Marian Connell
December 03, 2004 4:22 PM
Beginning of Term Speech by Marian Connell
Marian Connell looked around at the assembled first years. Some looked frightened, others were excited, others just plain tired. She had just led them to the Common Room, hidden by a hedge, and opened by saying the password, currently "Veriteserum" to a suit of armor.The short blond teacher waited for everyone to settle down, and then began to explain the introductions.
"Hello, and welcome to Sonora. I'm Professor Connell, the Potions teacher, and head of Pecari house. The people around you are, obviously, your new housemates. You will be sharing a common room for a good while, so be kind.
"On the list of rules, no boys in the girl's bedrooms, and vice versa. YOu are not allowed into anyone else's common room, either. Profanity is frowned upon, and, just to warn you, most Muggle products will not work here.
"Good behavior may get you house points, while any sort of crude or bad behavior will lose them.
"Now, if there are any questions, or if you any problems with anything, come talk to me. My office is very close to here, and I'm nearly always there.
"Are there any questions right now?" Connell asked, as her gaze swept around the room.
(OOC- really excellent writing will also earn you house points. Mary sueism will lose them.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Subthreads: A Horse of a Different Colour by Flora Blackwood with Marian
New Beginnings by Elizabeth Lavine with Marian Connell, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth
Several questions by Ash and Sorrel Craven with Professor Connell, Sorrel and Ash
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Flora Blackwood
December 03, 2004 6:49 PM
Uh-huh. Sure. by Flora Blackwood
It wasn't that she wasn't interested - for Flora certainly had a thorough curiosity about all sorts of things - but more that she was just... Okay, fine. She wasn't interested. She liked stories with an actual PLOT. Things that didn't necessarily make sense, but were entertaining. In fact, Flora didn't even care if it was the truth. As long as it was fun to listen to, she wouldn't complain."Thanks," she said with a dull tone, obviously sarcastic. Sarcasm was something that Flora lived for. She was very tempted to say something disrespectful, and it got the best of her. "So... What use did the 'founders' find in changing our skin color? It doesn't seem very clever to me."
Sure, she would get deducted house points, or be put into detention. But Flora didn't necessarily see it as a personal insult to the teacher - more so as just her point of view. The sarcasm could've been dealt without, yes.\n\n
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Marian Connell
December 03, 2004 7:08 PM
Re: Uh-huh. Sure. by Marian Connell
Connell didn't miss a step. She had always been sarcastic, and was quite willing to get in a bit of a war with a student."I'm terribly sorry you found that boring. Personally, I never liked the history either. However, if you hadn't asked, then I wouldn't have had to say anything at all about it. So, thusly, if you don't like it, blame yourself, not I.
"And I have no idea what the founders were thinking. I beleive it was the older one who thought it up. Perhaps it was just his idea of a joke."\n\n
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Flora Blackwood
December 03, 2004 8:09 PM
Re: Uh-huh. Sure. by Flora Blackwood
Flora could only glare at the woman with rather annoyed eyes. She wasn't a mean student - no, she was far from that! - but it was more-so that the girl liked much more to use her imagination. She'd always stood out, seeing things in a different light than her peers. "Mm-hmm," she said with a bite to her lip, as she had so many times before.She twirled one of her dishwash-blonde hairs in her fingers, glancing down at the ground with pale blue eyes. Flora's figure was that of most girls her age - she was developing in some places, and she wasn't starving herself to death. Good heavens, she'd never think to do such a horrid thing.
She was incredibly nervous, beyond proportion. Flora hated situations like this. She was normally the spontaneous, outgoing girl that was never, by any means, quiet! What was WRONG with her?! "I'm hungry," she muttered to herself, wondering if it'd be too risky to sneak out to the kitchens that night. Hmm.\n\n
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Sam Grell
December 04, 2004 11:40 AM
Re: Uh-huh. Sure. by Sam Grell
"You're hungry? Nice to meet you Hungry, I'm Samantha, but people always call me Sam." Samantha said, smiling enthusistically and thrusting her hand forward. This girl seemed to be the type of person she would enjoy hanging out with, although maybe a little too timid for Sam's wild and eccentric plots."Well, I assume that's not your real name, sorry, that's just what my mom always says..." Sam trailed off, slightly embarassed. \n\n
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Flora Blackwood
December 05, 2004 12:29 AM
Re: Uh-huh. Sure. by Flora Blackwood
Flora felt a grin come to her face as a girl came to her, her hand thrust forward to shake her own. She laughed at the girl's joke, and this one seemed to be a person fit for friendship. "I'm Flora," she laughed, pushing her dirty blonde hair behind her ears in an effort to make herself look somewhat decent. "Don't worry - my dad makes all sorts of crazy jokes like that."It was true, too. Her mother, who had been dead for over a year, couldn't have said the same, but Flora's father - an accountant - was constantly trying to 'be hip.' It never worked, leaving Flora in sheer embarrassment or fits of uncontrollable laughter.
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Sam Grell
December 05, 2004 11:12 AM
Shaking things up by Sam Grell
"Parents." Sam half groaned, shaking her head in disgust. "Well anyway, if you're hungry we could get some food. The way I see it, there's going to be trouble eventually, so why shouldn't we be the ones to shake things up? Now's as good a time as any. We could sneak down to the kitchens and see what the houselves can give us..." Sam said enthusistically. "or we could just sneak around the corridors and try not to get caugh, that's fun too." Sam added, after having realized that she had no idea where the kitchens were.\n\n
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Flora Blackwood
December 05, 2004 2:38 PM
Sounds good to me by Flora Blackwood
She grinned excitedly at Sam's proposal and nearly tripped over her feet trying to get out the door. "Sorry," she said with a halfhearty grin, always being one to mess up first. "But yeah, that sounds good to me."Walking over to the door, she felt a sly smirk come to her lips as she glanced over at the group of students. "If anyone asks," she began, "we went to use the bathroom."
Completely ignoring the fact that the Commons had their own bathrooms. That was beside the point. \n\n
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