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Post by Arianna Blackthorn on Jul 31, 2011 21:39:03 GMT -5
Sometimes it as necessary to throw a party to just celebrate nothing and well everything at the same time. Life was short and there were not all that many opportunities to celebrate as humans tended to become bogged down by life. It had been shortly after the battle at Hogsmeade that Arianna got the idea of having a small dinner party for their friends. It had taken her a couple of months of actually getting around to throwing the party because of all of the healing, rebuilding etc. The ministry also happened to host their own ball but that was a pretentious fancy gala that was more about rubbing elbows that enjoying company.
This little dinner party was not a stiff formal affair but a nice, hopefully welcoming , relaxing chance to catch up on everything. It would be more of a pot luck than anything, for Arianna was not use to cooking for twenty or so people...but she did cook quite a bit of food. Thankfully Curse did not help with the food, or none of it would have been safe to eat. The man was genius but sometimes his lack of cooking skills terrified her. He could barely pour cereal without it becoming ruined somehow...
With the idea firm in her mind, Arianna went to Curse about it. She really hadn't many friends that he didn't know. Most of her acquaintances were from the Black Watch and well she didn't have a large enough space. Curse had a house and a backyard. All in all it was perfect. Large tables had been set up in the screened little porch area that Max and Eden helped decorate. Fresh flowers sat haphazardly in vases and paper constructed brooms and castles made by tiny fingers graced the center of the table. Music floated through the air and the fresh smell of warm bread permeated the room. It felt like home.
Ari couldn't help but feel pride when she looked at the setting that she created with Curse and his little family. Now all they needed was the guests.
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Post by Ava Coroleon on Jul 31, 2011 22:03:07 GMT -5
Ava Coroleon walked up to the door happily. She had been excited for the dinner party ever since she had caught word of it, and she had spent all day making the dish that she would present to the hosts as well as the other guests. She was particularially anxious to get out of the house that she had been spending so much time in this summer. She strongly disliked summer vacations. Hogwarts was her home, she was sure of that.
The woman balanced the banana pudding with round vanilla cookies lodged within it in one hand when she knocked on the door three times, quickly. At one point, Ava was sure she was going to let the pudding fall, but she managed to pull her thin arm away from the door in time to catch it with her other hand. Ava had apparated to the street. On a normal day, she would have walked, but she had been a bit paranoid ever since the attack.
Anyway, she was glad the people were celebrating again. Ava didn't like the devestation at all. She hated seeing people in such misery. She had actually been at Hogsmeade a lot since the attacks to help rebuild and calm some people down. She was good at that. Very good. The dinner party, for Ava, seemed like it was the end of that horrible tragedy, and she was quite optimistic about the future.
Ava waited outside the door. She was quite anxious to see Curse. She wasn't sure she's seen him since Hogwarts let out for summer break! She was also quite happy to be meeting the Arianna she had been hearing so much about. Ava had never had the pleasure to meet Arianna, but loved meeting new people. She professor tucked a peice of wavey, messy hair behind her ear and waiting for the door to open.
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Post by Max Kameren on Jul 31, 2011 23:18:12 GMT -5
"Max! Eden! Your craft stuff is still all over the hallway," Max heard his father's voice from upstairs, but pretended not to. Aunt Ari had convinced the Kameren's to let her throw a dinner party at their house, and Max was excited for it. They'd invited a lot of friends, some they hadn't seen since school let out for the summer. They'd even invited his mum and Peter, but Peter had pub league so he was sure they wouldn't come. It would have been nice to have both his parents, but he was still excited for the company.
He was happy to have a get together with friends and family. Finally, one that wasn't prompted by a tragedy. His dad hadn't been quite the same since the attack on Hogsmeade and his hospitalization, but hopefully this meeting of friends would bring him back in full force. Besides, it was over now. Hogsmeade was rebuilding, those that died had been honored and remembered. Max remembered hearing his dad talking about the funerals, how many he had been attending. He had been at his mum's, and part of him was glad for it. Better not to see his father in such a state.
"Are your grandad and grandmum coming to the party, Eden?" Max asked curiously, glancing over his shoulder at his friend as they entered the kitchen, where Ari was cooking. Max wasn't sure if a casual dinner at the Kameren home was quite the Fletcher's speed; they were a bit of a high-class bunch, and had expressed this disapproval of Max and Eden's behavior and Curse's parenting quite a few times this summer. They were still invited, though. As was her sister. And Emery, wherever he was.
"Did the decorations turn out alright?" Max peeked his head around the cracked-open back door that lead to the screen porch. He smiled; they looked excellent, if he did say so himself. Eden had helped heavily, drawing most of the decorations so Max could cut them out and glue them. He didn't have a talent for drawing, but his seer friend had a gift.
Three knocks sounded on the front door. Max started, turning around with a wide grin on his face. He looked up at his Aunt with wide, excited eyes. "Someone's here! Can I get it?" Before she could give a suitable answer, Max was already bursting through the kitchen towards the front door. All the locks were already undone on their door, anticipating the onslaught of guests they'd be having. Max opened the door, his smile brightening even more.
