The Chamber of Snogs

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.

Hey everyone,

Skuld here, sitting at a computer in a Swiss chalet my brother-in-law's family owns, where I can see the Matterhorn from out of my window. This is seriously sweet, and yet I still have to take time out of my day to sit on the internets because I'm just that dependent on the webz. Oh, I love my nerdiness.

Anyhoos, this is just a heads up to let you know that Hogwarts formally begins on September 1st but since beater_serpens is out of town at DragonCon, we'll actually be opening the posts on September 4th. We will all be meeting up on Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters to board the Hogwarts Express. As usual every year, we will all squeeze into the same compartment, and talk about our hopes and worries for our last year of schooling.

(Ali-chan and I have some plans for what's going to follow later in the year, but we'll organize and talk about that later.)

On the September 1st Daily Prophet (or possibly the day before) the article announcing Snape as the new Headmaster and the Carrows as DADA and Muggle Studies professors is published.

If you haven't written up a character profile by the time we go back to Hogwarts, please do so!