Which, the mun decided, took place on the 11th, so as not to interfere with the sex bomb plot ( Read more... )

((I am cheating and taking McKenna from way, way before any of the events of Angels and Demons, so there are no spoilers or bits that made me want to tear my hair out.The newest member of Hogwarts was young for a priest, not even forty. Dressed in a flowing black cassock, he seemed like a silhouette save for the white clerical collar. The stone ( Read more... )

((Since Michael does need to meet some people... Here he is!))

Since Hogwarts was the type of school that saw teaching as more or less optional, while some of its students were of the studying kind, the library was a frequently frequented place. Michael wished he had the time to assist each and every student personally, but his... other line of work ( Read more... )

So, it's that time of year when chocolate bunnies remind us that the Romans killed this guy and he didn't oblige them by staying dead. Inconvenient for the Romans, rather important to many others ( Read more... )

A house elf brings a carved ivory figurine of an ox to Maia's room, along with an accompanying note:I refuse to wish anyone a merry Christmas. The notion of this holiday I find appalling as the religion that spawned it. It disgraces the commemoration of the Larentalia, a serious occasion ( Read more... )

The Sorting Hat had been dabbling in way too many fringe philosophies. (Neo-Rosicrucianism? Really, Sorting Hat?) It seemed that puppet!Ron Weasley's name for it, Sorting Hat the Wise, had gone to the Hat's lack-of-visible-head ( Read more... )

You ever get that thing, sometimes, where you know you have to be somewhere? Not in that crappy novel-you-packed-for-the-hols way, where the hero's all 'I just...knew' when asked some question by the stupid heroine why he was there when she was about to be eaten by a shark, but when something's almost pulling you irresistabl--right, no, of course ( Read more... )

 Is it possible to be so bored you die?  No ( Read more... )

Pleased to learn that a new Astronomy professor had been appointed, Dumbledore dashed off a quick invitation to Bean, identical to the invitations he had sent the other members of the Hogwarts faculty. Then he toddled off to the staff lounge in his best high-heeled boots. Time to ready the room for his tea party ( Read more... )

Severus' return made Dumbledore both glad and a bit concerned. Things were so different here than the Hogwarts he and Snape had shared. Acclimation would surely not be easy for the former Potions Master. Having secured a faculty position would help somewhat, yet so many of the faculty were not from the wizarding world ( Read more... )