FIC: Xerosis -- Chapter Nine, Part Two -- T -- Voldemort/Harry

[batsutousai]

Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Chapter Nine, Part One


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Harry and his friends crept back into the school just as the clock ticked over to one in the morning. At the stairwell, Harry waved his Ravenclaw friends on, whispering, "I need to talk to the Slytherins for a moment. Luna knows how to vanish the golems."

Terry, Li and Luna all nodded their understanding and stole up the stairs while Tracey, Millicent and Harry made their way down to the dungeons, Tracey muttering, "What's this about, Potter?"

"I need to tell Lil, too," Harry replied, "assuming she's up. I'd rather tell all three of you at once."

Lillian was awaiting them on the couch nearest the fireplace, looking sleepy. She jerked her head up as they slipped in, eyes widening when she saw Harry. "Is something wrong?" she wondered, getting to her feet.

"Something happened, but I don't know that you'd say it was 'wrong', exactly," Harry replied, motioning for them all to sit down. Once they'd filled the couch, Harry perched on the table in front of them and explained, "Snape saw Tracey at Malfoy Manor when we stopped over there to rest. It was easier to explain to him that she and Millicent were doing something for Lord Xerosis than to deny her existence completely. The Dark Lord and I aren't quite certain where Snape's loyalties lie, so I need the three of you to keep your eyes out for any professors who are suddenly overly curious about your free time. Snape I expect, other professors, not so much. Let me know right away if any of them stand out."

"Understood," all three agreed.

Harry smiled and stood from the table. "Excellent. Let's meet up after lunch in the library."

"Ooh. Does that mean you have more evil plans for us to assist with?" Lillian asked, leaning forward excitedly.

"I'm full to bursting with evil plans," Harry assured her. "And I do have one or two you can help with, yes." He smiled at the excited looks all three girls wore at that. "Come now. Let's get rid of those golems so you can actually sleep, hm?"

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Harry had sent his missive about a meeting to Dumbledore at breakfast and his expression, when he read it, seemed open to the idea. Harry had suggested the Three Broomsticks as a meeting place and left the time and day up to Dumbledore. He'd also mentioned that he would come in disguise, so as to not upset the residents of Hogsmeade.

After lunch, Harry had handed over multi-use portkeys to the moon to his friends and explained what he needed them doing up there. He warned them, also, that Voldemort might be up there, working. The Dark Lord knew that they'd be in and out and he'd agreed to ignore them, for the most part. If the students needed anything, they should come to Harry about it and he'd see that it was provided.

Since they'd had a little extra time before Hermione and Neville had to go to Charms, Harry took them all up to the moon and grinned through their murmurs of awe – not even Luna knew what all had changed since the last time she'd visited.

"So, about how many plants do you think you can get into one of these?" Harry had asked Neville while the others went exploring. He'd ensured that everyone had a magical headset, just in case they needed to contact one another in a hurry.

Neville considered the nearest greenhouse. "Depends on what kind they are. I can get almost three hundred smaller plants in here, with the right storage. Larger plants... probably between fifty and seventy-five." He glanced back at Harry.

Harry nodded. "If you can give me sketches of what you need in the ways of pots or storage bins – whatever – I'll have them in the greenhouses by the end of the week." He waved at the ground. "I'd like you to try to use the soil that's up here, but if you honestly think it won't work, let me know how much Earth soil you need and I'll transport it up here."

Neville nodded as he knelt to check the soil. "Mmm... I can't use just this, it's not alive enough, if that makes any sense?" He glanced back up at Harry, who shrugged a bit helplessly. Neville laughed. "Well, yeah. If you can provide me with a couple tonnes of Earth soil, I can mix it in with this. Get the plants used to this new soil, but make sure they've still got the extra nutrients they need."

"I can do that," Harry agreed, smiling. "I'll try to finish a few of these in the coming days, so you can start moving stuff into them."

"Cool. I'll see if I can't sketch you what I need during Charms," Neville promised. "I've got all of tomorrow afternoon free, so I'll come back up here then and get to work on stuff."

"Sounds good." Harry checked the time and touched a hand to his headset. "Hermione, time for Charms."

"Oh! Thanks, Harry! Neville?"

