gooseberryhigh | PUNISHMENTS

After dinner, Sylvester Stoker and Reid Wainwright are called into Ms. Vector's office for a mandatory meeting with her and Mr. Thorn. The mood in the room is tense, but the two strict teachers get right down to business. They don't mince words.

For attacking a fellow student, Sylvester Stoker is being benched until the new year, January 1. This means he will not be participating in the game against Azurcrest.

He may keep his badge and act as Captain during practices, and he'll have to decide whether he'd like Ira Ashworth or Dinah Dixon to replace him for the next two months or so.

Mr. Thorn makes it clear that if it were up to him, Stoker would have his badge removed permanently.

Further inquiries will be made into whether or not Stoker is a fit captain. This means that interviews will be set up with his team, Coppertale senior and junior prefects, the Coppertale Cheer captain, and the other Quidditch captains.

Stoker has a week to tell his team, after which it will be made clear to senior prefects and the victim of his attack how and why he was punished.

With that said, the boys are dismissed. You can attempt to ask questions or make arguments if you like, but Mr. Thorn and Ms. Vector rarely sway from their decisions. This sounds like a done deal.

Elsewhere, Calvin Evercreech is being spoken to by Mr. Hightower about implications that he had, in fact, tried to frame Stoker. Ribbonfin junior and senior prefects (and the Head Boy) as well as Calvin's roommates will be asked if they can vouch for his character or his whereabouts.

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This...may be the most that anyone has heard Cole talk at one time. When Mr. Hightower asks him whether or not he thinks Calvin tried to frame Sy, Cole is adamant that his friend didn't do it. Calvin told him that he didn't do it. Calvin wouldn't do something like this both because he's a good person that wouldn't hurt other people just to hurt Sy and because he wouldn't be this unwise when it could have real consequences for him. School and Quidditch and Dueling and being at Gooseberry are all too important to him. He also insists that he'd been awake the night that the Ribbonfin girls' cabin had been pranked and that Calvin had been there just like the rest of them. He'll show Mr. Hightower the painting he'd been working on at 3AM if Mr. Hightower doesn't believe him!! (That's not evidence, Cole.)

The boy is earnest and certain of his stance and gets a little worked up the longer the discussion goes on because the idea of Calvin getting in trouble because of Sy seems fundamentally unfair to him. Please don't let that happen, Mr. Hightower.