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◇ I'm Croaking Up Over Here
Who: Remus Lupin, James Potter, And Anyone Else
Where: One of the Hallways of the mansion.
When: Dec. 2nd
Rating: The Thread rated C for Chocolate Frogs (No seriously though, this is a harmless thread)
Summary: Remus discovers you can, in fact, get chocolate frogs from the Closets.
The Story:
It was completely innocent at first. Remus and James had been trying to charm their own chocolate frogs for a while, with... mixed results.
Asking about them is a dangerous endeavor, and the answers include a lot of knowing inside grins at jokes and horror stories they could tell about it. But long story short, it just isn't that easy to give chocolate the hopping capabilities of a frog. Not to mention neither James or Remus were apparently quite talented enough, artistically, to make a proper frog. So when and if the did hop, they did so off balance and looked more than a little unwieldy.
Still, they tried. Points for Effort. Remus wasn't ready to give up quite yet, but all the false chocolate frogs left him craving a real one.
That was where the innocent fun became this full scale chaos. A pile of chocolate frog boxes stacked haphazardly in a mountain at one end of the hall, while chocolate frogs with numbers etched in their backs are set loose on the floor.
That's right. Chocolate Frog Racing. The way only marauders could organize it.
At the moment, Remus is a little busy trying to hold his sides in as the frogs go every direction but the simple straight one they were intended to. Good luck if you were turning down the hall or coming out of a doorway. You just might end up with a chocolate frog or two on you.
Where: One of the Hallways of the mansion.
When: Dec. 2nd
Rating: The Thread rated C for Chocolate Frogs (No seriously though, this is a harmless thread)
Summary: Remus discovers you can, in fact, get chocolate frogs from the Closets.
The Story:
It was completely innocent at first. Remus and James had been trying to charm their own chocolate frogs for a while, with... mixed results.
Asking about them is a dangerous endeavor, and the answers include a lot of knowing inside grins at jokes and horror stories they could tell about it. But long story short, it just isn't that easy to give chocolate the hopping capabilities of a frog. Not to mention neither James or Remus were apparently quite talented enough, artistically, to make a proper frog. So when and if the did hop, they did so off balance and looked more than a little unwieldy.
Still, they tried. Points for Effort. Remus wasn't ready to give up quite yet, but all the false chocolate frogs left him craving a real one.
That was where the innocent fun became this full scale chaos. A pile of chocolate frog boxes stacked haphazardly in a mountain at one end of the hall, while chocolate frogs with numbers etched in their backs are set loose on the floor.
That's right. Chocolate Frog Racing. The way only marauders could organize it.
At the moment, Remus is a little busy trying to hold his sides in as the frogs go every direction but the simple straight one they were intended to. Good luck if you were turning down the hall or coming out of a doorway. You just might end up with a chocolate frog or two on you.
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James has been laughing so hard that really, it's the only thing he can say for a few moments. And he's said that about many, many ideas in the past, but at the moment? This one is absolutely the greatest.
He reaches out and tries to catch one nearby, to put it back on track, but laughs twice as hard when it slips between his fingers. It's a disaster. A beautiful, perfect, hilarious disaster. And those are always the best kind, aren't they?
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"We'll never get them across the finish line at this rate, silly buggers. Chocolate for brains. Bit over-rated, apparently."
He caught one of the frogs and aimed it directly at James, making sure it jumped right at him with a crooked grin.
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"Uh-huh. Right. I'll be sure to remind you how over-rated they are the next time you catch me in your stash of them."
And with a sly smile, he plucks the chocolate frog off of his head and flings it in Remus' direction. He's kidding, of course. Everyone in Gryffindor Tower knows that a man who comes between Remus and his chocolate is a dead man. That's just common sense.
It was definitely a good idea though. For a few minutes, it's like nothing's changed. It's like they're at home, in any given hall at Hogwarts.
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Besides. It's chocolate. No one can go wrong with chocolate as Remus will be the first to insist every single time.
It's a magical thing, even when not enchanted.
"Keep your hands out of my chocolate stash and we wouldn't have that problem, would we?"
