The door to the potions classroom is propped open, with a cheerily painted sign hung out front declaring that potions is today and walk-ins are welcome until the class starts, at which time a house elf will close the door. (The house elves normally wouldn't be caught dead around Valentine Wolfe for fear of dismemberment, but he has promised to be ( Read more... )

Patrick looked at the paper in front of him before looking around the room itself. He didn't recall exactly how he ended up in the room or why, but he wouldn't show this. Maintaining his mechanical smile, Patrick carefully removed a pen from his breast pocket. Exhaling, he casually glanced around. He intended to pick up his sheets, blood stained ( Read more... )

"Oh, goddammit." The words sounded more pissed than surprised. The woman who had just appeared in the Sorting Room smelled strongly of blood and beer, and when she pushed back the hood of her cloak enough to take in her surroundings her face looked severely annoyed ( Read more... )

((Hey all - posting this NOW for the people across the pond. Secret Santa is still open, but due to shower lines, packing, traffic and a tyrannical 5-year-old, I have NO IDEA when I'll be home. Use it to mingle. May/Jaime/Tomo will be tagging sometime later tonight, I just can't say when.))Decorations? Check ( Read more... )

((Note: this Cody is from the Dexter books, rather than the Dexter TV series, which I've never seen.))

A very small, solemn looking boy of around seven appears in the sorting room. He looks around and blinks once. On a table nearby is a feather and a piece of old-looking paper. It makes as much sense as anything; the room he's in looks very old, ( Read more... )

((For the record, Blair's canon is going to be from the television series version of Gossip Girl, not the books.))What kind of school hired ugly little midgets for their bellboys ( Read more... )

Ayame didn’t seem particularly disturbed by suddenly being in the sorting room. In fact, he filled out the application with remarkable gusto.

( What’s this? An application? Wonderful! )

A tall, statuesque woman, so blonde her hair looked to be nearly white and dressed in elegant looking black pants and an equally flattering black halter top, appeared in the Sorting Room. She didn't look confused or disoriented, and she moved with grace and purpose to the table holding the application. She picked up the application and skimmed ( Read more... )

As if by magic, a tiny car (more like a golf cart that was trying too hard and didn't have a steering wheel), appeared in the Sorting Room.

S.A.R.A.H. had been having a very good day. She had gotten downloaded into a new car, and Jack Sheriff Carter had practically promised they could go to the beach sometime later. That was exciting, because S. ( Read more... )

((Spoilers for the first book of the Lady Penitent trilogy, and some mild ones for War of the Spider Queen))

( Abyss take me? It already has… but where? )