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SPOILER!!: Gia Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathEater1  New year, new ministry. Gia was excited to be here, make no mistake. She had legit lived in Italy her whole life. She did love it there, but a break was needed. Besides, she needed to get put more, and explore her horizons!
Not that she has problems with that kind of stuff or anything.
Purse slung over her shoulder, she click-clacked along past the golden gates, heading towards the employee orientation check-in. By the looks of it, this shouldn't be much different than back at the Italian ministry! Same old drill: hand in your wand and you're ready to go!! Stepping in the line for checking, she slips imbed herself in on the queue, and picked up a name tag. In her elegant script, she signed: Giacinta "Gia" Barbieri
Accidents and Catastrophes
The line went quicker than Gia expected, prompting her to pull out her wand. Slipping her wand out of her holster in an ever-so-careful manner, she presented it to the wand weigher. "Hullo! I'm Giancinta Barbieri." GRIN. She could just feel the excitement!! "Abelia, Peacock feather core, 12 1/2 inches."
"Good day, Miss Barbieri." It seemed to be getting easier with each time, especially with the ones used to the procedure or simply following the person before them. There they were wand already out and waiting with information. "Rather interesting wand..." Simon mused as he accepted it and ran it through the check. Abelia and peacock feather core was certainly not a common bunch of wand characteristics. "There you go, all set," he said handing it back to her.
SPOILER!!: Man Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo If there was one thing he would commend the place for so far it was their security. It sure had a way of wasting people's time. If a rogue wizard was to try getting in here he'd be caught by the time the security check was done. Thorough people. He liked that.
"It's a 12 1/2" Ash with dragon heartstring...unyielding I believe..." The perfect wand for him. "Is there anything else you'd like to know?" Like how many spells it casts daily, or how's about the case it sleeps in? No?
Right...ash with dragin heartstring. Just like the read-out he was getting as the wand went through the check. "Nope that is all," he assured the man, taking the polished wand back out and handing it back to its owner. "There you go. Have a good day."
SPOILER!!: Cade Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Caedwyn didn't mind standing in line, mostly because she enjoyed trying to figure out where new people worked and waving at those she knew. It was a shame she was too far back to say hello to Wes, but by the time she stepped to the front of line, one of those nice YATI gentlemen was taking wands.
She handed hers over before putting her information on the clipboard.
"Hello, Simon. You seem to have drawn the short straw today, hmm?" She nodded toward the wand she'd submitted. "I'm apple wood with unicorn hair, 11 1/2 inches."
"Yes, it would appear so," he commented as he took his co-worker's wand as it was offered. Simon nodded at her description almost feeling foolish at his task as he trusted the likes of one Cade Howard. Nevertheless it was required and he ran the wand through the machine, the results coming up connected just as what was expected.
"All good of course," he replied returning it back to her.
SPOILER!!: Manolo Quote:
Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black Manolo took his most prized object out from his coat pocket and handed it over. "Here you go." He paused while he remembered his wand's characteristics. "It's 11 inches and Mahogany, as I recall."
"Thank you," Simon said as he accepted the wand, turning just a smidge to add it to the wand-weigher. "You recall the wood correctly. What type of core?" No doubt it was a simple omission but he was sure Wes would want him to be thorough in his work.
SPOILER!!: Cora Quote:
Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl Beaming as she looked around the place, Cora took her place in line to sign in and do the wand weighing thing. This was so exciting! She officially felt like she belonged here in England, as she'd hoped she would, now that she had a job at the Ministry and thus had a place in the Wizarding World here. Exactly what she wanted.
Once she the line moved up enough to allow her to reach the clipboard, she pocked it up and signed herself in.
Once that was done, she drew out her wand and handed her wand over. "Hi!" she said, smiling brightly at the young man standing there. "It must be fun getting to see all these wands, yeah?" And no, it wasn't sarcasm. Cora genuinely thought it would be cool to check wands and get to see all the different kinds there were that belonged to all kinds of people. It was fun seeing just how unique these things could get. "Mine's 12 inches, willow wood, with a unicorn hair core." And it was tooootally the best wand ever. At least for her. But she was pretty awesome.
