Bradson heard some voices, older voices. ADULT LIKE VOICES! Whoaaaa...why were they here? Were they going to save him or were they going to let him die? They were adults so they were either going to eat him, let him die or they were going to die on him. Sad but true in this moment but the last part but just the first years personal life. "A LITTLE HELP HERE WOULD BE GREAT!" Bradson yelled out to the professor and the headmistress. That would be great.

Bradson noticed the fire was gone and then he was being lifted out of the pot. He looked around and saw Professor Draper. Brady blinked a few times and looked at the man. "Yeah, sure." The Scottish boy shrugged. He was just put in a boiling hot water and was about to be eaten by the hag in the room. "If my grandmother finds out about this you guys won't like it one bit. You won't hear the end of it." The first year said.

WHAT WAS ONE HIS ARM? WHO WAS ON HIS ARM? Brady winced in pain as he felt the hand on him. "GET OFF OF ME!" Bradson kicked and flailed around. She was sniffing him? WHY WAS SHE DOING THAT? Brady flailed around and more and then put some force with his head and head butted the hag.

Moxley agreed with Draper's assessment, glad for the bubble-head charm as the children seemed completely disoriented. At least James had a handle on the most important issues going on, like the child in the pot. A CHILD HAD BEEN COOKING ON HER WATCH. She was never going to live this down. Merlin help her. She was furious. FURIOUS.

Producing a gust of wind with her wand, the headmistress tried to clear up any of the remaining smoke lingering in the air. She needed to know what was really happening because she was NOT buying whatever it was the Ursula woman was selling. The lady was....going to bite that child! O_O

"STEP AWAY FROM THAT BOY, MADAM." Be cool, Mox. Down the Gryffindor a bit. Okay. They had this under control. "Professor Draper, please get a handle on him." She highly doubted headbutting the crazy lady was going to help, though she did understand the boy's reasoning. How often are you nearly supper and live to tell about it? She'd have headbutted the woman too. "Pr-" Well, calling the woman professor seemed wildly ridiculous now. "Miss Black, whatever your alleged intentions were, this is unacceptable. You need to follow me back to my office, now. We have things to discuss." She looked to James briefly, wand still gripped tightly in her hand. "Please see to it that these kids make it back to the castle once whatever it is causing this has worn off. You might want to call for backup."

Eyes locked on the woman in question once more, she motioned for her to get moving towards the castle.

Why was no one getting these snakes off him???? Why wasn't Davie vanishing them??? OF ALL THE SPELLS NOT TO KNOW DAVID!!! Blaise was beside himself, shrieking in such a manner that only he could hear--inside his head. There was still no sound, just terrified looks and---FINALLY!!!!!

With a flick of the Professor's wand, the snakes had vanished completely and the mini montage that was his life could now stop flashing before his eyes.

The young Gryffindor breathed deeply, though one wouldn't be able to tell with the absence of the sound. Next thing he knew, Davie had fallen into a fit of laughter.

Didn't even scream??? WAS HE NOT HEARING HIM??? Oh wait, he wasn't. No one was. Blaise grabbed hold of both his friend's shoulders and began shaking as hard as he could. MATE, THERE'S NO SOUND, SOMETHING IS WRONG!! Was any of this getting through to him??? Kid didn't WANT to stay mute! No matter how loud he screamed, nothing.

This was the worst. 'Least Moxley was handling it--like he knew she would. Woman was awesome. Godric Gryffindor reborn. Oh yeah, and the other guy.

After Colt made his remark, he felt something strange happening to his nose and ears. He scrunched his nose and felt something happening. Woaahh woaaahhh why was his nose getting bigger!?

"AAAGHHHH!!!"

Colt began to cry out when he felt something weird coming out of his ears. Man this was really weird. Why would this teacher curse them without their permission? He couldn't even speak because his nose was getting bigger. Thank god a professor came over to stop this crazy hag. He went over to the Headmistress Moxley and pulled on her robe and pointed to his nose and antlers. He hoped she would notice them. I mean he did look like a huge moose. He couldn't talk with his nose in the way. He even looked at the Dark Arts professor and hoped he would help. Please? He didn't want to look like a moose forever.

