Hogwarts After Dark

Mike Dunbar · Site Admin Headmaster Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 60

Michael took stood up from his seat at the high table and cleared his throat.

"Good evening, and welcome to yet another year at Hogwarts. I am your new headmaster, Michael Dunbar, and want to share with you all how glad I am to see so many of you returning."

"Before we begin, I would like to make a few announcements. Due to recent events we no longer have prefects, they will be chosen at a later date. Also, we have many new staff members, since so many have departed. I'd like to introduce our new deputy headmistress, head of Ravenclaw house Cassandra Claymore, who will be teaching muggle studies this term" he paused while she nodded to the students before continuing, "Also Salome Sedgewick, our Flying professor and head of Hufflepuff," he smiled at her not realizing it was almost a leer and motioned toward Regina, "Our returning Potions Mistress, Regina Gaunt, and our Head of Gryffindor, and transfiguration professor, Kenneth Irving," he paused for applause as the Gryffindors were loud and eager for their head of house.

"We also have a new Care of Magical Creatures professor, Miguel Allende, and a new librarian, Pervious Hazard." He motioned to them both and worked his way down the table, reaching the end. "And lastly, our newest Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and head of Slytherin, Zhanita Dragontamer."

"I am sure you all will make this a memorable term for us, and without any further delay, let the feast begin!"

He retook his chair, relieved it was over. He couldn't help but detect a note of hostility, and wondered what he had missed...

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Pervious Hazard · Staff Librarian Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9

Pervious intended to stand and bow to the students. However, he found much difficulty in getting out of his seat due to the rather large woman sitting next to him, and had no choice but to settle for a slight nod. He was shoulder to shoulder with Miguel and was squished so tightly between the two, he barely had any elbow room to lift a spoonful of mashed potatoes to his mouth. Fed up with the situation, he slammed his fork down and turned to the woman.

"Madame, would it be too much for you to mm MY GOD! Miguel, why on earth would you let one of your creatures sit at the table. This cannot possibly be a professor. Merlin's bikini..what is this world coming to." He looked down at the row of professors, hoping at least one of them agreed.
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Cassandra Claymore · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

Cassandra tugged on her skirt awkwardly, half rose from her seat and nodded at everyone, and resumed her place at Michael's right side. Things weren't going well, in spite of the hopeful grin Mike kept up. Already some of the staff members were glaring at each other, and she hoped they could keep up a good face at least until the students were dismissed to their dorms.

She shook her head and wanted to slam her head onto the table. Mike was an idiot. They had gone over the staffing assignments for hours, and somehow he had forgotten who the CoMC teacher was, and that Miguel was in fact teaching Astronomy.

She kicked Pervious in the shins for his tactless remark, and tried to change the subject.

"It seems our illustrious headmaster, in his excitement has made a slight error," she murmured to her fellow staff. "Professor LaLisse is in fact teaching Magical Creatures, and Miguel here, is in charge of Astronomy. I am sure the students will figure it out when they head to classes tomorrow, so I see no need to embarrass him for the moment."

She forced an even brighter smile on her face, and reached for the pumkin juice, before her attention to Miguel and Pervious.

"So how are you gentlemen enjoying your new positions? Are there any last minute requirements, anything overlooked?" she tried to keep the focus on the least harmless appearing members of the table. Regina was already shooting daggers out of her eyes at both Zhanita, Mike...and herself? What had she done already? She kept her eyes focused on the men across from her, not looking at anyone else.
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Kenneth Irving · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject:

Kenneth was jabbing his potatoes with a fork when his name was called and loud applauses followed seconds later, slightly overwhelmed by the applauses, Kenneth got up to his feet and give a small bow, forgetting about his plate, Gryffindor have always have their ways on how to make the presence known in a crowd. He took his seat back, surprised by a loud remark by Previous Hazard that send him knocking the salt. "My mistake." He said indifferently, putting the salt back in place before taking his seat.

Regina Gaunt · Professor Potions Mistress Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

Regina glared at the headmaster, then scoffed at his introductions. What an IDIOT. LaLisse, that queer animal fanatic, had been teaching Magical Creatures for three years, didn't Dunbar know anything?

She wanted to puke at the sight of the new Gryffindor head, Irving as he bowed to his new little fanclub. Typical Gryffindors, either kissing up to their superiors, or making a huge deal out of polite recognition.
She fingered her dessert spoon and wondered how it would feel if she lodged it deeply in Dunbar's chest.

Pretty damned good.

Bastard had passed her over for her promotion, and gave it to some outsider. Bastard. She spared a glare at the new deputy headmistress, wondering how many blowjobs it took for her to get that job. Cassandra Claymore? What the hell kind of name was that? It sounded like some lame kind of muggle comic book hero.

Then there was that Miguel guy. His reputation alone would have given him a glimmer of respectability, but he sat there quivering like a jelly mold. Bastard.

