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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Kurt's not sure what to say. He can't vouch for Calvin's whereabouts and he says as much. He's still rattled that a fistfight broke out in Ribbonfin but he tries to focus on the questions at hand. He may not be able to help Calvin with an alibi, but he does say that he doesn't think Calvin did it? Or, at least, if that's what Mr. Hightower is asking for? Kurt's visibly uncomfortable but also trying to push through it and do the prefectly thing.

He licks his lips, bites his bottom lip, takes a deep breath, and finally says what he doesn't want to say: he and Calvin had a bad relationship when the younger boy first transferred to Gooseberry. Calvin was unpleasant and combative, and, frankly, a bully. But! Butbutbutbutbut! It didn't even last the year. He believes Calvin's changed, and he's noticed the boy's attitude towards others changing as his and Calvin's stopped being antagonistic? He was even nice to Kurt when he didn't need to be last year, and in Kurt's books, that means a lot.

TL;DR: Thanks to Kurt's policy of all-honesty-all-the-time ~~and habit of nervous rambling~~ he says that Calvin used to be less of a nice person, but Kurt honestly thinks he's changed, and if Calvin was responsible for this prank he would be really, really, really, really, really, surprised. And really, really, really, disappointed. :(