three_broomsticks | Hogwarts: A Jamjar Meme

HOGWARTS:
A JAMJAR MEME

Wizards of all ages and from all times: whatever you were doing, wherever you were - none of that matters now. You've been brought to Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. You’ll find yourself in the Great Hall under a starry sky, illuminated by the light of a thousand candles.

What happened? Why were you brought here? How were you brought here? All questions to be answered, perhaps. But first, mingle with your kind and find a seat for yourself. This will be your home for a while.

Because there is no leaving. Student, staff, you with nothing to do - all of you trapped inside the school grounds.

Sorting to houses & Start-of-term feast
Those of you who have not been sorted into your houses, you're guided to sit on a stool while an old hat will contemplate a proper house for you. After, you can join your housemates at their long table.

The ghost of the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, will soon give a speech once the last student is sorted...

"The very best of evenings to you! Now… to our new students, welcome. To our old students, welcome back! Another year full of magical education awaits you…"

He will warn you about the anti-curse charm set upon Hogwarts and how it will bring harm in equal measures to yourself. He will urge you to stay calm and have a lemondrop; they’ll be provided at all tables.

Dumbledore would like you all to note few things, Hogwarts attendees:

1. This will be a continuous, no commitment necessary “storyline.”
What does that mean? Depending on the level of interest, there will be at least one post per month on the 3B-DR that will continue the storyline which begins here. Players are encouraged to make top-levels in the dressing room if they want to keep this verse going with their characters. Madame Rosmerta’s made a tag specifically for this.

2. Multiple versions of characters at various ages are welcome.
Whether that means there’s three Harry’s all in fifth year, or one Harry in first year, a second in third year, and a third in sixth year is up to you. All three Harry’s could also interact, depending on player preferences. AU versions of (HP)canon and non-(HP)canon characters are also welcome. Sometimes people disappear from Hogwarts and sometimes they come back.

3. Schoolwork
Dumbledore's ghost will invite all characters of age and knowledge to teach their specialties to the younger wizards. If your character could be possibly a teacher, or is interested in teaching, refer to this thread to sign up for a teaching position. The courses do not need to be anything serious (unless you want them to be). If your character would be interested in a course, you can look it up from the character's toplevel. Your character doesn't need to be of student age to participate in courses. (They're free for all!)

4. Sign up for your house.
Here is a thread for all the Hogwarts houses that your character could be sorted in.

5. This means… war!
Are you a Death Eater? A member of the Order? Rival students? It’s likely your character will encounter someone they don’t get along with. Duels are fine, but beware that any attacks meant to cause harm (curses) will backfire on the caster. If your character doesn’t care that damage will also bounce back to them, then Dumbledore’s ghost will be intervening. He won’t tolerate harm to any of his students… even if it’s harm to Tom.

6. Housecup
Of course points will be awarded and taken away by teachers and prefects. You can leave a comment in this thread for the points taken or given. Madam Rosmerta will add them up together for the next post. You can also sign up for a prefect role. Each house has one and that one will change in each post. First come, first serve is the rule, except if your character was a prefect in the last post, you can't sign up in this one.

1. Toplevel with your character

2. Tag other characters

3. Have fun!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Somehow he's kept missing her, but after speaking with James, after the painful confirmation that they'd thought he was the one to betray them, he's wanted so badly to see her too, to straighten things out.

He'd never really liked being in the potions labs, the smells were often too much for him, but he waited until most of the students had cleared out before slipping in, leaning against the back wall of the classroom. The fumes tickle his nose already, but standing by the door helps.

She still looks the same, and he feels so damn old. He doesn't know how much she already knows.

"How were they for you? Children tend to be particularly unruly the first day of classes, or so I've heard." As though he doesn't know perfectly well.

When Lily doesn't want to be found, she'll make herself scarce. She'd had six years to master the art form of avoiding James Potter, and she knows these halls and their shortcuts like the back of her hand. Perhaps not to the same extent the Marauders do, but it's enough. It's typically been enough.

There's been much to reflect over since her talk with Sirius. Granted she's been dead for only a short while, and she's had barely any time to truly let the idea of Remus' once-believed betrayal to permeate her mind before that belief'd been firmly corrected.

Alas, avoidance doesn't work to her favor when she's teaching a class. It'd been something on a whim. Potions always came easily to her, and she'd figured being in this atmosphere would lend itself to a certain level of comfort. Her smile towards Remus is thin-lipped and brittle, but not unfriendly. It's the smile of someone treading in choppy waters--who wants the world to believe everything's fine, when everything is certainly not.

"I'd had two years to mentally prepare myself for a child's rowdiness. And a decade of dealing with the lot of you." She tilts her head. "They were like we'd been. It seems I've come full circle."

The smile tells him enough. Maybe he should have waited for her to approach him, but-- it’s been so long, and he’s wanted so badly to see her again, to speak with her. She’d been one of his dearest friends, even before she and James began to date. He’d missed her like he’d missed James, like he’d missed Peter before he knew the truth, like he’d missed Sirius after he knew the truth… like a chunk of his heart was gone, a piece of his lungs missing.

His hands twitch to reach out to her but he stuffs them in his pockets, holds himself back. He’s already forced his presence when she wasn’t prepared for him.

“Some of them are more literally like we were, I’ve heard.” His own smile is faded, tired.

He'll never force his presence, she'd have sharply told him, had she been able to hear that line of thinking.

With a long inhale, a moment to stare down at her desk, she looks back up at him. That she can see such exhaustion in his face, a face once so vibrant, makes her heart ache. "I don't bite." The smile, brittle moments ago, turns into something a little more her. "I believe that's Sirius' job. Gnawing holes into James' underpants especially.

"But yes, some of them literally are." Her brows lift. "I've run into a number of you, now. It's getting hard to keep track. Yet each of the... older yous, the ones who--well, it doesn't matter. Sirius told me what actually happened, Remus. That night. And who it was that betrayed us."

All this time and he still beats up on himself more than anyone else ever will. And there's been some tough competition.

"I do, one night a month." It surprises him a little how easily the joke comes. She and the Marauders always made it easier to joke about that. He eases into the room a little more.

He breathes a sigh of relief, hearing that she knows the truth. "Good, that's-- That's good you've heard it from him. I haven't seen Sirius yet, somehow. Probably due to so many of me being about. I'll find him, if he doesn't sniff me out first." His smile is a bit dry now, still tired, doesn't quite reach his eyes. It's a very odd situation, all of this. "If you have questions still, I'll answer what I can."

Hogwarts: A Jamjar Meme

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