Round Three - The Magic Box, Collaborative Fan Fiction Options

[evlpez]

A Magic Box has been left on the head table in the Great Hall. One by one, characters pick up the box, speculate on its contents and leave it in another location. It's clearly marked "Wizard's Box", so we know the space inside is magical and could hold just about anything. None of the characters who find the box can open it, though they will each try more than once. No charm or key works, so we never really find out what it holds inside.

• Describe finding the box in the location in which it was left in the previous post.
  
  
• What does the character(s) think or hope is inside?
  
  
• How does he/she try to open it? (Try a couple of new attempts beyond the easy choices.)
  
  
• Give the box away or leave it somewhere for another character(s) to find.

Each submission in this challenge must follow the previous one, so that all of them together make one continuing story. Please do not end your submission in such a way that it is impossible for another writer to find the Magic Box and continue the story.

All submissions must have a unique title and be posted in this topic



Note to ferrets: Remember that you are writing fan fiction as though you are the Floo-Between user you've chosen. This means that if you've chosen Snape, you are writing as though Snape is writing fan fiction, not as though he is a part of the story. Each character may write as many submissions as they wish for this challenge, as long as each submission is significantly different from their others. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday December 1st.

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Do not edit your submissions for this challenge once they are posted in the Forum.

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When rating submissions, please use the following score card to guide you:

Score Card

__ Ferret Points for following the mission
__ Ferret Points for technical (grammar, spelling are consistent with the author's character)
__ Ferret Points for overall creativity
__ Ferret Points for characterization
__ Ferret Points for adherence to canon
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Total out of 10 maximum Ferret Points

0 = Poor, 1 = Okay/good, 2 = Great

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[Azkabella]

LadyLioness

Wicked Witch
Floo Ferret


"Hello! Is Anyone in there?"

Luna Lovegood opened to door to the Room of Requirement, surprised to find no one inside.

"Hello?" she said. Maybe they were practicing invisibility. Or maybe it was a joke. Were they playing a joke on her? She gazed around the room with her bulging eyes, wondering if she could somehow see through things like Moody could with his magical eyeball.

Luna looked down at the "galleon" in her pocket to discover that she'd read the date wrong. The D.A. meeting was tomorrow. Luna looked around the room. While she was there, she might as well have a look. She never got to look at the books on the shelves up close. Maybe one of them had information on the elusive Double-Beaked Platybeast. As she approached the bookshelves, Luna noticed an object sitting on the table where the pillows used during stunning exercises were kept. It was a small, chest-like box. It seemed to be very old.

"Hmm," said Luna dreamily. She noticed some words "Wizard's Box" etched on top. Wizard's Box? Is there a wizard in there? She'd read something about a group of wizards who had been close to discovering a secret colony of Crabblepatches being locked into a chest to prevent the discovery.

Luna held the box up to her ear and shook it disinterestedly. She couldn't hear anything. She held it in front of her and shook it some more. "Hello!" she called. "Hello! Is anyone in there?"

No response. If anyone was in there, their voices were too quiet for her to hear. Maybe if she opened it she could free them. Luna placed the box on one of the bookshelves. "Alohamora!" Nothing. "Diffindo!" The box shook a bit, but nothing opened. "I guess I'm not supposed to open it. Maybe I should take it to Hermione, she knows a lot about unlocking magical things. Everything, really."

Picking up the box she walked out of the Room of Requirement and soon found herself in front of the portrait of the lady in the pink dress. Hermione said something about doing her homework in the Gryffindor common room after dinner.

"Password?" asked the fat lady, looking down her thin, painted nose at Luna.

"I don't know the password. I need to talk to Hermione."

"I can't let you in without a password," she replied in annoyance.

Luna stared at the portrait. "Could you tell her that I'm here?"

"I'm not a messenger, young lady, I am an entrance guardian. No password, no entrance."

Luna sighed disinterestedly. She placed the box on the floor beside the portrait. "Tell her Luna left this for her when she comes out."

The fat lady simply glared at Luna in response as she walked towards the Ravenclaw common room. Luna thought about sending an owl to her father to ask about magical boxes. She could research earlier editions of the Quibbler so she could find a way to open it. Poor wizards. They must’ve been stuck in that box for five years.



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