The YATI waved up the the next person in line, a woman who appeared to be about his age. What do you know, he could work on his observation skills while working on the security check-point. Bet Wes had intended that all along...beside the whole plan to drag Simon and/or Josh into the ordeal. "Hello," Simon greeted with a polite smile as he took hold of the offered hand. "It has its pros and cons." Like staying in one place most if not all of the time, though surely he would be relieved at one point unless that was another test...endurance.
Slipping his wooden charge into the machine, he turned away to see the response he got, nodding his head in acceptance as he listened to the girl and the two things agreed with one another. "All matched up and set," Simon said taking it back out and handing it to her. "There you are."
SPOILER!!: Annalise Quote:
Originally Posted by HazelStone101 Annalise's jaw dropped. Well. This man was certainly in a mood this morning wasn't he? "Oh yes, sorry. Good morning. It's just, I'm new here and everything is well.... a bit new..." She replied, flashing the man a half-hearted smile. "And here is my wand. Eleven inches, Hawthorne with a Dragon Heartstring core. Spinnable..." She recited, smiling as she remembered her first trip to the wand shop. And her wand never had failed her....
Ooops.
It appeared Wes had still been helping someone when he switched the duty to him to handle. "Sorry. I'll be handling the wand-weighing from now on," Simon said accepting the wand she had meant for his boss. He nodded at her description, repeating it over in his head as he put the wand through the machine. Sure enough, the descriptions matched and everything was a-ok.
"Eleven inches, Hawthorne with a Dragon Heartstring core. There you are," Simon said handing it back to her newly-polished. There was a benefit to the check.
SPOILER!!: Saul Quote:
Originally Posted by MyPatronusIsaMoose First day at the British Ministry. Saul came to the back of the line dragging a terribly broken Unicycle with him. He himself didn't look to pleasant either, He tried for his 35th attempt at mastering his flying unicycle on his way here. He made it about 5 minutes before flipping upside down and plummeting to the ground, wrecking his bike and dirtying his clothes.
He peeked his head out from the back of the line to see just how many more people were in front of him before he came to the front. He watched as one older fellow stepped away from the desk and put someone else in charge of the line as well. How very unprofessional abandoning his post and forcing someone from the line to do his work. Who was that man?
After a while Saul made his way to the front and looked down at the clipboard. He leaned his broken Unicycle against the desk gave the guy behind the desk a very poor and awkward smile. Taking the quill Saul signed his name and ministry position down on the list
Once he finished with the sign-up he pulled out his wand from it's holster, and held it out to the forced employee. "11 1/2 Cherry with Dragon Heartstring" Saul told him. "Oh um and it's sturdy, I think? Yeah it's sturdy, definitely sturdy, nothing swishy about this wand here, nope. Is that okay, yeah? Cool, awesome, right?" Great speech Saul maybe you can tell him your life story too! The awkward smile turned into a complete look of embarrassment.
When the next person, a young man, approached the desk, Simon wasn't quite sure how to respond to the...item that was left on the ground as he signed in. Was that a...unicycle? How had he gotten to the ministry? The YATI shook his head absently and pushed back his focus at the task at hand.
"I dont believe the sturdiness is needed. More of a note from the wand-maker. " Nevertheless the rest of it checked out and Simon moved to hand the wand back to him. "There you are. Have a go-- better day."
SPOILER!!: Tasha Quote:
Originally Posted by Nordic Witch Taking her place in the security check in queue with a smile etched across her pale features; Natasha was excited to be back at work after the unexpected but no less welcome vacation. Making sure she had her wand safely tucked into its holster the blond woman took in the faces of both new and old works as they waited for their turn.
Relaxed and in a cheery mood she let the queue move her forwards in its own pace and up to the clip boards section. With neat but efficient hand writing she signed herself in.
Once she was done she proceeded up the young man in charge of the wand weighing. "Hello!" Tasha chirped happily as she handed over her wand. "13 inches, Beech, Kelpie hair core." she supplied as an explanation. "Did you need to know anything else?" She wondered briefly if she should feel sympathy for the man for being put on wand weighing duty or envious since all the different wands would be interesting to see. She decided on the former since wand weighing duty would probably keep him from the festivities.
