imperturbatus | EVENT: Valentine's Dance! February 13th

Dinner in the great hall was not only early, but fairly short. Everyone had to be out of the hall by six so that preparations for the party could be made, and when everyone was allowed back in at the start of the party it had transformed entirely.

The large tables normally used for meals now lined two sides of the great hall, holding a great variety of finger foods, drinks, and desserts that would continuously refill throughout the night. The ceiling above still reflected the night sky, but along its edges and throughout the walls were balloons, ribbons, and flowers of vast variety, with the most numerous of the flowers being white, pink, and red roses. All of of the flowers seemed to be emitting just enough light to effectively illuminate the Great Hall, giving it a - for lack of better term - rosey feel. At one corner near where the staff table normally stood was a group of string instruments, charmed into playing a selection of classical dance music as soon as the first students not involved with set-up stepped into the hall.

That was when Tamaki Suoh, a sixth year student and primary organizer of the dance, appeared at the front of the hall, smiling wide and dressed in an ivory-white tuxedo. He waved his wand briefly before he spoke, his voice magically projected with a charm so that he could be heard above any din that might happen with everyone's arrival.

"Welcome, everyone! I'm pleased to present you with our Hogwarts Valentine's Dance, and I hope you enjoy your time here tonight! Feel free to eat, drink, dance, and be merry in a break from studies and winter cold! Also keep in mind the Dance King and Queen contest, which can be anonymously voted for by you, the students, for the final spotlight dance at midnight tonight, as well as a prize of house points to the winners! Now, let the party begin!"

Prompt 1: Desserts, Drinks, and Wallflowers
Perhaps you're taking a break, enjoying the spread, and watching the other students dancing at various paces in different styles on the floor. Maybe you don't intend to go out onto the floor at all, because the chairs at the sides of the hall are just too comfortable or because you don't want to look like that idiot on the left. You know the one. Either way, congregating at the hors d'oeuvres can be a perfectly acceptable way to pass the night.

Prompt 2: Shut up and Dance
It is a dance party, after all! Grab a partner, whether it's ballroom dancing or just doing your own thing! Granted, the latter might get you some funny looks, but who cares as long as you're having fun? The smell of flowers is quite invigorating, the stars of the enchanted ceiling are above, and there's nothing more important than you and whoever your partner is, whether you know them intimately or have only met them for the first time tonight.

Prompt 3: A Breath of Fresh Air
Maybe the party is a little overwhelming, and you need to step away further from the hall than just sitting near the walls. Although no one is really supposed to leave the dance area for an extended period, who will know if you decide to use the loo as an excuse to get away for a few minutes? Maybe you just want to be somewhere more private, either by yourself or with someone else. Be careful not to get caught though, or it might be detention for you!

Prompt 4: "Love" is in the air?
Uh oh! We have no idea who, but someone seems to have spiked one of the punch bowls with a love potion! This potion is scentless and tasteless, and because the punch bowl is huge (and ever refilling) the effects are, thankfully, greatly weakened in comparison to a normal love potion. This little bit of mischief might result in some of the student body (or even some of the faculty) being a little more openly affectionate than usual with the first person they meet for the night, so a little bit of caution might be necessary. At least it's not at full potency!

Prompt 5: A moment in time that lasts forever!
A professional photographer has been hired to take pictures of students throughout the night! Although it might not be the last memory of the school year, it could be a night you want to cherish forever even if it’s just in a photograph! Is a photo an embarrassing moment or a precious time captured on a special slip of paper?

Prompt 6: Write your own Love Story!
Come up with your own prompts and have a ball AT the ball!

OoC: A note, there will be separate threads for Dance King/Queen contest sign-ups, as well as a contest for best-dressed and an attendance register that will be used to award a door prize drawn by lottery! The prizes are as follows; 50 House Points to 1st place, 25 to 2nd place, and 10 to 3rd place in their respective contests, and a 20 galleon gift receipt for Honeydukes (courtesy of Tamaki pulling some strings with the owner) as a door prize!

