Mayhem at the Ball - Challenge 5

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

Here's how different people wanted to revive Cassie:

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

The bringing back of CassieButterfly!
Word has come that perhaps Professor Cassandra Lobiesk (CassieButterfly aka La Penguina) is not dead-dead but possibly revivable-dead. While this is good news (it really IS good news, really it is) the not-so-good news is that the method to revive her isn't known. A call goes out to all and sundry – how can the [semi-]beloved Co HoH of Ravenclaw be brought back to life and resume her role as a penguin on a television set?

I looked through manuscripts and parchments and rolls of faded dragon skin; I searched in potions books and books of charms. Then I found something which might just work.

Number one – find the perpetrator of the deed. Feed them coffee. Feed them very very very strong coffee, so much coffee (or maybe just a little bit of coffee but so strong that if a spoon were in the cup it would dissolve) that their thinking mechanism goes on overload and they are not only multi-tasking but multi-tasking on the multi-tasks. This will definitely loosen the ability of Professor Leslie, I mean whoever it is who did it, to be able to concentrate on this one particular spell.

Number two – and more important in case Professor Leslie cannot be found and/or kills off anyone trying to give her caffeine – consists of 5 parts.

Part 1 - lift the statue using the hover charm about 20 or 30 feet off the ground.

Part 2 – put underneath the statue a deep (at least 6 foot deep, 4 foot wide) huge pewter cauldron into which the statue, when lowered, is totally and absolutely covered with the contents of the cauldron.

Part 3 – fill the cauldron with firewhiskey.

Part 4 – lower the statue into the cauldron. Find out that whoever filled the cauldron with firewhiskey forgot to allow for the displacement of firewhiskey by the statue so it overflows ... and mop up the mess.

Part 5 – Using flagrate (perhaps 10 witches around the cauldron should do), direct fire to the bottom of the cauldron and slowly slowly warm up the whiskey. This will cause the whiskey to seep into any and all little holes and spaces of the statue until the statue has soaked it all up. The stone will naturally explode and/or dissolve, the true matter of her body regained and Professor Lobiesk will be freed from the terrible spell. Of course then she will be stuck in a 6 foot tall cauldron but that is a different matter altogether.

BY TARMA BLACK

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

This document presents a very intricate and delicate plan to revive our beloved Cassie Sparkleissa Butterfly Lobiesk. The following steps must be closely followed in a span of one week for it be effective. It is crucial for the safety of our Cassie that the steps must be followed until the end when started.

The first step is to prepare the following: powdered moonstone, asphodel leaves harvested at full moon, butterbeer and/or firewhiskey, some portions of extendable ears, home-baked muffins and some of Cassie’s most beloved possessions. The last requirement is to be decided by her housemates in Ravenclaw. It should be her most beloved thing, whatever it is.

After all the things required are present, it should be brought to the petrified statue of Cassie in the great hall, in her front. The powdered moonstone and the asphodel leaves are mixed and grinded together. After thirty minutes of mixing, the extendable ear portion is put in the mixture. The mixture will now be offered to the statue.

The act of offering should be done on a Wednesday at 6 PM, in that day and time only. The mixture would be poured down in the petrified statue while doing the chicken dance. It is important that the chicken dance be reenacted for the statue to feel the presence of the mixture flowing. The chicken dance would also remind the statue of the events that happened before the murder. The statue is hoped to be revived 30 minutes after the mixture first touched the statue. If the mixture fails, proceed to the second group of steps.

The second group of step tests Cassie’s will to survive. With the magical effect of the mixture already in the statue, the statue is open to hear (with the help of the extendable ears) and smell the outside world. First up are the home-baked muffins. The yummy muffins are positioned near Cassie’s nose so she can smell it. Of course, the one doing the positioning should always do the chicken dance or else it will not work. If it still fails, the process goes on but substituting the muffins with the other materials like butterbeer or firewhiskey and what was most dear to our Cassie. The process is repeated over and over again until Cassie is cured.

