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anthony goldstein has a chart for this. (logiclogiclogic) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-02-07 18:38:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 15 2003, character: anthony goldstein, character: michael corner

Characters: Anthony & Michael
Setting: 15 November (Saturday), around 12:24PM.
Summary: Best mates being best mates, ~~possible~~ definite angsting because that's what they do best.
Rating: PG-13 because there might be language.

Since the night before had been perfectly nightmare-free, Anthony had tried to look on a... brighter side. Tried being the key word because honestly, he had a few things to be less than positive about. Like, for instance, the fact that he was ever aware that later on he had a nightmare to look forward to. He really hoped the bad reaction had been a one time thing as he wasn't very keen on the idea of feeling as if he was still there for half the day after waking. It wasn't very conducive to functionality nor productivity and Anthony had things he needed to focus on.

Like the warning system for one. He'd need a second opinion on his theory once it was completely figured out... preferably someone with a good knowledge of charms and defense spells - maybe he should just talk to Hermione, actually. He didn't want everyone to think things were all safe and dandy and then find out that, no, it hadn't done anything helpful at all in the long run. Which was part of the reason he hadn't tried to push Michael into not feeling to blame about his potion. Even if that hadn't been Anthony's original intention. He'd been much more concerned with the urge to be sick and the like - which had been new in a horrible way, but that was beside the point.

The point was that Anthony was reasonably sure he might have had a pseudo-solution. Something part sneakoscope, part portkey-like for the wizards and something to notify the nearest wizard relative for the Muggles. Of course, he could always switch it up and have both notify the DA to be broader in terms of the amount of help available.

Thinking about this was a good way to not focus on the body he'd found yesterday evening with Zacharias Smith. He was sure it wasn't so much the body itself not that he had time to... process it, so much as it was what the body represented, and -

Anthony shook his head, knocking on the door to Michael's flat because he was a civilised person who didn't just go letting himself into people's places on his own, and he decided he was not going to finish that thought because then he'd likely end up like Lavender in a week's time and start calling everything hopeless and the like.

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logiclogiclogic
2012-02-10 07:38 pm UTC (link)

Anthony had figured, the night before, that the woman probably hadn't died all that long before they'd found her, especially considering how strong the spell to keep the alley from anyone's notice had been at first. And the alley had looked as if it had seen a fight. He shrugged, though, answering Michael with, "No idea why she was there. From what I saw it the alley looked a bit of a mess, so I'd say she fought back. And it looked like the Killing Curse, but no one actually told me anything. I think once they realised I didn't actually see anything happen, they didn't feel the need to tell me much of anything at all. Which was fine with me, honestly."

When the owl arrived with the Prophet, Anthony saw Michael cringe and took the paper with a bit of hesitation, finding the more important headline after a moment. Did that - he'd found Seamus' mother last night, then? It made talking about it completely different than when the woman had been unknown to him just a bit ago. "But Dean as a possible suspect, though? Really?"

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mlcorner
2012-02-11 07:29 am UTC (link)

Michael knew that it was a long shot, but it was worth asking. So this woman had been murdered, obviously, and by the sounds of it, it was brutal. It could have been Pandora again - most likely it was. But for some reason it sounded odd to him and he couldn't pinpoint why. "The Killing Curse? Are you sure?" Pandora had not used the Killing Curse on anyone else so far, had she? She usually killed everyone in some brutal way, so why would she do in this woman this way? Could it possibly be someone else?

Michael just shook his head. "I doubt that's what the DMLE is actually saying. It's just the Prophet being the Prophet. If Dean is missing then he may have been kidnapped by whoever killed Seamus' mum...if it was Pandora; but she's never used Avada Kedavra before. Why would she do it now?"

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logiclogiclogic
2012-02-11 08:17 am UTC (link)

"Pretty sure, yeah. I mean, the scene wasn't very... um, bloody. Which sort of narrows down the methods of murder, I'd say." Anthony remembered that much, as there was little no chance that he'd have kept his lunch if it had been. He knew that much at least. He just wasn't a very big fan of violence unless in self-defence.

"I know it's not the DMLE. I'm just expressing my distaste at the Prophet and their lack of evolving past spinning an embellishment on every thing they write." Anthony shrugged. He wasn't really in the habit of thinking much on the way Pandora was happening to murder people as it wasn't very conducive to his sanity and if there was one thing Anthony was trying to keep steady, it was that. On the other hand, he couldn't really resist a theory discussion, even if he felt the topic a tad morbid.

"If the woman was Seamus' mum, which is highly likely considering I don't believe in coincidences that big, then Dean was with her. And that means two against one, right? Besides, that would also mean this all happened in an alleyway in Diagon Alley, which is busy enough in the middle of the day, let alone at around five when people are off work and milling about. Which I'd guess was the point of the don't-notice spell -- or whatever they used." He set the paper aside. "Staying with the theory of it being Pandora, maybe there was something more important than torturing the woman."

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