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The Lamentable Library Log
Who: The Ghost Of Lemony Snicket ... AND YOU
What: Certainly not any productive studying, sorry if that's what you came to do...
When: Throughout the weekend
Where: Hogwarts' library, of course!
Rating: U for Unsuitable For Anyone, Ever. Also: Unfortunate.
The children's author E.B. White once wrote in a letter to the children of the town of Troy: "A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your questions answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book".
Unfortunately for the library of Hogwarts, there is one person who is hiding between the stacks of its books, and he has, most assuredly, not managed to stay alive. Anyone who has forgone the weekend trip down to Hogsmeade, or was somehow unable to attend, and finds themselves in the library for any reason or another today, will find themselves not entirely alone.
You may be reading, you may simply be sitting at one of the window seats staring wistfully out and wishing you could be elsewhere ... but somewhere nearby, you may catch the sound of someone weeping.
Or, perhaps, as you're wandering the stacks and attempt to pick a book off the shelf, it refuses to budge, and another book floats out to hover beside you, instead.
Whatever the circumstance, the Library Ghost is with you.
What: Certainly not any productive studying, sorry if that's what you came to do...
When: Throughout the weekend
Where: Hogwarts' library, of course!
Rating: U for Unsuitable For Anyone, Ever. Also: Unfortunate.
The children's author E.B. White once wrote in a letter to the children of the town of Troy: "A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your questions answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book".
Unfortunately for the library of Hogwarts, there is one person who is hiding between the stacks of its books, and he has, most assuredly, not managed to stay alive. Anyone who has forgone the weekend trip down to Hogsmeade, or was somehow unable to attend, and finds themselves in the library for any reason or another today, will find themselves not entirely alone.
You may be reading, you may simply be sitting at one of the window seats staring wistfully out and wishing you could be elsewhere ... but somewhere nearby, you may catch the sound of someone weeping.
Or, perhaps, as you're wandering the stacks and attempt to pick a book off the shelf, it refuses to budge, and another book floats out to hover beside you, instead.
Whatever the circumstance, the Library Ghost is with you.
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Once he could find him, that is. Right now the ghost was searching through the library for the library ghost.]
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[Danny cheerfully runs right through the nearest shelf.]
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Are you still planning on showing up?
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So, once she's sure that is weeping she's hearing, she picks up her notebooks and goes in search of the source of it all.
"Hello...? Is everything all right...?"
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But ahh, it's not good if he's sad... :<
She keeps approaching the floating yearbook]
Um... excuse me...
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I'm sorry, miss, have I disturbed you...?
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Is everything all right, Mr. Ghost...?
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Still, libraries are interesting, and the one here is so very big! He's a little nervous at how easily he's become lost, but that's okay, because look at all the books! Maybe there was a storybook, and magic storybooks have to be interesting, right? Since he's too short to reach anything higher than the first two shelves, that's where he focuses his attention. The book with the glittery gold letters on the spine looks good!
Italy grabs with both hands and tugs, but the book - won't - move!
"Uuuugh! Why aren't you moving, Mister Book? I want to read you!!"
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Oh, you don't want to read that one, most of the endings are far, far too depressing.
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Italy takes a deep breath. "N-n-n-nice to, t-to meet you..."
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That was okay. He liked books. And books liked him. Usually, anyway. The volume he was attempting to extract from the shelves at this exact moment, however, seemed rather determined to stay right where it was despite his best efforts.
He scowled and shook a chastising finger at it. "Don't make me fetch a crowbar. I will, you know."
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[if Howl feels as though he's lived in this world all his life, he'll have known Lemony from his own school years ... the Library ghost has a penchant for trying to deter people from reading the books he doesn't approve of. whoops. it's said that the only way to get him to stop playing literary keep-away is to get him talking about his past ... ... and even then, that's not really the best idea, either]
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[Although he's already mostly given up on the idea. Ah, well. He's not above arguing with a ghost, anyway.]
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The Littlest House Elf is just about the most dreary thing I can think of.
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mostly to get her father's attention.This night, she's got a few hours of studying planned, so she's got her books cracked and a long piece of parchment to get started. Clearly, it's the perfect time to bother her Mr. Ghost!]no subject
I do hope you're not studying anything too unpleasant.
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which could just be her finally cracking under the pressure of being the best wizard there ever was, she decides to go with answering.]Arithmancy.
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H-hello?
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[She looks over at him.]
Are you all right? You sound rather lonely. Can I help?