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.

The Voting Booth for Round 3 will open on Sunday, November 14th. Click this text to go there.

Posts which are not prefaced by the Character Form will be deleted.

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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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[chad13]

num1chudleyfan

wizard in training
Floo Ferret


RON, HERO AT HOGWARTS

Neville bolted down the corridor, as usual he was late for something, in this case a meeting of the DA. Quite out of breath he slowed as he reached the door, or where a door should be. Neville groaned as, much like the passwords to Gryffindor tower, he'd forgotten exactly how to enter the room of requirements. "Oh," Neville said miserably. With a look of forced concentration on his face Neville stood for a moment before remembering, "I have to walk!" So pleased with his sudden and uncharacteristic genius Neville began an almost mini sprint. It took less than a second however, for Neville to find himself sprawled face first on the floor and not understand exactly why.

Turning over and staring directly at his over sized shoes Neville caught sight of a box, or chest of some sort. He reached forward to pick it up before quickly pulling back his hands. It was never wise to pick up, touch, eat, or in any other way disturb a strange object. Neville knew this from experience, although it had taken quite a bit of experience to tell you the truth. The box looked harmless on the floor and Neville blinked at it.

Pulling out his wand, and standing quite a few steps away Neville aimed at the bow, "Alohamora!" he squeaked. The box thudded, but did not open. Neville jumped, not sure exactly what he was doing, as he really was quite afraid of the box. Something about it
made him uneasy, but Neville was really quite a bit of a scardy cat by nature. Neville quickly began to try and think of some more spells that could pop the lid but none came to him. Putting his wand back into his pocket Neville decided his lack of knowledge was for the best. At the very least the box must contain some sort of trick for him, everyone found it quite easy to trick Neville, and that's because it was.

A sudden pounding reached Neville's ears as a head of fiery red hair came into view. "Neville!"

"Ron?" Neville mumbled with surprise.

"Move Neville!"

"What?" At that moment Ron was upon him, and grabbing him by the collar swung him around a corner just as a few more pairs of feet sounded.

"Where is that no good Weasel king! I'll get him for this! Embarrassing me and my father in front of the entire school, wait till I get my hands on him!" The pounding faded after a moment and Ron let out a breath and a snort of laughter.

"You should have been there Neville! Malfoy's never been so red in his entire life! You could see steam coming right out of his ears!" Ron continued to laugh as Neville stared at him with admiration. Not only had Ron embarrassed Malfoy, the slime of humanity, in front of the entire school, he'd saved Neville's hide from an almost certain beat down. Neville, like so many other non Slytherins at the moment, was so proud of Ron he forgot all about the strange box; and it was probably for the best since it had now disappeared.


R.A.T.S Ron against tap dancing spiders