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Post by dan on Nov 2, 2009 17:28:45 GMT
Chris was just about to take a sip of his butterbeer when the lights went out, which made him drop his drink. what the heck just happend he thought and then the lights came on at first he didnt notice anything but he noticed Hermione looking at the ceiling so his eyes followed hers holy crap he thought, he had seen pictures of the dark mark but he had never actually seen one. time to get the hell out of here he said getting up.
He watched as the otters came out of Hermione's wand then headed out of the hall heading towards the dungeons, except he slipped down a secret passageway when he had managed to get out o sight of everyone rushing around. Time to be a weasley he thought and that usualy meant getting caught up in everything. [/size]
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Post by mark on Nov 2, 2009 17:36:10 GMT
Ligasto made his way into a store where hen had been drinking a refreshment made entirely out of sugar cane when he was interrupted by the patronus that had belonged to Professor Malfoy. Yes it worked! He said to him self with an evil smirk on his face that reached up to his ear. He payed the store order and left giggling on how he out of all people blinded the Headmistress of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. It was he who had fooled the great Headmistress into believing he was on their so called side. What a foolish one.He thought to himself as he took a turn into a corner and appereated from smoke to just the outside gate of the Hogwarts. Even from outside the school ground you could hear he screaming of some of the people from the Great Hall. My others will be thankful toward me now that I have done the first step! He said with a smile as he removed the charm that he had placed on the school gates as he walked in.
Upon entrance he had locked the gates again with the charm and pretended to act as if he were in a rush to get to the Great hall by shaking his hair around and taking deep breaths. He literally ran from the school gates toward the Great Hall with his wand out to play part in this fake act. He arrived at the Great Hall to notice that the other students and staff were rather frantic over the sudden situation. My god they call a lock down just over the Dark mark? He said to himself as he ran inside the Great Hall toward Professor Malfoy. At the time he had pretended now to have noticed the Dark Mark he had conjured.
"Headmistress, I got here as soon as I heard! what is the problem?" Ligasto said in a panicked tone. He looked at what the professor was staring at. How beautiful isn't it? he said to him sarcastically as he put on a face of shock. "How could this be?" Ligasto asked as he looked around for any signs of anyone being around that could of been the suspect. Ligasto had been so tempted to burst out in laughter but had to keep himself together. He turned back to face the Headmistress. "Headmistress, is there anything you wish me to do or need anything at all?" he asked still with his wand in grasp.
"Zane did you see anything?" Ligasto asked changing eye direction from the Headmistress to Zane. Zane after all was the professor for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Had you not placed any charms on the Great Hall before the event?" he asked before looking back at the Dark Mark with a small hidden grin. "I think it is best that once the students are escorted to their common rooms we all meet up here again to discuss this matter." He said as looked back at the Headmistress not noticing the other student that might of needed his assistance.
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Post by shanice on Nov 2, 2009 17:47:10 GMT
Shanice laughed at Vickys comment, darn, Vicky could lie well, Shanice didn't consider herself pretty in any sense. "Shut up Vicky, i ain't pretty, besides i like this mask." She exclaimed a large grin pressed onto her fair skinned face. She took herself something to eat and ate it holding her hand under her mouth, only for some to fall onto the floor, she laughed and swallowed. "Hope no one saw." She muttered and a smirk appeared.
The lights went out, Shanice looked around sightly. "V-v-vicky?" She said timidly, Shanice had always been afraid of the dark, and there she was, stood in the darkness of the great hall. She couldn't move it was to scary for her to do anything. She closed her eyes tight shut opening them to see the dark mark above them, her mouth dropped open. She couldn't believe this, how could something like this actually happen.
Her feet were planted still, then a voice called her, the headmistress had ordered some of the prefects to clear the hall, Shanice simply nodded and looked around, how would she do this. Right, she was the hufflepuff prefect, she could do this easily. She bit on her bottom lip before taking a deep breath. "Urmm, Hufflepuff's follow me," The hufflepuffs stood and crowded behind her, she looked around seeing one of the younger hufflepuffs by the food, eating. "Hey you, get over here!" She exclaimed, the young boy joining the group of hufflepuffs.
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Post by lovingthissite on Nov 2, 2009 17:47:27 GMT
Zane had not quite gotten the situation until after Ligasto started to lecture him, wether or not he was going to do anything about it was not his concern, problem wash e wasn't sure he liked the whole metting him back here part, but he hadn't time for that, he rushed around moving the students still standing in dumbfounded awe out of the Great Hall, once he found most of them were already heading for there rooms he turned
"Ligasto De' Santiago, yea sure we will have to discuss this." Zane mumbled softly, what had happend to his charm?, He looked around, somthing had happend, somthing had cancelled it out, but how? No one except a experianced Death Eater could do so. His eyes narrowed as he looked a Ligasto, no, that was absurd, even in his own mind. "Hermione, the kids are heading for there rooms." Zane said stnading next to the Headmistress, he glanced at Ligasto, no, no that couldn't be it.
