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Finnigan's Mod (finnigansmod) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-05-03 10:16:00

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character: charlie weasley, character: hermione granger, character: richard summerby

In Memoriam
Who: Open
What: Memorial 'Service' of sorts
Where: Phoenix statue on Monument Alley
When: Sunday 3rd May, after sundown
Rating: SFW for now

Though the Ministry had announced the place and time of this year's Victis Honor Memorial, they hadn't revealed the exact nature of the event. In past years, people had often gathered at various places across the country - the Hogwarts grounds, Hogsmeade, Dumbledore's tomb and Monument Alley among them - after dark to send up sparks of light into the sky. This year, some clever Ministry official had decided to take advantage of the tradition, and make it even more spectacular.

For the week leading up to Victis Honor day the phoenix statue in Monument Alley had been specially charmed to attract any passing 'lumos' incantations. When darkness fell on the Sunday, each light it had collected would appear somewhere on the stone surface. As more and more lights were added, the idea was that the statue would be covered entirely in light - and at that point, it would flicker like flame for a brief moment and then the statue would be revealed once more, in a slightly different position - as if the phoenix had risen from the ashes.

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Charlie and Open

hopalongcharlie
2015-05-06 08:31 pm UTC (link)

Charlie had been lurking around the statue in Monument Alley for quite a while, mostly trying to stay at the edge of the crowd. At least unlike the day before this was a more sombre event. He knew that Victis Honor day needed to move on and he honestly was feeling a little easier about it with each passing year, but he'd still not stayed long and had ended up going home and drinking far more than usual.

After mostly recovering from his hangover he'd gone and spent the day at his parents' house remembering all sorts of things about Fred, and all of his other siblings too.

He'd watched as the points of light slowly emerged, trying to focus on a bright future not the lights that had been extinguished by war. Mostly he was succeeding. He had to admit that the statue was beautiful. The Ministry had got it right this year, or as right as it was ever likely to be.

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