A Teenage Heart is a Difficult Malady (S3E18)

A Teenage Heart is a Difficult Malady is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It aired on August 24, 2021.

## Synopsis

Clem and Masie are the first to arrive to the Great Hall for lunch on Monday. Rosie has been in the hospital wing. Clem isn't looking forward to dueling, but she's trying to put on a brave face. There's been a lot of anxiety among the students. Clem and Masie overhear students talking about being nervous about dueling. Masie runs to the bathroom. Olive arrives and she and Clem talk about dueling. Olive is hoping that she won't get a turn in dueling, that she could just sit in the corner. Masie returns from the bathroom. They ponder how students will get picked for dueling. Olive asks which spells they practiced. Clem says her backup plan is to use her fists. Olive says that's not the wizarding way. Clem asks what wizards do if they don't have a wand - die? Masie then spirals into a panic about dying or killing someone in dueling. Olive comes up with a plan, that whoever gets picked for dueling, the other two will take places on each side of the duel and get ready to cast backup spells. Clem and Olive do their best to comfort Masie. Olive proposes planning a fun thing for the night so they have something to look forward to, like a hot chocolate night. Alex arrives and notices that Masie is not okay. He tries to rub her back, but Masie scoots away. Olive tells Clem that weren't they going to go to the library. Masie feels like she's going to be sick. Alex gives her a drink to help. It's her favorite drink: fizzy milk. But this causes Masie to vomit. Clem gags as a reflex to seeing Masie vomit. Masie runs out of the Great Hall. Olive investigate Masie's vomit but notices nothing strange (not magically induced). Olive gives Clem a look and rushes after Masie. Clem misinterprets Olive's look to mean that Olive is mad at her and perhaps blames her for what happened to Masie. Barney arrives, having been looking for Alex. Barney confronts Alex for not going to class. Alex does not answer Barney's questions. Barney asks if Rosie is okay. Clem says Rosie just has a stomach bug. Barney asks Alex where he was. Alex doesn't answer and redirects the conversation by explaining what happened - that Masie got sick and Olive went to go take care of her. They talk about going to get fresh air or maybe going to the library because Alex thinks they might be under another curse, but they eventually decide to look for Masie in the girl's bathroom (with Alex and Barney waiting at an appropriate distance). Meanwhile, Masie is in the nearest bathroom. Olive is right behind her. Masie heaves into the toilet. Olive runs back to get water and a napkin. She runs into Clem and asks her for help. Clem asks if she's mad at her, but Olive clears it up: she meant Masie needs our help. Olive goes to the Great Hall. Clem goes to check on Masie. Clem offers to rub her back, but Masie shakes her head. Masie death grips Clem and starts to tell herself that nobody is going to die, and she's not going to kill anybody. Meanwhile, Olive runs into Alex and Barney. She asks them for a napkin and water. Alex gives her a napkin. Alex wonders if there was another rune. Olive tells Alex and Barney to check the table again. Alex wants to go with Olive and wait at an appropriate distance so he can give Masie a hug. He wants to make sure she feels better. Olive grabs water for Masie and returns to the bathroom. Masie is very fearful that someone will die. Olive offers to volunteer if Masie gets picked so Masie doesn't have to duel. Masie doesn't want to duel at all but feels that she has to because she wants to protect her friends. Olive reassures Masie that she doesn't have to do anything. She can choose. Olive confesses that there have been times where she hasn't been brave. Olive tells Masie that she can borrow some bravery from them. Masie appreciates the comfort but also says that bravery and friendship can't prevent mistakes, and she's seen what magic can do to people (referencing her time at St. Mungo's last year). Masie doesn't want to hurt anyone. Clem tells Masie that anyone can make a mistake and can accidentally hurt someone. Olive asks Clem if Muggles use whatever abilities they have to harm people. Clem says yes. Olive tells Masie it's not just magic that can hurt people. Olive says Masie doesn't have to participate in class, but encourages her not to avoid it entirely. Masie confesses that she doesn't want to be at Hogwarts, that the only reason why she's here is because of SWOFF. Olive proposes a pact that if one person leaves Hogwarts, all of SWOFF should leave. Olive doesn't want to be the reason Masie stays, and she says they could learn on their own, together. Masie says that she's afraid of SWOFF getting hurt and of her making things worse. She just wants SWOFF to be safe. Clem says she doesn't think Masie is less skilled than the rest of SWOFF. Olive gives Masie examples of how each person has strengths and weaknesses. Olive says that just because there's a mistake doesn't mean it's over. Masie gives Olive and Clem a big hug. Clem tells Masie that things can be okay after they're not okay. Clem says that she admires Masie so much and that she's one of the best people she knows. Masie denies that, and Olive and Clem start joking. Clem jokes that Masie still hasn't given them date details. Masie said that there was an explosion. Olive wonders if that's a normal date, but Masie says it's probably not, but it might be a metaphor. Meanwhile, Alex and Barney wait outside. Barney confronts Alex again about missing classes. Alex continues to not give Barney an answer and says he might've fallen asleep in a random place in the school. Alex and Barney try to figure out what made Masie and Clem sick. Masie, Clem, and Olive emerge from the bathroom. Alex offers Masie a hug, but she kindly declines. He also offers to cast a spell to help, but Masie also declines. Alex says that she can keep the napkin and that he'd been carrying around napkins for Masie since they started dating. Masie realizes that he'd been carrying it around for her just in case: his Masie napkin. Clem goes with Masie to help her change and freshen up back in the Gryffindor dormitory. Alex asks to talk with Olive and tries to get Barney to go visit Rosie, but Barney doesn't leave and tells Alex that he asked Rosie out after Alex left breakfast. Alex then asks Barney to check the table for runes. Barney asks Olive if he should visit Rosie. Olive says maybe give Rosie some more time and also encourages him to check the table for runes while she talks with Alex. Barney leaves. Alex asks if Olive and him were okay. Alex apologizes to Olive in the same way as this morning, and also asks her about his plan to setup Barney and Rosie. Olive asks Alex to walk and talk with her to the Headmistress's office because