the candy. "So how do you want to do this? Do I need to squat then you can get on my shoulder?" Or she need the table to hop on her shoulder?
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Right...Adi likely ate too many sweets to let his exercising actually lose weight. Speaking of such, Benny snorted at the teasing. "I guess we'll find out," the Gryffindor half teased back, his friend in more danger than if it didn't all work out. He braced himself as Adi climbed first on his leg and then his shoulder, grunting once both feet were up on top of him. But it was his standing that was the hardest and Ben definitely had to use the desk beside him to pull himself up to his full height.
Then it was a challenge of wiggling and wobbling as they two of them tried to adjust. "Trying not to , Griff." Benny did his best not to stagger as he got used to the weight and force, the better not to jostle the boy above. He paused as Adi instructed him forward, needing a second or two more before he started nearly forward. Slow at first before gradually gaining speed until finally they were near the first basket, the seventh year needing to look up to check.
"Professor or headmaster?"
Wobble, wobble, wobble!
That was where all of the wobbling started... when Benny got to his feet. Adi was still calmly balancing himself using his arms. And boy, was Adi enjoying the view from up here! He wanted to comment on that to Benny but he didn't want to distract him. The poor dude was having to do all the hard work after all.
Wheee!
What a team him and Benny were! Look how fast they were approaching the basket! "Professors,'' Adi called down in reply to his friend's question. Right! He was ready! "Cuthbert Binns, Tiberius Dursley, Anjelica Lainey, Braith McCormack, Everett Scabior.''
There! That was five, yeah? All he needed now was for Benny to list five Professors now.
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Well, look who wasn’t excited to have a partner. Frankie was about to tell Brooklyn that he changed his mind and would find someone else who actually wanted to team up with him. But he quickly got caught up in the ghost professor lady's directions. He made a face. So he was going to have to do all the dirty work? Great. Just great.
"Looks like you're going to have to hop up on my shoulders," the blond said, taking charge of the situation. "Unless you think you can hold me up, Brookie." He didn't think she could, since he was taller and weighed more than she did. Plus, he was stronger and faster and likely more determined to get as much candy as possible.
Then he remembered the other part of the activity that required them to shout out former History of Magic professors and Hogwarts Headmasters. Uhh. Right. They'd be lucky if he could name off two of each. So...
"You've got to do most of the brainwork," he added quickly, getting down on one knee before Brooklyn could suggest doing anything else. Frankie nodded his head stiffly and waited for the Slytherin to climb on. There was candy at stake, and he wanted it now!
Well, at least they’d started off things without her having to do anything. Frankie had some logic in that blonde head of his, anyway, and they were pretty much stuck working together. Everyone else seemed like they’d gotten partners, and for once she was pretty certain there wasn’t the option of pairing up with the professor. She was still pretty tiny, but she didn’t think the grey Lady could hold her up. Or stand on her shoulders for that matter. That meant they had to at least get along for however long was left in the lesson. However long they had to accomplish the activity, and even she was curious if there was anything good in those candy bags. She wouldn’t find out until they’d gotten them, though, and that meant starting.
There might have been a slight look at the ridiculous idea that she could hold him on her shoulders. Even if she was inclined to do the work, he still had several inches on her and most likely weight as well. “I’ll climb on your shoulders,” she replied. There. That was decided. No crazy other options, or at least that’s what she thought until he’d spoken again. “Do I?” Did it look like she knew a ton of former History professors and headmasters?
She tried to think if she knew of any from when her sister was at Hogwarts. Of course, they’d had a few headmasters, or headmistresses, since even she’d been there. But that didn’t necessarily mean she’d memorized their names. “Do you think the current ones count?,” she asked, climbing onto his shoulders carefully. Especially since she thought they were supposed to stand. All the stuff about standing tall as giants and that. She just hoped he didn’t get any funny ideas while she was up there.
