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[ficklefuckwit]

So i know this book of monsters is meant to have a bit of an attitude problem.
But the blasted thing has stolen my shoe.
I believe i can get it to abandon it by dangling my second one but i can only be in one place at one time.
So im not quite sure how to go from dangling the bait to retrieving my other shoe without losing something more important than the first shoe.
Any suggestions?

[For anyone in the Gryffindor boys' dorm, Jake has spent the last hour or so standing on his bed and trying various methods of reclaiming his lost shoe from under it with the vicious book. Naturally, he's warned any of his bunkmates of the danger, but that doesn't mean he's had any better luck getting the thing to relinquish his shoe.]

Comments

[marshall_lee]

Maybe you could toss something in the middle of the floor and when the book goes for it, stun the book.

[ficklefuckwit]

Ah i hadnt thought of that.
Would i get in trouble for using stupefy on a book?

[marshall_lee]

I can't answer that for sure but I reallydon't see why you would..it's not a student or anything and technically it belongs to you.

[ficklefuckwit]

A fair argument!
Well i suppose if i get in trouble for trying to reclaim my shoe so that i may attend other lessons it is a cost i must pay.
Thank you for your help!
Though i do feel a bit bad for it.
If it werent for the malicious growling id assume it was just playing.

[marshall_lee]

I really hope you wouldn't get in trouble for trying to get your property back from your other property. That would be pretty dumb.
Well, when you get ahold of it, pet it on it's spine. That will calm it down.

[ficklefuckwit]

Truth again!
I remember reading about that somewhere. Suppose once i get it in a position to not bite my fingers off ill give it a whirl.

[marshall_lee]

If stunning doesn't work, you might try tossing something at it and when it's distracted you could always jump on top of it to hold it still maybe too.

Oh, and when you finally get ahold of it you might want to use a belt or something to bind it shut.

[ficklefuckwit]

Definitely going to go with a means of binding.
I cant have this happen again or ill be shoeless within a week.

[marshall_lee]

I don't get why a book would want to even eat shoes. I mean, where would what it ate even go?

[ficklefuckwit]

Thats a good question.
Though i dont figure its really eating them. Just gnawing them up for sport.

[marshall_lee]

I was going to say..there's enough around here to worry about without adding pooping books to it.

[ficklefuckwit]

Hahahaha.
And bother where are my manners.
Im jake english have we met?

[marshall_lee]

I'm Marshall Lee and I don't think we have. I'm a fifth year in Slytherin.

[ficklefuckwit]

Good to meet you then mister lee.
First year gryffindor here.
Im regularly quite pleasantly surprised that the evil slytherin trope is in fact just a trope.

[marshall_lee]

...Just Marshall is okay.

Haha..well, it's my first year here too so I don't get some of the steriotypes yet.

[ficklefuckwit]

Sure thing then marshall.
I never like to assume its all right to refer to a person familiarly when ive just met them.
Especially upperclassmen.

Ah well welcome to hogwarts then! I do hope the school is good to you.
There are a lot of stereotypes surrounding the various houses-- gryffindors are always exploited as brainless grunts with too much energy and slytherins are always the 'bad guys'.
Its a bit silly really.

[marshall_lee]

Ah I see. Huh, it never really occured to me to call anyone under the age of 18 or so mister.

Thanks. I like it here a lot so far. Everyone I've met so far has been pretty cool. I don't even really think about them in relation to their Houses really!

[ficklefuckwit]

I was raised to be a bit over the top im noticing.

Thats good!
A refreshing sort of outlook.

[marshall_lee]

Oh yeah? I guess that's a good thing though. I mean, it's better to be well mannered than not.

I've learned that you can't ever judge someone by appearances or where a person comes from.

[ficklefuckwit]

True indeed.

Thats a wonderful thing to learn.