Open Post: Hogsmeade

[courageous_wit]

[it's Saturday, so it's time to kick back and enjoy the lovely sights of Hogsmeade. Have a drink at the Three Broomsticks, grab some sweets from Honeydukes, or dare to check out the famously haunted Shrieking Shack! Just kick back and enjoy yourselves today!

This is technically only open to third years and above, but if you can sneak out without teachers noticing more power to you!]

[Three Broomsticks | Honeydukes | Zonko’s Joke Shop | Hog’s Head | Shrieking Shack | and feel free to make own sections!]

Comments

[gottaknockhard]

[...It's eerie how close he sounds to the way he did back then. The thought throws him for a second.]

Not as easy as it looks.

[nothingtobelieve]

Your piloting skills don't extend to cleaning supplies?

[It would be so easy to slip, to let the weird familiarity of this distract him from his anger. But this isn't the past, just a weird facsimile of it, thanks to the castle's tricks.]

How disappointing.

[gottaknockhard]

[Ridiculous was right. Vicious must be having a ball.]

That sounded like a compliment in there somewhere.

[nothingtobelieve]

[That earned a scowl]

Don't let it go to your head.

[gottaknockhard]

[He's peering at him a little too closely now. Really uncanny...]

It's been a tough few days, you have to give me something.

[nothingtobelieve]

[He narrows his eyes against the scrutiny, although he has a good idea of how Spike feels. This close, he can see Spike's eyes, can see that they match, and it's all just a little eerie.]

I don't know, you seem to be fitting in.

[gottaknockhard]

[That's a laugh. He can only be grateful he isn't blending in as well as some others.]

You think so? Maybe I should have grown up to be a wizard instead.

[nothingtobelieve]

[That's enough to jolt him out of the weird sense of nostalgia, at least for the moment.]

You should find out how they feel about betrayal before you commit.

[gottaknockhard]

[He smirks at how casually Vicious slips that in.]

Why? Are you seeing someone new?

[nothingtobelieve]

[Well, he should have expected that, and it doesn't help that he's still a little sore over Gren's lack of discretion back in Tokyo, but he tries his best not to let anything show on his face]

Can't pick up anyone on you own?

[gottaknockhard]

[He backs off slightly, implication sufficing enough.]

I don't know how I'd feel about dating a wizard. I'd hate to see what happens when they get jealous.

[nothingtobelieve]

[He smirks a little]

Might turn you into a frog.

[gottaknockhard]

[To think, anyone listening might assume they're friends right now.]

That's a pretty big risk to take.

[nothingtobelieve]

[Heaven forbid.]

You might like it. No responsibility.

[gottaknockhard]

Isn't that already part of being a kid?

[nothingtobelieve]

A part you never grew out of.

[gottaknockhard]

That only explains how I got sucked into it.

[nothingtobelieve]

It's one excuse, anyway.

[gottaknockhard]

[He drops his head, like he's actually considering it.]

Does that make it easier on you?

[nothingtobelieve]

Not particularly.

[gottaknockhard]

[He looks up at that unexpected honesty.]

Never thought about being a magician?

[nothingtobelieve]

That would be ridiculous.

[Never mind that they were literally surrounded by magic at the moment]

[gottaknockhard]

[Biting smiles don't seem to have the same impact coming from a kid, but it's more of a reflex.]

I really would.

[nothingtobelieve]

There's no need to consider it, then.

[No paths to move down than the ones already chosen]

[gottaknockhard]

You'd think that would make it easy to get kicked out.