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| | Term 56: September - December 2020 Term fifty-six: Finders Keepers (Sept 2102 - June 2103) | 
12-04-2018, 01:02 PM
| | |  Boris the Bewildered
 Not far from the entrance of the fifth-floor corridor stands a statue of Boris the Bewildered. Even though there is a statue present in dedication to the man, not much is known about him these days. Just by looking at his expression, it appears that he is either very lost or someone just Confunded him. Though, perhaps, this observation will not come as a surprise to you. After all, the old man is wearing his gloves on the wrong hands.
Hopefully you are faring significantly better than the statue standing before you. In general the statue is used as a landmark for prefects and Quidditch captains, serving as a gentle reminder that their exclusive bathroom is just a few doors down. If you are not a student leader, however, the statue might be viewed as yet another of those silly things that reside inside the castle and be deemed as something not worth investigating further. Though, if you ever need a casual meeting place, Boris will always be there to help you out even if he hasn't got a clue who you even are.
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11-04-2020, 01:34 AM
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Bernie had a short and sweet walk down from her common room to the statue of Boris the Bewildered, the agreed-upon meeting point for her and her buddy ol pal ol' Nemesis. She leaned against the statue, her bag dropping off her shoulder and onto the ground beside her as she looked down the corridor to see if she could spot the Slytherin coming.
Wasn't the prefect bathroom on this floor? Maybe Nem knew where it was. Speaking of prefects.... Bernie dropped to her knee to root around in her bag, emerging a moment later with a certain bit of parchment. She had to put this up here. HAD to.
No one would know if SHE was the one who stuck this to ol' Boris, would they? Bernie used a sticking charm to fix it to the bottom of the statue, then settled back into her lean, her wand tucked back into her boot again.
Where WAS Nem?
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11-09-2020, 04:13 AM
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Fashionably late, that's where. Or maybe just plain not in any sort of rush. Nem's legs were getting longer, and it was so convenient for cutting down on travel times, or getting from A to B with something of a deceptively lazy stride. By an infinitesimal amount, sure, but it all added up. Maybe.
But they were here now, rounding the corner and twiddling the stainless steel ring in their left earlobe, looking politely disinterested in most, if not all, things.
"Hey," Nem greeted Grantham from halfway down the corridor, closing in on her and Old Man Boris, eyes flicking at once to the poster and then back at Bernie. "Up to no good?" Not they'd they'd seen her put anything up, but it was one hundred percent something that was firmly in her wheelhouse. No offence. Full offence. "Who are these jokers?"
Nem knew exactly who those jokers were.
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11-11-2020, 01:57 AM
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THERE they were. Bernie returned Nem's greeting with a 'sup nod, blinking a few times (a practiced, innocent blink) as she pivoted slightly to see the poster, presumably noticing it for the first time.
"Merlin's bearrrrrrrrd," Bernie drawled, "Well looooooookeee here. I do declare that.... Josh Miller is on that poster thereee."
Who was more bewildered: Boris or Bernadette? Cue the latter sticking her hands in her pockets and rocking back on her heels. Not to change the subject or anything, but she cleared her throat and added, "I made a hat for you."
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11-22-2020, 05:08 AM
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Well. Nem was convinced.
Convinced that Grantham should never go into acting, though in all fairness, Nem thought she'd have been great in a pantomime. If anyone could really be all that great in a pantomime.
She'd fit in. That was enough.
"So it is," they said, glancing poster-wards again. "You know, I'm not sure whoever made this put much thought into it. People're gonna get so used to seeing those pictures together they won't be able to think of one face without the other, especially when they start paying less attention to the writing." But they weren't here to grade the work of the mysterious poster designer, of course.
No.
They were here to talk hats.
"Nice. Are we trading or are you the generous type of Gryffindor?" Nem grinned, and pushed their hair up out of their eyes and over to the side. "I do get pretty cold, you know."
