On A Mission Finished

Interacting with @Willow Anderson @Aaron Jones @Lydia Cooper

Seeing as the opportunity had shown itself to be worth Euphaustus’ time, there was no reason why he should have declined the invitation. Besides, his original plan was aligning perfectly. It felt nice to talk to other fellow first years whose intentions were to have fun in the trembling cold. They also sounded super friendly, no one actually had greeted the boy in such a welcoming manner. If anything, he was honoured to help them build snowmen - an army of them if necessary! Maybe they could take over the courtyard, or even more ambitious, Hogwarts! Hopefully, no Professor would ruin their plans.

The bright smile that crossed his pink lips was meant to thank the three of them. A red blush appeared too. But he blamed that on cold. Definitely the cold.
“I’m very glad to meet you folk!” Euphausts grinned happily, scratching the back of his head, and proceeded to look down at his feet, his shoes covered in snow, if he stood in the same position any longer, he’d end up having his entire thin legs covered.
“No no,” Euphaustus looked at Lydia, shaking his head, “this Bilbo is actually real! Not from somewhere-something.” The fantastical world Lydia mentioned (which was unknown to Euphaustus) was probably more real than the curly-head’s made up spooky character.

“The only thing we have to do once we build the snowmen,” he started piling up snow adding it onto the one nearly finished, giving it a nice, smooth round shape. He tried to focus on it as much as possible, messing things up was one of his many talents. Still, it was turning out pretty good.
“Is give them a nice little hug so they don’t hate us. But if you don’t wanna risk destroying our creation…” he stopped, trying to think of an alternative - there wasn’t one. “Well yeah just hug them lightly.”

Not wanting to creep them all out with his silly scary tales of fictional monsters, Euphaustus sought out to serve more of himself on the plate. Christmas was definitely the best subject to discuss - and seeing as they were already talking bits and pieces regarding the matter, he didn’t see why not.
“Do you guys think you’ll be getting any presents once you get back home? If you are going back, that is.” The Hufflepuff planned to stay at Hogwarts - but was still debating whether or not he should return to the muggle world for some time. He hadn’t seen his mother in ages and even if their relationship wasn’t the closest, he missed her presence nonetheless. The question of presents of his own on the other hand - well, he never expected much, he got used to the simple receivings of books and tarot decks.

Interacting with @Euphaustus Boppity @Lydia Cooper @Aaron Jones

Willow was absolutely ecstatic that people were interested in what her family did for Yule. It was one of her favorite holidays to celebrate throughout the year. "So, ok. We kind of do things like other people but we have different names for it. Instead of a Christmas tree it's a Yule tree. We hang lights to represent the sun. We decorate with things like holly and evergreen but there's specific meanings behind each one that I won't bore you with." She finished her bottom sphere for the snowman and quickly got to work on the middle one as she spoke. "We also burn a specific yule log, meditate with the morning sun on yule..." She paused and thought about other things her family does. Listing out was definitely a different experience than just doing it. "Oh! Every year we pick a charity to donate to, spread the yuletide joy... of course we eat a lot! But we also meditate a lot and do prayers to the God and Goddess." She nodded in confirmation for herself. "Yep! That's it."

She listened to Euphaustus talk about the way to make sure Bilbo doesn't appear, she was upset that she never got to hear this legend before. "This is so cute! I can't wait to hug all of my snowmen creations." She finished the middle one and plopped it on top, a little too hard which made it fall apart. She pouted a bit, her arms staying in the circle for an extra couple seconds as she realized that her creation fell apart. "I'll have to make sure to be gentle..."

Interacting with @Euphaustus Boppity, @Aaron Jones, @Willow Anderson

@Euphaustus Boppity, @Willow Anderson, @Lydia Cooper

Interacting with @Lydia Cooper @Euphaustus Boppity @Aaron Jones

She started working on redoing the middle part of her snowman since her work had sadly disintegrated, but she wasn't too sad about it. She could always build another one. "I really am excited to go back home to see my family too. I've missed them so much, and I can't wait to tell them about everything I've learned." This was the longest time she had been away from her family and it was honestly killing her as they got closer and closer to the time for break. "We celebrate the solstice because we're Wiccan, so you were right it is a religion! Instead of worshipping one God we actually celebrate a God and Goddess and the Wheel of the Year that tells the story of their love, which is actually kind of weird because the Goddess gives birth to the God but then he also is her husband at some point. It's unusual that's for sure." She always had the most difficult time explaining the story of them because a lot of people had a hard time imagining it, just like her sometimes.

