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Tomorrow's Appeal Chapter 2

Wednesday, June 5th The Burrow “All right, Hermione,” Molly said as the young woman emerged out of her fireplace, “I think you better be telling me just what’s going on before Josie and Alice arrive.” “I don’t know what you mean.” “Don’t play coy with me, Missy,” Molly huffed, waving a spoon in her direction. “I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here, since when have you leave to rent out Craig Mhor?” “There isn’t much to tell.” She moved around and snagged a warm roll from the counter beside Molly. “I wrote to him, apprising him of the situation and he offered. You know how he is about these things.” “Get out of that,” Molly snapped, slapping at her hand with the spoon. “I swear you’re getting to be as bad as Ron.” Hermione grinned cheekily at Molly as she plopped a bite into her mouth. “Is he coming home then?” she asked, pushing the butter towards Hermione. “No,” Hermione sighed, leaning against the counter, “he’s not coming home just yet.” “Do you really think it’s wise t

Tomorrow's Appeal Chapter 1

Monday, June 3rd Hermione Granger’s Office Josie shifted in her seat, crossing her legs as she watched the brown haired woman seated at the desk look over the documents she had brought. This was the last place she wanted to be, begging for help from a friend because she didn’t understand the intricacies of the wizarding world, but the owl on Friday, after Neville’s funeral, had caught her off guard. “Hermione, can they get away with this?” Her voice sounded rusty and disused to her own ears. “Neville’s family is citing a few antiquated magical hereditary and matrimonial laws,” Hermione sighed, sitting back in her chair. “Unfortunately, the law regarding the legitimacy of your marriage is one that hasn’t been overwritten or repealed, though it is rarely used these days.” “So they can just claim that Neville and I weren’t married, and take everything, including Alice, away from me?” Josie asked, twisting her purse strap around her fingers in a nervous gesture. “Technically no, at lea

The Name Game

There are 20 letters in your name.Those 20 letters total to 91There are 8 vowels and 12 consonants in your name. Your number is: 1 The characteristics of #1 are: Initiating action, pioneering, leading, independent, attaining, individual. The expression or destiny for #1:A number 1 Expression denotes the skilled executive with keen administrative capabilities. You must develop the capacity to be a fine leader, sales executive, or promoter. You have the tools to become an original person with a creative approach to problem solving, and a penchant for initiating action. Someone may have to follow behind you to handle the details, but you know how to get things going and make things happen. You have a good mind and the ability to use it for your advancement. Because of these factors, you have much potential for achievement and financial rewards. Frequently, this expression belongs to one running a business or striving to achieve a level of accomplishment on ones talents and efforts. You ha
You entered: 4/24/1974 You were born on a Wednesday under the astrological sign Taurus. Your Life path number is 4. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2442161.5. The golden number for 1974 is 18. The epact number for 1974 is 6. The year 1974 was not a leap year. As of 5/16/2005 7:01:09 PM CDT You are 31 years old. You are 373 months old. You are 1,621 weeks old. You are 11,345 days old. You are 272,299 hours old. You are 16,337,941 minutes old. You are 980,276,469 seconds old. There are 343 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 32 candles on it. Those 32 candles produce 32 BTU's, or 8,064 calories of heat (that's only 8.0640 food calories!) . You can boil 3.66 US ounces of water with that many candles. There are 223 days till Christmas 2005! The moon's phase on the day you were born was waxing crescent. Golden Number: A number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having formerly been wr
Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc. Explanation of the Results: This type of personality test uses four indexes of personality and the combination of the four is your personality type. The first index relates to how you interact with other people and can be Extroverted (E), meaning you're more outgoing or Introverted (I), meaning you keep more to yourself. The second relates to how you make decisions; whether you're Intuitive (N), getting answers from within, or you rely on Sensing (S) information from your surroundings, using your five senses. The third relates to whether you're more emotional and Feeling (F) or rational and Thinking (T). The fourth relates to whether you prefer things to be organized, meaning you're Judging (J), or you prefer things to be more unbound, meaning you're Perceiving (P). For more information about real, scientific personality typing, visit the Kiersey Temperament and Character Website . Well I suppose I should be gra

Tomorrow's Appeal

Prologue Friday, May 10th Josie Longbottom watched as her daughter climbed into bed, clutching a tattered teddy bear. She bent down to place a kiss on her daughter Alice’s forehead, smoothing back the unruly bangs that kept obscuring her dainty face. “Mummy, when will Daddy be home?” “I’m not sure precious,” she replied, sitting on the corner of Alice’s bed, “you must remember he is away doing important work.” “Saving the rain forest,” the child said sagely. “Yes, Love, saving the rain forest. He’ll be home before you realize it.” “But Mummy, I miss him so.” “I know you do, I miss him too. You know what? I bet he misses us just as much.” She pulled her daughter into a hug. “I’ve got an idea; why don’t you draw him a picture, something that shows what we are doing while waiting for him to return, and I will post it to him. That way, when he misses us he will have a picture of us.” “Oh Mummy, that is brilliant!” ~~~oOo~~~oOo~~~oOo~~~ Wednesday, May 22rd Josie was in the middle of her fir

