Welp. It's time, I guess

[ilyena_sylph]

Hi everybody, and good morning alt-fen! (One of the Players said 'look, it's not too late for you to join the fen-comm, so here I am!)

Good gods, where to even start?

Well, I suppose with 11:29 PM last night, when His Noselessness did an incredible job of showing his true colors.

Or then again, maybe Sirius' latest, possibly greatest, Grim Truth.

Gotta give a Hella Shout Out to Zack Smith, for The utter brass ones of this, knowing how he'd pay for it.

And Justin, that was a fantastic bit of doublespeak, there.

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[ilyena_sylph]

I just wish you could say that to his face, Sally-Anne!

[teceler]

The funny thing is, I was actually wondering if there was doublespeak going on in Zabini's post!

[ilyena_sylph]

Well, there might be, now that you mention it.

Given Blaise.

But still.

[ursamajor]

As did I!

OMG OMG OMG OMG BATTLE OF HOGWARTS AUGH. *clutches*

[ilyena_sylph]

WEASLEYS. Just. Weasleys.

[cheyinka]

Yes. Weasleys. I don't know whether to :D or D: or :) or :( at them, and I can't seem to manage a D:D)( face...

[ilyena_sylph]

SOOO Much. SO MUCH.

That face would be hard to manage, but mine keeps trying, too.

And Fred(&George) to Pansy about the song.

And Molly to Ron about 'at least you have your wand' and 'envision your dad with you, because he is', and just...

+FLAIL+

[ilyena_sylph]

PANSY!!!!!!!!!!!

Such Slytherin.

Such practical.

That was my heart goddamnit!

[ilyena_sylph]

Oh, from a bit ago, oh, Frank. Your gift for understatement.

Also, gee, you think?

I mean. It is May.

[ilyena_sylph]

OH GOD HARRY, NO.

Draco's going to Fucking kill you if you live through this!

[teceler]

With the replies, it's looking more like 'continuing an argument on the journals' than 'message left before running off', thankfully, but

Okay, Harry, you could argue that that worked in canon, but the circumstances are very different here!

If you think he wouldn't just possess you and use you to murder all your friends anyway just because

[ilyena_sylph]

Phew.

At least it wasn't the 'message left before', that would have been So Very Harry.

But it's not, and Draco's obviously got a handle on it.

Just.

[cheyinka]

Yeah, exactly - he can take over your body after he uses it to murder your friends for trusting you. Also if you're not a Horcrux the AK can't kill his soul fragment instead of you. And Dumbledore isn't dead and waiting for you.

[teceler]

Or take over Harry's body and then kill them, depending on how much of a hurry he's in on that.

He's not going to AK Harry (at least without a really good reason), so that won't even work to protect anyone, and

yeah.

[ilyena_sylph]

Oh thank gods, Draco's got Hermione in on reining Harry's Gryffindor in.

+breathes a sigh of relief -- but only a tiny one+

[ilyena_sylph]

Whups, spoke too soon!

MY GODS.

HARRY POTTER.

[teceler]

I mean, on one had, that was a better plan than I thought he had!

On the other hand, yeah, that.

(Also, you just know if he tried that someone would notice before Voldemort possessed him. Or Bellatrix would work out a counterspell on the spot.)

[ilyena_sylph]

YYY.

Thank gods, Sirius is on telling him no, too.

(also, Hermione totally deserves a new post of her own here, y/y?)

[teceler]

I mean, Harry does have a bit of a point: It would be one thing if it was guaranteed to work.

But it isn't, and he's so fixated on this plan that he won't see that.

(Maybe he's right that this particular scenario wouldn't occur to Voldemort, but injury from other sources would)

ETA: Oh god, Sirius

Edited again: Other reasons this will not work: Voldemort apparently needs Doholov to help with the rite.

[ilyena_sylph]

Well that ought to bugger His plans nicely, because Tosha is, well, Tosha.

(Please, Tosha, just once more, BE TOSHA, not Voldemort's dog.)

[teceler]

Honestly, I'm half convinced at this point that he's just waiting for an opportunity to get the kids out that won't just get them killed.

Especially with the talk about how Voldemort is going to go down through the years from here.

(Also, thanks for making me flail even more with that phrasing, augh)

[ilyena_sylph]

(you're welcome! +g+)

[teceler]

(It would be less frustrating if I could articulate (or even work out clearly) why it had that effect!)

On, topic, oh, Harry. XD "You can see why no one likes this idea."

[kiya]

My guess is that he needs someone to help with the rite, and he picked Tosha because it would completely fuck with Tosha and he likes making his people do things that fuck with them.

[teceler]

That is also possible, but trying that may well still explode in his face.

(I was guessing that the rite used one of those variant disciplines of spell-casting that Toshenka has come up as knowing before)

[cheyinka]

That's exactly what I thought was going on with Draco's "I wouldn't forgive myself". I am not sure I'm happy to be right.

[kiya]

I was pretty sure it had something to do with the Black curse from Draco saying he wouldn't have any part of it, but wow. Harry. Such Gryffindor. So Harry.

[stormyhearted]

I don't really expect Harry to survive; this is Alternity. But augh, what a miserable way to go.

[ilyena_sylph]

Aaaaamen.

[ilyena_sylph]

Oh, Frank.

Just.

That incredible, glorious devoted love of theirs.

It just.

(Also, too bloody right, with the main post, and the image of Enforcers being brained and kicked in the balls by the girls is my *favorite ever*.)

[annia]

Can I please just thank Luna's player for being so perfectly Luna?

"I really think that Lord Voldemort has terrible handwriting. It's probably a sign of a disordered mind."

Howling with laughter. Much needed laughter.

Also, I am now convinced that Sirius is going to die. He called Harry James. Which I know was only in the film but still.

I know so many people are going to die but I was so happy that Alternity didn't kill Sirius at the end of year 5. I should have known better.

[ilyena_sylph]

Luna was perfect, it's very true.

And I did burst out laughing.

-- oh, good, it's not just me!

But hey, at least it was over the journals in mostly-safety, not in the middle of a pitched battle?

[worthywords]

Also this.

[ilyena_sylph]

Giving Hermione a link all her own, because good lord does she deserve it.

YOU GO, HERMIONE.

[ilyena_sylph]

Also Draco's PMs with just her on that post. SO. ADORABLE.

[ilyena_sylph]

Oh, Sirius, honey.

Also, dear Albus Dumbledore, you may Floo yourself Straight. To. Hell. if your answer is anything but no.

[cheyinka]

Floo directly to Hell without passing Go or collecting 200 Galleons, yes.

[ilyena_sylph]

+fistbump of Hell Yes+

[kiya]

How's "I'll add finding a flaw in his logic to my to-do list"?

[ilyena_sylph]

It's not perfect, but it'll do.

(And is slightly better than expected, given my personal opinion on that man.)

[stormyhearted]

I wonder what the rest of that to-do list looks like today.

[ursamajor]

Seriously. I would hope "Do things that lead to Voldemort's death" would be fairly top-of-mind! Especially given that it doesn't sound like he's exactly leading battlefield maneuvers.

[ilyena_sylph]

Oh, that's not a bit worrying....

'Trying to get wands back for all'?

Which one of you lunatics Big Damn Heroes currently free to move is pulling this one?!

[kiya]

My guess is "the animagus with the Enforcer badge".

[ilyena_sylph]

Probably, yeah. But.

[ursamajor]

Who will then go off and destroy the final Horcrux.