Thomasina Roper

Who: Iain and Roger
What: Chatting about things.
When: Wednesday morning
Where: The Auror Office

Iain had been on his feet all day. He listened at Cho's door and didn't hear anything nasty, so he left her be and hoped she was asleep. It wasn't her fault she had the flu. It also wasn't her fault that he was terribly jealous. The puking, the aching, he'd take it to sleep in and stay in bed. If he actually could change places he'd be kicking himself for it the entire time of course, but looking from the outside it seemed bloody nice.

Still, he needed to return to work. With just one Auror, he was pulling double duty more than ever. A pot of hot water was waiting by the fire in the Auror office waiting to become coffee when he returned from his nearly hourly rounds. Stepping away from the door, Iain headed down the hall to their office when he heard steps going down the hallway. Probably some kid looking for a shoulder to cry on or something. It'd be better just to get in the office and let them come there. The soon-to-be coffee was calling to him.

Those N.E.W.T.S really are sneaking up, aren't they? No matter, we'll all do fine! Just keep studying and working hard and it won't be the slightest bit of a problem. The weather's a bit chilly, but nothing unexpected right? The holidays are coming up and that should be fun! I love winter, it's refreshing! The crisp air, the evergreen trees, it's quite amazing if you ask me. The entire season is magical, in an unwizardly sort of way.

Remember that Aurors are not the first place to go for problems. Let's all note this while we only have one in action. Thank you. The more we let Auror Chang be, the faster she'll recover, so let's also try not to be a pest to her either. As it is December, please keep in mind your safety when going to classes that are accessed by the outdoors. Potential ice threats have been dealt with as best they can be, so report anything that's been missed. I'm sure someone will get to it. I also advice everyone to take special care not to fall ill. It's quite common this time of year and is best to avoid. If you don't have warm enough things, don't just wait for the break, owl home for your parents to send them to you.

I am back from doing research in Persia on blumbering plingbimbles and I've got a new apartment! Since the house blew up last year I needed to get my own place. It's really not the same as my childhood home, but Daddy insisted we not rebuild. I miss the plimpies.

I need help moving in, if anyone is available? I'm located at 215 Euphoria Lane number 4A. There are not many boxes since everything was destroyed, mostly things I've picked up over the past year. My notebooks, research books, journals, a few clothes. I'd really love some company.

( Private to Harry and Wendy Potter )

I'm really surprised about my marks! I did way better than I thought. I just knew I'd Troll in something. I'm pretty happy with things though, I guess! I can't wait for winter break now. It's going to be really nice to get home and away from this place. Get me Christmas lists soon, okay? I want to start shopping the minute I get home. I really need some distractions. I'm really sorry I missed the Quidditch game, Jason and Herbert and everyone. You know I'll see the next one and I know you all did smashing.

( Private )

Well I'm sick, turns out that constant headache I was having was the beginning of the flu. It explains why I was feeling so tired and sensitive to light, but now I've been confined to my bed to wait it out. I really should have taken the free flu shots offered by the city before I left. Now I'm going to be suffering the horrible and wretched consequences of not following the Health Minister's advice.

So for the next week Iain will be doing our duties single handily while I try to keep from throwing up and keeping hydrated.

Who: Demi Robins and Andrew Kirke
Where: Outside
When: Early Morning.
What: Winter’s first snow.

Demi did her routine as she normally did before she went to bed. She bathed, brushed her teeth and read a bit on her bed. She was reading the book that she had accidentally picked up when she had met Ernie at the bookstore. She had decided before that she wasn’t going to read it, mainly because she wasn’t sexually curious. But since the kiss at Halloween, she was definitely starting to wonder. Demi turned the page in the book and read. ”He slipped his fingers into…” Demi quickly looked up from the book. Maybe I’ll read a little more tomorrow. Demi thought to herself. She put her book in her trunk and looked out the window. From what she could see of the sky, it looked as though it was going to snow. Demi hopped that it would do just that.

Ever since Demi was little, her parents had always woken her up for the first snow. When Demi was a kid, she would happily get up and go outside. Her mom had told her that the first time that they led Demi go outside and experience the snow, she had stood at the door for about a minute or two with her mouth open in awe. Then she just went wild and started to play and throw the snow everywhere. Demi smiled to herself and though If it snows, I’ll get up and go outside. Demi went to sleep shortly after and when she woke up, she noticed that the light in her room from the outside seemed a bit brighter. She stretched out her arms and looked out the window. Outside, there was a fresh blanket of snow everywhere.

Demi got dressed in the heaviest clothes she had, put on her snow boots and headed outside to savor it. She did not know how many people would be up, but it was before breakfast so Demi tried to be a little quiet when she was walking around. She opened the door and stepped outside and breathed it in. The air smelled sharper; keener even. Demi took her gloves off and bent down to get a little bit of snow in her hands and that’s when it happened. Something cold and wet hit Demi’s head before she even knew it.

This bloody wouldn't of happened if we had experienced team members. Can't we all see now that splitting up the teams was a bad idea? Not to rehash the old subject of no more houses, but that too. You can't change years of the familiar. I mean bloody hell at least with the same teams we would have been cohesive. Sure I see the logic in dividing us, if they didn't we'd still have house mind set. But guess what? We still fucking do!

Plain and simple I want a redo or give me my team back.

