[OPEN] What happens in Hogsmeade stays in Hogsmeade

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Who: EVERYONE! Especially you!
Where: Hogsmeade Village
When: Oct. 1-2
Rating: PG (Will change if necessary)
Summary: Get your wolf pack and head to town.
The Story:

Ah, Hogsmeade.

They say it's the Vegas of the wizarding world. Or they would, if wizards knew anything about Vegas. Or maybe they'd say it because they don't know anything about Vegas. It doesn't really matter.

What's important is that Hogsmeade is only a hop, skip and jump away from Hogwarts (Hogsmeade, Hogwarts? Coincidence? Wake up, America!), and is host to a number of exciting prospects for people of all ages, provided you're Year 3 or older. Perhaps you're a professor searching for a stiff drink at the Hog's Head Inn to wipe away the stress of the week's classes? Or maybe you're a hapless student with fresh eyes for the little hamlet, eager to try your first Butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks?

The village has something for everyone, with all the assorted businesses a thriving witch-and-wizard town could need: grocers, an apothecary, magical item mechanics, clothiers, sporting goods, bookstores, and the Wizarding Wireless Network headquarters.

Where will you be?





NOTE: If there is a particular venue located in Hogsmeade that is not listed and you would like to add it for people to visit, please feel free to make an addition with a context image and a little blurb so the non-HP savvy (who are those people?) can identify it! xoxo

Comments

[powerofmabel]

Kanji, hey! [Mabel waves at him enthusiastically, clearly more than eager to invite someone else to their shenanigans. if the ghosts aren't nice, it'd be nice to have the extra muscle.]

Yup! We're just crazy like that. [she twirls her fingers around her ears to accentuate this.]

[krmvgivv]

We're trying to prove once and for all that it's haunted. Or... not haunted. [He shrugs a shoulder, looking over at Kanji.] We'll find out once we get in. Want to come?

[cuteshit]

Come-- with you?

[Kanji looks caught for a moment, eyeing the house in question warily. For as big and tough as he looks, he doesn't know how he feels about potentially running into something a lot nastier than the castle's own ghosts, but... it doesn't feel right to let them go in alone, either.]

... well, if you guys are goin' in, why not.

[Can't let a couple of third years show him up. Besides, could be interesting.]

[powerofmabel]

Whoo-hooo! [Mabel throws her arms up.] Let's go harass some ghosts, boys.

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper punches his fist into the air.]

Who's phone number is on speed dial for spooky situations!

[He may be a wizard, but Ghost Harassers is still near and dear to his heart.]

[cuteshit]

Uh--

[Someone isn't canon-familiar, it would seem.]

Don't phones-- not work here?

[Not the point, Kanji.]

[powerofmabel]

[over Kanji, Mabel yells:] GHOST HARASSERS!!

[and then realizing, he Did Not Get It, she turns back and pats his arm.] We have so gotta introduce you guys to Muggle TV.

[krmvgivv]

Seriously, why does magic mean no internet or TV? Seems like a raw deal.

[Dipper loves magic. But pop culture is GREAT.]

[cuteshit]

[He flushes red, embarrassed even as Mabel vaguely attempts to reassure him.]

Never realized how much I might be missin' out on. Is it really all that great?

[Really, he just wouldn't know.]

[powerofmabel]

Uh yeah... You know how all the photos in the Wizarding World move and stuff? Now imagine that, but they all talk and tell stories, and if you don't like one story, you just flip a switch and there's like a hundred more stories you could watch.

[she explains all this while walking backwards, narrowly avoiding tripping over the shack's front step.]

[krmvgivv]

Sort of like that. Unlike the moving photos and paintings, they don't have any autonomy. They only do what they were recorded doing.

[cuteshit]

So they tell stories, but they're the same every time?

[Huh. Muggle stuff is weird. He follows Mabel as she leads them onward, looking mildly alarmed when she almost trips.]

Uh-- hey, maybe we should be a little more careful around here? Don't want anyone gettin' hurt...

[powerofmabel]

Nope! Unless you get stuck in reruns.

[Mabel shrugs him off.] I'm good. The worst thing that's probably gonna happen to us in here is a few splinters. [she checks her hands.] Ooh. I got a few already.

[krmvgivv]

Each individual episode is the same, but there are lots of them. "Reruns" is what we call it when they show something we've already seen. You get a lot of them in the summer.

[This is why you gotta bring the Ravenclaw along.]

[cuteshit]

Careful those don't get infected.

[For someone who looks like such a punk, he's very concerned about safety.]

So what's so special about summer? How come you get stuck with all the ree-runs then?

[powerofmabel]

[she shrugs it off and just blindly picks them out of her fingers with tiny winces.] That's when the people who make the shows go on vacation, and start preparing for next season.

[krmvgivv]

There are usually some shows that air in the summer instead to fill in the gaps, but most of them aren't that good.

[cuteshit]

Huh.

[Seems like a weird way of doing things to him, but any further questions are forgotten as they actually face the entrance to the Shack itself.]

I guess-- if we're goin' in, better do it now before somebody sees us?