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So that left him the former headmasters. Benny had to think hard and think back to come up with names to give. Sure there was the one that just left that had been headmistress for almost all of his schooling and a couple of famous ones, but there was stretches too. Ooo the one current school governor was headmistress too...right? This really wasn't the easiest thing to do unless you've scoured the history books. Well maybe easier than HOM professors. Okay...here goes nothing for him.
That was five, and as far as he knew, they were correct. That meant they can take their candy from the baskests now so it was up to Adi now since he certainly couldn't reach himself from here. The Hufflepuff might have had the harder list but he alsi had the easier task required of him as Benny adjust his grasp on Adu's calf/ankle.
OK! She had the partner thing checked now onto the activity.
Say what now?! Angel didn't know how much she weight? No matter. they looked like they're about in the same height and weight. "Maybe we could swap? You can stand in my shoulder first to grab the candy thingy and then after that you carry me to the finish line?" Sounds fair right? Since she was not a fans of candies its just didn't make sense to her if she was the one who grab the candy. "So how do you want to do this? Do I need to squat then you can get on my shoulder?" Or she need the table to hop on her shoulder?
Angel looked at her partner and smiled, though she had a feeling her friend didn't expect her not to know how much she weighed. "I'm scared to check, have been eating too many sweets since you-know-what happened." Angel giggled as she remembered how bad she had taken the news but now she was getting over it and making some great new friends. "I think that squatting will work well or we can use the table. I don't care which... I don't want to hurt you though so what is the best for you?" Angel decided that she would let her friend decide.
Angel looked at her partner and smiled, though she had a feeling her friend didn't expect her not to know how much she weighed. "I'm scared to check, have been eating too many sweets since you-know-what happened." Angel giggled as she remembered how bad she had taken the news but now she was getting over it and making some great new friends. "I think that squatting will work well or we can use the table. I don't care which... I don't want to hurt you though so what is the best for you?" Angel decided that she would let her friend decide.
She scared to check? Chuckles. And that's why you don't eat sugary things people.
"Let's just use the table." Because it look more easier and less efforty. "And don't forget to take off your shoes, yeah?" She didn't want any shoulder injures or any injuries for that matter.
Candice walked towards where the tables were and got into position. Now, Angel just need to stand in her shoulder.
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...But there was Ava, as excited and ready to go as ever. Her excitement was encouraging, and Soph forced a little bit of a smile. "Yeah. Lucky." She was in a sense, really. If Ava was a few inches taller and the same size as the seventh year, Soph would've been feeling even worse than this, but... Ava was pretty tiny, even tinier than Soph had been as a first year. So. They... could... at least give it a shot, yeah?
And in her nervousness, she didn't even think to see how Zander and Rooney were doing over there.
"All right. How 'bout, uh... d'you wanna... take your shoes off? Think they'll hurt." She didn't want the hard soles of her shoes digging into her. "And..." She was walking over toward the side of the room where they'd pushed desks over, and squatted down beside one. "Y'wanna... get up on the desk first, then climb on?" The Ravenclaw raised both hands up, where she'd hold Ava's hands and help steady her as she climbed on. "Or if y'think there's a better way of doing this, go for it." She was bent pretty low to the floor, so Ava COULD try to climb right up and on without climbing up on the desk first, if she really wanted to. "I'll try to help steady you." With her outstretched hands.
Sophie looked nervous. Well, maybe this wasn't easy for her since she was the one who's gonna stand tall and put an eleven year old student on her shoulder, and not to mention that the Head Girl was just a liiiiiitle bit taller and bigger than her. But they didn't have a choice, huh? Or maybe now she regretted that she took a firstie to be her partner? Perhaps not...
Taking off her shoes? That's better. Ava didn't want to hurt the Head Girl's shoulder. She took off her shoes and socks too (because it's a bit slippery when she's putting on her socks). And then... what's next? "Well, I don't think I have any other better ideas and uh...."Thinking."I think it's easier if I climb on a desk first, then stand at your shoulder." Yep, that sounded like a good plan. Ava then went to the nearest desk and climbed on it. Now, it's the moment of truth. "You ready, Sophie?" She asked. And once the Head Girl was ready, she put on her left foot first on her shoulder, and then the right one.
