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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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6:05 safinnigan August 27 2006, 03:41:20 UTC

He’d offered to stay at Hog’s Head in Hogsmeade to tend bar and help out with the Carnival crowds. He’d wanted to stay there, or go back to The Leaky Cauldron and mind the bar there. Anything was preferable to going to the Ball at Hogwarts. No doubt Luna would be there. No doubt his already tender heart would be pained by it. He’d already visited Hogwarts once today, he really didn’t want to go again.

Aberforth, as he’d insisted Seamus call him, very nearly threw him out of the bar, saying the crowds were thin, and he’d tend his own bar in his own way and Seamus could hike himself off to Hogwarts or anywhere else for that matter until his shift the next day.

Reluctantly, Seamus changed into his dress robes and headed off towards the castle. He was determined to have a few drinks, dance with Lavender and leave ( ... )

Re: 6:05 mslavenderbrown August 27 2006, 04:10:55 UTC

She had come in early with Parvati. Seamus had claimed he'd show up, and she had been counting on it. After all, what was a ball without Seamus? First date and first snog, best barman she'd ever had. The welcoming speech had boggled her. What would that have meant? She'd have been sharing a dorm room with Parvati, Hermione... and Pansy, Padma, Millicent, Hannah, Susan... so many others. Would she had still been best friends with Parvati? Surely. Would she have still been sorted into Gryffindor? She didn't think she really went well anywhere ( ... )

Re: 6:05 bluemoon_loon August 27 2006, 04:27:11 UTC

Luna decided to attend the ball for two reasons. The first: to support Headmistress McGonagall, Hogwarts, and everyone who had helped to restore it. The second: ...

Well, there didn't seem to be a second reason.

So, it was for Hogwarts and Hogwarts alone that she attended, because really, Luna was in no mood for a party. Still, she'd found a nice dress and accompanied on her father's arm... which felt like quite a change. There should have been someone else there ( ... )

Re: 6:05 mslavenderbrown August 27 2006, 05:42:15 UTC

Lavender turned around. Luna Lovegood! Hexes and jinxes, it had been ages. Well, not really ages. Two years or so, when Lavender had graduated. "Hi, Luna," she said, even though Luna was speaking to Seamus. "Your dress is lovely!"

There was certainly a air of discomfort around, but Lavender had no idea why. She unconciously let her hand rest on Seamus' arm while sipping her drink. "What have you been up to?"

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6:05pm thelastgranger August 27 2006, 03:50:22 UTC

Hermione Granger was just fine.

She was healthy and she lived in her own home, with her own money. So of course, Hermione was happy as well and happy people didn’t avoid big social events. Because there was nothing wrong with her, she’d made the choice to separate herself from… Certain people, but that didn’t mean she would be avoiding social events, not at all. So she’d gone out and found the dress that was least like her. Standing in front of the mirror she’d hardly recognised herself in what had been made for her. It was still classic and classy but showed more skin and more curves than anything else she’d worn ( ... )

Re: 6:05pm m4moony August 27 2006, 05:28:15 UTC

If Minerva McGonagall could spend decades as Head of Gryffindor House wearing GREEN robes, there was no reason Remus Lupin needed to bother with a new set of dress robes, when his own gold-trimmed chocolate brown ones would do just fine. Or so he had told himself as he entered the Great Hall moments before the Headmistress' speech clad once more in the same robes he'd been wearing to these functions since war's end ( ... )

Re: 6:05pm thelastgranger August 27 2006, 05:48:08 UTC

Freedom had been so very close. She could feel the breeze coming from the door.

A warm hand wrapped around her wrist and she turned to him, a relief and calmness that had become almost unknown in her chest arrived as she recognised him.

Remus.There was no lies that she could tell to the honest face, no emotions she could hide while she was feeling so weak. But she had to build herself up, because harsh times called for harsh actions. Hermione could hide deep in the depths of her eyes, shielded by blush and potions and crammed deep inside a finely crafted black and white dress ( ... )

Re: 6:05pm m4moony August 27 2006, 20:51:23 UTC

If he had hoped the sense of unease he felt coming from the young woman would dissipate once she recognized him and gave him a clear view of her face, Remus was to be disappointed. She was trying. The lines of her face and the set of her jaw told him she was trying to put on a brave face for the world before fleeing to whatever sanctuary she hoped to find ( ... )

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19:15 [7:15 PM] forevernev August 27 2006, 06:07:37 UTC

Continued from here

Neville couldn't quite tell, but he thought that Luna was acting a bit odd. He'd only asked after Seamus because he knew they were friends and co-workers. It made complete sense to him at that moment, but now he wasn't so sure.

He shot a bewildered look at Lavender when she tried to speak to him behind her drink. Did she say to ask Luna to dance? That's what it sounded like, but in the festive din of the Great Hall, Neville didn't trust his ears. He still felt a bit worried about Luna, and she wasn't acting quite like herself. Neville knew that for certain.

