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Cassirin · 06-13-2004, 05:38 AM

After Ginny finishes her final year at Hogwarts, she's stunned to learn that Harry, who's been out of school a year, is engaged. Not wanting to return to the Burrow, which will be full of wedding planning and activity, Ginny escapes to Diagon Alley for a bit of independent living. The twins kindly take Ginny in and offer her a job, and she drags Neville and Luna along as flatmates. Who knows what will happen now that they are living independently?

This is a VERY loose storyline so far, but we want to have the chance to explore these characters as rising adults. I have all of the main characters filled at this point. If you are interested, go ahead and post your character idea. To be honest, I'd prefer HP characters (but not necesarily HRH) rather than made-ups... although a quality made-up is always welcome. If I don't feel your character will add to the story, I probably won't say yes. Also, we're quite serious about RPing, so if you aren't on at night EST, CST, or you will only post very sporadically, don't bother. This is advanced RPing, so YES, your posts need to be longer and more detailed and we DO care about your spelling and grammar.

Ginny - Cassirin
Neville - Spots
Luna - Biochemkris
Fred - tylert_28
George - Cassirin
Ron - Poirot
Hermione - Lumos299
Harry - Lumos299
Elizabeth - Kirstie McGonagall
Guinevere - Jennifer_w
Dobby- Spots

Mad Eye Touz · 08-05-2004, 11:19 PM

Fred hurried up the stairs, dripping with every step. He entered his flat, and only paused for a second in front of George, Luna and Neville, then proceeded on to his and George's bedroom. He tore out all sorts of shirts and things, trying to find something suitable for Guin to wear. He settled for a rather bright orange 'Chudley Cannons' shirt. Tucking it into his back pocket he rushed out of the room, pausing again in front of the group at the table. "If I'm not back in an hour or so...I'm dead. Tell mom I love her." And Fred went running from the room again.

Fred came to a halt just outside the bathroom door, took a deep breath, then peeked around the corner. "Um..Guin? Here," he said offering her the shirt from a safe distance..."I'll...I'll just wait out here why you change. Hermione? You coming?" Fred went and stood just outside the door again, and put his hands deep down in his pockets.

Taking Back Kirstie · 08-05-2004, 11:21 PM

"Lets go backto the Burrow Ron, it's getting late and i'm kinda tired. Do you think your parents will mind if i crash there the night, and take my stuff in the morning?"

Elizabeth was tired, and truth be told a little drunk. She linked arms with Ron, mainly to help her walk in a straight line, and headed out the door and into Diagon Alley proper.

BG · 08-05-2004, 11:33 PM

Hermione nodded and followed Fred out into the hall, closing the bathroom door behind her. She stood next to him and leaned against the wall, "That was quite a map you made. That kind of thing requires some skill to make..." She said, truthfully. There wasn't much else that needed to be said. The map had surprised her. She never thought of Fred and George as dumb, of course, but now she realized completely where their talents really were.

**Jennifer_w** · 08-05-2004, 11:42 PM

Fred had finally found a shirt for her and without anymore stalling she took it and as soon as Hermione left and shut the door she began to change. She was still fuming over what happened and wanted to be far away from this twin. Guin had finally changed shirts and opened the door, she went to grab her stuff and turned to Fred and Hermione. "Well...thank you for the shirt it will be given to you as soon as you visit your mother because frankly, I never want to come here again. Now good day. "Guin said as she smiled at Hermione and gave Fred a furious look and then stalked out.

"Never in my life...." She continued as she had walked out. Apparating, Guin had finally made it back to the burrow and after a few words with Mrs.Weasley she was upstairs, changed and in bed for a long nap.

