Minerva got her Owl that said she was accepted into the committee. This was exciting and she hurried to the room it said to meet in. With meeting some of the candidates over the summer with her internship, Minerva had some thoughts on how a debate should go. This was just another step in the interest her internship had brought to her.

Looking in the room she found she was the first to get there. Well that was alright, others would be there soon. She couldn't wait to see who else was involved in this group. Seeing the round table she decided to find a seat and pull out some parchment in case notes needed to be taken.

Oh. Committee. Meh.

Alice wasn't really sure why she was accepted. I mean, had anyone noticed that she was kind of AWFUL at everything but Quidditch? No? Okay. But she wanted a say in the debate, 'cause her gramps was in it, and she wanted him to do well. Anyways, as soon as she received the owl, she hurried there. The lioness seemed to have arrived on time, too, because barely anyone was there. She flopped into a chair-- ooh, itvwas a WHEELY one, she could swivel around loads, see?-- and stared at the other people.

So. Ahem. What exactly were they supposed to do?

Anya had a hard time controlling her giggles seeing the name on the door. The Situation Room! HOW EPIC WAS THAT?

Answer - EXTREMELY!

Yeah. She was a little giddy. And, when she entered the room, the giddiness just got worse.

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She ran to a desk with her name on it. "We've got names!" she said excitedly petting her wooden block. Did they get to keep them? Wear them as necklaces?

Oh. And hi hufflepuff person. Did she see the plaque things?! Because. They were brilliant. They hand their names on 'em.

Oooh! And there was one with Jake's name on it! And Alipop! AND MESSER! This was going to be fun.

Now... was she allowed to just... push her desk RIIIIIIGHT next to Jake's? Because. That was her first item of business she wanted to accomplish.

Minerva looked up as two girls came into the room. One seemed to be causal about coming in, and the other.. well.. a bit extremely excited about being there. "Hello" She said with a smile. Pulling out her quill she laid it down on her parchment and then turned her chair looking at the room.

It was so business like. She looked at the names of the other people, some she knew others she did not. She wasn't the oldest on that list, right? Going into thought about some of the things she learned over the summer she looked up, "So are you both excited about being on the committee?"

Amelia was excited to be accepted into the special debate group - really, she wanted to ask bizarre questions and was just shocked to be accepted. Who knew wanting to ask a candidate if they had skeletons in their closet would get you on the list.

Yeah she was happy.

Peaking into the room she spotted a girl spinning in her chair and couldn't help but smile. SPINNNY CHAIRS. Yeah there went all her brain power. SHE was just excited to be able to find a spinny chair and spin in it and sit in it and spin with it and have fun.

Mika spotted the circular desk and walked around it checking it out...it was cool - she wanted to meet everyone in the room. Meeting people she would work with was a good idea. A funtastically fun idea.

Walking around the room she spotted that her name was on one of the desks. YAY.

She placed her things on the desk and then leaning against it she WAVED. "Hi! Hello isn't this fun? We get to plan a debate!" Maybe a little too much excitement. "Oh um if i've not met you guys yet I'm Amelia...or Mika, or Mia...whatever you want to call me...even Creepy." Yep.

Just putting it out there because she did once call herself that. She was awesome. And she felt awesome. She was well, a little more excited than she should have been what with having a task at school and being committee'd up. Normally people were happy about muggle dance committee's but not this kinda committee. But hse was excited.

Gemma walked in excitedly to the Situation Room...she had to giver herself a pat on the back for that one...very Muggle themed...seeing the students already coming in and introducing themselves to one another made her smile even bigger than usual. She had been a little worried that no one would want to help with this and that she would be stuck by herself planning the debate...but no some amazing students had come to save the day!

When she walked in, she walked to the biggest dry erase board and started writing out a list of things...she didn't announce herself so that the students could continue talking as she worked. The list was a simple to do list for the group.

Once she had the list written on the board, she wrote the number of days until the debate and circled so they could see that they had less than two months (IC, and two weeks OOC) to get everything put together.

She walked to her desk and picked up a pile of folders and then back to the circular table and walked around the circle, placing a folder at each chair. When she made it back to her chair, she stopped and focused on the committee members.

