Back to School Diagon Alley Festival! – Log 1

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WHO: Anyone visiting Diagon Alley!
TONE: Festive and busy!
RATING: PG-13 for possible language
WHEN: August 20 through 22
WHERE: Any and all of Diagon Alley
WHAT: There is a huge festival the whole week to let students get school supplies. People from all over are flocking to Diagon Alley for the best deals. That means you might meet new people or see old friends!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: Remember that this event is semi-open! Any HP AU character can have fun here, whether you're in the game or not, so have fun!

Comments

Flourish and Blotts

[status_is_not_quo]

[BOOKS. Oh my god books. Look at this tiny little nerd among all the books. It's like normal children in a candy store.

But with books.

Books.]

[cheldorado]

[Kid, they're school books. Why so happy?]

You realizes it's just books, right?

[status_is_not_quo]

[..........]

Of course I realize they're books. The fact that you say that they're 'just' books simply means that you can't really comprehend the full depth of knowledge that they offer.

[This 13-year-old boy is holding a bunch of books for 5th years.]

[cheldorado]

Wow. You are... Something else.

[Blink, blink.]

And preparing way too far ahead.

[status_is_not_quo]

...What?

No, I'm going into 5th year when school starts.

[cheldorado]

Nothing.

If you're going into fifth year, why do I have no idea who you are?

[status_is_not_quo]

[Dramatic sigh.]

Because at the end of last year, I sat the exams for both third and fourth years, meaning that I get to skip fourth year and go into fifth.

[cheldorado]

So you'll be playing with the big kids now? Cute.

[status_is_not_quo]

You say that like I'm probably not smart enough to skip fifth year too, if it weren't for having to sit OWLs at the end of the year.

I'm going to get all Os, obviously.

[cheldorado]

...Suddenly a lot less cute.

Kid, you're going to get eaten alive.

[status_is_not_quo]

And that's why I'm not in Care of Magical Creatures. Avoid all sorts of nasty mishaps that way.

[cheldorado]

I mean by the real fifth years.

[status_is_not_quo]

I don't care about them. I'm at Hogwarts to get an education, not to make friends.

[cheldorado]

Mmmmmhmm. Good luck getting an education from the bottom of the Great Lake.

[status_is_not_quo]

...I was a year ahead last year, too.

That's why I grow my own gillyweed plants over the hols and always carry some in my pocket.

[cheldorado]

Wow, you are just completely obnoxious.

when he says grow his own gillyweed he means his mum grows it for him

[status_is_not_quo]

Sticks and stones, miss.

Oh Billy

[cheldorado]

It doesn't bother you? Being so alone?

He has a black thumb he can't help it herbology is one of his worst subjects

[status_is_not_quo]

...Not really?

[He gestures to his armful of books.]

That's what these are for.

XD

[cheldorado]

Sounds lonely to me.

[status_is_not_quo]

[He hesitates for a moment, staring at his books.]

For the longest time, it's just been me, books, and my mom. I don't really...get people.

[cheldorado]

No kidding.

Look... Kid... Try to make some real, not-paper friends this year. Please.

[status_is_not_quo]

[He pulls a face.]

Now you sound like my mom.

[cheldorado]

Ew. Not my goal.

[mo_cara]

Hey, my brother, those be for the wrong year. We're going into FOURTH. ... right? [Oh, shit, are they all going to be 5th years and he just forgot? Forgetting a whole year ... that would be way more embarrassing than just forgetting one night!]