Day 24

[gingerbred]

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Holy Cricket!!!

[kit10notk9]

????????????
OH, Jingle my H.G. WELLS!!!
Time Travel!
Deliberate or accidental?
This is an unexpected twist to your Advent Story.

BTW: Wingardium Leviosa was the feather floating charm Flitwick taught them in Charms class on Halloween morning in the first book. Thus setting off the first part of the troll incident.

RE: Holy Cricket!!!

[gingerbred]

😘 and this is what happens when I proof things at 5 am. Think it's fixed well enough now. Thanks for the catch (talk about attention to detail! ❤️) Yes, prelude to the whole 'nightmare' scene. Ron is a tosser. *nods*

Eh, it was probably a give away when they started flirting. Pretty loyal to my OTP that way... lol

Happy Christmas, Kit! 🎄🎁😊

[mywitch]

OMG - the shock disrupts the Daphne disguise - but More Importantly - how did you rig that Kitty!Hermione??? It's brilliant, this is so much fun!!

[gingerbred]

I mean, the hair was a dead giveaway. Who, outside of a cartoon character, actually has that colour hair?? Pfft. (Fine, alright, and the time I dozed off with something like 3 parts blonde one part copper henna and orange things happened.)

Ah! I have a 'cat woman' (not the batman one) lego minifig from one of the collector's series. You never know when you'll need bits and bobs, and lego rewards that in spades. (Her face is even *better*. It may pop up tomorrow, if not, maybe I'll do some 'outtakes'... Not sure though, because they work better if there were faces being made, which isn't likely to happen with the narrow variety I've got.)

Happy Christmas, MW. ❤️🎄🎁😘

[mywitch]

I LOVE your LEGO enthusiasm! And your determination to get it done the way you like :D

I brought along my Metalbeard's ship to play with over xmas with my family. I didn't actually get to help build it last time I brought it - 2 of my sisters hogged the whole thing haha.

I hope your Christmas is awesome!

[gingerbred]

'Poppy' has never been issued, btw, so she's got Umbridge's face, which I happen to have sitting on my table because a really awesome lady sent her to me. ❤️ And the body I picked up at the pieces bin at legoland. (My birthday present a few years back. 😊)

[grooot]

I’ve had a few drinks but still sober enough tO say I love it!

[gingerbred]

Happy Christmas, grooot! Any chance you had enough to inadvertently skip door number 23? 😉

[grooot]

100% is what happened. Also spent all day driving boooo

[gingerbred]

Hope it goes better than last year, sweetie. ❤️ Fingers crossed you can enjoy the time with family, and possibly the occasional death march, depending.

[q_drew]

WELL I can say with all certainty that I didn’t expect THAT. Who’d have known that a LEGO advent calendar would lead to such a plot and then such a TWIST. I’m a bit miffed there’s not another day... I mean SS kissed you/her/them and I want to see the fallout and/or reconciliation of that.

It’s awfully clever nonetheless. Thanks for a fun month! I am a bit sad that Snape wasn’t included in the calendar though... seems like a great loss for everyone.

[mywitch]

I swear Snape is never included anywhere! I was at Universal Studios a couple weeks ago and the ONLY picture of Snape in the park is the front page of the Daily Prophet laying on one of the Goblins' desks in Gringotts. It's a shame, but yeah Snape H8 is real. Booooooooooooooo.

Meanwhile at the US in LA, there is a door in the dungeons that presumably leads to his quarters though, so....

[gingerbred]

> I swear Snape is never included anywhere! I was at Universal Studios a couple weeks ago and the ONLY picture of Snape in the park is the front page of the Daily Prophet laying on one of the Goblins' desks in Gringotts. It's a shame, but yeah Snape H8 is real. Booooooooooooooo.

Wow. That's harsh. 😐 Not sure what to think about that, but it makes me less sad I'll never see the place.

To be fair to Lego, Snape is actually included more often than all the rest of staff (or adults, for that matter) except Albus, which probably makes sense.

I'm going with: behind that door in LA, he's camped out in front of the fire with his feet up, a good book, a nice single malt, and probably Hermione reading quietly at his side. They don't need any of the hoopla Ron so desperately craves... *eye roll*

[gingerbred]

> SS kissed you/her/them

It was pretty much a done deal at that point that it had to be Hermione. OTP ftw. Basically I'd earn my standing as a Slytherpuffclaw with that trait alone. (Also, Snape's totally my grumpy grandfather, so there's no way I'm snogging him no matter how many (oft unsuspected) sterling qualities he has. Which definitely shouldn't stop him from snogging everyone else, so have at it, it just leaves more for you guys. 😉) (See, this is what happens when in addition to the reticent, grumpy grandpa, you also grow up with a really cool grandfather who's been a widower basically all your life, and you sort of wish he'd get out there and find love again (whereas his kids spend a decade and more being perfectly comfortable with his extended mourning. Selfish jerks. Boo. Life's too short. Go. Live. Be happy. (My work is done here... 😉)).) (And now you know me. lol