Rosalyn was pleased when there were volunteers to help take the two girls to the Healer. Of course she would have gladly done it herself, but this way she could head directly to the Headmistress and tell her everything that had happened in detail as well as the fact that the students had made it out of the portal.

"Yes, that would be great. Just be very careful on the way and do make sure that you head back to your common rooms together." Since they were so close to each other that wouldn't be much of a problem. They were free to go now.

She was back here. This was the most hated place for her to patrol. As she walked towards the portal with her wand out, Natalia couldn't help but just stare at it. "I didn't mean it you know." She had been in a bad mood, bad things had happened, and she took it out on Rooney that day when he gave her an attitude. She hadn't really meant for the portal to eat him. Though she knew she said it to the portal.

"You are making this term a real pain. Just let them out and go away." Honestly she just wanted to see Henry safe. She'd never be able to face Esme again if he wasn't. Not that she could have saved him, but she held a badge, she should be doing something more than just standing her watching this stupid thing. Of course she wanted to see the other's as well, Rooney and the first year they said was in there.


Sliding down the wall she took her usual seat to do her portal watch duty.

This Portal thing.... for some reason Tenacius' Prefect rounds didnt involve this floor all that much. Was it because of what happened to him when it first appeared? Maybe, maybe not, but now that they were short one Prefect and more students have ended up missing, they had to do a lot more watch-dogging.

He rounded the corner and found the Head Girl "Hey Nat" he greeted her with a somber smile then sat himself next to her. He looked at the Portal and his brows knitted together "They've been gone for a while now havent they?" he murmured sadly. He didnt want to say that their classmates have perished, but he was thinking the possibility of it. He was there, he knows how unnerving it is to just spend the supposedly few minutes he was away, but the others have been gone for days. It wasnt looking good to him.

Nat was jumpy to say the least sitting near this portal so when she heard noises she jumped and pulled her wand up. When it was her fellow prefect she set her wand back in her lap and smiled as he sat next to her. "Hey I didn't realize you were on patrol with me here." She didn't honestly like tha the was this close to the portal again and tried to help make sure he hadn't been near it, but it wasn't realistic to not have him here once in awhile since he was a prefect. Nat couldn't help but have grown closer to Ace this term. He was sweet and a fun younger student.

She yawned a bit the term starting to take its toll on her, especially recently. From the extra corridor duties, to watching the portal, classes, homework, studying, and still fully recovering from her accident she was feeling more tired. Hearing the sad in his voice made her frown and she looked at the portal again before leaning against him a bit. "It's been awhile, but Rooney and Henry are good with their wands. I've seen them in duels. They'll protect each other and Carlton. They'll be found.. I'm sure of it." She was trying to convince herself as much as him that they would be alright.

"The best thing we can do is make sure we are protecting everyone else." That was the main focus for the prefects. The staff were handling how to get the portal kids out.

Laurel was on patrol again. After the three boys disappearance Regina had ordered that she and her staff colleagues were to escort the students everywhere they needed to go whether it was to classes or meals in the great hall, or just back to their common rooms. One location they patrolled extra heavily with the prefects assistance was the sixth floor corridor where the strange portal was located. Laurel held her hand close to her wand as she approached said portal. She didn't like it. It had an dark aura about it that made her feel uncomfortable and wary. And it was no wonder since it swallowed up students and then after some time spitted them back out. How they were going to get the boys out of the portal was something the whole staff team worked day and night with figuring out.

Spotting two prefects; Tenacious and Natalia sitting with their backs against the wall, chatting and watching the portal Laurel quietly headed over to them, blue eyes flashing between them as she greeted them. "Hello Natalia!, Hello Tenacious!" gesturing towards the portal she asked "Have you heard any sounds or seen anything shift in the portal?"

Paul dragged his feet. Would there be any luck TODAY? the FIFTH DAY of the boys being missing? He was on patrol tonight, too, and he was tired, cranky, and just...sad. Sad sad about Henry. Carlton, too...and Rooney. Ugh. His heart was broken. And Olivia wasn't even...

