Tricking and Treating Group 7 Oktoberfest Close

Interacting: Arthur, Elijah, Bloom, Devina

Mentions: Bloom

Tina took the letter and skimmed through the letter before handing it to her fellow Ravenclaw, Bloom. She knew that their next location had to take place where people fly. But she wasn't sure if it was the place where they had flying classes, the quidditch pitch where houses competed against other houses, or the quidditch pitch training pitch where people practiced flying. Suddenly, Tina remembered the third and fourth lines of the riddle. It must be a place where quidditch players prep for the game, she thought as she began to consider the variables.

Remembering the last two lines, she decided that it couldn't be flying class. No Hogwarts professor would ever be fine with a student falling and eating the grass. But in a quidditch game, a refree might let it pass... However, she realized that the second line had said that colours didn't clash, so she decided it couldn't be at a quidditch pitch where a game would take place. She knew that left the quidditch training pitch, but she had no idea if that was where players would meet up before the game since she never seen a quidditch game at Hogwarts. In a quiet and barely audible voice, she said, "I think it's at the quidditch training pitch. What do you think?"

In response to Bloom's question, he smiled. "Yes, trick-or-treating... excited, and a bit scared, if you'd allow me to be frank," he said in a confidential tone. Lie. He wasn't at all scared- what did he have to be afraid of? The ghosts that he was on good terms with? The paintings, who didn't take notice of him in the corridors?

The Hufflepuff who arrived soon afterward would be christened Arthur, and Elijah would smile at his hoodie from a distance. Toothless was, of course, from How to Train Your Dragon; a sweet little animation about the strength of love and trust. A little bit cheesy, in his opinion, but Winnie the Pooh was also on the same level of childishness and innocence.

Elijah considered the riddle for a moment, then turned to his team. His mind was already churning, flipping through all of the possible solutions to the riddle. The answer was obviously a place, a new destination that they would migrate to once solving the riddle, so he began to travel through the castle in his mind's eye, searching out the places that would make sense with the riddle.

Tina proposed that it was the Quidditch Training Pitch, and he couldn't stop the corner of his lip from tugging down in a frown. She couldn't even wait thirty seconds to let the others think for a bit? He couldn't exactly protest, however, as he knew that she was right. His eyes searched the others' for agreement, meeting each pair of pupils with his own. 

Bloom had the parchment now and seemed to follow the same mental path Tina had taken, and Arthur and Devina also seemed to be in agreement with Tina. He was disappointed that he hadn't been the one to offer the solution, as he so often did in classes, but that was alright.

He had plenty of other opportunities to show off.

Turning back to Max, he opened his mouth to offer their solution, but could only watch and gape in surprise as he promptly disappeared. Red smoke, the color of the brave and brazen Gryffindors, engulfed the Head Boy, the echoing sounds of shattering glass out of place. He hated that the surprise overtook his face so quickly, but nothing could be done to conceal it.

"I suppose we're to head to the Quidditch Training Pitch, then?" he proposed, turning back to the group.

As a group, we have all agreed that the solution is the Quidditch Training Pitch