Poor kid though. Poor kid named Brady who was the one who got burned in the boiling pot. Well if he didn't make that comment he wouldn't have been in the situation. He would be scarred for life though.

Austin's face had panic written all over it. Slytherin's noses were growing, and something was crawling up the legs of other students. This didn't seem like a class at all. Which, although gave him a lot of anxiety, didn't shock him at all.

After a few minutes of more panicked students, Austin realized he had to do something. Any Ravenclaw would use their wits to get a way out of here. But he wasn't any Ravenclaw. He was one who could create a potion, or bake a fantastic cake. And if DADA showed anything, it was that in the face of danger, Austin wasn't much help. So, instead of witting his way out of the seat, he sat there, panic stricken. Even after he heard the voices of adults, he felt his heart race. This really wasn't going to end well for someone.

Before she could react to anything else going on the boiling child headbutted her int he face. She shook her head in a daze for only a second, fury in her eyes now. "You shouldn't have done that dearie," leaning in she took a bite at his ear before turning to the rest of the kids. Her finger raised as a signal her bird swooped down after the students. Landing on one before flying to land on another, and another scratching and peeking their heads.

She looked at the headmistress with a grin formed on her face again, "I will be going somewhere, but it won't be with you." She cackled and pointed towards the headmistress. Her bird swooping at the woman scratching and peeking to distract as the hag turned and looked at the male professor. Snapping her fingers to freeze him in his spot she took off towards the forest. Going behind a few trees and disappearing for good.

Gahhhh! Now that stupid bird of hers was pecking and scratching at Haddie's head and she couldn't even swat it away!

She made a silent promise to herself that as soon as she was unfrozen, Haddie was going to petrify that stupid bird and snap its even stupider neck!

SOMEONE UNFREEZE HER ALREADY!

Kitty's senses returned to her as the professors blew away the smoke with their wands. The Hufflepuff boy was saved, and now they were going to arrest the Hag. Kitty felt relief flowing through her as the most terrifying experience in her life so far ended.

Then the Hag's bird started attacking, just as the Hag made her escape. GAA!!! The bird was picking at her and Haddie's heads, and she couldn't even close her eyes. GAA!!! If the teachers were busy, then surely one of the other could hit the bird from them, right???

What was happening? The hag was actually going to eat a student? Olly watched in horror as she dragged the boy to her cauldron. At least he was a hufflepuff and not a Slytherin or one of Olly's friends. He was still latching tightly to Ellery. Who was going to be next? Were they all going to be eaten one by one?

And then he really didn't know what was going on. His head felt fuzzy. When he glanced around it was hard to recognize his surroundings. He was at...Hogwarts. Outside. There was Moxley and Draper. What class was it? Care of Magical Creatures? They probably wouldn't be having Muggle Studies outside. But why did they have bubble head charms? Olly blinked and looked between the hag and the professors.

BIRDS! Right as his head seemed to get clearer, birds appeared. They swooped over the students, and Olly had a hard time protecting both himself and Ellery. Not that he could do much against bird. He felt a few wings brush right up against his hands and face. But at least he had not been pecked like a few of the other students. Or the Headmistress. Oh no was Moxley okay? Olly was too distracted worrying about her to notice that the had ran off and did not return.

WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

Ellery was gripping very tightly to Olly. She was very confused, but in the face of danger, ultimately, she had remained paralyzed with fear calm. Essentially, the one thought that kept floating to her mind was I told you so to Katherine…but then there was a foggy feeling in her head, and then there was the Headmistress and Professor Draper, and a bird, and all the while, Olly's fingers latching onto her arm…

Confused. She shook her head to try and clear her brain crevice.

WHAT ON EARTH WAS HAPPENING? Mel wanted to scream as she watched Brady head butt the hag onto to have…oh god. SHE HAD BITTEN HIS EAR WHAT WAS THAT LADY DOING HERE? Was she ever a registered Professor? What was happening…why? The confusion was there of course and the pain.

