December 2003
Monday 12/1
Scenes
Lorelai eats the dosed biscuits that Pansy's sent. Harry, Church, Jonathan and Anais deal with the aftermath.
As asked, Marcus reluctantly has a talk with Astoria.
Justin comes home, and he and Lavender talk about recent goings-on before heading out for supper
Owls
Gabrielle owls Bill his belated birthday presents.
Pansy sends out some bikkies to a special lady.
Journals
Regan waxes poetic about her brother and Gwen, plotting with Jos, and what to do with herself after she graduates.
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Tuesday 12/2
Scenes
Harry gets a temporary assistant to fill in for the sick Lorelai.
Arthur confronts Molly about her chronic fatigue.
Draco and Ginny reconnect. NC-17
Pansy and Theo have dinner and conversation.
Owls
Arthur owls Theo, asking for an open evening when he can bring Molly in for a check up.
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Wednesday 12/3
Scenes
Molly and Penelope have gathered in the headmistress’ office because someone on staff at Sara Prep is missing. Savage shows and takes a report.
Cormac sneaks over to Pansy's to steal some hairs, but gets caught. Things are icy.
Reese realizes what her 'golden firefly' is, and leaves Cornwall indefinitely.
Owls
Lavender owls Theo, Percy and Sirius for interviews.
Journals
Astoria knows that Reese has left. She's sad and worried.
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Thursday 12/4
Scenes
Hannah tries to lighten Blaise's mood. They talk about tentative holiday plans and picking up the kids from school.
Arthur brings Molly to Theo for a check-up.
Reese finds herself at Ashley Manor for the first time since her guardian, Alfred, died. She deals with some demons of her past, and finds her hope and purpose for the future.
Journals
Lavender is amused by Percy and Theo’s rejection.
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Friday 12/5
Scenes
Molly oversleeps on the last day of term. Penny and Draco are worried that it means something more sinister.
Moody, Chapman and McDonald ask Jared a few questions about MacNair and Dukelow.
Blaise and Hannah pick up the rest of the Stewart family at Kings Cross.
Moody finds something he was looking for.
Lavender hunts Percy down.
Owls
Bill invites his family and families to a house-warming/Christmas party.
Pansy asks Draco to come over help with her wards.
Lavender asks Ron for a drink. Purely business of course.
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Saturday 12/6
Scenes
Draco asks Blaise for a favor - now with pony blackmail.
Draco helps take Cormac out of the wards on Parkinson Estate.
Lavender coaxes the information she wants out of Ron. Liquid courage? Ha.
Jonathan meets Lindsay at the Sticks and is properly threatened by Mac in the process.
An evening in with the Moodys
Owls
Lavender owls Percy, making sure he knows that she was able to get some information about him.
Dean owls Draco to see if he’d do the wards on The Cloister.
Journals
Owen posts a few recent snaps to his journal.
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Sunday 12/7
Scenes
Cormac uses polyjuice to sneak into Zabini Manor and steal the orb. Blaise and Hannah think it was Pansy, since he used her face.
Pansy ends things with Cormac in a way befitting of a Slytherin.
Draco comes by to adjust the wards for Blaise and Hannah. The boys plan a little payback for Cormac hurting Pansy.
Owls
Hannah owls Draco to come take a look at their wards.
Tonks and Bishop sends their famiily a postcard from their honeymoon.
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Monday 12/8
Scenes
Angelina and Marcus can no longer deny what they've been denying. Astoria is smug. Rated NC-17
The morning after doesn't go so well for Marcus and Angelina. Astoria is now annoyed rather than smug. Rated R
Jonathan visits Quinn in the Child Protective Services offices.
Moody begins Gail's training.
Lavender corners Theo and gets him to talk.
Astoria has been shopping with Daphne and is avoiding home due to the tension there.
Susan confronts Lavender about her interview with Ron. It doesn't go well.
Miles comes to see Pansy after hearing about what happened with Cormac.
Marcus and Angelina do what they do best. Fight. And something else that starts with F. Rated NC-17
Owls
Hannah owls out invites to Christmas Eve dinner at Zabini Manor.
Astoria owls Marcus to let him know she'll be hanging with her sister.
Pansy is after dinner with Theo again.
Jared owls Hera about seeing her this weekend.
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Tuesday 12/9
Scenes
Harry, Hestia, Moody, and Kingsley discuss what to do with traitorous Aurors.
Arthur and Moody go out to deal with a Creepy Doll. (Also known as Brendan’s having too much fun with that song.)