Mad Eye Touz · 08-06-2004, 12:15 AM

"Oh stop Hermione, you might make me blush!" He said covering his face with his hands pretending to cover flushed cheeks. But then Guin came out and Fred quickly put his hands to his side and stood frozen. She was still furious with him, "Oh don't worry about the shirt. It never went well with my hair."Fred said pointing to his head full of red hair. "Um...good day to you too!" He called to her back as she stalked off. Fred was once again left alone with Hermione, "Next time I'll just let her skin get eaten. She's a crazy one that one."Fred was still looking at the door that Guin had just disappeared through. He turned back to Hermione, puting his hands down deep in his pockets again. "So...what do you say we go back upstairs and we get me out of this wet shirt...I mean I, yeah..Um..I'll get out of this wet shirt." Fred blushed for real this time, and nodded towards the stairs. "After you..."

BG · 08-06-2004, 12:34 AM

We? We help Fred get out of his wet shirt? What had he been thinking? Hermione blushed just as red as Fred did as they ascended the stairs. Had he really been thinking about anything that would have made him verbalize having her help undress him? She shook her head, cursing herself mentally for still thinking about it. It had probably just been a mistake. They reached the flat and Hermione let Fred walk in front of her.

Mad Eye Touz · 08-06-2004, 01:14 AM

Fred, kicking himself hard for what he had just said, reappeared in the kitchen with Hermione close behind. "I'll be back in a second guys.." and Fred disappeared through his bedroom door once again.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 01:38 AM

Tara's hand came up to smooth his hair from his face and tuck the blankets more firmly around him. She was startled by the tender gestures that came so naturally when she had never been a demonstrative person, but she covered her surprise by setting the tumbler on the night table and stepping back from the bed. Her face was mostly in shadows again. "You're welcome, Professor Snape. You see, it wasn't so hard to show gratitude afterall. I shall go now and hope you didn't strain yourself from the effort." Her words were a bit hard, but her voice was playful and warm.

Snape was already falling asleep as she turned for the door, and she stood on the threshold until he had fallen completely unconscious. Tara told herself it was to be sure the job was completed, but there was something in the way the lines of his face smoothed out and he suddenly looked untroubled and unburdened by life that touched her. Why did she feel that she would like to help him look like that in waking hours? She slipped from the room and the door sealed again behind her. Tara muttered an oath under her breath as she realized she had left her parchments in Snape's quarters. Although she had heard the password, there had been some sort of catch to it involving his fingers, and she knew she wouldn't be retrieving her papers that evening. Tara stalked off to her tower, her mind a mess that only hours behind her telescope would clear.

Poirot · 08-06-2004, 01:40 AM

"Hmm... I dunno, but I think she would allow you, just for one night." Ron sighed as Elizabeth tied her arms around his. They walked towards the door and exited.

Closing the door behind him, he reflected for a while if they would apparate or just take the Knight Bus.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 02:05 AM

"That's fine," Ginny said as Harry kissed her hand, but as his lips moved to her wrist, she shivered. "Uh, actually, that's not fine." Ginny slipped her hand from his and handed him the bowl of popcorn. "Control your lips, Potter," Ginny scolded him in a perfect rendition of Molly Weasley before she inched away from him on the couch. "So, how about the Cannons this season? Think they'll win?"

George conversed quietly with Luna and Neville, enjoying their unassuming and often quirky company more than he would have suspected. Fred's mad dash out of the flat, then back into the flat dripping wet, then out again, and finally back in with Hermione, both looking a bit chagrined, made his still aching head spin. And why WERE both Hermione and Fred blushing so fiercely? Fred never blushed, and George shook his head.

Fred disappeared and Hermione actually looked as if she would follow him for a moment. "Hermione," George called to her, wanting some conversation and hoping to distract her from his quite unsuitable twin. Hermione needed someone steady and marriable, and Fred needed someone to balance him who had a great deal of spirit. Hermione approached the table and sat. "I feel like I've become the boring twin," George said, giving her puppy-dog eyes.

BG · 08-06-2004, 02:25 AM

"I don't have a problem controlling my lips," Harry said, mock-defensively. "I think the Cannons will do fine. Well, at least I hope. We should go see a game together. You know, they have that new chaser... what's his name?" Harry said, trying to recall the article he had read in the sports section of the Daily Prophet. "Oh, well, it doesn't matter. They got a new chaser after the old one injured his arm last season.

