* - - coming up with a plan (theia/Scorp)

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

Albus had already popped out of the Professor Longbottom’s fire place via Floo Network from Knockturn Alley. And why you ask was Albus in Knockturn Alley? Well really it’s quite easy to explain. You see what Albus really wanted to do was get away from everyone bugging him to clear his mind. It still weighed heavily on him that his brother keeps blaming him for Hugo getting attacked and hurt. When of course it wasn’t even Albus that had done it, why would Albus attack his cousin anyways? He was close with Hugo and the kid was a much better family member than his brother James was. So Albus had decided to sneak on out of the castle with his invisibility cloak out to Professor Longbottom’s office in the Greenhouses to use the Floo Network and go to Diagon Alley, except he screwed up and ended up in Knockturn Alley. But luckily he did, otherwise he never would’ve found Theia and he never would’ve realized that perhaps it was Jacob Warrington that had been behind the attack on Hugo.

His barn owl, Sheila, flew down to meet him. She always seemed to know when he needed her to send a letter, and he was thankful for that. He dug around in his robes searching for a quill and a spare piece of parchment before quickly scribbling a note telling Scorpios to meet him and Thersea at the shrieking shack. Quickly he rolled it up and placed it in Sheila’s foot that she held out before him before she took off to go and find Scorp.

Normal Al wouldn’t be in a hurry, but he didn’t want Jacob Warrington to find him just in case he did see Albus help out Theia, he didn’t want Jacob to know that there was a chance that they were onto what he did to Hugo. But he needed to talk to both Theia and Scorp privately about it so that they could devise a plan. He hoped that Theresa remembered how to get out to the shrieking shack, the way of freezing the whomping willow by pushing the knot at the bottom of the trunk of the tree. He pulled his invisibility cloak that he was wearing and threw it over himself, it helped to sneak up on the Whomping Willow by being invisible in order to freeze it.

It didn’t take him long to get to the Whomping Willow as the green houses weren’t that far away at all. Careful Albus made his way to the trunk of the tree before pushing the knot and then sliding on through the trunk and landing at the bottom of the tunnel with a slight “Umph.” Getting up he slightly rubbed his butt thinking that he would get something soft for them to land on their like he said to Thersea the last time they were down there. But he didn’t need to think about that now and he quickly got up and headed down to the shrieking shack before going through the door and heading on upstairs to the upper part of the shrieking shack where he always did. He just hoped that Theresa would be there already.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

as soon as albus had instructed theia on what to do and given her the floo powder, theia had nodded and done as told (for a change), stepping out of proffessor longbottom's fireplace just a few moments later. the room was empty, for which she was glad - she did not wish to be stopped and forced to explain where she'd just been, and why, and what was the matter. because evidently something was from the way her eyes were slightly wild, and her face blank, tightly supressing her emotions as she'd always learnt. so she was glad she had nobody to force her to explain.

theia hurried out of the room and along the corridor, more alert than usual, turning at every sound. she couldn't help it. she wasn't afraid as such, though perhaps a little was the fear that she would get caught by jacob and this time he'd have company...and do more than just leave her tied up. it was also anger. she hated that he'd been able to get to her like that, that she hadn't fended him off well enough. what she wouldn't give for another one-on-one with that insolent little...

she shook her head with a small frown and pushed onward, heading out into the grounds and moving with haste toward the whomping willow, having to pause as she searched for some way to press the knot - as albus had demonstrated the other day. albus.. what she wouldn't give for his calming presense right now. but she couldn't think about him or whatever right now - the fact that she'd had that random thought of him confused her but she shook it aside and levitated a twig toward the tree knot, hitting it and waiting for the tree to freeze before she scrambled for the hole.

she slithered down the tunnel and landed with a small protest on the compact dirt ground, sighing quietly. "really need some cushions or something.." she muttered, half smiling as she remembered her and albus' last trip down here. but again she shook it off and hurried along the tunnel, eager to get there. she wasn't sure why exactly, it wasn't like anyone would be there yet, albus would be here after her, and there was noone who was forced her to walk this fast. but her aggitation was causing her to, and she hurried into the shrieking shack and up the stairs.

there she paused, uncertain on which room to wait in before shaking her head and simply sticking to the hallway, pacing it slightly. the annoyance of the fight had worn off somewhat now, he aggitation remained and she knew why. jacob... he had to be in on that attack on hugo - it had to be him!! him and those idiots he followed like some brainless drooling mongrel. theia frowned and shook her head. they had to do something about this, now that it was obvious, and she continued to pace until she heard the disturbance of someone else entering the house. albus. she paused to look at him, not able to smile and simply nodding, with a small, "hey..." quickly adding. "is scorp on his way?"