"Alright everyone, we have a lot to get planned and very little time to do it in. First I want to say thank you for applying and for accepting your position and for helping me out with this endeavor!" she said and then motioned towards the table. "Please come have a seat and we will get started with the planning process."

He knew ignoring the owl that was tapping on his window was a bad idea.

James glanced at his muggle watch for a moment - before remembering that it had stopped working - and rushed into the room where a few students and a professor were already heading towards a table to start the meeting.

"I'm sorry I'm late!" He said, a look of panic and worry in his face. "Did I miss anything?"

Please don't say yes. Please don't say yes.

Amelia looked up when she heard Professor Cerulean bring up choosing what they would work on. Well she definitely shouldn't be on food - she was no Kurumi Hollingberry. She was just - scarry bad at treats...like make you spit it out on your date bad.

Two months to work on this.

Getting up she took a seat at the round table. Awesome table. "I would volunteer to be the Master-of-whatever or work on decorations or questions...I mean definitely would ask the people if they had skeletons in their closets." Yeah because skeletons might be cool.

"But we should definitely think about refreshments...I'm horrid at them but should we possibly order in and hire a caterer?" She asked looking over to Cerulean for advice. "Maybe the Houseleves and pay them for it?"

Sarah had entered right before the muggle studies professor an was so excited at the layout. She fingered her name plaque, THIS WAS SO COOL and Sarah felt so important. She greeted the others, glad to see that there were more lions than any of the other houses, just proved that lions were more concientous towards their loyalty to Hogwarts. She was surprised when the owl had come, being that the suggestions she had offered would not really chose the good from the bad in Governers. Sarah was really responsible, organised and loyal so they had chosen right. OOOH. Spinning chairs, Sarah settled down on one and smiled at the others assembled -Alice, Mika, Minerva and Anya at least one representitive of each house... except Slytherin. Its a pity, she wished West would come, he was really clever and probably had a lot of ideas.
Sarah had noticed the professor come in and she watched as the professor wrote something on the board. Once the folder was placed in front of her, Sarah mouth 'thank you' and began to finger the folder. She was feeling so important.
Then the teacher started talking. Sarah was not taking down notes as she never needed too due to her memory- and besides her handwriting was so messy she would not be able to read it afterwards. Two more months that was both and long and short time. "I would be happy to help with whatever is required" especially being the Master of ceremonies, as she was never bothered when speaking in front of a crowd and oh, how she loved to talk. Yet perhaps there was a hierarchy in Hogwarts and that would go to an older person. "although, except on the refreshment side as I cannot stand domestic duties, although doing it the magical way would be easier yet still. Maybe we could get Kurumi, a former Gryffindor, last years Prefect, to make cookies she makes really good cookies.". Oh there was a Slytherin there. Very good, although she did not know him. It was a boy, the only male currently present.

The lioness rushed to the Muggle Studies room where they usually had their lessons in. She was told to be there to discuss about the debate thingy as she was chosen...yup, chosen as one of the committee members. That was actually weird enough that she suspected others had played a trick on her when she received that owl from the professor.

But anyway...she was late right for the meeting. Clutching her backpack, she looked at her watch clumsily as if all the books inside would fall out at any second. She really had no idea what they were doing today so she didn't prepare anything indeed. She pushed the door and stepped inside, realizing that there were couple of seats being taken around the table. Then she spotted one in the middle had her name engraved in it. Amazed by it, she greeted the professor with a big grin on her face. "Sorry professor, I am late." she replied apologetically. "I am really really really sorry." She took a slight bow and found a seat to fit in.

Gemma smiled at the students coming in late, "O don't worry about being late...no worries...I know you are all busy with your studies and other things...you have not missed anything important..." she glanced at her folder and opened it to the first page, "Since the majority of us are here, let's get this planning party started!"...she finished her statement with a flick of her arms and a tray of drinks levitated into the room and one landed in front of each person at the round table. Then she raised her right arm up a little bit and waited and then squashed up her face a little bit, "Well, I guess the cookies will find their way in here eventually..." she finished with a shrug of her shoulders.

She focused quickly back on her folder and then continued, "I have provided everyone with a copy of the basic plans for the Debate in Hogsmeade that the Headmistress and myself and a few other staff members have already reserved and put together...." she looked around the table making eye contact with each of them, "On December 13 (January 31-February 9 OOC), the school will be hosting a debate in Hogsmeade for the Board candidates." she got up with her folder in her hand and walked over to one of the blank dry erase boards and started writing down little notes about what she was saying.