Hermione found herself almost following Fred, but stopped herself both by though and George calling her. She sat down with George and listened. "Boring?" She asked, "I really don't think either of you could ever be boring, George." She was telling the truth. The past eight years of her life had been made interesting in one way or another by the Weasley twins. NEither of them had ever seemed boring in any way at all.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 02:49 AM

"Mmm... Jorge Ortiz. He's from the Mexican National team. I saw him play when England beat them last winter. Ortiz is really good, but I don't know if he's better than Westchester was." She considered the two men for a moment before adding, "But I'd still like to go to their next game. They're playing the Harpies, you know." She tugged her shirt a bit so that he could see where her allegience lay. "They offered me a try-out, you know."

"Well, not boring compared to the rest of the world," George said with a look of seriousness on his face. It was wasted however by the gleam of mischief in his eyes. "But maybe boring compared to Fred." He shook his head.

BG · 08-06-2004, 03:05 AM

"Really?" Harry asked. He hoped it was just this he had missed out on, and not to many other things that had happened in Ginny's year away. "You would have easily made it," He said as is that were a given. "You have great skills with quidditch, you know.... Have you thought about what you want to do now that you're out of Hogwarts?"

"Well, I don't think you're boring, George," Hermione said, confuses by his behavior and sudden lack of confidence. "I find you quite interesting. Freed was just being... er... extra interesting today because he was drunk earlier."

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 03:21 AM

"Oh, well..." Ginny looked embarrassed. "The try-outs are later this summer, actually. I haven't even decided yet if I want to go. They aren't actually looking for a chaser, and I'm not much at seeker or even reserve beater. As for the rest of my future... I think I'll worry about it as it comes. Right now, I'm the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes shopgirl." She didn't mention that her future in large part depended on what Harry wanted, although she felt maybe she had left that thought hanging in the air.

"Yes, well..." George grinned at Hermione, having gotten her to admit that she thought he was interesting. "Tell me, Mione, I'm interested to know. Nobody can tell Fred and I apart, but you don't have any trouble. How do you know? How do you know I'm not Fred?"

Biochemkris · 08-06-2004, 03:35 AM

Luna dozed a bit throughout tea. She would have been embarassed or felt guilty about being such a poor guest but, she was too tired to care. Suddenly, as George was talking, she was awakened by a rather large owl landing in her lap. She untied the letter, bearing the seal for the Ministry of Magic, from his leg. "Excuse me," she said, walking over to the corner as she pulled a straying piece of hair behind her ear.

Leaning against the wall as she faced the corner, Luna began to read through the letter. She sighed, allowing the letter to flutter to the floor. Running her hands through her hair, she deftly removed her wand, pointed it at the paper, and incinerated it. Luna turned back to the party. "I'm sorry, I have to attend to something back at the Ministry. Thank you so much for tea," she said before disapparating.

BG · 08-06-2004, 03:56 AM

"A very good shopgirl, too," Harry said, smiling. "Or, well, so I've seen in the few days you have been working there." He sighed. Ginny seemed to have left her last comment sort of open and Harry didn't really understand why or where she wanted to take it. "Er... what about after, well, you aren't planning on working for your brothers for life, are you?"

"Well, really, it's quite simple," Hermione started to explain. After years of knowing the twins, she picked up on their physical and perrsonality differences and had noted them. "At first glance, you two are, physically, exactly indentical. But, see, being around you for eight years I have picked up on little things that, now that I know of them, are quite obvious. For example, Fred has more freckles on his face than you do. And you, believe it or not, are about half an inch shorter than he is. Also, his eyebrows are quite a bit thicker and you have a cowlick right here," She pointed to near the front of his hair where the hair sort of stood up in an odd tuft.

