Official Search Tent Headquarters

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Date: Sunday, 12 November
Time: Set up by 7:00 a.m., will remain at the Wood's residence until Winifred is found.
Place: Set up just outside the Wood's cottage
Characters Involved: Anyone and Everyone who wishes to participate

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[lioninthegarden]

Keeping hope was something that was important. She had called in some of her players, Larson and Gristian, who grumbbled about the early morning wake up call, but she trusted that they could search better of brooms while others searched on the grounds. She had called on the Harpies as well for their help, Beverley had shown up just before they had all gone to the search tent.

Winifred Wood was a very important little girl to her, even if Winifred, like her mother, didn't care too much for Katie. It was Oliver's child and Oliver was her best friend. Larson and Gristian were also seventh years, thus if they were sent to search the Forbidden Forest, they would have the sufficient defense capabilities, plus she would be with them.

She reported in that she and the other three were there with the support of their brooms to search for Winifred, worried silly about how Oliver was handling all of this.

[boutwellbeauty]

After an hour of searching in the forbidden forest with Larson and Gristain, Beverley insisted that they go back to check in with the search tent. She knew Oliver must be going crazy, he wasn't her favorite person in the world, but he was a fellow player.

Rival yes, but still a fellow player. Katie was her best mate and she wasn't about to just leave her out on the line when she knew how jumbled Katie was about her feelings for Oliver, that had been clearly unrecquited. She led them back to the search tent and reported their lack of findings to the auror on duty.

She then forced her friend to drink some pumpkin juice and get warmed up, making Gristain and Larson do the same.

[the_only_woman]

Aleta had been a nervous wreck all morning, but her Auror instincts were overpowering any jittery feelings she might have had. There had been no breakfast; the table full of food looked so appetizing, but Aleta felt she couldn't eat. To take a break would feel like wasting time, and that was something Aleta Ose did not do

[flowerpatil]

Parvati hadn't had much time to get ready that morning. She saw the Prophet and Oliver's journal entry and had gotten dressed in a total of ten seconds. After quickly scribbling a message to Oliver, she Apparated to Hogsmeade

[about_abbott]

After receiving Parvati's request that Hannah indeed join in the search for Oliver's little girl, Hannah had put on a warm outfit and haphazardly pulled her hair back before apparating into Hogsmeade. Following a small stream of people she quickly found the headquarters for the search

[flowerpatil]

The walk to her 'assignment' would have been pleasant on any other day. She recalled taking Wini for a walk along this path, both of them playing in the leaves and trying to find the prettiest ones to give to "Daddy". Parvati felt a sinking feeling and a prickle of tears in her eyes. She ignored the threat of tears and roughly wiped her eyes. She was going to focus on finding Wini.

Parvati heard footsteps crunching in the dirt behind her and turned to see a familiar blonde.

"Hannah," she said, glad to see a friend. She stopped and waited for the other girl to catch up so they could walk together.

[about_abbott]

Like many of the people who had arrived to assist, Hannah had only one thing on her mind. Well, two actually, finding Wini and making sure Parvati was handling this as well as could be expected.

Hannah paused her steps as she saw Parvati's hand come up in a motion that told of tears being pushed away. Taking a look back and noting the proximity to the house, Hannah was fairly certain that there must be memories of playing with the little girl in this very spot. She knew she wouldn't have been able to handle being here and that gave her all the respect in the world for Parvati's evident strength.

When she began to walk again, Parvati turned in her direction. "Parvati," Hannah said a touch of sadness in her voice that she couldn't hide at the moment. She fought the urge to hurry to her friend's side and instead forced herself to walk dignified with purpose. "How are you holding up?" she asked once the two women were close.

[m4moony]

Landing at the apparation coordinates given in the paper, Remus' first thought was that Severus really had to do something about this awful habit of his to make every formula he brewed taste like a cross between sewer water and swamp rot. The hyper-sensitive palatte of a werewolf only just past an hour from being fully wolf was not pleased with the still lingering aftertaste.

Still, he couldn't argue that he appreciated the feeling of full cognizance it gave him. Hell, by rights, he normally wouldn't even have remembered any of the past hour or the one to come.

