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[janeite]

F5 F5 F5

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[cheyinka]

Well, at least as of 16:46 he was still alive and not an inferi, and as of 18:07 no one we know was forced to participate in a duel, so...

...yeah F5 F5 F5

[cheyinka]

So much for my hopefulness at 18:07 - Justin has to duel someONE or someTHING and we don't know which or whether. O.O

F5!

[kiya]

And Tosha still bringing the elisions....

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

I'm just concerned if it progresses like the Frost Faire later rounds might pit some of our favs against each other.
I remember Sally Ann's hallucinations, and could see Hydra and Justin pitted against each other. The surroundings may not fit but I believe boggy ground was mentioned and Antonin says the footing is poor.

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

And crap! Barty believes Julian will have to fight again. Crossing my fingers I'm completely off base.

[cheyinka]

here's an even worse possibility: he might offer Justin the Mark if he does *really* well :|

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

Very True!

One other thing occurs to me, can two married, bound by magic wizards and witches fight seriously against each other?
I know Bella could curse Rod, and Siz and Raz could train and spa together, but if death of a partner makes your magic go screwy, does attacking them have an obvious effect.
I think I'm more concerned about them giving themselves away rather than injuring each other.

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

And worse again, Barty is taking a dozen inferi down to the ring to fight.

[ellemir.livejournal.com]

At least Antonin is intending to brief the youngsters as best he can.

[kiya]

And Ron drew one of them, fuck. I was kind of hoping he would be too busy being a trainee for this...

[janeite]

Also F5

[edschweppe]

Yeah.

Especially after Sirius is interrupted mid-sentence ...

[(Anonymous)]

(Annia here, on my phone and can't remember my password)

http://alt-padma.dreamwidth.org/87534.html

Do you think the Irish muggle was his father? Or another member of his family.

[kiya]

I see we are thinking in the same direction. I'm pretty confident, given who Barty was hunting and what Moody reported....

[cheyinka]

And wasn't Moody specifically looking for Seamus's father, in hopes that having him might help undo the blood rite Seamus participated in? :(

[kiya]

I think so, yes.

[janeite]

Someone needs to make a new icon with Sally-Anne's comment on Christmas: Oh, I'm sure it can ALWAYS get worse.

[kiya]

"ни пуха ни пера." appears to be the idiomatic equivalent to "Break a leg!" Man, language is weird.

[cheyinka]

Yeah, Google Translate had no clue but Wikipedia suggested it was "neither fur nor feather" (maybe "you won't catch anything when you hunt"?) and the response is "to the Devil!" ("no, it's the Devil who won't"?)

[alt_player]

It's considered bad luck in Russian culture to wish someone good luck, so the tradition developed to wish the opposite. (Like telling a dancer or an actor to 'break a leg' before a show.) So you'd tell a hunter "[May you come home with] neither fur nor feather", and the expression spread more widely from just hunters.

(The "to the Devil" as a response is basically saying "ah, go to hell" or "the hell I won't".)

-- Tosha's player, who finds Russian idioms hysterical.

[cheyinka]

Ha! I guessed right on the origin of the first part! Neat.

[cheyinka]

"fuck a rusty duck" may have to enter my mental lexicon. Thanks. :D

[cheyinka]

I have to say I like Barty's encouragement to Dolohov: "See you in Hell, if not before"

[kiya]

Especially in the context of appropriate Russian idioms!

[keshwyn]

I have to admit my first thought was Mephistophiles from Faustus - "Why this is Hell, nor am I ever out of it."

[keshwyn]

Craaaaaaaaaaap, crappity crap crap on a crap crap cracker...

I could totally see us losing Sirius tonight. F5 F5 F5...

[cheyinka]

To Dementors, no less. GEE, Alternity, thanks for remembering that that was supposed to be his fate in canon and being helpful :|

(now maybe I can have averted that fate)

(maybe)

[cheyinka]

Ginny, showing mastery of the art of understatement: "Oh no. They're making Ron fight an Inferi."

[kiya]

Ginny's acidic commentary is a rather necessary leavening on events, I think.

[kiya]

I sure hope http://alt-susan.dreamwidth.org/36434.html was supposed to have an Order Only tag on it or this is going to get much, much messier really fast...

[cheyinka]

By the time I looked it had one.