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Scorpius glanced down at the note. Why the hell did Albus want to meet him and Theia in the shrieking shack of all places? And what was this about it being urgent. He didn’t like the sound of that nor the way Albus had written it, as if he had been in a hurry which in turn had made his handwriting sloppy. And what in Merlin's name had they been doing in Knockturn Alley. Was he purposely being left out of something, especially since Albus said he wanted time alone. Oh, he thought, so was that how it was? Was he just the third wheel, was there something going on between Albus and Theia and need they need to hide it from him?

Folding the note up, he shoved it back in the pocket of his jeans. Should he make them wait? Albus did say it was urgent and well what kind of friend would he be if he made them wait, for all he knew if could be something totally different to them declaring that they were together.

He looked around before slipping out of the castle and heading towards the Whomping Willow. Well now just how was he supposed to avoid those branches whilst trying to press that knot at the base of the tree. Like hell he was going to risk his life. Pulling out his wand, he pointed it at the tree.
"Immobulus," he spoke in a soft tone, watching as the thrashing tree froze in place. Ah nothing like a good freezing charm; perhaps that would be handy to use on James sometime, better yet a body binding charm seemed more fun to do.

Sliding down the small opening he landed on his butt. Standing, he brushed the dirty off of him, cursing the tunnel for now having proper padding before making his way down the tunnel. Where in the shrieking shack did Albus and Theia want to meet him, the note didn’t really say. He didn’t have long to think about it until he came to the tunnel door. Well if he had to go on a search party through the whole house, then so be it. Entering the shack, he figured he'd start with the top floor. Heading up the stairs, he heard Theia's voice; at least he didn’t have to guess which room it was and pushed the door open.
"Sorry to tell you but he isn’t coming Theia, you get the clone instead," he smirked as he lightly teased her in his usual almost playful way.

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

“hey...” He looked up at Theresa at the sound of her voice. Thank goodness she was already there and didn’t decide to stop off somewhere else before they headed to the shrieking shack. He didn’t want any of the professors to know of what happened until he talked with Scorp and Theia about the thoughts he was having when it came to this situation. “is scorp on his way?” Albus was about to open his mouth to say that he sent a letter to Scorpius and that he should be on his way. At least he hoped that Scorp would be, he was sure Scorpius wouldn’t decide to bail on his two best friends right? But just as Albus was about to say something he closed his mouth as a familiar voice entered the room. “Sorry to tell you but he isn’t coming Theia, you get the clone instead,”Albus turned around and even given the current circumstances, he couldn’t help but smile at his best friends comment. He knew he could easily leave it to Scoprius to lighten the mood a bit. But Albus’s smile quickly faded as he thought about the current situation. “Scorp. Glad you’re here, we got something we should tell you about. Something that happened in Knockturn Alley,” and just as he said Knockturn Alley he realized that he should say why he was in Knockturn Alley. After all, it was highly unlikely that Al would even step foot in Knockturn Alley. Well it wasn’t as if he did it on purpose.

“But first I should probably explain how I ended up in Knockturn Alley. I’m not sure how Theia did, but I ended up there on accident. Floo Powder, I swear isn’t my favorite mode of transportation, but obviously I cannot apparate. But While I was trying to use Professor Longbottom’s fireplace to get to Diagon Alley, I ended up coughing on some ashes that went in my mouth and fell out a gate short of Diagon Alley. But if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have found Theia, well…” he looked over at Theresa, not sure how to explain what happened to her. He was sure she was embarrassed by the situation, so perhaps it was best if Theia explained what happened. He hoped that she realized that he thought she should explain it.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

"Sorry to tell you but he isn’t coming Theia, you get the clone instead," theia glanced up as she heard scorpius speak, raising an eyebrow and returning his smirk with one of her own. "ah .. speak of the devil and he shall appear. " she responded, her tone only teasing but easily she slipped back into the usual way her and scorpius half taunted each other. she sighed and ran a hand through her hair, now that the fight was long over, she couldn't help but feel embarrased... and riled about it.

