the TWINS!

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

OMFG, OMFG, OMFG

The twins must have made their own version of the Order Only spell! How else do you explain this and this?

They are geniuses! I am really excited at the thought of another filter, so we can see some more people speak their minds freely to each other without Voldemort *or* the Order knowing. This could get very complex and interesting. I wonder who they'll share the code with? Terry, perhaps?

Also, everything seems to be in place for the Forbidden Forest/Unicorn Blood detention tonight.

Hooray game!

Comments

[wintercreek]

Yes, I think that's what it is! Here they're probably checking that it's really not visible to anyone else, or at least to Percy.

I seem to recall something about the original Marauders' Map having a secondary use as a secret way to pass messages, but I can't remember if that's canon or fanon. Interesting to see an element of the Map apparently interlaced with the journals, anyway.

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

*smirks even harder* (http://community.livejournal.com/alt_fen/27062.html?thread=269750#t269750).

Keep watching, but you'll have to be patient a bit longer!

[qwerty88.livejournal.com]

of course. That makes so much more sense. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out why nobody had responded to those messages.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

You and your smirking!

So we... connect the blank parchment... to the secret journal spell...

Did they somehow use up the Marauder's Map in creating the journal spell so that now it really is just a blank parchment?

Was that their first test, so that they actually encoded something on that paper using their spell and then waited to see if their parents and all their resources would be able to read it (and were willing to test it out on the journals once it became clear that whatever was on the paper could *not* be concealed)?

But none of these are reasons for you to smirk! So... argh. Patience it is. For now.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Good catch. I hadn't been able to figure out what that was about, but it makes sense now.

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

Gold star for you!

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

(On the first point, why the twins made that comment.)

[wintercreek]

Yay! \o/

And thanks for the clarification. :)

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

And they strike again. (http://alt-lucius.livejournal.com/16411.html?thread=104475#t104475)

Twins for the Win!!

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

And once again it seems to have worked, since there's no reply.
So it's worked on posts their private journal, posts in the community, and replies to someone else's posts. The only thing left to test, that I can think of, is whether it works in replies to someone else's comment. And once they get that test done with, they can start... whatever they are going to actually use it for.

Kinda interesting that they've been mostly testing it by posting things that could get them in trouble if the spell didn't work rather than, for example, "the first person who replies to this will get a chocolate frog." Not sure why I'm bringing that up *now* though, since this last test is the only one that doesn't actually fall into that category.

[longstrider.livejournal.com]

Because they are the twins and it twigs their sense of humor to do it this way?

[longstrider.livejournal.com]

Just a bit of interest, the twins write "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good." in the body of the post but Order Only is in the subject line.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

So true! But they're going to need to learn caution one day or find themselves in serious trouble. What if their filter hadn't worked on the post about the Carrows? Ack!

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is interesting. When they do it in the comment, they put it as the comment title the same way Order Only does.

I like that the spell might be a little different, rather than the exact same method Bill used.

Or maybe Order Only would actually work if it were anywhere in the body of a post, and nobody's thought to try it yet.

[borgin.livejournal.com]

It looks like the twins have determined that their lock works (http://community.livejournal.com/hpalternity/23121.html).

I'm curious to see with whom they choose to share the lock.