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He knows those two things contradict, but he doesn't care. He just looks particularly mischievous at the thought of it.
"Besides, I'm usually pretty good about replacing it, aren't I?" he laughs, using his foot to nudge one of the frogs in the right direction. "I think I've even gotten away with it once or twice!"
That might be safe to admit now, in the company of a few dozen chocolate frogs. But he can always go back and deny it. He is absolutely not above lying to protect himself from the chocolate-fueled wrath of Remus Lupin.
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He snorts at the response and gives James a shove. If he were really angry with James he would just Hex the chocolate. But the truth was, he never minded sharing his chocolate. Even if James stole it to get it. He just enjoyed the old banter bleeding through.
Remus' wand flicks, and a chocolate frog flies to smack right into James' face. Sorry number 7, alls fair in war and chocolate.
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"Of course they are! It's about time you-"
That's all he can get out before another chocolate frog hits him in the face, right in the glasses. It leaves a smudge behind that he has to stop and clean with a wave of his own wand. But he doesn't seem particularly bothered. No, he just looks a but more mischievous, because anything is game in war and chocolate.
Which is, of course, why the nearest three chocolate frogs (7, 15, and 3) are all flying at Remus. And should any of them miss, they will simply turn around and strike from behind.
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Because frog number 19 is sent James' way and promptly melts mid flight. Remus could worry about apologies for the mess later. Right now it was serious Chocolate Battle time. And 3 is becoming an edible casualty.
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Later he will be genuinely disappointed in himself for underestimating Remus Lupin in the fine art of magically manipulating chocolate. But for now, he moves to bounce the frog back at Remus like it's a ball, but the spell misses completely (since he's expecting it to be frog-shaped and not the melty blob it quickly becomes.)
Entertainingly, his face goes from looking devilishly mischievous to "oh Merlin I'm about to drown to death in chocolate" in less than a second. And it predictably splatters everywhere, all over him.
He coughs a bit, then laughs, and he licks some chocolate out of the corner of his mouth. He fumbles for the nearest thing that feels like it might be a chocolate frog and pitches it at Remus by hand...and promptly misses because his view is completely obstructed by chocolate, but it was worth a shot.
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The Night Fury takes one more step into the intersection and then stares, bewildered, as another frog dashes past him.
Any second, though, he'll probably be poised to spring after them.
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"Didn't think dragons were much for chocolate, but I guess if it hops like a frog and it looks like a frog..." It was hesitant conversation, and he was ready to go for his wand, but only if the dragon turned out to be hostile.
"Did you like that?"
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The Viking isn't familiar, but he thinks he's caught wafts of his scent before.
As for the question, Toothless gives Remus a very distinct nod. They're very intriguing little not-frogs. Maybe he'd like actual frogs better, but that wouldn't be nearly as good a show for Henry.
SLAMS INTO THIS
"--Ohhhh my god!" With a yelp, he jumps backwards, limbs and books flailing as he tries to get whatever it is that just jumped up his flannel out, and after comically hopping on one foot for a second and basically looking like something out of a cartoon, the frog comes out of his sleeve and he grabs it with both hands, staring at it.
And then realization dawns on his face. "--Oh my god!"
Immediately, he jerks his head left and spots where the commotion is coming from, grinning at James and Remus as he waves his prize. "You got the closet to work!"
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He looks so pleased, too, when he has both feet on the ground, that Remus can only wave to the boy with a cheerful grin.
"Like a charm. Some might claim we got carried away, but personally I think they were bound to leap out sooner or later."
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...Except, when he picks it up to actually look at it, it's still moving around. Stiles holds it by a leg and looks between it and Remus. "Please tell me it's going to stop moving when it goes in my mouth."
No one ever explained that much okay. A part of him wonders how many other weird wizard treats they could get out of the closet--he would kill to try Every Flavor Beans. And maybe Puking Pastilles, to get out of awkward pack meetings...
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He had been a little preoccupied trying to fetch a frog that had managed to hop up the wall (which, of course, is completely off the race track). He's tall, but it still takes a little jump before he's able to yank it down by one of its legs.
