Hallowed Ground

date: 25 November 1997
characters: Padma Patil & OPEN
location: Hogwarts
private/semi-private/public: Public.
summary: Letter writing is not a lost art.
status: Beginning.

( Hair loose under the bright cowl she'd purchased last Hogsmeade weekend, Padma scanned the rows of huddled, hooting owls... )

Date: 12 November 1997
Characters: Theodore Nott, open to all at Hogwarts
Location: Hogwarts, the edge of the courtyard on the first floor
Private/semi-private/public: Public
Summary: Theodore spends breakfast somewhere he can practice
Status: Beginning

( alone but for a few leaves and the occasional temporary armoire, trunk, vase, or lantern )

date: 10 November 1997
characters: Theodore Nott & Padma Patil
location: Hogwarts, Professor Slughorn's Potions lesson.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-private.
summary: Paired for a lesson requires conversation of a certain sort, at least.
status: Complete.

( With all of their recent troubles, it had been shamefully easy to forget the smaller, more complicated ones that had preceded them... )

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: Any in the Great Hall
Location: The Greath Hall, Hogwarts
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Public
Summary: The Halloween Feast
Status: Incomplete

( Hogwarts, however changed, felt just as magical on Halloween )

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 18th, 1997
Characters: Theodore Nott, Padma Patil, Mrs. Flume, Morag MacDougal
Location: Honeydukes, Three Broomsticks, up to the school
Private/semi-private/public: Semi-Public
Summary: The day winds down
Status: beginning

( Honeydukes was nearly always Theodore's last stop in Hogsmeade )

Date: October 18th, 1997.
Characters: Sullivan Vaisey, Serafina Capper and Theodore Nott.
Location: The Three Broomsticks.
Private/semi-private/public: Private.
Summary: Sul and Fee meet up with Theodore to discuss business, books, and wanking materials.
Status: Complete.

( Maybe there was a club for short people. )

Date: 14 October 1997
Characters: Theodore Nott, Megan Jones, also Open
Location: Transfiguration
Private/semi-private/public: Public
Summary: Conjuring inanimate objects begins
Status: Beginning

( Inanimus Conjurus in practical application was much more complicated than the basic theory lessons they had had their O.W.L. year. )

Date: October 12th, 1997.
Characters: Theodore Nott and Morag MacDougal.
Location: Astronomy tower.
Private/semi-private/public: Semi-private.
Summary: Staying out late after Astronomy.
Status: Complete.

( particularly intriguing star clusters. )

Date: October 6, 1997
Characters: Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, a Gryffindor of younger years, Lavender Brown, anyone in the general vicinities too, I suppose!
Location: The Slytherin Common Room, Outside the Gryffindor Common Room
Private/Semi-private/Public: Semi-Public
Summary: Spreading rumours is an ugly habit
Status: Beginning

( So, I hear you have a crush on my boyfriend? )

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: 30th September, 1997.
characters: Theodore Nott, Zacharias Smith, open to others waiting for Ancient Runes
location: The hall outside the Ancient Runes classroom
private/semi-private/public: Semi-Public
summary: Waiting for class to start, Theodore and Zach talk
status: Beginning.

( Footsteps approaching on the stone drew his attention from the book he'd been reading. )

date: 20 September 1997
characters: Theodore Nott & Padma Patil
location: Hogwarts, the library.
private/semi-private/public: Semi-private.
summary: Books are dangerous, and readers moreso.
status: Complete.

( Crouched on the floor in the rather narrow section allotted for Muggle Studies... )

date: 20 September 1997
characters: Theodore Nott, Sullivan Vaisey
location: Hogwarts, Wherever Sul is
private/semi-private/public: Private
summary: Three weeks into school, Theodore makes a shopping list
status: complete

( Your Indebted Cousin )

date: 20 September 1997
characters: Lavender Brown, Theodore Nott
location: Hogwarts Halls
private/semi-private/public: public
summary: Lavender is out after curfew.
status: Complete.

( She couldn’t remember who was on rounds. The last thing she needed was detention with the Carrows. )

Date: 18 August, 1997.
Characters: Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Verity Jacobs, Lucius & Narcissa Malfoy
Location:Various
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Private
Summary: Pansy wants to celebrate her new position with friends
Status: Incomplete, beginning

Date: 26 July, 1997.
Characters: Megan Jones, Sullivan Vaisey and open to anyone else who would be found in such a place
Location: The Fwooper & Hellhound.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Public
Summary: Megan goes to a dive to see a concert
Status: Beginning

According to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Megan was spending her Saturday evening work at the Gemini. In fact, Darlene was given strict orders to cover for Meg if she had any contact with Megan's parents, though that was rather unlikely. Mr. Jones had never even visited Diagon Alley without the attendance of his daughter and Mrs. Jones was working late that night, catering a party at a local museum.