"I'm heading down now," Neville replied. He offered Harry a wave before using his portkey to return to the school – Harry had set them to let out in an abandoned classroom on the fourth floor.

Harry touched his headset again and offered, "I'm heading back down to the planet to get some things I need for these greenhouses. Anyone need anything while I'm down there?"

"Paint!" Luna called. "This place is so monotone."

"For once, Loony, we are in complete agreement," Morag offered. "Bring us a couple bucketfuls, Potter. We can change the colours in them ourselves, but we need that base ingredient."

Harry chuckled. "Alright. It'll take me about twenty minutes, though."

"Best get going, then," Terry replied lightly.

Harry rolled his eyes and portkeyed back down to the school, grumbling to himself when he landed in a heap. "Mental note, master long-range portkey travel," he muttered before transfiguring his school robes into something a bit more mundane and shadowing to a large hardware shop he knew of in Surrey. There, he gathered three carts, one full of white paint, one full of wood beams and the last full of bags of sand. All of that was subtly portkeyed up to the base Riddle had created on the moon. His next stop was a gardening shop he knew of not far from the hardware shop. There, he got himself a couple carts of soil to portkey up.

His last stop was to a grocery, where he actually paid for a cart of food and drinks to leave in the base for visitors. He also bought a couple jugs of water to leave on the surface to help generate more water in the air. The moon was still rather dry, all things considered. After portkeying his cart of food up, he unearthed himself a nice patch of grass and portkeyed up himself. He could work on changing the grass during breaks from the greenhouses.

Back on the moon, he created a cold box for the food and drinks and set the jugs outside to evaporate. Touching his headset, he called, "Back. If you want your paint, come on over to the large building we arrived near. I've got drinks, too."

There was no verbal response, but all eight students came at a run for the promised drinks. Once they'd hydrated, they took their paint, which Harry had cast ever-full spells on, and vanished back into the grey buildings.

Harry gathered his wood, sand and a can of paint and made his way back towards the greenhouses. The wood was set to one side to use as a base in transfiguring whatever shelving Neville wanted and the paint was set next to it to use after he was done. The sand was spilled on the ground of the greenhouses – he'd collected enough for six of them – and then used to transfigure glass, which the buildings were covered in. The glass turned out a bit tougher and less opaque than Earth glass, since he'd used the natural moon soil with the sand, but he was actually rather pleased with the turnout.

He took a break from the greenhouses to work on his grass. He also checked the time and warned, "We've got about another half hour before dinner." He worked with the grass until it was time for dinner, then portkeyed back down with the others, who'd come to join him.

"What are you going to do with the greenhouses?" Li wondered as they all hid their headsets and set off to fill their bellies.

"I was thinking of painting pictures of trees and flowers or whatever on them, but I'm not really an artist," Harry admitted.

"I'll do it!" Luna immediately volunteered.

"Millie and Morag are both pretty good artists," Lillian volunteered, smiling when her friends shot her irritated looks.

"Li's not bad, either," Harry admitted, smiling at the girl when she flushed. "Sure, if you four are done painting houses, you can have fun with the greenhouses."

"Cool. We were starting to run out of buildings to paint," Millicent offered.

"Oh, dear..." Harry sighed. "As long as you don't paint the big one."

They all laughed as they separated to go to their tables to eat.

After dinner, everyone met back up in the library, in agreement that they should work on their homework. Harry used the time to talk with Neville about his sketches, creating 3D images of the items Neville had sketched so Harry was sure he understood what his friend wanted.

That night, as Harry was getting ready for bed, Dumbledore's response came. He'd suggested they meet Thursday morning, when Harry would be in Potions. Harry sent back his agreement, then climbed behind his curtains and cast the Parseltongue communication spell. :Tom, meeting with Dumbledore on Thursday. I'll let you know how it went after. Also, bought some food and drinks and left them in the base. My friends talked me into procuring some paint for them, so the buildings are a bit colourful, though I wouldn't let them near the base. I'll be up there tomorrow morning if you need me for anything. Good night.:

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The next morning saw Harry, Morag, Li and Terry back up on the moon. The Slytherins and Gryffindors had Defence and Luna had Arithmancy in an hour, so had decided to just remain on the planet.

Riddle met them up there, scowling at the students, who looked back at him in surprise. Harry sighed and offered, "Ladies, Terry, this is Lord Voldemort. Voldemort, Terry Boot, Li Su and Morag McDougal."

