The Doorway: a panfandom game

For those of you not going out this evening for St. Patrick's Day, I'll be hosting poker of the strip variety this evening, in room 1404. Only open minded people welcome, and I assure you that if I'm unhappy with certain behavior, you will be escorted out.

$50 buy-in, no excessive layers and bring alcohol to contribute.

May the luck be with you.

I've been told that there are a whole load of us here, many from the same family which is rather brilliant, so I just wanted to give a bit of a hello in a vague little getting-to-know-you sort of way. I've only been here a few days and I'm still getting used to it and I'm not proud enough to be unable to admit that a little bit of home -- even in people that I don't actually know -- is welcome. You're free to skip over this if you feel it's daft or want nothing to do with me. That's all up to you.

That said, I'm Amelia Bones. It was June 1977 when I was brought here and I had been just leaving the DMLE. I'm an Auror and have been for a number of years and am also a former Slytherin, prefect, and Head Girl. If you ever see me down at Sam's, which I've dubbed my new favorite place, give me a hello and I'll buy you a round.

And now I understand why you suggested holding off on finding out too much about the future.

Alice is here. She's with me, she's sleeping. We had a long conversation and I filled her in on everything relating to the war, and how there's people from our future here. The only thing I didn't tell her is our fate. She's coming from the middle of the war herself (August of '80), and I want her to have some time to enjoy herself before being saddled with the weight of being tortured into insanity. I'm not saying forever, but certainly you can give her a week or two of non-war ridden life to enjoy? Also, I'm an Auror. I will find you and hurt you, damn the consequences, if you don't keep fucking quiet for some reason, I'm looking at you, Dorcas

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Okay. I'm just going to say this once. Some of you might think me egotistical, arrogant, and heedless of what you think, but I have to say this. Arrogance and loyalty are two characteristics typically associated with Gryffindors, so it shouldn't be too surprising.

I know we all come from different times and you're just trying to help, but I would really like to have the chance to address what happened with Evans' and my deaths when the opportunity arises. I trust what I've been told about that night up to this point because I trust the word of my friends, so I think I have a pretty good idea about what happened that night. Having to talk about my own death is not fun in any way, but seeing people go at each other over it certainly doesn't help or make it feel any better. It fucking sucks seeing this happen here where we're given a chance to start a new life without Voldemort and that damn prophecy and all of the deaths of people we love during that time. Hell, I know what it's like to get caught up in the moment and go overboard, but I'm trying to change that too, just like I'm asking you to do when you see something going down about Halloween 1981. I know the memories are still fresh in some of your minds, and I respect that and hate that you had to go through that, don't ever doubt that. I can't convey in the proper words has it was never, ever my intention for us to die and I'm sorry that you had to go through that.

Give me the opportunity to clear Sirius' name here. I obviously die so I can't fight for his innocence, and I think he's spent enough time in his lifetime being unjustly branded as the traitor. I fully stand by my statement that he is my best mate and if I can grant him for forgiveness for something that he did not do then I fully expect you all to stand by me - by us. Peter was the Death Eater, the traitor, the mole, the rat - not Sirius. I don't care if I haven't finished reading through the book or lived through it - I don't need that to convince me that Sirius didn't do that because would never do that to us. I know the Marauders break during the War, and if this is how I can fix what happened with the three of us then so be it.

So is there something that I need to know? About these books that we come from? I want to know what happens, and I'd rather have one of you tell me instead of reading it in a damn book.