Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
Auror-in-Training
I didn't do it and you can't prove otherwise...
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 13:35:43 GMT -5
The start of the school year found Drew as it usually did: Pacing the hallways and making notes, or crawling along the baseboards mumbling to himself. He had a short checklist of plans and projects that needed to be updated and repaired, and while only Hiro knew the exact nature of these plots, a number of people had their suspicions that something was going on.
Because, honestly, what wasn't suspicious of a six foot-something boy crawling along the hallway?
But what needed to be done needed to be done. And Drew was found, as he usually was this time of year, on all fours talking softly to the baseboards.
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Post by penelope on Jul 4, 2006 13:44:51 GMT -5
{I claim this thread as mine and only mine! MWHAHAHAH! That's if you don't mind, of course ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) } It seemed that Penelope was doomed to find people in awkward positions or doing unusual things in the middle of a corridor. first it was Daniel reading a book in the middle of a frequented hallway, now it was Allegra's 'little' brother crawling along the second floor. What he was doing was a total mystery. Penelope wasn't going to turn in the direction he was. No, actually she was heading somewhere not far from there quiet in the opposite direction. Though, truth be told, who would be able to resist this temptation. Cat like curious Penelope certainly wasn't able to. Completely dressed in her uniform, for she had decided to start this year with her right foot, she walked toward the boy. A puzzled expression covered her features. the girl barely refrained to do herself, out loud, questions to which only Drew had the answers. "You lost something?" she asked as she was only a few feet away from the fifth year ravenclaw. That, at least, was the less senseless question that had crossed her mind. It was probably also what anyone with a small quantity of working cells in their brain would have asked him.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 14:02:38 GMT -5
When the girl spoke behind him, he looked up and smiled at her. He didn't really know her, but he remembered her from his first (second?) year as the girl Kellen had been dating. The question didnt' really throw him off guard as it would have his first year. He was used to being interupted and had pretty much prepared for any comments he might get.
"My wand," Drew answered casually, sitting up and facing her. The story was always easier to stick to if he could answer truthfully. "It went missing at the end of last term and hasn't shown up yet."
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Post by penelope on Jul 4, 2006 14:11:42 GMT -5
His answer most certainly did not make the puzzled look On Penelope's face fade away. If anything, it only intensified it.
"You weren't playing 'take over the school with rubber chickens' when you lost it, right?" she asked slightly concerned.
Ok, so it wasn't probable that the incident had repeated itself and without her finding out. Yet, asking had never hurt a soul, right? Besides, if that was the case she was one of the voices of experience on that matter around the school, having been directly involved in said 'incident'.
But wait a second... Was his wand so tiny that he had to go on all fours to search the floor for it? Wouldn't have the elf's found it by now anyhow? Did the boy need glasses and didn’t know it yet? On the other hand, maybe it was just lack of common sense.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 14:23:00 GMT -5
Drew had to laugh at the question. He had been scared out of his mind when the Potions Master had busted the Ravenclaws for that particular game. Of course, he had just been a firstie.
"As I recall, I didn't lose my wand that day. You did though," he answered back with a wide grin. He also recalled Kellen paying dearly for the incident. He had no doubt that he would have had the same consequences had it been Alhana instead.
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Post by penelope on Jul 4, 2006 14:35:20 GMT -5
"No, I did not loose it," she pointed out as an eyebrow arched up high on her forehead. "It was taken from me. That's quite different if you ask me."
Although her not so pleasant side had came out back then, having no mercy toward Kellen and that know it all tight up Esposito, at the present it was a funny memory. Therefore, against all odds, she was actually smiling back at Drew.
"If it wasn't during a game... Well, how did you lose your wand then?"
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 14:43:10 GMT -5
"That's the thing... I don't know," he answered, honestly confused by the whole thing. "I could have sworn it was on my bedstand where I always leave it at night, but when I woke up that morning, it wasn't there. You know, it's like one of those things that you're so used to doing, you can't even remember actually doing it. So I'm not even sure I actually did have my wand that night. The dang thing could be anywhere."
And there was the beauty of answering the question in the right way. It was so much easier to misdirect a person.
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Post by penelope on Jul 4, 2006 14:51:52 GMT -5
"Yeah, I know what you mean," she replied still chewing on all the facts, Drew had just spilled out to her. "Don't you hate it when that happens?"
She fell silent for a fragment of seconds as she thought of a suggestion to solve his problem. Anything that might help the boy find his wand, for, how was he supposed to do his homework or do things in certain classes if he didn't have his wand?
"Did you try going over your own steps when you first found out the wand was missing?"
That mostly always helped, right? Well, it tended to work for someone as light headed as Penelope could be sometimes. Going over your own first steps was the first thing on the 'to do' list when something got lost.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 16:21:34 GMT -5
"Yeah," Drew answered a bit sullenly. It had been a long, hard search to no avail. He was more fortunate than the other boys who had also lost their wands (a curious coincidence that still nagged at Drew).
"I tossed the whole common room looking for it, backtracked to all of my classes and everything, tried to even Accio it." Nothing worked," he told her.
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Post by penelope on Jul 4, 2006 16:56:25 GMT -5
"Did you asked the house elves too?" she asked right away after Drew finished answering.
Though if he had and the answer kept on being negative Penelope would be as clueless as he was right now. It wasn't like a wand could vanish into thin air and yet, his seemed to have done exactly that.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 4, 2006 17:05:24 GMT -5
"They weren't much help," Drew sighed. "All I got was a bunch of bowing and some pretzel rods. The closest I got to getting a straight answer was one of them saying they hardly even enter the Ravenboy dorm, so no one saw whether or not the wands were there to begin with."
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Post by penelope on Jul 6, 2006 13:31:40 GMT -5
Penelope held back a giggle when Drew told her how useful the elves had been. she could just picture it in her mind, Drew totally desperate yelling by now to find out the were about of the wand while the elves tried to shove food and goodies in every pocket, hand and even into Drew's mouth while he spoke. Not giggling at that mental image, having such big auto control, felt like quite an accomplishment to the girl.
She cleared her throat before she decided to speak again. it would be a crying shame to burst out in a fist of giggles while attempting to talk.
"Did you consider the option that maybe someone stole it? Or, to be a tad bit nicer, maybe borrowed it because theirs was broken or something of the sorts?" Penelope kept on with her questioning, in a lame attempt to help the younger boy. Truth be told, had it been Penelope who was wandless, she would have cornered every member of her house by now and threatened to kill them if her wand didn't re-appear. Yes, she happens to be quiet attached to hers.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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I didn't do it and you can't prove otherwise...
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 6, 2006 13:40:28 GMT -5
"That was one of the first things we thought of," Drew answered. It had just been too coincidental that three wands had mysteriously dissappeared that night. "But everyone else had their own wand and no one else had gotten into the tower." It was true that he wasn't bestest buddies with everyone in the house, but he thought he knew them well enough to be assured they wouldn't go stealing wands. "I mean, there was just no reason to take them, you know?"
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Post by penelope on Jul 6, 2006 13:51:52 GMT -5
Penelope let out a sigh of defeat and shrugged afterward, "In that case I'm as clueless as you are."
"But you do have a another wand right now, right? Cause I can't imagine how you'd cope with some of the lessons this year, such as transfiguration and charms, if you don't have one." she added after a very brief silence.
((*Kicks self for such an awful post*))
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jul 6, 2006 14:39:58 GMT -5
"Yeah, I'm kind of lucky that way," Drew answered, pulling his spare wand out of his back pocket. "I got it at the second hand store the last time I lost my wand. It's does a pretty decent job. Not as good as my real one, but still, it does okay," he told her.
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