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[drowns]

[There's a tiny girl peeking over a book! She's writing something, and seems pretty focused on it - but then she seems to realize she's recording, and gives a little start before relaxing.]

Mm, I should pay more attention to this...but my apologies to Gryffindor. [A polite little bow of her head; she tries for a smile.] I'm sure you'll all make up the points in no time! [It could be mocking, given the wrong inflection, but Mitsuki seems to be completely genuine.]

A party sounds very nice. I hope it will go better than the last one. [Her smile gets the slightest bit strained.] I'm afraid I won't be attending, but I hope everyone enjoys it.

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[ofwonderland]

Gryffindors, I would hate to have to remind you all to be on your best behavior. [Oh look. It's your awesome Head of House. With a very stern look on her face, despite the soft tone.] After the previous fiasco and the loss of certain points, I'd hate to continue falling behind.

[There's a pause before she finally smiles.] Not to say that we should not have fun, and balls are meant to be exciting.

And no. This doesn't mean that any of you can get out of your essays, either. I still expect all seven pages on the rules and regulations of animagi.

on my videophone~

[slutfuck]

Right, so is anyone actually going to this bullshit dance?

And good job getting caught, Gryffindors. At least that makes you good for something, yeah?

[Bitchy Slytherin is bitchy!]

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[pilotlight]

For those who'd be interested, and aren't in any hurry to let their grades fall over a dance, there's going to be tutoring and study sessions throughout the week.

[ added as an afterthought: ]

I'm also thinking we're in need of a friendly scrimmage. Mixed teams, from all Houses.

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[snarkersupreme]

[Just gonna stand here with a sooty black face, the sort that happens when Elmer Fudd's gun backfires. Also his robe is smoldering slightly]

Hey Gom, I think we might need to go back to the drawing board on this 'microwave' spell.

Also, to my friends who informed me of the existence of a proper lab for this sort of thing, my clothing budget and epidermis thank you.

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[headmastercid]

Please claim your character before posting with them! It's only a short event sort of thing, but I thought that would be the best way to go about this for maximum unconfusion. Also I'm not going to have any hard and fast rules about this in particular because complicated, but if you're bringing in a new character, or you're a new person entirely, please check around a bit to make sure that there isn't a previous player of that character who might want to throw them in. You can contact me on aim @ xfeilynx if you want me to do that for you c:

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[admirestheroses]

[Have a smiling, flirtatious boy on the screen. Who's looking happy and chipper.]

So, which of you lovely ladies would care to accompany me to this dance thing?

And Rose, of course you have first dibs.

[He'll end with a wink~]

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[guidesthegarden]

Greetings, staff students and ghosts! I am happy to say that the culprit of last week's unfortunate animal transformations has since been caught, although in less happy news this did result in the loss of twenty points from Gryffindor. A word to the wise, or at the very least those who don't wish to end up with cat ears sprouting from their heads again - it doesn't do to irritate the moombas when they're in charge of cooking our food.

That said, I would like to move on to more pleasant news. Given that St Valentine's Day is soon to be upon us, I thought it appropriate that we host a ball! Please rest assured that the staff will be doing their utmost to ensure that there are no unfortunate interruptions as there were last year. Or the year before...

Classes will be excused early the afternoon of the festivities, and prefects will not be expected to help chaperone - although you are of course welcome to, if you wish. Attendance is not mandatory, but I can't imagine why you would want to miss out!

As an aside, if whoever charmed the gargoyle at the entrance to my office to squeak 'I believe in Marvey Kent' every time I walk past could undo the spell, it would be much appreciated.

[OOC: OKAY THIS EVENT IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS! You can comment to this post and Mr. Dent Kramer will reply, and you can throw up your own journal! Please remember though to claim your character before positing with them so we can keep things relatively organised]

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[sacrificing]

You know what's fun, seeing the pattern of when our dances come up. We never have one when something really traumatic happens. I feel like pulling pranks to get us turned into animals should be rewarded, not punished. [Catty leans back, idly sketching something in another notebook.] We bring something fun to the school, we get a dance for it.

It's a conspiracy against Gryffindors, I'm telling you.

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[kirk]

Told you all it wasn't me. [He's referring to the string of animal transformations Cid mentioned and which he was accused of.

The gargoyle might have been him though.]


Anyway- about the ball. Is anyone else going as Tarzan yet? [And Jaina you can be Jane, okay? Okay.]

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[thebesttales]

For those of you thinking of ditching out on this dance, you should remember that the time when you can party on someone else's dime is a rather limited commodity. Pretty soon you'll be paying good coin to get into celebrations like this, or at least having to flirt with the bouncer.

And I'm fairly certain that's not an option for some of you.

Anyway, you shouldn't think of these dances as boring or a waste of time. Why, I once met a wizard at a school dance when I was young, crazy bastard wanted to use dragons instead of brooms in Quidditch, told me all we had to do was slap an X somewhere in the name, and the fans would go wild. Well, needless to say I tried to talk him out of it, but he was determined. Ended up having a bit too much punch and decided to set off right then and there to find his first dragon, and took me along with him!

Ended up spending a week traveling through the Forbidden Forest, and then the mountains past them, until we finally managed to find a dragon's cave. Of course, he's all, 'Don't worry Varric, I've been preparing for this my whole life!' And by preparing, he meant had some half brained spell he thought would let him control the thing. Only problem was, he'd tested in on wyvrens, and as anyone can tell you, those are totally different from dragons. Poor fellow managed to get two steps into the cave before he got snatched up in as many bites. Luckily for me, I had Bianca with me, and no such delusions about the domestication of dragons. One bolt from my girl in the eye was all it took, and I had myself a dead dragon and its hoard of riches to haul back.

And that students, is both how old Professor Varric here made his first million, and a lesson on why you should always try to attend school dances.

[Ladies and gentlemen of Hogwarts, your Professor of Communications and Public Speaking at work.]