“Scorp. Glad you’re here, we got something we should tell you about. Something that happened in Knockturn Alley,” she looked at albus and chewed her lip, her taunting, almost cocky demeanour lost for a moment as she waited for albus to say what had happened. “But first I should probably explain how I ended up in Knockturn Alley. I’m not sure how Theia did, but I ended up there on accident. Floo Powder, I swear isn’t my favorite mode of transportation, but obviously I cannot apparate. But While I was trying to use Professor Longbottom’s fireplace to get to Diagon Alley, I ended up coughing on some ashes that went in my mouth and fell out a gate short of Diagon Alley. But if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have found Theia, well…”

she had been wondering about how he'd gotten there - but had been too caught up in him thank god being there to save her. she knew it was her turn to explain and she sighed; running a hand through her hair once more, a frown appearing between her eyebrows. "i needed to get something for my parents from borgin and burkes.. don't ask what i can't even remember now.. so i used some floo powder from a fireplace no one was near and headed to knockturn alley. i ran into jacob warrington in burgin's and the idiot wouldn't leave me alone. i was all for ignoring him until he get just.." she sighed and shook her head. "he was just provoking me but i was stupid enough to let him get to me ... then he threw something at me so i retaliated. i transformed and attacked him but he over powered me. he had the audacity to pull my tail." theia was quite disgusted by that and the curl of her lip told of it. she shook her head, unconciously rubbing her back slightly in rememberance of the pain that had jolted up her spine.

"he made me transform back and then tied me up .. and then he ran. i'm surprised he didn't do worse... it's not like i could have done anything but.." she frowned, wondering now why he hadn't taken the opportunity to curse the hell out of her.. he could have.. she'd been at his mercy. "then albus turned up." she shrugged and looked away, the slight tinge in her cheeks a flush of embarracement and also anger. she waited for scorp to laugh or make some stupid comment.. she hoped he didn't - she did not want to hear it right now, nor could she have handled him taking the piss out of her for that. she just..didn't need to hear it.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

He caught the smile from Albus and the smirk from Theia along with their greeting. It seemed pretty good in here until Albus turned serious, the atmosphere in the room changing with Albus. They had something to tell him, something that happened in Knockturn Alley. Well that was a strange place to meet up and well get together. Why didn't Albus and Theia just come out with it, it wasn't like they were going to hurt him or anything, besides he already had Aubrey.

Really, were they really going to make him listen to the whole think, every little detail. Come on already, he thought to himself, just get to the point. Ah Albus must have somehow heard him, perhaps he had given them a look and...wait? What did he just say, found Theia in Knockturn Alley.

Now this was definitely serious he thought as Theia begun speaking. So they weren't meeting up, instead she was getting something for her parents. Jacob Warrington had gotten to her. This was more serious than he first thought. He begun pacing back and forth. Jacob Warrington, he never liked the guy nor the girls he seemed to always hang around. He didn't realize she had stopped speaking until a minute later. He stopped pacing and turned to her.
"Why the hell did you go to that place on your own, you know how dangerous Knockturn Alley is. Why didn't you take me or Al with you?" he asked, trying not to get angry at her.

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

“i needed to get something for my parents from borgin and burkes.. don't ask what i can't even remember now.. so i used some floo powder from a fireplace no one was near and headed to knockturn alley. i ran into jacob warrington in burgin's and the idiot wouldn't leave me alone. i was all for ignoring him until he get just.." she sighed and shook her head. "he was just provoking me but i was stupid enough to let him get to me ... then he threw something at me so i retaliated. i transformed and attacked him but he over powered me. he had the audacity to pull my tail he made me transform back and then tied me up .. and then he ran. i'm surprised he didn't do worse... it's not like i could have done anything but. Then albus turned up.” Albus listened as Theresa explained why she was in Knockturn Alley and what exactly Jacob did to her. He knew that she wasn’t completely comfortable with telling them both of what happened as it was embarrassing. One thing was for sure, Al was glad that Jacob didn’t do anything else to her, if he had, AL probably would’ve left right then and there and went after Jacob; he had a feeling that he could beat him after all.

