[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

[chardismastic]

[ They don't talk about this crap and Rafe's only answer is to dip his finger in butterbeer foam and flick it in Nate's direction. Long association should let Nate figure the translation — yes with an addendum of idiot — with relative ease.

The idea of winter break is an exciting one but he grimaces at the h-word. ]

Not bloody likely. First year I've got the choice, I'll stick to the dungeons. [ It isn't worth the breath to ask if Nate will be staying in the castle; he always has, and unless something drastic has happened he will again this year. The last year and Rafe is itching for it to be over and getting somewhere away from his family. ] You'll be stuck with me.

[rescribere]

Oh no, that sounds terrible,

[Nate intones with a sarcasm that would make fruit wither on the vine.]

Fewer students around and limited professorial contact.

[Since his very first year Nate has spent holidays at school, partly because there isn't too much of a home to go back to and Sam always sends him gifts in the mail - it's agonizing still, because he misses his brother - and partly because he stays at Sam's insistence. Nate wouldn't mind canned goods in a crappy motel somewhere, but at Hogwarts he's guaranteed food, lodging, and mild entertainment.

Sam will visit eventually, when he's not on the job.]

What a disaster.

[chardismastic]

I know, right? Don't know how we'll manage until term starts up again.

[ Rafe does his best to sound sincerely dour, ready to muddle through the holiday with a stiff upper lip and all that.

As if he's not all but vibrating at the chance to be away from his parents' constant needling. As if he's not raring to see what few secret corridors and passageways he and Nate haven't discovered yet, clamber around the parapets and towers at their leisure, and maybe find a few hours to take advantage of such private locations.

He knows Nate hasn't had the dubious luxury of choosing whether he stays or goes but that doesn't mean Rafe hasn't always envied him a little bit, the lack of strings tying him down. At least this time around, he'll be able to make the holiday what it ought to be for Nate and keep him from feeling too shitty and stifled. ]

Any ideas?

[rescribere]

[Nate brightens, because even though he enjoys a lot of the class material they cover he always feels like there are historic plot holes that wizards aren't accounting for - blank spaces in the timelines that no one seems to care about but him.

Job-hunting seems a little moot when his intentions are to join his brother in freelance curse-breaking as soon as he graduates.]

Research! [he says, with the excited tone of someone who was just given precisely what they wanted for Christmas.] I mean, I was gonna- there's a lot of things I wanna get into before we leave school. The temples of the Aztecs, magical creature work...a-and, y'know.

[He gestures between the two of them.]

Stuff.