Jodi Peterson.

[Ashkir Devereux]

Eight ten rolled around in the cool November evening. The teenager was now out of Mr. Thomas' office looking for the last office he needed to go to , Jodi Peterson's office.

Still have yet to get to his common room that day to finish his homework from the few classes he has attended that day, he had more important matters to take care of. Raising his left hand he knocked firmly, four times upon a office door.

Taking a step back, exhaling deeply, the overtired teenager's eyes stared at the door. He wanted to get this over with. He needed to get to sleep soon.

[Jodi Peterson]

As Jodi sat in the TA's office, she heard the footsteps of a person walk toward the door, and stop. After hearing that no one entered, and no one wad fumbling with their keys, Jodi used her wand to open the door. She saw that a third year Ravenclaw boy was standing there. She looked a little sleepy, perhaps overtired. Jodi called him into the office, and ushered him to the seat on the other side of her desk. "What can I do for you?" she said, taking a sip her her hot chocolate. She wore a dressing gown, black of course, and a pair of fluffy pink slippers. She hair was a little wild, but not too wild to be embarrassing; it was just a little bit messy. Jodi pushed her hair behind her ears and waited for the boy to enter.

[Ashkir Devereux]

The door to the office magically swung open. Ashkir stared at the door for a moment then glanced inside to see Jodi Peterson motioning for him to come inside. Not bothering closing the door behind him, actually he forgot the tiredness was coming in.

"Hello Ms. Peterson," Ashkir spoke softly right after yawning taking a seat across from her. "You may have not seen me in your classes so far this term, except maybe the first, I forget what I attended or not," Ashkir's voice was just barely higher then a mear whisper but was slighly broken up as it seemed he was forcing the words out of his mind.

In fact he was too tired to clearly think. "I wish to have assignments if possible that would catch me up, if that is possible?" Ashkir half asked in a confusing way. Exhaling deeply, he waited patiently. His head slumping down to his side, quickly shooting back up.

[Jodi Peterson]

Jodi smiled toward the boy. Whatever he'd been going through it didn't seem to easy for him. He couldn't even keep his head up straight. Before answering the boys question, Jodi used her wand to make a hot chocolate appear on the desk in front of the boy. "That is for you," Jodi said, taking a sip of her own. "Just hot chocolate, but you could have coffee if you like," she said.

"As for the assignments. You have only missed one at the moment. It was on fluxweed," Jodi fumbled around inside a folder that lay on top of her desk. The homework was just a few questions. "If you can answer these," she said, handing over the piece of paper. "... I think you'll be fine for end of year test."

Jodi hoped up from her desk, and walked over to her own little book shelf. There, she pulled a small leather bound book from the shelf and walked back to her desk. The book was probably only 20 pages long, but held a lot of information within it. "This is a book that I brought only a few weeks ago." Jodi looked down at the tattered leather, and added a comment. "... Second hand of course. You may borrow it. It has all you need to know about the Fluxweed plant. Please return it to me for next lesson.

"We've also been learning about the Whomping Willow. Do you know anything about that plant?" Jodi asked. She was ready, if needed, to give the boy a short lesson on the plant.

[Ashkir Devereux]

Shaking his head slightly to wake himself up even longer, he saw that Jodi summoned hot chocolate. Telling him it's his he reached out with his left hand and grabbed it taking a sip. "Thanks!" he exclaimed a bit amazed that it could be summoned. Setting the hot chocolate back down ontop of the desk within his reach he looked back up at Jodi.


One assignment missed sweet! Ashkir thought to himself quickly. The chocolate being a temporary remedy, but it did the trick. Being somebody who has read books in the past, he didn't recall much on Fluxweed besides something about the moon. An assignment and a leather branded book. Nice. A smile appeared on his face, happy that he has had a chance to be able to catch up in his work.

Ashkir actually didn't care much about the current condition of the book, but he knew he'll return it in the same condition he has recieved it in. "Return here to your office or your class next time it is scheduled?"

The Whomping Willow, "Isn't that the thing that hates everyone?"

