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[hih_dumbledore]

Week Name/Date/Time: 'Books of Mystery' / Thursday, October 20th / 5 a.m.
Location: Starting in the Ravenclaw Boys' Dormitory, heading to Juhi!
Open To: Mason, Juhi, others
Currently Involving: Floating treats and tricks

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[juhi_saraf]

Juhi groaned as the sound of thumping reached her ears. Now what? Really, Ravenclaw Tower had been quiet and subdued all term, a fact for which she, personally, had been grateful.

Her bed was so waaaaarm. She rolled over and tried not to listen. She didn't REALLY want to know, did she? And the sound wasn't THAT loud, was it? Okay, well, it was far away, so it was probably bothering the boys, but then again that meant the boys were CAUSING it. Probably fighting for fun or something equally batty.

.....at five a.m.? Not likely. She sighed and wondered if Sebby was awake. Five a.m. was too early even for HER. Then there was a loud bang, almost like an explosion, and the thumping stopped. Juhi swore under her breath, and sat up, throwing the bed curtains open and grabbing her wand.

She'd not even stopped to put on her slippers, and she padded down the stairs in her flannel pajama pants and Chudley Cannons t-shirt, rubbing her eyes and pulling her messy hair out of her face. She reached the common room and stopped, breathing as quietly as she could, the better to listen. Ugh. There were people coming.

((OOC: I'm out of town till tomorrow afternoon, so this may be my only response until then! Also: HEEEEEE!))

[emogen_ackart]

Emmy was quite enjoying her sleep when a loud thumping started from the direction of the boys' dormitory. She groaned and rolled over. Why wasn't Sebastian after whoever was causing it, already? It was his job as prefect, wasn't it?

Then there was an explosion and Emmy sat bolt upright in bed, "Oh no. What was that?" she mumbled to herself. Whatever it was, it was sure to have some interesting results that she didn't want to miss out on. She was wide awake at the prospect of things now, so she decided to get up and join in the... er, fun? Danger? Well, whichever. Pushing aside her bed curtains, she tumbled out of bed and into her slippers. She grabbed her wand from her bedside table, and her robe from the top of her trunk, then moved out into the hall.

She spotted Juhi already descending the stairs and struggled to pull her robe on over her pajamas. "Hey! Juhi! Wait up!" she whispered loudly, following the other girl down the stairs. Reaching the common room, she found only Juhi, "What are the boys up to, I wonder?"

She trained her eye on the staircase that led to the boys' dormitory, hearing the distinct sound of male feet descending. One could always tell when the boys were about to appear in the common room. They never walked lightly or softly. She smirked to herself, as she stood beside her mate, waiting.

[mason_g]

Mason began to fun flailingly down the stairs. Wait? Wassat yelling at him. Oh, Jory. He looked back up the stairs. He gave him a patient look, even though he wasn't feeling very patient. "Oi! I'm trying my hardest. I didn't ask for them to start walking away, now did I?" He continued down the stairs.

Wait, did that wake the girls. Because he was sure he heard girls voice. Emmy. Yes, Emmy. He jumped the last five steps, grasping for his stuff, but, alas, he landed with a thud, face down.

"Oi. Hello ladies." Juhi. It had to go back to her.

[jory_elecott]

Yawning, Jory ran a hand through his hair and followed Mason down the stairs, still a bit out of it. He watched with idle, sleepy curiosity as Mason landed on his own face and winced in sympathy.

Turning his attention back to the floating objects, he sighed. "All right." Pointing his wand at the one closest to him, Jory muttered, "Impedimenta."

Either it wasn't working or he had missed horribly, because Mason's stuff was still moving. Jory whistled softly and stored his wand in the pocket of his pajamas, only then noticing the presence of Emmy and Juhi.

He chuckled nervously, embarrassed to be seen in his pajamas, and tried to slink into the shadows. "Oh. Uh, hi."

[sebbyrivera]

Of course Sebastian had been awake, for when had a measly hindrance like 'pre-dawn' stopped him?... from not being able to sleep and so obsessively reorganizing the books some first years had decided to muss up in the Common Room?