Percy and Sam go to lunch.
Bill comes and takes Ginny out to lunch. Blaise comes by to tell Mac about the orb theft. She is understandably upset. Mac then tells Neville who tries to run away again. She talks him down, and they agree to face this together.
Sirius and Hestia have their date. Well, part of it, anyway...
Reese stops to say good bye to Percy before she leaves.
Percy watches Reese sleep.
Owls
Astoria owls Harry to say that she cannot meet with him today.
Journals
Astoria can’t sleep because she’s jealous.
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Wednesday 12/10
Scenes
Lavender is having doubts. Justin is worried.
Neville goes to Ginny for help.
Pansy has dinner plans with Theo, and she and Susan do a little catching up.
Pansy scratches an itch with Theo. NC-17
Bishop reacts to a threat against Tonks.
Owls
Someone makes sure Bishop knows that they know about Tonks. Wrut roh, Shaggy!
Angelina owls Katie with some birthday feather earrings and some warm looking mittens.
Ginny sends Katie a pretty coin necklace and some yummy lotion.
Molly sends her newest daughter, Katie, a bracelet and some cute socks.
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Thursday 12/11
Scenes
Astoria has a cryptic chat with Harry about the future.
Draco brings Mac a dress for Gran Longbottom’s Christmas tea. Neville tries yet again to argue about not going. Mac isn't having any.
Blaise finally confronts Pansy about the fact that it was she he saw stealing the orb. There is talk of Cormac-focused retribution.
Draco strengthens the living quarters' wards at the Cloister for Dean and Natalie.
Gabrielle goes to Ginny for a key element in a prank she's planning. Ginny thinks it's a good idea for more than one reason
Journals
Draco makes a to-do list.
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Friday 12/12
Scenes
Blaise take Sarah shopping.
Bishop brings Ethan into custody.
Daphne has a birthday surprise for Charlie and is surprised herself.
A tired Draco and Ginny have a chat after a long week.
Percy and Lavender meet over dinner.
Jos checks on Romy after the news.
Owls
Charlie gets cards and pressies from his parents, Ginny, and Susan.
Jared receives an owl from his mother regarding his father.
Bishops tells Joscelin and Romy about the arrest.
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Saturday 12/13
Scenes
Angelina and Astoria talk about things and agree to take it one day at a time.
Owls
Pansy owls Miles to see if he’d be interested in accompanying her to Blaise’s Holiday party. He accepts.
Ginny owls Mei and Lindsay for help with Draco’s gift.
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Sunday 12/14
Scenes
Harry realizes something and goes to Ginny for help.
Marcus and Astoria talk about her jealousy.
Jared hears of his father's arrest and goes to see his mother.
Owls
Lavender does not send an owl to Susan.
Jared owls his barrister, Miles.
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Monday 12/15
Scenes
Jodie asks Theo for gift ideas. (What is she thinking?)
Owls
Hera owls Jared to let him know she is sorry about ditching him on Saturday, but she has stuff going on. They make plans to meet at a later date.
Remus owls Sirius, obviously confused about him being all alive and stuff. Break me off switch, son. There's about to be a whoopin'.
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Tuesday 12/16
Scenes
Natalie and Neville have a good talk.
Owls
Megan sends her nemesis, Harry, an owl with her New Year’s Resolutions.
Dean sends Reese some paintings he’s been working on.
Journals
Bill makes a list. Here’s hoping he checks it twice!
Character Introductions
Meet Quinn Prewett, Echo’s eight-hundred and seventy-sixth character!
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Wednesday 12/17
Scenes
Neville and Mac attend Gran Longbottom's holiday tea to discover their grandmothers aready have them married and with a dozen kids.
Demelza drops by Vaisey's Wards to see Jared about the family business.
Susan and Ron talk sadness and how to cheer the Hufflepuff up.
Angelina and Marcus discuss gifts for Astoria.
Owls
Ginny gives Ron a gentle reminder that gifts for the family will need to be bought soon.
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Thursday 12/18
Scenes
Blaise is out with the girls and runs into Quinn who is out with her girls.
Owls
Joscelin and Regan make more plans for their siblings via owls.
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Friday 12/19
Scenes
Miles visits Ethan to discus the charges against him.
Penelope and Jack are ill. Theo diagnoses them with 'flu-like crud'. Brody and Duff cart them off to the Sticks, meeting a worried Ginny on the way out.
