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Written using prompts provided by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)
Hopscotch: (Location) Headmaster's Office
Chocolate Frog: Bronze – Lord Draben – (Prompts)Support, Royal, Lifetime, Connect
Gringotts: Said Words – Sighed, Mumbled, Screamed, Nodded, Yawned; Instead of Watched – Examined; Instead of Walked – Lumbered, Shuffled
Caught
"Armando, you had better have a good reason for waking me up at this ungodly hour!" Phineas Nigellus Black yawned as he walked down the steps from the headmaster's sleeping chamber and into his office.
"Headmaster Black, this boy was found leaving the girl's bathroom again. It's the fifth time this month," Armando fumed, giving the irritating Slytherin a weak push towards the headmaster.
"And you couldn't have dealt with it yourself," he sighed. "If you're going to last longer than five minutes at this school then you've got to start dealing with the children by yourself. You cannot allow them to always see you as the good guy, they will see it as a weakness and exploit it."
"Of course Headmaster," Armano nodded, shifting from one foot to the other. "I can take him with me now if you'd like, and provide him with an appropriate punishment."
"Nonsense, he's already here now. Go and get back to patrolling the corridors, or better yet go and have some rest," Phineas said dismissively.
Morfin Gaunt examined the exchange between the two professors, who were chatting away as though he wasn't even there. He couldn't believe how foolish he had been to get caught on one of his midnight excursions. He had been so certain that there was no chance that he would get caught, but then again he had not featured the patrolling Professor Dippet into the equation.
The elderly professor lumbered out of the headmaster's office, leaving Morfin alone with Professor Black.
After a long pause during which neither party spoke a word, Phineas finally broke the silence and said in as even a voice as he could manage "Would you care to explain why you were out of bed at this ungodly hour?"
"Just exploring," he mumbled. "You get very little opportunity to do so with all the other children around."
"AND THAT INCLUDES THE GIRL'S BATHROOM HOW, MORFIN?" Phineas screamed. "You know what I don't even want to know, but I'm telling you this now boy, if you go near the girl's bathroom one more time and you will be expelled from this school. For now though you will serve two weeks detention. Now get out of my sight."
Morfin shuffled quickly out of the Headmaster's office, and back to his Common Room.
He felt great shame knowing that e would have to write to his father and inform him that he would not be able to carry out the deeds that he had been asked to. After weeks of careful planning, taking the time to connect with the basilisk and providing it with clear instructions he had been foiled by the ever prowling Professor Dippet.
He was also disappointed that he wouldn't be able to see his most precious and dearest friend again, but it wasn't worth the risk of expulsion, although somehow he doubted his father would see it that way. As far as he was concerned Morfin had always been a royal screw up and had caused him a lifetime of disappointment. It pained him that he had never had the full support of his father.
He finally went got to sleep in the early hours of the morning after a lot of tossing and turning, and he for the first time in his life he dreaded going home for the holidays.
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