Hallowed Ground

april 4, 2009

date: November 29, 1997
characters: Seamus Finnigan and Neville Longbottom
location: Hogwarts Library
private/semi-private/public: semi-private (if you have a good reason to crash, ping me!  the library is public after all)
summary: Seamus and Nev spend some time in the library catching up....
status: Beginning

April 1, 2009

date: November 26, 1997
characters: Severus Snape and OPEN
location: Hogwarts
private/semi-private/public: Public
summary: Severus encounters a variety of students and staff during an after dinner prowl stroll...
status: Beginning

date: 22 November 1997
characters: Megan Jones and Neville Longbottom
location: Hogwarts (Dining Hall/Entrance/Grounds)
private/semi-private/public: Public (Come on in, if you chose).
summary: Megan has a bone to pick
status: Beginning.

It was getting cold rather quickly now with the winter holidays right around the corner. In just a matter of days, the echoes of multi-colored leaves had faded, fallen to the ground, leaving nothing but withered branches in their absence. Soon enough, there would be snow. 

Megan had been in the Great Hall, mulling over a bowl of hot oatmeal, topped with melted brown sugar, when out of the corner of her eye she caught the sight of Neville Longbottom exiting the dining area. 

Neville Longbottom. Gryffindor Extrordinaire.

She wondered if the majority of the Hufflepuffs in her year disappeared, would she become more Puffy to fill the gap?

Megan finished the last of the bowl and swung her legs over the bench and into a standing position. Quickening her footsteps, she caught up to the awkward boy. "Oi, Longbottom."

Date: 10 November 1997
Characters: Ernie Macmillan & Neville Longbottom
Location: Hogwarts, near the greenhouses
Private/semi-private/public: Semi-Private.
Summary: Rebel solidarity
Status: Beginning.

( Professor Sprout sent them off with an essay to write. But Ernie had other things on his mind. )

Date: November 4, 1997
Characters: Attendees to Professor Carrow's Dark Arts Class for the 6th and 7th years
Location: DADA classroom
Private/Semi-private/Public: Public
Summary: Further instruction on the Imperius Curse.
Status: Beginning

"Once you've successfully cast the curse, give your subject a few simple tasks. Have them pick up a book then maybe have them imitate an animal, perhaps a monkey." Amycus said, a small leer twisting his mouth. That second command should be easy enough to pull off when the class - like the school - was overrun with these dirty-blooded animals.

"Remember the longer a subject is under the Imperius Curse, the harder it is to fight off. As the recently departed Alastor Moody found out a few years before." It bugged him that annoying old besom Umbridge had taken Moody's eye; Amycus would have quite liked that little trophy for himself.

"After they've completed the simpler tasks, you're going to ask them to point their wands at themselves and perfom a hex. Nothing too big or painful." For now. "Maybe just a Stinging Hex. Because once your subject is willing to hurt themselves or a loved one, then you have total control over them and you have mastered the Imperius Curse."

date: 31 October 1997
characters: Ginny Weasley, Seamus Finnegan, Luna Lovegood & Neville Longbottom.
location: Hogwarts, Gryffindor common room. Corridors and Headmaster's office later.
private/semi-private/public: Private.
summary: Rhymin' and stealin'... the sword of Godric Gryffindor.
status: Beginning.

( As he passed through the portrait hole a group of younger years leapt out at him, eyes and hair wild, their costumes variously put together with Charms and scraps of odd clothing... )

date: 29 October 1997
characters: Ginny Weasley & Neville Longbottom.
location: Hogwarts, Gryffindor common room.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-Private.
summary: First annual meeting of the We Miss Harry fan club. Honest.
status: Complete.

( N.E.W.T. year was everything he anticipated. Awful... )

Date: October 22, 1997
Characters: Attendees to Professor Carrow's Dark Arts Class for the 6th and 7th years
Location: DADA classroom
Private/Semi-private/Public: Public
Summary: Further instruction on the Imperius Curse.
Status: Complete

Over the past few weeks, Amycus had grown suspicious. The students hadn't put up the fight he'd expected when they started on the Imperius. They were taking to it too easily. The little brats were up to something, he could feel it. But he couldn't prove it. The Imperius Curse was an easy enough one to fake without worrying about detection.

To a point.

He'd given each student a white rat to put under Imperius, knowing there was no way they could fake that.

"When you've successfully cast the curse," he began as he strolled through the room, "make your rat stand up on its hind legs. Maybe have it give a little wave with its paw."

Date: October 18, 1997 (backdated)
Characters: Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, and Kinsey Bundy (later)
Location: Honeydukes, Hogsmeade
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Semi-Private (it is a busy store, after all....)
Summary: Seamus attempts to make amends for his fight with Neville, and Kinsey learns more about the DA....
Status: Beginning

Date: October 18th, 1997.
Characters: Ernie Macmillan & Neville Longbottom
Location: The Three Broomsticks
Private/semi-private/public: Private.
Summary: Ernie has a mission, and seeks out Neville to discuss Important Things.
Status: Complete.

( Ernie was always one for getting right to the meat of things, even if the way he got there was a bit round-a-bout. )

date: 18 October 1997
characters: Anthony Goldstein & Neville Longbottom.
location: Hogsmeade, The Three Broomsticks.
private/semi-private/public: Private.
summary: Neville has a proposition for Anthony.
status: Complete.

( And if there was anything they needed now, it was security in numbers... )

Date: October 18th, 1997.
Characters: Hannah Abbott & Neville Longbottom
Location: A cafe in Hogsmeade.
Private/semi-private/public: Private.
Summary: Neville needs food and Hannah accompanies him.
Status: Finished.

( Neville felt like a little man of business... )

date: 1 October 1997
characters: Seamus Finnegan & Neville Longbottom
location: Hogwarts, Gryffindor tower.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-private.
summary: After a harrowing DADA class, Seamus and Neville skip lunch.
Status: Beginning.

( Divide and conquer... )

Date: October 1, 1997
Characters: Attendees to Professor Carrow's Dark Arts Class for the 6th and 7th years
Location: DADA classroom
Private/Semi-private/Public: Public
summary: Today the class will learn the Imperius Curse.
Status: Complete

( Any Volunteers? )

date: 29 September 1997
characters: Luna Lovegood & Neville Longbottom.
location: Hogwarts.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-Private.
summary: DA chattiness? TBD.
status: Beginning.

( It had been too dangerous to carry the galleon on his person, not this year... )

date: 25th September, 1997.
characters: Justin Finch-Fletchley and Neville Longbottom.
location: Walking back from Herbology.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-Private.
summary: Chatter among the greenhouses.
status: Complete.

( I like working with things that don't bite or boil over or turn into a lampshade instead of a squid. )

date: 28th of September, 1997
characters: Ginny Weasley, Pansy Parkinson, maybe more later.
location: The corridors
private/semi-private/public: Semi-Private.
summary: Them's fightin' words...

( I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, AS LONG AS IT'S ABOUT ME )

Date: June 29, 1997
Characters: Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom
Location:Diagon Alley
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Semi-Private (if you want to bump into them just ping!)
Summary: Luna and Neville meet up to talk summer and plants
Status: Incomplete