Next was that bitch that stole her job right out from under her...Dragontamer. Was that even a real name? Face of a dog, sweating all into her plate, eyes glazed over. THIS was what they replaced her with? Bastards...

They were all bastards....
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Miguel Allende · Professor Astronomy Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 10

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Pajieraheadmaster, couldn't even remember what class he was teaching this term.

Miguel ignored most of the speech and clutched his tea quietly and sat hunched over in his seat. He shuddered once and gave the table a quick look before turning his attention to his plate.

He was surrounded by dark creatures, the lot of them. That Gaunt woman, she had to be a vampire there was no other explanation. The defense teacher was obviously part giant, and the Creatures teacher, the REAL one, was obviously gay.

Technically that didn't make him a dark creature of course, but, Miguel knew if his parents were alive and he came out with that, they would certainly call him that.

The headmaster was certainly an idiot, the librarian an incubus, and the deputy headmistress--he hadn't figured it out yet.

He gave another shudder and tried to make himself as invisible as possible, counting the minutes until he could disappear.

Pervious Hazard · Staff Librarian Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9

The tension was getting to be a bit too much. What the hell was everyone's problem anyway? The feast had barely begun and already death glares were being shot all around the table. The only person who had the right to be angry was Pervious. He was the one seated next to Sasquatch.

"Blimey!" he sat up nice and straight after receiving what he thought to be a knee rub gone astray, and leaned over the table the little bit that he could and whispered to Cassandra, "My dear, if you want to have a go at it after the feast I'll be more than happy to." He ever so graciously squeezed back into his seat, keeping his eye on Cassandra the entire time, and pushed his plate aside. He would need to leave plenty of room for dessert....
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Kenneth Irving · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

Kenneth looked from his left to right carefully, he is stuck between quiet a few staffs that appear to hate each other as much as the person sitting next to them. He was right to chose to work with children rather than people his age, they can be... the safest way to put it, insane. From what he can see, apart from himself there was only two other person that were sane along the table, the Headmaster, Mike Dunbar, and the Deputy Headmistress, Cassandra Claymore, even when the Headmaster have trouble remembering his own staff arrangement.

The librarian, Previous Hazard had already started made himself known by forcing to make himself be the center of attention. The Potions Mistress, Regina Gaunt had already give her obvious impression that she hated everyone at the table and would put her arms around their neck and break them the second she have the chance and the Astronomy Professor, Miguel Allende looked intimidated in his seat and was trying to make himself invisible which would have been successful if had not been him sitting at the Staff table with hundreds pair of eyes belong to the students that were sitting around the house tables before them.

Kenneth took a sip from his goblet, exceptional taste of pumpkin juice enter his mouth before he swallow the juice down his throat, he tried not to make judgment of his colleague and avoid eye contact with any of them.

Mike Dunbar · Site Admin Headmaster Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 60

Mike reached for the roast chicken, taking a leg and thigh, some roast potatoes, and baby carrots, piling his plate high. Things seemed to be going much better than expected. Oh, sure, Regina was all sour grapes but from what he had seen so far, that seemed to be her usual attitude anyway. This was going to be a GREAT year!

He took a huge bite out of the chicken leg and chewed noisily enjoying himself. House elf cooking was almost as good as mum's. His eyes bugged and he nearly choked when the librarian leaned across the table and began to whisper to Cassandra. He could barely make out the words, but it didn't take a genius to figure out he wasn't lecturing her about the card catalogs. He swallowed hard and stared. Who the hell did he think he was? At least he knew Cassandra was a common sense kind of girl, almost unchanged since school, who didn't fall for flash talk. In fact, he didn't doubt she was the same ice queen she was in school, mostly terrified of men, which suited him fine. She wouldn't have time to flirt with the amount of work they had ahead of them anyway. Still. He couldn't just let everyone think it was appropriate to chat up his new right hand. Nope.

"Excuse me, Mr. Hazard, but if you have something to say, surely you can share it with the rest of us? And I don't think I need to remind everyone here we have an example to set for our young, impressionable students. Cassandra, sweetheart, I have a mountain of work ahead of us tonight, so please don't make any plans."

He smiled as if the matter was settled and drank some of his wine before continuing, "Anyway, Cassandra isn't the type that is interested in dating from what I remember, you'd be better off chasing some of those birds in Hogsmeade, pretty good pickings there."
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Pierce Cummings · Healer Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 21

Pierce was running late as he entered the great hall with the festivities where already underway. Stupid elf made me late. As he walked up to the table and saw everyone he said. "Hello everyone, so sorry to be late, but I was uh, detained. My name is Pierce I'm the new Healer and I hope to be of service in any way I can." He took a seat next to some young lady, looking very pensive and upset. He smiled and slightly bowed his head to her as he quickly took his seat.

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