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[professor_wu]

Week Name/Date/Time: Puzzles and Presents / September 11-15, 2006
Location: Divinations Classroom
Open to: Students
Currently Involving: Professor Wu, students

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7th Year - Gryffindor / Slytherin - Friday 10am (Daphne Kaligaris)

[daphnekali]

((Because no one else has replied yet and because JADE NEEDS MORE THINGS TO REPLY TO. *CACKLE* :D))

Daphne entered the classroom and took her usual seat, expecting class to begin soon. However, Professor Wu gave them a chance to discuss the gifts everyone had received earlier in the week. Daphne was not particularly interested, as the gift she'd received had proved useless, and she'd thus promptly locked it away and out of mind.

Her classmates seemed quite determined to take advantage of the chance to avoid I Ching again, so Daphne sighed and settled in, only barely listening to the others.

Warrington, once more sitting beside her, was bragging about his gift, some fancy wand case made of gold and studded with diamonds. She shot him a look, "That's hardly unusual. Every pureblood in England has at least one such case," her tone was only slightly aggravated.

He asked, sneering, "You're just jealous because yours is so worthless."

She glared, "I care very little for mysterious gifts that come without any sign of who might be giving them. Anyone who finds pride in such a thing is a fool. It could easily be a trick or plot against any number of us." She turned to the professor and gave a curt nod, "Sorry, Professor, but I worry that my classmates are being foolish not to think of the consequences."

Re: 7th Year - Gryffindor / Slytherin - Friday 10am (Daphne Kaligaris)

[professor_wu]

Professor Wu had been leaning against her desk, watching the students enter and take their seats, before she had given the period up as a "free day". She pasted a simple yet understanding smile on her face, knowing she wouldn't get any work done, and wandered around the room, listening to bits of everybody's conversations and giving little trinkets of advice to those who asked.

When Daphne turned to her, Professor Wu nodded. "Gifts are rarely free... and it would be wise to err on the side of caution than blindly accepting such things." Because even if they did know who the gifts were from, that didn't mean there wouldn't be treachery or betrayal underneath. The world could be cruel like that.

She was about to ask Miss Kaligaris what gift she received, that Mr. Warrington had deemed worthless, but paused. She knew that if Daphne wanted to share, she would and if she didn't say anything, it would not be right to put her on the spot.

"You might be wise, Mr. Warrington, and perform charms on the case. To make sure that it is safe. We wouldn't want anything you place inside it to be lost, would we?"