HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript Six

The Solution to the Riddle is Presented

 

Kat and Sarah enter the 3rd Year Common room. "Hey look everyone we solved the rid....." Kat started as she came through the door. Then she noticed Morticia crying and Egreen comforting her. Andy looking worried along with everyone else in the room.

"Oh, what has been going on? Why is Morticia so upset?" Kat demanded and looked at Marvo as if to say 'is this your fault?'.

Marvo, who was looking very concerned at Morticia, smiles as he sees Kat enter. He moves over to her and whispers

'Morticia just had another vision'. He nods to the parchment on the floor. 'Achel wrote it down'

He sees the book under Kats arm and his eyes widen: 'You found it! May I see'? He takes the book from Kat 'mmm... 'Embracing the Truth'. Why dose that sound familiar?'

Kat picked up the parchment and read it. She stared and stared. "Oh my! She's even got that dog thing that Joss and I saw in the wood, and the book thing I keep drawing! Had she seen either before? If not then it has to be true. But I really don't look forward to the 'adventure' it sounds so terrible!"

She watches Marvo flipping through the book. "Yes, that's the book. Do you think it will help?"

Marvo flicks through the book, his eyes fixed on the text as it speeds by. He closes the book. 'mm..... That IS interesting. some very nice spells. I like the 'conceal the truth from those who ask too much' spell.

He looks up at Kat as if just noticing she was still there.

'Oh.. Sorry... Yes it sounds terrible, especially if they have to go into the forest.' Then he looks concerned and moves closer to Kat 'I don't want you going in there. Remember what happened last time!'

"I don't think you will be able to stop me being there. You can't change the future even if you can see it. I mean Morticia mentioned me by name. I know why you are saying that, and the same thing won't happen twice. I'll be OK." Kat tries to look convincing. Marvo is not ruling her life no matter how much she has to persuade him of that.

Marvo scans the room, his face dark and serious

'No Kathryn, it won't happen again... not if I have anything to do with it... not to Anyone'

Marvo's mood changes as if a switch had been flipped.

He smiles and moves forward, taking out a small box from his pocket and places it on the table. He pulls out his Wand and waves it over the box.

'ENGORGIO'

The box grows until it is fairly big. He opens it and starts taking out bottles of Butterbeer. 'Come on people. help yourselves. Egreen, here, take one for Morticia, it might help her feel better'

He passes a bottle to Kat with a smile: 'Anyone seen Madison or Yvette?'

Morticia looks at Kat. "You've found Joss' book, I mean, the thing from the Riddle? What is it, did you find out why she wanted you to look at it? "

"A book?" Egreen looks startled. "what is this about a book?. Kat, may I look at it?"

"As for the forest" Morticia continued: "I don't think there's a way to alter things even if you know they'll happen. It says so in the old book I bought in Hogsmeade, 'The Sibyl's Guidance'. Even if you see you die under a tree and stay at home it won't help you - the tree will probably fall onto the house or so."

She looks at the others and truly laughs now. "Great, that wasn't very encouraging, right?

Egreen was pleased to hear Morticia laugh as it was a genuine rather than forced laugh. "Well, yes and no. There is a saying that 'prewarned is prearmed' and in a sense knowing what lies in front of us allows us to find a path through that vision rather than wasting time seeking to avoid it."

He turns to Marvo and is about to say "what do you think" but finds a butterbeer thrust into his hand by the smiling Marvo, who seems to be either suffering from a bad case of 'avoidance' or trying to distract everyone. Maybe both.

Andy gets more and more frightened as Morticia finishes the story. What if he gets caught up in this massacre? Morticia didn't say he was in the dream, but it could be possible. He tries to comfort Morticia by getting her a glass of water. He looked at Marvo with dread in his eyes.

Marvo turns to answer, his attention had been 'elsewhere'

'Don't look so worried. I'm sure only 'part' of what she said was prolific, I mean..... I don't run away' Marvo smiles, obviously trying to make Andy feel better, but still very concerned himself.

