The Key (S1E11)

The Key is the eleventh episode of the first season of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It aired on January 21, 2020.

## Synopsis

After Rosie’s inspirational speech, Masie asks Professor Binns who was involved in the vanishing of the Vanished Wing. Professor Binns says that the books have no information about who may have vanished the Vanished Wing. Rosie becomes distraught. Olive suggests changing tactics and trying to figure out how to get the ghost boy to come back instead of running around searching for information. They thank Professor Binns, who reminds them to do their homework. Alex asks Olive where she’s seen the ghost boy. Olive says that she saw him in the hospital wing, the library, and outside. Olive suggests trying to figure out how to summon a ghost. Clem worries about getting in trouble for continuing to investigate. Olive and Rosie say that they could earn a bunch of house points by solving the mystery. Alex says that they should continue to investigate because he thinks the Shade wants to eat the ghost boy. Olive looks distraught. Rosie covers Olive’s ears and explains that they shouldn’t talk about the ghost boy dying because Olive has a crush on him. She removes her hands from Olive’s ears just as Clem reacts with surprise at Olive’s crush on the ghost boy. Olive gets upset at Rosie for revealing her secret. Clem argues that the ghost boy is already dead. Alex suggests going to the library to research more about how to get rid of Shades. Clem wonders if the Shade vanished the Vanished Wing and is now trying to vanish the rest of Hogwarts. Clem wonders if there are more wings that have vanished. Alex says that they should also check the other side of the wall that they were looking at the other day. Masie suddenly asks for the time and starts panicking because she realizes that has Quidditch practice. They tell her to go, but she doesn’t want to leave them. They convince her that she can do aerial surveillance while up in the air on her broom. Rosie gives Masie a scoop of cold mashed potatoes before Masie leaves. They head toward the library to look up books on Shades and ghost summoning. The library is fairly crowded with students, since it’s a Sunday. They take a while to find a free table. It’s short a few chairs, but it’s their best option, so they take it. Alex decides to look for books on Shades. Olive decides to ask Madam Pince to help her find books on how to summon or find ghosts. Rosie stays at the table so she can stay out of trouble since Madam Pince already doesn’t like her. Alex suggests looking for books on magical music boxes. Clem decides to look for books on the Dark Creatures class. Clem discovers that the Dark Creatures class was last taught by Professor Adolphus Nightingale, and it was about creatures that had ill intent and sought to cause harm to witches and wizards. The purpose of the Dark Creatures class was to learn information about these creatures, and this class worked in conjunction with the Defense against the Dark Arts class. Olive discovers that it’s possible to summon a ghost and that there is an elective class for 6th and 7th years at Hogwarts on Ancient Studies taught by Professor Field Mandrake and a class on Ghoul Studies taught by Professor Azolea Bovin. Alex is directed by Madam Pince to books on Shades and finds the same information that he’s read before. As he reads, he gets a sense that there should be more information, or more books, available. Madam Pince agrees and starts getting upset, suspecting that perhaps a student managed to get past the ward and took a book from the library. Madam Pince makes an announcement to everyone in the library that taking a book from the library is a serious offense and that if anyone did so, the headmistress will know. Alex assumes that there are more books in the Restricted Section, but he doesn’t have special permission to enter, and he doesn’t want to ask any of the older students around, so he returns to the table. Alex finds Rosie reaching into her pocket and then slapping her own hand away from her pocket, trying to resist the urge to eat the food in her pockets. Rosie’s stomach growls. Alex and Rosie discuss the missing book that Madam Pince made an announcement about. Rosie is super hungry, so she asks Alex for a bean, but he says if she gets really desperate, then maybe he’ll give her a bean. Clem and Olive return to the table. Clem tells them about the Dark Creatures professor, Adolphus Nightingale. Lily leaves to finish her homework but asks them to let her know what happens. Olive tells them what she discovered and suggests that they talk to Professor Bovin. They arrive at the Great Hall and start eating dinner. Looking around, Olive notices Raye Cappernay in the Great Hall. Olive walks over and approaches Raye. Olive asks Raye if she woke up in the hospital wing with any possessions or belongings that weren’t theirs. Raye drops her fork, gets up immediately, and grabs Olive by the shoulders, looking terrified. Raye asks Olive what she knows. Olive asks her to answer her question first, and she says that she also was compelled. Raye asks Olive to follow her. Raye leads Olive away from the tables and asks how Olive knew she had something. Olive says it happened to her, so she figured it might have happened to Raye too. Olive tells Raye that maybe by looking at what items they were compelled to interact with might reveal why it happened. Raye takes out a key from her pocket and shows Olive. Olive asks to borrow the key so she can figure out what happened to them. Raye gives Olive the key but says that she wants it back soon. Olive promises to do so. Raye asks if Olive still hears it. Olive says she hears it more often than she’d like. Raye says she hears it whenever she touches the key. Olive takes the key and starts to hear the music box melody. Olive suddenly starts to see the shadows along the wall growing taller and larger. The room seems to dim. Olive hears a voice say, “You will tell me where the boy is. Where is he?” Olive feels a compulsion to answer. Olive pictures the ghost boy she met before. The voice asks Olive where she last saw him. Olive says that she saw him outside on the Hogwarts grounds. The shadows start to shrink. Olive feels a little cold, and suddenly, she doesn’t remember what just happened. Olive puts the key in her pocket and returns to her friends. Olive tells them about the key. Alex suggests passing the key around so they can all look at it, but Olive refuses because she felt strange when she touched the key, and she’s worried that if they all touch it, something might happen to all of them. Rosie wonders if the key opens the Vanished Wing. Clem wonders if the ghost boy stays around the area of the Vanished Wing. Clem also wonders if there’s a ghost wing that’s in another dimension. Lily, Masie, and Barney are missing at dinner, possibly because they’re trying to finish up their homework. They start to plan their investigation. Rosie offers to prepare food. Clem offers to bring map making supplies. Alex says that they’re just going to look at a wall. Olive argues that they might find a magical door that leads to the Vanished Wing, which they might get stuck in. Olive suggests asking Lily if she has any Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes that might help. Alex says that they’re mainly for pranks, not for adventuring. Clem offers to bring Moss to help them. Olive suggests going back to their dormitories to gather supplies and change into sneaky outfits. Alex says they can meet at the greenhouses. Clem says they have to make sure to make it back for curfew. Alex agrees and says that they’re probably being watched. They all suddenly look around. Olive notices that Raye is glancing their way, looking a little worried. Alex theorizes that the key might be the key to the music box and that the two might be connected, so he tells Olive to pay attention to the key, to see if it starts getting hot or cold or vibrating, etc. because that might indicate that the music box is near. Alex suggests meeting at the courtyard instead of the greenhouses, to be safe. They all go back to their dormitories.