She looked over at Euphaustus as he named his snowman, and looked back at hers. "Mine is going to be named Penelope!" She nodding confidently, feeling like that perfectly fit the snowman she was giving life to. "But I mean, Frosty the Snowman came to life so there has to be a spell for it. I feel like if you can think of a spell it exists. It's just a matter of knowing what it is." She honestly was surprised by the amount of spells that existed for the most random of purposes since she came to school.

Such as the dancing feet spell, she still didn't understand why it existed in the first place, but it sparked an idea. "What if we cast tarantallegra? Maybe that would make them dance! Just like Frosty!" She thought she was brilliant for coming up with the idea, and maybe they would be down for trying it once they were done with their snowman army.

Interacting with @Euphaustus Boppity , @Aaron Jones , @Willow Anderson

@Euphaustus Boppity, @Willow Anderson, @Lydia Cooper

Understanding religion was rather interesting - more interesting than Euphaustus ever thought. His mother never portrayed a particular interest in a common faith. She was just spiritual in her own way, hence why the boy lacked knowledge when it came to such topics, and surprised himself when he showed enthusiasm during the conversation about Willow’s way of celebration. If anything, the whole God and Goddess scenario sounded pretty cool, until Willow started describing the other trivial things the two phenoms got themselves into. The confused face drop Euphaustus bopped was pretty hysterical, if they looked at his face. Nonetheless, he planned to bring this to his mother’s attention whenever he gets back home. She’d probably know something about it.

“Penelope is a nice name!” The boy stood up from his kneeling position in awe, as he had already started to fantasize about the magical decorations they could enchant every snowman with.
“Not sure if you’re with me on this one, but I feel like anyone with a name like that should be dressed in pink… or purple.” What he said was rather random, but some name brought with them automatic visualizations. The weird part was that Euphaustus had a weird deja vu about this. Odd stuff. Lydia’s idea was pretty cool too. It matched with the concept of the snowman she and Aaron had built.
“You should definitely go with that. It’s fitting! Imagine if we had one of those royal semi-circle shaped hats!”

Seeing a snow creature come to life would definitely have been an experience. If there was anyone keen to see that happening, it was definitely Euphaustus, who was gleaming in fantasization. Little Billy would have been looking so happy, shuffling and twirling around in the white courtyard, alongside his fellow buddies. Especially with the large bright grin, his creator had shaped on his face. It almost reached where his ears would be. On top of that, it would have been a whole other nice witness of magic.

“That’s a good question,” Euphaustus then replied, losing himself in thoughts and plans as the question he was asked was rather needed. Funny how he planned what to do, just not where.
“Getting to run away from the castle to the forest would be a nice adventure. But I doubt if that will actually happen, especially with the lack of students to supervise.” On second thought, even the possibilities of the different dangers would probably stop the boy in his meddling.
“If not the forest, then I’d try to find an abandoned girl’s lavatory! I heard an intriguing ghost lives there!” Poltergeists and the sorts were clearly Euphaustus’ knack when it came to researching them and the sort.

Assuming that Aaron’s statement was indeed correct - for the snowmen needing legs in order to dance - Euphaustus shoved a bunch of snow underneath the base of the one he was making, and carefully shaped them into egg-like feet with no shape other than the bent round shape itself. They probably didn’t look anything like feet, but they served as them. So that should work still, right?
“Legs or not, I really hope this actually works now,” the boy emphasized his excitement on the idea.
“Better question is, can any of you actually perform the spell?”

Interacting with @Aaron Jones , @Euphaustus Boppity , @Willow Anderson 

Lydia looked up from the semi-formed head of Napoleon, her face light up by a bright smile. Of course! The levitation charm would have been perfect for this, and she mentally facepalmed for not having thought about it. "Once I'm done with the head and we've put all of the decorations I could assemble our big boy here!" she said cheerfully and then turned towards Euphaustus. "That's an amazing idea Euphaustus! I don't think we have a real one, but I could try to make it with some snow,"  she said and then quickly finished with Napoleon's head, before she looked at Aaron, a pensive expression on her face.

"I guess so? I could make a couple of legs and then help you finish the decorations for the head," she said, and then started working on the legs. Since she didn't want their snowman to collapse over tiny legs, she made sure to make them pretty big and thick, hoping that they would have been enough to support all of the snow.

Once she was done, she noticed that the second snowball was ready, with all the decorations on it, and she smiled as she took out her wand. "I'll start putting the two giant balls on top of each other Aaron, I'll help you with the head in a second," she said and then pointed her wand to the sphere that was a little smaller than the other. 

With a concentrated expression on her face, Lydia moved her wand and said "Wingardium Leviosa"with firm voice, and then the ball started levitating. She really hoped she wouldn't accidentally drop it, that would have been a real shame, but she didn't, and when the ball landed on top of the other one, Lydia giggled excited, turning towards Aaron with a big smile on her face. "Look! It worked!"