Gifts from Ariane Emory II -

( to Susan Foreman )

The Baron-

( From Vladimir to Valentine )

( I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me then a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. )

One moment Draco was running, Professor Snapes hand at his back, pushing him ahead, faster than he wished to go ( Read more... )

This is Hawthorn from Hogwarts Webchat just giving the heads up on my hiatus from the community. Real Life has gotten difficult with job opportunities and family issues, et cetera, et cetera. I understand that a lot of threads between my characters (China Sorrows, Finbar Wrong, Thaegan, Prandine, Hannah Cheshire, The Joker, Draco Malfoy and ( Read more... )

At one point, Kuronue would have been quite pleased to meet a demon with as much capacity for violence as Kuronue himself.

Now all he felt was disgust and that horrible sinking feeling in his gut that may also have been the fact that he was falling from the sky, forced from there by a cluster of evil little bombs that tittered back and forth ( Read more... )

((OOC: Backdated to the 22nd. Happy Birthday, Bad Fox! :D ))For all his efforts to the contrary, the school's congregation of House Elves had, once again, managed to trap him in the Great Hall with cake, party favors, and a stupid little party hat that one Elf kept trying to hang festively on one of his ears. He was amazed at his own restraint thus ( Read more... )

((After taking all the significant procedures, and with mod permission, I am unpopcorning Draco Malfoy. He'll have no prior knowledge of his time in Hogwarts Hocus; leaving him a fresh slate to be toyed with. He's taken right after the killing of Dumbledore in Half-Blood Prince.))

Hogwarts was ancient enough to have a pipe-work of catacombs ( Read more... )

Somehow, the novelty of magic that was so fresh and new in Draco's mind when he had started his career at Hogwarts had slowly been sucked out of him. He, as a true pure-blood citizen, was raised around magic and had seen some pretty impressive results from the wand ( Read more... )

Reassured by his recent conversation with the Potions Master, Morfin Jones (né Gaunt) decided it was time to spread a little sunshine around the school.

Using his very best glitter pens, he lettered a largish sheet of posterboard:
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