Open RP: Blowing stuff up, for SCIENCE!
Hodgins had been bored lately. No Fed Ex packages from the FBI like he thought he'd be flooded with (which was also a crushing blow to his ego, though he'd never admit it,) nothing to really identify at Hogwarts with the no-death spell protecting the place, and Zack had been inexplicably turned into a kernal of popcorn, of all things. Assuming he ever snapped out of it, Hodgins had some choice remarks about that.
His previous major experiment had hit a standstill. While he had been able to confirm (through several letters owled to magical experts and a few bribes) that unicorns did actually exist and the hair found in certain wand cores was in fact unicorn hair, he was still no closer to identifying what caused wands to behave the way they did. And his other planned project, of organizing taxonomic information on magical creatures, was a lot of reading and next to no doing.
So it was time to take matters into his own hands. He left a few signs around the school (mostly plastered in the Ravenclaw lab, but the occasional flier could be found wherever he decided to leave them) that stated:
"Do you feel a higher calling in the name of science?
Do you like seeing pig carcasses blow up?
Dr. Jack Hodgins will be holding some demonstrations and experiments on the Hogwarts lawn. Join in the celebration--for science!
(Bring a rain coat or umbrella, or wear clothes you don't mind getting rid of later. Safety goggles will be transfigured out of rocks, so don't worry about those. And if you have a weak stomach and insist on showing up, either bring a barf bag or know how to clean up your own puke. I'm not doing it.)"
So, with the assistance of a flock of house elves and after a quick trip to Hogsmeade and a visit to a rental company, he was waiting outside, wearing his blue Jeffersonian lab coat over his sweater and jeans, strapping fireworks of various strengths to pigs and supervising some house elves setting up the rented woodchipper.
His previous major experiment had hit a standstill. While he had been able to confirm (through several letters owled to magical experts and a few bribes) that unicorns did actually exist and the hair found in certain wand cores was in fact unicorn hair, he was still no closer to identifying what caused wands to behave the way they did. And his other planned project, of organizing taxonomic information on magical creatures, was a lot of reading and next to no doing.
So it was time to take matters into his own hands. He left a few signs around the school (mostly plastered in the Ravenclaw lab, but the occasional flier could be found wherever he decided to leave them) that stated:
"Do you feel a higher calling in the name of science?
Do you like seeing pig carcasses blow up?
Dr. Jack Hodgins will be holding some demonstrations and experiments on the Hogwarts lawn. Join in the celebration--for science!
(Bring a rain coat or umbrella, or wear clothes you don't mind getting rid of later. Safety goggles will be transfigured out of rocks, so don't worry about those. And if you have a weak stomach and insist on showing up, either bring a barf bag or know how to clean up your own puke. I'm not doing it.)"
So, with the assistance of a flock of house elves and after a quick trip to Hogsmeade and a visit to a rental company, he was waiting outside, wearing his blue Jeffersonian lab coat over his sweater and jeans, strapping fireworks of various strengths to pigs and supervising some house elves setting up the rented woodchipper.