Rosie arrives at the Hufflepuff common room and finds Bucket in her usual spot, playing with the ring on the barrel and munching on a grape tomato. Rosie gives Bucket some pocket mash. Bucket scoops it up and puts it into her pouch. Rosie heads to her bed. She grabs Sweet Pea and heads back out, having already gathered snacks for everyone from the Great Hall. In one of her pocket mash pockets, Rosie finds Bucket burrowing into her pocket mash. Rosie decides to bring Bucket on the adventure. She introduces Bucket to Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea jumps into a different pocket mash pocket. Rosie heads out to meet up with everyone else.

Meanwhile, Clem and Olive arrive at the Gryffindor common room. Clem grabs Moss and places him over her shoulders. She also grabs her map making supplies and puts them in a bag. Olive walks over to Thimble and drops some food. Olive looks for Lily and Masie in the common room but doesn’t see them. Olive grabs a scrap of parchment and writes a note for Masie to tuck into her bed that says, “Headed to investigate for SWOFF at the place where you climbed.” She checks with Clem, who suggests not mentioning the word “investigate.” Olive scratches out her note and instead writes, “SWOFF homework. You climbed there.” She folds the note and tucks it under the covers of Masie’s bed. Olive changes into cargo pants, long sleeve turtleneck, and sneakers to try to look like an international spy. Clem also changes into something spy-like and suggests that they need to have a mask that only has the eyes uncovered. Olive tells Clem a secret: that she took some of her mum’s makeup and brought it to Hogwarts. Olive rushes over and grabs her mum’s black lipstick that she brought from home. She demonstrates to Clem how to put it on, smearing it under her eyes and then rubbing it onto her cheeks. Olive asks Clem if she wants some. Clem asks to do it herself, and she just draws two dark lines under her eyes. They look for black socks to wear as masks but decide to use tights instead. Olive brings extra tights for the others. As Olive and Clem walk out, they fail to notice the strange looks that they’re getting for their dormmates.

