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Tweak says, "I have been changed for good"

Professor Neville Longbottom (profplant) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-07-12 23:15:00

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!log, galen, neville longbottom

Who: Neville Longbottom and OTA
When: Tuesday evening
Where: Outside/inside Macy's
What: Neville arrives to our fair city.
Rating/status: TBA, incomplete.

This- this was not where Neville was supposed to be. He was meant to be in Surrey, outside his cottage. Well, he said outside- about half a mile away, thanks to all the protections he and Hermione had put up. But still- this was a seemingly busy street in a city, with people all around. He looked up at the building he'd Apparated in front of. The sign above the door read "Macy's". Huh. He shrugged, deciding it was worth a shot to go in- maybe there was a map or something?

As he walked in the doors, he realized more and more people were looking oddly at him. He looked down Still in my robes. Brilliant. He continued to the front counter. "Excuse me," he said, "but do you happen to have a map? I'm- I'm on my way to a fancy dress party and I've become lost."

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technogalen
2011-07-17 05:54 am UTC (link)

"Impossible describes it all. Any time and any place, and for one reason or another unable to leave the greater New York area." Galen led the way to a table, pausing to signal a waitress. "Bourbon, a double straight up, with a water side. Something for my nephew as well, we're celebrating his graduation." When the waitress moved off he continued, "Needed something to explain the robes."

"Impossible, implausible, pick your adjective - they all fit. My ship draws power from hyperspace, it should be impossible to interrupt the feed. Yet I arrived here on a collision course with the city, main engines dead. Had just enough power in the batteries to land safely. I know there should be intelligent alien races out there, but the hypercom is dead; nobody seems to be out there at all."

He nodded. "Ah, the cost. Most gave some, some gave all. It never changes."

"We can get you properly dressed in a little. I can guide you to the Welcome Center after. For that matter, I do have two guest cabins on my ship if nothing else develops for you."

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profplant
2011-07-19 12:58 am UTC (link)

"This is- well." Neville shook his head again, feeling like that was all he'd been doing lately. "Do you know if anyone can get word out, or- I guess you can't, because of your hypercom thing, but what of the rest of us?" He nodded and gave the waitress a terse smile as she brought back two drinks.

"If you don't mind guiding me to the Center so I can get acclimated- I'll see what I can do before I ask you to put me up- maybe I'll get lucky. You've been such a help already." He raised his glass. "Well, cheers. To being foreign."

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technogalen
2011-07-19 02:35 am UTC (link)

"I don't know for sure, but I assume not, or I would have read something about it in the newspapers." He shrugged. "I am not sure if this is a different universe, or what, but we do seem to be cut off."

Galen raised his own glass. "Foreign, and a long way from home."

"Any idea what you might do here? I would guess you could apply to the police department. What of this Herbology? Is that the sort of magic that could work here? I don't even know if there are any magical plants - not something I ever studied myself." He helped himself to another stiff belt from his glass, then chased it with a little water. "Or can you work your magic with regular plants. I might be able to suggest something if I knew a little more about you."

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profplant
2011-07-26 09:10 pm UTC (link)

"Well. Brilliant." He frowned again, taking a sip of his drink in response to the toast. This was just...wrong. Very very wrong.

"Magical plants, but I might be able to work my magic on regular plants. Then, of course, I've got Charms skills, and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Herbology, obviously. I'm rubbish at Transfiguration, and Divination- not too bad at Care of Magical Creatures, I suppose. But I'm not- I'm a pureblood." Neville didn't care about blood purity, but- "I've never even met a Muggle, until I suppose that nice girl behind the counter. How am I supposed to live among them without, you know- tipping them off?"

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technogalen
2011-07-27 12:28 am UTC (link)

Galen raised an eyebrow. "None of those things are the sort of magic I know anything about... but the descriptions of the Arts do suggest that the local law enforcement might do with some of your skill, and from what I understand of you, that might mesh with your background as an Auror."

He thought for a moment. "Use the bulletin board at the Welcome Center and see if you can contact any of the other people from your universe. This pureblood thing; I don't know. If it once mattered to you, I don't think it does any more. And tipping people off probably doesn't matter either. There are a lot of strangers in town - myself for example. We are all learning our way around this new place we find ourselves in. You are just another castaway trying to learn the ways of the natives."

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