"We have already reserved the main street area of Hogsmeade for the event. And to make it a little bit fun, our stage will actually be a dunking booth. Each candidate will be sitting on their own dunking booth and after they answer a question, the crowd will vote on how they felt about the answer. If they didn't like it, then someone is getting wet!" she said excitedly picturing one of the candidates in particular soaked and looking like a wet cat...o yes this could be fun.

She turned the page after making notes on the board and then walked to her original list on the first dry erase board, "Here's what I need from all of you...ya'll will be in charge of the planning and organizing of the actual debate. If you will look at this list and figure out which of these you would like to help with, then we can go from there..." she said pointing at her original list on the board.

"We need help planning the Decorations for the event, the Refreshments, the overall Agenda of the event, a list of ten to fifteen questions to ask the candidates, and a poster to advertise the event. We will vote on our two Master of Ceremonies in the coming weeks." she finished excitedly.

She picked up a red marker and then turned to the little group, "So, any volunteers? Once we get our mini committees set up then I'll let ya'll break up and go to planning!"

The fourth year got a letter about him being chosen as one of the BoG Debate committee. He never been in a committee before so this will be exciting, right?

But right now he's late. Late in the first meeting? Definitely not a good impression. Well done, Messer. The fourth year was running all the way from the Hufflepuff common room to the Muggle Studies classroom where they held the BoG Debate Committee Meeting. When he entered the classroom, Professor Cerulean was explaining to the other committee about what they need to do.
"I'm sorry I'm late, Professor." He won't lose any house points because of his lateness, right? Messer spotted a wooden block with his name on it. Cool! Now its not the perfect time to feel amaze by the wooden block! He quickly sat down on one of the empty chair.

Amelia looked up at Professor Cerulean and just nodded. They needed volunteers. She would sooo volunteer for making debate flyers. Because honestly art was fun. She liked creating things.

Creating was cool.

Really cool.

And she'd volunteer for other things because she was a Ravenclaw. And Ravenclaw's were smart and organized and she was all of those thing. "I'll volunteer for making decorations for the event - and the posters of course. I like advertising things - its loads of fun" she admitted with a little laugh.

"I'll basically be a gofer if needed I mean - really, I'll do any of the needed things...except refreshments. I'm bad at baking things and making things - so I was thinking of hiring out the house elves or a catering person could be nice?"

Anya waved excitedly to Alice before taking a seat. OH! And there was Messer. She waved again. And woooooow. Messer got attractive over the summer. ... was that a proper thing to bring up in a meeting? Because... she found it incredibly noteworthy. Did Alipop notice?

Anya giggled a little when she heard that the debate was going to be a dunking booth. How fun was that? Wizard politics were brilliant.

She then scanned the list on the board. "Oooh! I wanna work on the agenda." How fun would that be? She could... color code things. And use a HIGHLIGHTER!

Witches used highlighters, right? And... could she wear a headset? Not that it would do any good, unless headsets worked in Hogsmeade...

She should ask that.

Or emcee! That would be brilliant. She was reallllly good at talking. ... but... that might be weird considering her brother was running. Would it show favoritism? Maybe Jake should do it?

Dunk booth. Cool.

Tiffany took a sip of the hot tea placed in front of her and listened to the instructions given by the professor. She was pretty amazed by the design of the booth indeed. It was terribly fun because people will be all getting wet that day, it was not hard for everyone else to imagine the picture. The Wizards' World was totally different from the muggle world where she originally should be living in. It was a lot more interesting, even for the politics.

Then she moved on talking about the preparation that they should start doing right now. The professor was right, better to prepare it earlier than doing it in a hurry. There were decorations, refreshments and planning on the agenda...it seemed like they had a lot of things to prepare. The lion inhaled and volunteered to help. "I can help with the refreshments thingy!"she exclaimed with a house of joy. "I mean...I can bake cookies and stuff like that." She beamed, she could bake a little, or she could ask Kurumi to teach her with that. She would love to help her little lion right?

"Or anything else. Only if you need my help,"she said, adding a smile.

