Afresh RPG

Who: Lisa and Anthony
What: News about the future?
Where: Head's office
When: Saturday evening
Rating: TBD-probably SFW
Status: Threaded-Complete

( Lisa was finishing her dessert, a little late, yes, but nothing too out of the ordinary when an owl she didn't recognize dropped a large, mauve envelope into her lap. )

WHO: Anthony and Lisa
WHEN: Tuesday evening
WHERE: 7th year boys' dorm, Ravenclaw Tower
WHAT: Tony is doing homework. Lisa wants attention from her boyfriend.
RATING: PG-13 MAYBE - this is Tony, after all; the boy is oblivious
STATUS: closed, incomplete

The carnival over the weekend had meant that the Head Boy had to be—well, Head Boy. Curfew checks, head counts, rule reminders, and one of the last to get to say lights out. It hadn't made for a productive weekend. He was distraught. He had three essays due by the end of the week and none of them were up to his usual standard. He'd turned in his Potions essay with only one revise, and the others weren't even ready to be edited yet. It was a little distressed for him, actually.

But he was in good company. Felicia sat in her usual perch on the edge of his nightstand, her tail brushing his arm on occasion. On his other side was Lisa. She, he noted, had not brought books with her when he pulled her up here from the overly crowded common room. His left hand rested idly on her thigh while he wrote with his right. His tongue stuck out of the corner of his mouth, deep in concentration.

WHAT: The 6th & 7th Year Muggle Studies class performs Romeo & Juliet
WHO: Hogwarts students, anyone who came to the castle for a day. Unfortunately, castle wards do prohibit the families of Muggleborn students from attending.
WHEN: Sunday, 3:00PM
WHERE: Hogwarts, Great Hall

Professor Burbage thought it was a good idea to put on Shakespeare, and of course she chose the most cliched play for school-age students -- Romeo and Juliet. The Great Hall is transfigured into a stage and small auditorium. The costumes are a strange mismatch of Muggle and magical, but at least the time period is right. The show goes off fairly well, excepting a mishap with the fake blood during Mercutio's death scene and the fact that the balcony wobbled and creaked. Also, someone had stage fright and got sick just off stage (if it was you, own up to it!). Otherwise, everyone enjoyed it and probably laughed at the funny and the not-supposed-to-be-funny bits.

ETA: Apparently some Slytherins decided to convince Peeves to throw rotten vegetables at the stage, so the play was interrupted fora time just before Act III.

Feel free to comment below if your character attended, or, of course, if your character was in the show. Feel free to thread below or start threads outside of this entry.

WHAT: The Annual Sweethearts Dance
WHO: Current 6th and 7th Years, Hogwarts alumni from 1994 to 1997.
WHEN: Sunday, 5:00PM
WHERE: Hogwarts, Great Hall

The Great Hall is over-the-top but luckily not a deluge of pink. Flitwick and McGonagall charmed and transfigured things to smell sweetly, sparkle, glow in soft pinks and reds, and give a general romantic feel. Think the Yule Ball, where there are round tables set up around the perimeter and an open dance floor. There is an eight-piece orchestra that takes requests, giving contemporary music, even, a classical spin. There is food galore -- mostly sweets but some savory dishes as well. Rose-water punch and strawberry ice cream. Blackberry apple cider. Chocolates. Cakes. Customizable, charmed candy hearts are available to give to your date or your best mate. There are some WWW Valentine's pinwheel fireworks overhead. If you can imagine it, it's happening.

Feel free to comment below with your character's clothes, date, anything of note that happened. Also, feel free to enjoy your own threads or reactions or whatever. Really, have fun.

Who: Lisa and Anthony
When: Sunday night
Where: Ravenclaw Common Room
What: A study break of sorts
Rating: SFW
Status: Threaded-Complete

( How on earth was she supposed to write 10 inches on 15th century Goblin rebellions? How many dang rebellions WERE there? )

WHO: Justin and Lisa
WHEN: Saturday afternoon
WHERE: Library
WHAT: Practicing lines for Romeo & Juliet
RATING: Low
STATUS: In-progress

( to be or not to be ... is from the wrong play )