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HOGWARTS GRAND OPENING BALL

Aug 26, 2006 00:43

Date: Saturday, 26 August
Time: 6:00 p.m. to Midnight
Place: Hogwarts Great Hall and Grounds
Characters Involved: Everyone! Don't forget to add your character's tag if you join the thread!
Rating: Hopefully not more than PG-13 - this is a public location, folks! Take your libidos 'home' for higher-rated stuff please! *grin*

( But first, before the dancing could begin, the Headmistress would address the crowd. )

character: oliver wood, character: juneau connors, character: luna lovegood, character: perry derrick, character: nymphadora tonks, character: draco malfoy, character: katie bell, status: complete, character: hermione granger, character: charlotte aurelius, character: severus snape, character: pansy parkinson, character: harry potter, event: carnival, character: remus lupin, character: minerva mcgonagall, location: hogwarts, character: neville longbottom, character: lavender brown, event: hogwarts, character: charlie weasley, character: millicent bulstrode-morsus, character: hannah abbott, character: stella sinistra, character: parvati patil, status: open, character: marcus flint, character: seamus finnigan

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6:00 PM lioninthegarden August 27 2006, 06:12:57 UTC

Katie was dressed in a gown that was the color of snow with sparkles here and there. The ball was, as Hogwarts balls always were, lovely. The hall was immaculate and the guests milled around as they had done for years and decades before that. She heard the proclaimation and raised an eyebrow, wondering how it was to work for each student to be in a house, they wouldn't find a house to call home until they were 5th years? That seemed strange to her. She thought that each house fostered their own abilities, wasn't it going against what the founders of the school had originally wanted ( ... )

Re: 6:00 PM subtle_simmer August 27 2006, 20:35:07 UTC

The Headmistress' speech over, Severus now rose from his seat and began the other portion of his self-appointed 'duty' - he began to wander through the room, watching the crowd. As was his habit, he stuck to the wall when he could, or near shadows cast by the decorations when he could not, lurking unobtrusively.

He held himself rigidly straight, shoulders proudly squared - he was Head of Slytherin House and owed no one here any particular deference.

"Good evening, Miss Bell," Severus greeted politely as she passed by the area he was presently standing. "I understand you have organised the Exhibition Game? Quite an undertaking, I am certain."

Re: 6:00 PM lioninthegarden August 28 2006, 05:31:00 UTC

Katie turned from the refreshment table and saw Severus Snape sitting there. Order member or not, Katie still didn't trust the man farther then she could slide him on that greasy head of his. "Professor Snape." she said with a small smile, though mentally she was thinking that he was a bug that needed to be squashed.

"You are quite correct, far more work then I originally anticipated, but ticket sales and the money that it will gain for the school makes it more then worth the hard work. In addition, Quidditch can use the good press." she added, "I hope that I will see you there, somewhere Professor. Rumor has it that you yourself will be heading Slytherin house again. I suppose congratulations are in order."

Re: 6:00 PM subtle_simmer August 28 2006, 05:50:00 UTC

Contrary to the belief of some people, Severus did not go around actively using Legilimency on anyone, though he did maintain his Occlumency at all times.

He didn't hesitate to use Legilimency when he felt the situation warranted it, of course, such as when he felt his life was in danger or he was being lied to by a miscreant student or the like.

However, his line of work had necessitated him being very adept at 'reading' people - sometimes his very life had hung on his ability to read a mood, a look, to know when a hex was coming his way.

He needed no Legilimency now. It was impossible to miss the brief look of disgust or distrust or whatever it was that passed Miss Bell's expression before she concealed it. Clearly Mr Wagtail's efforts at improving his 'look' carried little weight with most people - as Severus had expected. A change of shampoo, a haircut, and a teeth-whitening charm did not change the fact that he was a sadistic bastard most of the time - nor that he enjoyed that reputation far too much to try to spoil it ( ... )

Re: 6:00 PM lioninthegarden August 28 2006, 05:58:25 UTC

"Rumor also has it that sometimes you pass for a decent human being, Mister Snape." she replied with a dry disdain in response to Snape's mockery.

She wasn't a student anymore. She wasn't afraid of him. She knew very well that he knew very well what position she played and on what team she played as well. If it was one thing that Severus Snape was not, it was uninformed. She sipped her Pumpkin juice, "All of what we've done is for the betterment of the school. The money we've raised with tickets and such will go directly to the funds for the library, the Quidditch program and the school at large."

Katie was not a little girl anymore that needed to be afraid of Snape as a professor. He couldn't fail her, he couldn't get her kicked out. He couldn't do a damn thing to her and she still didn't believe that a leopard ever changed his spots. The same with a snake changing its slime.

She was afterall a Gryffindor through and through. He was a Slytherin, just as much.

Re: 6:00 PM subtle_simmer August 28 2006, 06:17:17 UTC

Severus flushed angrily, though he fought to keep his temper under control.

"That is Professor Snape, Ms Bell," he sneered, deliberately altering the mode of address which he gave to her to 'Ms' - a title that was given some false status of respect in America, but which the English viewed as a label for loose women or lesbians. If she was going to disrespect him, here, in this school, he owed her no further attempt at civility.

"Such rumours about me must ought never to be believed - anyone mistaking me for a decent man would be likely to fall under the equally erroneous presumption that a Gryffindor can behave with respect or politeness.

"Good day."

With that, he gave her a very mocking bow and turned on his heel and swept away, his green silk robes snapping around his legs.

Re: 6:00 PM lioninthegarden August 28 2006, 06:38:50 UTC

He hadn't deserved to be called Professor since she had graduated. She didn't respect him as one. That was for damn sure.

"Ruddy slimeball." she said as he left, not giving a care if he heard her or not. She hated Severus Snape. He had made her school years entirely miserable and he was nothing more then a snake in sheep's clothing.

She got herself a piece of fruit to nibble on before she turned away from the refreshment table and wandered towards the dance floor, perhaps she had not been polite, but Severus Snape deserved no civil manners.

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