Group Comment Thread (Incomplete!) Who: Death Eaters, npc muggle theatre goers, then the Order When: Wednesday, 26 March 1980 Where: Vaudeville Theatre on The Strand What: Mass murder and stuff on fire Rating: Violence
It was a beautiful evening in the city, and a full house of theatre goers in London's West End had filed into the historic Vaudeville Theatre to see Hugh Whitemore's play Stevie featuring Maureen Jackson. As the play progressed, the theatre grew sticky with body heat, and the audience began fanning themselves with the playbook, and stealing out to the restrooms to drink a bit of water from the tap and splash a bit on their faces. It was still cold outside so the theatre manager refused to turn the heat down. "Not until the end of April," he said, shaking his head, as if by some act of irony it would snow the next day.
The audience weren't expecting anything out of the ordinary on their night out. They had no idea that outside the theatre, the pop of apparation and swish of cloaks brought a muggle's worst nightmare (though they might not recognize it): A Death Eater at the command of a spiteful, unforgiving, muggle hating, Dark Lord. They could not anticipate the imminent torture, distress and death. They were completely oblivious.