Entries tagged with un: a.black

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miavi ; un: seeker (double-anon)

Does You-Know-Who mean anything to anyone?

Does this?

[ Hovering one's pen over the word this will reveal a particularly sCARY!!! image of a Certain Someone. ]

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m.i.a.v.i.; un: athrawes

[ Following her conversation with the Minister, it has been decided that Helga will return to Hogwarts to teach, but as she cannot take the place of any of the currently employed teachers (nor would she want to), her subject is left up to her discretion. Left with so many options, she decides to take a poll: ]

Dearest gathered magical community, I have a question for you: (Specifically those of you who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry)

Thinking back on your education there, were there any subjects which were not taught, that you would have liked to have seen? Or any areas which could do with further exploration? Having so recently come to this time from the past, I am having difficulty gauging the lesson style an average student these days might be used to seeing. Is there any magic that has fallen out of favor that could do with revival?

My many thanks for your responses.

Regards,
H. Hufflepuff

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( miavi. un: x )

[ If you're feeling fancy and bored tonight (today, this morning..), here's a magic puzzle for you. It looks something like:

The parts can be re-arranged into two dozen different runes, which can then be translated into spells. The simpler ones, of which there are fifteen, simply make everything disappear when 'solved'. The remaining, more difficult nine are:

✧ Shimmery, translucent flowers appear around your head and shoulders, for about five minutes.
✧ BANG. Jumpscare.
✧ An enchanted doodle plays Hangman with you, the winning word changing periodically.
✧ Displays a recipe for zucchini bread. The best zucchini bread you've ever fucking had.
✧ Suggestions for what to try at the curry house in Hogsmeade.
✧ Creates a very cold feeling for about five minutes.
✧ Causes the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? to appear.
✧ Displays directions for a spell to turn nicotine cigarettes into clove cigarettes.
✧ Nothing. Unless you have a Dark Mark, in which case, a small black snake slithers into existence from the base of your wrist, wriggling to the inside of your elbow before vanishing.

Once each rune has been 'solved', the drawing vanishes, making doing more than one very difficult; the witch or wizard (or wizich) will have had to have made a copy or cast a charm to preserve it prior to fussing through everything.

( OP's username, x, is not anonymous, though Severus's general disinclination to socialize might leave even 'friends' in the dark. up2u, my sweet beans. ) ]

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( miavi | un: henbane )

I think I'm probably asking too much [ considering it's 1980 and some of the ingredients he uses in his work haven't even been discovered yet. ] but is anyone familiar with herbologists (professional or amateur) that grow or can otherwise obtain plants from South Africa?

In particular, I'm looking for Agathosma Barosma. I've a feeling I'm going to be doing some experimental substitution, though.

[ what follows is a quick sketch of what the plant looks like. for all that he claims he can't draw, he's not bad at this sort of illustration, anyway, mostly thanks to practice.

and of course, for anyone who's spent much time with teddy, his looping, scratchy scrawl is pretty characteristic and unique to him. ]

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( miavi | un: myrddin )

Several things, if you please:
1. Reading suggestions for advancements in healing magic in the last several centuries.
2. Really, I'm curious about general developments in formal magic. I don't use a wand, but I find them interesting.
3. Has it ever been recorded that someone else can physically interact with magic? See it, I mean, smell it, hear it, that sort of thing.

Thank you.

[ then as an afterthought, a little down the page: ] And no, I don't have a beard.

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m.i.a.v.i. un: shager

i don't mind if you fuck in the pub, but do me the bloody courtesy of cleaning up after yourselves.

the next time i find a bloke's ejaculate on one of my mirrors, i'm going to hex his dick off.

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m.i.a.v.i. un: l.evans.

Personally, I'm just wondering why the "time deviant" curfew is still more lenient than that of muggle-borns.

Anyway, my real point is this: for any of those lost from your own times that know your way around a cauldron, I'm offering work. It's only part-time, but it's all I have. My shop, Auturgy, is in Diagon Alley - if you can't find it, just ask 'round for Lily Evans and you'll find me soon enough.

If you have problems working under a muggle-born, don't bother applying.