Yer a Slippery Buggar, Ain't Ya?

"Guys! Guys, I'm stuck!"

Eddie's ears perked up as Ezra and him began their race toward the briar patch. "Don't worry little fella! We're coming to bust you out of there!" As the two ravenclaw students closed the distance between them and their distraught friend, it occurred to Eddie that for three kids from a house that was supposed to favour the most intelligent in the school, the group of them were always getting into the stupidest situations. Whether it was leopard landings or spider spawners or frog fortresses, they were always getting into trouble, of the silly, only slightly dangerous, sort. Maybe that was what attracted Ed to the two of them in the first place. They were both a little crazy- like him.

Eddie watched Ezzie reach over the thorny branches and take the little frog from Ben. Compared to both the new frog Eddie was coddling, and Jeremiah back in their dorm, this frog was tiny! And, considering how late in the year it was, it must have been full grown which lead Ed to the conclusion that the frog was, from what his studies on pond frogs of the United Kingdom told him, male, and that, more than likely, he himself had managed to find another female pet. "Awwwwww! You got a boy frog! How come you get all the luck!"

"Hey Eddie, you mind helping him outta that?"

"Yeah!" he smiled, now that the crisis was over, and fumbled to squeeze his frog in one hand while he routed around in his large pant pockets for his wand.

" Then we'll get out of here and get him warmed up. I'm thinking some hot soup and a lot of time by the fire in the common room."

"Oooooooh! That sounds amazing!" he purred, realizing how freezing his fingers and lower legs were from being in the water earlier on. He could only imagine how stiff and cold poor Benjamin must have felt, though he had wandered off from the fire on his own accord, so he couldn't be that bad. He finally managed to get his frost bitten fingers around his plain old wand and pulled it out of his pocket to stare over the situation. What was he supposed to do to get him out of there? What was the best potion in this situation? His brain ran like a text book, flipping from one page to another, listing out his arsenal of spell until he had found a few that might be useful. Filtering out more, he eventually found his best bet, and, with a shrug, ran with the idea.

"Diffindo!" He ran his wand tip in a straight line, cutting away branches and thorns in steady, clean movements to work at freeing up his friend. After a short time of accurate work, a path had been cut in the bramble, and Benji was free to move forward. "Yay!! Soup time!" Eddie sang, coming over to meet his friend half way and throw his arm around his icicle of a friend.

He lead the troop of adventurers, now two members bigger than it had been when they set out, back up to the school, stepping out into the exposed expanse of lawn with a shiver. he held Benji's body closer to him, making sure to break the wind for their poor, half frozen friend.

"Thought about what you're gonna name your frog?" Eddie asked with a smile, looking over his own and putting his other arm around Ezra, keeping them all close on their march back through the snowy field. "Seeing as you don't need the frog I caught now, I was thinking of keeping mine and naming it Silvia... Or Lydia the Tattooed Lady.... or..." He smiled, bobbing the frog along in front of Ezra's face as he talked, "I could always let Ezzie take care of it, seeing as she's the only one without a frog at this point..."