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Lisa Turpin (bookshop_mama) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-10-31 13:39:00

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character: alicia spinnet, character: lisa turpin

What the Book Halloween
Who: All kids and grown ups! (add your tags)
What: Halloween fun and games
Where: What the Book?, Monument Alley
When: Oct 31, 5pm - 8pm
Rating: SFW

The evening starts out at exactly 5pm, when children in costumes parade down Monument Alley, stopping outside several other shops that are participating for little treats. The parade ends back at What the Book? for the party. The store is all decked out for Halloween, and one of the rooms is set up as a haunted house, complete with a "gross-out" table (where kids are blindfolded and told to touch "eyeballs" and "brains", etc. There's also less scary things for the younger kids. Rolf's shop has provided a couple of owls to add atmosphere.

Throughout the evening are games (pin the face on the pumpkin, etc.), scary stories, and delicious treats (some from Sweet Nothings, others made by the bookstore cafe staff--pumpkin soup, "finger sandwiches" (hot dogs), etc.<) On display are Muggle ghost story books, some horror fiction, etc. Spooky music is also playing softly in the background. There are prizes given out, and every child will get a little bag with some candy, a book and a few other little Halloween treats.

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Percy & OPEN

abidingpercy
2014-11-01 04:36 am UTC (link)

Percy and Lucy arrived around 5:30 after visiting a small handful of homes for trick-or-treating. The moment she saw the gross-out table, Lucy released her grip on Percy's hand and went straight for it. He smiled adoringly and shook his head, thinking on how he'd have never done such a thing at her age (but then, at her age he already had three younger brothers to watch over).

He gave his daughter space to explore and have fun, but still kept an eye on her as he went to browse a nearby display of children's stories, hoping to pick up one or two to take home with them.

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Percy & Alicia & OPEN

_alicia_
2014-11-01 12:42 pm UTC (link)

From the looks of it, Alicia thought that she and the twins had arrived shortly after Percy. Isla and Liam had already done a bit of Halloween’ing – as Isla had called it – in school, but they had needed to stop by the house before going to What the Book?, so Isla could change into the costume she had really wanted to wear for Halloween. Unlike Liam, who was still dressed up as Elton John on the cover of his favourite album, Isla had had to come up with a Muggle friendly alternative to going as Oliver Wood. It hadn’t taken her long to decide on David Beckham, her favourite footballer, and had gone in full football gear and the white Real Madrid uniform with Beckham 23 on the back. Tonight, though, she was wearing the Puddlemere uniform that Oliver had given her, only with “Wood” on the back instead of the usual “I. Fawley”. Her hair was combed back into the man-bun that Oliver’s hair wasn’t quite long enough to be, and she had carefully examined the reddish tint that Alicia had charmed onto her cheeks and chin to make sure that it looked like Oliver’s scruff. Sometimes, sometimes Alicia wondered about her daughter’s obsession with sports. Other times she praised herself lucky that at least she cared about something.

Picking up a cup of coffee, Alicia went to Percy. She was still wearing the black dress she had worn for the school’s event, though she had taken out the vampire fangs after she had scraped her lip a couple of times too many. “Happy Halloween,” she greeted him, and watched as Isla and Liam joined Lucy by the gross-out table. True to their nature, Isla didn’t hesitate in either sticking her hands in the bowls or shrieking when she made contact, while Liam was slightly hesitant, though still looked thrilled once he finally got his hand in. “I see you’ve made it through the week, even with the colourful ties.”

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Percy & Alicia & OPEN

abidingpercy
2014-11-02 12:52 am UTC (link)

Percy spotted Liam and Islan before he did Alicia. Lucy greeted them with squeals of joy, then between gross-out touchings, she showed off the wings of her winged horse costume which were charmed to flutter and flap in time to her movements, as well as a tail charmed to move back and forth. He didn't have to be within hearing range to know Lucy was asking the twins about their costumes, and as he highly suspected at least one of them had Muggle origins, he could already anticipate an argument with Allegra over the Muggle knowledge.

"Happy Hallowe'en," he replied with a nod. He looked down and lifted up the tie he was currently wearing, which featured a number of multicoloured automobiles, and winced. "Thankfully, today is the last day. You look lovely, by the way. How were the twins with the excitement?"

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Percy & Alicia & OPEN

_alicia_
2014-11-05 09:17 pm UTC (link)

“Thank you,” Alicia smiled before her eyes dropped to Percy’s ties. “As multi-coloured ties go, that one’s not half-bad. You should see some of the ones my dad has that he claims are stylish,” she chuckled.

“The twins are loving it, loved getting to dress up for school rather than put on their uniform today, though Isla drove a hard bargain trying to convince me why I might be wrong in not allowing her to go there as Oliver Wood, so we settled on her getting to go as him tonight instead.” Nodding towards the children, her smile brightened when Lucy’s wings flapped and the tail swayed. “Lucy looks adorable tonight. Did you do her costume?”

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Re: Percy & Alicia & OPEN

abidingpercy
2014-11-08 05:37 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you, but I believe that is a tie collection I can do without seeing myself," he replied with a touch of humour.

Percy nodded and refrained from speaking for a moment - the situation with Isla reminding him of his conversations with Alicia over Muggle schooling versus home-schooling. He would simply continue to hope that there would be no incident that would require the attention of obliviators for the Muggles in the school - though his eyes may have betrayed the thoughts in his head. At least now he was polite enough to keep his thoughts to himself.

"We had it made by Pandora Montgomery, and I'm quite pleased with the work she did. More importantly, Lucy is pleased." The fond look in his eyes showed just how much that mattered to him. "After here, we've one more stop before going home for the night. I need to pay up the last portion of my bet, after all."

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