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Time for another new thread to avoid comment collapse!

What does FF mean when Barty says it?

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From:

stormyhearted

Forbidden Forest, I think.

From:

adeliej

Forbidden forest, is my guess.

From:

teceler

In context, probably Forbiddden Forest. Or that's what I've been assuming.

From:

ursamajor

Okay, 15 people were singing. 15 out of the 20 imprisoned in the Great Hall, plus the four guarding them.

Alright. Who would've?

Lavender Brown: maybe?
Katrina Bundy: Order, so probably
Susan Bones: Order, so probably
Megan Jones: maybe?
Ernie Macmillan: possibly, if he saw that Megan and Zach and Sue were singing.
Eloise Midgen
Zach Smith: maybe? More likely than Ernie
John Summers
Mandy Brocklehurst
Steven Capper
Michael Corner
Belinda Dunstan
Su Li
Morag Macdougal
Linus Moon: oh, Linus, I wish someone would tell you about the damage you've inadvertently done this year. Or at least that the fiction research you were doing wasn't for fiction after all.
Millicent Bullstrode: distinct possibility
Gregory Goyle: probably not
Pansy Parkinson: wrote it and led it
Sally-Anne Perks: Order, so probably
Blaise Zabini: if he was doing doublespeak yesterday, possibly?

Plus:
Justin Finch-Fletchley, who we know was away
Seamus Finnegan: not likely
Padma Patil: not likely
Ron Weasley, who we know is actually Ginny, but who wouldn't have been singing to keep their cover

Edited Date: 2015-05-17 01:23 am (UTC)

From:

teceler

Linus might have joined in if Lavender was singing.

Luna mentioned Su Li and Mandy Brocklehurst were both rattled by the revelations re: Umbridge

From:

ursamajor

Megan Jones, confirmed.

From:

teceler

Megan was singing

From:

keshwyn

Look out, Death Eaters, the kids are getting armed and you are in for a nasty shock.

Also, the girls will kick you in the nuts if you deserve it, and you totally do. (Go Ginny!)

From:

cheyinka

Speaking of the Forbidden Forest, does Alice saying it's off limits mean things have gone well, or badly, for the Order? They were planning on having Hagrid enlisting? directing? unleashing? the acromantulas (acromantulae?), so does "it's off limits" mean "because it's full of spiders", or "because it's full of inferi that no one can control"?

From:

teceler

Hopefully not inferi.

I'm hoping just 'because it's full of hostiles we aren't ready to engage yet'

From:

ursamajor

Okay, now I'm bawling.

From:

keshwyn

Choked up here. Harry and Draco, causing a ruckus one last time.

I can't even.

From: (Anonymous)

YOU AND ALL THE PLAYERS

(anon player)

From:

wintercreek

IKR? Teary over here, too.

From:

teceler

I just

I don't have the words for this.

From:

sugarjet03

Same. I haven't commented at all so far this weekend, because of all the feels. I was keeping it together somewhat until I read Draco and Harry, and Pansy's message to Reg. Now I'm a mess.

From:

teceler

I think the players like hearing our reactions, even if they're mostly incoherence. So I've been trying to

oh, hell, it's starting

Trying to let them know, when I can manage it. Besides, speculation can be fun.

Just. Not so much at the moment.

From:

cheyinka

I was doing okay today up until Dolohov's "ave atque vale", which, being me, I googled, and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_101

From:

aedifica

I KNOW, RIGHT??

From:

teceler

Oh--

I hadn't gotten that far with my research

I can't even

From:

sugarjet03

Oh, Tosha.

From:

aedifica

And Molly's PM to Arthur a few hours ago--I didn't comment then because I was waiting for my suitcase to come down the luggage carousel, but that one made me seriously tear up too. (And then I saw the exchange between Charlie and Tonks, which made me chuckle.)

From:

ursamajor

Alright. Back off the tears for a minute, I still haven't figured out all of the Auror location code stuff, but I do find it interesting that Barty switched from Leicester 11 to Ipswich 11 (and added a couple more Auror-types onto the list). Timing seems to suggest that he did this after discovering the missing staff - but is this him telling people to go somewhere? Where he is? Not just location but type of action to take?

From:

teceler

Do not have the energy at present to trawl through all his old posts for data.

Based on my memories, Ipswich shows up fairly frequently in those, but I don't remember seeing Leicester before (which doesn't necessarily mean much)

The 11 stayed the same, so I'm thinking those are discrete parts. That might be Hogwarts?

The word might be method of approach/attack? Or alert level, or some combination of the two.

From:

ursamajor

Heh, I know what you mean. I might do it, though, just because otherwise I'll just keep F5ing the hell out of the read page otherwise. ;) Distraction while waiting for more action!

From:

teceler

Post your results if you do!

From: (Anonymous)

I really hope bartys player elaborates on their character and codes and the like.

-les. Who only has 20% battery left. -_-

From:

keshwyn

When he was last sent to Ireland, Barty said, "IPS 666" in his mangled post to Dolohov, who responded, "IRELAND??"

So the number appears to be a location code, even if Ipswitch doesn't factor into it.

From:

teceler

Hm. Interesting.

IPS looks like an abbreviation for Ipswitch there, yeah.

And if the word is methodology... maybe search and destroy, given that?

From:

wintercreek

OH HARRY.

I can't possibly type :((((((((( enough for this. And Draco, OH DRACO.

Poor babies. They deserve a world so much better than this.

From:

ursamajor

Centaurs!

From:

stinaleigh

I'm reading along too, but can't really comment as I have a house guest. Thankfully, said houseguest is Harry Potter fen, even if she doesn't read here and so understands my preoccupation. (We just had a GoF discussion where we broke out the book to verify bits)

From:

adeliej

Neville is at Eton. This can't be good.

From:

ursamajor

Nope. Augh.

From:

stormyhearted

I have the tiniest flicker of hope that Ron will get Neville out after he's gotten the pin.

From:

ursamajor

I like your optimism, but I worry that this just means Ron will end up having to give Neville the coup de grâce.

From:

stormyhearted

Entirely possible. Still, that's better than being left in the hands of a desperate, infuriated Bellatrix.

From:

ursamajor

Seriously. Who do we want to kill Bellatrix the most?

From:

stormyhearted

Hydra. Definitely Hydra. If not her, then Hermione or Justin.

From:

sugarjet03

I think Hydra deserves it most, but it would be nice if someone would kill her while she's at Eton, so they don't have to deal with her at Hogwarts anymore. If that happens, I'd love it to be Tosha to help Ron escape with Neville.