"Hn," Riddle replied before turning and walking into the base.

Harry rolled his eyes and offered his friends a helpless smile. "Sorry. Paint is there. I'm going to go talk to him for a bit. If you need me..." He tapped his headset.

"Good luck," Li offered honestly before grabbing a paint can and starting off towards the greenhouses with Terry and Morag.

Harry slipped into the base and raised an eyebrow at the furnishings. "You've been busy."

"I debated sleeping here," Riddle admitted from the couch he was sitting in. "No one bothers me, and there's food."

Harry snorted and dropped himself in a chair. "Sure, but if the manor burns down, you'd never know."

"What a loss that would be," Riddle replied drily, earning a chuckle from the teen. "I take it Dumbledore reacted well to your message?"

"Yeah. I mean, I didn't really expect him to react poorly..." Harry shrugged. "I'll see what I can do about him playing with the wards, at any rate."

"Good." Riddle leaned forward. "I take it your minions are going to be around fairly often?"

Harry nodded. "During the school day, yeah. We're taking meals on the planet and spending time after dinner working on homework, but otherwise, sure, they've got portkeys. Why?"

"I'd considered allowing a few Death Eaters to come up here," Riddle admitted. "But if your minions were going to be around a lot, letting, say, Bella come up here would be a bad idea."

"Hmmm." Harry frowned and considered the problem. "The Death Eaters with kids should be okay, though. Or those with nieces or nephews. Also, Barty should be okay. It would be nice to have an adult presence up here," he added, grimacing. "I have this image of one of my friends dropping a building on themselves or something and I'm in class on the surface."

Riddle sighed. "I suppose I can try being up here while you're in classes," he allowed. "If something happens, I can take care of it." He scowled when Harry beamed at him. "I'm not sure I'd want any of our people or your minions up here by themselves, anyway. Salazar knows what sort of trouble they'd cause."

Harry chuckled. "Well, yeah." He shook his head. "You know, anyone you allow up here will have to be okay with working beside Harry Potter and a couple of mudbloods."

"Don't remind me," Riddle grumbled before letting out a sigh. "We'll have to tell them who you are eventually."

Harry nodded. "I know. Why don't you have Lucius and Barty spend this week feeling them out for people who wouldn't react with violence to my presence or that of a couple mudbloods. We can tell them who I am this weekend and let them up here next week."

Riddle nodded. "Very well. Leave me with a copy of your class schedule before you disappear off to play with your greenhouses."

Harry rolled his eyes, but obediently pulled out his schedule from a pocket to copy. "And what'll you be doing? Taking a nap?"

Riddle snorted. "Hardly. I've been furnishing this building and making more buildings out there." He waved out a glassless window. "How did you make the glass for your greenhouses, by the way?"

"Hm? Oh, I went down to a hardware shop and made off with some of their sand. Mixed it with the lunar soil and transfigured that. Here." He handed over the copied schedule.

Riddle glanced over the sheet. "Hn. Right. I'll probably pop down to the surface for some sand, then."

"Feel free to get me some wood while you're at it," Harry offered a bit jokingly as he stood. "I don't think I have enough for all the structures Neville wants."

"We'll see," Riddle replied before vanishing.

Harry chuckled to himself and left the base for the greenhouses, summoning some bottles of water for his friends on the way. The water was met with smiles and, upon inspecting the greenhouse they were mostly done with, Harry offered, "That looks really good."

Li flushed while Morag scowled, though her eyes sparkled with pleasure. Terry just grinned and commented, "You were in there for a long time."

"Mm. We were discussing Dark Lord things," Harry replied, settling in to work on the structures Neville had asked for. "Here, Terry, you can hold pieces up while I transfigure." Once Terry was settled, Harry added, "Voldemort has agreed to stay on the moon while I'm in class, so if something goes wrong and you need help, one of us should always be around."

"Oh, great," Terry muttered while Li and Morag traded grimaces.

"It won't be so bad. He knows better than to toss a Crucio at one of you, at any rate, so you should be fine. He's been working on creating more buildings and furnishing the big one. The couch and chairs are actually pretty comfortable, if you end up needing a real break." He paused to take his finished piece from Terry and set it up in the greenhouse. Once he was back outside again, he added, "We were talking about letting some of the more kid-friendly Death Eaters up here to help create the buildings and furnish stuff, but that won't happen until next week. Just a heads up, I suppose."

