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in_the_grass (in_the_grass) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-10-31 19:53:00

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!2003: 10, !incomplete, !open, essery oakby, fleur delacour, severus snape

Who: OPEN to anyone at Hogwarts during or after the Halloween Feast.
What: The Halloween Feast!
Where: Hogwarts, the Great Hall; possibly other places.
When: Tonight
Warnings: TBA / Up to you.
Status: Open - I've put up some subthreads, just to keep things organized for anyone who wants to hop in. If anyone wants to divide them further, do so to your heart's content!

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	in_the_grass 2010-11-01 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Before the feast - building up to, arriving, etc. (Reply to this)

	in_the_grass 2010-11-01 12:20 am UTC (link)
	During the feast, in the Great Hall - includes a choir performance and some other entertainment, dinner, and a lot of live bats. (Reply to this) (Thread)

oakbye
2010-11-01 01:31 am UTC (link)

Essery hadn't dressed up in an awfully long time, but there was something silly about the Halloween feast that made her want to show her students that school didn't always need to be so serious. Which is why she had shown up in costume (though what she was supposed to be was up for debate.)

As the choir finished performing, she stepped down from the stage that the Head Table area had been turned in to and congratulated all of them as they went down to join their classmates. They had been excellent - adequately creepy for the occasion. She couldn't have asked for more.

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bleuet
2010-11-01 03:02 am UTC (link)

While she had fully intended to be in attendance for the entire feast, one thing at home had led to another and Fleur found herself dashing up the steps of the castle, rather more ruffled than she ever gave the impression of being. As she entered the Great Hall, it was the the sight of the choir dispersing. Luckily, it appeared she was not terribly late. Quickly spotting her vacant seat at the Head Table, Fleur smoothed the front of her dress and made her way to front of the hall.

The choir members were taking their time returning to their respective house tables, and in the midst of it all Fleur spotted Essery. She appeared to be wearing a very...unusual outfit. For a few moments, Fleur just stared at her, rather at a loss.

"Essery!" Fleur stepped aside as an overeager student shot by, yelling something to a friend already at the tables. "I though perhaps I was quite late." She was unable to keep a small frown from creasing her brow. "What an interesting outfit."

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	oakbye 2010-11-03 12:26 am UTC (link)
	"Isn't it funny?" Essery definitely destroyed any fear that the outfit might create by smiling too wide for the odd hag she thought she looked like. "I'm not quite sure what the beak of a nose is meant to be. Maybe this is a avante-garde harpy?" She shrugged, grinning at the new professor who she hadn't really spoken too much save in passing. "Love your dress." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	in_the_grass 2010-11-01 12:22 am UTC (link)
	After the feast - students sent off to their dormitories at curfew, leaving faculty and staff to do as they please. (Reply to this) (Thread)

in_the_grass
2010-11-02 02:25 am UTC (link)

The corridors were emptying of the last straggling students when Severus returned to the castle. By the time he reached the Great Hall they had all disappeared, which made the prospect of staying for a little dinner much more appealing than it might otherwise have been. He would normally have gone to his quarters and eaten alone, feast or no feast - once the children had gone he felt no obligation to make any sort of appearance - but tonight he found he wasn't quite ready to shut himself in alone. He was still too agitated to settle in with a book, and while he had no real desire to socialize this was better than plunging in with his thoughts again.

He went to his seat at the table, sat down without any greeting, and helped himself to some of the remaining food. He hadn't exactly dressed for the occasion, although it was possible that a heavy traveling cloak and questionably Muggle attire could pass for costume with some people.

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oakbye
2010-11-03 12:30 am UTC (link)

Essery didn't get the impression that he was in costume. She was near the doors, having just ushered out the last sleepy Hufflepuff and spending a few moments talking to the Head Girl about who would be taking down the decorations and seeing to the elves, she'd been about to leave herself... when he walked in.

For once, she thought he might not really be noticing what was about him, and she debated leaving anyway... but there was something about the way he was acting that was off. His staying past when he was required to seemed off, really. It made her ... worried. For no reason she could really put words too.

