Lily returned to the common room just in time to hear James' comments about Severus. She frowned at him but didn't comment, she was too tired to start an argument or even deal with the ganging up that would come for her to defend him. She simply turned and headed over to a chair by the fireplace. She was exhausted and could barely keep her eyes open.

Molly headed down to the common room, hearing voices and was delighted to see many of her friends down there. She spotted Lily and headed over to talk with her.

Peter got up and headed over to the Marauders, seeing that they had returned to the common room after dealing with Ally.

Remus reached the Common Room in a bit of a tired state, even knowing that he was not permitted to go to bed yet. He would have to walk the corridors soon, making sure that none was out of bed. Being Prefect wasn't all that exciting. Of course, the thrill of it at first.. but now.. after letting the others get away with whatever they wanted he felt he was just abusing the privilage.

His eyes scanned the room and landed on Lily. His partner Prefect was almost asleep on the chair, slouching down quite abit. With a concerning appeal, he walked over and reached down, lightly shaking her arm. "Lily." He whispered softly as to wake her. "Lily! Let's go now to patrol the corridors, so that you can get yourself to bed." With a nod, he waited for her.

Remus had followed Lily by her side, on the lookout, quiet but attentative to her conversation. As they reached the last hall, he gave in to a yawn, and climbed in after Lily back into the Common Room.

"No problem." He replied simply going to sit down by the dwindling fire before heading off to bed. He wanted to keep eye on the others too.

Laughing heartily at Sloane's strictures regarding Snape, Sirius slumped unto one of the armchairs in front of the fire, the warm scent in the room invading his senses. "Yeah, that's right. Hope he hasn't got himself run over by the Hogwarts Express or something. Hogwarts wouldn't be the same without ol' Sniv," he grinned at Sloane.

Smiling contentedly at Prongs, Sirius leaned with his back buried unto the plushy armchair, his eyes closed. "Words of wisdom, mate. Words of wisdom," he accepted, as James mentioned something that sounded like an aphorism. Carpe Diem was all they were about, after all. They would have it no other way; life was for living on the edge.

"Wish it were full moon..." he suddenly whispered, throwing James a quick-but-meaningful look.

Severus sat in his common room, pretending to listen to Regulus rant about Muggles...or that was, at least, the last word he had heard before tuning him out. His mind was elsewhere, thinking of a new spell he had invented to try out on someone. Probably on Regulus if he didn't shut up soon.

ooc:sorry I went poof. I didnt mean to. I've been awfully distracted as of late, reading and re-reading DH and other stuff. Again, I apologize.

Sirius, who had nodded morosely at James' acknowledgment that it turned out to be their most boring first school day in history, changed stance immediately. Sloane's question brought the well-known glint back into his eyes, and he furrowed his eyebrows as he turned around to look at her.

"Why? Is that your way of making a proposition?" he grinned, catching James' eye in return, and waiting for her comeback with the anticipation of a greyhound pending on an attack.

Lily entered the common room feeling quite exhausted and was not made to feel much better by the sight of a rowdy crowd still awake in the common room.
"It was fine James, thank you." she said stiffly, trying not to watch him as he started to fly objects around the room with his wand.
She sat down in a chair near the fire and rested her head on her hand, brushing her long red hair back out of her face as it fell down around her face.

OOC: congrats guys on getting plot of the week, heres why we were put in the main forum and what KA: PotW means hehe kind of exciting! just thought id put it here because i deffinately didnt know what it meant, and didnt realise it was a good thing, so congrats guys on your characters and all your excellent roleplaying! keep it up!

"Greetings,

The Knockturn Alley staff has come up with a new witty way to award our RolePlayers through both Roleplaying and Plot creativity.


Starting July, Knockturn Alley mods will promote a creative & advanced plot submitted each week into Borgin & Burkes. The roleplay that gets this award will get a banner inserted in their first post along with "KA: PotW" edited into their thread title and the thread will be stickied for the entire week in the main Borgin and Burkes Forum. Those RP's that get selected into this category will gain publicity, thus will follow our general inactive policy.


In addition to Plot of the week, We will be selecting a "Role Play for the week". This Roleplay will be stickied for the week, will get a RP of the Week graphic in their first post and a 'KA: RPotW' will be put in the beginning of the thread title for the rest of its existence. Any roleplay which gets made the roleplay of the week will never be put in inactives, if it reaches it inactive policy we move it to the finished roleplays to sort of show our appreciation of it. To be the roleplay of the week we will pick roleplays with AWESOME roleplaying, good plots, good characters, no chatting, limited OOC's, basically following the rules!