Bill and all at Shell Cottage help to celebrate Gabrielle's seventeenth birthday.
Aubrey points out the fact that Cho might need some help organizing her life. They don't talk about Christmas shopping.
Gabrielle gets a last minute present from her parents. Bill is less than impressed.
Owls
Someone sends Gabrielle a rose for her birthday.
Bill and Fleur send Gabrielle a pretty necklace for her birthday.
Mac lets Bill and Luna know that Penelope and Jack are sick.
Journals
Aubrey isn’t sure what to buy Remus for Christmas.
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Saturday 12/20
Scenes
Hannah goes to Dean for a present for Blaise.
Bill and Gabrielle throw a Christmas Party. Arthur, Molly, Percy, Ron, Susan, Ginny, Draco, Tonks, Bishop, Remus, and Aubrey attend.
Mac takes on Jack duty for the night.
Notices
Brody tacks a note on the door to the Sticks saying it’s closed until after Christmas.
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Sunday 12/21
Scenes
Blaise makes the trip to the jewelers for Christmas presents. It's good to be a female and friends with Blaise Zabini.
Draco, Blaise, and Millicent join Narcissa and Lucius for a holiday meal at Malfoy Manor.
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Monday 12/22
Scenes
Tonks goes to visit Katie at Rose Cottage after returning from her honeymoon. Katie's somebodies decide it's time to be introduced to the world.
Owls
Fred gets the news from Tonks and owls his Mum and Dad about the impending babydom!
Molly owls the children about Fred’s future fatherhood!
Arthur lets Fred know that the letters have gone out.
Reese owls Percy from Switzerland to see if he’s up for a little Swiss holiday.
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Tuesday 12/23
Scenes
Cho interviews Ellie for a personal assistant.
Percy finds Reese in Switzerland for the holidays.
Owls
Romy sends Joscelin a leather jacket for Christmas.
Journals
Daphne is drugging Charlie unapologetically.
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Wednesday 12/24
Scenes
Moody gives her permission -- in a roundabout sort of way -- for Trainee Cohen to date Verity.
Miles comes to escort Pansy to Blaise's holiday party.
There's a Christmas Eve dinner at Zabini Manor.
Justin and Lavender visit is mother.
Pansy and Miles fall into each other. NC-17
Owls
Owen receives an anonymous gift of chocolates.
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Thursday 12/25
Scenes
The Zabini household celebrates with guests. Amos Diggory shows as well and Draco, Ginny, Mei and Lindsay. With a special appearance by Narcissa.
Draco and Ginny celebrate Christmas morning with Millicent, Mei, and Lindsay.
Charlie and Daphne come by to have brekkie and exchange gifts with Marcus, Angelina and Astoria. Astoria gets something she's REALLY been wanting.
Luna and Harry spend a lazy Christmas in bed.
Neville and Mac exchange gifts. Rated R!
Tonks and Bishop give each other coordinating gifts for Christmas.
Ron and Susan exchange gifts.
Jared has Christmas dinner with his family.
Owls
Ginny sends Christmas gifts to Bishop, Blaise, Charlie, Daphne, Fred, Hannah, Katie, Penelope, Ron, Susan and Tonks.
Ginny sends another set of presents to Arthur, Bill, Dean, Gabrielle, Harry, Jodie, Luna, Molly, Natalie, Neville, Percy and Theo.
Lavender gives gifts to Justin and Hannah.
Susan gets an anonymous (::coughcoughLAVENDERcoughcough::) gift for Christmas.
Angelina owls Fred, Katie, Hannah, Hera, Mac and Penelope their gifts.
Pansy sends her gifts to Draco, Hannah, Hera, Miles, Millicent, Severus and Theo.
Molly makes the owls really work as she sends Arthur, Bill, Bishop, Charlie, Daphne, Dean, Draco, Fred, Gabrielle, Ginny, Harry, Katie, Luna, Penelope, Percy, Remus, Ron, Sirius, Susan, Theo and Tonks something knitted from the heart.
A placeholder for Christmas owls from Blaise.
Aubrey sends gifts to Ginny, Remus and Cho.
Bill sends gifts to Arthur, Charlie, Daphne, Draco, Fred, Ginny, Katie, Molly, Penelope, Percy, Ron and Susan.
A placeholder for Christmas owls from Tonks.
A placeholder for Christmas owls from Percy.
Bishop and Tonks send gifts to Joscelin and Gwen.
Miles showers the women in his life with pretty things. The women? Pansy, Simone and Reese.
