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[status_is_not_quo]

Now that everyone is done celebrating boorish feats of strength, I was wondering if I could get 5-10 volunteers to help me test a new spell that I've been working on. It's a very simple security spell, and I can guarantee with 82% certainty that you won't get hurt if you agree to be a subject. It's not intended to be harmful, we'll put it that way. (You might, however, experience residual tingling in the extremities, and possibly loosened bowels. I'm still working out the kinks.

For liability reasons, I'll only take volunteers third year and up (I would say fifth and up, but, well, I wouldn't want to exclude anyone my age). My name is Billy Harris, Slytherin 5th year, and if you leave your name, house, and year I will contact you within the next few days to sort out the experiment.

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[arrogantalloy]

[As if Tony could ever let an entry from the only Slytherin genius pass uncommented on by him.]

Is this going to be another one of your amazing experiments that turns out really well on your own then actually blows up in your face?

Because if it is. I want to be there to watch this happen.

[status_is_not_quo]

For your information, no, it's not. At worst, it will cause temporary numbness in the extremities.

And I don't know if I want to include you in the experiment.

[arrogantalloy]

Oh I'm not volunteering to be a part of your death trap. I only risk my life if I know I'm going to live.

No, no. I just want to see if you come out of this with hair.

[status_is_not_quo]

It's not going to explode, Stark. And it's not a death trap! The entire experiment is "here, open this journal and tell me what it says".

[arrogantalloy]

Track record says otherwise, mini-nova.

I'm pretty sure even you could make the journal network dissolve or accidentally turn people into giraffes.

[status_is_not_quo]

Not the journal network, captain oblivious. More like a piece of parchment, or possibly a page from one of my graph paper notebooks.

[arrogantalloy]

Captain oblivious? You know. I'm getting you a book on comebacks for Christmas. Not even first years use things like that any more.

And that's meant to do what? Other than determine literacy levels?

[status_is_not_quo]

If I told you what the experiment was for, that would ruin the idea of a blind experiment. It's to test a spell I'm working on.

Nice shirt Mr 90's shirt

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, because I'm really stupid enough to lose my eyebrows at your hands.

Just tell me what it is. Someone has to be able to tell the hospital wing how many to expect and how much work they're going to have to do to make them look how they're meant to look again.

80s, actually.

[status_is_not_quo]

You're not part of the experiment, and you're definitely not helping me develop it. What makes you think you have the right to tell me how to conduct my own experiment? You're interfering with the scientific process.

That's worse.

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, I guess it makes sense you wouldn't want my help. I mean why would you want your little project to go right or anything.

But really that's fine because I wasn't planing on helping. I'm just curious and vaguely amused.

don't judge my Doogie Howser icons

[status_is_not_quo]

Trust me, I know how to follow the scientific method. I sailed through my A-levels before I even got my Hogwarts letter.

If you feel like eating your words, you can come watch the experiment.

I grew up with it, I'll judge it all I want.

[arrogantalloy]

And yet, still things go wrong.

So then, I'm going to go hungry. Well that's 'smashing' I'll make sure to bring some strawberries, and Bruce. He could use a laugh too.

[status_is_not_quo]

Are you always this antagonistic, or am I just a special snowflake?

I've only lost my eyebrows once this year! Once!

[arrogantalloy]

Um. Yeah, pretty much like this to everyone.

Yeah and I haven't lost them ever.