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11-25-2020, 06:18 PM
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"Yeah," Bernie agreed nonchalantly, "that's definitely something that, uh, whoever made this poster PROBABLY didn't consider, that...silly goose." She cleared her throat.
Never mind that.
"I am interested in a trade." She eyed Nem a bit, playing with their hair like that, and then unearthed the hat from her bag. So he got cold, huh. "I am working on a pair of mittens to match, but...." she'd never tried to make mittens before, and right now they looked more like socks. So she hadn't brought them for Nem, smiling Nem. This was supsicious?!?! Who knew Nem had a nice smile?
But Bernie was looking decidedly at the hat and twirling it around her hand. "I believe you promised me the secrets to breaking out of Azkaban?" Just in case they needed a reminder?
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12-02-2020, 07:51 PM
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Silly goose. That was one name for them. Nem had some others, but left those unsaid. For the good of the realm. Or whatever.
"Alright, trade it is." They leaned back against the wall, and eyed the hat that Grantham produced. Funny, Nem hadn't expected it to look so... well-made. Which, by the way, spoke volumes about what they expected regarding the capabilities of... well, pretty much anyone, bar themselves. Something to think about. Maybe.
Probably not.
Mittens, huh? "... but you thought you'd hold off, to get a second trade out of the bargain?" Nem finished Grantham's sentence for her, knowing that was more than likely not true. Banter, you know? They smiled again, a we're-both-in-on-the-joke kind of conspiratorial smile. "To be honest, they're not really secrets. I reckon you're smart enough to get there yourself, but I did promise." Closer to the truth was that Nem had made the promise with no intentions of sharing the details of their real ideas, and, if Grantham had pressed for them, they had some specifically cultivated for her. The kind of thing her own brain might have even already come up with. "Disclaimer: this is all hypothetical." That part? One hundred percent true. Nem had no intentions of ever going to Azkaban, or jeopardising their squeaky clean record. At this point in time, they'd not even done a whole lot to risk their reputation either; anyone who might claim there was something off about them would have no more legitimate evidence to point to than they would for the average teenager.
"It's simple. Don't end up there, first of all. So, don't do anything to get yourself sent there, or, if you do, don't get caught." That right there? Nem's primary method. "But really, the easiest way to get out is probably more about who you know. Have some Auror friends for an inside job, or someone willing to bust you out from the outside. At the very least, find someone who's been there and released and can tell you a little about the lay of the land. Galleons will get you anywhere." In Nem's musings, however, they'd always envisioned doing the whole thing entirely solo; relying on someone else, even Pax, to do something like that, just wasn't for them. All their ideas were based on total self-sufficiency. They grinned again then, all fun and games, reached out, and gently bumped Grantham's arm with their fist. "We should get this place to do an Azkaban field trip, Berns. Get some more intel. Old Man Jacob never took me there, so I've never seen it in person." He'd probably been tempted, mind.
More than once.
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12-02-2020, 11:53 PM
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Well nooooooo, not exactly. Bernie was not nearly devious enough to play Nem like a chess game.
Right, they were getting right into then. Bernie whipped out a small notepad to jot this down, as Nem was fond of saying, the hat folded over loosely on her arm. Auror friends, she wrote, followed by talk to an ex-con, and then galleons? with a big, underlined question mark. Because she didn't have any, see, nor any of these other things. If she still had her trademark fringe, she'd be huffing and sighing and blowing it out of her eyes right now. Instead, since it grew out, her blue eyes glared at Nem's fist bump with suspicion.
"I need better intel than this bit of advice, Upstead." She flipped the pad shut with a Trent-like grunt of disapproval. "A field trip. Now we're talking. YOU have connections to aurors or whatnot, so why can't YOU get us in? I dunno any. AND I read that they had a massive breakout like last year or whatever. What are the chances they're gonna let a bunch of schoolkids in for a tour now?"
She thought Nem had REAL resources, like, a map or something.
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