An Unconventional Moment Chapter 3

She is naked when I step into the room, her body highlighted by the silver glow of the moon. I had followed the instructions left by her paid paramour; he was quite willing to divulge everything for the right amount of gold crossing his palms. She is expecting someone dressed up as me, and I take advantage of the fact that she doesn’t know it is truly me. “You’re early,” she whispers as my mouth kisses her shoulder. I make to pull away, but she grabs my hand. “No, it’s all right,” she sighs out, pulling my arms around her. My mind wanders to how I came to be here, in this strange hotel room with an ex-student, now colleague, in the middle of this carefully crafted plot of revenge. I don’t recall when I noticed this odd little idiosyncrasy of staring at me that the Granger girl has developed; it wasn’t something she exhibited as a child. It started with my fingers, or rather with her apparent fascination with them. Did she really think I wouldn’t notice the way she stared at my fi

The Tower of Roses

The time Before is not something she remembers, at least not consciously. It’s just a tickling in the back of her brain, a half-hidden memory that only surfaces in disjointed patterns. Before being the time before she was locked within this dusty tower looking out across the sea of sand. Every so often, she thinks she can see green in the distance, but knows it is just her brain creating something out of nothing, for her tower is in the middle of the desert, and the sand stretches as far as the eye can see. Inside, however, is another story. She grows roses out of death, using bleached skulls as holding pots, creating life from the ashes of someone long gone. It is not an easy task, coaxing something so delicate from dry, craggy ground, but she has more than enough time to entice the colorful buds. If she knew the fleshy version of those white, gleaming skulls she used as flowering pots, once upon a time, that knowledge has gone the way of hazy recollections. She has taught herself
God I am soooo bored Your Geek Profile: SciFi Geekiness: Highest Academic Geekiness: High Gamer Geekiness: High Movie Geekiness: High Music Geekiness: High Fashion Geekiness: Moderate Geekiness in Love: Moderate Internet Geekiness: Moderate General Geekiness: Low How Geeky Are You?
Your #1 Match: INFP The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. Your #2 Match: INTP The Thinker You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. Your #3 Match: ISFP The Artist You are a gifted artist or musician (though your talents may be dormant right now). You enjoy spending your free time in nature, and
Your Taste in Music: 90's Alternative: Highest Influence 80's Alternative: High Influence 80's Pop: High Influence 80's Rock: High Influence 90's Hip Hop: High Influence 90's Pop: High Influence 90's Rock: High Influence Adult Alternative: High Influence Classic Rock: High Influence Hair Bands: High Influence Heavy Metal: High Influence 80's R&B: Medium Influence Alternative Rock: Medium Influence Progressive Rock: Medium Influence 90's R&B: Low Influence Old School Hip Hop: Low Influence Punk: Low Influence R&B: Low Influence How's Your Taste in Music?
Your Birthdate: April 24 Born on the 24th, you have a greater capacity for responsibility and helping others than your may have realized. You may also become the mediator and peacemaker in inharmonious situations. Devoted to family, you tend to manage and protect. This birth date adds to the emotional nature and perhaps to the sensitivities. Affections are important to you; both the giving and the receiving. What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
Gacked from Marianne on livejournal. Your Life Path Number Is 4 4 You are the most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals; the cornerstone members of society. The goal of your life path is learning to take orders and to carry them out with dedication and perseverance. You always demand as much from yourself as you do from others, and sometimes a lot more. You have the kind of will power that is often mistaken for sheer stubbornness. Once a decision is made, it will be followed through to the conclusion, right, wrong, or indifferent. You are very set in your ways and determined to handle things the way you are so certain that they should be handled. Your tenacity of purpose and ability to get the job done borders on obsession. You are an excellent organizer and planner because of your innate ability to view things in a very common sense and practical way. You are a wonderful manager with a great sense of how to get the job done. Loyal and devoted, you make the b
it is always the pain that returns little twists of the knife sinking into the edge of oblivion harsh bright metallic like the taste of lips screaming he never remembers the good scars crisscrossing the insides sensuous snakes etched across pale white following the rivers of soft blue does it never stop this aching need this driving hunger that makes sleep an elusive dark phantom too dangerous to indulge in

Pyre

poised on the edge of something indefinable with rushing torrents of immutable anger my lips are crushed elderberries seeking to kiss your soul sip this hellebore laced brew my joy a sin in the brevity of the moment though I shall miss your whispered words when my sacrifices is done my anger assuaged by the damage wroth my skin will bleed for I will honor you in the old ways in a dancing pyre of smoking flesh
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Template change

Y'all have probably noticed my updated look here at blogger. I have to give credit where credit is due. The art work is from some fantastic artist onDeviant art, the links to each individual artist's page are at the bottom of this blogger in the credits. The blog skin itself was designed by kidteenager11 over at blogskins.com, and he/she did a wonderful job getting the right sort of feel I was looking for, including ferretting out the artwork. So I wanted to give a big huza to Firefly_wp, ildi, and Makani for the artwork, and Kidteenager for all of this.