Wobble wobble wobble...
Woah, it's harder to stand perfectly balanced at someone's shoulder than it looked.
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Norah beamed at Tia. Did you hear that? She'd LOVE to be here partner. All the genuineness in her answer earned the Ravenclaw lots of points in her book, uh huh. Genuine answers were the best answers, aside from the ones that had special status for including super fun things like permission for pets and extra chocolate frogs. Not that her mum and dad had ever said yes to the pet thing, but that didn't keep her from asking over and over just in case they changed their minds. Even the prefect argument hadn't proven her worthiness to them yet, but in their defense the badge hadn't spontaneously transformed her into the World's More Responsible Individual, but she was working on it. "Sounds fabulous!" Now all that was left was actually hearing what the activity was.
Oh man. This was going to be complicated, but not for the reasons that History was normally complicated. Did the Gray Lady know that they weren't all ghosts and couldn't just float on top of people? Standing on somebody's shoulders was the real deal. It was a long way down from their, even from her shoulders which weren't normally considered to be very high above anything at all. "D'ya think...I should be the person on top or you?" Was this even going to work at all? Hopefully Tia had some grand experiences with this sort of thing, because aside from piggy-back rides, Norah had nothing.
Excellent. Tia listened as the Gray Lady explained the activity and the sixth year's first instinct was to use the summoning spell to aid in getting the candy bags but apparently that was a no-no. Together, she and Norah would be barely 10 feet tall - less because of the portion lost from top of head to shoulder.
She bit her lip as the fifth year asked about being the person on top or herself. "I think, it's probably best if we alternate every basket or two, truthfully. Don't want either of us to strain ourselves or get lightheaded from being wobbly in the air or something," she laughed lightly, as she bent her knees slightly. "You can climb on top of my shoulders first though. Don't worry, I'll hold your feet securely to my shoulders." Nod, nod. She got this.
Hopefully. Because she really didn't want to be accountable for killing a Hufflepuff, particularly a prefect.
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Professors...
So that left him the former headmasters. Benny had to think hard and think back to come up with names to give. Sure there was the one that just left that had been headmistress for almost all of his schooling and a couple of famous ones, but there was stretches too. Ooo the one current school governor was headmistress too...right? This really wasn't the easiest thing to do unless you've scoured the history books. Well maybe easier than HOM professors. Okay...here goes nothing for him.
That was five, and as far as he knew, they were correct. That meant they can take their candy from the baskests now so it was up to Adi now since he certainly couldn't reach himself from here. The Hufflepuff might have had the harder list but he alsi had the easier task required of him as Benny adjust his grasp on Adu's calf/ankle.
He had you, bestie.
One half of the task was done!
Now all Adi and Benny had to do was to switch around the listing of former Professors and Heads. Arms still stuck out, the Hufflepuff cheered for his friend. "Well done, Dragon! Your turn with the Professors but let me just get my list for the Heads out of the way.'' Yes, he would try to list the ones Benny hadn't.
"Phineas Black, Severus Snape, Reynard Bontecou, Dolores Umbridge and Walter Aragon.'' Annnd back to you, bestie!
As Henric knelt, Paulina carefully climbed onto his shoulders. She didn't want to accidentally do something like kick him in the head or otherwise hurt him; that would be mean. As soon as she saw that no harm was done she relaxed.
"I THINK I can name some off, but I'm not completely sure. I read up on some things about Hogwarts, so at least I got that going for me." If she had real trouble maybe Professor Helena wouldn't mind Henric helping her out. It wasn't her fault that this was her first and only term at the school. She didn't get a chance to dwell on that, however, because Henric was making her laugh. "I'm a vegetarian and don't really eat junk food. I guess that's why I'm so light." At least she wasn't heavy, right?
As they started making their way across the room it was hard for her not to cheer because she was having fun. This wasn't a race and so long as they had fun everything was worthwhile.
