Open You don't want a cheese toastie?

[Vex]

Vex was bored. And that was never a good thing.

The mischievous Poltergeist of Hogwarts New Zealand floated through the Great Lake with a sense of purpose. He had a new scheme in mind, one that involved the Giant Squid and a particularly enticing treat: a cheese toastie. Whispering to himself, he chuckled. "Oh, this will be a delight," he mused, rubbing his spectral hands together. "A little bit of chaos to liven up a dull day." He drifted towards the kitchen, his invisible form causing the pots and pans to rattle and clatter in his wake. The house elves were used to his antics by now, and they sighed, but didn't get in his way. He grabbed a loaf of bread, some cheese, and the butter and then zoomed back to the shore of the Great Lake. Hovering over the water, he assmbled the toast with an exaggerated ghosty flourish and made sure the melted cheese oozed temptingly out of the golden-brown bread.

The aroma of his creation wafted over the water, and Vex began to sing in a sing-song voice, "Oh, Great Squid of the lake, arise for a cheesy delight awaits!" The water rippled, but there was no sign of the Squid. The Poltergeist, undeterred, floated closer to the water's edge, dangling the toastie just above the surface. "Come on, you lazy cephalopod! A treat like this doesn't come along every day." There was as yet no sign of the Giant Beast, but Vex was determined to coax it out.​

 

[Audrey Beauchamp]

Audrey was spending a bit of time outside, mostly around Quidditch training and Herbology classes. It probably helped that despite her heavy class load, she didn't exactly have a lot of extra curricular stuff to do, not like Lucy and Teddy did. She'd have to come up with something to be deemed important, she figured, but what more she could do, she didn't exactly know. Come up with some incredible potion or charm, perhaps. Or maybe, she thought as she approached the lake, maybe lure out the golden eel again.

Audrey was a little surprised to see a ghostly figure around the lake, at least the outline of one holding up a sandwich, and she couldn't help but approach out of curiosity. "Do squids and eels even eat cheese? I'd hope they wouldn't be lactose intolerant," she mused, half to herself as much as it was to the spectral being. She crouched down, peering at the lake and squinting to see if she could see anything. "Least then they'd probably be easier to find, what with all the gas. But maybe a fish sandwich...?"

 

[Vex]

Vex could see the girl approach and made himself completely visible again. Solidifying from his semi-incorporeal state. "Oh yes, they do! I read a book you see!" by that of course he had terrorised someone who was reading a book, and when they threw the book at him to get him to go away (how rude!) he'd seen but a single line of text. The Giant Squid of Hogwarts Scotland was once fed buttered toast, and that's all he'd really needed to see to set him on his path of non boredom. Besides, this was his friend! "No! You can't feed a squid with fish! Why would he eat his cousins!" The poltergeist wondered if perhaps this girl wasn't aware that fish and squids both lived in the sea and that of course meant they must be cousins. He decided it would be a good idea to show her. Diving quickly beneath the water, the non being scooped up some fish in the water into a pot he'd snagged on his way out of the kitchen and hovered over to the girl with the intention of dumping the contents all over her.​

 

[Audrey Beauchamp]

Audrey, apparently, had decided to take this presumed poltergeist's comments entirely at face value. Perhaps it was just communication with someone who could talk back (Jinx was great for talking at, but unfortunately as clever as he was he couldn't talk), and wasn't too busy. "Isn't that what they do?" If Oz was in her year, she would definitely beat him in a duel, Audrey thought. That was basically the same kind of thing. "The strong take down the weak. Although..." she paused, thinking out loud as much as she was speaking to the poltergeist. "Do they eat people? Maybe drop some first years in as an offering, that'll make them come up to the surface, right?" she asked, somehow completely missing the fish that threatened to drop on top of her head.

 

[Teddy Pirrip]

Teddy enjoyed spending time at the lake, and with a bit of free time on his hands, he decided to take a walk down there. As he neared, he spotted Audrey and immediately grinned, recalling the time she had thrown a trip jinx his way when a similar situation had been the other way around. He pulled out his wand, ready to return the favour, when Vex materialised. Teddy remembered him well from an encounter in his first year and decided to change tact, stowing his wand away for safe keeping.

Quickening his pace, Teddy arrived just in time to see Vex hovering with a pot full of fish, clearly intending to dump it on Audrey. This was too good to pass up. "Um Audrey!" Teddy announced his presence. "You might want to look up," he offered helpfully.

 

[Vex]

The mischevious poltergeist didn't like this Gryffindor very much, he was coming to ruin his plans! He had ao act fast! As the boy called out, Vex immediately upturned the bucket, attempting to douse the girl with the entire fishy contents of his bucket. Cackling wildly with streamers and glitter popping up everywhere he danced at his triumph! "Too slow Gryffindor! Too slow!" He called, making sure the boy was aware that whatever his plans were, Vex had easily foiled them!​

 

[Audrey Beauchamp]

One of Audrey's biggest flaws, if she had to admit to any, was that she didn't have the quickest reaction time. Her brain worked fast, but her body didn't always have the same speed. It was the only reason Teddy had bested her in the duel, she insisted. Besides, she was a little distracted at contemplation of the diet of sea creatures. Or rather, lake creatures that may or may not even exist, though Audrey definitely had seen the eel with Lucy.

"Huh?" she called back, looking at Teddy for a moment and wondering if he was having her on. She did tilt her head up, though, and was met with a face full of fishy water, some rather unfortunately landing in her open mouth as she squealed in shock. She took a step back to avoid it, slipping on the muddy ground and toppling into the lake with a splash. Thankfully, as she was close to the shore, the water was still fairly shallow - as capable a swimmer as Audrey was, even she would struggle to stay afloat dressed in full uniform with her shoes and socks anchoring her legs. She blinked a couple of times, spitting out gross lake water and after a moment, shook her head and let a small fish slide off her head and land in the water with a small thwack. "Well, that doesn't prove anything," she grumbled, with a small snort.