This detention is a blast! (anyone)

[dana]

Dana sighed as she entered the Great Hall just in time for detention. Dinner had already ended, so the Great Hall was empty besides Filch, who grinned nastily as he shoved a bucket, a mop and a broom to Dana’s hands and mockingly wished ‘a nice evening’ to her. Dana grimaced at the old care-taker’s back and then looked around the Great Hall. Tonight she would have to wash the floor without magic – looking how big the Great Hall was, especially now that it was empty, Dana groaned. It was going to be a long night.

Deciding that there was no point in feeling blue about it, Dana pulled off her thick jumper and left it on the Ravenclaw table, leaving herself in only silvery hip-hugger jeans and a light-blue tank-top, that bared her mid-riff and the little belly-button ring Dana wore, in the shape of a little golden snitch.
Dana waved her wand once and music started playing over the Great Hall, as Dana started cleaning, being dutifully silent and correct at first. The detention had been earned. Dana had hexed three Slytherins in the hallways – actually, the Slytherins had been bullying some younger Ravenclaw and Dana had stepped between. However she had just used ‘Expelliarmus’ on the bullies, when Snape rounded the corner and Dana had landed with a detention in less than a heart-beat.

Dana let the music wash over her and felt as she relaxed. She had been in a rather good mood for the whole day, ands o when the music changed to a rather quick rock beat. At this Dana just couldn’t keep it inside anymore and added some volume to the music and sang along. Feeling that the rhythm was great and suited her mood Dana couldn’t really help it as her body started moving along to the music as well. For a brief moment Dana wondered how silly she would look to anyone looking in right now, to see her dancing around with a mop in her hands in a dance, which is a mixture of salsa, dirty-dancing and some regular moves one would encounter in almost any club.
Pushing the thought carelessly away Dana danced around, jumping on a bench and half-dancing half-walking down the length, pulling the mope along on the floor, and jumped on the desk after reaching the end and twirling around in beat for the music Danced down the table. Dana smiled feeling happy and almost free – Dana had been dancing since she was a toddler and had started going to his cousin’s night-clubs since she turned 13, so the moves were easy for her to accomplish, even though some of them were rather complicated, if you saw them for the first time or had never danced before. Doing a quick step-out and a triple-spin, Dana ended up facing the door and noticed to her surprise that someone was standing at the doors.

Dana grinned and glanced down at her, before opening her mouth while mock-saluting the person who had entered: “Hi, and no need to notify St. Mungos. I’m still as sane as ever – guess I just got carried away by the music and well you see how it ended.” Dana spread her arms and smiled broadly – the dancing had relaxed her completely and even the rest of the detention still ahead didn’t seem so bad.

[Chelle]

"Hey," Kari said as she smiled shyly. "You have detention too?" Kari's hair was pulled back in a ponytail at the nape of her neck, as she had been wearing it a lot lately, and she was wearing black pants and a dark blue tee shirt.

"I got in trouble for climbing on the stair rail and almost ripping one of the tapestries on the fifth floor stair case." Kari paused and picked up a mop. "Crabbe and Milicent Bulstrode had me cornered. I never liked those two," she added darkly.

"So, of course, that wonderful professor Snape gave me detention for almost damaging a one-of-a-kind tapestry." Kari dipped the mop in a bucket of water and swished it across the floor and sighed.

"If we could use magic the Great Hall would be clean in less then about 5 minutes." Kari pushed the brrom around some more then noticed a cute little belly button ring.

"That belly button ring is so cute! It looks like a little snitch!" Kari looked at the belly button ring more closely. "I would definitely wear that to a quidditch match for good luck!" Kari pulled a small CD case from the pocket of her Hogwarts robe. She put it in the CD player.

"It's a magical CD. It can play your favourite songs, sort of like a juke box except a lot cooler."

[dana]

“Yep. Why else would see me here with a mop and a bucket of water?” Dana said with a smile, hopping off the table so her heels made a small ‘click!’ when coming into contact with the floor, “And I have my wand – Snape didn’t bother to take it, as he has given me detentions before as well and knows that even though I grumble, I won’t cheat and use it. Besides I did my fair share of earning the punishment. He said I will be cleaning the floor alone though.”<br>
Dana laughed as Karissa noticed her belly-button ring and gave it a little play-full tug: “Luckily it’s magical, so I didn’t have to get my belly-button pierced. It’s attached and taken off with a rather simple charm. Doubt about the quidditch matches though – as a friend already joked – what happens, when one of the seekers mistakes it for the real thing? Or even when they decide it’s good enough for practice between classes?” Dana grinned recalling the rather curious conversation about the snitch: “We were both a bit hyper that day, so we came up with all kinds of crazy ideas.”<br>
Wetting the mop, Dana dutifully continued cleaning the floor, even though she added some dancing twirls to her movement: “So, what happened with Crabbe and Bulstrode that caused you to hang on tapestries?”<br>

[Chelle]

"Well," Kari said a little unwillingly, "I was on my way down for breakfast one morning and I only managed to get so far since Crabbe was in my way. Him and Bulstrode had cornered a fellow Gryffindor, and at the worst time possible I tried to prove that I should have been sorted into Gryffindor, with the whole bravery thing. Well, they cornered me, too, and I ended up climbing along the handrail using the tapestry as a handle. It was quite a creative way to escape, if I say so myself."

Kari smiled and continued.

"So then, Crabbe pulled me down and a bit of the tapestry with me. He petrified me and I was kind of stuck there. Bulstrode took the other Gryffindor's, Lenora Byers, I think, wand so she couldn't do the counter-curse. Of course, it might have been good that Snape came because I would have been in a lot more trouble had he not come." Kari attempted to clean while dancing as Dana was, a twirl here and there, and then stopped.

"When I first came into the Great Hall, my first thought actually was that you should be in St Mungo's. Only because I was so surprised. Not many people will dance while cleaning the Great Hall." Kari smiled as she copied Dana, adding a new step here or there.

"But you have to admit, once you've started it's kind of addictive."

[dana]

Dana listened as Karissa told her she ended up in detention and chose not to comment. Bulstrode and Crabbe were known bullies and it was known that neither of them would hesitate to use brutal force as well, should the need arise for it. Dana didn’t like unfair play, so she would have stepped up to help the other girl as well, but she might have approached it a bit differently. Perhaps talked her way out of it without letting the two bullies even completely understand what had happened. What ever she would have done, she would have done it differently.
“A bit thoughtless action actually. Not to mention that the tapestry was rather old probably, I was a whole lot more dangerous to start trying to climb that way. Besides it hardly helped the other girl. Couldn’t you two talk your way out of trouble – neither Bulstrode or Crabbe are too bright or known for quick wits,” Dana commented dryly, still dancing with her broom but a lot less now glancing at Karissa from time to time.

“AS for the cleaning – it makes the whole process a whole lot more enjoyable as well as it’s a good work-out,” Dana answered to Kari’s comment calmly, controlling her face and voice to shield her emotions. She had had enough practice at doing so, “And I’m not exactly goody-two-shoes, so I know how to do so and clean effectively as well. By the way – as you are already here – do you want that side with the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor table? As you started there and I’ll take care of this side. And then the your side of the staff table to Dumbeldore’s chair,” Dana added seeing that she had cleaned a quarter of what she was supposed to clean already.

((Can you even post like this? As far as I know the post with Crabbe, Millicent and Lenora isn’t over yet, so you can’t god-mode their actions and words like that. Nor has Snape passed by at that occasion, so aren’t you god-moding a bit too much? No offence, alright? just wondering. Or do you have the approvals of those characters to do so?))