BY SIRIUS FUDGE

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

I demand that Cassie will SEE this way of reviving her *cough*

Do we have to bring Cassie back? It’s so nice and quiet around here without Cassie *cough* But I have hired some reinforcements in hopes to be able to revive Cassie. Don’t know if they are really reliable, cause the reinforcements are penguins. And we know how much we can rely on them…

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But I send three penguins on the mission to find a way to revive Cassie. As they went on their way they did a lot of stuff to try and find a cure. While they were traveling along the sub they looked around in bags. In hope to find a cure to revive poor little Cassie. There they didn’t find a cure, but they did find some amazing lunches. I think some of them were devoured by them, but I’m not that sure about that.

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They have done an amazing job in observing different things in hope to find clues. Where they not observing ants and how they work. Then they were probably searching impossible places in hope they were able to find a clue to revive Cassie. The ants weren’t really a help according to the penguins. The thing they do all day is work, they don’t have time for cures.

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Just the same as with searching in impossible places. They said that some places were just too narrow to hold a cure for Cassie. So they dropped the option of finding a cure in impossible places.

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After getting stepped on way too many times during their search, the penguins were about to give up on finding a cure for Cassie. It was just too much of an hassle to find the cure.


With a sigh of relief for giving up on a cure for Cassie. The penguins decided on a different mission for themselves, which was to make themselves some delicious cake. They were in the mood for that, especially since all their hard work.


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While one of the penguins was whisking away the cake mix, the two others started on the toppings and fillings for the cake. While they set of the take their first cut in some delicious (and alive looking) octopus.


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When they almost cut it a loud rumbling and cracking was heard. The penguins looked up towards the sound. Within seconds a furious Cassie stormed into the kitchen. Glaring at how the penguins wanted to destroy the words of cakes with some octopus cake. Something like that could never happen.


And that’s how Cassie got revived with the help of Penguins. (how easier could it have been?)

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BY FUMEI SHIROKURO

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

You said Cassie was transformed into a statue. Maybe we are lucky and she is only petrified and we can revive her using the potion made by mandrakes. However, this would need several weeks to brew the potion and we are not even sure If it works.

Another option would be to tickle her to dea.. I mean to life. So long until she starts laughing and breathing again. If we use very powerful tickling jinxes and some other methods, maybe that works.

I don’t believe that someone really murdererd her. It just looks like that. So maybe we could try the simplest of all: “Finite”. Or try every countercurse we find.

Or we steal the Headmaster’s Resurrection Stone. This would bring her back in an instant.

Maybe she just pretends to be dead to get attention. So we could just ignore her and then she will find it boring. Or let her give so much attention, that she gets annoyed and runs away screaming :D

We could bake some real good cakes and cookies. Everyone has an advantage from that because it’s delicious. And the smell will make her want to be alive again and then she escapes Death. Or we could bribe the Death with cookies :D As we saw in the Tale of the Three Brothers it is possible to trick the death to some instant.

When we get the Death to eat cookies, we could tickle him to death, so he won’t ever come back and steal us our beloved friends…

But, what do we do, if that does not work? Maybe we could make a real good painting of Cassie, so she will live forever like the Hogwarts paintings :D Or she comes back to school as a ghost and teaches as a ghost like Mr. Binns..

We could just ask the murderer what exactly she did and how to undo it, but that would be too obvious ^^

BY LAMIA BRICKLEY

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

I really want to be the one to revive our beloved Cassie but as an all too recent ickle first year, I’m afraid it will be quite a bit of a challenge. The good news is that Cassie is still on this side of the Veil. We know this because we actually heard from Cassie’s ghost! So she is in a state somewhere between living and dead. From her account, it sounded like the murderer attempted to use the unforgiveable Avada Kedavra curse as evidenced by the flash of green light. But instead of causing her instant, painless death, she was instead transformed into a statue. If I had to guess, it would be the dragon hide bustier she was wearing caused the unexpected result.

So what can we do to reverse this suspended animation? Although the curse could have created extreme cold, I doubt if subjecting Cassie to heat would revive her. But we could try.

The easiest things to try next would be spells. Finite Incantatem negates the effects of many spells. A simple Reviving Spell awakens the target. And a variation of the Locomotor spell, Piertotum Locomotor, animates statues.


If we are still unsuccessful, we could try potions. The Revive Potion restores one's consciousness. The Mandrake Restorative Draught restores transfigured or cursed individuals to their original state.



