The Chamber of Snogs

Hi guys, I'm done with my orals, back from Dragon*Con, and now it's time to kickstart the Jailbreaking Azkaban post!

( here's what's going down )

DISCUSS.

Hey guys, since beater_serpens and I have decided to get this thing back up and started again, there's a few things that we need to address.

First of all, hooray for finally finishing up the Dean Thomas Escape log! Unfortunately that took so long that we're kind of off time, so here's how it's gonna work from now on:

We're not going to be keeping close to dates anymore, because I've realized that any major logs will probably run over how fast time flies in real life. It's not like we're being terribly accurate with Snogs entries anyways. If you guys want to date them, feel free! If you don't, that's okay. As time passes in the Snogs!HP-verse, I will be making announcements like, "IT'S JANUARY" and all January-ish things can happen. The ability to manipulate time is pretty awesome like that.

As of the last Hogsmeade trip, Kahvi is now officially part of the Chamber of Snogs fold. The story is that after witnessing Kahvi's help with Dean's flight, Alison and Ora had a chat with Lysienne and Leah, and they all agreed to share the secret. That means that Kahvi has access to the room, a diary to write in, and knows about the Extendable Ear planted in Snape's office. Yaaaay!

So here's the last bit of what we have to take care of in the month of December:
THE AZKABAN RAID

Death Eaters are holding both Muggles and suspected traitors in Azkaban. The Order of the Phoenix intends a rescue and needs some help. Fred and George Weasley find out, who recruit Alison, and Alison recruits the rest of us. The situation doesn't get too out of hand (since we are just students after all), but we are assigned to guard a Portkey waystation. Excitement ensues.

That'll be a long tag, so it'll be a while until it's up. Until then, I think there might be pre-winter holiday exams to worry about, we have Kahvi as a member of Snogs, and well, it's Christmas?

Let's get this thing started again!

Argh, there has been so much going on this past couple of weeks I'm amazed its December already and Ali-chan and I have been sort of failing at being good mods. Oh well.

At any rate, the big event of the end of the year is going to be our last Hogsmeade trip! It is going to take place in a free-post log format (that is, there is no order to whoever posts, just post if you feel it's warranted, since several things will be happening in different places), and hopefully will tide just over until Christmas break wherein we'll have journal posts again.

At any rate, the following things will be happening at Hogsmeade:

- Neville, Luna, and Ginny will not be present. They are still serving detention with Professor Snape, after being paraded around the Dark Arts classes for the past two weeks.
- The group of students will be closely monitored when outside of any Hogsmeade buildings, by the Head Boy/Girl, Prefects, Filch, the Carrows, and their specially appointed minions (read: Draco, Crabbe, Goyle).
- Alison and Ora having a short meeting at the Hog's Head to pass information onto the Weasley Twins. There, the plan to create a Death Eater Marauder's Map is hatched, as well as information regarding the location of Muggle-borns detained indefinitely.
- Towards the end of the day, Dean Thomas will make a run for it, trying to reach any point outside the anti-Apparition wards surrounding Hogsmeade and Hogwarts. He will make his way down the main street and turn right after Dervish and Banges, at which point he will be noticed. Filch and the Slytherins will try to stop him, and it will be our job to hinder them in various ways.

Not much will happen the rest of December over the holidays except:

- Kahvi, after we see her help Dean escape, will be invited to join us in the Chamber of Snogs. The more people we can trust, the better.
- Luna Lovegood is abducted. I can't remember whether this happens while she is getting on the train at Hogsmeade station or getting off at King's Cross (or somewhere in between), but it's definitely noteworthy.
- There will be an Order raid on Azkaban, where some Muggle-borns are being detained. Everyone is invited to be a part of it, unfortunately our part will be limited (given that we are just students) and we will only be holding our ground at one of several Portkey locations, where Portkeys are waiting to take Muggle-born refugees to safehouses.
- Please also remember to note in your holiday logs about: Snatchers, curfew, a large number of missing Muggles in the Muggle news, and the general dreary and dreadful weather.

The Hogsmeade log will hopefully start in a couple of days when I have time to kick it off. :D

DISCUSS.

I knew it, I knew it.

It's no use saying 'I told you so' because I think Neville, Luna, and Ginny just got caught stealing the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office. Professor Slughorn just informed us a few moments ago and now everybody in Slytherin is talking about it, and so must the rest of the school.

The plan started off so well. Alison and Ginny managed to stow three brooms in a closet on the fifth floor, and Snape was out of his office for the duration of the operation. Alison and I graffiti'd a wall on the second floor next to some classrooms, but something went wrong. I'm not sure what it is, but there was a lot of ruckus kicked up when some of the students found the graffiti, and even though we had all the Carrows, Filch, and Professor Snape in one place, somehow I think they got caught. Snape must have called a meeting in his office or something and caught them along the way.

I hope the Carrows aren't going to kill them. They're all purebloods so they might be tortured, but nothing worse is going to happen...right?

And this sounds terribly selfish right now, but they might let our names slip during the torture process if they haven't already. So everybody be careful. I don't even think my status as an Ambassador's daughter is going to protect me this time, if our names are dropped.

I wonder if there's a polite way to inform Neville that while we all appreciate him growing a backbone, Muggle Studies is not the place to run out and give it a spin. Muggle Carrow almost turned purple today, I swear, and I don't want to see Neville on the wrong end of any of the Unforgivables.

If any of you saw Pansy run crying from the Great Hall during breakfast this morning, that was a wonderful substance called Hive Pepper.