He took a deep breath before going his way past the portal as he passed through the sixth floor. Laurel was there, and two prefects, too. Natalia and Tenacius. He gave them a droopy wave before peering towards the portal, sighing.

"No sign of anything weird yet, guys?" Sounds, as Laurel said?

As Rooney collided with the hard corridor floor he groaned and curled up, not even thinking that he was back in the proper place he should have been. He could still smell whatever it was he could smell earlier and he was positive it was still the same sort of lighting his eyes had just grown accustomed to. However, he did have his eyes closed and another groan left him when he opened them. BLIND. He was blind. Forget thinking that the light of the portal had been bright...this was...blinding!!! But he still tried to get to his feet.. Knees first, and then clambering to stumble, eyes squinting enough to just make out the figures around him.

"C..Carlt...Carlton??! Hen..ry??" Nope.. He was still a little disorientated.

And felt very sick, still.

Resting his hands on the wall, the Ravenclaw retched and then threw up.

All over the Head Girl's head.

"B'sobry..."

If the Slytherin Head Girl was trying her best to reassure the young Gryffindor, it was working real good. Her words gave him a bit more hope than he had earlier. Yeah their classmates were gonna be ok. He nodded his head with a renewed sense of purpose, they should protect everybody else still here yeah? Yeah!

He stood up upon seeing the Professors join them "All's quiet in the Western Front Professors." Or was this the Eastern front? Eh directions... he'll figure that out later.

But no sooner has he said that that he saw the Portal behave strangely, or at least it was strange to him. It looked like it was ready to throw up or something gross that could only come from a slimy sticky tear in the fabric of time and space--

-- and BAM! Hello Rooney.

"ROONEY!!" he hollered both in great relief and shock. He was about to run over and HUG the Ravenclaw when---

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Ok looks like Nat is gonna need a shower.

"You're alive! This is awesome!!" the Gryffindor beamed at the blonde from a relatively safe arms length away. Because pat pat pat at least he gets that. Tenacius is a sympathetic boy-- vomiting being one of them so he's staying riiiiiight here.

Carlton had somehow managed to get his wand back into his hands before he was shoved forward towards and through the portal by the older boys. He stumbled, or limped through with both hands grabbing his wand in front of him as hard as he could. This corridor didn't have any sticky membrane (except the one still covering him and freezing him to his bones), it didn't have any tendrils and there were people there. There were adults there. But where was his most important people? Rooney was leaning towards a wall, still alive. And... Henry? Carlton opened his mouth to say something, maybe call for Henry, maybe to call for help. But no words formed. He stood with his knuckles pale grasping his wand, arms fully outstretched before him. Rooney had told him to get his wand out, so he had. And hadn't put it away after that. When he realized he had his back facing the portal, he quickly backed away from it, refusing the monster another chance to lunge at him. His back hit the corridor wall and there he stood, still in the same stance as before.

Carlton couldn't believe he was really safe, that it was really safe to lower and put his wand away. So he didn't. His robe was shredded along the side, he was covered in cold membrane, eyes wide open in fear, body trembling and his gaze fixed upon something in the distance. He didn't know the people around him, didn't recognize them and didn't look at them. All he saw was the monster, with its jaw snapping inches away from his face.

It seemed Paul had spoken too soon. As soon as he had asked his question, and Tenacius had answered, the portal had.....spit the boys right out.

Paul felt his heart do..something very strange, in between a lurch, seeing Carlton covered in that stuff which was VERY frightening because who knew what that stuff could do?! and fluttering around in PRAISE MERLIN vibes. He didn't really have any words, either, but rushed forward, instinctively, to Carlton, the youngest of the crew. He heard Rooney throwing up. That was to be expected. No judgements, here.

