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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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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[Merman]

Ekeltricity

Ministry Worker
Floor Ferret


Ronald’s Sword Skills

Ronald Weasley, a strapping young lad, stood in the great entrance hall of Hogwarts after coming to investigate a noise he had heard while patrolling as part of his Prefect duties. Finding nothing other than a box lying in the middle of the hall, he went over and picked it up. Ronald didn't immediately open it up; instead he looked over the box and found the words "Wizard's Box" etched on top.

""Wizard's Box"!" Ronald whispered to himself, "maybe there's something in which could help the Side of Light!"

He quietly hid the box in his cloak, and went on with his rounds. When he finally reached his dorm, he first examined the box for curses, with the Revelatio spell. Only when he was sure it was free of Dark Influence, did he attempt to open it.

The box wouldn’t open, no matter how hard Ronald tried to pry the lid open. He struggled with it bootlessly for several minutes, knowing that some items could be damaged by magic. However, when it was plain that it could not be opened, and there was no keyhole or latch to be seen, he went for his wand. “Alohamora.”

This charm did not work, however, and he was loath to try a more powerful one, as it could damage the contents of the box. Ronald went over to the nearest suit of armor and grabbed a sword. Placing the box on the ground he raised the sword above his head and brought it down with all his might and main, hoping against hope that he wouldn’t damage the contents when the box smashed.

The box did not, however, smash. Instead, the sword received an incredibly ugly nick. Ronald grimaced and handed the sword back to the suit of armor, which took it grudgingly, before leaving muttering about seeing the caretaker about sword thieving hooligans.

Ronald at this point decided that he could not, in deed, open the box on his own. “I’ll have to bring it to a teacher,” he thought to himself, “one I can trust.”

Knowing that it was after curfew, and that even Prefects could lose points for this, he dashed through the halls to the nearest teacher: Madam Pomfrey. He knew where her quarters were, having had to bring her to the infirmary many a time on account of his friends.

“Madam,” he said politely, once she’d answered his timid knock, “I found something in the great hall, and I don’t know what it is. It could be dangerous, but it could also greatly aid our cause. I didn’t want to leave it in the dorm, and I couldn’t take it to anybody else since it’s already after curfew and…”

“I’ll take care of it,” she assured him, taking the box. “Leave all to me.”

Ronald returned hot foot to his dorm, with a great feeling of accomplishment.


I nearly killed myself with a toaster, and all I got was this lousy siggy.