The next person was certainly pleased to be here. And unless Simon was extremely mistaken, a returning employee he might have seen around the ministry's hallowed halls sometime in his few years here. "Good day," he greeted the woman as she signed the clipboard and greeted him. Accepting her wand and putting it through as he listened, Simon shook his head at her question. "Nope that is all. And your all set," he said turning back to her, her wand in his hand for her to take back.
SPOILER!!: Ev Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn One thing was for certain. Right as the sight of the security check point entered her line of vision, Evelyn had to fight the urge to apparate straight back to New Zealand. This meet and greet made her wake up earlier than she wanted to and actually got her out of the apartment which she was none too pleased about. Especially considering the 'meet and greet' part.
However, standing tall and looking like her usual self, complete with perfect scowl, Evelyn sighed and reluctantly took her place in line. It was only when it was her turn did she see just who was running the check point. The unexpected familiar face brought a smile to her own. "Simon!" she greeted rather happily as she picked up the quill to sign in. "How did you manage to get stuck here for the orientation?"
And not having to mingle with each person for more than a minute.
Another friendly face though more friend then the division head he had worked with earlier. "Hello Evelyn," he greeted with a genuine smile to match her own sent his way. "I think Wes was planning all along to give it me or your boyfriend when we came in and I got here first," he explained with a shrug. Why else would the department head have been doing here if not for a simple 'holding of someone's place'? And he had been overly eager to hand it off so it made sense to have actually be intentional.
"You wouldn't happen to know if he has any intention of making an appearance would you?" Not to say the former Slytherin was Josh's keeper but she would likely know better then anyone else.
SPOILER!!: Maine Quote:
Originally Posted by iceblossom22 Maine joined the queue, waited a very long while and eventually came face to face with the guy and his strange machine. Beaming, she pulled her wand out of its holster and handed it over to be weighed. Picking up the clipboard and quill, she filled in her details before setting it back down.
"Hornbeam, 11 3/4 inches. Crystallized boomslang venom and demiguise hair." she beamed. She was proud of her wand. Very much so. It was a strange combination, but she was a strange person.
Now. Can she have it back now?
"Next," he said waiting for the next in the queue, the very long queue to move up to the front and be ready for their check in. Simon figured they had hit a busy time in the arrivals, inwardly hoping it might slow down eventually though he showed no signs of fatigue. At least most of if not all of those who he faced had been pleasant about the whole thing, a good deal seemingly experienced in the proceedure.
The former GRyffindor accepted the wand of his latest customer and put it through, a raised eyebrow going up as he listened to the description. "Interesting," Simon mused looking briefly up from his work and to the woman before back to the machine. "And a complete match. There you are." The rather unique wand handed back to its mistress.
SPOILER!!: Hershey Quote:
EEK. Her first BIG GIRL job. Despite moving away from home for the first time (not counting school, of course) Hershey was not nervous, she was just EXCITED. She was out to prove something with this job, prove to her parents that she could TOTALLY work on the dragon reservation, maybe even take over some day. Siiiigh. As the line moved, she snapped out of her thoughts and signed in on clipboard.
There. First thing DONE. Hooray! She smiled at the young man who was weighing wands. He seemed to be about her age which was GOOD. How boring would it be to work with old people all day? Patiently, she awaited her turn and then handed over her wand. "Hello." SMILE. "Mine's Ebony, 10 inches exactly, dragon heartstring." Cause, well, duh. DRAGON.
Another of the younger members of the ministry and clearly her first day here. Well this was the main reason for the orientation was it not? Simon returned her smile with a polite one of his own, it may be a tedious job but he wasn't going to be a grouch about it. "Hello," he greeted politely, accepting the offered wand after she signed in. She seemed to be getting the hang of things quickly.
The YATI moved to send the wand through the machine, paying attention both to what the young woman and the wand-weigher were 'saying' to him. "Everything looks good," Simon said taking the wand back and holding it out for her. "Here yo go."
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