He siphoned some of the goo off of his hair and pulled the boy in for a hug. "Hospital Wing...NOW," Paul said in a concerned way before letting go of Carlton. "Where is Henry????" The Hufflepuff. Wasn't there an old joke, it was always the Hufflepuffs, wasn't it? He hoped not today. Henry better appear from that Portal in 3.5 seconds or Paul was jumping in there after him. He could not explain to Henry's parents, again, bad news. He wouldn't.

"Rooney--" Paul summoned some towels from somewhere---they most likely were coming from the Hospital Wing---and draped one across Carlton, and then around the retching Rooney. "Get it aaallll out, Rooney." Did he smell urine, too?

Paul waved his wand and an enormous bearcat shot off in the direction of the Headmistress' office, or wherever she might be currently. He watched his patronus fade.

Merlin, Paul just...had no words for how he felt right now. Number one priority: getting them to the Hospital wing.

Addison had been having a quiet morning back at the ministry. Nothing much out of the ordinary had happened there. At least not until she had gotten an owl requesting the presence of herself and some of her department at none other then Hogwarts. There hadn't been very much information given in this note only that the situation was urgent and the staff and Headmistress were baffled by the current situation that was taking place.

So Addi had done the only thing she could do. The blonde dropped everything she was doing and called an emergency meeting of her department team. The little bit of information she had been given was then told to her team before they all departed to Hogwarts. Upon arrival the met with the Headmistress to see what else they could find out.

It was shortly after that the pregnant women found herself walking through the corridors she had walked years earlier as a student here. Just as she rounded the corridor voices floated towards her and was that the sounds of someone vomiting? Yes, yes it was. She had reached the small group that was already there just in time to catch a glimpse of one of the teens become sick all over the place.

Before she could register what was happening a much younger boy toppled out of-

What in the name of Merlin was that thing?!

Addi held up a hand as whom she assumed was a professor was cleaning off the younger boy. "Please do not clean all of whatever that might be off the boy, I would like a small sample to take with me," she spoke to Paul kindly. "Oh, dear, forgive me. I'm Addison Anders, Head of the Department of Mysteries." She had nearly forgotten to introduce herself.

Getting these children to the Hospital Wing was a wonderful idea and she did agree but in order to find out what was happening she would need to know everything she could. Examine everything she could. "Did they all just come out of that-that thing? Is there anyone here that could stay behind and speak with us while these young men go see the Healer?" Us being her and her team whenever they made it here from speaking to the Headmistress. The other boys could be spoken to later on when they were cleaned up and feeling better.

Henry fell through the portal and back into the real world about as gracefully as he had been thrown into the alternate universe. And as he lay on the floor of the sixth floor corridor, the sensory overload of intensely bright lights - as compared to the darkness he had grown accustomed - and noises became harshly apparent. Noises. People. He had instinctively thrown an arm over his eyes to shield them from the light and also because he wasn't completely sure where he was. It was nearly a defense mechanism.

But he could hear voices and he scrambled up enough to moved back against the wall, huddling there, his breathing labored as he squinted out the bright light to try to make sense of who was there. Carlton... Rooney.. ? Yes. They were here and they.. they were safe, right? They were all safe now? His eyes tried to focus on who he thought was his head of house before Henry, mentally and physically exhausted, collapsed back against the wall.

Nat hoped she was helping her fellow prefect, but to admit she wasn't feeling hopefull herself. It had been days since they went missing and she really wasn't sure. Before anything else could be said professors were coming over. Was there a staff meeting that she wasn't aware of? "Hello professors." Professor M looked a bit ill. She hoped he was alright. "We are just making sure no one else is going in." Her eyes went back to the portal. Stupid thing was just annoying as all get out.

More words couldn't even be said because something was happening at the portal and Natalia didn't have time to get up when boys were falling through and and ROONEY WAS PUKING ON HER HEAD!!!!

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"WHAT THE HELL!"

She was happy they were safe, but the entire corridor he couldn't puke somewhere else! She jumped up and jumped right next to the portal without thinking just trying to get away from the puke. If he hadn't just come back from the portal Nat would have probably sent a few hexes at him or thrown him in the portal herself.