"You're a vegetarian! I'll make sure to remember that. Great, hold on tight coz' I'm going to run fast,"he chuckled as he paced his way over to the other side of the room.
Time to get those candy baskets, partner!"Reynard Bontecou,Cassandra Rae, Kobus Hendrik, Albus Dumbledore, Anastasia Truebridge,"Henric recited the names of past Headmaster and Headmistress of Hogwarts.Oh dear, did he take the easier part of the challenge.He didn't mean to, it just slipped out of his mouth because they were the only ones he remembered."Paulina...do you know any of the HOM professors? Last term we had Professor Nessarose Glendower,add her in the list too,"he grinned, staggering a little as he tried to regain his balance again.
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11
Janelle was beginning to think that she was going to remain partnerless .........again. Everyone seemed to have already paired up, but she continued to search for someone who was still solo. Janelle was about two seconds from standing on her desk and shouting out for a partner. Fortunately, she didn't have to take such drastic measures.
Just in the nick of time, she was saved. And who was her hero, you might ask? It was none other than the Ravenclaw Prefect, Benzi. She couldn't believe her luck. A prefect was asking to be her partner...........not just any prefect........her Prefect and he was a seventh year to boot. Janelle guessed that the saying, "Good things come to those who wait", was true.
Looking up at her partner to be, Janelle said, "Absolutely". Too eager? Trying to tone her enthusiasm down a bit, she added, "I'd like to be your partner." Knowing that there was only one way this pairing could possibly work, she decided to test Benzi's sense of humor. "So, do you want to give me a ride or would you like to hop on my shoulders?" Amazingly, Janelle was able to keep a straight face.......for a second.
Aww well look how happy she looked! Now if only everyone could get so excited by his mere presense, his life would be so much easier. "Great!" he grinned, then made for the desks so that they could do the whole her climbing onto his shoulders. Because that's what was going to happen yes?
Looking down, Benzi caught onto the sarcasm and instantly liked Janelle better. "Oh, me on your shoulders clearly. We're heading to the desks now so I can climb on easily," he replied nonchalantly and continued making his way to the nearest table. It was only when they'd reached them that he considered the possibility that perhaps she hadn't been kidding and was now deathly afraid that he might actually climb onto her shoulders. All 1.88m.
Poor kid. Oops.
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Aww well look how happy she looked! Now if only everyone could get so excited by his mere presense, his life would be so much easier. "Great!" he grinned, then made for the desks so that they could do the whole her climbing onto his shoulders. Because that's what was going to happen yes?
Looking down, Benzi caught onto the sarcasm and instantly liked Janelle better. "Oh, me on your shoulders clearly. We're heading to the desks now so I can climb on easily," he replied nonchalantly and continued making his way to the nearest table. It was only when they'd reached them that he considered the possibility that perhaps she hadn't been kidding and was now deathly afraid that he might actually climb onto her shoulders. All 1.88m.
Poor kid. Oops.
OK, they were good to go. Janelle had a partner and a big one at that. Hopefully the standing on the shoulders thing wouldn't be too hard. Naming Heamasters and Professors on the other hand........well that was going to be a challenge.
Hehehe. Benzi was going along with her little game. Janelle followed him over to the desks and mentally planned how she was going to climb up onto his shoulders. She used to climb onto her brothers shoulders all the time. She hoped that that counted for something.
"Hey Benzi", Janelle said. "Maybe I should get on your shoulders this time, ok?" She knew that he had been kidding too so she made a move to get started. "Ready?" Janelle climbed onto the desk and then tried to hoist herself up. She put one foot on Benzi's left shoulder and tried to balance herself. Then she grabbed his head and swung her other foot onto his right shoulder. Carefully and slowly, she stood up. trying very hard to stay balanced. "You good?", she asked. Now it was time for the fun part.
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Once again, Caleb had been assuming everyone would flock to him to partner up - and no one had. You'd think after the tenth or so time that happened he'd have learned his lesson...but apparently not. Sigh. Now he had to look all pathetic and whatnot begging for someone else who had been uncool enough to find a partner to work with him...
