Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
Auror-in-Training
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 8, 2008 14:42:32 GMT -5
No, just with everything else, Drew thought bitterly, but kept it to himself. On the other hand, he did appreciate the offer of the break. Even so, Drew didn't plan on taking it, still hoping to get out of the office as quickly as he could. The juice was a nice gesture too, assuming of course that it wasn't laced with anything, but Drew wasn't going to take any. Pumpkin juice wasn't really his favorite and he always had his apples if he really needed them.
As much as Drew tried to ignore the man and stay focused on the task he was given, he couldn't help but notice the bandages once Griffiths had mentioned them. Again, a zillion questions swept through the Ravenclaw's brain, starting with what had happened, going through why the guy hadn't used magical cures to fix it, and ending with why Drew even cared to begin with.
"So... what happened?" he finally asked, unable to help himself. The seventh year wasn't particularly squeemish around injuries, given he had sustained a number of his own, and while he didn't go out of his way to look at what the man was doing, he didn't worry about avoiding it either.
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Alexander Griffiths
Hogwarts Staff
Professor History of Magic
...Angels guide me, but fate plays with me...[on:Color][of:Black and white]
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 8, 2008 17:51:43 GMT -5
Xander looked at Drew and pointed at the shelf where the dangerous magical artifacts were and the scorch marks around the office. "There's a time when the dangerous artifacts can have their defense mechanism triggered. In other's cases it's by the change of weather, some of these artifacts are not used to too much cold, too much heat and so on. So let's say that by season, I'll be lucky not to have them throw me to the far wall of this office. Also, the injuried they cause are magical. So I can only heal these magically, even episky can't help." he said, then he looked at his arm and leg.
"Also, this happened just a few weeks ago. And you can notice that there is almost no change, it takes a lot of time to heal. Just like in the start of term feast, but back then it was only about 3 artifacts that did those to me. What happened now is that all the artifacts in the shelf did this to me, so it'll take a little bit more time to heal. Anything more you want to asked?" he added, looking at Drew again. Yes, Xander wasn't mad. It was just something or someone in their last meeting that made him like that.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 8, 2008 19:54:35 GMT -5
"All right," Drew said turning back to his work as the man finished his warning. Drew figured he would have been a little bitter too if he had done something stupid like not taking Magical Aritfacts seriously... not once, but at least twice. Even a Muggle like Indiana Jones knew you had to replace the golden idol with a bag of sand. It made sense that objects used to desert conditions might react badly in the cold.
"Nope..." Drew answered the man, deciding that it was best to stay quiet. He had sustained enough of his own injuries to know that Magical wounds took longer to heal and left deeper scars. All the more reason to be careful around things that might cause them. Of course now the question was why he thought it was appropriate to keep them at a school, but Drew kept that to himself as he bent over the next pile of tomes.
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Alexander Griffiths
Hogwarts Staff
Professor History of Magic
...Angels guide me, but fate plays with me...[on:Color][of:Black and white]
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 8, 2008 20:22:00 GMT -5
Xander then looked at the artifacts longer, thinking. Then he had an idea, something that could prevent him from getting hurt more. "Andrew, can you please hand me a parchment and also a self ink quill. I need to write to my colleagues, and send those back to them. I don't think I can let them stay here longer." he said, looking at the artifacts still and then turning to Drew. He had put off writing to his colleagues about those things long enough and it was lucky that Andrew had asked.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 8, 2008 21:12:53 GMT -5
Without a word, Drew got to his feet and swept off his backside wiht his palms. The fioor wasn't particularly dusty, nor was he adverse to a little dirt on him now and then, but it was mostly a habit and gave him time to stretch out his legs which had been close to falling asleep anyway. Though he had been given permission to shelve the tomes by magic, he leaned down to grab an arm full, figuring he might as well do it by hand if he was needed to fetch a piece of paper and quill.
He quickly placed the volumes in the designated place, neatly propping them up by country, and brushed his hands off again on his pant legs. Turning to the desk he found a piece of fresh parchment, a quill, and a bottle of ink.
"These okay?" he asked, lifting them up so Griffiths could approve before walking them back to where the man was seated.
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Alexander Griffiths
Hogwarts Staff
Professor History of Magic
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 8, 2008 21:20:00 GMT -5
Xander smiled at Drew and nodded, "Yeah, that'll do" he said. He then thought of how he would write about the artifacts and....well other stuff. So he looked out the window and thought, he thought of how to tell his colleagues the dangers of these artifacts and some what if's of his own. He then thought of the students as a good excuse, he nodded and picked up the quill. He dipped it on the ink bottle and started writing on the parchment, saying how it was dangerous for the students to be around such objects and that he will be sending them back.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 8, 2008 22:23:03 GMT -5
A smile? Well that was new, or at the very least unexpected. Drew handed the things over to the man and retook his seat on the floor. He pulled a number of the projection tomes towards him again and opened the volume at the top of the pile. It was African in nature, but Drew had to watch it a while to figure out exactly which country it belonged to. Drew finally decided it was Kenyan in nature, Marking it and putting it into the correct pile, he moved onto the next one. How many of these dang things did Griffiths have anyway?
