1st seed; [Action/Voice]
Feb. 10th, 2010 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nearlychosen[Perhaps the journal picks up the sound of Neville's arrival as he is unceremoniously deposited on the icy southern lake sometime in the dead of night. If not that, then it might catch the dull groaning as he slowly wakes and struggles to pull himself upright. If not that, then certainly the furious squeak from sneakers lacking traction on slippery ice would catch the journal's attention, as would the dull thudding as Neville collides with some child's forgotten snowman on the westernmost bank. A sharp intake of breath, then] No wand. Bastards. [In fact, even though Neville hasn't yet noticed the presence of the book at all, he seems perfectly aware that someone is listening, even if it isn't quite who he expects.]
It's still not enough! [The words, though a bit rasped and wheezing, are spoken with the stubbornness of one who rather expected this displacement.] You think you can just Portkey me someplace and be done with it? You won't get me -- not any of us -- to back down that easily. I know you're here -- show yourselves, you bloody cowards!
[The dead silence is less than encouraging. It means that if he wasn't being watched, then he'd been sent far enough that he wouldn't need supervision. Accio wand. [The incantation is intoned softly through clenched teeth. It doesn't escape him how ironic it was that in his desperation to recover his stolen wand he's resorted to a summoning spell that usually required the use of his wand in the first place. The spell fails spectacularly, leaving Neville to suppose his captors laughed, wherever they happen to be.
Still, the place he'd been sent certainly merits some investigation. If he'd been sent here via portkey, then some other innocuous-looking thing might well be the ticket home. It might appear off for a young, underdressed, blackeyed, fairly beaten and emaciated man to be picking up small stones with a thoughtful expression, but finding an alternate portkey is simply the most plausible way back to the more important matters he'd left at home.]
It's still not enough! [The words, though a bit rasped and wheezing, are spoken with the stubbornness of one who rather expected this displacement.] You think you can just Portkey me someplace and be done with it? You won't get me -- not any of us -- to back down that easily. I know you're here -- show yourselves, you bloody cowards!
[The dead silence is less than encouraging. It means that if he wasn't being watched, then he'd been sent far enough that he wouldn't need supervision. Accio wand. [The incantation is intoned softly through clenched teeth. It doesn't escape him how ironic it was that in his desperation to recover his stolen wand he's resorted to a summoning spell that usually required the use of his wand in the first place. The spell fails spectacularly, leaving Neville to suppose his captors laughed, wherever they happen to be.
Still, the place he'd been sent certainly merits some investigation. If he'd been sent here via portkey, then some other innocuous-looking thing might well be the ticket home. It might appear off for a young, underdressed, blackeyed, fairly beaten and emaciated man to be picking up small stones with a thoughtful expression, but finding an alternate portkey is simply the most plausible way back to the more important matters he'd left at home.]
[Action, because Draco's just infamous for throwing bitchfits]
Date: 2010-02-11 08:35 pm (UTC)[Action, because Neville doesn't think Draco's bitchfits are worse than Gran's anyway]
Date: 2010-02-11 09:45 pm (UTC)[Action, because Draco's not a crazy old lady with bad fashion sense]
Date: 2010-02-11 09:47 pm (UTC)[Action, because THAT VULTURE HAT IS COOL OKAY.]
Date: 2010-02-11 10:17 pm (UTC)[Action, because I admit, it made Snape look fabulous]
Date: 2010-02-11 10:18 pm (UTC)[Action, because Snape is fabulous enough to make ANYTHING look good]
Date: 2010-02-11 10:50 pm (UTC)[Action, because that's probably true enough]
Date: 2010-02-11 10:53 pm (UTC)[Action, because Neville would rather deter any combination of his Gran and Snape in future thanks]
Date: 2010-02-11 11:02 pm (UTC)[Action, because vultures are actually pretty scary]
Date: 2010-02-11 11:05 pm (UTC)[Action, because so are Snape and Gran.]
Date: 2010-02-11 11:21 pm (UTC)[Action, because a lot of things in this canon are scary]
Date: 2010-02-12 12:57 am (UTC)[Action, because you're so right. =X]
Date: 2010-02-12 01:03 am (UTC)[Action, because I usually am right =(]
Date: 2010-02-12 01:05 am (UTC)[Action, because OH YEAH damn it you won again. >(]
Date: 2010-02-12 01:17 am (UTC)[Action, because I have to win sometimes to make up for Draco always losing]
Date: 2010-02-12 01:20 am (UTC)[Action, because you speak truths. Carry on.]
Date: 2010-02-12 02:47 am (UTC)[Action, because I approve of this]
Date: 2010-02-12 05:19 am (UTC)[Action, because I NEED TO TURN OFF MY 360 TY. IT IS A SICKNESS.]
Date: 2010-02-12 05:40 am (UTC)[Action, because I was wondering where you went XD]
Date: 2010-02-12 05:46 am (UTC)[Action, because I might have been having a life! Or something! ...maybe someday.]
Date: 2010-02-12 05:50 am (UTC)[Action, because I am not sure if I want to believe that]
Date: 2010-02-12 05:54 am (UTC)[Action, because now I'm wounded. Off to eat my feelings in the form of pie.]
Date: 2010-02-12 06:03 am (UTC)[Action, because I ended up making a burrito.]
Date: 2010-02-12 06:19 am (UTC)[Action, because our feelings taste different.]
Date: 2010-02-12 06:29 am (UTC)[Action, because I ate a chocolate heart too]
Date: 2010-02-12 06:43 am (UTC)[Action, because that's seasonal! :D]
From:[Action, because it's DELICIOUS]
From:[Action, because the delicious happens from the LOVE.]
From:[Action, because somehow that doesn't make sense]
From:[Action, because I rarely make sense.]
From:[Action, because I like you anyway.]
From:[Action, because you just like to flatter. :)]
From:[Action, because I'm kind of good at it :D]
From:[Action, because you really are! I'm oddly compelled to want to give you things.]
From:[Action, because I have Malfoyisms, apparently]
From:[Action, because that's pretty damn awesome of you. *o*]
From:[Action, because in general I'm pretty awesome <3?]
From:[Action, because damnit you're right again.]
From:[Action, because cupofnoodles are fun]
From:[Action, because they're also delicious :9]
From:[Action, because I love coffee]
From:[Action, because I could never really go there with you. :( Coffee's kind of gross.]
From:[Action, because coffee is not gross D:]
From:[Action, because have you ever TASTED the stuff? >.< GROSS.]
From:[Action, because I absolutely love it ;;]
From:[Action, because it's just an acquired taste that i've never acquired. Because of the gross.]
From:[Action, because there's such a thing as creamer]
From:[Action, because that doesn't make it taste less like coffee. :(]
From:[Action, because your logic fails me D:]
From:[Action, because I'm just weird. I tend to not like liquor much for the same reason. XD]
From:[Action, because those are like two of my favorite things XD]
From:[Action, because I'm TRYING to find drinks I like. It's just that they'd taste better without booze]
From:[Action, because I'm also just a terrible person sometimes]
From:[Action, because there's nothing terrible about that! x.o]
From:[Action, because I have to ask, can I threadjack the Harry/Neville thread since there was chaintug?]
From:[Action, because you know you never have to ask. xD SILLY.]
From:[Action, because I WAS TRYING TO BE POLITE UNLIKE MY MUSE HERE]
From:[Action, because REALLY NOW. WHO DOES THAT?]
From:[Action, because I DO APPARENTLY]
From:[Action, because WELL THAT'S JUST SILLY.]
From:[Action, because this may have been our shortest thread ever]
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