Hogwarts: A Jamjar Meme

[madam_rosmerta]

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 Name in the title line. Do not leave an empty toplevel. Write a starter like you would to a game event. Link to preferences if you’d prefer. 2. Tag other characters The name of the game is interaction. Why is your character here? Do they want to be here? Are they being reunited with lost loved ones? 3. Have fun! Dumbledore (and Madame Rosmerta) is watching. Behave yourselves. Don’t godmod, infomod, respect other players, etc.

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[lunaphobia]

Adrian puzzles over the task for a bit before collecting his supplies, going for the small glass panels. He wants it to be one you can see into, because flitterbys are cute, and it’ll be an interesting challenge to keep it from getting too warm in the sun.

He’s already messed about enchanting objects, so it’s just a matter of figuring out the enchantments to make it work the way he wants, and it’s a lot less complicated than charming his electronics to charge magically, so he’s doing pretty good getting it all to stick together.

The whole thing has sort of a stained glass effect when the sun shines through it, so that’s neat.

When Professor Black strolls by, he grabs his attention with a sheepish smile. “I have an idea for my heat source but I could use some help for making it work. I was thinking about, uh. Solar panels, they’re these things muggles have to convert energy from the sun, and I thought I’d do something like that but with a charm. I didn’t want it to get too hot in there, so I was thinking I could have something to store the heat in until it’s needed.”

[thedogfather]

Most of the students don't seem to need much help; it's as much an artistic effort as it is a practical one. Sticking charms are quite basic, and these are older students, so most of them are able to get their parts to stick, but more than half the houses are ugly as sin. And that's fine, it's not as if the flitterbys care, and Sirius gets a good laugh out of the lopsided monstrosities that some of them are putting together.

The heat source is, of course, the real challenge, trying to find the balance between too much heat and not enough, and not placing it against or near any flammable surfaces - half the tables have scorch marks on them by the time he's drawing up to Adrian's side, once he's tugged over.

"Oh, pretty," he remarks with raised eyebrows, lifting the little glass house and turning it over in his hands, little spots of refracted light dancing on the tabletop. He's listening, though, and once the boy is finished, Sirius is frowning thoughtfully.

"Like a battery." Like as not, Sirius is quite possibly the most well-versed of any of the pureblood professors in muggle items and how they work. "A warming charm would be easy, sure, cast it on something and place it inside. But you'd need to think of some method to keep it from wearing off." And he can't go giving out easy answers, of course. "Using the sun would be quite easy, since you've made it out of glass. Smart. Might not need a warming charm at all if you can trap it well enough."