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Alexander Griffiths
Hogwarts Staff
Professor History of Magic
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 8, 2008 22:37:35 GMT -5
Xander finally finished writing the letter and looked at Drew, "I need another opinion. When do you think it would be best for me to send those artifacts by owl?" he asked. Not really sure if it was safe to shift them now or something. IT might end up disastrous and having these artifacts lost will be really bad. He sighed and put down the quill and re-read the message he wrote, This won't do, I'll just... ahhh... won't work he thought. He put down the parchment and sighed.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 8, 2008 23:15:16 GMT -5
If the smile had surprised Drew, the request for his opinion was totally unexpected. And it wasn't just the fact that the man was actually asking for his input, but also what the man was wondering about.
"Uh... by owl?" he asked back obviously concerned. Those artifacts had done quite a job on Griffiths' leg and the man was supposedly familiar with these dangerous things. While Owl Post was usually very safe and reliable, exactly what would they do to the birds? "Don't you have like... I don't know, a courier or something? Someone who maybe knows how to deal with dangerous stuff?"
Now that he thought about it...
"I mean... I guess even I could do it... if you told me some about them," he suggested. He was of age and well versed in Dark Arts. On top of that, he was an excellent flier and would have no problem getting them where they needed to go... if Griffiths agreed that is.
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Alexander Griffiths
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Professor History of Magic
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 9, 2008 0:02:05 GMT -5
Xander shrugged, "We usually do it by owl, but we include non-dangerous artifacts in them to not disturb the dangerous one's. But I think with your help we could make something to have them not be disturbed when they are transported" he said. He looked at Andrew and then at the shelf, "It would be too dangerous, since it's been already twice those things blew off on me. You might not have a history professor the next time." he added. He looked back at Drew and raised his eyebrows, "Well...can you?" he asked.
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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 Jun 9, 2008 1:12:27 GMT -5
Drew smirked back and couldn't help but think that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Of course, it was highly conceivable that Griffiths was thinking similar thoughts by taking Drew up on the offer.
Still, Drew couldn't imagine asking an owl to tie a possibly lethal artifact to its leg. At least, if a person felt there was danger, he could bail out or get to a hospital or something. A small bird was pretty helpless.
"Yeah, I can," Drew answered back with a shrug, not really seeing it as a huge deal. "As long as you tell me what I'm dealing with."
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Alexander Griffiths
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Professor History of Magic
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 9, 2008 1:22:37 GMT -5
Xander smiled at Drew. "My dear boy, if we're ever gonna have these transported we'll have to do this together. So the rest of your detention will be focused on this, and I will probably need help, real bad." he said, nodding. "Well...we're dealing with an artifacts which serves like a manticore biting you. As what happened to my leg, then there's the one which tries to melt your skin, happened to my arm and leg. And most cutting and pain and bleeding, there are also the cursed wounds, hard to get them to go." he added, counting thme off, but he wasn't done yet.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 9, 2008 19:30:20 GMT -5
Drew didn't much appreciate being called either dear or boy, but didn't say anything about it considering Griffiths wasn't being too weird or throwing books or anything. And while the man still wasn't giving him the information he wanted, Drew didn't feel so awkward asking anymore.
"But what's it called? Where is it from?" Drew asked, finding this stuff a heck of a whole lot more interesting than those awful tomes. Perhaps he could do a little more research into what was obviously an artifact full of dark magic. "Why do you have them anyway? Where did you get all this stuff?"
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Alexander Griffiths
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Professor History of Magic
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Post by Alexander Griffiths on Jun 10, 2008 5:51:26 GMT -5
Xander looked at Andrew, smiling. "I thought you'd ask, well it's from the Griffin horn, but that's a family heirloom so I can't get rid of that. The griffin horn is the one that causes the really deep and cursed cuts. The Maticore collar, obviously caused the manticore like bite. The various egyptian God items and other egyptian things, most of them are from egypt. They cause the one that melts the skin and some to cause the not closing of wounds so easily. Then there's the various miscellanious things, like a set from Asia, causes a lot of cuts. Then there's an aztec item there that causes the greatest pain." he said, pointing at each of the items he had been talking about.
Why do you have them anyway? Where did you get all this stuff?
Xander smirked this time. "A job of a historian is not only to put things into books, we also get the artifacts we find from there. These are concrete evidence for our discoveries and well... most of us write and keep the artifacts with us, just like me. All these artifacts came from around the world, so I wouldn't wonder if you would search around my crates and see a lot of different artifacts. It's almost like going around the world already." he explained, "Those stuff come from every historian around the world, when they can't keep them or don't want to keep them, they give them to us. So it'll be my job to keep them, there isn't a wizard museum you know. "
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Jun 11, 2008 19:58:53 GMT -5
Drew wasn't sure if the man was talking down to him or purpose, or if he just talked like that normally, but either way, the Ravenclaw just smiled as the man explained what a historian was. Truth was, Drew understood a little about archeology as well. He wasn't really interested in vage definitions. He wanted specifics.
"The Griffin Horn?" Drew asked, even more confused. Griffins didn't have horns. But then Griffiths said it was a family heirloom and Drew figured Griffin might be a surname in this case. "So... your family... collects dark objects?" he asked now getting really interested. There weren't Wizarding museums, no, but the Ministry usually kept dark and dangerous stuff under very tight lock and key.
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