Morticia has heard that and looks calmly at Marvo. "Marvo, I've head three visions by now, and the first two came true down to every single word I said.". Marvo does not look at Morticia, and keeps smiling and hands out beer

'This one won't' is all he says, almost in a 'sing-song' sort of voice. Kat raises one eyebrow at Morticia, as if to say 'boys! they never listen...'

Egreen looks at Marvo without comment though his look communicates that he understands Marvo's feelings. Still the forest undoubtedly makes Marvo uneasy.

He turns his attention back to Morticia and says: "That is true yet in this vision you didn't see anyone dead - so there's a positive sign."

Morticia sneers. "Malcolm Dexter isn't just too proud to admit he's afraid of the forest. But it's true, I didn't really see anything bad happening...and no dead people this time..."

Marvo GLARES at Morticia

'Okay Ms BIG if loads of people just disappear [he waves his hands up in the air] I'll come along to the Forest with you. But if they don't, then you STOP calling me 'wart boy... or any OTHER names but Marvo. Deal?'

Marvo only looks slightly serious while saying this, he is obviously trying to raise the mood slightly but can't let what Morticia said go.

Morticia laughs. "I wouldn't call you names if you didn't always seem so angry about it... it's fun to make you angry, don't you know?"

'It may be fun for a while, but not after that' Marvo has a BIG smile on his face saying this, obviously NOT a 'real' smile. He turns away from Morticia and goes to Kat

Sarah accepts a butterbeer from Marvo with a "Cheers".

Turning to the others she says "I guess the only ones that should really be worried are those who weren't mentioned by Morticia. I think it's going to be an interesting party! Thing is do we get ready and go or head for the hills now?"

Winifred and Kali enter the Common room. Winifred seems quite startled to see everyone passing around butterbeer, yet at the same time appearing upset.

"What's going on in here?" she inquires to no one in particular. Marvo hands her a piece of parchment. Winifred reads it, a look of terror flooding her face. "Oh...what are we going to do? Just go to the ball?"

Kali is somewhat surprised too at the commotion in the common room. Whilst trying to process everything that is going on around the place, his mind decides that, if he doesn't want to spoil Winifred's night at the ball, then it really is a case of **** or bust. With this in mind, and (completely without rational thought you understand) he slips one arm round Winifred's shoulder whilst reading the manuscript over her other shoulder.

As Kali puts his arm on Winifred's shoulder, Winifred's eyes go wide. She appears uncomfortable at first, but eases into feeling comfortable. Maybe the ball wouldn't be so bad after all...

Those in the room that notice (and have any inclination into his character), once they have got over Kali's apparent loss of senses, cannot help but see relief intermingled in the worry on his face: At least it didn't appear that Winifred or he would be involved in any of this. A good job, as he felt they were going to have enough to worry about this evening.

Kat wonders whether to tell Kali that the names written down are the only ones Morticia actually remembered. There were others there, but she couldn't remember everyone...

She looked at Winifred and decided that Kali probably had enough on his plate.

Marvo continues to hand out Butterbeer to those who enter, raising an eyebrow when Kali puts his arm around Winifred.

'So. Has everyone got their costumes ready?'

Just then, Madison entered with Lee. "Hi everyone!" they greeted. Madison was grinning. "We were just playing Wizard Chess...And I just whupped Lee!"

Lee rolled his eyes. "You've been gloating since the game ended. You can stop now..." They turned back to the others. "So...what's going on?"

Marvo frowns slightly when Madison and Lee enter, but changes back to a smile at once.

Kat takes the opportunity to take the book back from Marvo and shows Morticia. "It's called Embracing the Truth. Quite appropriate really, as I guess that is what we should do. We know your dreams come true so we have to plan. There is nothing in the dream that actually went wrong was there. There was just the things that we have to cope with, so maybe now we know that we can use it somehow. Embrace what we know will happen with as preparation as we can. Joss never told me what in here I needed, but maybe there are spells that will enable us to find the truth about things like that dog thing and the flying books..."

