A Serious Pursuit ((Millicent))

[Chelle]

Kari yelped as Crabbe pulled her down. Her head banged onto a stair and stars appeared when she closed her eyes. She rubbed her head and opened her eyes right in time for Crabbe to aim the petrifying curse at her.

((heheh, never Rped while petrified! This should be interesting.))

Kari felt her body go rigid and her arms stick to her side. She couldn't move. Her jaw was locked and she couldn't open it. SHe couldn't even get at her wand. She should have known that the Slytherins would try this. She had been planning to get behind the two Slytherins and try to hex them. She herself had been planning on using the Leg-Locker Curse, hoping that they would lose balance and fall. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, she had thought, but even though Kari was quite small she had fallen harder than they probably would have. Crabbe had caught her as she tried to escape and get onto the other side. So much for all those lessons at the muggle school she had gone to. None of them had taught her to figure out how to keep from falling when someone pulled you down.

"Ow," she thought as she felt the pain ebbing away slightly. She looked up and saw the two Slytherins and her fellow Gryffindor still above her. She couldn't move at all. She tried to open her mouth and beg for them to un-petrify her, but she had a feeling they wouldn't.

"I'm sorry!" she said, but it came out as "Morry!" since her mouth was stuck and couldn't be opened. Her book bag was digging into her back as she had fallen on top of it.

((Once again, sorry about G moding. I could change it if you want. I feel really bad about it as I try not to, but I get carried away. Anyway, at the moment this is one of my favourite posts so I hope Kari gets in a bit of trouble for almost ripping a Slytherin tapestry. It was one of a kind, of course.))

[millicenbulstrode]

Millicent watched the little girl with a smirk as she tried to intimidate them saying she knew some spells. I was definitely something worth laughing at because this girl was a self-proclaimed mudblood where as Millicent had been tutored by her father in the dark arts since she was a child. Not only that but the girl’s wand didn’t seem to be working properly and she hurt her hand. Millicent rolled her eyes at the girl’s uselessness as she seemed to panic and look for an out. She just watched the girl’s impression of a monkey as she left the other Gryffindor, oh so noble and brave she was indeed. Her actions could even be categorized as Slytherin were they actually dignified. Millicent had had about enough by the time the girl was assaulting a Slytherin tapestry but Crabbe being on the higher step pulled the little Gryff down to the ground. Crabbe settled the little girl with a body binding spell and Millicent attempted to snatch for the other Gryffindor’s wand to prevent her from performing the counter curse.

[Lenora Byers]

((Sorry I have been so quiet for so long everyone I really hadn’t realised that Lenora was absent through so much ))

The older girl scoffed at Lenora’s proffered hand and introduced herself as Millicent Bulstrode. She continued to insult Lenora and recommend respect. Lenora really wasn’t sure how to respond but apparently she didn’t have to because another girl came jumped onto the scene defending Lenora and all Gryffindors and attacking Slytherins. She then called herself Karissa, Kari for short. Lenora gave her as much of a smile as she could manage before turning back to the older Slytherins. She watched as Kari and Millicent bickered back and forth.

Next thing she knew the younger Gryffindor was shimmying up the railing. Lenora just watched in shock as she then used Crabbe as a footstool and grabbed a Slytherin banner. Lenora didn’t dare follow knowing it would only make matters worse. Plus Lenora wasn’t a Gryffindor for no reason; she wouldn’t run away like a snake. She felt a twang of sympathy as Kari was brought down hard by Crabbe.

She reached for her wand to at least un-petrify Karissa only to find it missing. She looked up dreading what she would find and to her dismay her worst fears had been realised… Millicent had her wand. “Hey give that back its mine.” She said to the girl. ‘No wonder they are Slytherin scum, have all advantages in this… Kari and I are younger, Kari is in a body bind and I'm unarmed. What am I supposed to do? Fight back?’ she thought in dismay knowing she had to at least try.

[Vincent Crabbe Jr.]

Vincent stared down at the Mudblood with a leer on his face, before looking back to Millicent to see how she was coping with the whole situation of being the ones responsible for teaching these Mudbloods their place. She seemed to be doing fairly well. She had the other Gryffindor's wand, and was being told to give it back. He sni-ggered and felt that he just had to comment. The Mudbloods were being surprisingly dense today. He hadn't thought they had absolutely nothing but air between their brains, although very close to that for a lot of them, but evidently the former state was the case, especially with the little midget who was presently lying on the step unable to move.
"You'd be better off down on your knees and begging Millicent for 'your' wand back", he smirked, "although I'm not particularly sure that would be particularly pleasant for her." He looked sideways to Millicent again, knowing that they would have to do something to teach the younger Mudblood a proper lesson.

"We'd ought to be on the move, Millie," he said, fairly sure she would know what he meant. They were risking getting caught doing this here. They needed to find a nice, quiet classroom. That way teaching the lesson of exactly who was superior here hard would not be a potential problem. Vincent flicked his wand and the younger, immobilised Mudblood was dragged up the stairs roughly behind him as he moved - the spell not being quite good enough to lift her weight. But that was intentional. Why should she have the honour of a proper lift? That was for things like his luggage. Vincent increased his speed, both his feet and the Mudblood making large thuds as they moved along the second floor corridor. Finally he reached a T-room that looked to be of a suitable size, and stopped inside it, looking over his shoulder to check that Millicent had followed him with the other Mudblood.