There will be a thread below for students to vote on Dance King/Queen, and the best dressed will be decided by members of staff specifically. RNG will be used to determine the door prize. Alright, have fun guys!

A NOTE ABOUT DANCE KING/QUEEN: Although the titles are gendered, who can be entered into each category is not! A boy can be the queen, a girl can be the king, and any combination can happen. The only limitation is that there will be two winners selected from the entrants in the contest!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Not really. The only limits, are the limits you put up yourself.

[Sano answers after a moment of thoughtful silence and gives the girl a smile.]

If anything happened, it wouldn’t really matter if I was on the floor, or leaning on a wall. I’d notice and react to it either way. Besides, nothing earth-shattering will happen. Everyone is enjoying themselves, no one here wants to spoil it. And I’m not the only teacher around.

Your being a little too optimistic into thinking no one wouldn't want a ruin a party.

[She was pretty sure plenty would want to. She's had a good few ruined by stupid people after all.]

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[He chuckles, as she says that. He’s not naive enough to think that troublemakers didn’t exist, he just doesn’t think they got a reason enough to be present at this party. And before they’d arrive at the dance floor, or somewhere where they could cause noteworthy trouble, they’d be caught. There’s more than enough astute and responsible people present on the ball.]

The party isn’t mandatory and usually those kind of people tend to avoid these things, if they’re not mandatory. Half of the student body isn’t even present. And if someone like that appears, all teachers present would know the moment they’d pass the door. Trust me, we got our black sheeps down and counted.

[He gives her a reassuring smile and nods towards the floor, where the people are dancing to an energetic fox trott this time.]

You can drop your worries and freely amuse yourself, young lady. It’s all gonna be fine.

[She didn't have much worries, she just assumed it was a thing that would happen either way. But now that she was certain she smiled.]

Very well, I will happily try and enjoy myself a little more. After all it is a party and it wouldn't be lady like to sit around and be by myself and I am sure the ladies would love to have a dance with you.

[She had her opera glasses out as she looked through them for the moment.]

Just by looking at you I can tell you might be popular with the ladies. Not my type though, but still.

That’s right!

[He manages to say, before getting struck speechless for a moment. Did she just… Did she… Oh Merlin’s busted balls! Sano’s throwing his head back, laughing out loudly. Kids these days had a lot of cheek, didn’t they?]

Got some spunk in you, ain’t you?! I like that!

[He grins. This is bad, though. He can’t just let a sixteen year old girl trump him, can he?]

But I have to disappoint you, little miss.

[Leaning in, close enough so that his breath is tickling her ear as he speaks, whispeing.]

You’re a little late. My heart is already taken and the lady doesn’t tolerate competition, especially not one as lovely as you.

[Two could play this game. Cheek or not, the kid is ten years too early to outsmart Harada Sanosuke. And it’s far, far too early for her to play the adults game, which he hopes to remind her of.]

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Yeah I don't see you in that way, so you didn't need to say that to me. Say it to the girls I'm sure think your hot stuff.

[She looked over slightly, watching other people for a brief moment.]

[Not that easy to throw her off, huh? Well, that’s a surprising, since usually when he does something like that, it provokes a shriek, a stutter and a blush so hot it could light the lustres of the entire Great Hall. But still, he has to wonder, if people really think of him he’d be able to hop into the sheets with a student just for fun. He needed to evaluate his image. And she needed to learn how to talk to a teacher.]

That goes both ways, really. I’m not interested in kids. If you think you have a sort of appeal to make a teacher interested in you, enough to be worried he’d go for you, you’re wrong. The brooms in the shed need to be defrosted again. I wonder if that would be a suitable detention for you.

[Nothing against cheek, but 16 was too young to be this arrogant. Maybe a Saturday afternoon spent with work would make her act a little less mighty, though for now it’s just a warning. He’s having a good time and he doesn’t want to ruin her’s eíther, but if she doesn’t change her tone, he’ll make her do it.]

I don't have that interest at all, if you thought that way then... well not much to say about that really.

[No she has her own interest and that mostly involved her favourite fandoms for the most part.]

Brooms that need to be defrosted aren't being well taken care of then.

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