"And sometimes if you don't chew them well enough, you can feel them wiggle a bit on their way down. Harmless, but more than a bit odd-feeling."
James eyes his catch as if it's personally victimized him by making him chase it halfway across the hall and then pops it in his mouth as a demonstration. This one is officially disqualified.
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Much like he will probably do again, now, and Remus arches a brow at him, amused, before grinning at Stiles once more.
"Go ahead. The first one is the most disturbing, but after that the feeling grows on you."
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And then there is a chocolate frog on his shoulder. He's pretty impressed that it got up that high, to tell the truth, but that thought slips his mind as soon as he smells that it's made of chocolate. For someone who will eat just about anything he finds lying around, there is no question that this frog is going straight into Souji's mouth, never mind that it can move on its own. Its consumption is simply an inevitability.
But this particular frog proves to be faster than Souji. He's disappointed for a moment, until he realizes that there are plenty of these things around, and if he doesn't fear eating an animated chocolate frog, he certainly doesn't mind eating one off of the floor.
It isn't until he manages to catch one and bite into it that he notices there's a 6 (or what's left of a 6) etched into its back. Then he notices the pile of boxes a ways off. This clearly requires some investigation.
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Six got crossed off the list with a quill pen.
"Hello! Come to join our festive frog race?"
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"Is it really a race?" It didn't seem like anyone was in the lead. Or like they were even aware they needed to try.
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Remus gave a slight shrug and a playful smile. And maybe it was cheating a little, but he gave number twelve a toss down the hall. It didn't do much good when the enchanted chocolate merrily hopped its way into a wall instead.
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"Is that Souji over there?" Of course, this isn't a question Remus can answer, but James knows the answer already. He waves and calls out again, "Souji! Hey!"
Of course, as soon as he takes a hand away to wave, his frog jumps and he has to scramble to try and catch it in mid-air. But, it was worth it.
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"Hey."
He looks at Remus again and tilts his head.
"You're Remus, right?" He's older than Souji expected. "I'm Souji."
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"I am. It's good to meet you, Souji. You're welcome to join us, if you like. Our efforts might not be extending far, but watching them ruin all our plans is half the fun of it all."
Another laugh and he let's number 23 go again.
"And eating them is the other half."
So what if they happened to have hopped all over the hall.
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...Oh, did he skip the memo about how Remus is a bit older? Oops.
"Yeah, we've been trying to get them to race, but they haven't been all that cooperative. That one over there's probably closest to winning, but it's hopping sideways now, so it's anyone's race really."
It's not going to happen though, not really. They'll be lucky if even one of them crosses the finish line.
"C'mon! It'll be fun."
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...This is really good chocolate.
Like.
Really good.
And there is absolutely nothing about the fact that the chocolate is cute and animated that is going to stop him from eating it.
"I think if the race doesn't work out, you could turn it into a battle royale."
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"Not a bad idea. I wonder if we could find a way to make dueling frogs."
Because clearly the race is working out stupendously, how could a more complicated game possibly go wrong?
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"I'll bet we could," James said, his smile spreading. "Put them all in a circle and see if they'll have a go at each other. I dunno if chocolate frogs would understand the art of dueling, but it'd still be fun. Survival of the chocolatiest?"
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this plan and of course chocolate frogs are going to understand the concept of battling. It is a beautiful plan.
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"It's probably easier to win a battle royale by accident than it is to win a race by accident."
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Remus just shakes his head and tosses his arms up in defeat.
"Sooner or later they're all going to stop jumping. I wonder if we could find a way to attach tiny jousting sticks to them..."
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This is going to a slightly disturbing but very delicious place - if the frogs hop around and successfully joust each other, they'll be impaled on more candy. It's a perfect plan.
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"How fast do you think we can get candy sticks?"
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Remus grinned. He thought he could see where this was going, and it was going to a brilliant place.
"James? Do the honors, will you, Mate? I think it might put me on candy watch, soon."
With the amount of things Remus got out of the closets, it wouldn't surprise him. He was a wizard, and wizards didn't often see a problem in magic closets. Why not? If it was there and so far there didn't seem to be terrible consequences, Remus would continue to abuse it.