Hermione took a deep breath, ready to go on. "Personality-wise, Fred tends to be a little more reckless and... spontaneous. You seem to think things out more. You are both very clever, I have seen that by the intricate map you two made that Fred showed me. Need I go on?" She asked, after saying a quick goodbye to Luna.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 04:28 AM

"I don't have any plans," Ginny said a bit stiffly. "I'm 18 years old, Harry. I don't know what I want to do with my life. I don't even know what I want to wear tomorrow. I just don't know. If I end up working for Fred and George for the rest of my life, I'll do it well and I'll enjoy it. If I end up raising 7 children with raging red hair and... green eyes, I'll enjoy that and do that well too. I can only play it one day at a time." She turned her face further away from his, her chin trembling. There was something about the uncertainty of her future that left Ginny feeling helpless and a little afraid.

George tugged self-consciously on said cowlick and frowned at Hermione for a moment. It was a bit eerie, actually, that she had noticed things their own mother sometimes failed to see. "You..." George paused, then smiled genuinely at Hermione, "are truly a bloody brilliant witch, Mione! Did Fred get you to work on the map? I bet you fixed it completely." He reached out and grabbed her arm. "Does it work now?"

Taking Back Kirstie · 08-06-2004, 04:31 AM

"I don't think i'm up for Bus travel today, lets just Apparate Ron."

With that, she dissapparated back to the burrow and waited for Ron to join her,.

BG · 08-06-2004, 04:51 AM

Harry was quite surprised when she mentioned ahving children with green eyes... he had green eyes. This got him thinking. Where were they really going with their relationship? Obviously Ginny had a much clearer vision than Harry did. But he was distracted from his thoughts and looked at Ginny, turning her head away. She looked as if... was she crying? "Gin..." Harry turned her face back towards him and he could see a hint of tears in her eyes. His stomach gave a jolt. Had he done something or said something wrong? "What's wrong?" He asked in a slightly panicked way.

Hermione grinned, and blushed at his compliment "I did what I could," she said, shrugging a bit, "It works pretty well, I'm assuming." She looked at her hand on his arm, confused, but pleased to see he was so excited about the map being complete.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 05:16 AM

George removed his hand from Hermione's arm. Leave it to him to tell Fred not to confuse the poor witch and then for he himself to mislead her in some way. "Well, I don't know about you lot, but I'm exhausted. I spent most of the day in my pajamas, beating up pseudo-brothers, policing younger sisters, and drinking my way to oblivion. Quite a busy day, if I do say so myself." He stood and watched as Neville gave his farewell and disappeared out the door to his own flat. "Mione, you're welcome to our couch, but I warn you we aren't much for breakfast. Fred thinks he's become a master chef, but I've seen most of his efforts."

BG · 08-06-2004, 05:22 AM

"No, that's alright, thank you anyway, though, George," She said, standing up, "And thank you for the tea... it was er... spiffing." She turned back to him, "Tell Fred I said good night," she peered to the doorway where Fred had disappeared through. "And good night to you, George." With that, she apparated to her flat and hurriedly climbed into bed realizing the time.

Cassirin · 08-06-2004, 05:35 AM

"Nothing," Ginny mumbled, blinking her eyes to keep the tears from actually falling. "I just don't like not knowing..." her voice trailed off and she struggled to explain herself. "Please, Harry..." her voice sounded so young and vulnerable, "Could you please hold me?"

Harry pulled Ginny into his lap and stroked her hair, her head resting in the crook of his neck. She soon started to doze, finally falling asleep completely, Harry's warmth and soft touches relaxing her completely. Harry cradled Ginny carefully as he charmed the lights off, then pulled her into a laying postion on the couch, his own frame wrapped around her and holding her closely. He drifted off to sleep soon after.

Biochemkris · 08-06-2004, 05:36 AM

Luna took a quick perk-up potion as soon as she arrived back at the ministry which was still in effect several hours later as she was making ready to leave. “A walk will do me good,” she muttered to herself, knowing she needed to get some rest but, she would be unable to do so with the potion still working and she could not take a sleeping draft on top of it due to the possible cross-reactions.

