Round Three - The Magic Box, Collaborative Fan Fiction Options

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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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[Amunet]

LoonyRavenclaw

Nargle Believer
Floo Ferret



A Doxy Venom Reunion

Ronald Weasley hated having detention with Snape. He had to dissect Doxies and then mix the insides of the Pixies with very foul smelling ingredients such as bat spleens and essence of Flobberworm. Detention Ronald could handle, but the odor was absolutely horrid.

When the Professor quickly exited his office, leaving young Ronald in the Potions classroom all by himself, Ronald was slightly puzzled.

“He’s probably going to a meeting with Dumbledore,” Ronald sighed, then added grimly, ”or had a sudden urge to take points away from Gryffindor.”

Bored and disgusted with his task before him, Ronald began to wonder what interesting things Snape hid in the secret drawers of his desk. Quickly and quietly he snuck inside the Professor’s “lair”. Immediately, he spotted a small metal-looking box atop the desk. Cautiously, the attractive-looking redhead rushed over and picked up the unusual object.

“Wizard’s Box,” he read out loud, “This again? Maybe I can get it open this time."

Startled by his own voice, Ronald looked up and figured that he’d be in more trouble if Snape found him snooping around his office than if he found him inspecting something at the cauldron in the classroom. Back at his cauldron young Ronald began puzzling over this oddly intriguing box.

First, Ronald tried simply opening it … with no luck. He scratched his head with his wand, then remembered the spell Hermione tried to use on a locked door in the Ministry of Magic last year.

“Alohomora,” he whispered as he pointed his wand at the box. This also had no effect on the metallic box.

Still puzzling, Ronald had a stroke of genius. He figured it was a powerful box, so he decided to do the most powerful thing he could think of to open it: Picking up a dissected Doxy’s head, he opened the mouth and ran the open mouth along the crease of the box. Ronald figured the Doxy venom would open anything, but not even Doxy venom had any effect. Getting frustrated with not being able to see what was inside, Ronald threw the box. It clattered against the stone floor.

Soon the freckled face boy realized that the box would not open no matter how many times he threw it down. He sat the box on his table and pointed his wand at it in frustration.

“Bloody hell, open!” Not surprisingly, the box did not respond.

Just as Ronald was about to hit the box with his wand he heard footsteps outside the dungeon door. With no time to put the box back in Snape's office and not knowing what else to do, he dropped it into a nearby cauldron.

“Weasley, you’re dismissed,” Snape ordered sharply, then swooped into his office, slamming the door behind him.

Ronald may be immature at times, but he’s no idiot. He ran quickly out of the Potions classroom before Snape could figure out his odd box was gone. He sure did feel sorry for whoever found the box in that cauldron.



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