Sunday Tea (by invitation only)

[simanus]

Simanus sat at a larger table than she usually did. She and her customary partner waited on their other invited guests to arrive. This was a difficult task as the spread she's been provided by the house elves had been seen by her before she'd cast an obscuring on it, it was therefore easy for her to notice in spite of the spell and it was more than a little tempting. There was soon a grinding sound from the door, however, signaling the door's reconnection to the corridor, they were here...

[Remus Lupin]

After receiving an invitation to tea, Remus followed the instructions in the note and went up to the seventh floor with James and Sirius. He turned to his friends. "Why on earth would we have to walk past a wall and think Spare Oom?" He frowned and scratched the top of his head. "This is just to weird, even by Hogwarts standards."

He stopped and gazed at the wall. "Well I suppose we'd better start thinking Spare Oom." He said flatly. He hoped that no one was looking right now, because her was feeling like a right prat. He looked at the others. "Ready?"

[Sirius Black]

Sirius too had been curious about why they would want to walk past a wall thinking something, but then something jolted his memory, when he and Simanus went to the kitchens the house elves had said something about 'the come and go room' and something about training trolls. This must have been what they were talking about.

"I think we may be about to discover the solution to all our problems." he said mysteriously before he started staring at the wall thinking 'Spare Oom' and trying not to laugh.

Suddenly a door appeared and opened to reveal Simanus and Peeves sitting at a table, every inch of it covered with food.

((OOC - sorry to spoil you surprise... I'd kinda worked out that it was Peeves... if it's not I'll go back and change it ))

[James Potter]

James was muttering to himself about how he could be spending the time working on Lily, ads they stood staring at the wall. He nodded when Remus asked if they were ready, and he tried to clear his mind and only think Spare Oom. When a door appeared he grinned and as it opened he saw the two hosts and all the food. Thoughts of Lily, went out the window.

"This is so cool guys." he whispered as they made their way toward Simanus.

[simanus]

Simanus was unsurprised by the difference in the boys' reactions. After the events in the kitchens, Simanus was far from shocked Sirius could see past her obscuring. The spell wasn't a guarantee of invisibility but was a great deal easier than a Disillusionment Charm, making the subject impossible to notice passively and hard to focus on actively. She flicked her wand to dispense with it, deciding not to bother with a big reveal as it was not necessary. "Welcome, my marauding little friends, to the Spar Oom, the Come n' Go as Peevesie here calls it," she smiled and nodded to the little man floating nearby, "come in and have a seat."

She gave the boys a moment to close the door and waited for them to advance before pointing at James and adopting a stern voice so firmly in the low tenor register that Peeves fell out of the air laughing, "You! Before you sit you must be asked a question: Feed me and I live, give me to drink and I die, what am I?" She immediately returned to her normal voice, "I didn't want you to be denied a chance to show your cleverness, I have already given these two little puzzles to work over. The arena of logic is a terrible place to fight unarmed and riddles help you think around corners." Not bothering with any further ceremony, she lifted a small tuna sandwich to her mouth appeared to swallow it whole.

[Remus Lupin]

Remus smiles at Simanus as she promptly hits James with a riddle. He patted James' back and said cheerily. "That's an easier one then mine was mate." He nodded politely at Simanus and giggled at Peeves. "Hello again Simanus. Thank you for the kind invitation." He went to the table and picked up a ham sandwich. "How did you find out about this place?" He asked looking around.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned at Simanus and took a sandwich himself.

"Just had to steal my thunder by telling them for me, didn't you Simanus. I went to the kitchens specifically to ask them about this place, and you have to invite us all here before I can check it out." he sighed dramatically and flopped into a chair.

"Hey Peeves, how is the mischief going?" he asked the poltergeist, wondering how he had refrained himself from throwing the food around the room thus far.

[simanus]

Simanus, "I challenged Peeves to a riddle contest to stop him imitating my accent and won, so he hid a personal effect of mine and gave me a riddle to where he'd hidden it, trouble was he had just thrown it through a door two house-elves had been exiting through. I had to stake the place out to get one to show me in. I found what he'd taken and came back later to investigate the properties of the room."

She looked around the room. "It always becomes very utilitarian for me," she muttered, "don't know why, anyway, answers later, food now. So sorry, Sirius; had I known, I'd have pulled you in for today. You could have carried more food." She looked at Peeves, "Peeves can't come in here unless you ask the room to let him in. He corresponds with a family connection of mine, I've no idea why."

[James Potter]

James walks up to the table cockily, with his hands in his pockets snd he grinned. "Hel..." He stopped speaking as he was promptly issued with a nriddle. He looked at her blankly for a moment. "Oh...kay?" He thought a moment about her riddle. "Fire!" He said with a wide grin.

He grabbed a sandwich and chewed it, as he looked around. He almost choked though when he realised what Sirius was talking about. "You mean... Our practice room?"

[Sirius Black]

"Of course I mean our practise room. You walk up and down the corridor in front of it telling it what you want it to be for you, and in theory it should do it for you. For example, if you really needed the look and got lost and happened to walk past the wall three times thinking 'I need the loo' it would probably fill itself with chamber pots or something. Do you remember when we got lost on our way to astronomy once and Filch tried to chase us down for being in the corridors out of hours, and we hid in a broom cupboard?" he paused waiting for their reactions.

"Well that broom cupboard was this room, being what we required it to be. James, Remus, welcome to the Room of Requirement." he said grandly gesturing round the room.

Sirius had been given a riddle but he knew he couldn't work out these things under pressure, he was going to sleep on it and give Simanus his answer later.

((OOC - mainly cause I don't actually have it yet... lol))

[simanus]

"Nice name," she said thoughtfully, "I hardly ever have time to come here anymore, which is just as well. I forget its location sometimes and the damn thing's unplottable." She wondered what they were going to practice here but chose not to pry. "Sirius," she said instead, "is now a good time to discuss that joint project?"

[Remus Lupin]

Remus chewed on his sandwich while the others spoke. Then he heard about the room and how they could use it, he grinned widely. "Woah Sirius. You genius!" He gazes around thinking of the possibilities. He nodded as Sirius reminded them of needing a broom cupboard and giggled. "Well if this place is unplottable, then it's just what we need."

Remus raises an eyebrow, at the mention of a joint project. "Oh what's all this about then?

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned when Moony called him a genius, "It was nothing really." he said with a mischievous glint in his eyes. He ginned and sat down at the table.

"What joint venture?" he asked, racking his brains to try and remember what on earth she could be one about

((OOC - joint venture?!!? WTF?!!?))

[simanus]

"I intend to leave the Slytherins if I can at the end of this year," Simanus explained, rising, "Before I go, I am taking on commissions of aid in reforming certain members of the house. I sense from Sirius' reaction that now would not be a good time. If you gentlemen will excuse me, I must run off for a minute or two; I intend to return but if I should not, it was nice meeting you James." She primarily wanted to take a personal tonic in private, but she also wanted to check if her sister was in communication range yet. She slipped off to the door and was gone quickly.

[James Potter]

James slapped Sirius on the back and chortled. "You sly dog." He listened as Simanus explained her plan, and then he looked at the others questionably. "Leave Slytherin? Reform others?" He nodded at her, as she politely excused herself and smiled. "Er nice meeting you to." Once she'd left he scratched his head. "She's an unusual character." Grabs another sandwich.

"So when should we start the practice sessions then?" He asked, waving his sandwich around as he spoke. "We need to get Peter here, he'll freak!" Takes a bite and grins.