And then there’s the Wiggenweld Potion, which awakens a person from a magically-induced sleep. Of course we would need a wizard prince to put some of the potion on his lips and then kiss Cassie. This could work even though the Chicken Dance is not the least bit romantic, because Cassie herself can be pretty irresistible.

Finally, we could send our murderer out in search of Maleficent in order to harvest her tears, which worked on her goddaughter in the past. I wouldn’t even attempt Necromancy, the Dark Art of raising the dead, since I don’t think the world is ready to deal with a fiercer and more fearless incarnation of Cassie! But if all else fails, we could try praying to Aphrodite to bring our statue to life, just like Pygmalion. Hey, you never know!

BY POLARIS BLACK

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

How to retrieve Cassie? The eternal question. First we need to find some ingredients: 3.745 Mandrakes would probably be good, they are known to help people who have been petrified, a cup of chamomile, good for calming down all the nerves that Cassie will have once she wakes up, 5 cups of honey to make it taste better, 2 cups of lemon grass to make it smell better and enough eagle feathers to cover Cassie so if the entire thing goes badly wrong at least she can be used to decorate the roost. I guess you’d start with taking the lemongrass and chamomile and chopping them up into miniscule flecks before drying them. You’d then make a mandrake puree and add honey and water before dropping in the dried herbs. Think of it as a health food shake from Azkaban. If it goes well it should be sludge brown with green specks in it. You may want to add some edible food coloring to improve the color, or some sparkles. Then you should put it in a sippe cup and give it to her, a spoonful every ten minutes until she either wakes up or after 5 hours hasn’t worked go to plan two. Plan two is carried out like this: make a mixture of flour and water and lather it on to Cassie before sticking on her feathers make sure to work from the bottom of her legs up to the top of her head so that the feathers overlap and look very nice I’d advise using a levitation charm to get her up to the roost and a marble pedestal and plaque would probably be appropriate as long as she is given a appropriate description no “This is Cassie, we do not miss her.” But if she wakes up, send her back to the roost anyways to inspire joy and fear in her eaglettes.

BY LILLY ANDERSON

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

I suppose that people have been working tirelessly since Cassie was
frozen to find a way to revive her (an unfreezing spell of some kind
would probably do the trick) but I wonder if anyone has thought of the
possibility that she was faking for attention all this time... Maybe
she put a temporary freezing charm on herself then has just been going
back into the pose whenever someone went to visit her. I suggest the
best way to revive her is to do a loud but funny dance in front of her
face and wait for her to start laughing and give herself away.

BY MAXWELL SHADOW

[Prof. Dario Brighton]

To Revive a Lobiesk

Yes, it's a tragedy what happened to Cassie at the Ball, she does a lot of good and important work at HOL, she's fabulous and sparkly and we need her revived, except... do we really? I mean, we do, but haven't you noticed how much quieter and easier it's been with Cassie the statue? I'm not saying she's a troublemaker, but she certainly adds a certain... chaotic unpredictability to things, doesn't she? Okay, okay, we can revive Cassie.

But not before we take a few pictures with her inanimate statue self!

You know how some McDonalds restaurants have scary-looking statues of Ronald McDonald that you can pose with or something? LET'S DO THAT WITH CASSIE! We can get a bunch of first years to climb on her, someone can give her rabbit ears, we can pile our laundry on her. Really, possibilities are ENDLESS.

But you just want to hear about how I'd revive her? That's... not fun at all. I suppose reviving her will have nothing to do with covering her in a thin, barely noticeable layer of honey so she's sticky when she wakes up? Or hiding stinky cheese in the folds of her stony dress and leaving it there for a couple hours prior to revival so she's bombarded with some intense smells she can't identify? And absolutely no drawing on her face? I don't know what magic is coming to these days.

I guess all that needs done is dousing her in the revival potion. I certainly won't be making it -- I do potions better in theory than in practice. I don't think there's any hope for the survival of her dress, which is a shame because it was gorgeous. Is Katsu going to be handling her post-revival meals? Is anyone going to be able to stop Katsu from handling her post-revival meals? That might be the more pertinent question. And who's going to be in charge of keeping Cassie in bed while she recovers? Me? Uh... sorry, I've got some very important work to not do, deep in the tunnels of the Sett; it'll take me hours to not do it. Send me an owl, letting me know how it goes!

BY COSMO B. MOTT