[millicenbulstrode]

Millicent succeeded in her attempt to take the wand and smiled at it in her hand. She then held it just out of the little Gryff’s reach as she begged for it back. Millicent just stood there smirking at her as Crabbe told the girl to get down and beg for it. Crabbe then mentioned getting a move on and Millie nodded in agreement. She watched the young girl being dragged up the stairs by a spell from Crabbe and he head hit every step. Millicent almost felt sorry for the girl, almost but not quite. She ceased the arm of the other Gryffindor and dragged her along knowing though she wasn’t in as desperate need of a lesson she still needed to be dealt with.

Vincent led them into a room and Millicent roughly shoved the other girl in before slamming the door so she couldn’t escape. The four were the only ones in the room and Millicent looked around to see what they had to work with. Millicent spotted a large basin full of soapy water apparently for that squib Filtch to clean and smirked. She preformed a vanishing charm on the water and preformed on of her favourite spells. “Serpensortia Multus” she said pointing her wand at the bin. What must have been a hundred snakes shot out of her wand until the basin was completely full. She shot a smirk at Crabbe knowing he would catch her drift.

[Vincent Crabbe Jr.]

Vincent watched as Millicent filled a large stone bin with a few hundred snakes. Rather nasty looking ones too. They were hissing venemously and had fangs. Hopefully they could bite. Vincent had performed the spell before, and when he did so, his serpents could bite. They left behind a toxin which the body was able to break down, but which caused quite a lot of pain in the process. He wasn't sure how similar to his Millicent's version of the snakes would be, but he nodded in approval. A fitting punishment for the Mudblood who didn't know when to keep her mouth closed. That bin was human sized.

Vincent looked into the bin, stroking the head of one of the creatures, which hissed and curled round his finger, but did not hurt him. Once he withdrew his pressure it drew off. That was good. It knew who was a friend. It would know who was foe too, in that case. Snakes always knew who their foe was, even if they didn't recognise their friends. He took out his wand again, aiming it first at the older Gryffindor to stop her going anywhere near the bin while he was in the room, and then pointed it at the immobile body of the younger Mudblood.
"Time to be cleansed by the serpent," he said. "Hogwarts does not need Mudblood filth littering it. Mobiliarbus," he said, raising the girl up in the air and under his control. She was a bit of a weight for his spell to bear, but he brought her to hover over the bin, spinning her round a few times before letting his concentration go deliberately and suddenly, sending her crashing into the bin. All the snakes hissed angrily.

Vincent gazed down into the bucket, trying to find the scared eyes of the girl that would surely look back up at him. Though she probably wouldn't be able to move them anyway. He smirked, putting his wand away again.
"Don't go running telling tittle-tattle tales once we're gone," he said, "because I know I for one will not be so sparing again and I very strongly suspect the same goes for Millicent. We are superior, and not to be taken lightly. That goes for both of you." He stared into the eyes of the other Gryffindor as well, probably not a very pleasant experience for her, as his watery eyes were filled with menace and hatred, before turning back to Millicent with a smirk and walking out of the room. He would leave it up to her to lock the door. With any luck she would choose one which at least only the older Gryffindor would be able to do. Although they didn't want to leave them there to be found. Whatever, that had been most satisfactory. Hopefully now a couple more people, Gryffindors as a bonus, would understand quite where their inferior blood placed them.

[Lenora Byers]

((ok minor G-moding Millie hope you don’t mind my getting my wand back and such… only way I could see to end this thread :S))

Lenora simply looked at the boy as he suggested Lenora beg for her wand back; she didn’t know what to do but she sure knew a simple wand wasn’t worth that. It didn’t matter thought because next thing she knew she and the other Gryffindor were being carted up the steps and into an empty room. Lenora was frightened out of her whits and decided it best to just remain silent and hope they forget her or something. This seemed to work and she watched helpless as Millicent filled a tub full of snakes and Crabbe dumped her in. Lenora’s stomach gave a sickening lurch and she struggled to keep her ashen face devoid of emotion or reaction.

Lenora stood there for what was likely seconds that dragged on for hours until Crabbe left and the snakes engulfed the younger girl. Terrified Lenora did the only thing she could think of and took no precautions and did whatever possible to get her wand back from Millicent. She paid no heed to Crabbe as he warned her against telling tales (as if she would dare after seeing what they did to poor Kari for much less) and simply worked on a spell to pacify the snakes enough to pull Kari out of the tub.

Pulling with all her might Lenora dragged the girl across the room. “Ennervate” she muttered pointing her wand at the girl. “Come on Kari we had best get you to the hospital wing and have Pomfrey look at those wounds.” With that Lenora began trying to bring Karissa out of the room refusing to look at Millicent again and not even noticing where the older girl was.

[millicenbulstrode]

Millie watched euphoric as the little girl’s body was tossed into her tub of snakes. She watched as they coiled themselves around her; suffocating, strangling, biting. She knew she had not given them enough power to seriously harm the girl, just scare her into learning her place, and so this moment she was more than allowed to enjoy. Vince then walked out warning the Gryffs about tattling and Millie simply smirked at the spectacle. The original girl managed to regain her wand and drag the limp carcass out of the tub. Millicent decided neither to help nor hinder the proceedings and simply amused herself watching the shaky little thing come back to life and be dragged out of the room. With a final smirk Millicent made the snakes vanish and swept out of the room; malicious grin on her face and with the knowledge that those two Gryffs at least would never dare get in her way again.