she has to talk to the Headmistress and doesn't want to go alone. Alex agrees to go with her. Alex asks Olive again about Masie, if she's okay. Olive says Masie is okay. Alex is afraid that there's a curse on her or him or both of them. Olive and Alex arrive at the Headmistress's office and Olive writes her name in the book and in parentheses "Emergency". The door opens and they enter. Olive asks Alex to wait so she can check if the Headmistress is okay if she brought him. Alex agrees. Olive sprints to the Headmistress. Olive whispers to Headmistress that something's wrong with Alex, that he seems to have been Obliviated maybe and tells her what she told Alex to get him to come with her here. Olive calls Alex in to join. She asks the Headmistress why she called her here. The Headmistress says that Auror Potter let her know that Olive felt fearful of the things going on at school and she wanted to make sure that she had put Olive's fears at ease. Olive says something she was worried about was the rune in the Great Hall that was like a Confundus charm. Olive asks what would be the appropriate steps to take if they did get affected by the rune. The Headmistress suggests finding a prefect, professor, or herself as the first step. She steps closer to Olive and Alex. Olive sees the Headmistress with her wand behind her back, casting a spell while looking at Alex. The Headmistress glances at Olive and shakes her head. Meanwhile, Alex is talking about disguised spells. The Headmistress explains the tell-tale signs of a Confundus charm: overall confusion, a bit more difficult to make out what's going on around them. Alex asks then how they could tell if Rosie was under a Confundus charm. The Headmistress says her friends should know. She continues to cast spells behind her back. Olive notices that the Headmistress is casting a Prior Incantato spell. She shakes her head at Olive again. The Headmistress asks if Alex is feeling well, and Alex says yes. The Headmistress sniffs Alex. She asks what Alex had for lunch, and Alex says he ate sausages. The Headmistress asks Alex to go to the hospital wing because she thinks he has ingested a potion. The Headmistress asks Olive to escort Alex to the hospital wing. The Headmistress tells Olive that she thinks Alex has ingested a Forgetfulness Potion. Olive takes Alex to the hospital wing, but Alex is confused why. Olive asks him to walk her through his day. He says he fell asleep on the viaduct, or woke up on the viaduct, and then went to what he thought was breakfast. He asks Olive if he's cursed. She says she doesn't know. Alex agrees that they should go to see Madam Pomfrey. Alex and Olive talk about how the Headmistress used to be a professor and they imagine what it would've been like to have her as a professor. Then they talk about what kind of grown-up job they might do in the future. Alex talks about how he might work at the Ministry. Olive thinks Clem would become a good author. Alex says Clem would also become a boxer. Olive thinks Masie would be the best Quidditch player of all time. Alex thinks Masie could do that. Alex worries that if Masie does Quidditch and he works for the Ministry, they wouldn't see each other as much, but Olive says he could get a Ministry job that travels, and he says that if he became an Auror, he could be one that escorts the Quidditch team. Alex worries that Madam Pomfrey might say that something is really wrong with him. Alex asks if something really wrong happened at breakfast because Barney told him he ran off that morning, but Alex thinks it is morning. Alex wonders if he time travelled. Olive reassures Alex that Madam Pomfrey will know. They enter the hospital wing. Rosie is in a bed with the covers pulled up as a bib, food trays surrounding her. Rosie offers Alex a cookie. Rosie feels okay but she says that other people don't want her to go to dueling class. Alex plays up Rosie not feeling well and Rosie goes along with it. Olive tells Madam Pomfrey that the Headmistress thinks Alex has ingested a Forgetfulness Potion. Madam Pomfrey confirms this because she sees mistletoe berries stuck in his teeth. Alex asks what happened at breakfast. Rosie says that Masie got mad at Alex. Olive can't remember what happened either. Madam Pomfrey checks her mouth, in case she also ingested a Forgetfulness Potion, but finds nothing. Rosie reminds Olive that Alex was trying to set up a double date. Olive suddenly remembers what happened and tells Alex that he was trying to set up Rosie with Barney but that he told Masie in a way that made her feel like he didn't want alone time with her and that he had to bring along someone more fun. She says it was a misunderstanding that got sorted out. Alex wonders why he ingested a Forgetfulness Potion. Olive says it's probably because Masie was upset. This makes Alex upset. Olive asks Alex if he would drink a Forgetfulness Potion if someone had offered it to him after knowing that Masie was upset. Alex says he can't stop thinking about hurting Masie and her feeling sad. Olive thinks that someone offered it to Alex to make him feel better. Olive says they know someone who has asked about him and Masie in the past and that they happen to be good at potions. Alex asks if Olive talked to Masie about it. Alex gets really upset with the way he acted earlier with Masie because he feels like he should've been apologizing or giving her apology flowers but instead he made her throw up. Olive does her best to comfort him. Alex worries that he took the Forgetfulness Potion himself to forget, and he worries about what Masie will think. Olive says they don't know that - it could've been in a cupcake or something that someone gave him to cheer him up. Alex realizes that they learned how to make Forgetfulness Potions in their first year and that Madam Pomfrey said he had only taken a little. He starts searching his pockets. He doesn't find a potion on him. Alex wonders if Madam Pomfrey is going to make him remember. Olive asks if he wants to remember. Alex doesn't know. He wants Masie to be there but also not because he doesn't want to hurt her more. Olive assures him that he couldn't hurt Masie more and that Masie would want to hear how he's honestly doing. Alex worries that he's going to hurt her again and/or that Masie won't want to be together with him anymore. Olive tells him that Masie likes him very, very much. Olive says that, from what she's seen, we can't prevent hurting each other because we're human and we make mistakes. Alex asks to nap and Madam Pomfrey says he can nap and drink pumpkin juice. Alex asks Olive to check on Masie. Olive asks Madam Pomfrey to watch him. She assures Olive that she'll watch over him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Wacksteven - Headmaster of Doom
* Helloitskolo - Masie Skyler
* Mirggles - Clementine Goosanders
* Negaoryx - Olive Everglade
* Zcotticus - Alexander Pippin