Minerva sat listening to everyone and taking down notes, "Professor the master of ceremonies, is that the main person to talk at the debate? Should that be like the headmistress or even you being the adult here?" She tried to think of some of the election things she saw growing up as a child.

Then she looked at the rest of the list, she would love to do the decorations and things, but someone had said something about that. "I could lead the questions if you want. I did some interning at the prophet and we got to meet some of the people running for board spots." She got to hear some of the questions they asked as well, so this might help figure out what questions could be asked at the debate.

Alice could help with the FOOD. She was good with food, yep. "I can help with the refreshments, Professor, or possibly the questions." Would the questions thing be fair, though? Considering that she was the granddaughter of a candidate? Whatever. She'd still be okay with helping either mini-committee. She was good at asking awkward questions that threw people off, mhm. It would be useful in this situation, apparently.

Messer's eyes was glued to the list on the board. Well, he like food, the Hufflepuff about to pick that but after someone mentioned house elves he had a second thought. Then he heard Minnie told the Professor about her opinion on who should be the Master of Ceremonies.

Speaking of questions and opinion. He had a question for the Professor. Should he raise his hand like he did in class? Maybe he should. The fourth year raised his hand up. "I'm sorry, Professor, but I have question. How many people do you need for each of that?" he asked pointing at the list Professor Cerulean made on the board.

Oichi listened to everything going on at the exclusive committee for BoG Debate helpers. It all sounded so cool. Before she knew it, it was time to choose a more specific assignment. Oichi knew exactly what she wanted. Oichi raised her hand, "I would like to be a masters of ceremonies!", Oichi said excitedly, she was so happy she to go for a job right in the middle of the action and the dunking sounded interesting too.

What committee did he want to be in? Jake read over the list a few times, debating. Not decorations... he wasn't much of an interior designer. But maybe... "I could be on the agenda committee," he said with a nod. Agenda committee? Is that what it was? He glanced at Anya. They could do the agenda. It'd be FUN.

"The master of ceremonies would be fun though..." he mused out loud thoughtfully. Decisions, decisions.

As the students volunteered, she quickly made a list of each student on the board.

She stood back and glanced at the list and then turned and smiled at the boy...Messer...yes that was his name. She put the end of the marker in her mouth as he asked his question and as she was taking it out marked on her right hand. She squished up her nose at the red mark on her hand and then answered, "Well, I would like to have atleast two people to help with each item..." she said with a smile as she started rubbing her hands together trying to get the mark off. "So, where would you like to go?"


She smiled at the students as they mentioned wanting to be the MCs of the event. "Let's get our committees put together and start working on those and then we will vote on MCs in the coming weeks." she said with a smile...she always forgot that you had to repeat things to students.

Two people?

Hmm.. There're already two people in Refreshments and Questions. Where he'd like to go? Agenda? Nah. He's not really good with organizing things. Decorations sound fun. "I can help Mika with the decorations, Professor." His eyes went from Professor Cerulean to Mika and back to the Professor.

Sarah was happy to help, it did not matter to her, "I really do not mind, originally i thought questions yet that is because I do not know what agenda does. What does it do anyway?" Besides it would be cool to work with Anya and it would be cool to work with Alice and Minnie. "I will go whereever I am needed" she said. She still would not mind to be emcee, yet she was sure that the others who would want to do would be lions. So if the teacher wanted 2 or more per thing, agenda it would have to be.

Mika was already coming up with ideas for decorations in her little notebook when she realized Professor Cerulean was giving the other two-committee members the ability to choose where they were. Gulp. She wanted two people per group?

The normally verbose Ravenclaw just blinked and thought she was seeing and hearing things when the fourth year boy offered to work with her. She’d never really met Messer before – sure she knew his name and stuff because it was a small school.

She flushed when he looked over out of embarrassment. Okay I have a decorations partner she thought and sent him a quick sort of shaky smile.

When the third year girl Sarah asked a question she just looked over to her. ”Agenda I think plans what happens when…like when we break for meals during the debate and where we go now things…planning what to do and when we do it.” her voice was kind of shaky. Of course she was nervous – and really, nervous wasn’t fun for her whenever she was nervous her brain turned into a dictionary and not a fun one. “An agenda is basically a list or plan of what has to be done…kind of like an itinerary” she just muttered a bit and ran her hand through her hair.