She heard the adults and some random adult but SHE HAD PUKE ON HER! "Oh no this puke is getting cleaned off. You can not expect me to leave it for you." She didn't need the inners of Rooney anyway, she need what was on the boys.

What in the...? There was entirely too much happening. He glared at the ministry woman. "I am getting my children to the hospital wing ASAP---if you want your goo, I'll send some over. But I am not letting this child stand with that gunk on him any longer--you have ZERO idea what it could be!" He snipped, harshly, at her. He took a vial from his pocket, where he kept quite a few of them for Herbology reasons, scooped some off of Carlton, and handed the Mysteries woman her goo.

And then, he cleaned Carlton up. Ridiculousness. Ministry people were ridiculous.

HENRY!

OH SWEET MERLIN!

Paul rushed forward once more, a towel in hand, pulling Henry in for a hug. "You're safe! You're good! Henry!" Paul cried. "Come on--there's too many people here--"

And WHAT HAD SHE JUST ASKED?

DID ONE OF THEM WANT TO STAY?

Could Paul strangle her?

"These children have just been through an ORDEAL. I am getting them to the HOSPITAL WING." Oh. Had she mentioned "while these boys go see the Healer?" Yes, she had. Paul's feisty was coming out, and he cleared his throat. "I mean--yes. The prefects can...stay behind. I suppose." He cast a glance at Natalia, gave his wand a wave, and cleaned her off. "If you two don't mind talking to the Mysteries people?"

THEY NEEDED TO GO. MERLIN'S PANTS. CHILDREN WERE AT STAKE.

Adam had attempted to stick to Addison like glue. He hadn’t attended Hogwarts and he certainly didn’t know his way around it. From what an old friend had told him about the place thought, it would have been very easy for him to get lost, or stuck on a moving staircase and then what good would he be. However, Addison had moved remarkable fast for a pregnant woman and he had been hard pressed to rein in his golden retriever-ness and pay attention to where he was going. He guessed her motherly instincts had kicked in upon hearing children were missing...

He had been so far behind, he completely missed the student reappearing out of thin air.

“Nein!“ Adam called out as he turned the corner and heard Addison saying something about collecting a sample. Adam didn’t care about the fact that he was yelling at this boss or that he was yelling in German (as he tended to when upset or excited). He was more concerned about her and her baby’s safty. A pregnant woman should NOT touch anything that was out of the ordinary or that she wans’t familiar with. "Don’t you touch it,“ he called to Addison reaching into his robes for one of the many viles he kept on his person (for collecting the odd potion ingreident he might come across). If anyone was going to put themselves in danger, it was Adam. Adam who was signle with nobody but his dad around to worry about him.

Adam took note of the boy huddled on the floor as he hurried up to Addison. He wasn’t exactly sure what she wanted a sample of. “Vhat do you…ah!” he then spotted the boy covered in something slimy. (He purposefully avoided the vomit.)
Adam pulled what looked like a popsicle stick out of a robe pocket. He squatted down next to the boy. Bottle in one hand, popsicle stick in the other. “May I?” he asked, his German accent heavy and guttural sounding in the halls. There was a reason Adam worked with potions. His bedside manner stunk, he was awkward even with adults, and he was worse with children.

Laurel was eyeing the portal wishing that it could fulfil the wish that was on everyone's mind when Paul joined her and the prefects by the portal. He basically echoed her question and then everything happened so fast that Laurel only had time to grip her wand tightly before Rooney, Carlton and Henry fell out of the portal.

All three boys looked horrific even if Laurel was so relieved that they had come back to the castle which she spluttered out. "I'm so glad you are all back safe boys.........." They were though covered in goo, retching, trembling, having torn clothes and just looked for lack of better word completely traumatized. She didn't want to even guess what ordeal they had been through when they had been gone. Paul took charge of the situation in a frenzy ordering the boys to go to the hospital wing with him without stop to get healed by River.

