Double Trouble Open Closed

Galahad felt a bit nauseous as he appeared in front of the main gates to Hogwarts. He'd always hated apparating but had become proficient at it the old he got. Working as an Auror brought with it the necessity of being able to respond to far away places as quickly as possible. Still, maybe it was the fact that he had been transporting all of his possessions at the same but this trip was particularly uncomfortable. Most of his stuff had already been moved from his London apartment to his office but his clothes and his most prized possession, his grand piano, had been the last to go. His clothes were in the trunk on the bottom and he had used Reducio to shrink his piano down to be the same size as a trunk.

"Zuzy," Galahad called out and almost instantaneously a house elf apparated on the other side of the gates and with a snap of her fingers, they swung open. "Thank you," he said as he walked through, "Before I go into the Entrance Hall I want to put this in my office, is the window open as I requested?"

The house elf nodded and they set off onto the grounds. As they walked, Galahad started speed talking, mainly to the elf but really no one in particular, "It's been so long since I've been back but it seems like the castle and the grounds haven't changed at all." As they walked he nodded in the direction of an old elm three off the path, "I remember I shared my first kiss with Sherry Sinclair over there, the memory was nice but that certainly didn't work out in the long run." He almost tripped but gathered himself and kept walking towards Gryffindor Tower rather than the Entrance Hall. "I kept meaning to visit Caradoc when he was head of Hufflepuff but work never really allowed it, it was just such a busy time. You know it's easy to look back and see the things you missed out on but... but at the time, it's just... just so easy to get sucked into work." The manic talking was nothing new or unknown for Galahad. He'd always had a pretty frenetic personality, his mind raced from topic to topic. It made him very productive but also sometimes bogged him down at minutia.

When they reached the base of Gryffindor Tower, he set the trunk and piano down next to each other. He took his wand out of the pocket of his robes and pointed it at the trunk, "Wingardium Leviosa," he said as the trunk began to hover off of the ground. He carefully maneuvered it up the tower and into through the open window, "Finite Incantatum," he said as he adjusted his aim back down at the piano, repeating the process, this time, he was a little off in his aim and the piano hit the windowsill, "Shit, well that's going to need a Reparo," he said as he guided it in at the second time of asking before ending the spell.

With that, he and Zuzy set off towards the Entrance Hall and Galahad resumed his uninterrupted monologue, "Thanks for the help by the way, it's great to see you again, I remember you were here when Caradoc and I were students, I'm looking forward to your and the rest of house elves cooking again, by the way, the food was one of the best parts of being here, it was always great." Unabated, he changed topics seamlessly as he opened the door, "I'm just looking forward to a... a change of pace really, managing a Hogwarts House should be a good bit less stressful than my Auror days, I enjoyed the work but it took a toll."

It was almost as if he just realized where he was as he was halfway through the hall, "Ah, well here I am, time to see where my cousin is."

@Caradoc Browne