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.

When you post, you'll see a button (up by the "code" and "list" buttons) that says "blank character form." If you press that button, the form will appear in your post. Just edit in your character's details and put the body of your text in the middle. If you've chosen not to use a signature for your character, delete that part of the form.

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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[zymurgy]

WalksInDarkness

Dark Ferret


A Librarian's Meager Attempt

The box lay in the Restricted Section, a puddle of dark lake water seeping from it onto the floor. The puddle widened until it lapped at the edges of several Dark Arts texts. This set off the Wards protecting these most valuable books; they all began to screech, emit sparks, and otherwise announce their displeasure.

The librarian, Madam Pince heard the disturbance from her office, and immediately came to investigate the trouble. Seeing the damage, she let out a cry of anger, horror and dismay. The books on her shelves were priceless, and some student had carelessly vandalized, probably irreparably damaged them all.

She cast a quick drying charm on the puddle, and attended to the wounded tomes. Once she had fixed the most of the damage, she turned to the cause: the little box, lying between the shelves.

She took it up, hoping for a clue pointing to the miscreant. “Wizard’s Box,” she said to herself. “Must have been what Severus is missing.”

Curious, she tried to open the box, hoping that it contained the missing card for "Flobberworms who Made History," by Nicholas Flammel. First she tried manually, and gradually with Spells of greater and greater power. Eventually, the woman had to give up her struggle; she was weak, of only half-blood, and therefore no match for this box of the ancients.

With a sigh of frustration, she decided to return it to Severus Snape. He was not in his office, and it was Warded too cleverly for the weak Witch to open, so she left it outside his door, and went on her way.


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