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He's the dorm leader and based on the Queen of Hearts. 17 years old, in 2nd year.

Meg and I run, but as the Sue is to run too, we get out.

We do not let her see us.

We see a new one, tho - but it's a Stu!

That's the dorm with Rose Riddle-what's-his-face, right?

-Ls can remember things. Sometimes.

Having looked it up, it seems it's Alice in Wonderland-themed and they're all about rules and tea parties. I can dig it. ^_^

I do object to the rule about no cats at formal events, though, haha. I didn't know I wanted to bring a cat to a formal event, but now I do!

~Neshomeh

There's a nice little feature on the official Twisted Wonderland website that randomly sorts you into an NRC dorm. Since this feature does not exist on the English version of the site, I'm providing a translation of the narration for boarders who don't speak Japanese. You can skip the narration if you wish.

After you enter the link I gave above or navigate to it from the "special" page (second button down), you'll be taken to a warning screen informing you that the content plays sound. You must press ON to proceed; pressing OFF takes you back to the home page.

Welcome to magic academy Night Raven College's experience entrance ceremony.

I am the headmaster Dire Crowley. Everyone, please hold up your invitation papers to the light.

After this, an invitation paper appears at the bottom of the screen; you swipe it upward if on mobile and click on it if on PC. Mobile devices must be oriented vertically.

Are you ready? In an actual entrance ceremony, it's the Dark Mirror who chooses for you dorms that best fit your souls. Today's ceremony however is for experience purposes only, so I've made an exception: I will choose your dorms using my magic. Am I not awfully kind and generous?

By the way, as today's ceremony is different from official sorting procedure, please refrain from making complaints about dorm selections.

Let us begin. One, two, three.

On your invitation papers are now key holes connected to the gate of NRC. Now, go ahead and take the invitation paper out of the light, place the key hole over your eye and peek through the gate.

To where is your soul lead?

Here, click on the "ゲートを除く" (peek through the gate) button below the invitation paper to get your result. Unfortunately I'm not translating the dialogues provided by the characters after this screen; you can send me the final image of the result provided on the "share" screen at the end.

The first time I tried this, I got Octavinelle (Little Mermaid-based)

I sometimes get the feeling that JKR intended the whole "sorting Slytherin" thing as a choice. I mean, Harry did choose not to go to Slytherin, but it's not like everyone else gets a choice in the matter! And then coupled with 3/4ths of the school deciding to isolate the Slytherins as the "evil" house... Slytherins really don't get a chance to be exposed to other ideas and people outside their cloistered Pureblood-supremacist bubble, leading to easy radicalisation and essentially self-fulfilling prophecies.

A lot of fics try to write Good Slytherins, but it often comes with a side of justifying Pureblood supremacy, and that's part of the critique of this deconstruction, too. Slytherins are just as capable of good as the other Houses are capable of evil, but there's no denying that they are very insular and prone to radicalisation because of the Pureblood ideology they're raised with, plus the comparative lack of Muggleborn Slytherins out there. So it's a delicate balancing act, writing a good Slytherin without trying to justify or excuse the ideologies they were raised with!

Thank you for your comment; give me a heads-up when Sergio and co. get to Hogwarts :D

Yes, things are looking up for Sirius! Benefits of having his brother and Lily both in his corner :D And now Lupin gets to visit him whenever he wants ;P

I'm so glad you caught Dumbledore's motivations there :D He's definitely rewarding Draco for his good deed while making a point about House unity and doing the right thing instead of sticking with Pureblood dogma. A little bit of manipulation for a ~greater good...

Gaunt and his fake news, as always!

Prince has not publicly renounced him, but since Lily and Harry are not as dead as Peter might've made it seem, Gaunt definitely suspects betrayal in the ranks. Prince and Pettigrew are definitely the ones to scrutinise there, especially since Prince's connection with Lily is not exactly a secret anymore, either...

Thank you so much for your comments! Hope you're ready to dive into year four in a couple of days!