Kat handed the book to Morticia to have a look.

Morticia starts to turn the pages and has a quick look at some of the chapters. "I think I'll need some time to get into this," she declares.

"You're not the only one." Kat sighs. "I think we need to get the information from it quickly though. Oh well, let me try something." Kat takes out her wand, places the book on the floor and mutters "MEMORANDUM MEA TABLUM". Green sparks hit the book and rebound to surround Kat for a second before they wink out. Kat grabs Marvo's arm feeling a little dizzy. "Wow! I just love doing that it gives such a buzz. It's a shame I will only remember the entire book for a day few days though... Oooo, there's all sorts of interesting spells in here. And yes, there is even one about making others tell you the truth."

Kat grins. "I could have fun with this!"

"Here." She hands the book back to Morticia. "You can have it for now to read. I'd like it back in a few days though, I'll need to actually read it then..."

Morticia tucks the book into her robes.

Marvo smiles at this exchange, no one is quite sure why.

He whispers to Kat

'Nicely done. Some useful counter spells in there too don't you think? and that 'truth for the day' spell is quite powerful. but be careful. too much truth can be as bad as too many lies'

* * *

Achel comes back into the room closely followed by Nimue.

They walk up to Egreen and Achel says quietly: "Everything seems fine out there. Professor Sprout shooed us away and suggested we start getting ready for the Ball. I don't think there is much more we can do at this stage."

Nimue remained at Achel's side and added to his thoughts: "I agree. All the teachers will be at the Ball so I'm sure if anything does happen they'll handle things." Privately she was remained concerned about Morticia's vision.

Yvette trudged in, not even looking around as she moved to the back of the room. Her voice was soft and breathy, like she'd just run a dozen miles. "Hey."

Lee noticed Marvo's little frown, but ignored it and grabbed a butterbeer for Madison and himself. Just then, a girl entered.

"Hi Yvette!" Madison greeted. "Is something wrong?"

"Nuh-uh." She attempted a smile, but had no energy left and managed to sink down onto a chair. "So..." She paused to gasp in some air, "What's up?"

Madison grinned. "Yule Ball...tonight. You ready? You look tired, where were you today?"

Yvette's mouth fell open. "Tonight? The Yule Ball? You're...kidding!" Her eyes widened and then returned to their normal state, not having enough energy to keep them that way. "I was...in the common room. Yep, that's right. And I was...practising. Yeah. Practising." Yvette had always been an awful liar.

"Uh-huh," Madison nodded sceptically. "Yeah...you shouldn't play poker..." Her expression turned serious. "Is something wrong? If you need help for anything...." She looked at the others, then lowered her voice. "What is it?"

Yvette looked at her through tired eyes. "I'm sleepy...and, well..." She managed a glance at all the people around her and whispered. "Plus, I don't think I'm strong enough." This accomplished, she sank back into her chair.

Marvo sees Yvette sink back into her chair and rushes over 'Are you okay Yvette? what's the matter?'

Yvette nods slightly. "I'm fine. Just tired, that's all." She tried a reassuring smile, but it came out looking like a grimace.

Morticia is a bit surprised as she hasn't seen Yvette for ages and almost thought she'd left. "Hi there, French girl," she says with a big grin.

The corners of Yvette's mouth twitches into a half-smile. "Hey...where have you been?"

Kat, seeing Marvo run off at the slightest question, wandered over to Nimue. She wanted to know what was up with Yvette as she hadn't been around for a while. But Kat was not going to follow Marvo.

"Hi Nimue, Achel, are you feeling better now? You're looking more cheerful."

Nimue looked up as Kat came over, her eyes registering happiness that she had: "Hello Kat. Oh yes, I'm feeling much better now thank you. I went off and had a good think about things and then when I was coming back I ran into Professor Dumbledore and he invited me to tea, which was very nice. Now I'm here with Achel." She smiled at Achel who smiled back. "So everything's great!"