"Anyone need a partner?!" he called out. Time was ticking and he needed to get going on this activity!
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11
OK, they were good to go. Janelle had a partner and a big one at that. Hopefully the standing on the shoulders thing wouldn't be too hard. Naming Heamasters and Professors on the other hand........well that was going to be a challenge.
Hehehe. Benzi was going along with her little game. Janelle followed him over to the desks and mentally planned how she was going to climb up onto his shoulders. She used to climb onto her brothers shoulders all the time. She hoped that that counted for something.
"Hey Benzi", Janelle said. "Maybe I should get on your shoulders this time, ok?" She knew that he had been kidding too so she made a move to get started. "Ready?" Janelle climbed onto the desk and then tried to hoist herself up. She put one foot on Benzi's left shoulder and tried to balance herself. Then she grabbed his head and swung her other foot onto his right shoulder. Carefully and slowly, she stood up. trying very hard to stay balanced. "You good?", she asked. Now it was time for the fun part.
Oh, okay, nope she had been kidding. Cool. Good. Ravenclaw sarcasm is still alive and strong. Good to know. "This time," he chuckled, then bent his knees to help her climb on. Reaching his hands up, he offered assistance but it quickly seemed like she was doing quite well on her own so he focused on staying balanced and not making any sudden movements.
Once she was up, he nodded and slowly straightened up his knees. "How about you grab my hands so that I'm confident you won't topple backwards and hit your head okay?" he asked, wiggling his fingers around as he made for her hands. Sure she might have to bend a little bit this way he could catch her. What kind of prefect would he be if he let a young little Ravenclaw fall to her death literally in front of his eyes? Or behind his head. Both were equally terrible options.
"Right. I'm going to start walking, and you're going to start listing off names. Sounds like a plan?"
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"You're a vegetarian! I'll make sure to remember that. Great, hold on tight coz' I'm going to run fast,"he chuckled as he paced his way over to the other side of the room.
Time to get those candy baskets, partner!"Reynard Bontecou,Cassandra Rae, Kobus Hendrik, Albus Dumbledore, Anastasia Truebridge,"Henric recited the names of past Headmaster and Headmistress of Hogwarts.Oh dear, did he take the easier part of the challenge.He didn't mean to, it just slipped out of his mouth because they were the only ones he remembered."Paulina...do you know any of the HOM professors? Last term we had Professor Nessarose Glendower,add her in the list too,"he grinned, staggering a little as he tried to regain his balance again.
Paulina laughed as she held on to Henric. She would respond to his vegetarian comment but it was hard to while dashing over to the other side. Hopefully she wasn't holding on TOO tight because she didn't want to accidentally hurt her partner.
By the lack of comment from him Paulina assumed that he was perfectly fine. She listened to him list off a few former History of Magic Professors before it was her turn. "Nessarose Glendower," she added with a smile after his kind contribution for her. Now to think of some others... "Cuthbert Bins-" another ghost! "-Ethan Truebridge, Anjelica Lainey, and Lars Svensson." Now for five Headmasters/Headmistresses... "Gaellen Tate, Doyle Branxton, Nora Leiden, and Draconia."
Okay, now they just needed Henric to list off Five former Professors and they were all set! "Back to you, Henric!"
She scared to check? Chuckles. And that's why you don't eat sugary things people.
"Let's just use the table." Because it look more easier and less efforty. "And don't forget to take off your shoes, yeah?" She didn't want any shoulder injures or any injuries for that matter.
Candice walked towards where the tables were and got into position. Now, Angel just need to stand in her shoulder.
Angel looked at her friend as she took off her shoes. "I'd best put these somewhere safe otherwise who knows what might happen to them." Angel didn't want anything happening to her shoes. "This is going to be so cool Candice." Angel couldn't wait for the next part of the course.
Angel stood on her friends shoulder after getting onto the table. "Okay I'm on now, try not to make me fall." Angel wouldn't want to try and learn how to fly like a proper Angel, though saying that it could be so fun.
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