(Dungeons) Re: Ghostly

[Professor Daniel Hubbles]

Dan was sitting in this office smiling to himself, life had been going well for him these past few months and everything seemed almost normal. The thing that made everything so wonderful was the prospect of not having to look upon Loren Hayes face ever, ever again. He did not have to worry when he saw a Ravenclaw with long brown hair as he knew it would not be her. Looking over the parchments on his desk he saw a very ruff slip of parchment with slightly faded ink on it. Picking it up he rubbed his stubble and read it carefully, it was not his handwriting but Girty’s.

‘We need more mooncalf tail. I find it works better then crushed belladonna’

Dan started at the parchment blankly wondering what she was going on about then it hit him. Stuffing it into his robe pocket and running to the calendar on his office wall he turned the pages over frantically and swore loudly. The full moon was in 4 days time and the potion had not been brewed.

Bursting out of his office Dan ran along the dark corridors towards the dungeons. He just hoped that the potion master was still awake. He heard him mumble something about having a detention and he had to hope they were still there. The further down Dan got in the castle the darker it seemed to get, but he had no time to muck about with his wand, he just wanted to get to the store cupboard get the stuff he needed then leave before he got dragged into doing more duties.

As Dan grew closer to the dungeons his pace quickened not caring if people heard him, and it seemed that someone had. Skidding to a halt Dan made sure he was not making it up and he had just heard a female voice say professor. Breathing heavily trying to get his breath back Dan sighted his back held his head high and tried to act as normal as possible as he walked over to where the voice came from.

“Hello? If someone is there do not worry I have no intention to get anyone in trouble. I was just looking for the potions master.”

Turing the corner in the corridor Dan saw a Ravenclaw standing by the near the entrance of the potions classroom. He shot her a small smile as he racked his mind trying to remember who it was, to him all Ravenclaw’s blurred together

[Professor Daniel Hubbles]

Dan looked at the girl hard still trying to work out who she was, the name Black kept popping into his head. ‘Jessica, no she does not have the face of a Jessica….Joanna, what who says it is a J….Dia would know.’ It was then he noticed a look shot across her eyes, like she had thought of something funny but did not want to show it. He might have tried to peruse this if Jhudora had not answered his question, and as soon as the words had left her mouth his heart sank. The stock room was locked.

Reframing himself from swearing once gain Dan pushed past her and looked into the room only paying a slight bit of attention to what the Ravenclaw was saying. If he had been full aware of the look that was till present in her eyes and the smile that was spreading across her face Dan might have been more curious about what he said but the mention of Girty almost reassured him. Without even looking over his shoulder Dan wondered further into the potions room with his wand drawn heading straight for the stock room door.

“Starsmore, no I have note seen….oh you mean Professor Owen.” A small smile filled Dan’s face at the mention of her name although it soon vanished as he tried to pull open the door only for it not to budge. “We went to Egypt, she wanted to see all the historic sights and I wanted to go looking for magical creatures. It was very enjoyable.”

As Dan crouched down to be eyes level with the handle he turned and gave Jhudora another grin before turning back pointing his wand at the handle trying a number of spells to open it up, but alas nothing worked.