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As a special treat for tomorrow’s feast in celebration of our Lord Protector’s birthday, we have produced magical masquerade masks. They have been glamoured to look like your house mascots. However, you may notice that a few are different. These have been specially glamoured as examples of what can be done with these wonderful novelties.
I would like to thank Pansy Parkinson, Lee Jordan, Fred & George Weasley and Harry Marvolo for all of their hard work and creativity in designing and testing the masks. We also had help from Tyche Jenkins, Draco Malfoy and Daphne Greengrass in the final push to finish them all this weekend. Professor Sinistra provided the workshop that we used over these last two weeks to design and create them.
Professor Vector has asked for voluntary donations to the Feast and Festivities Fund to defray the cost of materials which the school provided. There will be a suitably horrifically enchanted box at the Feast for these donations.
Now let us all have a spooky Halloween while we celebrate our glorious Lord Protector’s birthday.
If you wish to try your wand at changing the glamour on your mask, here is the formula to follow. First we do not recommend this for those under fifth year, unless you are experienced at making moving glamours. Hold the mask firmly arms length from you face, staring at the eyes and incant exturgen personen. While incanting start with your wand parallel to both the floor and the mask, bring the wand straight down as if wiping a blackboard and finish with a widdershins Elbert's flick.
Then cast your favourite glamour on the mask. We recommend one from the Stanislov or La Fey schools. However, we found the Italian school too temperamental. While maintaining the glamour, soak the mask in a fixative potion. Commercially available potions such as Forsby's Fixative and Eglantine Engelbert's Elixir of Elegance do the job. Pence's Permanent Portraiture and Lasting Landscapes might work for very special masks but are not recommended for general use. The entire line of Black Al's Artistic don't work due to specializing in certain artistic styles. We tinkered with our potion to make it work better on multiple masks.
As a special treat for tomorrow’s feast in celebration of our Lord Protector’s birthday, we have produced magical masquerade masks. They have been glamoured to look like your house mascots. However, you may notice that a few are different. These have been specially glamoured as examples of what can be done with these wonderful novelties.
I would like to thank Pansy Parkinson, Lee Jordan, Fred & George Weasley and Harry Marvolo for all of their hard work and creativity in designing and testing the masks. We also had help from Tyche Jenkins, Draco Malfoy and Daphne Greengrass in the final push to finish them all this weekend. Professor Sinistra provided the workshop that we used over these last two weeks to design and create them.
Professor Vector has asked for voluntary donations to the Feast and Festivities Fund to defray the cost of materials which the school provided. There will be a suitably horrifically enchanted box at the Feast for these donations.
Now let us all have a spooky Halloween while we celebrate our glorious Lord Protector’s birthday.
If you wish to try your wand at changing the glamour on your mask, here is the formula to follow. First we do not recommend this for those under fifth year, unless you are experienced at making moving glamours. Hold the mask firmly arms length from you face, staring at the eyes and incant exturgen personen. While incanting start with your wand parallel to both the floor and the mask, bring the wand straight down as if wiping a blackboard and finish with a widdershins Elbert's flick.
Then cast your favourite glamour on the mask. We recommend one from the Stanislov or La Fey schools. However, we found the Italian school too temperamental. While maintaining the glamour, soak the mask in a fixative potion. Commercially available potions such as Forsby's Fixative and Eglantine Engelbert's Elixir of Elegance do the job. Pence's Permanent Portraiture and Lasting Landscapes might work for very special masks but are not recommended for general use. The entire line of Black Al's Artistic don't work due to specializing in certain artistic styles. We tinkered with our potion to make it work better on multiple masks.
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:07 pm (UTC)Did you really make them for everyone? Goodness. That's loads. Wow.
Thanks, Cedric! And Marvolo! Oh, everyone who worked on them, really.
What happens if someone loses their mask?
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:21 pm (UTC)Please try to take good care of them between now and the Feast. If something dire does happen, come talk to me. We made a few extras. A very few extras. We put a huge amount of effort and materials into them, please take care of them.
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:26 pm (UTC)We've tested them extensively, and we're confident they'll hold up well through the Feast, given normal use. Just don't use 'em for Beater practise.
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Date: 2012-10-30 06:00 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Fred Weasley and George Weasley
Date: 2012-10-30 06:02 pm (UTC)Order Only: Private message to Fred Weasley and George Weasley
Date: 2012-10-30 06:03 pm (UTC)Re: Order Only: Private message to Fred Weasley and George Weasley
Date: 2012-10-30 06:07 pm (UTC)Berk.
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:32 pm (UTC)Private message to Cedric Diggory
Date: 2012-10-30 04:35 pm (UTC)I hope the Halloween Feast will be a big success.
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:38 pm (UTC)The original idea was mine, but your brothers and the others were a great help in the planning and execution.
How are you finding life post-Hogwarts?
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Date: 2012-10-30 05:56 pm (UTC)Private message to Cedric Diggory
Date: 2012-10-30 05:06 pm (UTC)What a lovely thing to find in the basket by my door! I'm right to suspect your hand in the design, yes? (The way it shades from the spinning galaxy to the overlay of the bear - very nicely done indeed.)
And a pleasure to provide the room, really. If any of you want to lend a hand rearranging - oh, sometime next week - I'd not mind an extra wand or two, but there's no rush there.
You doing all right? I've an idea how much time you've put in the past week.
Re: Private message to Cedric Diggory
Date: 2012-10-30 08:24 pm (UTC)Some of the others helped from the artistic angle, but it was mostly my work.
Certainly we'll help sorting stuff out in the room.
I'm fine. Feeling over stressed and easily distracted by other people, but will work it out. Sorry for not replying sooner. Christophanus started talking politics nearly an hour ago and only just managed to extract myself from the conversation.
Re: Private message to Cedric Diggory
Date: 2012-10-30 09:24 pm (UTC)You do know you need only ask if you want somewhere quiet and out of the way. It's not like I've not got enough spaces tucked away that would suit a desk and all. I had rather a long nap this afternoon myself: the Guild meeting last night was lovely, but so many people with so many opinions.
Re: Private message to Cedric Diggory
Date: 2012-10-31 02:49 am (UTC)I meant to go flying this afternoon (yes I know I had practice too, but wanted some alone time and practice isn't that) but just couldn't manage to make it out of the castle, kept having to stop and talk with people.
I may take you up on the room at some point. I could just use the same workshop again.
Thanks for all your support.
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Date: 2012-10-31 01:43 pm (UTC)(And no, I quite understand about you wanting to go for a fly on your own. Being up on the tower by myself is my version - I stayed up quite a bit past class last night to clear my head.)
And certainly, if you want to keep using that workshop, I'll leave the warding set for you. Not a problem.
I'm sure tonight will be wonderful, too - I think we could all use a bit of a celebration.
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Date: 2012-10-30 06:08 pm (UTC)Private Message to Cedric
Date: 2012-10-30 07:26 pm (UTC)The people in our House are really pleased, from what I've heard so far.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the upper years will come up with for their masks tomorrow.
Nicely done. And just think, we didn't have to explode any spiders.
And
If you need more money, you know, to make up the difference, just let me and Pansy know.
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Date: 2012-10-30 07:56 pm (UTC)I don't think Professor Vector has us on the hook for costs, but we'll she what she says after the donations and looking at supplies whenever she has them checked.
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Date: 2012-10-30 08:52 pm (UTC)We have been putting a lot of work in lately.
I bet it'll be nice to just have fun tomorrow. Maybe that'll help.
You are having fun tomorrow, right? I mean, I know, Head Boy and all, but even you lot get to have fun now and again.
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Date: 2012-10-31 01:48 am (UTC)