That's right, hardly ever. Leaving him dressed and almost fully awake at 5 o'clock in the morning wandering about the many bookshelves. He'd stopped his reshelving long enough to give the boy's dormitory a very confused look, as he was quite sure it was thumping. And then Mason ran out followed by Jory preceded by Juhi and Emmy and... okay. Either it was much later in the morning than he had anticipated or there was something else afoot. Like... Sebastian squinted at whatever Mason was flailing after, and turned to raise a very tired eyebrow at Juhi.

"Er... Mason? Having trouble are we?" that's right, enact your prefectness by asking thoroughly vague questions.

[juhi_saraf]

Juhi gave an indistinct growl in answer to Emogen's question. "I don't KNOW what they are up to, and I honestly don't think I CARE. I just want them to stop." She sighed, and folded her arms across her chest, just then noticing Sebby. She blinked at him, and yawned in greeting.

Mason. Juhi had leaned foward slightly as one set of footsteps apparently disappeared into thin air, and when he came flying into view and crashed into the floor in front of them she understood he had jumped. "Hello, Gibbs." Not happy. Sleepy. And...she nodded at the other boy, somewhat surprised to see him. "Jory. Mason wake you up, then?"

She rolled her eyes at the other prefect. You're the BOY, Sebastian, Merlin knows I can't guess what they're up to, but nodded in approval at his question. Juhi was just turning back to the other two for an explanation when she noticed something floating in the air right in front of her. She threw her arms up to cover her face, and gasped, taking two rapid steps backward, her heart pounding. Apparently those defense lesson hadn't made her any more observant. Then she lowered her arms slowly and studied the objects. Was that a piece of candy? Were those dungbombs? She shot Emmy a look, her eyes wide, and addressed the room in general.

"Right. What the bloody hell is going on?"

[emogen_ackart]

Emmy smiled at Juhi's apparent grumpiness. She'd probably be grumpy about being awoken so early if she weren't so interested in what on earth was going on in the tower. Things like this weren't the usual for Ravenclaw; it was much more likely to happen in Gryffindor, if the stories were true. So she was much too excited to be sour.

Then she spotted Sebastian already downstairs and chuckled. He was apparently organizing the books again. Oh, dear. She wondered if he'd ever give it up. The younger years inevitably mussed them every year, yet he still kept at it. She shook her head, still chuckling.

Then Mason literally fell, face first, into the common room, with Jory right behind him. She nodded to both of them, "Morning!" with a cheerful smile. She'd let the prefects deal with the business of punishment, if there was need for it. She was mostly here to observe.

Then she noticed the things dancing about in the air. Candies? Dungbombs? And why were they so insistently following Juhi? What was going on? When Juhi shot her that look, Emmy's own eyes were just as wide in confusion. She agreed whole-heartedly with Juhi's question. She turned and stared at Mason. They had to be his things, certainly. Surely he knew what had happened.

[mason_g]

Mason raised himself up off the ground, and dusted himself off. Okay, that would more than liekly leave a mark. He saw once more, that his stuff kept floating after Juhi. He grabbed at them once more, but they rose well above his reach, and as soon as he lowered his hands, they lowered themselves.

Well, now, what was this? Sebastian? Of course, he was doing something with the books, per usual. Mason shook his head slightly. Poor chap, took being as Ravenclaw as job, and thought he had to live up to the sterotype.

..."Erm...'ello Juhi, Emmy, Sebby, Jory." Yeah, what was he supposed to say. He looked at them all, slightly embarrased, as he was in his pajama bottoms, with no shirt on.

He winced as Juhi asked for an explanation. "Well, I should bloody well be asking you the same question, Juhi Saraf. I was just simply sleeping, and then the thumping started, and my trunk exploded, and my stuff started floating down here, and I know that it comes back to you. Who else has an obsession with me having prank stuff and candy in my room? Hmm?"

[jory_elecott]

Ah, well, of course Sebastian was awake; had Jory's brain been functioning on a later-than-5 AM level, he probably could have anticipated that. Now that he was up too, he might as well find out why Mason's bloody belongings had felt the need to wake him up in the first place, so he took a seat on the stairs, another yawn escaping his lips. He waved half-heartedly at Juhi. "'Course. Loud enough to wake the bloody dead, wasn't it?"

