Holiday Ghost Event: Road Less Traveled

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WHO: Everyone, affected and not
TONE: Not of this world
RATING: PG
WHEN: December 11th through 12th
WHERE: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
WHAT: Due to visiting holiday ghosts, some students and staff find themselves living as they would have if something in their lives did or didn't happen. An alternate version who could be better or worse off!
NOTE: This signals the event start. Use any posting format you want, and feel free to post about this as well on the journals!

Comments

[arrogantalloy]

[Walking down the hall, heading for food. Tony stops as he sees the teacher heading towards him. Looking her up and down, he's sure he knows the clothes, but is suddenly unsure as to why she'd be wearing him. Not only that she's a woman he hasn't seen before and so he's very curious.]

Huh, he works quick. I'm actually impressed.

[He's talking out loud, and to himself. Nothing really new for him.]

[wwishful]

[Don't think she doesn't notice that look. She scowls in return, narrowing her eyes at Tony as he speaks.]

Who works quick, Stark? [She asks in a voice that promises death.]

[arrogantalloy]

[Looking vaguely like a deer in the head lights. How did she know who he was.]

Wow, this can't be a reputation proceeding me thing, can it? Because, this. This is unnerving.

[wwishful]

[Rolling her god damn eyes.]

Really, Stark? I've been your teacher for nearly nine months. I thought you were gifted enough to know that. Although, it was incredibly daft of you to verbalise your comments.

Ten points from Ravenclaw.

[arrogantalloy]

10 points? Hey co-

[Blinks slowly then realises the pattern of her speech.]

Wait a second. Donoghue?

Okay, well this is new. Well I guess the scars and.. Outfit should have made that obvious but, hey. I know the wedding was a bit, jarring. But isn't gender reassignment kind of a bit, I don't know, extreme?

[wwishful]

For the previous comment. The one I questioned and you were to flabbergasted to give me an answer to.

[She narrows her eyes. God, she wishes she could smack children. What the hell is he on about? What is going on!?]

I have absolutely NO idea what you're talkin' about, but you're well on your way to losin' more points.

[arrogantalloy]

Woah, he come on. Don't you think if I was going to confuse you on purpose I'd be doing something a little more clever than this? And what I'm trying to say that last time I looked, my Dark Arts teacher was a grizzled, and consistently grumpy man.

[He lifts his hands up in surrender to her. Really not wanting to lose more points, and kind of annoyed he accidentally lost 10 already.]

[wwishful]

[She keeps her frown, but she's giving him a very confused look. This really doesn't seem like a joke, if it were, it wouldn't be funny in the slightest. Not at all like Stark's usual sense of humor.]

I think you are very confused, young man.

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, believe me. The whole being confused thing hasn't escaped me. But more in a 'how has this happened' way, instead of a 'I hit my head and don't know what I'm saying' kind of way.

Mostly because you were a guy yesterday. You threatened to throw me out of class for getting on Herbert's case.

[Which wasn't anything out of the ordinary for Tony, in fact it's a hobby.]

[wwishful]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talkin' about. I'm a woman, Stark. I've always been a woman. There's no way I could just wake up like this, that's unheard of!

[arrogantalloy]

[He scratches his head]

Believe me, I really am noticing this, really noticing this. But I still know that yesterday I was being taught by a guy.

Is this one of those weird magic things that always seems to happen here?

[wwishful]

[She lets out a long suffering sigh, pressing the palm of her hand to her forehead and taking a long moment to remember back. Nope. Nothing. Nothing suspicious.]

It would seem so. It's not as endearin' as the castle seems to think it is. At least we know it's not permanent.


I certainly hope I didn't jinx us.

[arrogantalloy]

[Smirks]

Well, hey. If you did jinx it. At least it's not a bad one to be stuck with.

[wwishful]

It's not as if I've been turned into another gender, Stark! I've been taken out of my own world and replaced another version of myself! There's nothin' good about that.


Don't you dare smirk at me.

[arrogantalloy]

Terminal smirker, sorry, can't be helped.

Hey, it could be a good thing, one of those grass is always greener things? Something suddenly disastrous could have happened in your world, and this little dimension jump saved you?

[wwishful]

You'll help it if you want your house to have any points remainin'.

I'm happy in my own world. I've seen nothin' here that would ever tempt me to make this a permanent switch. I can only pity my alternate self.

[arrogantalloy]

Oh, well. Yeah. Of course. Sure.

Well at least I can agree there, I mean, guy knows his stuff, but his social life. Wow.

[wwishful]

Good.

[She narrows her eyes. God damn, she's curious now.] Tell me more.

[arrogantalloy]

Well his most recent life ambition was to have a sham wedding because of a high inquisitor. Then they broke it off when the inquisitor left because of a promotion. Last I heard, she left for France.