But now that Theia was done telling her part of the story, he wondered what Scorpius was thinking, probably close to the same lines of the fact that Theresa shouldn’t have gone there by herself. He knew how dangerous Knockturn Alley could be. “Why the hell did you go to that place on your own, you know how dangerous Knockturn Alley is. Why didn't you take me or Al with you?” Albus looked over at Scorp and could tell that he was trying to keep himself from yelling at her. Of course Scorp would worry about Theresa as well if anything more serious had happened to her. The three of them were always there for each other after all. “Scorp has a point. You should’ve asked one of us to come with, if not both of us. But now’s not the time to think about what we should’ve done seeing as we can’t fix it, ” Albus sighed softly before he glanced over at one of the leather chairs. “I think the three of us should sit down we’re going to need to really bring our minds together on this, because for some reason I have a feeling that Jacob was somehow included on the attack on Hugo,” he told the two of them before he turned around and retreated to one of the black leather chairs. Oh how nice it felt to sit down as he still took in the day’s events, he just hoped that the two of them would do that same.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

she looked back and forth between them, waiting for one of them to say something when scorp burst out with - "Why the hell did you go to that place on your own, you know how dangerous Knockturn Alley is. Why didn't you take me or Al with you?" she flinched slightly and narrowed her eyes at him. she shook her head and frowned. "i do not need bodyguards or a babysitter or whatever! i've been before, and it was fine! he just caught me off that's all. " she said with a slightly impatient tone.

yes they were her best friends, but that didn't mean she needed them to stick up for her every time, need them to be by her side for every tiny thing. she could take care of herself, she was used to it she didn't need them to fight her battles or whatever. she'd been going down knockturn alley a couple of times on her parents errands, and those times things had gone fine. “Scorp has a point. You should’ve asked one of us to come with, if not both of us. But now’s not the time to think about what we should’ve done seeing as we can’t fix it, ”

she shook her head. "hes not." she muttered, shooting a glance at scorp as if to illustrate that but saying nothing further. she sighed and ran a hand through her hair, shifting in the seat and glancing at albus. “I think the three of us should sit down we’re going to need to really bring our minds together on this, because for some reason I have a feeling that Jacob was somehow included on the attack on Hugo,” she frowned slightly, not having thought about him being involved but guessing it was obvious. she glanced between scorp and albus, unsure if any of them had an idea first.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Serious Theia was acting like a spoilt brat at the moment, he knew she could handle herself...well in most situations but if he or Al had been with her, perhaps Jacob would have thought better than to attack 2 people. He went back to pacing back and forth. What he really wanted to do was wrap her up in bubble wrap and place her high on a shelf where no one could get to her nor could she get injured by others. She was one of his best friends, why couldn't she see that he just wanted her safe.

Albus backed him up, glad to know he wasn't the only one to think the same. He shot Theia a glare.
"Don't come running to us when you end up dead then," he spoke to her just before Al mentioned something about Jacob attacking Hugo. That was a serious accusation.
"Do you have and evidence point towards Jacob. What was his motive, what did he get from the attack?" He probably sounded like a ministry lawyer but they needed to be certain. He stopped pacing and headed to the window, peering out at the streets.

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

“i do not need bodyguards or a babysitter or whatever! i've been before, and it was fine! he just caught me off that's all.” Albus wanted to roll his eyes, but he didn’t think it was the best idea at the moment as they needed to focus on what was at hand. Instead he waited for his two best friends to sit down and tried to forget about the fact that Theia should’ve asked one of them to come. It wasn’t that he didn’t think she was capable of herself, he knew she was capable with taking care of herself. It was the fact that he felt that strange things were starting to go on, and he had a feeling it would be more than just one attack on Hugo.

“Don't come running to us when you end up dead then,” he heard Scorp say and Al had to force himself not to smile. They had more serious things on hand at the moment anyways. “ Do you have and evidence point towards Jacob. What was his motive, what did he get from the attack?” He should’ve known Scorp would attack him with questions such as these, as his father was the Minister of Magic after all. He watched as Scorp headed over to the window and looked out of hit and Theia seemed to be looking back and forth between him and Scorp.

