Changed RPG

Who: Alice, Penny, NPC's
When: Sunday afternoon.
Where: Unnamed Order safehouse.
What: Alice and Penny play with some muggleborn kids.
Rating: Low
Open/Closed: Closed, unless some Order members want to pop in and play.

( The safe house was starting to look crowded. )

( Owl to: Alice + Frank Longbottom, Alicia Spinnet + one, Angelina & Roger Johnson, Bill Weasley + Fleur Delacour, Charlie Weasley + one, Fred Weasley + one, George Weasley + one, Katie Bell + one, Lee Jordan + one, Molly + Arthur Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks + one, Remus Lupin + one, Trevor Scabior + Gretchen Watkins )

Who: Order of the Phoenix
When: Wednesday night.
Where: The Burrow
What: Meeting.
Rating: Low
Open/Closed: Open to all Order members, plus the trio.
IC/OOC: (As per new IC/OOC rules, check ins are welcome to establish what your character does, but are not counted toward activity.)

( This meeting was long overdue. )

Alright, the Order meeting that got called happened tonight at The Burrow around eight. Things to discuss:

- Minerva has information from a source inside the Ministry that there will be Muggleborn Registration pushed through right after the holiday. The Order has safehouses in place, but needs a method of getting muggleborns to them and was of getting them out of the country if need be. There are some organizations already laying plans to do this, like the Society for Distressed Witches, so someone Caradoc is charged with investigating Societies like those that might be able to help the Order under the radar. Maybe Lee's show can also be used to get information out to Muggleborns and get them in touch with the Order. They'll also probably need safehouses overseas, etc.

- Remus is convinced that anti-creature legislation goes hand in hand with anti-muggleborn legislation, and is going to reach out to the werewolf communities again, but has had very little luck. He brings up that he thinks he should contact Rolf Scamander about it, since Rolf has had better contact than he has. We also need people reaching out to goblins, vampires, centaurs, and giants. And merpeople. We should totally do something cool with merpeople.

- Counter terrorism with terrorism? I don't know if it would come up at the meeting or not, but I know Moody had a plan to take out the Daily Prophet. And it's time to start mounting a real answer to the Ministry occupation. I'm sure that if that's brought up it might cause some strife between the Order members who are still at the Ministry and the ones who aren't? Remus has no ideas on this, though, so he hopes there's some actual discussion and a plan put in place. He's getting a little frustrated that the Order seems to just be responding to things, rather than acting. He's just getting antsy.

- The last order meeting they had there was a list of possible recruits to the DEs. They know now that some of them have been recruited, so they should probably talk about forging ties with allied societies, recruiting more, and also what they can do to sway some of the newer Death Eaters or possible Death Eaters to reconsider - or at least to stay out of the fight.

- Anything else I haven't thought of? I'm sure there is! Bring it up in your IC/OOC comments!

( From Neville... )
For Alice, his mum
For Frank, his Da
For Luna
For his other friends, he got each a this: A book**the magical version of it, identifying magical plants, accompanying a bag of treats from Honeydukes for Dean and Seamus and Ron and Harry and Hermione and anyone else that I the forgetful mun have forgotten..


( From Charlie... )For Arthur
For Molly
For Bill
For Fleur
For Percy
For Fred and George, one for each
For Ginny
Ron....he will get Ron anything he asks for if he only comes out of hiding!


( From Rabastan.... )

( From Audrey.... )

( From Ayers.... )

Like everyone else, if you think you got something you probably did!

( Harry Potter )

( Remus Lupin )

( Charity Burbage )


( Alfie Cattermole )


( Bellatrix Lestrange )

( Astoria Greengrass )

( George Weasley )

( Veronica Smethley )

( Graham Montague )

( Kingsley Shacklebolt )

((OOC: If my character WOULD have given one of yours something, then just assume they did, even if they're not on the list. I only did the ones I could think of readily, as I'm lousy with gifts! Also Ron apologizes for not getting anyone anything, but it's hard to shop when one is Undesirable #3. There is no fancy links, because I am lazy and want to actually get caught up on tags.))

( From Melinda )

( From Cale )

( From Lia )

( From Justin )

( From Lee )

( From Sirius )

( From Alice )

Who: Frank and Alice Longbottom (and later, Severus Snape)
When: This evening, right after Frank's meeting with Walden
Where: Home, then Hogwarts
What: They're BORED. People do weird things when they're bored, like try to sneak into Hogwarts to visit their children.
Rating: Pretty low, I think

( On an unrelated note, I did something stupid today. )

Who: John Dawlish & Alice Longbottom
What: Auror reunion! Kind of.
Where: A health foods shop, London.
When: This evening
Warnings/Rating: TBA/Low

( Why anyone would advertise that their biscuits had no sugar wasn't something he could figure out. )

Across the country as things went dark, Bonfire Night fireworks began. As soon as those first bursts began in the sky, the marks of all Death Eaters burned, summoning them to their Lord’s side. The place, this time, a home in London.

There are two bodies, freshly killed, and Bellatrix sits between them on the sofa. Voldemort explains that the woman is a halfblood who dirtied herself by marrying a muggle. The two have a daughter who’s currently disgracing wizardingkind by being taught at Hogwarts. Obviously, this must be stopped. The dead bodies are Kathleen Li and Jun Li, Su’s parents. This is their house. There are pictures of the two with their daughter around, if anyone happens to recognize her.

Voldemort reveals that over the last several days the way has been cleared at the Ministry for the next step in His plan. And that tonight the Ministry, and power over Wizarding Britian, will be His.

