◇ I'm Croaking Up Over Here

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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.

Comments

[pottershotter]

James is thrilled - he's been hoping for an excuse for these two to meet. Souji's one of his closest friends from Wonderland, and Remus is one of his closest friends from home. Clearly, they need to also be friends with each other.

...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."

[eatsyourscience]

Souji opens his mouth to respond, but is distracted by a frog that keeps hopping into his leg, falling back a bit, and then hopping into him again. The best way he can think of to mitigate this is to scoop up the frog and eat it.

...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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Remus doesn't quite fully understand the term, but the words are enough to make the concept obvious, and he laughs at the idea, glancing over at James with his brows arched in amusement.

"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?

[pottershotter]

James hasn't heard it before either, but it seems easy enough to understand. Frog battles sound interesting!

"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.

[eatsyourscience]

It might be difficult to pull off if Souji doesn't stop eating all the potential contestants.

"It's probably easier to win a battle royale by accident than it is to win a race by accident."

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Sh. It's just a battleground hazard. They are coliseum warriors and he is the lion.

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..."

[pottershotter]

"We probably could!" James pipes up. "And actually, if we used candy for jousting sticks...maybe chocolate wands or something..."

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.

[eatsyourscience]

....

"How fast do you think we can get candy sticks?"

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"Pretty bloody fast, if the closet hasn't taken to boycotting us already."

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.