Arista!

[alt_player]

http://alt-ron.dreamwidth.org/80241.html?thread=1086577#cmt1086577

(Just wanted to be sure people could find it.)

Comments

[sporky_rat]

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh.

Arista! If they manage to get her out, then it will be amazing and wonderful and flat out fantastic.

[contrariwise]

Seriously.

Good thing I didn't have anything else planned tonight!

[ellemir]

Yeah, who needs sleep.

[kiya]

A little bit ago I was all, "Oh, right, running battle in the Department of Mysteries. There was one of those."

[adeliej]

Yes, it will! But despite that, my mind keeps going back to the canon battle... at least this time we know there's a point to it, though.

And yay magical tracking stuffed cat!

[ellemir]

I know Dumbledore saved the day in canon.

But this seems much more realistic. Two Deatheaters easily holding off all the ISS.

[contrariwise]

Wonder who's going to die this time?

I've been afraid for weeks that it would be Raz, but since he's not there... and neither are Sirius or Snape...

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be upset if Im right cause he is a fantastic character although a very bad man.

I think it will be Dolohov as he is Barty's newly acquired Father figure.

As that was the position Sirius was filling in Harry's life in canon.

[ellemir]

Oops, that was me.

[contrariwise]

Ugh, I would be so sad if we lost Dolohov. He's utterly fascinating. (My gosh, him starting to question Voldemort after his death was fantastic -- and he even got BARTY to, too!)

But he's more likely than Barty, though I'd be really happy if it was Barty. (Also quite well-written, but... so much less sympathetic.)

[worthywords]

Just think: Ron's been posting about that stuffed cat, what, all year? They've been planning this all this time.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait- what do you mean?

[kiya]

The stuffed cat was how they tracked Arista down. So there was this whole thing with Ron writing little stories about it, and bringing it along to the wedding so that it could visit with her and all, and it's all, all, all because they were going to need it for this battle.

[worthywords]

They used the stuffed cat to track Arista.

Remember the scene at--I don't remember where, but Selwyn and his wife used a tracking spell to recover Arista because she was lost in a crowd. And Harry was with her. That's how Harry learned how to do it.

[adeliej]

I think worthywords meant that the players had been planning these events for a long time. (Not the ISS - the real life, 21st century, computer using players.) So ze was admiring their detailed long-term planning.

[(Anonymous)]

This is fascinating- can't go to sleep while it's still going on!

[jenett]

We have an icon for that! (Which is to say, icon is for sharing.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, awesome- I've been following this for about a year now, but only just found this "watchers community"- it's great that there's a place to talk!

[sunnylemon]

I'm also interested to see how the Order reacts when they show up at the tea shop- once again, the kids getting it done! I mean, good on the order for securing that farm or whatever, but the ISS just went into the m-f'in Department of Mysteries and dueled with Crouch and Dolohov. Daaaaaamn!

[kiya]

And got their inexperienced butts kicked.

Note: it looks like Dolohov lifted the curses he put on them as he left. Which means that he figured out it was his students.

Noble Arts class for fifth year students is probably going to be interesting until end of term.

[teceler]

Heh, you beat me to it.

And yeah, his reaction to Barty saying Selwyn's kids were there was "That explains--" (and then to tell Barty not to duel anyone else).

He knows it was them. I don't know if he was sure before that, but he knows now.
This should prove interesting.

I am slightly worried he managed to recognize Hermione, but she (obviously) isn't one of his students, so there's much less reason for him to. Which is good.

[teceler]

Well, to be fair, they kind of utterly failed at dueling Crouch and Dolohov, but still. They got Arista and Hector out of there.
(Hermione just posted to the Order. [rubs hands together anticipatoryly])

[adeliej]

Looks like Arista drank FELIX FELICIS!

That would explain a lot. Quite a lot.

[teceler]

Yeah, that and--honestly, probably Doholov recognizing them--probably saved their lives.

And yes, yes, that explains at lot.

(I really wish they'd told us about that earlier.)

[adeliej]

And it looks like Arista also got very lucky.

Umbridge's list of dispensible people - with Sally-Anne on it, among others - is giving me chills. I think every halfblood or muggleborn or 'dispensible' pureblood child will be better off as a result of tonight's events.