GET OFF OF ME she kept thinking at the bird as it scratched at the top of her head. Noooooooooooooooo she just wanted to get away from this stupid class if it was even a class. And that was it.

Mel was neeeever going into that forest this year not until she knew a way to stop Hagsula from attacking again.

The head hurting didn't stop. If anything, it just intensified. There was yelling, silent yelling, some snakes, some people flailing about and a lot of stillness. Then there were two adults, with bubbles around their heads........

That did it for the fourth year. A giggle gurgled from her. They looked so strange. Like, could she just reach out and pop them please? She tried too. Problem was....pinky finger. It still wouldn't move. It still didn't want to move.

Her eyes swayed up to the Professors and she giggled again. Some of the smoke was clearing, which meant giggling was easier done. Why was she giggling? Well, because she knew that Professor Draper had told her he would train her in the art of jungle warfare. That was to say, in being a ninja. So, the only logical thing was to picture both him and the Moxinator in ninja garb. And, given their expressions, gestures and the bubbles around their heads, was a rather amusing thing to see.

But they were standing relatively close to the creepy woman, and the boy who was now out of the pot. When had that happened? Was this some magic unknown to students? Would they all get to try?

It was the moment that she tried raising her hand to ask such a foolish and suddenly forgotten question, that she found some of the motor skills had returned to her with the dissipation of the smoke.

About that time, the wrinkly lady decided to claim a piece of ear for a snack.

There was certainly enough motor function, and the faintest amount of clarity, to get sick right then and there on the spot. The pecking bird didn't matter, and the hag's sudden retreat from the lesson didn't even click.

And right in the heat of it all there was Backpack Boy Wonder smiling like an absolute idiot. Did James offer a smile in return? No. A child was about to be soup. There was a time and place for smiling and right now, he chose to ignore the boy.

Right. Back to the Human-Soup Kid. Never mind. He’d rather hang around Backpack Boy. He took it all back. Was it too late? Apparently so. The kid was whining on some monologue or something. He had saved the boy, wasn’t that enough1? ”Good,” no injuries that was a start. As for this bloody grandmother, did it look like James cared? Spoiler: The answer was no. Just as there was a time and place for smiling, there was also a time and place for grandmothers. ”Relax,” he had to hold himself back SO HARD. Everyday that passed the urge to roll his eyes at these children only grew stronger.

He gave Meredith a firm nod, again turning his attention back to the boy. How the hell was he meant to get a handle on him? The boy was flailing around like a grindylow out of water. He pulled the boy away from the Hag EYEING HER. ”We’re taking care of this and you can call your grandmother as soon as it’s all over.” HAPPY?

As for the—

…… Frozen.

He was frozen.

GREAT. Of freaking course.

First a love potion. Now being frozen. Was there anything the hag wouldn’t do?

Also, some help would be GREAT.

WHAT. IS. HAPPENING??!???

One moment Tenacius was looking at Trixie and Ariadne, and the next second he was covered in smoke. He wanted to yell and wave the smoke away and just BOLT, but he found that he couldn’t move. Or he wants to move but didn’t know how. How did that how happen???

And then he saw a kid taking a swan dive into the pot. First instinct was to yell. But the next feeling was that he wants to join the jacuzzi. Why did that kid get invited to the jacuzzi and not him eh eh??

His thoughts made no sense. Even made lesser sense when the hag looked like she was gonna give the jacuzzi kid a kiss on the ear….

Then suddenly-- a might wind! And as his mind started to unfog the chaos surrounding him got even more pronounced. Clarity set in like a bucket of ice water. Suddenly the screaming and panicking and crying for Mommy started flooding his senses, and then there was a feathery flappy thing whacking and poking at him with something blunt and painful.

"I said I am NOT KIBBLE!" the curly top hollered as he finally got his arms moving, flailing the bird away so much so that he tripped over the makeshift seat, lost his balance and flopped onto the ground on his back.

Oh look BIG PEOPLE doing BIG PEOPLE THINGS.

"Heya Headmistress." he called out feebly. His world is spinning so he's just gonna chill down here k?

What was happening here?!

