Brett Hodges
October 27, 2007 11:58 AM
Looking for the Prefect [tag Zack] by Brett Hodges
Brett had spent a long time with his grammar book, dictionaries and thesaurus spread out over his bed as he worked on a letter to Professor Flatt entitled "My Papers, My Deforestation." Since it was supposed to be a punishment, Brett had put extra effort into it to make it fun and challenging. He had something to prove.It wasn't exactly the safest letter he'd ever written. The content was risky because it stuck up for misbehaving in class. It might very well get him another detention. But if he was going to get another detention from it, it sure as weirdo funky wonderbread wasn't going to be because he misspelled anything or made grammatical errors. Oh no, this was the most erudite piece of literature he'd ever written and there was only one person in the school smart enough to proofread it.
The Aladren Prefect of the Library.
Brett had what he considered his final copy in his hand as he hesitated before the illustrious (and insane) icon's table.
"Is it true," Brett asked across the gap spreading between them, "that you are the smartest person in the school?"
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Zack Dill
October 27, 2007 6:04 PM
You found him by Zack Dill
Zack had been working on his history assignment (specifically on the story of how the world would look if mundanes found out about magic people through technological advancement) when he was interrupted by a younger kid approaching his table. He lowered his quill - Zack liked using quills because it felt much more distinguished than using pens - and pushed aside the history books he had found as reference (one about the treatment of Native Americans by the newly arrived Europeans, one about Alexander the Great, a third about the Roman Empire, and the last about the history of England and the British Empire).Zack had difficulty telling ages based on looks, but he could tell three things just by seeing this kid. First, he wasn't a Quidditch player. Zack didn't actually know all the Quidditch players in the school but he could recognize them on sight. Second, he was not an Alderaanian. Zack could identify every member of his House on sight and knew the names of about a third of them. Lastly, he was younger than Zack. Which put him somewhere between first and fifth year, but Zack was leaning toward the lower end of that spectrum.
Zack was about to tell him that he was a prefect, not the librarian (most non-Alderaanians came to him to help them find where the Charms or Quidditch books were) when the kid asked a very intriguing question. "Is it true that you are the smartest person in the school?"
The question pleased him. He knew he was a genius, but it was good to know that the reputation had spread, not just among the people he knew personally, but to kids he'd never encountered before (except maybe at Noveling Fury! - the kid looked a little familiar). It stroked his ego.
"I never competed for the title," Zack admitted. Though he was fairly sure the description was accurate, he had gotten three Es on his CATS instead of all Os and his confidence had taken a pretty serious blow from that. Not so much, however, that it stopped him from adding, "but probably."
After an opening gambit like the one he'd been presented with, Zack's only option at this point was to ask, "What can I do for you?"
Flattery could get you everywhere with Zack.
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Brett Hodges
October 27, 2007 10:41 PM
Good by Brett Hodges
Brett took a deep slow breath, uncertain if he really wanted the smartest person in the school to read his writing and even more uncertain how Prefect Dill would react to the content of the letter he had written. It was one thing to be a bold individual when you were surrounded by kids your own age, but it was quiet another when your audience was a prefect and a professor. Still, he'd rather look stupid in front of the prefect from Noveling Fury than the professor who already hated him."Could you read this?" he asked. He slid into the seat across from Zack and pushed the paper toward him. "I want to know if I'm using all the words right, and if any of it doesn't make sense. It's for Professor Flatt and he's gonna to give me a longer one to do if it's not perfect."
[OOC: The paper is on the history of magic board already. We can be vague about what's being corrected.]
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