Al sighed as he sat up and placed his elbows on his knees before resting his head on his hands. It was true that he didn’t have any evidence, but it wasn’t that he was accusing, it was more like a feeling as some would say. He also knew that he would need evidence in order to see if his feeling is accurate. “Well I don’t have any evidence as to who did it yet, I just got this feeling, ya know? I know you both probably have a similar one, not with Jacob, but with the fact that something’s going on at Hogwarts that we don’t know about, not even the professors know. I saw the look on Professor Neville’s face the other day, he seemed worried about something.” Al said as he looked over at Scorp his emerald eyes that he inherited from his father showed that Al was even worried that something more might happen at Hogwarts. Why was it that he got this feeling? And why was the feeling strongest when he was around Jacob. “I’m not saying we should accuse of him yet, I think we should dig into this find out what’s up cause I know that if we even mention that they should look into certain students, they’ll just shove us aside saying we’re just kids and without evidence we can’t do anything,” he said lightly before going silent and waiting, waiting to hear what Al and Scorp thought.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

"Don't come running to us when you end up dead then," theia narrowed her eyes at scorp for a moment before shrugging it off. she could not be bothered to get into a stupid fight with scorp over this - because i would go that way if one of them didn't wave it off. "i won't, i'll have better people to haunt." she said with a small smirk, not caring if it was immature. she was tired of being considered as a stupid little girl. her parents acted like she was like that all the time, casting her aside. she didn't want her best friends to do the same.

she sighed and shook her head slightly, shaking it off. no she wasn't going to argue anymore. "Do you have and evidence point towards Jacob. What was his motive, what did he get from the attack?" she rolled her eyes lightly - of course scorpius would go all interroagtive at this, what with his father being the ministry for magic and all. theia's gaze caught albus as he sat up and she listened to his reasoning. “Well I don’t have any evidence as to who did it yet, I just got this feeling, ya know? I know you both probably have a similar one, not with Jacob, but with the fact that something’s going on at Hogwarts that we don’t know about, not even the professors know. I saw the look on Professor Neville’s face the other day, he seemed worried about something.” theia nodded slightly. it was true - there was something going on, and it wasn't hard to feel...you just couldn't put your finger on it.

“I’m not saying we should accuse of him yet, I think we should dig into this find out what’s up cause I know that if we even mention that they should look into certain students, they’ll just shove us aside saying we’re just kids and without evidence we can’t do anything,” theia chewed her lip lightly in thought and shook her head slightly. "we'll have to be careful . . . jacob wouldn't be in this all by himself, he's not a complete idiiot." she frowned slightly. "he'll have others around, and if we start digging blindly they'll either strike out at someone else or one of us as a warning." she said, knowing jacob wouldnt care about going for another student.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

He glanced at Theia, did she always have to have the last say, in fact why did the majority of females have to have the last say? He didn't bother acknowledging her comment, instead he focused more of the topic at hand.

Albus had no hard evidence, it was just a feeling. Out in the real world having a 'feeling' didn't cut it. The authorities would simply look at you as if you were stupid. But Al seemed pretty adamant that it was Jacob and even Theia did. But he couldn't deny that he too felt something was going on at Hogwarts.

For now he decided to play along and entertain the thought of it possibly being Jacob.
"Theia's right, if it was Jacob he wouldn't be in it alone. He may not be an idiot but I doubt he's smart enough to pull whatever is going on off, he's the type of guy that seems like he has to boast and brag about something," he paused letting his words sink in whilst his own brain processed Theia's words. If they begun digging blindly then whoever it was would surely retaliate.
"I think we should start with the reason why Hugo was attacked, was it because of who his parents are cause there'd surely be some that don't like his parents or yours either Al, or perhaps its something more. Either way I think you have to be extra careful Al." Once more he glanced at Theia. Maybe if it was Jacob, the attack on Theia was a warning of some sort.

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

Albus thought for a moment as he listened to his two best friends have their say in it. Yes he did know it was just a feeling, but it was all he had right now and Hugo was like a little brother to him. He needed to find out who had attacked him and why. “ I think we should start with the reason why Hugo was attacked, was it because of who his parents are cause there'd surely be some that don't like his parents or yours either Al, or perhaps its something more. Either way I think you have to be extra careful Al,” great now Scorp was saying that he needed to be extra careful. Al knew how to handle himself quite well; there was no doubt about that. Besides he didn’t think someone like Jacob had the guts to attack him.