Hady had been sitting listening to something about tarot cards and then suddenly there was screaming and this strange billowing clouds of smoke covering the area. It was like she was in a fog, her head felt fuzzy and she couldn't think clearly.

Was someone just tossed into A POT OF BOILING WATER!?

And two first years stood frozen in place where they had been trying to fun away. A small boy with snakes slithering up his legs.

This was insane. They needed help. Had to do something. The fifth year made a move to get up from her seat but suddenly couldn't. She was stuck in place somehow. Why had she even wanted to get up again?

Hazel eyes swept over everyone looks of panic and confusion on each face. That was right...she had to get help. But why did they need help again? Red sparks she could do that. But she didn't. The bubble head charm might have helped with fresh air. Only she didn't do that either. Why wasn't she doing anything?

Hady blinked her eyes willing herself to get a hold of her wand and cast her patronus in order to get help for them. She knew how to do it! Worked so hard to learn for a situation that called for it. Now was the time and there was nothing the small fifth year could do. What was the matter with her...useless is what she was feeling now. Useless. Tired. And hungry.

What even....

There was suddenly more shouting and Professor Draper arrived along with the Headmistress. Well hello there to you both. Was this a duel lesson going on? Blink. Blink. No couldn't be. Someone else called for their mommy. What would their mom be doing here at Hogwarts? Why was Professor Draper suddenly frozen? Was that what she should be doing, working on freezing charms? No, no that wasn't it.

Then the Headmistress was being attacked by a bird or something and the Hag/Lady was running away. Hady was trying to professor everything that was going on but it was as if she were watching it from somewhere else. Blink. Blink.

Come on Hadleigh pull yourself together! Things were happening and people needed help. Help you could be giving if you got your act together. Only her head still hurt and her thoughts were jumbled.

O___________________________O

HIS FACE WAS GROWING.

AND HIS EARS.

To say Cornelius was stunned would be a complete understatement. The boy stood frozen, eyes wide with betrayal at the hag. Weren't professor people supposed to teach them? Weren't they supposed to protect them? The incident in the kitchens, he'd thought that was Ursula joking with him.

He felt SO. BETRAYED.

And he didn't know what to do with that feeling. Is this how it felt? Like a bus had hit him from behind. Authority sucked. That's what he was gathering here despite the reinforcements that came in. Cornelius Orion Baltazar had been betrayed.

Now he was embarrassed. Thoroughly embarrassed with his long nose and antlers. He touched them. HE HAD BLOODY ANTLERS COMING OUT OF HIS HEAD. A little cub growl erupted from his throat in frustration, his small hands curling into fists at his sides as he turned in the direction of the staff. "MY MUM WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!"


And she was going to be soooooooooooooooo angry.

Making herself unseen was good in that she avoided being caught by the hag in one of her deadly traps. But it also meant saving her peers was useless because then she too would be under the hags spell. Everything seemed to unfold so quickly with the hag boiling a first year and attempting a bite from his ear to Draper and Mosley showing up and also being succumbed to her evilness and then disappearing to where, Tia didn't care.

But first order of business, the seventh year whipped out her wand to cast stupefy on the hag's bird that was about to join its pecking on herself. To which she successful evaded and shot a finite incantatem at Draper, because having a frozen adult was useless . ... His magic skills would be handier than her own, right?

The first year heard the headmistresses voice. Get a handle on him? What? RUDE! He was being attacked and cooked but no let's get a handle on his. HE WAS ANGRY! ANGRY! He thinks he has a right to be angry after everything that's been happening here today.

Hogwarts is so safe. Eye roll. More like run by a bunch of immature idiots that didn't know what they were doing. Even more so with hiring this hag.

NOT GOOD! NOT GOOOOD!

Who hired this idiot (Draper)? "You're an adult! You should know sarcasm!" UGH! Stupid adults. Bradson wasn't up for all this. He didn't want to tell the adults what he mean or what his tone of voice was. They should know that already. "I've got burns on me." He would be freaking out a little more about the burns but LOOK WHAT WAS GOING ON! This was what the apocalypse thing was all about? The of the world? This was the end of Hogwarts in his opinion.

