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Barty Crouch Jr. ([personal profile] liquidsky) wrote in [community profile] asgardmeridiem2014-03-20 01:49 pm

The school, the school, the school is on fire...

Who: Anyone who wants in on it!
What: The school is on fire.
When: Days 420 around sundown and after.
Where: The school in Odin's district.
Rating: We'll see!

The sun is slowly going down and Barty Crouch jr is in Odin's district, as he's been every day for a good while though, since he first realized how easily Will Graham fell into habits. The difference is that today he isn't headed to the cafe they always meet at right away. Instead he stands leaning against a wall, ever now and then glancing at the school and waiting for a sign. He has placed the mirror - a present from Albus Dumbledore himself - in just the right position fixed it to the corner of a building and waited for the sun to hit the reflective surface at the right angle.

Dumbledore had talked of smoke and mirrors and now Barty had found the right tinder. He waits until he can see smoke, faintly but there. It would be another hour, he suspects, maybe even more before the fire spreads far enough to be noticed. But it would burn, of that he had no doubt.

It is starting to get dark when he takes the mirror back, making sure to remain unseen, and he heads down the road to meet Will. He doesn't know if anyone is still in the building he just set on fire, he doesn't much care either way. The flames would rise high and Severus Snape would feel the heat.

[OOC Notes: I purposefully set this up like an event log, so just like for them, feel free to make a header comment detailing what your character is doing at any given time. If you want to do any more last minute plotting, head on over to the plotting post! Also, here is the IC post with some of what led up to this if you want to read up and/or still tag in! I backtag forever. Slowly.

If your character has been near/around/in the school before the fire started and would thus be a suspect and/or suspect other people he or she has seen, you can play that part out here too!

Times: Before the fire, during the fire, right after the fire. ...duh.
Places: The parts of the schools that will be affected are: The library, the auditorium and several classrooms as well as Evy's office.
Obviously you can also have your character be outside the school or in the hallways or any unaffected part if they want to use the chaos to, I don't know, mess up Snape's office a little.

I just ask that no one saw Barty do what he did, so we can have more fun with various suspicions cast about.]
madcuriosity: (Why are you saying that?)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-21 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
I-I'm fine! I... I wasn't here. I was at the library and saw the flames. I-I thought the worse. I thought we might be under attack again. [She swallows and tries not to let panic and sorrow occur in one fell swoop. The school... the professor's school! What about others? Was someone else hurt? It was after school. would it at least...]

You're hurt... Miss Hermione... you should go see a healer.
brainiest: (Default)

[personal profile] brainiest 2014-03-21 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, I don't think so. It seems like it might have been an accident, really, Alice.

[ She wants to soothe her as best she can even though Hermione knows very well that it probably wasn't anything at all accidental. Not after what happened to Snape on the network. That's not for Alice to worry about, though, not if Hermione can help it.

She takes a long, deep breath, letting herself relax a little before she smiles and nods her head. ]


I'll see a healer soon, I promise. I just want to make sure that everyone is safe here first.
madcuriosity: (Are you alright?)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-21 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
Would you at least drink some water, then? At least... that?
brainiest: (looks away from username)

[personal profile] brainiest 2014-03-21 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, of course. [ She smiles, nodding, once, sharply. ] Let's go find some.
madcuriosity: (Have I lost my way?)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-22 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah... yes. [She held out her hand to the older girl. Maybe if she could get Hermione away from the ashes, she could get the girl more willing to heal herself.]
brainiest: (stop yelling)

[personal profile] brainiest 2014-03-22 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nodding, Hermione smiles and leads her away from the ash and the soot. ]

Thankfully I was inside and managed to do what I could to minimalise the damage... I suppose Fire Magic does come in handy after all.
madcuriosity: (Have I lost my way?)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-23 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I bet it did! [She offered her a smile.] I- I'm sorry I couldn't have helped during it. [But then, Alice isn't entirely sure she would have been able to help during it, either.] Or... maybe it's better I'm here now. I just... [Sometimes she wished she was older again. She felt more in control, more... able.

But she as able to do this, at least. Finding water maybe she should draw it though.
]

It... what caused the fire?
brainiest: (Default)

[personal profile] brainiest 2014-03-23 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, Alice, that's alright. It was much better for you to get yourself out and safe. There are people here that are better equipped to deal with this kind of thing and your safety was what we were worried about. [ She offers a soft smile, squeezing her hand gently. Alice was still a child, after all, and it wasn't fair for her to think she had to burden herself at all.

As for her final question... Well. Hermione lifts her head, frowning. ]


I'm not sure. I'd like to think it was just an accident, but with how far spread it was and all the trouble surrounding Professor Snape lately...
madcuriosity: (I'm late I'm late!)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-24 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
You... You don't think someone would burn down the school to spite Professor Snape, do you! That... to go that far! To involve others in this! [Would Crouch really set the school on fire? Or was it someone else? That Longbottom boy? No, but...] Don't we have to deal with Thiazi and Surt often enough that something like this... something so hurtful is only going to make things worse?
brainiest: (guy must've been drunk)

[personal profile] brainiest 2014-03-24 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
No, I - I don't know, Alice. I think it must have just been a bad accident. There's no evidence that anyone started the fire and the fire didn't feel magical or anything... [ She shakes her head, smiling as best she can, though it's a little shaky and worried. ] I'm sure it was just an accident that got out of hand before anyone noticed it.
madcuriosity: (But it isn't mine)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2014-03-26 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe... I mean, it did happen after school, not during. If someone had wanted to do the most damage possible, it would have been during lessons.

[Perhaps it was a sad fact that Alice would even consider how someone would best murder others, except she had been here too long, seen too much regarding deaths and fires and attacks that she couldn't escape such thoughts.]

I just... I just want everyone to be safe.