Meanwhile, Alex arrives at his dormitory. He taps his pocket for his wand and then his pocket for his beans, and decides that’s all he needs. On his way out, a few students approach him. One of them, Clark Bitterwood, compliments Alex on getting house points and asks what he did. Alex explains that he told the headmistress about an incident that happened. Clark says that if Alex ever happens to come across some twigs from the Whomping Willow lying around, he would appreciate having them to give to his mums, who make brooms, and would pay Alex for them. Another student approaches Alex and compliments him on getting house points. Alex recognizes her as Evania. On his way out the door, Alex runs into another student, Cyril, who almost bumps into him. Cyril apologizes as he tucks some books away. Alex notices that he’s smuggling cornflake cereal into the common room. Alex also sees that the books are some kind of witches’ romance novels. Alex tries to continue the conversation, but Cyril rushes past. Alex heads to the courtyard to meet up with everyone else.

As night falls, the group meets back up. Rosie notices the makeup on Clem and Olive’s faces. Rosie requests for makeup on her elbows. Alex says that the makeup makes them look suspicious. Clem introduces Moss to everyone. Rosie opens her robes and looks for Bucket so that she can introduce her to everyone, but Bucket is missing. Alex suggests that they start making their way toward the greenhouses to investigate. Clem and Olive try to stealth around like spies. Alex walks normally. Olive collides with a suit of armor near one of the doorways, and it comes down with a crash. Moss gets super spooked and yelps. Olive panics and kicks off the suit of armor. Then, realizing what happened, she apologizes. She rebuilds the suit of armor as best as she can. Several students and faculty around them stare at Olive. Olive says that they’re practicing performance theater. Olive breaks into interpretive dance as she inches away. Clem and Rosie support Olive by also dancing. Alex supports by looking impressed and nodding a lot. Once they’re out of view, Olive pulls the stocking off her head and tucks it into her cloak, embarrassed by what happened. Alex asks Olive to check the key to see if it’s doing anything strange. Olive pats the outside of the top pocket of her robes as discreetly as possible to see if she can feel anything strange about the key. At this point, she notices that the key is missing. Olive runs back to the suit of armor and searches for the key. Alex casts Lumos to help Olive search for the key. Rosie accidentally kicks some of the armor and it collapses again, making a big mess. Clem notices Bucket grabbing a little piece of armor. She sees part of the key sticking up from her pouch. Rosie tries to convince Bucket to trade the key for some pocket mash. Olive notices a hole in her pocket and starts to panic and cry. Clem rushes over to tell her that they found the key. Olive sees the gauntlet of the armor moving around and thinks that the ghost is possessing it. Rosie tells Olive that the niffler is inside the gauntlet and it has the key. Clem takes out her smartphone and waves it in front of the gauntlet to lure Bucket out. The gauntlet hops over to Clem and is thrown off by Bucket, who grabs onto Clem’s phone. Olive casts Accio on the key, but it slips into Bucket’s pouch right before her spell can grab it. Olive becomes upset. She turns around to get her anger out but accidentally slips on a piece of armor that’s on the floor and injures herself, causing her more frustration and embarrassment. Olive starts to cry. Rosie pulls out pocket mash from the left side of her cloak (since Bucket ate all of the pocket mash from the right side of her cloak, leaving only an upset Sweet Pea) and distracts Bucket with the pocket mash while she reaches inside of her pouch to try to take the key. Unfortunately, Rosie can’t find the key. Alex offers to help by casting either Wingardium Leviosa or Petrificus Totalus on Bucket. Rosie and Olive immediately reject Petrificus Totalus, so Alex casts Wingardium Leviosa on Bucket. Alex accidentally lifts a piece of the armor and hits Rosie’s head. Instead of lifting up Bucket, Alex accidentally lifts up Clem’s phone. Alex does his best to lower the phone. It drops quickly, like a plane would drop during turbulence. Alex’s spell loses control of the phone, and it starts plummeting down. Clem tries to catch it, but it flies right through her fingers and lands on her face. Bucket lands on her face as well and starts climbing down her body. Moss chases after Bucket. Alex casts Petrificus Totalus at Bucket, accidentally hitting Rosie as well. Bucket freezes. Alex quickly runs over to Bucket, but then stops when he sees that Bucket is at the feet of his father. Professor Pinescrew picks up Bucket and asks Alex what he’s doing and why he’s causing trouble. Alex explains that they were just playing around to unwind from their first week of school, and he tells his dad that he got 30 points for Ravenclaw. Alex says that they can take care of Bucket and explains that they didn’t know how to put a suit of armor back together. Professor Pinescrew casts a spell to repair the suit of armor and to un-petrify Bucket. He tells them to go back to their dormitories. He gives Bucket to Rosie. Olive apologizes. Professor Pinescrew takes 10 house points from each of them. Alex storms off back to Ravenclaw Tower, feeling turmoil, angry, frustrated, upset, and unhappy. Clem becomes enraged. Rosie tries to get the key from Bucket. Olive panics because she doesn’t want anyone else to touch the key for their own safety, so she rushes over and tries to push her arm back in fear. Rosie falls and smacks her knee on the ground. She tumbles, clutching Bucket in her arms. Rosie manages to get the key from Bucket. Olive apologizes profusely. Rosie asks for mash. Clem grabs the mash from Rosie’s pockets and feeds it to Rosie. As she holds the key, Rosie thinks she hears something, but chalks it up to all the craziness that’s been happening. Rosie gives Olive the key. Olive holds out her arms to hug Rosie, who hugs back. Olive motions for Clem to join the hug, which she does. They talk about whether or not to catch up to Alex to make sure he’s okay. Clem runs to catch up with Alex and tries to comfort him by putting Moss in his arms. Alex gets a little angry at Clem for not leaving him alone when he asked her to. Alex shoves Moss back into Clem’s arms and takes off.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Wacksteven - Headmaster of Doom
* LuxieGames - Rosalina Earthcloud
* Mirggles - Clementine Goosanders
* Negaoryx - Olive Everglade
* Zcotticus - Alexander Pippin