Terry grimaced. "Will they be okay with Hermione and me?"

"They'd have to be okay with Potter, too," Morag pointed out.

"That's why we're waiting a week," Harry explained. "We need the time to feel them out and decide which ones can actually be left up here without either Voldemort or myself hovering over their shoulders."

The students all snorted at that and they fell silent as they returned to their work.

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Xerosis arrived at the Three Broomsticks well before the time he was supposed to meet with Dumbledore. He ordered a breakfast from Rosmerta – technically, it was his lunch, since he'd just left Potions, but they weren't serving anything other than breakfast – and settled in to a booth in the back corner. He pulled out some paperwork Voldemort had shoved off on him yesterday and got started reading over the reports from some of their Chinese agents – Voldemort had only really shoved it onto him because the man couldn't be arsed to learn Mandarin and the code they used didn't translate when the translation charm was used. Why Voldemort even had Chinese agents...

Xerosis had chosen to disguise himself with long red hair, held back in a clip, but had kept his pale eyes. He'd also aged his glamour a few years, so no one would wonder what a Hogwarts-aged student was doing outside the school on a Thursday.

When she delivered his food, Rosmerta stopped to chat, asking, "So what's a handsome lad like you doing around here on so nice an afternoon?"

Xerosis smiled at her. "Business, I'm afraid," he allowed. "I have a meeting with the Headmaster in twenty minutes or so."

Rosmerta sighed and dropped into the booth across from him. "We never see Albus down here anymore," she offered. "He's always too busy with the war."

"Not much of a war, though, is it?" Xerosis commented. "Seems You-Know-Who's content to focus on the muggles, this time around. He's not even going after the muggleborns."

"It is a bit odd. Everyone I've talked to thinks it's because of that new kid. Lord X-ray or whatever."

Xerosis winced. "Xerosis?" he offered.

"That's it!" Rosmerta smiled at him, then frowned a bit. "Not sure why You-Know-Who would share power, though. Xerosis must be really powerful for You-Know-Who to bow to him."

"I think we all hope it's nothing so worrisome," Dumbledore commented from behind the barmaid. "Good morning, Rosmerta."

Rosmerta hurried to her feet, offering a pleasant smile. "Good morning, Albus. I'm glad to see you in the village, although I've been told you're here on business."

Dumbledore looked past her at Xerosis, who flashed him a smile with fake fangs. Dumbledore smiled back. "Yes, I'm afraid so," he said to Rosmerta. "Perhaps you could retrieve me a butterbeer?"

"Certainly." Rosmerta turned and hurried back to the kitchen.

Dumbledore slipped into the booth Rosmerta had just vacated, commenting, "I was surprised to receive a missive from you. Tom has never been interested, in the past, in speaking. I admit that I expected the same of yourself."

They were interrupted by the arrival of Dumbledore's drink, which Rosmerta set in front of him with a smile. "Alright. Anything else?"

"I think we'll be fine on our own," Xerosis replied with a friendly smile. "Thank you."

Rosmerta nodded and left them to it with a wave.

Xerosis turned his attention back to the Headmaster, who was watching him with a curious expression. "Normally, we wouldn't contact you," he allowed, "but Severus informed us you were talking about reworking the wards we added to Hogwarts. Tom and I agreed we needed to talk you out of that."

Dumbledore's eyebrows raised up towards his hairline. "So you admit you tampered with them?" he asked.

"I do." Xerosis cocked his head to one side. "I don't know that I'd call it 'tampering', per say. We strengthened them against the mundanes and Tom got rid of his curse on the Defence position."

"Indeed? I didn't think Tom would ever remove that."

Xerosis snorted. "Oh, he didn't want to. I was saved the trouble of arguing it with him when the school herself insisted we remove it. Something about cursing us terribly if we didn't?" Dumbledore chuckled. "At any rate, yes, Tom was talked around."

"You are far less insane than I gave you credit for," Dumbledore decided.