Catching the tail-end of Mason's tirade, he raised his eyebrows curiously at Juhi. Now that'd be a trick, wouldn't it, if she had the power to control Mason's things and make them float all over the common room? Of course, he didn't expect that's what it was, but the thought still made him chuckle quietly to himself.

[sebbyrivera]

Obviously not taken anyone's sluggish state into account, Sebastian blinked at them all in confusion. So Mason had charmed something or rather? Well he DID seem to knock about with a lot of Gryffs, Sebastian was surprised he hadn't simply begun waking up in their dorm room and going to their classes. This seemed like too much commotion for a bunch of flying... whatsits. Er...

Sebastian squinted at the things and OH! Dungbombs... some other Zonko's wrapped products. Battering their way towards Juhi? He listened skeptically to Mason's protest and replied:

"Er, Mason I think Juhi threatened anyone owning dungbombs that they'd be hauled out of bed. And be locked somewhere, if I remember. This does seem a rather haphazard way to go about it, are you sure someone just didn't think it'd be a brilliant joke to... you know?" he squinted again at the items and took a tentative step forward. Because he was doing so well with his confused reasoning at 5 o'clock in the morning.

[juhi_saraf]

Juhi sighed in frustration and went to bat one of the dungbombs away from her face. No dice. She blinked at it, and walked over to stand on Emmy's other side. The treats and tricks followed her. Okay...so maybe this was slightly suspicious, but it was also INSANE. She put her hands on her hips to face Mason again.

"Oh, please Mason, you know I don't give rat's arse if you have this stuff, so long as I don't have to deal with you actually USING it." They'd just been teasing after all, hadn't they? She had been, and until this moment wasn't even actually sure Mason owned dungbombs in the first place. Her eyes flicked briefly to Jory as he chuckled, and she couldn't keep a smirk off her face. "Besides, I'd not likely choose FIVE A.M. or this particular method of retrieving them."

She grinned in relief at Sebby's support, or at least, she tried to. Stupid floaties wouldn't get out her face, and she snatched one out of the air. To her mild surprise, it worked. She raised her eyebrows at the little assembly and tried to hand it back to Mason. It wouldn't go. She frowned and shoved it in her pocket.

"I did NOT do this!"

[emogen_ackart]

Emmy giggled a bit as Juhi tried to evade the tricks and treats. It all seemed quite funny to her, really, but she wasn't so sure everyone else thought that way. Juhi and Jory, at least, didn't look all that pleased at being so rudely awoken at five in the morning. She forced herself to stop giggling, as this was somewhat serious. Maybe. Not so much what the items were as the fact that they wouldn't leave Juhi alone. Emmy tilted her head to watch the objects insistently follow her friend. What sort of charm was this, anyway?

She stepped closer and reached out to grab one of the dungbombs, but it evaded her and dived towards Juhi again. "Hmm, that's an interesting charm on them. Quite persistent. If it wasn't either of you, I wonder who it was that charmed them, and did such a good job of it!" she turned to Mason, "Who's been in your room? Maybe someone's playing a nasty trick on you. Made any of our housemates angry with you, lately?"

She hadn't meant to get involved, but this was just too interesting! She wanted to know more and get to the bottom of it all. Forgetting her intentions to only observe, she'd quickly stepped into a detective mode, albeit an overly cheerful and amused kind of detective.

[mason_g]

Mason stared at Jory. Well, it bloody well wasn't his fault that the stupid noisy banging had awake nearly the whole bloody house. He huffed, confused by this whole this. "Well, sorry that the stupid banging woke everyone up." Sarcastic much, Gibbs? Heck, it was 5:00 in the morning, after all.

What? They all seemed to think this was his fault. He glared at Sebastian. "That's all bloody well, Sebastian, but, Juhi is involved." He shot her a look. "Even if she doesn't know it. Because, well, look." He motioned at the tricks, which were still obsessivelly beating on the Ravenclaw prefect.

