3Broomsticks, a mingle meme

[madam_rosmerta]

THREE BROOMSTICKS: A MINGLE MEME After a long day, you find yourself tired, achey, in desperate need of a drink, and maybe even a pillow to rest your head on. Three Broomsticks is a warm refuge from the freezing cold snow gusting outside. "Welcome to the Three Broomsticks, luv! What can I get for you?" Madam Rosmerta is bright and cheery, heralding the bar where a number of wizards are already seated, wetting their whistles with ale or butterbeer. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Post with your character, noting their name/canon in the subject, and any preferences. 2. Roll a number and tag out to others. 3. Profit. TIMELINE a) NORMAL. It's just another day in your character's life. Nothing to see here. b) TIME HAS NO MEANING. Obligatory option to allow the different generations to interact. Is your character part of the younger crowd, and you always wanted an opportunity to thread with their parents? Maybe now, with the aid of a Time-Turner, you can make it happen! c) MISC. Make something up. It could be an AU universe where anyone from anywhere can be dragged into the Three Broomsticks. Parents or children can be your character's classmate or colleague, instead. The dead never died. Those from other worlds can have an established life, here. OPTIONS 01. PARTY ANIMAL. You're drunk, rowdy, and ready to have a good time. Did you receive good news? Crashing someone's get-together? Meeting up at the Three Broomsticks after work with your crew? Stopping by after watching the Quidditch World Cup? Who cares, let's shake things up (just be sure to give Rosmerta a good tip before you go.) 02. GOSSIP AND RUMORS. Drunks are always easy to coax into sharing the latest gossip in the wizarding world. The warm setting makes it even easier to get someone to open up to you, or for you to blab to someone else. 03. SCHEMING. There's a war going on, don't you know? Careful what you say during a meeting, you don't know who might be eavesdropping. Are you undercover? Trying to stay under the radar, whether it's the Ministry's, Order's, or a Voldemort-sympathizer on your tail? 04. LONER. There's no such thing as being alone here. Your character might not want the company, but company's coming anyway, pal. 05. THE DATING LIFE. Why would you think bringing your date here is a good idea? It's loud and rowdy, and you're sure to have someone crash into your intimate moment. Maybe that's a good thing, depending on who you're here with. Are you the crasher, or the crashee? 06. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. Here we go. It's inevitable for some drunk to get a little too rowdy. Are you that drunk? The one on the receiving end? Are you giving poor Rosmerta a hand by breaking up the debacle? Or you could be the one who is helping the poor soul who got clobbered. Yikes, that'll leave a shiner. 07. FRISKY. When the booze is flowing, there's always a chance for someone to get hot and bothered. Did someone catch your eye at the bar? Flirting up a storm with your date? With a little liquid courage, you too can admit your eternal feelings for that one person... even if they're a sworn enemy. Take it upstairs, you crazy kids. 08. SPIKED DRINK. Didn't your mama ever tell you to keep an eye on your drink? Now look what's happened, you drank something you weren't supposed to! Are you the poor sap who got hit with a love potion, some luck, or are you suddenly sporting some rainbow-colored hair? Go crazy with the results! 09. FIRST MEETING. Everyone's got to meet for the first time at some point. Maybe you get along asap. Or it could take you some time to warm up to each other. Are you coworkers, and this is your way of extending the olive branch after a job gone good or bad? Maybe you need something from this person. 10. WILDCARD. Choose any option above, or make up your own scenario.

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[give_me_a_museum]

"Dude come on," Barry said with an eyebrow raise, "I'm not stupid and I might have done a little digging. I've been screwed over by people too many times not to. Unless you murdered someone it doesn't matter who you used to be. I'm just curious."

[csimalfoy]

Julian grimaced and looked away without answering. He would have to bring that up, wouldn't he? He might not have gotten his hands dirty during the war, but he would say he had blood on his hands. One of his right hands, his so-called best friends, had died because they'd followed him. Crabbe and Goyle certainly weren't the smartest people he'd ever known, but they'd been there when he'd needed them. And they couldn't say the same of him.

[give_me_a_museum]

Barry manages a slight smile. "Look I get that you don't want to tell me. But I'm one of the few people who is going to get what happened to you and I'm really not gonna judge you. Remember I screwed up all of time...I have no right to judge anyone else."

[csimalfoy]

"You screwed up. You didn't try to kill someone." Just because he'd been too much of a coward to go through with it didn't mean he hadn't stood there, pointing his wand at Dumbledore. "You always think in terms of black and white, Allen. Good guys and bad guys. What would you say if I told you I'd been one of the bad guys?"

[give_me_a_museum]

"I'd ask if you were a bad guy now," Barry says calmly looking his new friend in the eye, "are you here to hurt us or do you want to do better? And for the record I may not have killed someone with my own hands, but enough people have died because of me that the blood is on my hands."

[csimalfoy]

Julian looked away. Why did the bloody do-gooders always seem to cross his path? The universe had to hate him. The next thing you'd know, he'd have Harry Potter sticking his nose into this. Maybe Potter and Allen were exchanging emails. "You make that sound like an either/or question," he finally said, looking back at Allen. "Either I'm here to hurt you or I want to do better. It doesn't work like that. I don't work like that."