Laurel was going to see how Natalia was feeling considering that Rooney had puked all over her hair when they were joined by a ministry madam that had the nerve to request of them to save goo for her. It wasn't top priority here, couldn't she see that? Seriously...........

Paul looked quite ready to strangle the woman of the department of mysteries. Locking eyes with her colleague Laurel intervened. "Paul, take the boys with you to hospital wing to get healed and cared for by River. I'll stay behind with the prefects to answer all the ministries questions and I'll send a patronus to River to alert him that you all are coming."

Pulling her wand out Laurel cast her patronus and watched her lynx sprint away with its message to River before she turned her attention to the snake prefect. "Are you all right Natalia? You aren't feeling dizzy or nauseous or anything?" Laurel had no idea if Rooney's puke could make Natalia sick, but it was best not to risk it.

Taking a breath Laurel turned to the ministry woman Anders and answered her earlier question in a short but polite tone. "Yes, the three boys did just come out of the portal. Today was the fifth day since they had gone missing, swallowed up by the portal. We are so relieved that they are back."

Rooney may have just heaved out everything that was in his system, but he still felt like he more to give. He was muttering his apologies to Natalia over and over as he leaned against the wall himself, eyes closed and slowing his breathing as best as he could. He understood her loud reaction, but it wasn't like he had been able to help it. Had she not noticed that he was already covered in his own gross? Because he had now grown so used to it all that he couldn't quite identify that the smell was himself. When he did open his eyes and his vision focused, he was greeted with more people than he thought were there, and boy were they being louder than he needed them to be....especially Tenacuis and his hollering.

His head was already pounding from the screaming before coming back her, from both Carlton and the-- oh no, the monster! "Natalia, move away from there! The m.. Whatever it is. It was there with us." And fortunately for her, he didn't want her to be taken and have whatever happen to her that had happened to him. Because Rooney Bronwyn wasn't a bad person, unlike what the Head Girl thought of him.

He moved closer to Professor Myers, just as Carlton joined them finally. He carefully prised the first years wands out of his hand and put it into his holster for him. "It's okay now, Carlton. We're okay...safe..." And he wasn't going to be letting the Slytherin out of his sight for as long as he was physically allowed. Breathing through another urge to throw up, Rooney missed them being joined by staff from the Ministry of Magic, but stepped protectively in front of Carlton at the fuss to get whatever it was that he was covered in. "No. Leave him alone! You're not taking him anywhere!" Luckily, Professor Myers had stepped in and given a vial across and cleaned Carlton up properly, just in time for them to be joined by Henry.

"Henry! Henry, you're okay!" Thankfully.

They were all okay, weren't they?

Wait...what...?

The Ravenclaw turned to look at Professor Vance as he got ready to head to the Hospital Wing. "What d..do you mean? Five days? We.. We've been gone five days???" What? Was that right?

Carlton's eyes flickered in panic between all the people. Students, teachers, strange people he'd never met before. Too much. It was too much. He didn't react when professor Myers cleaned his face. He just stood, arms still outstretched holding a shaking wand. He wouldn't lower his wand until someone told him it was safe. And the arrival of more people didn't assure him of that.

Then someone took his wand out of his hands and Carlton looked up at Rooney. What was he supposed to do with his hands? He lowered his arms and stood silent next to Rooney, watching how Henry got out of the portal as well. Both Henry and Rooney were safe. Carlton stood, almost backed in a corner by all the people, but felt a hundred times better with Rooney by his side.

Then as soon as professor Myers left his side to tend to Henry, a man with a weird accent crouched down in front of him.

No.

Carlton immediately stumbled backwards, away from the stranger as Roo stepped out in front of him.

He had a sudden urge to just flee from the whole situation. He didn't want to be there in the middle of the crowd, stared at like an animal at the zoo. None of the conversations that went on around him registered at all, he didn't hear any of it. He just wanted to go home.

