[OOM: St. Mungo's Center for Magical Creature. Sub-basement.]

"This is amazing. I've never seen anything like this before."

"It gets that a lot."

"Yeah, I'll bet. I've never seen incantations like these before. And there's this weird sort of animal resonance going on right...around...there. There it is, do you see it?"

"Yes, but that doesn't make any sense as there are no other secondary or tertiary indicators of any sort of latent shape shifting ability."

"Could have been transfigured? Though I'd hate to meet the one with the power to do something like this. The arithmancy alone...you could carpet the entire Mid-West with the scratch sheets alone!"

"Uh...yes, that's exactly what I was thinking."

"Aww, lookit you pretending to understand me. You people are always so damn polite, it's cute."

"Humph."

"Heh, anyway, where's that charm you said you got off of him."

"Over here. We know it's an Egyptian symbol, but every time we try to scan it, it's like..."

"Cold iron. But....it's silver, and yet it's devoid of magic in a way that could only be magical. Woah! Did you see that?"

"See what?"

"The spells, it's almost like the spells relaxed when it was brought closer. WOW!"

"What? What do you see?"

"There's a...it's beautiful. Here...hold this. I want to get a closer look at that."

"Oop, I suppose...but, what are we looking at?"

"Right...over...here. There's a ball of, it's almost like energy, embedded in the coils around him. It...it's fantastic."

*rrrrrrrrrrrrr*

"Do you hear that?"

"Shh, I've almost got it."

*grrrrrrrrrrr*

"I don't think you...it sounds like..."

"Come on...just a little bit more. Show momma what you've got..."

*GRAAHHHH*

"Bloody hell and Nora!"

"GET IT OFF OF ME! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!"

"STUPEFY!"

"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL TOOK YOU SO LONG! THAT...THAT THING COULD HAVE RIPPED MY THROAT OUT!"

"I...I'm sorry. It's never done that before. Ever. I...oh dear Merlin, are you all right?"

"Do I look like I'm all right? Do I sound like I'm all right?"