Trips and tricks

[Katrine Isabell Wall]

”Yes, I love it”, Marceau said. Good, that made things easier. He would never guess. ”Let's go.”

I followed him out of the kitchen and had a last look to elves, when the door closed. I would come again sometimes, now when I know where the kitchen is. House elves really were friendly. Marceau wasn't going to front doors, I thought walking after him. We went to other direction. When I perceived where we were, I realized, that we were walking to side door. The way to side door was shorter than to front door. And corridors we walked along we deserted, which was good, no laughing, pranks-doing students everywhere.

Soon we got to side door and Marceau opened it. ”Shall we go out? Ladiest first”, he said. I smiled to him and walked out the door. He was the only polite person I had met today. One Gryffondor boy opened a door to me, but slammed it to my face. I couldn't find out, what was the funny thing about it.

I watched around to find a good place for our picnic. ”Would that be a good place?” I asked and pointed to a beautiful bank by the lake. There were even a little bit grass there. But where would we sit? ”Is there any blanket in the basket?” I asked Marceau. I didn't want to sit on the wet ground.

[Marceau Forest]

Katrine smiled to me and stepped outside from the school building. I followed Katrine to the school yard and watched the beautiful landscape. A green lawn, singing birds and the warm sunlight boded that the spring was coming. I loved spring and waited so much for the summer.

”Would that be a good place?”, Katrine asked me and pointed at the lake. There was a beautiful bank where would be a perfect place for the picnic.

"It would be very nice. And yes, I've got a blanket", I answered and started to walk to the lake. The snow rustled under my shoes and soon there was only grass. I smiled and glanced at Katrine - I was so happy to be with her.

Soon we arrived to the bank. I placed the basket to the ground and took the blank out of the basket. I tried to spread the blanket to the ground but it was very difficult to do alone. I was quite sure that Katrine would help me. I waited so much for the picnic and the food - I was a little bit hungry.

[Katrine Isabell Wall]

"It would be very nice. And yes, I've got a blanket", Marceau said when we walked to the lake. I nodded and looked at sky. Maybe I could see some migratory birds. It was so beautiful day today, so some birds may think it’s great day for moving.

We got to bank and Marceau started to spread the blanked. It looked a little difficult to do it alone, so I caught the blanked and helped Marceau with spreading.

Then something flew over us and I looked at sky. It was a swarm of migratory birds!

“Look!” I exclaimed and pointed to sky. “Do you know, what are those birds?” I wasn’t a birdwatcher, but I wanted to identify marks of the spring, that was the originally purpose of the trip.

I went to bascet and took two of the cups and the thermos buttle out of it. I couldn’t wait to see, if my only april prank worked. I took my own cup next to me and left the other one to Marceau. The cup wasn’t an usual cup, it was a nose-biting teacup. Yea, maybe that wasn’t the most inventive prank, but I thought that was better than shouting ‘a werewolf’. Now I needed just wait, hurry with asking Marceau to drink could raise suspicions.

//Anteeksi kun kesti taas ikuisuus vastata :( Yritän kesällä vastailla ahkerammin//

[Marceau Forest]

// Ei haittaa. (: //

As I quessed, Katrine caught the blanket and helped me to spread it to the ground. Katrine was so kind and helpful - why the sorting hat didn't sort her to Pouffsouffle? If she was a pouffsouffle, we would send more time together. What a pity.

"Oystercatchers", I answered to Katrine immediately. I knew a lot of things of birds, so I was quite sure there were oystercatchers, "Black back, white stomach and orange nose. We have lots of those in Bordeaux", I told.

I watched Katrine, when she took two cups and the thermos bottle. She gave the other cup to me and I smelled the drink. Yum, hot chocolate was my favourite drink. "This is just the right drink for this moment, because - AAAAAAAHG!"

My sentence broke off when I felt something very painful in my nose. What the fwooper?! The cup has just bited my nose. I took the biting cup from my nose and looked at it. It has sharp teeth. I rubbed my aching nose and watched Katrine.

"Did you see that?", I asked her, "Is that normal? Is there something wrong with the cup? Do we have to tell something to the house elves?", I gave questions to Katrine. I has no clue that Katrine has done the trick to me.

// Okei, en sitten tiedä onko tuollaisia lintuja edes Ranskassa, mutta leikitään että on :') //

[Katrine Isabell Wall]

“Oystercatchers”, Marceau told and I gave him a look with mixed feelings of ashtonisment and admiration. I wound’t ever recognize any bird so fast as he did. "Black back, white stomach and orange nose”, he named attribudes and I watched birds; all attribudes matched. “We have lots of those in Bordeaux."

“Are you a birdwatcher or something?” I asked interested.

Marceau took the cup I gave him and smelled it. Did he foresee something? “This is just the right drink for this moment”, he said, “because - AAAAAAAGH!”

I watched him shoked, I didn’t know the cup bited so hard!

"Did you see that? Is that normal? Is there something wrong with the cup? Do we have to tell something to the house elves?" Marceau asked. He had no idea that the cup was mine, but I didn’t want him to blame house elves so I decided to reveal my prank.

“I - I’m so sorry, that’s my cup, I didn’t know it bites so hard. That was so stupid from me”, I explained. “Does it hurt a lot? Do you need to go to the hospital wing?”

I took the normal cup out of the bascket, fulled it with hot chocolate and streched it to Marceau. “That’s a normal cup”, I told him. “Please don’t hate me.”

[Marceau Forest]

I rubbed my aching nose and the pain alleviated a bit, luckily. I heard the sentences that Katrine said, and first it was difficult to understand the whole thing. However the truth was that Katrine did the prank to me. Apparently Katrine wasn't so gentle person that I thought.

Katrine apologized and told that the cup was her. She also told that she didn't know the cup bites so hard and asked do I have to go to the hospital wing. Katrine took the normal cup out of the basket, filled it with hot chocolate and gave it to me. "Please don't hate me", she said lastly.

Katrine was too nice person for hating, and I couldn't help the smile spreading to my face. I believed that Katrine was a kind person in essence.

"I'm OK", I said quickly and gave a laugh, "And I don't hate you". I smiled to Katrine and I would like to hug her. The hating was the last thing I would do to her.

"But yes, I'm a birdwatcher - at least a bit", I answered the question that I heard before this happening, "I would like to know more about birds, so I'm not a professional or anything like that. But I hope my nose doesn't look like bullfinch at the moment."

I tasted the hot chocolate from the new cup carefully. This cup didn't bit my nose so I took a big gulp. I took an apple from the picnic basket and give a cookie pack to Katrine.

// Tämäkin peli voitaisiin varmaan lopetella pikkuhiljaa. Onko ideoita, miten tämä päättyisi? :) //

[Cyan Grenier]

Kiitos pelistä! (:

Katrine Wall, Serdaigle: 17p
Marceau Forest, Pouffsouffle: 15p