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Pandora's Box Mods (pandoramods) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-10-26 12:23:00

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!status: complete, ^date: october 31 2003, character: adrian pucey, character: alicia spinnet, character: angelina johnson, character: bianca dunstan, character: cade warrington, character: cho chang, character: dean thomas, character: ernie macmillan, character: hannah abbott, character: harry potter, character: hermione granger, character: jayne dough, character: justin finch-fletchley, character: lavender brown, character: luna lovegood, character: melinda bobbin, character: percy weasley, character: ron weasley, character: seamus finnigan, character: theodore nott, character: tracey davis, character: zacharias smith, npc: kingsley shacklebolt, npc: pandora zurlo

Ministry Gala Event!
Characters: OPEN TO ALL. Please tag with your own character(s) when you comment/they arrive.
Setting: The Ministry Atrium, Level 8, beginning at 7 PM and running until midnight
Summary: It's the Halloween ministry gala/party! Come in costume (muggle or otherwise), in elegant wear, or in dress robes. The event begins at 7PM with refreshments, appetizers, finger foods and cocktails. Desserts are served later in the evening, but the cocktails remain available all night long. There is no full dinner, as it would be quite unwieldy with the amount of people expected to attend. The dance floor is open, a live band is playing, and the atmosphere is almost aggressively pleasant. For safety reasons, wands are being checked (surrendered) at the entrances. Unless your character is on-duty at the party, he or she will not have her wand on his/her person after entering.
Rating: Let's go with R for now, as there will be some dark occurrences later in the evening. We will update as necessary.

The event coordinators at the Ministry of Magic were in fine form in the hours leading up to the start of the gala. Everything had to be perfect, and not just in appearances. The atrium had been decorated in gold and silver, slightly reflective, to capture light and brighten the large, spacious room. The band was in place by 6:30, playing quiet music that set the mood. Off to either side, slightly out of the way, were two cocktail tables, fully stocked. There was also a number of wait staff who would be walking around with trays of red or white wine as well as champagne.

The attention to the decor was due to the head events coordinator, one Ismay Plimpton, who was an absolute perfectionist. With attention down to the very last detail, she was very nearly driving the Minister mad with her questions and comments, not to mention crucial changes. Her voice and general looks had Kingsley Shacklebolt nearly thinking her related to Delores Umbridge, if Ismay weren't so remarkably pleasant and likable.

With his assurance that everything was just fine, Ismay hurried off, gently but firmly reprimanding some poor chap setting candles afloat too low for her liking. The ceiling above twinkled like night stars, and between that, the candles, and the reflective decorations, the room was perfectly lit.

Everything was ready. All they needed now were the guests.

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Harry and Jayne

ilivedtwice
2011-10-29 07:15 pm UTC (link)

Harry turned at the sound of a voice and saw Jayne Dough entering the hall. He nodded at her in greeting. "Hello Ms. Dough. Yes, I've been inside all evening. I'll probably be leaving shortly, but I thought I'd have a bit of fresh air first."

He gave her a curious look, noting that her state of dress didn't seem much like a costume. "Were you inside?" If so, he wondered at her choice of clothing. If not, he wondered why she was here.

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Harry and Jayne

jayne_dough
2011-10-29 08:56 pm UTC (link)

He's an Auror, he'll notice things, she thought, for that was all she could do right now. She didn't know whether she wanted Potter to realize something was amiss, or not. At the moment, the calming feeling remained, keeping her distantly aware of what was happening.

"I needed to get something from my office," her own voice spoke to Potter. "Feminine things." Her shoulders shrugged in a casual way that Jayne had never quite managed. "But I figured since I was here, I'd take a look to see what the party's about. What do you think - I'm a witch for halloween."

Jayne was beginning to become envious of Pandora, for she spoke with far more ease and wit than Jayne. In a way, it was what she'd always wanted, but could never do or be.

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Harry and Jayne

ilivedtwice
2011-10-30 12:39 am UTC (link)

Feminine things. Harry's nose wrinkled just a bit. He really didn't want to know what those things were, not at all. Her costume explanation had his mouth quirking is amusement. "Aren't you always a witch? I thought you're supposed to be something you aren't on Halloween."

He hadn't spoken to Jayne beyond that short questioning the day before. She seemed more personable now, though that could easily have been her office face he'd gotten to see.

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Harry and Jayne

jayne_dough
2011-10-30 12:50 am UTC (link)

"Some would say that you be something you've always wanted to be, and luckily, I'm happy just the way I am."

Jayne's hand moved to reach into her pocket. What are you doing?

