Spring cleaning
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alt_padmaDunstan, MacDougal and I all went up to the hospital wing after lunch to get that shampoo stuff.
And then we went up the dormitory and we've cleaned out all our cupboards, trunks, and everything to check for anything that might still be causing bugs to come into the tower.
The nearest we can figure it, something was attracting them. Troy's rune repelled them from our dormitory, but then they were going as close as they could - which meant the 7th-years' and the 1st-years' dorms, to start. Then they copied out the runes but the bugs went into the next closest rooms, and so on.
We've copied out about twenty sets of runes, but as long as the bugs are being summoned somehow, they'll keep turning up. Even when the elves made it so that the bugs would die, they kept coming in anyway.
We didn't find anything, but we did bin anything that we didn't recognise, down to the little bits of parchment and old quill feathers and so on. I'm really good at tidying spells now.
If we'd found something suspicious, though, I was all prepared to cast Scarpin's Revelaspell on it to confirm a hexing. Bobolis showed me where to copy it out from her Charms book, but she said that if we had trouble we could bring it to her and she'd give it a go, as it's a rather advanced spell. (She had a horrible night, an earwig got itself onto her pillow and she woke up when it crawled in her ear! Poor thing! I think she'd have been just as happy to have a go at the people who hexed us. That alone makes me wish we'd found something definite.)
But the thing is, we've cleaned out the entire dorm, and we've all got protective runes up now, so if anyone else starts noticing a load of dirty great insects congregating outside Ravenclaw Tower, we'll know we've missed something.
(Meanwhile, Sandoval's still ever so cross. She's bannedme everyone from Ravenclaw Corner until we've all finished the treatments, so we don't pass anything back and forth.)
And then we went up the dormitory and we've cleaned out all our cupboards, trunks, and everything to check for anything that might still be causing bugs to come into the tower.
The nearest we can figure it, something was attracting them. Troy's rune repelled them from our dormitory, but then they were going as close as they could - which meant the 7th-years' and the 1st-years' dorms, to start. Then they copied out the runes but the bugs went into the next closest rooms, and so on.
We've copied out about twenty sets of runes, but as long as the bugs are being summoned somehow, they'll keep turning up. Even when the elves made it so that the bugs would die, they kept coming in anyway.
We didn't find anything, but we did bin anything that we didn't recognise, down to the little bits of parchment and old quill feathers and so on. I'm really good at tidying spells now.
If we'd found something suspicious, though, I was all prepared to cast Scarpin's Revelaspell on it to confirm a hexing. Bobolis showed me where to copy it out from her Charms book, but she said that if we had trouble we could bring it to her and she'd give it a go, as it's a rather advanced spell. (She had a horrible night, an earwig got itself onto her pillow and she woke up when it crawled in her ear! Poor thing! I think she'd have been just as happy to have a go at the people who hexed us. That alone makes me wish we'd found something definite.)
But the thing is, we've cleaned out the entire dorm, and we've all got protective runes up now, so if anyone else starts noticing a load of dirty great insects congregating outside Ravenclaw Tower, we'll know we've missed something.
(Meanwhile, Sandoval's still ever so cross. She's banned
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-14 02:00 am (UTC)I'm just heartbroken for Patil that she's been banned from Ravenclaw Corner!
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-14 02:00 am (UTC)I hope runes work half so well for me when I'm doing them for classwork next year.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-14 02:46 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-14 11:04 pm (UTC)Just in case.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-14 11:08 pm (UTC)Y'know what I mean.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2010-04-15 01:41 am (UTC)I'm still waiting to find out what I'm going to be good at. Haven't really figured it out yet. Hope it'll be something.