Staying Around

"It feels almost like the egg starts to 'spike' after it is submerged in water," he said pulling it out of the water and handing it to Miseria carefully, so it didn't slip. He dried his hands out with the hot air charm and watched Miseria hold the egg. He then began to notice another anomaly about the egg itself. Out of the water, it seemed to have been a very solid color shade of white, but when it was submerged, it seemed to glisten, almost like a metallic shade of white. This egg was just getting weirder and weirder by the second.

"Do you notice the difference?" he asked calmly looking back at Miseria's face and then back at the egg "it's a lot more slippery and smooth when it's exposed to air. Perhaps a defense mechanism or something?" He wished that the old Care of Magical Creatures teacher had been around. Maybe they would have a better explanation about what it was doing.

She took the egg, holding it gently in her arms, watching it change the color, or perhaps it really was the protective mechanism or something. She nodded to Andrew, looking concerned on her face. What was it after all? Right now, as she usually reads a lot, she could really tell that this was an egg of some kind of hybrid lizard-snake. Or maybe snake-bassilisc, she didn't know about that. “Yes,“ she said quietly, touching with the fingers the egg. It seemed to be made of steal, strong, yet, she knew that it would break at any second if she'd drop it.
“Now I seriously don't know... it's disturbing, yet interesting. Maybe we should really talk with Matt about it first, and then talk with the care of magical creatures teacher. He... or she would probably know what is it,“ she said, holding egg still in her arms. Though, it wasn't small, it was easy to carry. Maybe the little snake was... little at the moment?

"Every teacher in Hogwarts is a Death Eater now," he said sadly as he remembered the fight at Grimmauld place "before the year ended, I was at the graduation. I saw every teacher and assisstant there and I recognized all of them." He looked at the ground and felt the wave of doubt he had been feeling before sweep over him. He shook his head slowly, trying to snap himself out of it and eventually did. He had a much bigger problem to worry about right now. "But we should talk to Matt. Him being a minister, we'd get access to thing, I don't think normal students would have. I had saved his daughter before, so he owes me."

He looked back at the egg in Miserias arms, and began to imagine what it would look like. He assumed that it would probably look like it's mother, but have the same kind of texture change like the egg had as well. He had to admit one thing, if they did go to Matt, they would have one hell of a story to tell.

Miseria looked up, scowling at them. But not all of the teachers were the death eaters! She wanted to tell him that, but she knew that even with that, they wouldn't go talking with the teachers. Somebody would just stalk them down...
“Yes, i was at the ceremony as well.. And even i saw every one of them fighting against Jess,“ she said. When Andrew mentioned Matt's daughter, Miseria didn't know what to say. She didn't also know that the minister of magic had a daughter at all! But then again... no one knew that she had a daughter herself. Well, except Jamie, Elijah, Andrew, and the Lupin family.

“Cool, so the snakey has a hero daddy now,“ she said. Also, they'd probably have to tell the minister the truth. Interesting, how would he react if they'd say that Miseria used an unforgivable curse? She gave her best to protect Andrew, who actually begged her to kill the monster anyways. And... then again, Matt even once fought with her... Not turly with her, with her as in a werewolf, but still, he even commented that it was rather interesting thing.

"I know I am just saying," he said not wanting to take the risk of trusting every teacher there. There could have been people trying to disguise their Death Eater status by attacking the Death Eaters, or not even fight at all. It was a harsh time for Hogwarts, when students couldn't even trust their own teachers. Andrew smiled warmly when she called him the 'hero daddy'. "Thanks," he said but then pretend to sound old "but I think I'm getting too old to be fighting all the time. I am 16 after all." He laughed and felt a sudden, yet harsh, reminded of the scar on his left shoulder. His shoulders grew cold and felt his spirit sink. "So I guess we'll have to talk to Matt then. I can trust him."

Right now, Miseria felt better to keep her mouth shut. Yes, they got Jess back, but then again, they lost the battle. Well... this world was like this. No victory after another victory.
“You are not. You are just trying to figure out epic ways to save the humanity, and never think about the things what can happen after you do this,“ she said calmly. She wasn't going to make him feel better. He was a gryffindor, and he was supposed to know that he himself was doing the ecpic desisions, not the other ones. Atleast Miseria didn't rush into the battle without theoretical plan. And never will be. The last time... they lost. She sighed quietly. Though, there was no one to blame, she felt kind of guilty. Maybe next time she'll figure something out, and try to help?
“Matt it is, then,“ she agreed with him. “Shall we go?“

"Sure," he smiled standing back up "oh and you may want to get your jeans by the way." he grinned and then used Wingardium Leviosa on the tank. It was a lot better than carrying around a full tank of water with a fragile egg inside. He moved to closer to him and then began to walk around, trying to get used to the spell being moved. "Alright," he said calmly, keeping the tank at mid-height. "Shall we go then?" holding out his hand so that they could both apperate.

Miseria raised her eyebrows, and looked down. She already had her jeans. The last time when she dived, she was with them. “Does daddy need some glasses, too?“ she asked with a grin, and nodded. She was still smiling when she took his hand, and waited for the appearating. Miseria hasn't done it before, and she didn't know the feeling as well. No one taught her how to do that, and she herself didn't want to study herself such things. Maybe she'll ask someone older, but she won't try those things... atleast not alone.

Andrew blinked twice and laughed. He must've been seeing things now. He then felt himself started to apperate and felt himself being lunged into the transportation. It felt really weird to apperate to the Ministry, but it happened. They landed in front of the Ministry of Magic and then tried to knock some water out of his ears. "I don't like apperating that much," he said, still feeling a bit dazed "always knocks you down somehow,"

[I'll start a new thread at the Ministry then.]

She couldn't hide the dark grin on her face. Yes, she knew that boys were like this, but she didn't actually think that Andrew was having such thoughts. “You really need to visit a doctor,“ she said, rolling her eyes, but then she held his hand stronger when they appearated.

When she could finally touch the ground, she grabbaed with the other hand from Andrew's shoulder, hoping that she won't fall down. She didn't know how he felt about such appearings, but her head was almost like spinning. And she had the feeling that she'll throw up soon, but thankfully, it didn't happen. Then, raising her eyes at the ministry, she nodded. “Let's go,“ she said, and walked in.

OT: yep.