So a few minutes later she was sitting down at her Head of House place at his left, tapping the charmed talons of her fingernails beside his plate. "Take care of your business?" She asked, smiling warmly behind her hideous nose when he looked up.

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in_the_grass
2010-11-03 12:40 am UTC (link)

He was distracted enough that he didn't realize who it was who was approaching him until she was right beside him - although that might have had more to do with the costume than his state of mind. The cold set of his shoulders softened considerably when she took her chair, and although he arched his eyebrow skeptically at her fingernails, he was half smiling when he looked up at her.

"I did, yes." He had mostly convinced himself. "I understand I missed a concert. Terribly sorry." It surprised him a little how glad he was to see her, given where he had just been. But it made him feel markedly relieved.

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oakbye
2010-11-03 12:52 am UTC (link)

"The choir students will survive, I'm sure," she said, laughing and tapping her empty glass with a nail - it began to fill with water almost immediately while Essery was wondering if the bit of a sag to his shoulders when he looked at her was relaxation or something less positive.

"Unless you want them to serenade you later tonight? I'm sure I could find them and get them back out of bed?"

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in_the_grass
2010-11-03 01:03 am UTC (link)

"I think I can probably wait until next year, thank you." He cut himself a piece of whatever was left that wasn't pie, and rested his chin in his hand, surveying the Hall. "Better not to subject them to the rest of the revelry. Did anyone else end up coming in ... costume?" he asked, generally indicating her outfit. He didn't see anyone else, but she did rather stand out. It was possible he was just distracted, again. "The nose is impressive," he deadpanned. He would know, after all.

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oakbye
2010-11-03 01:08 am UTC (link)

"No, not that I saw.." She shrugged, it had been for her own fun. She couldn't care much that others had spent some time staring at the only professor in the spirit.

"Muggle costumes do something things right," She said, turning her head enough that he could see the black elastic that kept the nose in place, then she looked back at him again, looking him over. "I doubt anyone would have thought you'd come as a muggle..."

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in_the_grass
2010-11-03 01:32 am UTC (link)

"They do. Very practical. And memorable, too - you'll have an act to follow next year." He found he wasn't as hungry as he thought he would be. He wondered why she had come to sit with him, but stopped himself when he realized that it didn't surprise him at all. He had almost come to expect it, and even when he hadn't been thinking to hope for it, he was glad for it.

He glanced down at his clothes, and snorted a little. "Yes, that might have drawn a few comments, had I come on time. I rather thought I could pass for either, actually. Traveling in mixed areas does present challenges."

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oakbye
2010-11-03 01:46 am UTC (link)

"Well, the basic black at least doesn't turn many heads." Essery grinned at him again, then picked up her water to sip it. When she sat it down again, she wasn't really sure what to say. Why had she interrupted him eating? Mostly, she'd thought he looked.. upset. Or moreso than normal. It wasn't the sort of thing you could just ask - particularly not when the last time you'd spoken to someone, you'd embarrassed yourself ridiculously.

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in_the_grass
2010-11-03 01:59 am UTC (link)

His smile had settled into as comfortable a place as it ever did, consistent even if it was faint. "And yet, you've managed - I suppose it's different when you have it in feathers." He was allowed to look a little more closely, he decided, since it was a costume, but kept it brief all the same. Was he being truly, incredibly stupid in letting himself entertain the thought that such a thing might even be possible? Less than an hour ago, he'd been berating himself for past cowardice, but it was always harder in the face of things, wasn't it.

"You should come by again, sometime," he said after a pause, trying to sound casual. Perhaps she would let him gloss over the fact that they'd parted ... oddly, the last time. "I'm getting out of practice."

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oakbye
2010-11-03 02:07 am UTC (link)

Essery hadn't wanted to admit to herself that she was waiting for an invitation, but when it came she seemed to relax even more, obviously pleased. Relieved.

"I've missed playing, actually." Which wasn't what she'd missed, but she hadn't missed acting like an idiot, and missing chess at least avoided that. "Whenever you have a night free, you'll have to school me again."