Divination Lesson #5: Comets

[mistressofdarkness]

Erika saw Thom give her the finger out of the corner of her eye and slowly turned to face him with a glacier-cold glare. "I sincerely hope that you did not just do what I think you did!" she said with an icy tone.

[Thom Moen]

"Oh, and what are you going to do?" he said viciously, anger raging inside him suddenly.

[mistressofdarkness]

Erika smiled coldly. "This" she replied simply before crying "Expelliarmus!" and disarming the Hufflepuff so he couldn't counterattack. Then with one swift movement she had both arms pinned behind his back. "You were saying...?" she asked sweetly

[Thom Moen]

(( Damn you, making me fight. ))

Thom gasped loudly, the pain in his shoulders throbbing across his chest. His wrist were in an iron vice that he could not break. Glancing to the floor, he glared at his wand, it's wood dull and ugly. Little prat, he thought to his wand. Move, MOVE...

"Is t-this how you solve all you're pr-problems?" Thom wheezed through the pain in his shoulders. "A little tactless if you ask me!"

[mistressofdarkness]

((lol... hey, you should've read the bio. then you would know not to piss me off!))



Erika pretended to ponder the question while gripping the Hufflepuff's arms even tighter. "No. Not reallly. Only if you piss me off!" she replied. "And you my friend seem intent on doing just that!" with those words, Erika let go of Thom's arms and shoved him away from her. She glared down at him as he fell to the floor. "Now, the next time you decide that it would be funny to piss me off, you'll remember this little confrontation. Won't you?" she asked coldly.

[Thom Moen]

Thom gritted his teeth, thoroughly humilated.

Snatching up his wand, he stood up and spun around to face Erika. "Densaugeo!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.

A firey orange display of sparks whipped from the end of his trembling wand. It smashed into Erika's face, knocking her back a little. For a moment there was silence, and Erika's teeth began to grow...

(( Bwahaha! ))

[mistressofdarkness]

((hey!))


Erika gasped as her teeth began to grow.But she really wasn't concerned. after all, her magic was very strong. She didn't know why. But it was. And she could also do wandless and non-verbal magic. She smiled as she said the countercurse in her head and her teeth resumed their normal size. Then with a wicked grin, she disarmed the Hufflepuff once more. "Stupefy!" she screamed.


((okay... I have no clue if there's even a contercurse for that, but i'm just gonna pretend that i know it!))


((hey! you know Jordy, you still haven't answered my PM. oh and just so you know, Thom started it!))

[Prof. Algernon Moncrieff]

Algernon pulled out his wand almost boredly, casting two spells in quick succession. "Stupify! Stupify!" Thom and Erika fell to the floow, knocked out. Smiling up at the rest of the class as if nothing had happened, he asked, "So. Does anyone know what I'm getting at?"



((Sorry for the modding. We were all posting at once and it didn't make sense. Please repost, Thom!))

[Thom Moen]

(( Oh you grasser, Erika! And get on the floor dammit, you're knocked out too! xD ))

Thom lay on his back on the floor, mouth partly open, spread eagle with his arms sprawled above his head like an odd-looking star. His wand quivered in his palm slightly, as if pleased with it's masters current state. It always had been a disloyal thing...

[mistressofdarkness]

Erika lay on her back, in the same position as Thom. Her wand however, was in her pocket. Well, isn't this humiliating? she thought angrily. Moen is so dead!

[Thom Moen]

If Thom could sigh, it would have been a heavy one. He could feel his wand jostling about, and wished with all his might that he could crush it between his fingers right there and then. Karew... I can't believe how much of a temper she had. That'll get her into many more fights in the future, he thought resentfully.

Thom could hear Moncrieff walking around, and wondered when he would be able to come out of his stupor.

(( cough ))

[Helia Ollivander]

She thought a moment, "If magic attracts magic, then wouldn't it be possible, especially with a school full of magic like this one, to... to call the comet out of they sky and use the magic inside it?" she asked a bit skeptically.

[Prof. Algernon Moncrieff]

"You have quite an intuition for this sort of this, Helia!" Algernon told her, smiling at her through the darkness. "I know I can always count on you for the right answer. 10 points again. Yes, as the comet passes over the school, because it is more magically powerful, will pull its magic toward us, causing spells to be considerably more effective for about a day or so. And now..." Algernon peered into the lense once more, "It's time to watch it go by. It isn't important to watch, understand, but, well, it's quite pretty comet!" He laughed, stepping away. "Ms. Ollivander, you can go first because of all your wonderful answers, then everyone else after her, while I revive these two... troublemakers."


Algernon walked over to the prone bodies of his students, crouching beside them, and pressed his wand to each of their foreheads. The comet would be passing over in less than a minute, and it was imporant to do this before the magic became stronger, for fear of burning their minds out. "Ennervate," He cast, twice.

"It'll take a moment for the effects of the stunning spell to wear off completly, but I know you can hear me. I'm sorry for having to stun you both, but you were being rediculous. Now, I'm feeling nice, so I'm only going to take 20 points from each of your houses. But please don't let it happen again, alright?"

[mistressofdarkness]

Erika sighed defeatedly. "Yes sir." she paused then said "Um professor, think you can help me up? My legs are a little wobbly."

[Thom Moen]

Thom, although still unmoving, let out a long pained groan. "Yessir..." he muttered faintly, his dreary voice not enough to express the rage he was still feeling.

He was willing to let his and Karew's brawl rest. For now.