He sighed, a terribly cold feeling came over him, he swore, where was Vincent?, he looked he hadn't seen him in the mix of kids, where woulda boy like that go to hide, if he hid at all? "Hermione....where is Vincent Lord?'
Before she could fully answer Zane was already in the halls, he asked many a studet, but none of them had any idea, where was that boy? Zane stopped as students brushed passed him, somthing was horribly wrong here. Ligasto a Death Eater, which was insane, a emotionallly disturbed student nowhere to be seen, and a Dark Mark. How much worse could this possibly get? Vincent, was he a Deaht Eater, was that it, it made sense, the way he was and all.
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Post by kaleb on Nov 2, 2009 17:59:36 GMT
Kale had his eye on a nice looking girl who's name he didn't know. He was just about to make a move when the lights went out. "Oh this is just perfect!" He thought to himself sarcastically. He wondered what the hell was going on. When the lights came back on, a sound of shock and intake of deep breath echoed around the hall as every student stood looking up at the symbol floating in the air. A skull with a snake winding through it, everyone recognised it, everyone knew what it meant! Kaleb wondered if this was some sort of sick prank, or joke or something of the sort. "Bet it was weasley!" He thought to himself, as he seemed the type who would find this funny.
Kale backed against a wall, and when the teachers said to get back to the dorms, he debated hiding and finding out what was going on. Deciding against it, he followed the rest of his house down to the dungeons. "Come on Slytherins, you heard the head! This way!" He shouted to a random bunch of kids. This was not the time to mess around, so serious Kaleb came out of hiding. [/blockquote]
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Post by victoriabennett on Nov 2, 2009 18:04:31 GMT
Victoria rolled her eyes as Shanice denied that she was pretty. Her attempts to try and persuade her otherwise made it no further than her thoughts as the room fell dark, before the Headmistress sorted everything out again. She let out a deep breath of relief, not realising anything to have gone wrong until Hermione started barking orders at everyone. Following Shanice's gaze, she spotted the Dark Mark upon the ceiling and held back a scream.
Her eyes immediately searched the hall for Zane. Where was he? He was supposed to be the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, or was he just another Gilderoy Lockhart? With a bunch of younger Gryffindors all crowding around her, Vicky remembered what had been asked of her. "Well don't stand around here, is it that hard to find the common room?" She said to them, grabbing who was either a fifth or sixth year Gryffindor and shoving them forward after the younger ones.
Looking around the room to check that there were no other Gryffindors in sight, she took off after the others to make sure that nobody tried to stick around. Hermione was different to the other members of staff, and not just because she was the Head. When she told Victoria to do something, she did it.
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Post by thomas on Nov 2, 2009 18:07:41 GMT
Tom was sat by the fire, a glass of port in his hands when he got the message from Mrs Malfoy. He jumped up from his seat and grabbed his robes, throwing them over his clothes as he went. He drew his wand and followed the corridors from his office and down to the great hall. “Okay kids lets keep this calm, back to your houses like the head says” He said sternly, his English accent filling his voice. He loved his accent, it showed everyone where he was from and he was proud to be English! Born in the hometown of one of the most famous playwrights in history, Stratford Upon Avon had been his home for many years! He loved that little place dearly, and missed it most terribly while he worked here, but he couldn’t stand living so far away from the castle, especially when something like this happened! He was glad to be there instantaneously, where as he would have had to walk up from Hogsmead at least!
He ran his eyes over the crowd, noting the teachers there. He hadn’t been there long enough to know who he could trust, and who to avoid, but he had to trust all the teachers, and trust in the headmistress’ judgement that they were all worthy of the trust. ”Mrs Malfoy, the kids are heading to their rooms, Prefects are keeping tabs on the stragglers. What are the plans, what are we doing about this?” He asked insistently. He needed to know what he should be doing, as he needed to be helping out, it was what Penny would have wanted! Him being a help and not a hindrance. He gave a nod to Zane and to Ligasto, to basically say ‘it’s good that you’re here’. Tonight was going to be a long, long night, that was for sure! [/blockquote]
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Post by mark on Nov 3, 2009 5:54:23 GMT
Everything is going to plan. He said to himself as he took another glimpse at his own work. All he had to do now was continue with his act as if he had done nothing wrong. He took his attention back to the Great Hall doors in which he had a quick glimpse of Zane who seemed to have been staring at him in a peculiar way. If he discovered what has happened I'm done for. I think it's time me and him have a little chat. " Is there a problem Zane?" He asked emphasizing on his name with anger as he took a tighter grasp on his wand. " Why do you look at me like that?" He spoke as he started to get defensive.
