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lorem ipsum mods (loremipsummods) wrote in loremrpg,
@ 2011-04-30 00:57:00

Entry tags:

!incomplete, alecto carrow, alice selwyn, amelia bones, amos diggory, amycus carrow, andromeda black, arthur weasley, aurelia parkinson, ava lovestorm, bellatrix black, benjy fenwick, bertie higgs, caradoc dearborn, cyprien finnigan, daisy hookum, damocles belby, delia peasegood, dolores umbridge, dorcas meadowes, duncan yaxley, edgar bones, edwin carmichael, emmeline vance, fabian prewett, felicity yaxley, frank longbottom, gawain robards, gideon prewett, gilderoy lockhart, gladys gudgeon, greta catchlove, hestia jones, inigo imago, james potter, kira fenwick, lily evans, lucius malfoy, marlene mckinnon, mary macdonald, merwyn spinnet, molly prewett, narcissa black, patricia fells, peter pettigrew, rabastan lestrange, regulus black, remus lupin, rita skeeter, rodolphus lestrange, rolanda hooch, septima vector, severus snape, sirius black, sophia rowle, sybill trelawney, ted tonks, theodore jordan, ursula flint, xenophilius lovegood

Characters: Everyone!
Setting: Great Hall, evening of Saturday, 30 October
Content: SFW
Summary: Everybody parties at the Halloween Ball!

This is your ball post, everyone! Here's how this will go.

Different locations in the Great Hall will be posted as separate comments, which will include a little description of each. These will be the Entrance Hall, the Dance Floor, and the Tables. You should reply to any/all of these comments with your character, and if other characters reply to that subthread, they are interacting with your character. Please indicate in the subject whether your character's subthread is open or whether it has participants in mind already (EG, maybe John is at the ball and taking a break from dancing at the tables, waiting to see if someone comes up to him, so the title for his comment would be "Jack/Open", but maybe Jill is meeting Adam at the ball, so she would reply to the Entrance Hall thread with "Jill/Adam" in the subject).

Please wait to reply the ball until all the comment locations are up. Backdating of threads/journals related to the ball is allowed until Tuesday, and posting placeholders is not allowed. If you have any questions, feel free to PM the mod account!

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James/Lily/Open

stagswagger
2011-04-30 07:19 pm UTC (link)

Until late last night, James had been in a state of utter confusion. He had been sure that would be a perpetual state he'd have to work himself out of. When his sole supporters began to accept this fact as well, the boy figured he was a lost cause. Still he did his best to mimic the actions of the Marauders, knowing well enough that was a good place to start acquiring his former glory again. The one thing he couldn't bring himself to, however, was loathing Severus Snape. He couldn't quite figure out why he'd begun to hate the boy to begin with. Sure he was a Slytherin, and from all James had read, he didn't receive Slytherins warmly back in the day (i.e. two weeks ago). All that aside, Severus had made a point to meet with him following his arousal from the comatose state, and through him James was able to piece together the missing information. When James had finally come clean with Sirius, his other half was beyond furious. He wasn't sure if Sirius was more upset over the fact Severus had visited, that he had told James about the accident, or the fact James was grateful for him. Nevertheless, the damage had been done.

True to Lily's suggestions to Pomfrey, James' memory returned shortly after his relocation to the Gryffindor boys' dorms. He made arrangements to spend alone time with Lily that evening in hopes they could start building up a relationship again before their upcoming date, and out of nowhere he began to recall information no one had told him about recently, such as the falling out between Lily and Severus. Though the two were beyond ecstatic his memory was coming back full steam, it was somewhat bittersweet. Having seen a different perspective of his rival over the past few days, James felt somewhat guilty for the way his friendship with Lily had turned out. He wasn't about to tell that to anyone else, particularly because it was a brand new feeling he wasn't willing to face just yet. Surely he couldn't go on being friendly to Snape, but maybe he could refrain from torturing him without just cause. That would be apology enough, right?

James forced himself not to think about the events of the past week this evening, though. He had made plans to meet up with Lily on the dance floor within the hour, and prior to that the Marauders would have to successfully sneak in and spike the punch. Thankfully working mischief once again brought back a great deal of his former pride, and as far as anyone else could tell, the old Potter was back in action. Wormtail slipped past Filch in his animagus form, only to cause a ruckus in the Great Hall to gain pursuit. At that point, the remaining Marauders poured various bottles of alcohol into the punch. Just prior to that they'd spiked the reserves in the kitchens directly below, so the entire evening was set. It helped they'd mixed potions into the concoction to ensure the taste of alcohol was so faint that the adults and prefects couldn't figure them out.

Once that was finished, Remus returned to wait in the Entrance Hall for Dorcas while James and Sirius moseyed about the dance floor as the other students began filing in. Though James had gone as Godric Gryffindor before, this year he decided to one-up himself by working with Sirius to nick the original sword of Godric from Dumbledore's office. It was a tricky feat, but they managed. If anything, Sirius seemed tickled pink to have James back to his normal shit-disturbing self.

James cut his best mate's talk short with an abrupt hand to Sirius' chest, his eyes glued to something, or rather someone, else. Even though he could only catch glimpses of her hair through the crowd of students, he knew precisely who that was. "Sorry, mate," he interjected, his eyes still fixated as he allowed his hand to drop from Sirius' chest. With that, James began the trek through his fellow students on the way to Lily, giving a smile here and a clap of the shoulder there as they welcomed him back.

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James/Lily/Open

ungilded
2011-04-30 10:39 pm UTC (link)

Though Lily often proudly stated with Dorcas that she was not a 'giddy girl', that just meant that her whole life didn't revolve around preparations for balls and dates, not that she couldn't enjoy them, or even devote the occasional day to them. Today, for example. The Halloween ball was always a big celebration, and this year was no exception. Both of Lily's costumes, the Athena gown for tonight and her slightly more risqué costume for tomorrow, were ordered from a muggle mail-order costume catalogue her mother had sent her.

Because tonight was a special occasion, Lily allowed herself to primp a little. She felt she deserved it, too, after the stresses of the last week. Having someone you deeply cared about fall into a coma and then suffer from amnesia all in the same week took its toll on a girl! She let her stress out by taking an extended bath in the prefect's bath, then spent most of the afternoon getting ready with Dorcas and keeping her friend focused on the evening to come rather than the one that had just transpired. She wasn't going to let anything ruin the evening that Remus had planned so much for, after all, especially not since Lily knew that Remus and Dorcas would be just wonderful together.

In regards to her own date, Lily was excited to be going with James, as they had originally planned back before everything in their lives had gone a bit mad. Hopefully the insanity would be merely temporary, and everything would be a little calmer now, at least for a while. James had asked her to meet him on the dance floor, undoubtedly because he and his mates were going to pull some sort of prank (likely their usual punch-spiking). Lily was actually pleased that he had made that request, because it meant he was compromising and trying to split his time equally between her and his mates-and his failure to do just that was what had started the avalanche in the first place, so this was a welcome change.

Lily had left Dorcas at the entrance hall to find her man and was mingling at the edge of the dance floor, eyes idly casting around for James or perhaps one of her mates to chat with, when she felt a hand on her waist. She smiled at once and turned, knowing it would be James. Her smile widened when she was proved right, and Lily reached up a hand to the back of his neck, pulling him gently down to her for a soft kiss. "Hello, Godric," she teased gently when they separated, taking in his costume with a glance, then looking into his eyes again.

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