The Chamber of Snogs

After sifting through all of almost two weeks of Snape's conversations in his office, I am convinced that he must be the most boring person in the universe.

All he talks about are the board meetings he has, the daily reports of the state of Hogwarts and its students, and making sure the accounts are in order. He's said nothing about the Carrows, nothing about the Dark Lord or serving him, and nothing even about which students or professors he might even slightly dislike. In short, there is no gossip happening at all in his office.

I wonder if 'budgets' is code for 'You-Know-Who.'

So I had a talk with Draco and...

He's told me he's willing to pass information onto the Order and anyone else who needs it. He knows the names of most of the Death Eaters and all the ones in You-Know-Who's inner circle. He probably also knows all the Death Eater meeting places and safe havens as well, and might be in on some of You-Know-Who's plans for the near future, though that last bit is just speculation on my bit.

Alison, can you ask the Fred and George to ask the Order what information they need, and I'll ask Draco. And if anyone else has ideas with what to do with Draco knows, we might want to get on that.

Oh, and DON'T TELL ANYONE.

Who: Alison Mallory and Ora Yang
When: September 15, 1997, 3am
Where: the roof of the Headmaster's office
What: Alison and Ora install an Extendable Ear in the chimney of Snape's office

Ora waited for all the tossing and turning to stop in the beds around her. She waited until she heard the common room go quiet, and then waited for hours after that, as she watched the candles burn low and sputter, and the time crawl slowly by. She rehearsed in her head every step they had set out to do, her mind combing the details of every action, making sure they had a plan if something were to go horribly awry.

She heard Alison shift in her bed, and decided it was time. Ora parted the curtains of her bed and stepped out slowly. She was wearing loose fitting clothing and soft-soled shoes, bewitched to move without sound and reflect very little light, so that in the darkness of the dormitory room she almost looked like a disembodied head. Alison was dressed likewise, her long blonde hair floating in the darkness as they paused for a second, making sure no one else in the room was awake. Ora pointed to the door and Alison nodded.

They made their way out of the Slytherin Dungeons, careful not to make any noise or wake any of the portraits as they slinked along the walls of the Hogwarts corridors, making their way to the locker rooms and the Quidditch Pitch, where their brooms were stowed. Ora breathed a quiet sigh of relief as Alison tossed her a broom. The first step of their plan had gone without a hitch.

Who: Ora Yang, Alison Mallory, Lysienne Aldrern, and Leah Chase
When: the second week of classes
Where: The Chamber of Snogs
What: The girls plot to spy on their new Headmaster

Carefully, Ora padded down an abandoned corridor on the sixth floor of Hogwarts, looking around to make sure there were no other students in the vicinity. The sixth floor of the castle was usually strangely empty, most of the classes being on the lower floors and the greater parts of the rooms in this wing being abandoned, or having been, like most rooms at Hogwarts, shifted by the castle to some other part. The Chamber had been on the fourth floor their second year, before suddenly being moved to the sixth their fourth year, and it had taken almost of a week of prowling around Hogwarts after and between classes for them to find Gilbert and Serge again, who had giggled and snickered about how long it had taken.

Ora strode up to a wall lined with paintings that did not seem particular, and waved a hello to the boys. The darker-haired Serge was the first to notice that Ora was standing there, and he spared a glance for her before seeming to whisper something to Gilbert that made them stop mid-Snog.

"Everybody's here already," Gilbert said lazily, waving a lazy greeting at Ora before wrapping his arms around Serge's neck again. He raised an eyebrow. "You four seem to be spending more time here than usual."

Ora shrugged. "Well, with things going on the way they are this year..." she trailed off, figuring it best to leave it at that.

"Ah," Serge nodded knowingly, "I've heard rumors, bits and pieces, about the new Headmaster and the new teachers." He kissed Gilbert loving on the nose before diving back in. "Small wonder," he said, as the door swung open.

Ora entered and the door swung closed behind her, once more melting seamlessly into the walls. The other girls had various textbooks and parchments open and spread out on the floor, looking up as Ora entered.

"Sorry I'm late," Ora grinned, finding her favorite couch and plopping herself on it, dumping her schoolbag at her feet. "I think I've figured out how we're going to get those Extendable Ears in Snape's office," she said as the girls look at her and carefully set down their homework. They all seemed to be listening, so Ora launched into her idea.

"We're going to need the following things," Ora started, counting on her fingers. "A tightly controlled Reductor or Deprimo, a good enough Reparo to fix it, a good silencing charm, a quill charmed to write down everything it hears, an infinite journal (like ours), a few brooms, a good Disillusionment Charm, a perfect Sticking Charm, a good Disillusionment Charm, and probably a few brooms." Ora paused to take a breath. "In short, we are going to make a whole in the roof of Snape's office, lower down an Extendable Ear, fix the hole, leave the other end on the roof where a quill and a journal will be recording everything that's happening in there. We'll need to affix the other end of the Extendable Ear and the journal to the roof, make sure no one can see them, and make sure they won't get rained on or blown off the top of the castle.

"There," Ora said proudly, taking a big breath. It had taken her nearly all week to try and tackle the particular problem of spying on her new Headmaster. "It's that simple."

Sorry to spam all your friends lists with yet another Snogs posts (I think it can be certifiably said that Alison and I have no lives), but we have been sitting around all night doing some planning for the rest of the year.

( THE CALENDAR )

In addition, if you need to refer to the location of classrooms inside Hogwarts, please refer to this page. There is also a Map of the Hogwarts Grounds available at HP Lexicon.

Just so we all know, the Chamber of Snogs is found on the sixth floor of Hogwarts, along a quiet corridor filled with various paintings. The painting of Gilbert and Serge is hanging on the wall in the middle of the corridor. The door is charmed to look like part of the wall, and only swings inside if people are granted entrance by Gilbert and Serge.