"Well, like I said, Juhi," he said, turning to her, "you may not be directly involved, but someone must have found out about the silly little conversation we had, and thought it to be funny to make the blasted things attack you early in the morning." He gasped as Juhi was able to catch one of the flying buggers. "How did you do that? I tried really hard to get them, and Jory tried hexing them, but we couldn't. See, I told you, they are after you."

He then turned his focus on Emmy. Okay, she did have a point, but he wasn't sure where it would get them. "Erm...it wasn't me." He put a rather large amount of emphasis on the word 'me'.

"As for someone being in my room, I don't think so. I'm there all by myself, and I haven't made any of our housemates mad." He looked around the room, and saw the posters that him and Veronica had been working on. That brought him back to the day they had been sitting there, and he wrote in the book.
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The book! Did it have something to do with this? "I don't know, alot of weird stuff is happening lately around here. I mean, I wrote in that stupid book earlier in this week, and these little balls popped up, and then just disappeared." He walked over to where the book had set the night before. It wasn't there.

"Um, where is the book?"

[jory_elecott]

Jory squinted at Juhi; well, if she was the only one who could touch them... He took out his wand again, aiming it at one of the floating dungbombs, and cast a summoning charm to see if it would work, but the dungbomb stayed near Juhi. "That's a fascinating bit of magic," he agreed with Emmy, and then flicked his gaze toward Mason, looking somewhat apologetic. "It's not really your fault, I s'pose," he said, scratching the back of his head; he wasn't too upset about it, just awake.

The book. Hmm. Following Mason with his eyes to where the book had been before, Jory was rather grateful it was finally gone, it unnerved him a lot. Mason was right. Weird stuff had been happening lately.

"The book?" he wondered. "Do you think the book's got anything to do with -- did any of you lot write something in it?" The question was mainly directed at Juhi, who was attracting Mason's stash like a magnet, but he aimed it at Emmy and Sebastian as well, to be polite.

[sebbyrivera]

Sebastian merely chose to give Mason a 'look' in reply. One that he hoped would be prefectly and no nonsense like, but he had a feeling it would turn out simply confused. Confused because he was trying very hard to remember this book they spoke of, as if there weren't dozens of books lying around the Common Room at any given time. And really, he should know.

Ohhh, wait! That empty one everyone seemed to have been scribbling in earlier this week? He'd thought a few of the younger years had been giggling over it. Oh Merlin, it was probably some prank or other. That was the most plausible reason, really. Though he was slightly annoyed that they'd all assume a book had sent dungbombs swerving at Juhi.

"Well, if it actually formed objects just from Mason writing in it? I'd say it's likely, though who else would be silly enough... er," Sebastian paused and stumbled over his last words, starting over again, "...who else wrote in the thing? It sounds like some elaborate prank anyhow."

Of course, blame it on prankers.

[juhi_saraf]

The BOOK!!!! Well, so much for not appearing obsessed with Mason's stash. She faced him, shock on her face. "Little balls popped up when you wrote in it?!" NOTHING had happened when she wrote in it. WELL. Nothing had happened at the time. She eyed the floating stash warily. "You didn't happen to buy all this at the Weasley's, did you, Mason?" Wizarding Wheezes, it all certainly appeared to be.

She was quiet for a moment, then caught Jory's eye and blushed. "Uhm, I wrote in it, yeah. About...well." She shook her head, and started laughing. "It said to write silly poems! So I wrote in response to Mason, you remember that right, Mason? And then, I wrote a poem." Juhi took a deep breath and forced herself not to smile. "About the book wanting us to write in it, and about Quidditch and breezes, and uhm. Well, if it was so smart could tell me where Mason kept his Wizarding Wheezes."

Juhi caught Emmy's eye and burst into giggles, hiding her face in her hands. "I guess it can?! But that doesn't make much sense." She lowered her arms and looked at Sebby. "I'm sure it is a prank, yeah. I had no clue THIS would happen, I swear. I would who did it, though" She pulled the dungbomb out of her pocket and tossed it up into the air. It hovered there. Ooooh, suddenly it definitely felt like five a.m. Juhi walked over to the nearest chair and flopped down, laughing helplessly.