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[Amuro Hakumi]

Hakumi sniffled, trying to choke down her sobs as Ashelle tried to talk some sense into the two Hufflepuffs. All was fine until Ashelle said something that truly shook her down to the core. No, it wasn't the fact that her spider had something to do with that wizard, or that they needed to calm down. It was...

It was.....

"Finnegan..." She choked a little. "Finnegan Junior was not a pet!" She stood up, tears streaming down her face. This was probably... the first time she had gotten upset, at least to this extent. Ever. "He was..."

She gulped.

"He was a familiar!"

And with that, Hakumi wailed as she ran out of the Hospital Wing, down the hall, around the corner, down some stairs, down another hallway, up a set of stairs, turned around, ran back down the stairs, ran down another hall, went down some more stairs, crossed the entrance hall, and entered a doorway to some darkness below.

[Professor O'Conner]

Ashelle did something she was unaware had a name in the muggle world. She facepalmed.

"Young lady," but the girl was already running for the door. "Hey! Get back here! A WIZARD CAN'T BE A FAMILIAR!" She called loudly before the girl was out of earshot. But as she didn't return, Ashelle couldn't be sure she'd heard.

She sighed and turned back to the boy.

"A dragon dog hmm? Well the only thing like that is a Chinese Fu Dog. They were all turned to stone or bronze many thousands of years ago, so any Fu dog I transfigured your book into won't be a hundred percent accurate. However he will be multi-colored and his hair and whiskers will look like fire, but the won't burn like fire. Also Fu Dogs aren't reported to breath fire in the textbooks about them, so I can't add that. Let me get a picture of one, and you can see if that's what you want."

Ashelle when to her bag in the back room and retrieved a box of playing cards, each card had a magical type of dog on it. Ashlee's cousin Vicki had given the deck to Ashelle on one of her first Christmases, say she liked dogs so much she should have them all. Ashelle came back out and fished though the deck till she found a joker on which was a bronze Fu Dog. She showed it to Finny.

"Is this what you want? I warn you these things are as big as lions. In the old days they were considered to be the footsoilders and guardians of the gods by the local muggles and very hard to control by the wizard population. I'd have to make him docile and friendly if you really want him, but he'll still be as big as a lion. Think you can handle that?"

[Finnegan Darby]

Hegumu ran away, sobbing. Finny could sympathize; he, too, had recently lost a pet. He stood as the Professor shouted after the girl, an indignant expression crossing his normally cheerful face. He whirled to face the door and cupped his hands around his mouth. "DON'T LISTEN TO HER, HIKUPU! BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS!" Hegimi could have anything she wanted as a familiar! Who was this lady to tell her different?!

Besides, you know, a Professor.

Finnegan forgot about everything else as the pretty redhead returned with a picture outstretched in one hand. The blond's mouth fell open. "Ohhhhh myyyy gawwwwd yes! That! Yes! That's exactly what Poopy always wanted to be!" His eyes shone. "Poopy's the most friendly book ever," he assured her. "Dude! I could totally, like, ride him to school and stuff! AWWW YEEEEEEE"

[Professor O'Conner]

Professor O'Conner rolled up her sleeves and took the book from Finny. She congered a glowing yellow circle in the middle of the room and placed the book in the middle of it. The she stood back and pondered for a long moment.

"That might be best - just to be sure I get it right," she murmured to herself. Then she went into action. She began drawing a complex Transfiguration circle -similar to the ones on a classroom chalk board- with her wand. In each section she used a different glowing colored writing. Once she's finished once section the writing would fade till it looked like just a plain chalk figure on the floor, but when Professor O'Conner pointed at it with her wand to check her work, it always obediently glowed once more, only fading when she stopped paying attention to the marks.

She spoke under her breath to herself, talking herself though the correct signs and steps to create the look of the beast she wished to transfigure. As she worked her way outwards, she paused more than once, her wand poised in the air, as if waiting for the right thought or inspiration to put it back in motion. Eventually the idea would come to her, and she would begin drawing again.

As the circle grew bigger so did her smile, it was quiet clear she was growing excited as well, but was containing herself so she didn't make a mistake in her calculations. At last the circle was complete. It stood nearly seven feet wide, a hospital wing bed could have fit inside it. Again she stood back for a moment as if pondering, then smiled.