Seeing Sirious having his name de-facto cleared already feels good. But my favourite line was this:

“Slytherins are fond of… slithering through loopholes,”

Draco, using Slythering cunning for good. There's something about this that I really like - showing that you can be a "true" Slytherin without being a Designated Villain. That's something I always found clashing with one of the ideals of the series - that your choices make what you are, not your origins or anything else - and yet most Slytherins were irremediably bad because Slytherin. That's what I plan to play with myself in future chapters of that reboot origin story of Sergio, Nikki & Co. as well, since it will have an arc set in Hogwarts (gotta fill those years somehow), because I have a character that will be able to appear early that way, and would definitely sorted into Slytherin despite being very definitely good.

You managed to make me feel happy that Slytherin won the House cup this year. Good on you!

Hey guys!

Here are July's Writing Prompts (and a little poll at the end for good measure):

1. One of your characters misreads something

2. "It's been a long time coming, hasn't it?"

3. Excitability

Have fun with writing them!

Nova

P.S The Poll. Just let me know (ideally in thread, but email is checked) which of the three types of prompts that I normally put out you like the most (i.e. One your characters..., the quote/thing in speech marks, or the word). That's it :)

Nes did go by Meg, and saw all was ash-hue and had the 123 in no way to aid any. Sad was the eye of Nes!

"We Fae do fly to spy a way, but ill can I fly and nil can I spy. How can I aid you? May it be we ask aid of one who is not me?"

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I did not say, but say now: The eye of Nes is elm- or sea-hue, and her mop is as the fox, cut wee but for one tie. The tie is to say who she is and who her kin are. No dim tie!

Her rag on top is tan, of the cow; on her leg, too. A bit on top has hue: of ink, sky, and rue in tie, for the joy of the eye.

(Ill and nil, fly and spy, hue and rue; to say it so is fun!)

ETA: Do I ken the law of the RPG ill? My way of RP so far is my old way, I see it; say to me if I mon try a new way. I'll not be mad.

~Neshomeh

You go to get the Sue so she may die. Meg has an axe; you did not get kit to hit a Sue, oh no.

Oh no two: the Sue can do a Hex! Her eye is red; the air is a hum; you are ill! And a zap is on her lip to hit you.

"Run!" you see Meg say. But do you run?

hS

Meg did the pal-act of the paw, and saw in the eye of Nes. "Ok; I may not be bad to you, if you are ok. I did see the RC; I got a bed there. Let me aid you to see it, too." She did a bob to the Ivy. "Bye, Ivy!"

Meg and Nes did go out in HQ. It was ash-hue. "It is all so dim," Meg did say. "Now, our RC is on the... huh." She did a wee hum. "I saw a way, I did." But Nes saw it was not a way. "Our RC is six-ten," Meg did say. "Can you aid me to get to it?"

~

To use "did" and "was", not "do" and "am", is not so bad, yes?

hS

In which we follow a certain Professor for a change, and maybe he isn't as much of a villain as we initially thought.

Comes with the yearly summer beach fanservice illustration! Not of the Professor, of course.

Oh my gosh, this is a much nicer wrap-up than we got in canon! Sirius won’t have to hide for as long, and he’s got his brother still alive! Pettigrew is in custody! Draco is friend, and getting closer to openly rebelling against his parents! Voldemort won’t get resurrected . . . because he’s already been alive for the past decade+ . . . okay, maybe that part isn’t an improvement, but uh . . . Anyway, sad to see Lupin still leaving, but I understand his reasoning that a botched/contaminated potion shouldn’t be all it takes to endanger the lives of schoolchildren. At least he, too, can openly interact with Sirius, once the charges get dropped, so that’s a silver lining, too!

Back when I first read the books, I never could have imagined feeling happy at Slytherin winning the house cup for the year, but here I am! I loved seeing Dumbledore reward Draco for his good deed, especially while complimenting him on demonstrating “the very best qualities of Slytherin House.” It felt properly triumphant, like the banner switch at the end of year one, and perhaps it will set a good example for other Slytherin students, that the qualities their house is reinforcing don’t always have to be turned towards ambitious self-gain?

Gaunt: It is through Her work that his crimes have been brought to light . . .
me: No, it was actually through the work of roughly three and a half thirteen-year-olds. Thirteen-year-olds are the ones who brought Peter’s crimes to light, after your Department of Magical Law Enforcement failed to do so for over a decade. So don’t @ me with that “thank Mother Magic” crap!