"Oh, just getting a little something I fetched earlier. I hope you don't mind my borrowing your body while you were asleep..."

The hand pulled out something tiny, nearly the size of a fingernail. What's that?

"It's my box, I need it to collect the memories. Normally it's much bigger, but sometimes a miniaturization charm can make transporting it so much easier."

"What about you? Who are you supposed to be tonight?"

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Harry and Jayne

ilivedtwice
2011-10-30 03:38 am UTC (link)

Harry raised his eyebrows at that comment. "That's a very good way to look at it. Not everyone is so lucky." Harry noticed she seemed both intent and distracted, and he wondered if she'd had something to drink. His eyes strayed to her hand as it moved, but he couldn't see the tiny thing she held.

He shrugged one shoulder, a sheepish look on his face. "Muggle police," he replied. "I suppose not much different from my own day-to-day after all." He gestured towards the rest of the party. "I's coming to a close now, I should think. If you wanted to see what it's on about before it's over, you don't have to let me keep you."

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	Harry and Jayne jayne_dough 2011-10-31 12:08 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, you're not keeping me," Jayne's body said with a smile. "I'm not a big crowd person, to be honest. The better the excuse to put it off, the better." She felt herself bite her bottom lip, and she couldn't help wondering what exactly Pandora had planned. "Um, you've a little-" she motioned to the back of her own robes, "something sticking out." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Harry and Jayne

ilivedtwice
2011-10-31 12:14 am UTC (link)

"I don't blame you," Harry agreed. Crowds around him were usually of the hero-worship sort and sometimes that got overwhelming. Oh all right, sometimes he couldn't hate the fact that being harry Potter meant some things were a bit easier for him - perhaps in exchange for everything that had been terrible and difficult. But he was in no rush to get back into the thick of things. Perhaps he should get his wand now and just head home.

Harry's hand went automatically to his back, mirroring Jayne's gestures. "What?" he looked down, away from her, looking to see what she was talking about.

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Re: Harry and Jayne

jayne_dough
2011-10-31 12:18 am UTC (link)

"It's just a tag," her voice spoke with humour. "Here, I'll give you a hand."

As her body approached Potter, the hand not holding the miniaturized box slipped into her robes and pulled something out.

What is that?

"Just another little something I picked up with your body. Don't worry, we'll put it back eventually."

But before Jayne could even think anything else, she had stepped right up to Potter, and... plunged the object into his throat.

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Harry and Jayne

ilivedtwice
2011-10-31 12:27 am UTC (link)

Harry didn't even feel it just at first. He blinked and suddenly pain exploded across his neck. He managed to turn his head to stare in disbelief at Jayne, but he couldn't see what she'd done, what she'd stabbed him with. Cold spread through him next, and he staggered back groping automatically for a wand he didn't have. If only he had skill in wandless magic, nonverbal magic, something to help right now.

Instead he dropped to the cold floor, but even as he started to breathe shallowly, he felt something strange. Something in his mind gathered, seeped out, and coalesced, hanging in the air like a cloudy question mark. The very last thing Harry Potter saw was another set of features briefly superimposed on Jayne's face.

Twenty two years to the day after Voldemort had failed to kill Harry Potter, this woman had succeeded, and Harry didn't even know why.

The world went dark.

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Harry and Jayne

jayne_dough
2011-10-31 12:38 am UTC (link)

Jayne had never felt such a shock as the sight before her, her own hand shoving something - she finally identified it as a letter opener - into the young man's throat. Not just any young man, but Harry Potter.

What have you done!

"What I said I'd do - get my memory back. See?"

Before her eyes, the whisp of dark, cloudy smoke danced away from Potter's body, and into the tiny box still clasped in her hand.

But- but you killed him!!! You didn't say you'd kill him!

"Honestly, what did you think I would do?"

Anything but kill him. Why? I'm not a killer.

"Oh, but child... I am. And in your body, so are you. That's what they'll think, if they catch us. Now, unless you want that to happen, shut up and let me work."

The letter opener was withdrawn from the body - Potter's body - and secreted into a pocket in Jayne's robes. She couldn't feel it once it was enveloped in the cloth - that was why she hadn't noticed it there. It must have been spelled somehow. She watched impotently through her own eyes as a scourgify was cast to remove any accidental blood spatters, then with a glance up and down the hall, she made an escape into the main room.

But instead of leaving as she'd thought, she was taken to the bar for a drink.

"Leaving would be suspicious. It's all right, I dropped your wand off at security earlier. All the bases are covered, darling."

In horror, Jayne simply retreated further into her own mind and did as commanded.

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