"Perfect! And just so I don't have to do it all over again-" Professor O'Conner waved her wand and an exact copy of the circle rose from the ground, the signs and characters of the copy disintegrated into glowing dust and were sucked up buy her wand - stored for another day.

"Are you ready for this?" she smiled at Finny a twinkle in her eye that any kid would recognize - the next few moments were going to be so awesome! One more time she waved her wand.

"Agnosco," she commanded and one by one the sections of writing lit up and glowed brighter than they ever had before. Once they were all glowing with the same intensity she made a quick motion with her wand.
"Instruo!" The glowing writing grew even brighter and swirling magical energy engulfed the small book. The magical force grew larger and larger till it was as tall as the Professor and nearly as wide as the circle.

Just when it seemed like everything was going to explode in all directions, the swirling and slowed, the glowing began to fade, and the magic fell away from the form which now stood in the middle of the circle. It fell to the ground, disappearing into the stones as if it had never been.

The Fu Dog stood nearly as tall as Professor O'Conner, it's waving hair, tail tuff and 'mustache' tendrils that ignored gravity and changed from yellow to orange at the ends as if they truly were on fire. The Fu Dogs body shifted from deep blue to purple like a chameleon car paint job and had a opalescent shimmer to ever scale. His eyes were like blue sapphires his nose looked like obsidian and his claws the color of the highest quality silver. At his elbows and heals sprouted white fluffy clouds with sliver linings. On the front of each foreleg, and on the top of each aft-paw was a emerald green leathery armored plate. No one was messing with this pooch!

"Wow," breathed the Professor, "I do believe I've outdone myself." She turned to Finny. "Are you sure you still want to name him 'Poopy'?"

[Finnegan Darby]

Finny watched, amazed, as Miss Redhead used all sorts of crazy devil magic. Dang! Well, he supposed there were all kinds at this school. The Hufflepuff's wide blue eyes were focused on the glowing circle as the well-worn Transfiguration suddenly grew and became not a book.

The thing in front of him was awesome on so many levels he couldn't express it in words. So, he would express it... in song.

No, just kidding.

Finny's arms raised and his mouth opened simultaneously. "POOPY!" Damn, Poopy was an extreme motherfucker, now. Finny had look up just to meet eyes with him. Holy shit!

The Hufflepuff's mouth stretched in a happy grin. This Fiji Water thing was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. All those scales! And the whiskers! Oh, man! This was the best day of his life!

He turned to the Charms Professor. "Actually, I want a collie dog, instead."

[Professor O'Conner]

For one moment Ashelle's old fiery temper threatened to bubble up. Her eyes got big and her mouth turned into a thin line. But then she stopped and took a breath, and a playful twinkle entered her eyes.

"Well, if your sure you don't like him," she said playfully, with a sneaky smile, "Find me another book, and I'll make you a collie." She looked at the Fu Dog for a moment then back at Finny.

"I'll keep this one. He's to wonderful to mess with now." Ashelle hoped Finny would know she was just kidding about keeping his book. She also hoped he was just kidding about wanting a collie, instead. Did he really think the Dog was too much? No way, there was no such thing as too much awesome. Aunt Vicki had at least taught her that much.

[Finnegan Darby]

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Finny threw up his hands. "THIIIIIEF!" The bellow could be heard all down the hallway. "THIEF! HELP! THIEF!" Wait, wait, no one would come if he yelled that. What is he'd been taught to yell, again?

"FIRE! HEEEEELP, FIRE!"

NO ONE WOULD TAKE POOPY FROM HIM. NO ONE.

[Professor O'Conner]

Ashelle again did the gesture that the Muggle's called facepalm. She was about to try and shout over him, but decided it was more important to stop his false cries of fire first.

Shaking her head she attempted cast Silencio on the rambunctious Finny.

"If you are quite done declaring thieves and fire, Mr. Darby," she said to him, I'd like a word with you about your Fuu Dog and raising false alarms."

She waited for him to return to his seat near the Hospital Wing desk, quietly swearing to herself she wouldn't chase him if he decided to book it without his -erm- book.