Hello again everyone! We hope the turkey's all settled for any of our Thanksgiving celebrators. :) We know the holidays can be really busy and hectic, even people who don't celebrate any of the many December based holidays can get sucked in to the chaos of it all, not to mention vacations, exams, and probably plenty of other things we're forgetting. Now, here's our present to you. For the months of November and December, we're going to give everyone some slack. As long as we see some activity from you during these two months, there will be no penalties. This means you don't have to have the normal three journals and one thread. As long as we see you do something, a journal, a thread, you're fine. This doesn't mean you should slack off, but if you have to this is the right time ;) Full activity checks will come back in January. We'll still be here, there will still be December plot, but you aren't obligated to meet any requirements except be active and participate in anything you sign up for. The other side of this however, is that if you don't do anything (and unfortunately just commenting in a couple of journals doesn't count as activity with this), then you get a point against you.

With this, if you've come to find you just aren't feeling the game or don't have time and want to quit or drop a character, let us know. We don't bite and anyone who leaves us is welcome to reapply later :) We don't want anyone to do this without thought though, so if you just need some sort of hiatus for this time, just ask! :) We have no problem with this. But if you aren't fully active in January after taking your own hiatus, then you're out of the game since you were given the opportunity to not be fully active in December. If you've been having problems with activity or interest, just step back and consider yourself and your characters. We know that sometimes we don't feel a character as well as we might have when they were first picked up. One of us played Harry originally so we fully understand the feeling of not exactly knowing what to do with a canon character. What we suggest to do while working on that is picking up a character that can fit in to gaps easily, like a Sixth year whose small number gives them almost automatic plot, or Quidditch players who easily have something to talk about and every team both canon and our current teams have multiple members in play that would probably love to have additional team mates!

This isn't a mandatory respond-or-else post, but we will be emailing this out to everyone who doesn't comment to it. We need to know that you're reading this. No one will be left out if we can help it!

As mentioned within all of this, but to repeat on it's own, we will still have December plot! :D

On to more usual business! There was a Quidditch game on Saturday between the Thor's Hammer and Flying Furies

( Thor's Hammer vs. Flying Furies )

( O.W.L.S )

To players with students taking their N.E.W.T.S next month, take this information to heart. We'll be needing your characters classes and such soon as well. Start thinking now! :)

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( Profile )

So I suppose I should begin...well I don't even really know that I should. I'm not very welcome in those sort of settings. But I've never be a person who didn't have faith so I suppose I should observe as much as I can.

I've never been good with not eating. Even back when I was little I always cheated.

I'm so glad OWLS are over with! Admittedly it was a little off to take them during the..crisis but I'm positive my scores are just fine.If they aren't I'm demanding a retest Hopefully they'll get our scores to us before Christmas because personally I just can't wait that long. It doesn't hurt that Dad says if me scores were high he'd get me an IMAC the purple at that! Not that he really even knows anythign about OWLS but a score is still a score to him.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!

Private to Self

Oh My God!!

My mum sent in my a short story of mine and it's getting published! I know it's not something to keep to myself but I don't want any of them reading and judging it. With it's conceptual ideas about how a young girl would feel alone in a world post nuclear I wasn't sure if anyone would take it but they did!!

That's just one closer step to my final goal!

So some people might think I'm avoiding them, but I'm not. I'm just really busy since my team has a game this weekend. Busy like everyone! I'll probably be busy until the winter break. Yup, really fucking busy. So sorry if it seems like I'm avoiding anyone. Yeah, because I'm not. I'm not a little fucker like that. I don't just avoid my fucking problem. No fucking way.

Except Millicent. Yeah, I'm avoiding the shite out of you. You scare me.

Obviously I can bloody see now. So sod off. My team still won without my help. That's bloody brilliant if you ask me. We'll win next time too. Practices will resume as of now. If you missed this message, then too bad. You'll be running laps while everyone else does real practice. Enjoy.

( Private to Riza )

I'm so glad to be able to speak and write in English again! It was so hard speaking in that weird language which I'm still not sure what language it is. Was I speaking the language of the dead!? That would be incredibly weird and kind of disturbing since Teo could understand me... I'm sure it's not that though! No one can speak the language of the dead! Haha!

Anyways some pretty weird things have happened to me, weird things other than not speaking English. I still don't know how to feel about them. It doesn't help that the person who I could, well want to talk about it with keeps avoiding me. I want them to know that I am as much freaked out by the events that occurred as they are. I mean we all had things happen that shouldn't happened and that we may or may not want to take back, but we can't. We're stuck with what happened, so we need to deal with it! Talking about things is good! When you know everyone can't understand what you say it makes you start to think. It makes you realise how important communication is! We need to communicate with one another!

( Hexed private )

I need a large box. Something that can hold up under travel. I need to send a few things back home.

I've been getting so many packages lately! Mum sent me another wig hat! That's why it was in a hat box! Of course! Dad sent me chocolates because he knows that I'm so very stressed out. I also got hair growth memory potions! Yes, memory potions! They certainly helped with my tests! I could really use more though.

Mum says she'll be writing to the Headmistress about everything very soon and I wrote back that I don't know how really necessary that is or even how much good it'll do. I might just be understanding this wrong, but wouldn't it do her more good to write to someone at the Ministry? Minister Shacklebolt probably wouldn't read anything from her. I'm sure he has people read it to people and sum it up or something like that. Wouldn't that be perfect? I'd never have to read a word, just have someone else read it all to me!

Sometimes I wonder if we need N.E.W.T.S. I know I'll need them as a Ministry official, but really does it need to be a requirement? Those choosing to work in the Muggle worlds, those owning their own service business. I mean does an ice cream shop owner really need Os in Transfiguration?

It's a random thought I know, but I was just thinking about someone who just wanted to play music. That person really wouldn't need their final scores. Look at Fred and George.

Just a thought.