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The Wizarding World Captain
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 Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:54 pm
 'The Ladies Club of Scarsburough' pushed the vote 42 to 36 in favour of naming the memorial park after the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Severus Snape. Afterwards, everyone agreed anyway that it would have been rather ridiculous to name it 'The Very Long List of People Who Contributed to the War Effort Against the DLV' Memorial park, which received 28 votes, or 'The Guy who threw a rock at the Unnamed Death Eater but May Have just Tripped and Kicked it' Memorial park received 7 votes, and 'The Robert P. Fannyweather' Memorial park received only one vote, by old Robert P. Fannyweather himself, who didn't contribute to the war effort at all and actually had spent the past thirty years hidden one hundred feet below ground in a magical bunker living off of spam, dried peas, and wheat toast.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:09 pm
"You can't catch me!" Godfrey laughed playfully, a small picnic basket tucked under his arm as he ran through the trees and away from his boyfriend, Josh. "I'm going to eat all the marshmallows!"
Sunlight streamed through his pitch black hair as it flew behind him, his legs churning and feet pushing hard against the grass. He may not have been able to maneuver a broom in the air, but on the ground he could fly in a way few could experience.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:20 pm
Josh shook his head, debating whether he felt like running or not. "Don't have to catch you if I can just woo you from afar, do I?" Josh coughed and rubbed at his throat, shrugging it off and chasing after Godfrey anyways. Converse, however, did not make the best running shoes and Godfrey was already so far ahead Josh wasn't sure which direction he had gone.
Josh stopped, leaning against a tree, wanting a cigarette. "Godfrey! Where'd you go?" Josh scrunched up his nose, laughing slightly to himself. ******** was fast.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:30 pm
"Here." Godfrey dropped down from above and right behind Josh, having been hanging by his knees from a thin limb, face red from exertion and a big grin spread across his face. Living on several dozen acres of forest had honed his tree climbing skills very well- but it was quite possible he had inherited some dexterity from Harry, who had spent many an hour stuck up in trees as a youth.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:35 pm
"Christ." Josh looked at Godfrey and took a deep breath. "Scared me. Thought you were a fox, not a monkey." Josh punched Godfrey lightly in the arm, smiling. He snatched at the picnic basket before Godfrey could run away again. "Here seems like a good spot." He clung to the basket, handing the very cliche checkered blanket off to Godfrey to set down.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:46 pm
Godfrey laughed, watching Josh walk away with the basket for a few momentes before sprinting to catch up and taking the offered blanket from him.
"Looks great!" Godfrey was rather full of energy today, wanting nothing more than to run around and get into mischief. He took the blanket and quickly unfolded it, draping it over his head and running around Josh and a nearby tree, laughing to himself before taking a tumble to the ground on purpose. He rolled around with the blanket for a moment before coming up victorious, sitting partially on the wrinkled and crumpled fabric, hair falling all around his face and tangled together, though you could still make out the grin on his face.
"How about that?" He asked, leaning back on his hands, grass crumpling and pressing against his palms. "You can sit... right... here."
He patted his crossed legs and shook his head, getting most of the hair out of his eyes.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:51 pm
"You're a little crazy, you know that?" Josh rolled his eyes a bit, grinning. He liked when Godfrey was like this, not serious and intent on studying or anything else. Not many people could just enjoy a day like Godfrey could. That carefree spirit would change soon enough, that much was sure, but for now Josh had it all his own.
Josh knelt down, setting the basket on the grass next to him and tugging at the blanket to straighten it out, tugging Godfrey slightly along with it. He clambered onto the free blanket space before Godfrey could claim it, pulling the picnic basket with him. "What'dja make me anyways?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:09 pm
Godfrey giggled as he was dragged, flopping against Josh the moment he was seated and reaching over Josh for the basket. He dug his hand inside pulling out a long, flat glass container.
"Lots of stuff, of course." Godfrey settled his free hand on top of Josh's thigh and set the container next to it, opening it with one hand. Inside were several types of what had been sandwich wraps, made with fresh tortillas in a few different colours and stuffed with various combinations of things before being sliced into finger friendly, bite-sized pieces. "These, some homemade chips, stuff for s'mores, homemade pickles, drinks.....here, try one!"
Godfrey picked up an orange and green piece between his fingers and raised it to Josh's face. "Open your mouth, I promise you'll love it."
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:24 pm
"of course." Josh grinned wider, excited about the prospect of Godfrey's cooking and acutely aware of the warmth of Godfrey's hand on his leg. Always so warm. Josh was about to open his mouth when the loud sound of lyrics punctuated the previous tranquility of the park. The Used screamed, "look at me, you can tell, by the way I move and do my hair, do you think it's me or not me..." before Josh remembered he had the phone, taking it out of his pocket before it could scream any further. It was really loud.
"Eh, Reg gave me a phone yesterday. Didn't tell you yet but I just like, happened upon him walkin' the streets while you were gone or whatever... anyway, s'pretty cool. We had coffee and s**t..." Josh squinted at the lit-up screen, frowning.