Romy sends Natalie a rather racy Christmas gift.
Sam leaves a present for Theo on his cot.
Susan sends Hannah and Justin gifts, as well as an unsigned one for Lavender.
Draco gifts Arthur, Molly, Penelope and Pansy.
Astoria and Daphne send their love to Dean with a gift certificate.
Hestia frees Bonnie from the stocks and gives her back to Sirius. He is thrilled.
Hannah sends gifts to Angelina, Justin, Lavender, Mac, Pansy, Penelope and Susan.
Hera is sending international gifts from the Philippines to Angelina, Jared, Mac and the MacDougals, and Pansy.
Justin owls Lavender, Hannah and Susan with pretty gifts.
Jared gifts Hera back with the same gift she got him. Coincidence?
Simone owls gifts to Maria, Miles, Simone and Tracey, as well as a few Liberi members.
Natalie (and Dean) send a few gifts to Harry, Hestia, Romy and Theo.
Megan is a passenger on the crazy train and owls Harry a dead bird for the Hols. How sweet!
Ron and Susan send owls to Arthur, Bill, Charlie, Daphne, Fred, Ginny, Hermione, Katie, Molly, Penelope and Percy.
Someone send Demelza some red tulips.
Uh Oh! Another Russian owl for Astoria!
A placeholder for owls from Gabrielle.
A placeholder for owls from Gabrielle.
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Friday 12/26
Scenes
Penelope makes a choice about her life.
Remus and Aubrey visit her family on Boxing Day. Again, things don't go as planned.
Arthur takes Molly to bed, and decides to owl Theo about her test results.
Owls
Susan owls some forgotten presents to Percy, and the newborn Weasley’s via Fred and Katie.
Harry adds his owls to the piles, a day late, with presents to Molly, Arthur and Ginny.
Natalie redirects an owl to Ginny and Draco.
Theo gives gifts to Sam, Ginny, Pansy and Natalie.
Dean sends some slightly late owls to Arthur, Astoria, Daphne, Fred, Ginny, Hestia, Katie, Millicent, Molly, Moody, Romy and Theo.
Moody owls Werner, asking for help with his new eye from Dean.
Dean sends one last owl to Pansy, with a gift and a business proposition.
Journals
Verity writes about her holiday, and Levi finally sucking it up and acting like a boy towards her.
Romy is glad she gets to work on Christmas, and wonders about a few people.
Ellie is disappointed she didn’t receive an owl from Owen for Christmas, but is hoping for better and brighter things on the horizon.
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Saturday 12/27
Scenes
Quinn comes by the Zabini Manor. The Stewarts find out about their mum.
Hera's family celebrates Christmas late.
Owls
Lavender teases Justin in an owl.
Harry owls Xeno, Luna’s father, for a meeting.
Harry owls Moody with the location of the camp in Scotland, thanks to information from Astoria.
Journals
Lavender reflects on her Holiday.
Penelope has plans to send owls out, and is reluctant to go home.
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Sunday 12/28
Owls
Cho lets Ellie know that she’s been hired.
Angelina’s cousin owls her, trying to find out where the hell she is.
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Monday 12/29
Scenes
Percy and Reese enjoy the snow in Switzerland.
Owls
Angelina leaves a note for Marcus about adding someone to the wards.
Ginny reminds Ron that Susan’s birthday is tomorrow, and to give her the gift he’d bought her.
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Tuesday 12/30
Scenes
Ron and Susan celebrate their new living arrangement and her birthday.
Owls
Hannah sends a birthday gift to Susan.
Justin sends Susan a nice serving plate birthday present.
Draco gives Susan a very nice basket of goodies.
Blaise leaves some pretty yellow roses for Susan.
Someone (LAVENDER) sends Susan some birthday gifts as well.
Ginny gifts the birthday girl with a little outfit (mainly for Ron) and a desk set, personalized for Susan.
Someone gives Susan a gift voucher for Choyer.
Penelope sends her Christmas presents out finally. Gifts go to Angelina, Arthur, Bill, Blaise, Charlie, Draco, Fred, Ginny, Hannah, Katie, Luna, Molly, Percy and Ron.
Aubrey would like Remus to come over on New Year’s Eve.
Character Introductions
Meet our third (second living) werewolf in the game, Charlotte Stone.
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Wednesday 12/31
Scenes
Charlotte acquires a much needed potion from Snape.
Owls
Charlotte owls Quinn for a meeting regarding one of her patients.