There were a lot of people talking, and yelling, and it really was overwhelming for the Hufflepuff. And no sooner had he slouched down against the wall then he was being hoisted up...? Not understanding right away that it was a hug, Henry froze for a moment, his initial instinct to push away, to run. His eyes beginning to get accustomed to the light, he realized that it was Professor Paul and he awkwardly put his arms around him, hugging back, as he pulled himself the rest of the way to his feet and let out a shuddering breath. Professor Paul. His Head of House. His favorite. He would make sure they were okay.

He clung to Paul's robes as the man spoke harshly to some others that he did not recognize. Henry couldn't really register what was going on. All he knew was that he needed to be away from here, away from the prying eyes and strange voices and over-stimulation. Hearing his name, his eyes snapped to Rooney and he simply nodded, as if he needed someone to tell him that he was okay to confirm that he really was. And then his eyes went to Carlton as a strange man invaded his personal space.

His instinct was to protect the boy and he let go of the professor's robes to stand over next to him along with Rooney. "No," he told the man as he set his jaw, finally finding his voice. "Go away. We aren't some lab rats." These strangers were not going to poke and prod at them, least of all the first year. And they needed to leave them alone.

There was really too much going on for Henry to follow all of it and he didn't catch the Divination professor's comments. But he did hear Rooney's question back to her. What...? He looked first at him then at Professor Paul in confusion. What five days...? It had only been this morning... or yesterday morning? was it after midnight? that he was pulled into that place. What were they talking about?

She put her wand away before she used it on one of these new people surrounding them. She just stood there just watching everything and trying to calm down from the puke. Thankfully professor M cleaned her up, "Thank you, Professor." She took a few deep breaths before looking at everyone. "Yes take them to the hospital wing we can stay here and talk to these people." Who were they anyway? She had missed the introduction with the puke being her distraction.


She was getting annoyed as the other random person started trying to take stuff from the students. Rooney and Henry jumped so she stayed put where she was. "I'm pretty sure the professor told you not to do that." Ridiculous when adults couldn't follow simple directions. "No I'm fine professor. Don't worry about me worry about them." The concern needed to be with the boys. They looked very upset and out of sorts.

She looked to Rooney as he told her to move away, which was when she realized she was standing so close to it. "Did you get a look at it?" She turned to actually face the portal. Could she just send something in there to blow it up? Without looking at any of them again she decided to add to the professor's words. "They aren't the first to go in there either. A few other students have been sucked in, but they were brought back out a lot quicker." Finally her eyes shifted back to the group.

"They keep saying there is growling coming from that." Talking with her hands she pointed towards the portal. "There has to be a way to just blow the thing up to make it go away, right? It has opened in other places as well to take them. Not just here."

Blowing it up? Really? Rooney wasn't in the mood to roll his eyes, and instead sighed. "You can't guarantee there isn't anyone else in there!" And as for the growling... He tried not to close his eyes, because he could just see the very thing that was going to stick in his nightmares from now on if he did that. "It's not just growling. There's..something in there. A monster? A creature? Nothing I've seen in my textbooks..." And it had tried to eat the three of them, actually coming pretty close to it, even.

People needed to stop thinking of it as a mystery or just growling. They had seen what it was. They had tried to keep it at bay. And they had only just gotten away.

The former Astronomy professor had hung back a little when they arrived at Hogwarts, deciding instead to feel out other spaces of the castle rather than make a direct beeline here with the rest. When he did finally arrive, he raised a hand to silence such notions about blowing this magical phenomenon up in the name of science.

Sweet solstice...would it be horrible of him to be just a tiny bit giddy over this reminding him of an episode from Star Trek?

"I understand your concern,, Miss Franks-Mundie," Airey said without introduction upon his approach. "But I am going to agree with Mr. Bronwyn. For not at least. Administering any sort of magic on this particular...entrance...could cause even further catastrophic results on the spacetime continuum. We may be in the presence of a space-time singularity right now for all we know...and if you all recall from our study of black holes...this here could be a direct and tangible result of the cosmic Russian doll that is believed to be our universe..." he explained as he approached the portal a bit closer with wide and eager blue eyes.

