Second, we've been trying to make things as realistic as possible by your request. That means actions have natural and appropriate consequences. Sadly, that means someone who choose to goof off in the lake thread today is now a 'Dead Student'. More discussion will take place in the lj!

griffendor1 aka ron just died

figured i tell you guys


Um... that's what I just said. *shrug*

he wandered off in the middle of the lake and sunk his boat. then the squid came and pulled him under.

i'm not trying to sound rude, but it would have been easier to just look in the 'by the lake' thread than to ask in here. the mods & admins are already getting upset that there's too much chatting going on here.

edit: haha, lee, we posted at the exact same time.

Actually guys, that "how did he die?" question is exactly what this thread is here for so, I don't really understand why you're all upset. Of course we could go and read through entire threads to find out ourselves but, that could take days. It's easier if you just give us a summary in your updates.

(example, using posts from other people about this dead student)

RP name (gryffindor_1) died "By the Lake"
he wandered off in the middle of the lake and sunk his boat. then the squid came and pulled him under.

*cough cough* To: Miss Melita ;) the giver-of-gold-stars

It was pointed out in LJ that, "gold stars are traditionally given to primary school kids here. they stick them to their jumpers with sellotape and some put them on star charts at home so their parents can reward them at the end of term."

So then my question, which it was suggested should be addressed to you is,
"So then.. Would the teacher be putting the stars with spell-o-tape to our jackets? Or putting them in a chart she has (and not giving them to students at all)?"

Okay, backtrack. If you didn't suspect Melita of putting things in her cookies before, than unless your character was told otherwise by someone, you wouldn't have arrived at that conclusion. Plus, you wouldn't know that Shwame was using them in the RP. That's ooc information.

Just to make that clear.

As for the lake thing? He died last year too...odd. I suppose it's a different character then.

When someone 'dies' they either come back as the same character, just as a first year again or a new character. But yes, it is funny how this guy seems to like getting himself killed. Anyone want to place bets for next term?

Actually, that's coming from the books. I think it was Hermione who explained why people can't apparated or disapparate at Hogwarts but, they did say it was due to the abundance of magic and the wards that protect Hogwarts from prying eyes.

Also, I'm pretty sure the characters involved in the story know more about what is going on with the gold stars than you do. Let's not be mean to the Officials in OOC because that is just rude.

*gasp* Lee spilled his beans... And the ministry knows about SAMMO's existence.

But.. or do they ;)

Francis is going to try to use the meeting to her advantage, to gain information from the ministry!! wooo!!!! ;)

update: Me friend Alex recently took one of melita's cookies. Interesting. Maybe she knows about the veritserum and melita will be BUSTED! <yeah this was kinda stupid but i have a feeling it will amount to something

^ I know. I have a problem against that too. SAMMO might be named against meddlesome ministry. However, SAMMO only tries to get information. Nothing more. That was the whole pretense of SAMMO.

What do you do? Lee apparently thought it was actively against Ministry and not just information?. If you go back to when Ashlie and Francis were interviewing candidates, that's what they said: gathering of information to find out the truth.

Announcements have been placed around by an anonymous person not to be named:

Quote:

ATTENTION It is now suspected that there is something contained in the Golden Stars and/or the Cookies given by Professor Melita. It is advised that if you have any Gold Stars from this Potions class to throw them out. Destroy them, if you wish.

^ See?? *gasp*

About the announcement, I'm not sure if it was posted in ALL of the common rooms.... :shifty: so... I guess Lee, you will have to rp to find that out *evil laugh*

'claws will get revenge!! wooo!!!! ;)

where was it first found?

^ Can't tell you that. It would ruin the surprise. Just assume it was left everywhere.. after it was left everywhere..

-.-

It is annonymous because no one saw it get left. No one signed it. Just because it is left under one person's name (Like me) that doesn't mean that Ashlie left it. It just makes it annonymous.

I saw a sign in the main street of hogsmeade, if thats what yall are talking bout

*cough*curbthechattingplease*cough*

Okay, looks like I have more to update on...

READ THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY OR SUFFER MY WRATH!
and I am NOT joking.

Okay people, I'm only going to say this one more time before I close this thread, the ooc forum, and/or the school LJ community:

STOP THE CHATTER AND OFF-TOPIC POSTING

I have seen way too much chatter going on in here. This thread is about what has happened, plain and simple. No reactions are necessary (unless something needs clearing up). If someone has a question as to why something was done a certain way or there's a question about logistics (can the ministry use veritaserum, for example) don't go spouting off your theories, wait for someone in authority (a staff member) to answer the quetsion properly. All this answering for yourselves is getting people confused as to what is the truth and what is just conjecture.

Along those same lines... All this ooc chatter is spilling into the RP. Your characters are not the ones analyzing things here in the ooc forum or in the LJ. The conclusions you come up with in here are NOT the conclusions your characters are coming to. THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR OOC PLOTTING!!!!!!!!! And the LJ was not intended for plotting, either. The purpose of this thread is to tell what is going on (and when you make a post be VERY specific- I'll give you an example at the end of this post). The purpose of the LJ is to discuss what is going on. There was a post in here about an announcement which was placed somewhere (we don't know where because the person who made the update failed to inform us where, thank you very much) and then, there's posts saying people can post it in their CRs if they want. WTF? GIVE ME A BREAK! There is no way people could know about that sign IC just because you guys read it in here OOC. Honestly people .... *rips out hair*

I am so frustrated with you guys right now (and DON'T YOU DARE POST AN APOLOGY TO ME AFTER THIS POST OR I WILL BE VERY ANGRY). Please please please stop and think. If you have trouble distinguishing between IC and OOC don't come in here. You are ruining the RP for everyone.

I have some comments to make on some of the comments that were made in here but, I'm too frustrated at this point to even bother because I seriously doubt anyone will listen to me. Besides, the comments that were made shouldn't have been made in this thread in the first place. Just one thing that's really bugging me: you guys have no idea what or if anything is in Melita's cookies and if anyone RPs that there is veritaserum in them I will personally string them up. (Same thing goes for the gold stars). Just because you think you've figured out what is going on, doesn't mean you have.

Please see my next post for a real update that you can use as an example should you post an update yourself.

Thank you.

Update:

Hubert's (Professor Airlia's house elf) ownership has just been transferred to Berty Borr. Airlia was ordered a few days ago (a day ago or so, RP time) to have Hubert clean out Berty's office. Hubert did a terrific job but, he also played a few pranks, including over-waxing the floors, leaving the sneezing flower on the desk, and enchanting his quills, ink, and parchment. Berty was bound and determined to punish the elf and contacted his friends in the Dept. for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures to transfer ownership so he could do as he pleased with the elf.

The transfer of ownership scene started with post #123 on page 5 in the Main Room.

To see Hubert handiwork (the reason for this action) see post #210 in Professor Lainey's Office.