He was trying to think back to the argument they had with James and Alaya in the hallway. He knew that his brother had said something that had striked him as odd. What was it? Then it hit him. “Wait, remember when James started going at us in front of the Great Hall? He had mentioned something about Hugo’s toad being stolen. I know how much Hugo loves his toad, so he is probably not exactly in the best of moods without Hooper around,” Albus started. He really was worried about Hugo, why did it have to be him that was attacked? And why couldn’t Al have been around to protect him? The whole thing was just eating away at him. “But I don’t know why someone would want to take Hugo’s toad. Why does a person need a toad for anyways?” he thought out loud in hope that between the three of them they could figure the answer out.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

she caught scorp's look but ignored it, turning away to look at albus. "Theia's right, if it was Jacob he wouldn't be in it alone. He may not be an idiot but I doubt he's smart enough to pull whatever is going on off, he's the type of guy that seems like he has to boast and brag about something," she nodded slightly and frowned. "he'd have to have someone directing him .. he doesn't seem to have any direction in whatever he does, he just gets mad and attacks." she frowned again and ran a hand through her hair. "then again..they can't be very happy with him for attacking people.. he's not exactly subtle or descreet." she said, lip curling in distaste of even the thought of jacob.

"I think we should start with the reason why Hugo was attacked, was it because of who his parents are cause there'd surely be some that don't like his parents or yours either Al, or perhaps its something more. Either way I think you have to be extra careful Al." theia chewed her lip thinking, pacing back and forth slightly, she nodded in agreement to scorpius' words. albus would need to be careful, and theia and scorp were going to need to be more vigilant in keeping an eye out for both themselves and albus. at least this would cause them to be a bit more awear of possible attacks.

“Wait, remember when James started going at us in front of the Great Hall? He had mentioned something about Hugo’s toad being stolen. I know how much Hugo loves his toad, so he is probably not exactly in the best of moods without Hooper around,” theia looked at albus, frowning slightly as she thought. she sighed - why were there so many questions and no answers?! it was just infuriating. not to mention she'd probably need to face up to jacob again some time or another and win . if anything to show him he couldn't mess with her or her friends. “But I don’t know why someone would want to take Hugo’s toad. Why does a person need a toad for anyways?” theia shook her head, showing her own confusiong. "i don't know... like some sort of sick victory trophie? to hold something over hugo? ..though i don't see why, they'd have nothing to gain from him would they..?" she thought allowed, mulling over the words but finding they didn't fit the situation at all.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style,padding-left:16px; padding-top:0px; padding-right:0px; padding-bottom:0px; background-image:url(http://i51.tinypic.com/2nbr3oi.jpg) ] Scorpius Malfoy So can't you see Everything you are belongs to me - - - - - - - - - - - - - - He nodded absentmindedly whe nTheia spoke about Jacob getting mad and attacking people. He nodded again with her next words. Jacob was definitely not discreet. Albus said something about Hugo's toad being stolen. A toad? Who in their right minds would want a toad, let alone steal one. They weren’t the best looking pets and if you asked him, they were the most useless animals people could have as pets. At least with owls you could send letters and a cat loved playing with people. But all a toad done was hop away from their owners, they were useless, absolutely useless. His mind tried recalling what toads were actually good for and all he came up was one thing. It was something he had read ages ago in a dangerous creatures book, one from the library at home, but surely no one would be stupid enough to try it. After all the last one hadn’t worked out so well and that had been 50 years old. "Basilisk," he whispered so softly he doubted that the others heard him. Why would anyone want to create such a monster, he didn’t think Jacob was that stupid. What else did they need to create it? An egg of some sort, but he hadn’t heard of an egg being stolen so perhaps it was fine, perhaps it was just as Theia said, a trophy. Maybe he should owl his father, find out more about toads and what they were actually useful for, pft he'd probably get the same answer he had been thinking, that they were useless. The next best thing was to look up toads in the library and as much as he didn’t like the place, it was more than likely the safest place. ALBUS AND THEIA. 292 WORDS. TEMPLATE BY OH SO COOPERNATURAL ! @ CAUTION.

[ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER]

“he'd have to have someone directing him .. he doesn't seem to have any direction in whatever he does, he just gets mad and attacks.” Of course, Jacob would probably get out of hand if someone wasn’t directing him. Jacob wasn’t exactly secretive on his views about blood status. He was often seen taunting someone about their blood status. “then again..they can't be very happy with him for attacking people.. he's not exactly subtle or descreet.” He had said the very thing he had been thinking. How Jacob wasn’t exactly good at being secretive and this attack on Hugo was a bit more secretive than usual. With Theresa, perhaps he screwed up or Al just happened to show up at the right time.

But the fact of the matter still remained as to why Hooper was taken from Hugo. Poor Hugo. Being close to Hugo for all these years, Al knew that Hugo was close with his pet toad. Sure not many would have found it to be the best pet in the world, but Hugo seemed to adore Hooper and Hooper adored him by following him around. “i don't know... like some sort of sick victory trophie? to hold something over hugo? ..though i don't see why, they'd have nothing to gain from him would they..?” A sick trophy. That sounded something like off of one of those crime shows that his Great Aunt Petunia had been watching a lot of whenever he ended up over at their place, which wasn’t often as him and Dunstable usually ended up at his place, a better place to go out and fly without wary that a Muggle would spot them. But he highly doubted that a Wizard would act the same way as a Muggle, so it couldn’t have been a trophy. But what else? “Baslisk” it was very quiet but he was sure he heard Scorpius say it. He had heard of a Baslisk before, after all his father had fought one back in his second year. He also knew, other than the one his father killed, there hadn’t been one around for centuries as they were illegal to breed. Someone at Hogwarts couldn’t possibly want to try and breed one? For sure they would be caught wouldn’t they?

“Well perhaps we should look up what all things Toads can be used for. That’s the only thing that I can think of for trying to find answers. And one of us should probably try and figure out things by carefully tailing Jacob. I highly doubt he’d be happy if he found that one of us was tailing him.” he said softly. That was the only clue they had as to why Hugo had been attacked. Other than the fact that most blood purists would’ve considered him to be a blood traitor.

[THERESA JAY KELSEY]

theia watched scorp nod as she spoke and she frowned slightly at the absent glaze to his eyes, wondering if he had an idea he was yet to say. well if he had something he should say it! theia didn't have much of an idea about any of this in mind, all she knew was the jacob was in this somehow and he certainly wasn't alone. the only problem is finding out who else happened to be involve and why - perhaps they should following warrington - oh how unappealing that sounded and she had to refrain from wrinkling her nose. she would never doing anything as such degrading and worthless as to follow him...not unless she really had to.

she could tell albus wasn't so sure about her thoughts on the matter of the toad. well it wasn't like they really had any idea, for all they knew it could be because jacob simply wanted to toad for himself. seemed like the sick and stupid thing the great oaf would do for company. she sighed and ran a hand through her chocolate curls, pushing them back from her face and chewing her bottom lip as she tried to think. “Baslisk” she caught scorp's low mutter, doubting it was said for her or albus but hearing it nonetheless. she frowned and blinked in surprise, thoughts ringing through her head as she tried to make the connection between toad and baslisk.. the leap scorp had made. she remembered having read one thing a few years ago about toads when searching for something she needed for her DADA homework. something that linked them to baslisks..

..she couldn't remember, she'd pretty much breezed over that little paragraph, never having found toads one of the most interesting creatures. obviously scorp knew more than her or - from the look on his face - albus. “Well perhaps we should look up what all things Toads can be used for. That’s the only thing that I can think of for trying to find answers. And one of us should probably try and figure out things by carefully tailing Jacob. I highly doubt he’d be happy if he found that one of us was tailing him.” she sighed and nodded, she knew that tailing him would have to be done, however un-pleasent, and resigning herself to fate she looked between scorp and albus. "i'll do it..i have the most classes with him." she said simply, curling her top lip slightly. "though i'm not following him into boys toilets and dorms so you guys can cover that bit," she said with a slight smirk before looking at scorp. "and do you know something about the link between toads and baslisks?.... might help us if you do before we go stumbling into the dark," she said, sighing and running her hand through her hair again, hoping he did know something that could help them out in this.