## Characters

* Clementine Goosanders
* Masie Skyler
* Olive Everglade
* Alexander Pippin
* Barney Dogwood
* Headmistress McGonagall
* Harry Potter (mentioned)
* Rosalina Earthcloud
* Madam Pomfrey

## Trait Changes

* Masie: None
* Clementine: Skeptical moved down from being the top trait
* Olive: None
* Alexander: None

## Relationships

* Masie: +1 Alex
* Clementine: +1 Olive
* Olive: +1 Masie
* Alexander: +1 Olive

## House Points

### Players

* Masie: +10 points, rolled 10
* Clementine: +5 points, rolled 9
* Olive: +5 points, rolled 9
* Alexander: +10 points, rolled 12
* Cornelia: +5 points, rolled 8

### Total

* Gryffindor: 310
* Hufflepuff: 160
* Ravenclaw: 220
* Slytherin: 200

## Downtime Moves

* Masie: Job (2d6), 11 (Galleons), split with Rosie (5 for Masie, 6 for Rosie)
* Clementine: Studying (Mind), 5 (fail)
* Olive: Job (2d6), 5 (Galleons)
* Alexander: Job (2d6), 11 (Galleons)

## Fun Facts

* LuxieGames was absent for this episode.
* Rosalina was portrayed by Wacksteven