The woman or whatever she really was deserved that head butt. Bradson rolled his eyes at the hag. Not a good idea? "NOT A GOOD IDEA? WHOEVER HIRED YOU SHOULD BE FIRED ALONG WITH YOU!" The Scottish boy was fuming! Stupid adults! He was really starting to hate grown ups now.

O___________O

What just happened? HIS EAR! SHE JUST BIT HIS EAR?! The first year just blinked as Professor Draper was pulling him away from the old hag.

He wasn't going to break the news to his grandmother. Brady shook his head and looked at Professor Draper. "Oh no. I'm not going to do that. You or the headmistress can tell my grandmother about his. You won't like her reaction at all." Brady shook his head again. As much as he loved his grandmother he wasn't going to be telling her in detail about this. Nope. Oh no they would hate it and they would probably poop their pants when they talked to her.

FROZEN?

Why was the man frozen? Bradson looked at the frozen Professor Draper. The hag, always the hag. Bradson looked around and up at the sky at the birds. He was considering just keeping him that. He was rude too! Honestly Brady didn't even know what to do. His burns hurt and his ear hurt. Brady noticed an older student (Tia) trying to help the professor. The only this Brady could do was shrug at the girl.

He’s got a bad feeling about this. Jace could hear warning bells go off inside his head as soon as the hag added some ingredient in her pot. The Ravenclaw was quick enough to cover his mouth and ears with his blue scarf. It was enough to make him dizzy, but it helped him stay conscious and AWARE of what was going on.

Everything happened so fast to be honest, and Jace was simply planted in his spot, obviously shocked at what he witnessed. He was sure that the hag placed the boy inside the pot of boiling water herself, and not the Hufflepuff simply falling in because of curiosity. It was a clash of logic really. If the hag was to accuse someone falling in, she should’ve picked someone from Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. Jace looked around when people started acting confused and dazed. This made him wrap the scarf tighter around his nose and mouth, and slowly inched away from where the hag was. What made him stand up was the sight of snakes...and students sprouting things out of their heads.

Merlin, help them.

As he got his bag from the ground, his hand brushed on someone else’s arm (Katherine) as he picked his things, and automatically dragged this person away from the smoke. He’d rather help just one than no one at all, right? “Come on, get up! Let’s get out of here!”

The smoke was a bit too thick for Jace to see where his friends are, but it was easier to spot Moxley and Draper since their outlines were bigger than the rest of them. A bit dizzy, he carefully scuttled towards the Headmistress, still dragging another student with him, and pulled on her sleeve. “She’s lying professor. The boy didn’t jump into the pot. She placed him there!” It was kind of hard to talk with his scarf wrapped snugly around his nose and mouth. Next time, he should learn how to cast a Bubble Head Charm on himself.

And...NO! What is that crazy bird doing!?!?!

It was mauling the headmistress! NO NO NO!!! Frustrated by the lies, and outraged by being fooled that they were going to learn things today, Jace quickly drew his wand from his chest holster, and fiercely immobilised the bloody black bird. “STUPEFY!!!”

Thank Merlin for oh-so-basic stunning spells. Did he get the bird though?

One moment the Moxinator was giving stern looks to the crazy lady and being tugged at by an antler-sporting Slytherin and the next, she was being ATTACKED!



The headmistress shrieked as the horrible bird scratched and pecked at her face, unable to manage anything other than swatting at it with her arm as best she could manage while trying to keep it away from her eyes. Luckily for her, the students seemed to be coming out of their stupor and two stunning spells were sent her way. Meant for the bird, surely, but one of them was a little off and hit the brunette square in the face. Yes, the Moxinator had been struck. As if this whole ordeal wasn't embarrassing enough. Here, have an unconscious headmistress, too.

This was NOT Moxley's day.

THIS, exactly this, was why people thought Hogwarts was one of the least safe institutions in the world. Didn't they prescreen staff before they began teaching her to check if they were cannibalistic witches or demons? It felt like a gross oversight on their part.

Also, she didn't plan on dying today. Her anxiety was keeping her mostly safe. Hiding, keeping her head down.