"Um, Luna? Are you alright? You look a bit..." He paused, searching for the right, tactful word to say. "A bit off."

Re: 19:15 [7:15 PM] bluemoon_loon August 27 2006, 06:33:18 UTC

Luna quickly whipped her head to Lavender. Here was an emotional state that she didn't often reach: annoyance. It usually happened when she felt especially anxious or wary. When she felt she had to protect herself.

Times like now.

"Yes, a full hour ago," she said, shoulders and arms stiffening. If she were a cat, her fur might be standing on end. "I think that's long enough for one person to lose track of another, don't you? I'm not his keeper."

She didn't hear what Lavender whispered to Neville and didn't much care. But when Neville spoke to her she fixed him with a gaze that was too affected to be considered annoyed. It was just surprised... and hurt.

'A bit off'? He thought she was a bit off?Well... perhaps she was. But she didn't need it pointed out ( ... )

Re: 19:15 [7:15 PM] mslavenderbrown August 27 2006, 06:39:17 UTC

"But --" Lavender's eyes widened. What on earth had she done? "I didn't mean to say that you're his Keeper, just that you'd seen him -- I think Neville was just trying to start a conv ---"

And she was gone.

"Oh, Neville," she sighed, finishing her drink and putting the cup into a house elves' eager hand. "Hexes and jinxes, I gave you a whole list of adjectives. And you choose 'off.'" She closed her eyes and put her face in her hand. She didn't even care if her gesture of frustration made him uncomfortable right now. He had just gone and ruined something that could have been tame and interesting. If he did this with Luna Lovegood, who was supposed to be a friend of his -- Hexes and JINXES! he really needed a hufflepuff. The tamest Hufflepuff in the world. Someone who would peep out "yes'ms'" and "No'ms" to "Gran" and spend the rest of her time cultivating the earth with Neville ( ... )

Re: 19:15 [7:15 PM] forevernev August 28 2006, 03:44:30 UTC

After this little encounter, Neville hoped Lavender saw that he was absolutely hopeless with girls. What was wrong with Luna anyhow? She did look a bit off, a bit ill. She really wasn't her normal self. All Neville wanted to know was why.

Was it because of the changes concerning the Hogwarts houses? Or was she just not feeling well? Or had something happened to Seamus, and Luna worried for him? Too many questions, not enough answers, and Neville caught right in the middle. He wanted to do Lavender right by trying to follow her advice; they were Gryffindors together, after all, but...

"Well," Neville sighed. "What do ladies want to hear, then? I don't think most blokes know that. Seems to be the most difficult thing to suss out."

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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 ( ... )

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8:00pm nymphadorauror August 27 2006, 06:17:17 UTC

"It wasn’t my fault you asked me, today! I mean, sure I could have just said ‘no’, but I didn’t, so there you go."

Tonks gritted her teeth as she and Charlie wandered into the busy area, where dancing and party like conversations mingled hand in hand. With her left arm looped around Charlie’s arm, she squeezed at his forearm with her hand in playful meanness. Charlie had mentioned, as they walked in, that they were right on time, but it was evident that was not the case. Even if it was her fault that they were so late, that shouldn’t matter anyway.

What was worse than tardiness, was the dress she got stuck with on her wild goose case to find something for the dance, two hours before it was to start! That was not enough time for picky Tonks, who had set on finding a suit, and found the lavender dress instead. Shops in Diagon had been hit hard because of the event, so it was that or nothing. It was the only thing that fit her decently ( ... )

Re: 8:00pm charlie_weasel August 27 2006, 06:38:53 UTC

Charlie rolled his eyes at Tonks' complaints and arguments and grinned at her. He raised an eyebrow as she fussed- even more- with her skirts. She'd been doing it ever since she'd gotten into the thing and it was starting to grate on Charlie's nerves. It looked fine. And he'd told her so- but she wasn't listening. --Okay. So it was kind of funny-looking. But it didn't look bad or anything. Anyway, it matched her hair, so-- "Would you stop messing with your dress?" He asked nonchalantly with a smile- that widened wickedly at Tonks' pout.

He should be one upset, really. Not only was he dressed formally, he'd been forced to go shopping. "A drink, I think, is just what we need. --Ha." Charlie started to steer Tonks in a different direction- so they could look for the 'bar'. He laughed and appeared innocent. "I might be delighted."

Re: 8:00pm nymphadorauror August 27 2006, 07:32:24 UTC

Tonks tried to not trip over her feet, or Charlie's feet, as he wheeled them around and toward a table with loads of drinks and food. "Whoa..." Tonks had muttered, when she almost biffed it as they maneuvered around other people. She made sure to squeeze Charlie harder to let him know to take it easy. The drinks weren't going anywhere.

"Would you just let me whine, please?" She finally retorted when they stopped their weaving, and ended up at one table. Tonks sighed deeply and brushed back her straight purply hair. "You might get a bloody nose... how does that sound?" She gently elbowed him in the ribs, before slipping her arm away from his.

"You should be happy, and thankful I said yes. That's the least you could do."