"Don't you dare even think of accusing me of this matter!" He said as the last few students walked out of the room. He walked soon after the last student and closed the door and placed a charm so that only staff were able to walk in and out of the Great Hall."Where are the charms that were on the Great Hall Zane?" he asked as he walked back toward the group of teachers. Still continuing with his act he looked back toward the headmistress and nervously bit his lip as he asked the Headmistress" What shall we do now? Do you happen to remember the charm that is needed to remove the dark mark?" He asked taking a seat with his arms crossed over each other.
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Post by hermionemalfoy on Nov 3, 2009 16:02:30 GMT
"I think you can see the problem for yourself." Hermione replied, her voice still carrying her panicked tone. 'Some of them managed to get out of being sent to Azkaban then.' She thought, swallowing the lump in her throat. The Ministry of Magic clearly hadn't be as thorough as they wanted everyone to believe. Ligasto then began talking to Zane, and was practically blaming him for the whole thing.
"It's my fault Ligasto, I was in the position to cast the necessary enchantments. The ball was my completely my doing." Hermione told him, not taking well to his accusations. Did Ligasto honestly think they were going to leave the hall before the Dark Mark was removed? Well, that certainly wasn't the case. Then the Ravenclaw delinquent was brought into the matter. "Vincent is escorting the Ravenclaws to the common room." She told him, also not taking to Zane's accusastions against the student. The Dark Mark wasn't something a seventh year could conjure, it took a lot more magic than that.
"The first thing we're going to do is get rid of that mark." Hermione told Thomas as he arrived at the scene, jabbing her wand up at where it was on the ceiling. Ligasto certainly seemed very laid back about the whole scenario, did he think this was some kind of joke? "When it has been removed, the castle will be searched for the culprit, and any students who aren't in their common rooms will be sent there." She added, still searching her memory for the spell.
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Post by lovingthissite on Nov 5, 2009 12:39:17 GMT
Zane stood there he sighed softly, crossing his arms he looked at the Dark Mark angrily."Its a incantation that removes the Dark Mark, and even then it might not be removed."
Zane took out his wand trying to pick his brain, trying to remmber where h head read about it, it had been such a long time agao really, it was when he as snooping around the part of the libary as a teen, when he wasn't suppose to. He looked up, somthing, wasn't right. He shook his head, what was the spell. "Deletruis!" Zane said, the spell hitthe ceiling, there seem to be a ghost of a effect. Zane swore rubbing the back of his head.
He turned to Ligasto."It seems..." Zane stopped looking back a the Dark Mark, it was more difficult then he was willing to admit, and he hated the fact Ligasto was so laid back about it.
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Post by mark on Nov 5, 2009 13:22:22 GMT
"Well what do we see here?" Ligasto said in a sarcastic tone as he glanced away from the Headmistress. "First of all.." He said as he took a small step back. "I believe it is no ones fault." Ligasto had to remain in character in case he was caught out. " This is no time to be pointing fingers." His voice echoed slightly in the Great Hall. "Let's see what we can do." He said as he took another seat near Zane. Ligasto had no choice but to seem as if he actually cared for this event even though it was he who had conjured the Dark Mark.
"Zane try a Maxima with the Deletruis. That might just help. We just never know right? Let me try something." He said as he stood up and attempted the spell himself. Ligasto had indeed been a powerful wizard but had to hold his magic back this time to act as if only the Headmistress was able to remove the spell which had been part of his assignment. " Deletruis Maxima!" He screamed thrusting his wand toward the ceiling. A spinning number 8 blasted out of his wand in a baby blue light and rocketed to the ceiling. Here we go. He said to him self as his face had a nervous look while inside he only played the part of of the not so innocent professor.
The 8 shaped charm blasted in the mouth of the Dark Mark causing a sort of aurora borealis as the ceiling lit up in a baby blue light. Oh S**T. He thought although his face was smiling. " It seems it has been removed. Now what shall.... Ligasto glanced back toward the ceiling. With shock on his face , he acted the part of numb knees as he took a seat. " It seems I too have failed. We must turn to you Head Mistress. It is your turn to try or we could all try together?" He said looking at the the teachers before he bowed his head slightly smiled every so sinisterly. The ceiling's aurora borealis had started to fade with the Dark Mark still remaining there with not even a slight difference.
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Post by rosalyn on Nov 5, 2009 17:55:03 GMT
FALLEN ANGEL COSTUME.
