Ariana Silver (teases_muggles) wrote in breaking_point, @ 2009-07-29 22:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | *complete, 2024 07, character: neville longbottom |
RP: Happy Birthday, Neville // Owl: Nev, your office!
Who: Ari, Ash, Neville
Where: Neville's office
When: V. early morning. Just after midnight, July 30, 2024
Rating/Warning: PG, none
Summary: Ari arranges a 'just in case' present for Neville, reasoning he'll get the joke
Status: Completed
"There are easier ways to do this," Ashley said as she carried the overlarge bowl of toads. There were three inside, roughly medium-sized, as far as she could tell - though she was no expert on toads.
"Yes, but they aren't as much fun," Ari protested. She had the easier job - sort of. She was levitating a rather larger terrarium carefully along the stairs toward Neville's office. She reasoned even if he'd been about the school today, it was highly, highly unlikely he would still be in his office.
The idea had struck her the day prior when she'd been getting things ready for camp, and Ashley had mentioned something about frogs in a pond. Frogs became toads easily enough - if one followed her train of thought - and that brought her back to their plans for Astoria, which reminded her that they'd all planned on pets, and a rain of toads.
Well, how better to start it all off than by equipping Neville with a few toads?
Once she reached the office, she opened the door and slipped inside. She did feel vaguely naughty about this - but it wasn't as though they'd be going through his things or taking anything.
They were just setting up a present for him.
Ari held the terrarium level while Ashley cleared off a large enough area on a table. She levitated it over and let it settle gently, grinning broadly. Lifting the top off the bowl of toads, she carefully transplanted them into the terrarium. It was, if she said so herself, a very nice terrarium. There was dirt and plants on half of it, and a miniature pond on the other half, so the toads could hang out wet or dry.
She'd even done research to make sure she had the right sort of plants for the toads, and she had a small stash of freezedried flies for them - though she supposed Nev could experiment with diet for them to see what they liked.
Flicking her wand once, she draped some streamers over the glass, along with a small banner that read "Just in Case". Beneath that was a note that read "happy birthday."
Surveying her work, Ari nodded. It wasn't much as far as gifts went, but she thought the amusement factor more than made up for it.
Grinning to Ashley, she penned a brief owl to Neville, though she wouldn't actually send it until the morning - there was no sense in ruining this by alarming him into thinking something bad was going on, and pre-dawn owls tended to mean just that.
The owl read-
Dear Future Headmaster -
There is something in your office you should probably see at your earliest convenience.
She left the note unsigned, reasoning that when he saw what it was, he'd do the math and come up with her.
Laughing, she ushered Ashley out of the office before starting along toward her own quarters. It was late, after all, and she was tired - and she wanted to be awake for his reaction in the morning.