"Professor Coroleon!" Max hugged the Charms Professor around the waist, nearly knocking the pudding out of her hands with the force of his excitement. She was one he hadn't seen in months; though Max hadn't been a student last year, he had lived there with his father and roamed the halls of the school, more than once sitting in and eavesdropping on a charms class. "You're the first one here! Well, besides the family and Eden of course..." He gently took the dessert from Ava's hands, leading her towards the kitchen with a spring in his step.
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Post by Eden Fletcher on Aug 6, 2011 20:28:03 GMT -5
"Are your grandad and grandmum coming to the party, Eden?"
To be honest, Eden hadn't even mentioned the dinner party to her grandparents. It wasn't like they'd come and she didn't want them to feel obligated to send something over to express their regrets. It would have been just her luck that they'd send some expensive thing like dragon caviar or some hideous goblin gold statute thingy. Besides, lying was wrong and they would have been doing that. It was pretty obvious that her grandparents, especially her grandmother, did not approve of Curse Kameren and the torrid gossip that surrounded him. He was an unusual person, even for the wizarding world and they did not approve of all of his "abilities" or talents. Which Eden thought was quite hypocritical of them but that is a different story. Emery had been gone, apparently he went to his friend's house without more than a short goodbye leaving her stranded at the Kamerens the other day, until Curse could take her home.
"No, they umm had a tea party or some engagement with their friends, lord what's cookcoo face. Standing engagement. Evy might come but she was composing a song earlier and might be distracted..." Evy, was Eden's blind older sister. She was a brilliant pianist and often was lost in her own musical world, hours writing songs few heard.
"Did the decorations turn out alright?"
"Of course! Their made by too charming kids, everyone likes things made by kids." She said mater of factly, in her special know it all tone that she reserved for Max It was designed to grate of a certain boy's nerves.
"Someone's here! Can I get it?"
Eden rolled her eyes as Max yelped. He was sooooo excited for the party. It would be fun, but Eden wasn't entirely sure she'd like it. But she wasn't sure if she wouldn't either. She'd know most of the people, but parties meant having to be the sweet, innocent, charming little girl adults expected her to be. She wasn't sure she was up to it that night. Still, Eden followed her friend, slower of course, to the front door, where Max already lugged it open reveling their Charms professor. Uh oh. The last time Eden had saw the room, her desk was charmed stuck on the ceiling... It'd been an accident. They'd been proving to the professor that they could levitate objects and Eden's magic went berserk and instead of floating the rock, she sent the professors desk shooting to the ceiling where it stayed there, she assumed long after the bell had rung.
"Hi professor," Eden said a bit apprehensively as Max snagged the desert. Did the woman like her? Or just tolerated her because she was a student...
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Post by Curse Kameren on Aug 9, 2011 14:21:54 GMT -5
"Max!" Curse frowned when he didn't get a reply. He sighed, kneeling down and picking up the various craft supplies himself. Either he could make an argument out of it and have Max be temperamental the rest of the evening, or he could save the bother and just do it himself. Ah, the joys of parenthood.
He didn't know how Arianna had convinced him a dinner party at his home was a good idea. Well he did know how she did it, but the idea still irked him a bit. Curse Kameren hated parties. He was anti-social in all occasions such as these. If he was bad at even attending parties like these, how was he supposed to be at throwing them? He would do his best, however, put on a friendly face and grin and bear it for his son's and his girlfriend's sakes for the evening. They were both worrying about him, he knew; ever since his episode at the attack on Hogsmeade,they had been treating him like he was fragile again. They all knew it was only a matter of time before Mosrael took notice of him again, and there would be no bold, defiant stands against her. Now, whatever he could do to keep the Masked Lady out of his mind would have to be sneaky, subtle. He needed something to make her vulnerable. He needed to find out who Daniel was.
But that was for another night. He pushed the errant worries away, tossing the craft supplies in Max's room before closing the door and heading down the stairs. A crooked smile lit up his face when he saw they already had their first guest. "Ava!" Curse smiled, half-hugging her with one arm as he warded off his charging son with the other. He lifted the young wizard up by the torso with one arm, Max's feet barely skimming the floor. "Welcome to the party. I'm sure you remember Max. Not a face you forget--"
"Hey!" Max struggled against his father's grip, grinning mischievously. "Mum says I look like you so you're the same way." The boy stumbled forward as Curse released his grip. He grinned at Curse before taking his place next to Eden, who looked a bit nervous about their new visitor. "Relax, it's not like you're being graded." Max nudged his friend, teasing her quietly.
Curse straightened, letting Ava go lightly as he crossed the kitchen to try to help Arianna with the meal. He knew full well if he tried to touch anything he'd be batted away on the spot. "And this is Arianna Blackthorn, my girlfriend." His eyes met Ari's warmly for a moment before returning to the general group. He leaned against the kitchen counter.
"I suppose we'll start once dinner is ready. Not sure who's all coming to this, though I'm sure Ari probably knows..."
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