"Oy, Joshie. Read the Daily Prophet tomorrow, yeah? I'm gonna be on the front page. Auditions might not be as early as I want, btw. We'll see. Maybe I'll catch ya around again soon? Love, Reg"
Josh held out the phone to Godfrey, lifting a brow. "Hope he's okay... weird."
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:36 pm
Godfrey was so startled by the loud music he almost dropped the food. As it was he barely caught it in his hand, squishing it between his fingers in the process. Shrugging, he shoved it in his own mouth, peering curiously at the phone while chewing. Mmmm... bacon, spinach, and sweet potato..... wait-
"When'd you- oh! Cool!" Godfrey grinned, he rather admired the short singer and his band himself, and it usually took him a lot to get all star-struck. "Oh! It'll be much easier to talk to him since he lives in the muggle world...... "
Godfrey picked another piece of food from the tray and put it in his mouth, the delicious taste of spicy cabbage and pickled radishes dancing across his taste buds. When Josh held out the phone to him he leaned over and squinted at the words, reading them quickly and frowning.
"Front page? That doesn't sound good at all, the prophet's full of crap and never anything good." Godfrey swallowed the food, staring at the last two words for a few moments longer before shrugging, indicating he had no idea what could be wrong. "You want to call someone to see what's happened?"
Reg called him Lovey on the first day they met, after all. No big deal.
"He's pretty resilient though, you can tell that even if you haven't read the things about him in the books." Didn't mean he and Josh couldn't be worried, however.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:51 pm
"Yeah, it was really... really crazy, yeah. He was pretty messed up, got in a fight or something apparently. Dunno, not like I know much about him yet. Prolly gets into trouble all the time from what I've seen so far.... sucks though. Wanted to go to that audition and all. Got time I guess. Think I should text him back?" Josh pondered, but snapped the phone closed and set it on the blanket besides him.
Josh peeked over into the picnic basket, then laughed a bit and opened his mouth wide like a baby bird.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:03 pm
Godfrey frowned thoughtfully at the phone, contemplative. "Well.. he did tell you just to look at the paper tomorrow, so maybe it's not so bad. Whatever's going on though I doubt he's going to get your text."
Godfrey watched Josh close the phone, staring at it a few moments longer before shaking off the sudden, melancholy-feeling mood. "Maybe he got in trouble for streaking down the street in front of a bunch of girl scouts or something."
Actually that kind of sounded like fun. Thinking of the singer doing something like that was kind of funny too, though it was difficult to get the image of him covered in bruises and scratches- as Godfrey was imagining- out of his head.
"Text him later, if he gets it I'm sure it'll make him happy to hear from you." Godfrey picked up another spinach, bacon, and sweet potato piece from the glass pan, lifting it up in the air and setting it in Josh's open mouth.
"Dork." He said to Josh, baring his pearly whites in another wide grin.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:05 am
Josh chewed thoughtfully. It was delicious, and of course it would be, since Godfrey made it. "Yeah, I'll just text him later. Not like he needs my help, made it this far without me so far, afterall." Josh coughed again, shaking it off and scratching at his neck.
"My dorkiness is one of my finer attributes." Josh rubbed at one of his eyes, then remembered he had put on black eyeliner and stopped himself before completely messing it up. His fingertips came away only slightly blackened.
"Love it when you make me food, 'Frey. This place is awesome, how come we never been here before?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:22 am
"Sorry about the audition though." Being in a band would be a lot of responsibility, but maybe Reg wouldn't need Josh full time. Godfrey figured Josh could balance school and being in a band at the same time, if he really put his mind to it. He could also help Josh study more as well, once he'd fully caught up on his own studies.
Godfrey, of course, doubted Josh wouldn't pass the audition. He was awesome and already seemed to be making friends with Reg.
At the compliment Godfrey blushed, squeezing Josh's leg. "I like watching you eat it."
He moved the pan to his own lap and laid back on the blanket, putting his free hand behind his head. It felt really nice to just lay down and relax, to stretch out his sore muscles and let his mind wander free of schoolwork and responsibilities. "Too busy, I guess. This town's sort of weird, you kind of need a whole day just to explore it."
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:37 am
"Yeah. Been a weird sorta busy couple of weeks, huh?" Josh looked down at Godfrey, snatching one of the tortilla things and popping it in his mouth. Normally he didn't go for such things, but his taste-bud horizons had expanded since coming to Hogwarts. There were too many weird delicious things out there.
"Hey, you have a cellphone, too? I can put your number in here and text you dirty things during class and s**t. Actually... Hogwarts classrooms have that weird like, technology... like shuts it off or whatever, don't they?" Josh recalled hearing something about it before. "Well still, in the halls and stuff. Plus when we're away from eachother... dunno." Josh stared down at Godfrey before sitting up and placing his butt on Godfrey's stomach. "Godfrey, world's most comfortable stomach."
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