228 Don't touch my stuff!

Nick left the office quite pleased with what he had accomplished as he had not only set Lockhart up to get removed early but had also managed to avoid the man before then as well. 'I doubt the old man won't jump at the chance to get rid of that curse , might need to do some research on werewolves in the meanwhile.' he thought seriously before making his way to his workshop nearby. Walking in he immediately cursed out loud as he saw his friends messing with his stuff haphazardly. "How the bloody hell did you all even get in here since the door was locked?" he asked confused.-

It wasn't some mundane lock either but one made to be unpickable and unlocking charm proof. Helena looked awkwardly to the side while trying to hide behind the furnace. Nick saw this however and sighed in a long suffering manner "Shouldn't you all be studying or something to make sure you do well in class?" he asked exasperated as he snatched a ring mold from Luna. "The first weeks just to get us back into the swing of things so we'll be fine , relax." Tracy said eyeing a ring mandrel oddly.-

"I was planning on it but then I found out my long dead relative let my friends into my nice orderly workshop where they proceeded to mess with everything. You probably don't even remember where you got that from do you!?" Nick asked in frustration. Tracy looked at the mandrel and then looked around before randomly putting it next to the various tongs. "That's it! Everyone gets punished! PERVERSA MUNDI!" he said casting a rather terrible illusion spell that spell twisted ones various senses in such a way to guarantee a headache. Things like tasting with your fingers and hearing with the hairs on your body.-

The best part was that it's effects were totally random on each person affected by it and it worked on everyone in a room save the caster themselves. Immediately all of his friends started freaking out at their new and strange senses. While they were dealing with that he reorganized all of his stuff they had misplaced. He had to cancel the spell on Luna however as her nose started to bleed and she was covering her ears. Seeing magic may not effect one all that badly in a magic filled environment like Hogwarts but hearing it was a totally different ball game.-

It forced ones brain to make sense of sounds that make none and overloads the brain quite quickly. Nick himself had to deal with a similar problem last year with his own magical senses and was thus aware of the pain it caused. "Hadn't expected it to work on magical senses as well , I'll need to keep it in mind next time." he admitted with a shrug as Luna readjusted to her normal senses. "I don't like that spell very much." she said bluntly while using a transfigured napkin he had handed to her to clean up the blood on her face from the nosebleed.-

Nick chuckled "It's perfectly harmless most of the time if quite disorienting , perfect to teach people not to touch your stuff , wanna learn?" he asked with a wide smile. He had no doubt that Luna would soon have to deal with bullying in her house where he couldn't do anything about it and this spell was great for making a point. "Okay." Luna agreed eagerly and Nick began walking her through the steps to cast the spell as well as the wand movements.-

She practiced for awhile all while Nicks other friends were starting to finally adapt to their strange new senses so Nick canceled the spell on them and watched as they fell into struggling again. A good five minutes later and they had all readjusted and were talking about how bad it was for each of them. Ron had definitely gotten the short straw as he could apparently smell with his feet and hear colors. Considering his poor hygiene and the thick socks he wore inside his shoes and you have an idea of what he smelt that whole time.-

"So I expect that none of you will go messing with my stuff again anytime soon hmm?" Nick asked and they all shook their head leaving him satisfied. He then looked at Helena "I can't do anything about you but don't make a habit of this or I'll fix that." he warned before passing out cookies to everyone like nothing happened. It became pretty clear to his friends after that that Nick REALLY doesn't like people moving his stuff without permission.

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