Xerosis offered the older man an ironic smile. "You mean I'm more personable than you gave me credit for. I assure you, I am quite insane. Just not in quite the same way that Tom is." He picked up the water he'd ordered with his meal – most of which he'd eaten while Rosmerta had been sitting with him – and took a sip.

The Headmaster hummed. "What sort of 'strengthening' did you add to my wards?" he enquired. "And why can't anyone figure it out?"

"You're not looking far enough," Xerosis replied. "For all that you are determined to protect the mundanes, you don't seem to know a great deal about them, and, often, what you profess to know is wrong." He raised an eyebrow at the strange look Dumbledore gave him. "Yes?"

"One of my students calls muggles 'mundanes'."

"Interesting." Xerosis turned his attention towards his meal. "I got it from a mundane friend I had a great many years ago, so I suppose it's possible for one of your students to be familiar with it." He shrugged. "Tell me, Headmaster, what do you know of the mundanes' space travel?"

Dumbledore blinked. "Space travel? Like their trips to the moon in those aeroplanes?"

Xerosis sighed. "Space shuttles," he corrected. "And they do far more than travel to the moon. They have satellites in orbit around Earth, the moon and other planets which record things that happen there. Because those satellites are so far beyond the reach of your average muggle repelling charms, they can see past them and to the thing they're supposed to be hiding."

Understanding had dawned on Dumbledore's face as Xerosis had spoken. Once he paused to sip at his water again, the Headmaster said, "So you added to the wards to allow them to reach out into space?"

Xerosis snorted. "No. There's not enough magic in the whole of this planet to do that. We traced a two-part rune set, one of which went on the ward rune stone, the other of which was carved into every active satellite in orbit."

Dumbledore blinked at him.

Xerosis rolled his eyes. "At any rate, without those modifications we made, the mundanes would be able to aim a missile at the school and that would be the end of that. None of us wants that, so I shall request that you leave our wards where they are." He offered the older wizard a bright smile.

Dumbledore sighed. "I see. In that case, I believe I will leave the runes intact." He paused. "I don't suppose there's any way I could talk you out of killing the muggles?"

Xerosis snorted. "Not going to happen, but thanks for playing."

The Headmaster sighed again. "You seem like a perfectly reasonable man–"

"You want to know why I think the mundanes should be wiped out," Xerosis interrupted. "They killed my family, just because they were magical." He leaned forward, pale eyes bright with silent hatred. "They destroyed everything I had, everything I'd ever known. They didn't care for my pleas, for the pleas of my wife or children. Why should I listen to theirs?" He sat back, smiling grimly at the appalled look Dumbledore wore. "Look at their response to our presence now: They bomb any place that might have a magical family living nearby, giving no thought for the mundanes who might be caught in the blast. They wish only for the eradication of our subspecies, giving no care for the danger their actions pose to themselves."

"You intend to punish the whole species for the actions of those who are already dead?" Dumbledore wondered.

"I do," Xerosis agreed, collecting his reports and slipping from the booth. "Good day, Headmaster. It was lovely chatting, but I have mundanes to torture." He offered the man an insane little smile before retreating to Rosmerta and offering the money he owed for his meal, saying, "It was lovely, Madam. I'll have to return again sometime soon."

"Please do," Rosmerta replied, smiling cheerily back as she counted out his change. "It's always nice to have handsome gentlemen such as yourself around."

Xerosis chuckled and caught her hand as she handed him his change. "It's even more lovely to have such a beautiful woman serving such delightful meals," he replied, dropping a kiss on the back of her hand.

Rosmerta laughed and waved her hand at him once he'd freed it. "Oh, go on, you!"

Xerosis tipped her a wink and left the pub in a pleasant mood. Once outside, he found a shadow and shadowed back to Riddle's room, where he left the translated reports. From there, he portkeyed up to the moon. Neville was always too nervous to ask assistance from Riddle, but he always seemed to need something. Since he had a couple free hours, he might as well see what he could do.

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A/N: About how long it took them to reach the moon, well, the speed of the brooms was never stated for certain, and math is really not my strength, so instead of deciding on a specific speed and dividing the distance between the Earth and moon by that, I just...sort of...fudged it. *shame* Sorry...

Special thanks to the two or three of you who were like, wait, what's going to happen to the werewolves?! Oops. ^.^" I forgot about them, so thanks for the reminder. Shara and I debated back and forth for a bit and I've got a couple of ideas. That'll be addressed in a later chapter.
Aaaaaaand a BIG thanks to larawander5 who let me plunder her mind for moon facts and gave me some crazy ideas.