[Jodi Peterson]

Jodi gave a little chuckle. That haves everyone. Warmed Jodi's heart a little. Nieve. Or perhaps it was just innocence. Whatever it was, it was extremely... cool.

"It doesn't seem like you are in the mood for me to explain this all to you know. In short, the whomping willow was no different to Muggle willow trees, apart from the fact it used to twitch. Not a lot, but just a little twitch here and there to get rid of harmful bugs that would poison the plant. In the late seventeenth century wizards made a hobby of casting jinxes at the tree to watch the whole tree twitch. This was band a few years later as Humphrey Fizziebee, an old MInster of Magic, was the first wizard to ever be admitted into St. Mungo's. He was punched in the tree by the Willow." Jodi stopped to look at the boy.

"Would you like me to stop now, you seem a little tired, or would you like me to keep going?" Jodi asked. She believed any normal person would ask her to stop, but perhaps the boy liked the tone of her voice. Always up and down and up and down.

She took yet another sip of her chocolate, and seeing the boy like the warmth she added, "Not many wizards and witches can do that you know. Make hot chocolate. Took me 2 wands and 3 or 4 years to learn to do it properly. The hardest bit was getting it to have a bit of sugar. And sometimes it would come out stone cold. That's my boyfriends cup. Real mug and all, but I made the chocolate myself. What do you think?" she asked.

[Ashkir Devereux]

Ashkir glanced around the room quickly for reasons he did not know. The Ravenclaw looked back at Jodi Peterson, taking another sip of his hot chocolate. Now his teacher begun talking a bit about the Willow's history. Things he did not know he actually liked how they came out as they were unexpected.

"Why does Trio's Hogwarts have one in it's grounds?" {We still have it right oO} At the mention of his tiredness he immeditly shook his head. "Please keep going. It's very intriguing," Ashkir replied softly still being kept awake by the chocolate...mainly the sugar getting him active for a bit longer.

Now the talk of the hot chocolate! "Oh awesome!" he replied, knowing he'll probably never master it. "It tastes perfect!"

[Jodi Peterson]

Jodi liked the compliments about her drink. Made her feel... special.

"We don't have one of the grounds any more. I believe that it was burnt down in the fight with Voldemort at the school, but I can't tell you that for sure. I remember that there was one, but I don't know who or were it went. On with the Willow random facts," she said with a little bit of a chuckle.

"In the last 100 years or so it was become a tradition to transplant the willow to use them as guardians. This did not work too well as even the wizards that who were supposed to get neat the tree could not. A wizard named Fredetic Tighe thought he had a solution, using the petrificus totalus jinx, but then the tree could not be un frozen. Have you ever heard of a lady names Laura Hopkins?" Jodi asked.

[Ashkir Devereux]

Listening to Jodi again, sipping on his hot chocolate, this time he kept the mug in his left hand. Yeah, so Ashkir was left handed. Ashkir personally hasn't seen the willow tree on grounds, but always heard it was out there hiding. "So, the tree guarded something and when the wizard who originally placed it there couldn't even get past themselves?"

Laura Hopkins? Nope. All he heard if was an organization with the name. "I am unaware of Larua Hopkins," Ashkir replied to her last question.

[Jodi Peterson]

Jodi nodded. "That is correct. Many wizards through-out the world used them to guard things. Doesn't sound like a smart idea to me," Jodi said with a wink. Someone would have to be a true idiot to use a wild tree to guard something when they themselves couldn't even get passes. Just... stupid.

"Well Laura Hopkins studied the tree as part of her NEWT level in Herbology. She devised that using a cutting curse in the lower bark of the tree, followed by four direct shots with the stunning jinx into the cut followed by casting 'Reparo' to then close the hole would make a small lump in the side of the tree." Jodi put her drink down. "...Oh and don't worry about remembering that. Doesn't really matter," she added.

Jodi took a sip of her drink again. As it had started to become cold, Jodi waved her wand over her drink to warm it up a little. "Is yours getting cold as well?" Jodi asked, holding her wand ready to warm Ashkir's drink if needed.