From the time Severus had first burst into his room in a panic, Remus had shifted back into what he thought of as his 'general mode', that focused, detached personality which took the dangers instride until he could collapse from fear, or guilt, or what have you later. Dragging himself out of bed and throwing on the first serviceable clothes that came to hand, he was ready to go in ten minutes. While Severus woke June, Remus had gone down to to inform Glamis of what was

[subtle_simmer]

The altercation with Wood had been as cathartic as it had been inevitable. He had tried to hold his tongue, but...

Oh, hell, there was no point in trying to deceive himself! Severus had come here itching for a fight as much as he wished to help aid the search for a child his pessimistic nature insisted was already dead. Wood had needed almost no provocation to fly off the handle, and Severus was all too willing to provide that which was needed

[subtle_simmer]

((continued here))

Returning to the tent after taking Ginevra to the house

[subtle_simmer]

And back again!

Having spoken with Ginevra and assured himself, now, that June was as looked-after as he could hope for in the circumstance, Severus once again returned to the main tent, where the crowd was thinning as people headed out, some with broomsticks in hand, some on foot.

At last he spotted Remus, and made his way directly toward the werewolf, who appeared to be collecting his own 'assignment'.

Severus waited until he could claim Remus' attention without calling undue attention to himself. He didn't like the look of the werewolf's complexion - the blasted potion forced the lycanthrope's body to work precisely contrary to its nature. There was a slight flush to Remus' cheeks as though he had been undergoing exertion, yet the flush poorly over-laid the pallor beneath which spoke, to the trained eye, of the stress his body was under.

There would be hell to pay for Remus and Derrick when the potion wore off, damn it! And if the child wasn't found - they'd risked serious illness for nothingHowever, done was done. There

[fire_n_freckles]

Ginny made her way into the tent. It was still fairly early in the morning; her hair was a mess, her blouse was buttoned incorrectly, and she was wearing a pair of muggle ‘jog’ pants. There was no hiding the lack of effort that went into her appearance this morning. How could she make herself look decent when Wini was missing? How could she be so vain to be thinking about her looks at a time like this

[subtle_simmer]

Severus caught sight of Ginevra before he found Remus, so he made his way through the crowd toward her instead. Granted, Severus had seen the journal entry claims that she and Wood were 'together', so she was unlikely to be any more pleased about his altercation with Wood than Remus was going to be.

"Ginevra," he greeted her gravely. "June is in the house. Wood's parents are among the most unpleasant individuals I have encountered in my life - I suspect, if you find time to treat her today, that she would prefer the procedure to be done in privacy."

He glanced about the crowded tent.

"I intend to go on to Knockturn Alley shortly - my usefulness might be better utilised, there."

[fire_n_freckles]

The sight of her friend walking towards her made her gawk a bit; he was unusually mussed (if only she had a mirror; who was she just judge?) and looked as if he'd had a roll in a stack of hay. Ginny hardly thought Severus was the kind to just laze about and play in that manner, so she figured he must have been doing something physically strenuous.

"Alright, Severus? You look a bit... Well, you don't look quite so put together."

She managed to get past his appearance long enough to listen to his words. She figured June would be in the house; the young woman wasn't anywhere in the tent, and it was probably too noisy for her anyway. "I don't imagine conducting a physical in front of others is a good habit to get into for a healer, anyways. I'll be sure to take her into the guest room.

"What will you be doing in Knockturn Alley? Checking around the, er, 'usual' suspects?"

[subtle_simmer]

"Fine," he said tersely. "A minor disagreement, nothing more."

Unaware of having looked unusually 'mussed', he had thought he'd seen to the state of his robes well enough. Granted, he had a goose-egg growing on the back of his head where he'd impacted the wall of the house with Wood's first blow, but he was oblivious to his appearance.

Nodding his agreement at her assessment of June's situation, he folded his arms over his chest, brow furrowed in concern.

"Yes, and she's less than an hour post-transformation. She oughtn't be out of her own bed. She's settled in the house, but she's exhausted. I won't pretend not to be concerned about her."

He cast a scowling glance toward the house.

"Wood's parents are, unsurprisingly, even more bigoted than he is. I was quite surprised not to see Gryffindor Power tattooed across their foreheads