[LOG] The Legilimency Device

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Who: Alison Mallory, Ora Yang, Kahvi Sidhe, Lysienne Aldrern (with a special appearence by the Weasley twins)
When: Early 1999
Where: Hogsmeade, The Chamber of Snogs
What: Alison and Ora meet the twins in Hogsmeade to receive a Legilimens device so the girls can learn Legilimency



Alison looked once again at the piece of parchment folded in her hand, then across the table at her friend, Ora. The two of them were sitting at the by-now mostly deserted Slytherin table; it was nearing the end of Saturday lunch and most of the students at the four tables in the Great Hall had finished their meals and gone about their way, probably to avoid their homework in whatever way they saw fit.

Making sure that Ora was indeed finished and just picking at the remains of her meal like Alison was, she cocked her head and asked, "Are you ready to get going?"

She and Ora had special dispensation from Professor Slughorn to make trips into Hogsmeade in order to pick up potions ingredients and other packages for the professor, and a few days ago he'd asked them to make another trip and given them the parchment she now held as a permission slip stating their purpose, along with his signature. Alison had immediately owled the twins, who had arranged to meet them in Hogsmeade at the Hog's Head Tavern.

The girls weren't just going to pick up things that Professor Slughorn needed. They were also going to pick up something they needed - a Legilimency device the Order was willing to loan them, so that they could practice the art in secret and without the presence of a human Legilimens, whom they did not have access to. The war with the Death Eaters wasn't solely a physical one, and the battles weren't always as obvious as the raid on Azkaban over the holidays had been. They had to be vigilant and prepared for any sort of attack, and at any time.

Comments

[beater-serpens.livejournal.com]

[OOC: XD No, hijack away~ It's as good a place as any to discuss!

Yeah, Lysienne will probably be the toughest subject, but I suppose we probably won't want to really subject her to it anyway, since she doesn't like the whole Occlumency/Legilimency thing at all anyway? I can see her not wanting to be present during the tests, though that's of course up to Yang.

Well, as long as whatever we steal doesn't go bad, we have a bit of leeway. XD Though yes, I imagine we'd want to get started as soon as possible... I think Ora and Alison should bring the box up to the Chamber straightaway (it's the best place to hide it, after all), and then the girls can figure out what they need and set a meeting time to practice?]

[firespice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Well, I certainly feel less bad about hijacking since there's been a few days with no change.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest something that perhaps the device calls for a bit of in the fluid portion (I'm assuming we'd have to mix the fluid that goes into it, which either Lysienne or Kahvi could do since they're pretty good potions students).

I suggest lovage (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/potions/potions-l.html#lovage) on the grounds that legilimency is made easier by having a more reckless or confused victim. While the victim is likely not imbibing any of the contents of the bowl, I am assuming that some of the effects are transferred through the circlet portion. But, being a mundane plant, that should be somewhat easy to get ahold of.

Devil's Snare sap or something of that nature from the plant might be something harder to get, and thus filch-able. I would suggest that simply for the similarity of legilimency--something squeezing your memories and thoughts out and you need to know how to resist it to escape. Otherwise, definitely open to suggestions on other possible ingredients :)]

[beater-serpens.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Ooh, Lovage sounds like a good idea, since it is likely you'd want to confuse someone to make it easier to rifle through their memories, etc. XD Maybe we'd have to mix it with Devil's Snare sap? Or... hm. I don't know that I have any better ingredients ideas off the top of my head, but I'll give it some thought. I do really like the idea of having to steal something from the school's potion stores, so maybe that would put Devil's Snare sap as my first choice, I guess.

The other option is to have Lupin/whoever supply us with some of the potion we need (I can't imagine they wouldn't send any with the device), but maybe we run out or it gets damaged somehow? ]

[prime-veridian.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I like the idea that we might have to steal some stuff from the school's potions stores. Especially if it's something that's hard to find, the Order is rather busy, and it's possible that getting the Legilimency device was hard enough--they probably didn't have the time to coddle us and set up everything for us beforehand. :D I like the idea that we may have to distract Slughorn or wait for opportune moments to steal things for ourselves.

Anyways, I like the idea of how the device works, and I'd like to propose that it's possibly even older than Voldemort or Death Eaters themselves. You know, it is probably a throwback to an era when people experimented more with dark magic during wars, and the Death Eaters have only recently been trying to use it. :D]

[firespice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I agree that the Order probably didn't include everything. I half expect them to have not read the instructions themselves--we're essentially their research team for the item, and we'll be quite pleased that the instructions are still intact and legible, even if it might be in slightly antiquated language.

Definitely seconding the idea of the device being from an older war when Dark Arts study was less restricted. That's more or less what I had been thinking, since it's a precursor to the modern pensieve :) I imagine it came out of the attic/basement of some purebred Wizard whose ancestor had a Dark Arts bent and who was either gotten ahold of by or joined up with Death Eaters, who were subsequently raided by the Order.]

[beater-serpens.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Totally thirded, that the Order probably just threw as much of the information and ingredients into the box, but that they probably didn't really get to everything before they had the twins deliver the box. I'm sure the girls will have to figure quite a bit of it out~

I will try to get a tag out tonight if possible, and hopefully we'll be able to end this log soon and move on to one with all the girls (or at least us three, with Lysienne arriving later, perhaps, since she is so uncomfortable with the use of such a device?). Maybe we open it and realize we need more ingredients, and then skip to a time when we've actually procured them and then move the log on from there? Ah well, we can figure that out via email or something when this log is done, I suppose. :D;]