So, Luna apparated to the apparition point closest to the Leaky Cauldron and she began her walk back to the flat. The normally noisy, bustling, crowded, Diagon Alley was deserted. The shadows and eerie silence would have been enough to unnerve most people but, Luna had never been “most people.” She relished in the feeling of freedom nighttime could bring and she found the silence peaceful.

As she approached the front of the store, however, she felt as though she were being watched. Making a casual gesture, as if to pull a straying hair behind her ear, Luna pulled her wand out form behind her ear and held it ready in front of her. Her breathing increased and, in her stillness, she heard the steps from two people come up behind her. She turned, her wand outstretched but, before she could say anything, they had attacked. The last thing Luna saw before the world became black, were two masked figures, lit up by a green light.

Biochemkris · 08-06-2004, 05:37 AM

Snape woke up early the next morning, his injuries throbbing. Carefully rolling out of bed, so as not to disturb the partially-healed wounds, he threw on an outer robe and his boots, and hurried up to the Hospital Wing, as quickly as he could manage. He walked through the door to the sight of a very anxious Madam Pomfrey who rushed up to him and pulled him into a seat.

Madam Pomfrey jumped up from the bed she had fallen into a light asleep on while waiting for Professor Snape to arrive after his dangerous escapade as soon as she heard footfalls in the hallway. She rushed over to him. “Where were you? I was up all night…” she said, taking off his robe and immediately setting to work on the stomach wound.

“What were you thinking?” she scolded. “You should have come to me straight away for this. Not that you didn’t do a good job starting the healing but, if you had come to me first, you would have been fully healed…. And don’t give me that not wanting to wake me for such a minor injury, Severus.”

She fixed him with a warning glare which clearly stated he was to come to her next time before heading off to the cupboards. She arrived back and handed him a potion. “You’ve broken your arm, as well, I see,” she said shaking her head as she began prodding him with her wand, finishing the knitting of the bones and examining for hidden injuries. “There you are. Now, I suggest you get yourself a shower to wash off the rest of that blood and take it easy today.”

Snape’s face remained impassive as Madam Pomfrey worked and scolded. When she was finally finished, he stood up and buttoned his robe. With a short bow, he thanked her and swept out of the Hospital Wing. As soon as he got back to his quarters, he picked up a quill and a piece of parchment off of the table next to his chair. He dipped the quill in ink and was about to set it to paper when he noticed the sheet already contained writing. It was a complex chart of some sort… He recognized many of the symbols from his school days; astronomy had never been one of his strong suits so, the notes were relatively meaningless. Professor Sinistra must have left them behind last night. Snape set aside his colleague’s notes to return to her later and pulled out a fresh piece of parchment. After jotting down his note, he flooed it to Dumbeldore and walked into the bathroom for his shower.

Snape glanced at the clock after emerging from the washroom. It was just after seven and he wondered if Sinistra would still be awake. Taking the chance that she might be, he picked up the notes and headed towards the astronomy tower. He knocked lightly upon the door, wondering why his hands were beginning to feel moist.

Mad Eye Touz · 08-06-2004, 06:17 AM

Fred, deciding that he had probably embarrased himself enough for one day to last him till at least some time next week, hid out in his bedroom till everyone left. He pulled his sopping wet shirt off and threw it in the hamper then went to the door to listen for everyone leaving. He considered running out and appologizing again to Hermione for all his antics of the day, and almost did it, but stopped himself upon realizing he had no shirt on.

Sure that everyone was gone, Fred strolled back out still wearing his bowler but no shirt and plopped down next to George. He sighed and started telling him all about the episode with Hermione in the Lab, then nearly being killed by Guin, then his embarassing moment with Hermione and that being the reason he didn't come back out to say goodbye. "It's been an interesting day George my boy." He added kicking his shoes off.

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