the Hogwarts Christmas Spirit?

[acciomod.livejournal.com]

Over the last week, it had been growing much colder. The dull, near constant rain of the last few weeks had cleared, and each morning saw a glittering frost carpeting the grounds. Some of the teachers had taken this to mean "Christmas is coming", in particular Professor Flitwick, who had decorated his classroom with tiny, glittering fairies.

With the Christmas Holidays fast approaching, the atmosphere in the castle was fairly relaxed for the most part, but a couple of new Outsiders arriving had caused a few whispers. Thankfully, after the students had become a little more familiar with the ones already present, the whispers were largely wondering why they had arrived so close to the end of term, and why the majority were winding up in Gryffindor House.

Some of the students, however, were clearly feeling a little more hostile towards the new arrivals. It was surely not coincidence that the various suits of armour had taken to harassing the Outsiders - grabbing them, following and chasing them, snatching things from their hands and occasionally even attempting to strike them.

If they listened carefully, the sound of faint laughter might just be heard.

[Yes, a few sixth year Slytherins have decided it'd be a great idea to try and scare the Outsiders. Suits of armour around the castle have been charmed to bug them and them alone - some are just a nuisance, and some are aggressive, depending on who's charmed it.]

Comments

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Right. That doesn't really tell me much.

[dr4con1cl4w.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe. Are you trying to make note of what makes me smile? Why I'm flattered!

[She cackles.]

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

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No, just wanted to know why you were looking like some sort of escaped lunatic.

[dr4con1cl4w.livejournal.com]

[She couldn't see that. But she could totally smell that delicious shift in color. She cackles again, for good measure.]

Don't act like you haven't met plenty of other lunatics around here! After all, who in their right mind would enchant a suit of armor like that?

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

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Someone who doesn't like Outsiders, probably. Not like it narrows it down. I expect it's a Slytherin - they seem to like us the least.

[dr4con1cl4w.livejournal.com]

Oh, most definitely! It's not even clever.

Shame. It's so dull when the criminals are so uncreative! No fun, you know.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

And yet, not surprising. For criminals and villains, creativity's been dead for years - guess we can't expect much from schoolkids, either.

[dr4con1cl4w.livejournal.com]

You've been sniffing around the wrong criminals.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Sure, whatever. But when you spend your life fighting crime, you start noticing certain patterns. They just all copy each other these days - it's sad.