Nimue's statement of the obvious - that she was 'here with Achel' - gave some indication to Kat that the topic of Marvo may well be out of bounds in current company.

"Tea with Dumbledore eh? Very nice. And it's also good that you finally found Achel. Are you both sorted out for the ball now?" Kat is nervous about mentioning Marvo first anyway...

Achel answers: "Oh I was looking for her for ages and she's being very close-mouthed if you ask me about that tea with Professor Dumbledore - obviously discussing some very 'hush-hush' matters."

Nimue blushed deeply. Achel's eyes twinkled at what obviously had been some on-going teasing between them. "As for costumes, we're getting there... we're going as elves or something aren't we Nimue?"

He smiled at Kat - "it was to be Robin and Marian but Nimue got somewhat carried away at the fancy robe shop, so something a little less rustic I understand."

Kat laughed. "You mean you are going to turn up wearing nothing but a pillow case? That sounds fun. I'd have thought Nimue would be better organised than that!" Kat winks at Nimue as she says this.

"Not elves.....Achel - really!" she picked up a throw cushion and lightly bopped him one on the head. "He's just being silly, Kat. Just being a boy." she stuck her tongue out at Achel and he got his revenge by bopping her back with another cushion.

Caught between Nimue's bopping him with the cushion and Kat's teasing, Achel felt somewhat embarrassed. However, he covered it well and said "I don't know - some of us might look good in just a pillowcase" his eyes flicking to Nimue.

When she'd recovered from the giggling fit this started, Nimue asked:

"Still going as an Arabian princess or has Marvo decided that girls can be pirates after all?"

OK there it was - Nimue had said Marvo's name as though nothing had ever been wrong though the look in her eyes made it plain this had been a remark brought on by the mood of the moment and that she was a little shocked at what she had said.

"Yep, I'm still a princess. Marvo was definite about the girls not being pirates. Although he wasn't impressed when I said I wanted to wear my boots with the outfit! His face was a picture!"

Kat ignored Nimue's shock. Maybe if they talked about it without talking about IT (whatever IT was) then it would help.

Nimue looked over at Marvo talking to Yvette and then said to Kat:

"You two looked like you were having fun. So everything appears to be working out fine for tonight. Are you going to your family for the Christmas break or staying at Hogwarts?"

"Yep, tonight could be interesting. At least until that dream kicks in. I just hoping all these spells I've got going round in my head will help!"

"Mum and Dad are quite busy over Christmas, so I'm staying here. Never know I might even be able to get some of that researching done that I've been trying to do. How about you?"

"I hope it will be interesting whether or not the dream kicks in. Time is always an issue with precognitive dreams." she paused.. "as for Christmas Father has a great deal on at the moment so I had planned to stay here." her eyes briefly flickered over to where Marvo was, "I guess whether I do or not will depend on...." she let the sentence drop but Kat got the message fairly clearly.

"I hope you do stay. And don't worry about Marvo. I'm sure we can still have fun together. My mum is sending me a goodie box at the end of term to keep me busy. She's promised me sweets and books and a drawing set. She was really impressed when I sent her some pictures and decided that I ought to have the right tools to do it properly."

As Kat and Nimue talk Achel looks over to Marvo, a somewhat 'dark' look on his face.

He dose not know what Marvo did to Nimue while they were in London, but whatever it was, he was not at all happy about it and Marvo better watch out or sparks will fly.

Nimue noted that some slight tension in the air with Achel and reached over and touched his arm to reassure him she was OK.

"Kat, maybe you are right. This is the first year for my parents back in England and I know they have a lot planned. That was partly why we had the family thing a few weeks ago," her voice did drop lower at mention of the 'event', "If I go home I'll be just under their feet. So better off staying." Kat got some sense through their link that Nimue had something planned regarding Marvo but no details as such.