## Characters

* Rosalina Earthcloud
* Clementine Goosanders
* Olive Everglade
* Alexander Pippin

## Relationships

* Rosalina: +1 Olive
* Clementine: -1 Alexander
* Olive: +1 Clem
* Alexander: -1 Olive

## House Points

### Players

* Rosalina: +5 points, rolled 7
* Clementine: +5 points, rolled 8
* Olive: +10 points, rolled 11
* Alexander: +10 points, rolled 10

### Total

* Gryffindor: 67
* Hufflepuff: 15
* Ravenclaw: 80
* Slytherin: 35

## Downtime Moves

* Rosalina: Social Activities (Heart), 8 (partial success)
* Clementine: Studying (Mind), 9 (partial success)
* Olive: Studying (Mind), 10 (success)
* Alexander: Spellcasting (Magic), 13 (success)

## Quotes

* Olive: Um, the boy came to me - Rosie: In your dreams? [*Olive lightly elbows Rosie*] Clem: Wait, am I missing something still?
* Lily: What’s a Swoffle look like? Rosie: It’s a waffle, but it has SWOFF written on it.
* Rosie: I’m just gonna sit here and filter feed, okay? Alex: You got this...Okay.
* Olive: A mephorical br - metaphorical, metaphorical bridge. Rosie: [*nods*] A metamorphosis bridge. Olive: Yes. Not a real bridge, but we’ll see what to do about that if it happens.
* Olive: People are gonna be onto us soon. SWOFF is making moves, you know?
* Rosie: (to Sweet Pea) You are coming with me. You’re very needed, just in case i get trapped into another dimension forever, and I’m gonna need you for company mostly. [*kisses Sweet Pea and puts her on her shoulder*] And you stay there. What else? Sweet Pea: [*croaks*] Rosie: Oh, it’s gonna be fine. Don’t say that.
* Luxie: She just needed snacks, and she stole them all from the Great Hall...Stealing is maybe the wrong word.
* Luxie: Can I ask Bucket a question? Can I read between Bucket’s lines? Wack: [*laughs*] Sure. Luxie: I wanna know if Bucket wants to go on this adventure, but I don’t want to take Bucket against its will. Wack: Sure, try and read between the lines. Luxie: [*rolls a 10*] Me and Bucket are on the same page. Wack: You share a brain.
* Wack: Bucket sees you as a means to pocket mash. Luxie: Fair and valid. That’s all I needed.
* Olive: Just practicing some performance theater. Clem: Yeah, we’re recreating a Billie Eilish music video. Anyone seen it?
* Clem: The bucket took it! The bucket took it! Olive: You put it in a bucket, what? Clem: Yeah, the bucket. The small bucket...creature. The small bucket creature has it. It’s just over there. It’s all good. You didn’t lose it.
* Rosie: Holy Wizards of Waverly Place! Be careful!
* Luxie: So excited about Bucket, and Bucket just betrayed me! Wack: Bucket did what Bucket does! Luxie: It hurts my heart!

## Fun Facts

* Helloitskolo was absent this episode.
* Masie was portrayed by Wacksteven.

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/M2eUOdX7VnA?list=PLreNnYE4Fc5wzfFJSeHEEzmruEAThLfdK&t=969
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