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Tweak says, "trout a la creme"

james potter (theonlyjames) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-05-11 18:04:00

Entry tags:

james potter, laura kinney (ww)

WHO: James Potter and OTA (MW?)
WHAT: Arrival
WHERE: Town Square
WHEN: Backdated to before the big party so he can get an invite, maybe?
RATING: LOW? IDK I JUST GOT HERE

Times were growing darker and crazier these days. Disappearances were being mentioned left and right in the Daily Prophet. The self-proclaimed terrorist, Lord Voldemort, had struck such fear into the hearts of the Wizarding Community that people were afraid to say his name. Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts School, had put together a group of witches and wizards dedicated to fighting off You Know Who, along with his followers, the Death Eaters. James was a part of that group. He was a member of The Order of the Phoenix, along with his best friends and his girlfriend. His exgirlfriend. Because things changed las night.

After a screaming match with Lily, the fiery redhead who had owned James' romantic interests since they were eleven years old, James had gone home to find Sirius and dove into a bottle of Firewhiskey. He honestly and genuinely thought that this was the end of James and Lily. Lily and James. It hurt too much for him to even contemplate.

"No, mate. We're really done this time. I mean it," he'd told Sirius, then poured himself and his best friend another shot. James hadn't wanted to talk about the fight or what it meant. Though in his heart he knew they were finished. The rest of the night had been a blur.

When James got the message from Dumbledore to meet him in Hogsmeade, he was relieved. The self-punishing side of him had refused Sirius' offer of a hangover cure until the note from Dumbledore came, and then James took it. Feeling quite a bit better almost immediately after sipping the potion, James grabbed his cloak and wand, and apparated straight to the wizarding village. But when he arrived he was not where he thought he should be.

"What--?" James nearly dropped the wrapped up cloak he had tucked under his arm as he surveyed his surroundings. Unless Hogsmeade had undergone a drastic transformation since the last time he'd been there, this wasn't Hogsmeade.

He took a few steps forward and spied a table. Wand at the ready, James stepped forward to look at it, noting his name written on a paper there. At the sound of approaching footsteps, he abandoned the inspection of the paper and turned suddenly, wand at the ready.

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weapon_hex
2019-05-17 11:14 am UTC (link)

It wasn't often that Laura was put in the position of comforting someone else. Actually, it had never happened. She was having all kinds of firsts these days, some of them rather more exciting than others. This... was not one of the former. She didn't even have much experience of being comforted to draw on, so even recognising the symptoms of unsureness in someone else didn't give her much of a lead on figuring out how to deal with it.

Her father would probably say that this was a good opportunity to kill him, loot the corpse, then hide it until she could dump it through one of the doorways with no one the wiser. No one else knew he was here and she knew how to dispose of a body, might even be able to manipulate her magic to help cover her tracks despite the fact that it wasn't really something they'd ever bothered to train her in.

She was pretty sure killing him wasn't very heroic though, and that's what she was now. A Defender. She liked the idea of that, of not having to initiate the fights and only entering them because there was something worth protecting and she was trusted with the responsibility of doing it.

All things considered, even a level of matter-of-factness that bordered on brusque was much closer to the coddling end of the scale. "Neither do I," she shrugged. "It's not a hell dimension though so it's alright. Just weird, and my sister isn't here." She hoped the others weren't getting too annoyed by her. With all her energy, Speed Weasel could be very annoying sometimes - though it could just be that she wasn't used to having a younger sibling.

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	ooc theonlyjames 2019-05-22 12:33 am UTC (link)
	Hey! I'm so, so sorry that I dropped the ball on this one. I had a ton of RL stuff that's now over. I'm ready to come back, though I'm hoping to come in fresh. Can we please retcon this and start again? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ooc weapon_hex 2019-05-23 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	oops I forgot to reply. sure thing! where do you want to start from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: ooc theonlyjames 2019-05-26 02:37 am UTC (link)
	S'okay! :) Can we do another random encounter now that James is a little more settled? (Reply to this) (Parent)

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