Notice: These awards will only be in Borgin and Burkes. RP's can get both of these awards. RP's cannot receive one award twice.

Good Luck to ALL

KA mod team"

copied and pasted from the thread "KA: PotW"

Lowering her wand at the sound of Sirius’ voice, Sloane slowly turned her head to look at him. The expression on his face was priceless and it conveyed to her all the mischievous thoughts that were running through his mind.

Pushing up off the floor she leaned up against the coffee table, “It was just a question Sirius.” She looked from James to Sirius and knew that if given the opportunity they would be more than willing to go gallivanting in the Forbidden Forest.

“I know this seems a bit juvenile but I’ve always wanted to play hide and go seek in the forest at night.” She let out a small laugh before looking towards the window. “We would definitely get in trouble if caught, but then at least we’d be having fun for a short while.”

Glancing over at Lily, Sloane knew her friend would never allow it, which was expected. Lil’s was always one to follow the rules, and Sloane was grateful; her friends attitude helped keep her in line.

Resting her chin on the arm rest of Lily’s chair Sloane gave her a smile, “What do you say Lil’s? Are you up for a romp in the Forbidden Forest?” she gave her friend a wink as she playfully tugged on her sleeve.

Lily watched Remus go and was tempted to also get up and leave for bed.
"I think I'll just head to bed." Lily said, feeling exhausted.
"Thanks for the invitation though." she said, also standing.

Molly nodded in agreement.
"Ya I'm heading off to bed as well, I will see you all in the morning!" she said cheerfully, before turning and heading up the stairs.

Peter sat there silently, knowing that he wouldn't be asked to come along, it would just be expected that he would. He scoweled at Lily and Molly for deciding to head up stairs to bed, good two shoes.

Sloane’s smile faded at Lily’s reply to her invitation. She got the sneaking suspicion that Lily didn’t appreciate her adventurous side at all. Sloane new that Lily’s method of following the straight and narrow path was the right way to go; but she couldn’t bring herself to do it.

“Yes I suppose it wouldn’t look good if you were caught out of bed.” She repeated in a monotone voice which clearly expressed disappointment. Perhaps heading to bed would be best, she was after all quite tired after the long trip and she’d probably have to get up early the following morning. The last thing she wanted was to fall asleep during class. That wouldn’t do her well, and the howler her mother would most likely send would be embarrassing.


Regretfully pulling herself up off the floor she followed the others in tow. “I guess I’ll see you boys later. Maybe we can go to the forest some other time?” Giving them all a crestfallen smile she ascended the staircase to the girls dormitory.

Lily continued up the stairs, not able to shake the feeling that she had ruined everyones fun, afer all, it was only after she made the comment of her being a prefect that they decided to go to bed. She sighed and shook her head, it was her job and a responsibilty no matter how unfun or boring it was, and she had taken an oath that she would follow and enforce the rules. She ran a hand back through her hair before throwing it up on her head in a messy bun. As she pulled her pyjama top on she heard the dorm room door open again, and peeked through the top that was still over her head and the strands or red hair that fell in front of her face.
"I thought you were going out with the boys?" she said, somewhat muffled as she figited with the pyjama top stuck around her head.
Finally she succeeded in yanking the shirt down, leaving her with a a mop of red, messy hair and a giddy smile on her face despite her present mood.
She plopped down on her bed and yawned, hoping Sloan hadn't minded walking in to see a disheveled Lily with a tank top and pj bottoms on successfully, but the pj top stuck around her head. Sloan was a good friend, she wouldn't do anything more than tease her about her wardrobe malfunction.

"Sorry I ruined the fun." she said slightly awkwardly, "I hope you understand that I jsut can't do all the same stuff as you guys, being a prefect and all....she said, not really finishing the last part, she wasn't about to admit that she would love to go running off on the dark ground with James Potter....

Molly yawned and pulled her night gown on just in time to see Lily struggling with her top. She looked up when the door opened and was surprised to see Sloan joinging them.
"Hey Sloan, you haven't seen Louisa have you? She's not in here yet and its past curfew." she said, looking over at the two empty beds. Ally was of course in the hospital wing, but she wasn't sure as to where Louisa was, maybe staying with Ally to keep her company...