Fans of Alternity

I think the lo-jack bracelet was a deliberate squid on the mantle. The gifting of the stuffed cat was just a piece that fell into place, I think, but I can't remember. (There was a bunch with that plot that we planned way in advance: the Machine of Doom, because we put in a bunch of hints that something was happening to muggleborns, for instance. And I think we started with, "we need to go to the Department of Mysteries, but anything as disastrous as the canon trip will wind up killing all our characters. What can we do instead?" A bunch of other pieces just fell beautifully into place as we built up to it.)