As soon as her shift was over, shortly before suppertime, Megan changed out of her work robes in the backroom and into something more suitable for underground bar. One of her favorite bands, Phoebe's Oracle, was playing tonight at the Fwooper & Hellhound and Megan would be damned if she let the bar's location prevent her from seeing them.

She was nervous, of course, to head down Knockturn Alley, but she did not allow her fears to be visable. Her face was stoney, a look that was easy for her, as she pushed open the door to the establishment. Inside, it looked nothing like her typical gatherings - the Three Broomsticks or even the Leaky Cauldron. Megan was hoping it was not obvious that she was a newcomer here.

But as she hear the sounds of the band warming up on stage, all her worries were pushed aside. Surely her love for this hard edged indie band, would make her a welcomed customer.

DATE: 21st July 1997
CHARACTERS: Theodore Nott and Pansy Parkinson.
LOCATION: Nott Manor, Chipping Camden.
PRIVATE/SEMI-PRIVATE/PUBLIC: Private
SUMMARY: Pansy is invited to the home of Theodore's aunt and uncle, under dubious pretexts.
STATUS: Beginning

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Blood dripped from the small, emotionless mouth, the eyes waxen and dull. Hair was smoothed to the head, its glue the boy's congealing yet warm blood. It was a brilliant contrast- pale, near-porcelain flesh and the rubies of his life's essence. Theodore Nott was dead.

( Love, Loathing and Hara Kiri. )

Date: 18 July, 1997.
Characters: Megan Jones and Theodore Nott
Location: Diagon Alley, leading to the Leaky Cauldron
Private/semi-private/public: Public.
Summary: Furious exchange
Status: Complete?

It was amazing that what started out as a simple shift at the cafe could turn so terribly ugly. Megan hadn't realized it at first, simply navigating between the tables - leaving steaming beverages at some, clearing empty cups from others. In fact, if it hadn't slowed down from a post lunch rush, she might not even have noticed it at all.

Two older witches sat at a table in the corner casually sipping tea, yet their conversation touched on more than just their knitting or attendance at last week's social. As Megan dropped off a saucer of lemons, she overheard such stinging words "filthy", "dangerous", and "Muggles" - not to mention "I support whatever needs to be done..."

Date: 15 July, 1997.
Characters: Sullivan Vaisey and Theodore Nott.
Location: Trafalgar Square, London.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Private.
Summary: A perfectly legitimate business deal, thank-you very much!
Status: Complete.

( Noon. )

Date: 8 July, 1997.
Characters: Sullivan Vaisey and Theodore Nott.
Location: Various.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Private.
Summary: An apparently sloppily-typewritten note arrives via owl.
Status: Complete.

( well, there's no blood involved... )

Date: 4 July, 1997.
Characters: Theodore Nott and Severus Snape.
Location: Various.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Private.
Summary: A unique message arrives for Severus.
Status: Beginning.

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( For Your Blood Only )

Date: 4 July, 1997.
Characters: Theodore Nott, Anthony Goldstein and (Open).
Location: Diagon Alley; Flourish and Blotts.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Public.
Summary: Encounters over many a forgotten lore.
Status: Beginning.

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Curse the oily hide that made apparation the purview of a seventeen year old. Theodore was not focused upon the fact that in but a few days, he too could join their ranks- the inconvenience was now. As it was, he'd had to take the dreaded Floo from the home of his Uncle and Aunt in Chipping Camden. Damn the Ministry to Hades.

An immediate wave of the wand sent the soot and debris of the hearth into their suicidal leap away from his clothes, skin and hair. Theodore did so detest being dirty. Only then did he step from the fireplace, a determined walk upon his feet. Dressed in surprising monotone for such a glorious summer's day, he stuck out.

( With Purpose )

Date: 3 July, 1997.
Characters: Sullivan Vaisey and Theodore Nott.
Location: The Fwooper & Hellhound, a very seedy bar down Knockturn Alley.
Private/Semi-Private/Public: Public.
Summary: In which a transaction takes place.
Status: Complete.

( If she asks just tell her that we're too far gone to deal. She should know exactly how that feels. )