When the Headmistresses showed up to assist her students, as in Chloe, the blonde was somewhat relieved. Another person to throw in the line of fire of this evil hag so that Chloe could escape.

Speaking of escaping that was just what the hag did.

Once everything calmed down, Chloe huffed loudly, "Do we still get credit for today's lesson or...?"

...was ...that ...hahaha, this was so funny, did the boy know? He was in a pot! HEHEHE. Katherine LAUGHED... Why had she laughed, again?

"Whaaaaaa?" she said to the person (Jacen) whose name she could not remember for the time being but who was adamant on pulling her arm. "Stahp!" she said, it hurt and she was... what did he say? Leaving? How could one leave? But, apparently, Katherine didn't have to think for long, because the person with the hardest name ever was dragging her. It hurt, but she didn't fully realise that, as she was too busy trying to move. Aaaaaaaaah, it was SO hard to. Poor boy (or was he a she?) for having to drag her, because this girl ain't movin'.

That was, until Professor Draper and Moxley came and put out the fire.

But... Merlin wasn't here and what was Professor Draper doing without him? This was soooooooooo confusing and she felt useless. Still, she tried to watch what was going on. The smoke had begun to disappear a little now, so she could think a tiny bit more clearly.

1. She was being dragged.
2. The professors were here.
3. A kid was saved from the pot.
4. The Hag disappeared.

Luckily, she had missed the snakes around Blaise's legs, because she would probably have lost her mind at that. She truly owed this person her life, but she was still too confused to acknowledge that now. Instead, she stayed put on the spot Jacen (THAT was his name!) had dropped her to cast a spell at the bird and tried her BEST to think and move.

RESCUE!

Oh Merlin’s Beard as much as he disliked Professor Jerkface , he was still very happy to see him running towards the class with the Headmistress following. This was it, they would disarm the Hag and they would all be free again.

But of course, that would have been the perfect fantasy because reality never worked along did it? He watched as the bird of the Hag began to attack the Headmistress and Professor Jerkface seemed to be frozen on the spot by whatever magic the Hag had used. He tried to move again but he still couldn’t and he felt like a really useless Head Boy if he couldn’t even help anyone. He vaguely registered someone asking about credits for attending the lesson. He couldn't see who it was but he bet it was a Ravenclaw...

This frustrated him so much that he let out an annoyed groan and stared at the sky for a moment. The sky was pretty, actually, he could lie here for a while, just looking at it. Wasn’t that the point of this class? Cloud divination? Yoongi shook his head mentally. No wait, bad things were happening. Bad, confusing things. As he looked back with his eyes, the Gryffindor saw the Hag leaving.

What had happened? Come on! Unfreeze him, please!

Everything had just completely blown up in their faces.

The professors had come to the rescue, which was AWESOME, but then of course the hag had some tricks up her sleeve and all hell broke loose. She'd gotten away, bit the kid who was in the pot just to add insult to injury, and now people were screaming and crying and it was just awful.

AND NOW the Headmistress was down. Scarlett felt a bit bad for Jace, the kid she'd bonded with over her love for anime things, because she knew he hadn't MEANT to knock out Moxley but like...that was just terrible luck.

SHE hadn't been frozen, so she ran over to the professor and knelt down next to her. "Someone help please!" she cried. She didn't know how to revive someone who had been stunned, and she didn't want to try and make things worse. If someone didn't come soon she was going to start CRYING and that would just be the cherry on top of this terrible lesson...

O________O

What was going on here?! Kaycee got dizzy when the smoke started. And confused. And then the headmistress was there.

And..... there went the smoke. Okay. Okay. This was better. Expect... there was kid in the pot and YELLING.

... and... like...

She ducked and blindly swatted above her near her head. THE BIRD WAS GOING TO EAT THEM NOW! At least she had enough common sense right now to swat at it.

She grabbed at her wand and looked around. What were they supposed to do?!

"Is everyone okay?" she asked looking around. There was still yelling so she assumed nobody was okay. But, like, asking meant she cared a little and was at least trying, right?