[Finnegan Darby]

Suddenly, no words would come out! Uselessly, the stereotypically blond Hufflepuff kept trying to yell. His mouth flapped like a fish gasping for air. His arms waved around like a maniac.

The Professor wanted a word with him. Finny spun to face her. His mouth shaped the word 'WHAT?' but again, nothing actually came out. Oh, no! He'd been cursed just like Higglepoop had been! HE WAS DESTINED TO A LIFE OF SILENCE. JUST LIKE A NUN OR SOMETHING.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Professor O'Conner]

Finally, thought Professor O'Conner, and she silently congratulated herself for holding her patience for this long.

"I said, come over here and sit down, so I can talk to you about your Fu Dog and your uncalled for actions regarding my -admittedly lame- joke about keeping him. When I am finished I will perform the counter charm to the one that silenced you, and you and you new pet will be free to go about your business. However, I'll warn you now, the length of my talk will directly be affected by the time it takes you to get over here and park it in this chair!" she said pointing to the chair he'd occupied before.

Professor O'Conner took a deep breath. Maybe she wasn't being as patient as she'd originally thought.

[Finnegan Darby]

Finny did not like long talks, unless he were the one speaking. Moving faster than a speeding bullet -- nay, a Hennessey Venom GT -- NAY, Speedy Fuckin' Gonzales, Finny zipped across the room and crashed into his chair. There was a quiet moment as he hastily stood the chair back upright and then sat his ass in it.

The Hufflepuff's arms went up, as if to say, what now? On the topic of patience, Finny had absolutely none.

All the while, Poopy sat and shifted awkwardly from giant paw to giant paw, as he was wont to do.

[Professor O'Conner]

Ashelle raised and eyebrow at him as he crashed into the chair, righted it and sat in it at speeds formerly unknown to wizard kind.

"I take it you are not one for lectures. Very well, I will be brief. I am not here to steal your possessions, no matter how awesome they might be." She glanced at the Fu Dog and smiled briefly at it, hopping to reassure the giant animal. Then her frown returned as she looked back and Finny again.

"You should never, ever raise a false alarm! There is neither fire nor thievery taking place here. If you keep that up eventually not one will believe you even if something terrible really was happening. For raising a false alarm -also know as 'crying wolf'- three times now at my count, I am taking 15 points from Hufflepuff."

She sighed. This was taking longer than she'd thought. She had to get to Morgan to tell her about that wizard who'd been posing as a spider.

"If you weren't joking about wanting a collie, and you decide to toe the line for a while, maybe earn those points back in class, I will think about either turning this book or another object into a collie for you." With that she cast the counter charm on Finny.

"Good luck with your new pet," she told him, and began cleaning up the desk and the other chair she'd conjured.

[Finnegan Darby]

As the Professor began to talk, Finny fidgeted in his seat. Oh, no. Lectures. He HATED lectures. His dad used to bring him into the kitchen and bitch him out for always having terrible grades or sticking his hand down classmates' pants, and whatever else was apparently 'inappropriate for society' or something. It was seriously the worst.

Ashelle droned on; Finny's eyes glazed over. She said something about points -- whoa, wait, what? Dude! She'd totally given into his awesome charm and like, given him points for... something!

That's what she'd said, right?

The Hufflepuff hopped up as soon as her wand flicked his way -- he could talk again, too! "THANKS!" he blared noisily her way. "C'mon, Poopy! We gotta raise more alarms for more points, or whatever!" The blond dashed out of the room, followed shortly by his dutiful, gigantic monster of a dog.

WHOOO HUFFLEPUFFS!

[Professor O'Conner]

It was all she could do not to go running after him.

That fool of a 5th year is going to loose every point Hufflepuff has by the end of the week! she thought to herself, gripping the edge of the desk with nearly all her might.
Then she stopped as if frozen, her eyes opened wise and she remembered that spider/wizard, and his voice saying 'busted'. That almost mocking voice, How dare he think infiltrating the school was at all a laughing matter!

A sudden feeling of dread washed over her. It might be that the wizard was someone very powerful, and thus could indeed take such a thing lightly. Ashelle turned from the desk and dashed for the door - tripping over her hem and falling onto the stone floor almost immediately.

Picking her self up, with no regard to the abrasions on her hands, she quickly threw her skirts over one arm and ran off again, in search of the headmistress.