( The Plan )

I’m going to start subthreads for each level of the Ministry.

Death Eaters can be masked if they choose to be, or open. DEs, comment if you were masked or not. How well you did your job. Etc. Anyone can feel free to post in with NPC family members and/or just random NPCs for you to terrify/kill/turn/etc. We need a variety of NPCs. From supporters who are glad to give help to the DEs, to people turning out of fear, to people escaping, to muggleborns dying! So jump in with whoever you’d like. While this thread will be IC/OOC, it would be fun to see some subthreads with some of the attack played out! However, it IS Saturday, and a holiday, so they offices would not be all that busy, so bear that in mind. Most groups of DEs will not meet more than ten people or so in any given office.

Order Members - Snape is going to manage to get patronus messages to Order members about this going down, so Order members can feel free to swarm to the Ministry’s aid. Unfortunately, they will not win the day, but you can feel free to jump in to any threads and battle! This patronus message is also the way that Minerva and Albus can find out about the attack and begin to prepare the professors, etc. for the defense of Hogwarts. Nothing will happen at the school tonight, but Albus will be fortifying it and making sure that when they do try something, the new 'Ministry' will not be able to get in.

Ministry members, if you were at the Ministry for some reason tonight, you should jump in on the thread for your specific level. People with NPC family members at the Ministry who you do not want injured, either have them not be at work, or have them get out quick! Or, of course, have them turn to the dark side!

Those who do get out of the Ministry will probably send frantic owls to their loved ones, messages, etc., about the Ministry falling to Death Eaters, unless they’re too worried about the threats to their families to do so? That’s up to you. Remember the “The Ministry’s been taken” fiasco at the Bill/Fleur canon wedding? I imagine that frantic scene happens in a lot of homes tonight. But it will not be reported in the papers, so unless you have first hand knowledge there is going to be a lot of conjecture and hearsay and disbelief. Phoenix Radio will be bringing you real news soon.

Everyone remember to communicate, etc. If someone is jumping into your level with an NPC, be sure to talk to them about what is going to happen to that NPC. Also, if you would please list out a list of the dead in the thread for LIST OF THE DEAD that will make it easier for us to have a good list of them later. The same goes for injuries, they should go on the LIST OF INJURES thread.

Questions should go in the QUESTIONS thread!

( Reference )

Who: Frank & Alice Longbottom
When: Sunday afternoon.
Where: The Ministry, to start.
What: Alice is working overtime, Frank objects.
Rating: TBD, but probably low.
Open/Closed: Closed

( Alice was frustrated. )

Who: Open to All
When: Saturday
Where: Hogsmeade
What: Hogsmeade Weekend!
Rating: Low (If anything adultish happens, please break it off and segue to a separate thread!)
IC/OOC: Open to any who want to appear. Feel free to check in with what your character did, or thread IC, whichever you prefer.

( Hogsmeade weekends are good for business. )

( Anonymous Owl to Susan Bones. )

( Anonymous Owl to Alice Longbottom. )

( Owl to Contessa Avery - Hexed for her eyes only. )

Who: Alice Longbottom, Hannah Abbot
When: Friday evening.
Where: Hogwarts, Dumbledore's office.
What: Alice has to break the bad news.
Rating: Low, but warning for talk of death and murder.
Open/Closed: Closed

( Alice loved her job. )

Who: OPEN to any who can and want to attend!
When: Wednesday, September 21, all day
Where: Hogsmeade
What: Annual Hogsmeade Autumnal Equinox Celebration
Rating: Low
Open/Closed: OPEN

( What more could anybody ask for in an Autumnal Celebration? )

Who: Alice Longbottom, Verity Weller
When: Wednesday afternoonish.
Where: Diagon.
What: Random run in and scene lottery prompt! (I get a little bit closer to feeling fine)
Rating: TBD, but low.
Open/Closed: Closed

( It had been a frustrating week. )

( Owls sent to Alice Longbottom, Professor McGonogall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Sprout )

Who: The Order
When: Tonight, 11 pm
Where:Remus’ flat
What: Remus called a meeting.
Rating: TBA
Open/Closed: Closed to Order, IC/OOC

Remus wasn’t apt to trust Nott’s information either, but the fact was he had trusted Nott’s mannerisms, and the reasoning for his turning was so vile that Remus thought it definitely meshed with what he new of the older man.

He made sure things were neat in his flat and waited for the Order members to arrive.

( ”IC/OOC” )

( Pushed onto the desk of a trustworthy Hitwizard who was then nicely bullied into taking care of it immediately. )

Who: Anyone going to Hogwarts.
What: The train ride.
Where: Platform 9 3/4 and then the Hogwarts Express
When: September 1st, 11 a.m.
Rating: TBD
Status: IC/OOC, OPEN

The Hogwarts Express leaves Kings Cross Station, London without fail at 11 a.m. on September First. It has done so every year, and will continue to do so, and this bright September morning was no exception. The bustle on the platform as families said goodbye was, perhaps, quieter than usual. More worried. With the rumours and evidence of dark happenings growing stronger every day, a large number of the parents were less happy about sending their children off.

Still, it was Hogwarts, and for many their only option, and so here they were, and what they lacked in good spirits they made up for in tight hugs and words of love, for the most part. Perhaps some felt better because it was Hogwarts, a bastion of safety for centuries, but the worry and trepidation was thick in the air of Platform 9 3/4 as students kissed their parents goodbye and boarded the scarlet train, ready (or not) for another year.

IC/OOC - Open for goodbye scenes on the platform, and anything related to the train ride!