Fascinating.

Lovely to see you all again, by the way. Live long and prosper.

Kitty had just finished escorting three first years to the nearest bathroom (obviously in a castle as big as Hogwarts, there were bathrooms on every level) and was headed back to the library when she heard a whole lot of talking and shouting going on in a place she was very certain all students had been banned from.

Oh no, she thought to herself in a panic - more students haven't been taken, have they? She hurried towards the dreaded six level corridor...and froze, mouth hanging open in astonishment.

"ROONEY!" She threw her arms around her co-prefect and sobbed uncontrollably for a few moments. "You're safe, I knew you'd be! I've been so worried about you!" After a few moments she released him and turned to Carlton and Henry. "And you too! Everyone's missed you guys terribly."

And she was not at all embarrassed about her display of emotion in front of all these adults, not one bit. Speaking of which...

"Are you going to be our teacher again, Professor Flamsteed?" she asked the former Astronomy professor.

It wasnt long after he was deliriously pat patting the hurling Rooney that the Portal spat out another student, and then another "Carlton! Henry!!!" OMG the little one and his Hufflebuddy is ALIVE. They get a HUG, shakey, stinky, shellshocked and all. And yeah he noted that they also smelled kinda funky. Was he as bad as this? Seemed to him that they had it worse.....

Then there were all THESE PEOPLE. It was like the scientists from ET storming into the little boy's home. Tenacius backed away a bit as all these big adults got fussy and their Professors got even fussier. Uhm uhm ok he just gonna let the big busy important people do their thing.

He heard Nat say something about blowing up the Portal "NO!" he blurted out, pretty much echoing along with Rooney "Also what if that doesnt work and it just makes this hole BIGGER? Then it will make it easier for whatever that growly thingy to come through."

But WAIT! Is that AIREY he sees??

"PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED!!!!!11!" he yelled out as he FLYING TACKLED his former Head of House with the full weight of an almost 15 year old. Quite different from the ickle firstie of yesteryear innit? "HOWAREYOUSIR?IMISSEDYOU!LOOKIMMAPREFECT!IWENTINTO THATPORTALTOO!HOWCOULDYOUJUSTLEAVEWITHOUTSAYINGOOD BYE??!???!????"

He has a lot to say.

The amount of commotion here was insane.

Addison had thought she'd seen quite a bit of excitement and crazy happenings at the ministry but this was just a whole other ballpark. Children tumbling out of that large glowing portal in the wall, vomiting, shouts, terror, all the different scents that were now assaulting her nose. It was enough to shake anyone let alone a rather pregnant women how was doing her best to keep her cool.

When the shouting coming from one of the professors was directed solely at herself Addison had to keep from shouting right back at the man. She wouldn't at all have allowed that to happen in her department but she had the better judgement to remember that this wasn't her area. Hogwarts while it used to be her school and where her niece had just graduated from last term, it wasn't where she worked. The man must be terrified about the safety of his students and therefore she took his yelling in stride. For clearly he must not have heard her say that he should get them to the hospital wing, or that he should clean them up. Either way she kept silent for just a minute accepting the vial of goo that was handed to her by Paul once he calmed down. "Thank you." Her turned her attention to Adam who was crouched down in front of the youngest child. "It's quite alright Adam I didn't touch anything. Let the boy go to the Healer with the others." she held up the vial she had been handed to show him it was alright.

Addison shifted her blue eyes away from the students and onto whom she now saw was the Head Girl once she had gotten herself cleaned up. Wasn't she friends with Hadleigh? Ugh...never mind that. A lot was being said and she nodded once at the professor who was letting her know how long these boys had been missing. "Is there somewhere we can talk so that we're not all standing in the middle of this corridor?" she asked Laurel. A classroom, an office or something. Just somewhere they could sit and talk about what was happening while the other students went to the healer.