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Old 07-15-2021, 03:48 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Brandon Fox
Hufflepuff
Fourth Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe Calypso [s]Dupont[/s]
Slytherin
Second Year
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

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Why did Ash have to be so negative all the time? Mamie squinted at her ex-best friend before smiling at Nemesis and Lisa. Whatever plaque-removing Upstead was up to...she did not care. She didn't need a dentist.

She was, however, interested in how interested Ashley was. Why? Was she going to get into trouble? Friends or not, Mamie felt obligated to at least try to deter her friend from doing something stupid. Especially with Lisa here. They all had to set a good example for Lisa Nam. It was their responsibility. As non-first years. Plus, the pillar looked just fine without the pillar. It wasn't going to fall and kill anybody. Well, it wasn't going to fall again at least.

She shot Ash a disapproving look, then turned to look at Lisa. "What've you got there, Lees?" She gestured at the book. Was she ignoring Ash? Definitely. Was she still trying to listen on whatever Ash was trying to plan with Nemesis? Probably.
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Lisa gave the older students a small smile and greeted them in return. Her smile dropped when Nem mentioned what the plaque was about and a sudden chill crawled up her arms. She shivered, folding her arms across her chest. “Rosier… I read about that guy,” she said almost in a whisper as if saying his name could conjure him to their precise location.

The suggestions that Ash were throwing around were rather perplexing. She did like the sound of pranking people but… the Headmaster? She’d pass on that one.

Lisa just stood there, becoming more and more confused by the second. The icing on the cake was certainly the comment about the pillar killing them. “Why? It looks fairly… stuck in place?” she offered having ZERO idea of the details surrounding how Rosier’s demise actually ended. She just heard that he had gotten… got for lack of a better word.

There was also this REALLY weird tension thing going on between Ash and Margaret. It made her feel really uncomfortable to see the two practically ignoring each other after they had been so chummy before. Was this what she had to look forward to as a teenager? Broken friendships and awkward tension? She started hoping that the Peter Plan play actually DID have some fairy dust in it so she could go to Neverland and NEVER AGE past 12.

Her idea was absolutely dramatic.

She glanced down at her book and then to Mamie. “It’s a book on sleeping potions for research….
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Read about him, did she now. Nem nodded, then cut a quick glance between Fox and Turov, but said nothing of this little falling out that had apparently happened between them. Not interesting, nor all that important, but something to keep in mind, perhaps. Kid stuff, essentially, but all the same, it was worth keeping track of who was in league with who. Or not, as the case may be.

Speaking of childish. "I don't pull pranks," Nem said simply, now tapping the plaque with their wand and shrinking it down, in order to slip it comfortably into the same pocket in which they kept the name tag from the very first lesson of term. They gave Fox no further answer, partly because they hadn't decided yet; for now, they just wanted to take it down, and so they had. Maybe they'd keep hold of the plaque, maybe they'd send it to someone else - there was an individual Nem had been meaning to write to, who worked at the Ministry. Could even sell the thing, but the going rate was unlikely to be worth it.

"It's fine. A little unstable at most." The pillar, of course. "Suppose falling on top of Rosier didn't do it much good." Idiot. Taken out of the game by a glorified brick. What a waste.

Ready to be on their way, Nem lingered a moment longer through the exchange between Nam and Turov, just in case there was anything in it worth paying attention to.


A different person would have questioned Upstead more about the plaque. But Ash was happy to get rid of it, and would be extra happy if Upstead AND Mamie left and never came back. “I wanna make my own plaque like that. And then melt it. That would be cathartic.” That was all she really had to say, and she would have left... but Lisa said something interesting. “One of my ‘friends’ put a sleeping potion in my food a while back. They probably just wanted me to get a full nights sleep, but I didn’t appreciate that and when I find out who did it, I’m going to-” Huh. She’d lost her train of thought. Something was hovering on the edge of her perception, but she couldn’t quite grasp it. “Remember that, Mamie? I think I told you about it. She completely ignored the girl’s disapproving look. Mamie disapproved or everything she did. She probably disapproved of her existence. Instead, Ash found a lemon candy and ate it. “Sounds like a cool book, Lisa.” She might read it, in the hopes of finding a clue.
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