The moment Rosalyn enetered the ball, she saw that something was very wrong. Her mascara rimmed eyes looked up, and she saw the reason for all that panic. The dark mark. She was very surprised to say the least, and her eyes quickly scanned the room. It was very hard to see other professors, but she kept scanning the room. She ran her hands down her dress before starting to move, and push through the crowd. To say the least, Rosalyn was very confused about this all. Maybe it was just a Halloween trick, or it may have been the real thing, either was there was a traitor in the school, and everyone was in danger, but the thing it, it could have been a Professor or a student, so it would be quite hard to decide.
When her eyes landed on the group of Professors, she rushed towards them. Her wings getting in the way, but she finally pushed through. 'Who do think has done this?' she asked, but she was sure that they were already talking about that before she came. She watched as Ligasto tried to remove the mark, but it came back. Rose couldn't help but have a chill run dwon her back, and her eyes widen in a sort of fear. She looked at everyone, 'I'm no expert of dark magic, but it seems to me that this will be one of the hardest things to remove.' She said, composing herself, and feeling kind of insignificant becuase she was so clueless.
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Post by thomas on Nov 5, 2009 20:07:02 GMT
Thomas nodded and listened intently to the convorsation. He smirked and shook his head, as it seemed that they were over looking the most basic spell to remove the problem. Consdering this spell was specifically designed to end incantations, he was surprised that he, who specialised in potions was the first to think of it. When Ligasto began to order Zane around, Tom turned to him. "Excuse me, as a member of this staff, you are on equal level with all of us, so who are you to order Zane around when the only person who should be giving orders is the headmistress" He said sternly. He turned to the headmistress next to adress her. "Surely, headmistress, it would be sensible to attempt to remove it using 'Finite incantatem'?" He mentioned simply to the headmistress. He wouldn't try it, as his wandwork was a little rusty, but he would leave it to the other teachers, maybe even Ligasto, who seemed to think he knew it all.
Thomas had taken an instant dislike to Ligasto, and that had worsened when he heard that he had swore at a student and degraded them by calling them stupid. Thomas hated people like that, as though shouting sometimes helped, he found slimpy talking to them in a stern manner was just as good! It was when Tom was quiet that his class should worry about being told off!
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Post by mark on Nov 6, 2009 0:14:32 GMT
"Excuse me Tom!" Ligasto said with an angry face looking toward him with a stern voice. The pressure of the moment and the awkward atmosphere had started to build. Ligasto gripped his wand tight in any need for it. " We as professor's each have a role to do in Hogwarts. As mine is transfiguration as yours is potions. In terms of emergency, it is necessary for the appropriate professor to come forward to the certain event and disband it where it be this or someone who had drank something which then needs a potions master as your self."
The tension between the professor's had started to build and Ligasto was not hesitant to attack if needed." Indeed the headmistress is the only person who should be giving orders but she will not always be there in every emergency now will she? That is why team work is needed. " Ligasto said as he felt he made an important note on team work during an emergency. " Perhaps you should of listened to me, I simply asked him to TRY it not an exact direct order!" Ligasto said with an angry tone stepping closer toward Thomas with his wand on his side. " You your self have no right to tell me what to do." He said as he glared at Thomas with eyes that were filled with anger. If he tries anything, I have to defend. He said to himself as he noticed another teacher walk in and just looked at her and nodded his head slightly as a way of saying hello.
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Post by hermionemalfoy on Nov 6, 2009 8:00:13 GMT
Hermione allowed a faint smile to cross her lips as Rosalyn entered the room, with only her lips and eyes bringing any colour to her pale face. Hermione was rarely pale, but this was one of those times that it happened. Not breaking from her concentration to tell Zane and Ligasto to stop leaping at each other's throats, she was glad to hear Thomas put them in their places whilst she carried on searching the bookshelves of her memory for the spell.
'How the hell did you miss that!' She thought slash screamed at herself when Thomas suggested Finite Incantatem. It was an extremely simple spell, but extremely powerful all the same. With the spell designed to affect a whole area, she'd have to be very careful to focus it solely on the Dark Mark. Waving her wand in it's direction, the spell burst from the tip of her wand, smashing into the mark. She'd have to wait for the smoke around it to clear to see if it had worked. Now she could concentrate on her staff.
Her wand was at Ligasto's throat within seconds. She didn't like his attitude in the slightest, and the way that he acted as if he himself were the Head wasn't at all welcomed by her. "Pack it in Ligasto!" Hermione snapped at him, noticing the tension between him and one of the best Professors on the team. She had seemingly ignored his comment about her not being there, though was in fact thinking about it a great deal. 'It's happened once, and it's happened twice, I won't allow the Death Eaters to rise up and terrorise the wizarding world again.' But would she be able to stop it, she wasn't exactly Albus Dumbledore.
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