One question occurred to me while mulling over Prince obliviating Pettigrew: Gaunt sent both Prince and Pettigrew to attack the Potters separately, and you said when Pettigrew returned to Gaunt and took all the credit for the real and apparent deaths, that Gaunt just assumed Pettigrew had gotten overzealous, and didn’t include Prince like he was supposed to. So, does Gaunt think Prince is still on his side? Or did she publicly renounce him at some point between James’s death and “Secret Potion?”

—doctorlit awards 70 points to Winterwood House

We (I and Meg) go out to get the Sues. We are in the HP. We see a Sue.

She is not to be in the HP! Bad Sue. "Let us get the Sue," I say to Meg.

"Yes, let us!" She says. We go to the Sue.

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(I'm running out of words! -Ls)

Hi!

My nom is Thy-Met-Woo-Dye. All my nom can be too big to say so now me be Thy. My kin are in the sea and the sky and on the sod. We be too big for me to sum. But a lot say we be Elf so Elf we say we be. I am big, big for Elf too, and me be not new bud but not be old too.

Say, If I be Elf, what kin be you? Is Ivy kin or not? Is now OK for me to go? Or me not go and you ask me of my la vie?

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((For context: In certain games I go by ThymeTwoDye and one of the first times I was playing with a group under that name one of my friends went "Why are you called Thy Met Woody?" And when I saw this, I immediately thought of that and figured it'd be easier to split that up rather than Novastorme))

((Also, is it cheating to sprinkle French (and other languages) into it? If not you might see more of that in later replies.))

Nova

She can see Meg is sad, and it is not rad to her. Not all Men are bad in her eye; but one lot.

Nes may do a pal-act of her paw, if Meg is ok to do it.

She can see Nes say, "All is new to me; I too do not get it yet. But if we are to do a bit as a Pal-mob, I mon not be bad to you. Do not be bad to me, too, and it may be ok. Do you ken the 'RC' we are to get, and the way to it?"

It is rad for me, you see her say. You did not say the kin you are, but it is ok; I get you are shy. The Ivy may do owt you do not see; you see a sky-hue O get in the lab. I got you a Pal, and in the odd O is a gal in ink-hue top and tie.

"I am Meg." The gal can see you. "You are my Pal? You are as new as me! It was rad to be one, but to get a Pal... it may be bad."

Bad or rad, it is so. The Ivy did get a new O in. You are a Pal-mob now; go out in PPC HQ, get to an RC, and use it to go in an old saw and get the Law to not die. Go now!

~

You get Meg too! You and Nes are in alt-HQs as alt-PCs; who is to win a job as no. one? Let us see!

hS

…in order to get Peter, so that’s why they were able to get Peter! Really getting the most out of the time travel :D

The rat has been captured!

Another year ends at Hogwarts.

Stay tuned for year four: Lord Harry Potter and the Cursed Cup!

How is it?

The Ivy is not sad at the bit you say. Yes, we have Men in the PPC, but not of the den you are of. Our Men are of an old saw or two - old to us, but new to you. You may not get any to die; a Man of the PPC is a pal to you now!

You see her hum for a sec, and nod. Yes, Nes, I say a Man is to be the Pal you get. She is Meg, and she is to get in my lab... now.

A bam, and a new odd O is in the lab. A gal is in it, in an ink-hue top and a tie.

Nes, see Meg; Meg, see Nes. You two are new. The Ivy got out of the way. Say hi! You are a Pal-mob now. You are to go out in PPC HQ, and get to an RC you can use to do a bit for the Law.

Meg is sad to see you. "I was ok ere I met you," you see her say. "To be one is rad; to be two... I do not get it. Not yet."

~

Nes is a big Fae; she can add one to a Lie, and so can Lie in a big way. (Not lie on a bed! Lie to a pal or foe.) Meg is a Man; she can add one to Aim, if she is to get a foe to die. Do not get her to aim at you!

hS

Who I am is big to say, but we may say I am Nes, a she of the Fae kin. No wee fae-bug out of Men's nap-yak; see, I am big! Men of two kin war on the Fae's den-lot of old. One kin of Men are foe to the Fae; one kin are not. Let any foe-Man try me: I can get the Man to die.

Say, Ivy, are Fae in yon ash-hue lot? Are Men? Are the Men foe to Fae-kin, or not?

(( I may have recently binged all of Carnival Row. I wanna be that kind of Fae. ^_^ ))

~Neshomeh