Also, YAY! bone_kun made me fanart for Xerosis! Link to a picture of Xerosis! Link to a picture of the warding group!

*hugs and kisses to all*
~Bats ^.^x

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Comments

[margi-lynn.livejournal.com]

OH WOW SO AWESOME I AM INCOHERENT. ILU.

You always pull off cracky and serious so very well.

[batsutousai]

XD Always happy to break people. XD

♥♥ ^.~

[cloudysky.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

That was well worth the wait! And what do you mean, you glossed over the reactions? That was perfect! You actually even managed to get some of Dumbledore's reaction in there!

I loved the little scene with Harry and Tom deciding to sleep together. (so cute!)

You still managed to surprise me with the way they immediately decided to 'play house' and started transfiguring houses and such. And then not, because of course Tom will create his magnificent headquarters first *g* Still, creating furniture doesn't really seem such a Dark Lord-ish hobby.

I also loved Dobby's appearance. Kudos for making him not-annoying.

More when I'm actually coherent and not falling asleep as I type...

cloe

[batsutousai]

Well, but they were a bit glossed over. The original scene was a lot more in depth, with conversations with some of the students, etc. But it was giving me fits, so it got scraped. (Oh well...)

Oh, come on. Tom can't only have Dark Lord-ish hobbies. XD Anyway, there's not a lot Dark Lord-ish about moving an entire people to the moon for their own protection, is there? The whole debacle's sort of more grey. ^.^"

I do try. I like Dobby, when he's not bash-worthy. (Though, it's a bit hard to keep him sufficiently crazed and have be not obnoxious at the same time, I must say. Sorta ended up treating him like Luna, in the end.)

LOL. Go sleep, woman!

[larawander5.livejournal.com]

MOOOOOOOON!!1!

Love this story! I really missed your style of writing, because it is so much fun!

Also, I love Magic! You built several buildings and complexes in a few hours! O.O No codes to follow, no calculations, no checklists, no multiple layers of blueprints, no large amounts of scrutiny and multiple appovals, it is just amazing. I really need some of that kind of magic in my life. It would save several months worth of work!

The civil engineer in me has so many questions for you that are probably way to detailed. How are you laying out the plan for the city on the moon? I mean, is there an order, logic, or even grid system for the layout, or is it pretty much random? How are the houses going to fit in with all of the buildings, infrastructure and greenhouses. How are you going to put in defenses, encase people are stupid and launch a stupid rebellion against our lords. Are you going to have any reservoirs of water available? You know for toilets, showers, and the greenhouses.

I really want to sketch this out and design parts of it because I am really crazy engineer that lives for this kind of shit. I want to organize it and make scale maps, but that is probably way overboard.

Anyway, that being said it is weird but my favorite part was Luna's bunnies! So I am just gonna link you to my favorite pixar short film presto which contains bunnies, magic, purple hats, and large amounts of craziness as a reward! ^_^

[larawander5.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! Lets all bow down to the awesomeness of Google!

They have a Moon feature for Google!Earth where you can explore sites of the moon!

[batsutousai]

LOL. I am here to entertain, my dear. ^.~

Mmmmm.... You'd have to ask Tom how he's setting the city up? Ahah. Ahah... *shifty eyes* Honestly haven't put all that much thought into it. I think most of the water will be held in craters outside the basin, but I might put some inside, especially for the merpeople, but those sources won't be for anything but that species' habitat.
More on that after Google Earth has finished downloading and I can play. OMG. How did I not know of this? O.o

Feel free to make a sketch to your heart's design? Like I said, not necessarily something I've been thinking about. My mind doesn't do well with visual elements, so drawing a city layout's a bit outside my comfort zone... ^.^" I suppose, if you do sketch something, I could use it as a reference. *shifty eyes* ^.^"

LOL. I remember that short. It's REALLY FUNNY. All kinds of win. XD

[larawander5.livejournal.com]

I love that short and I just had to watch it again for the crazy purple magical bunny!

Google!EarthMoon is awesome! It is a lot of fun to explore.

Now, Name your/Voldemorts favorite shape (such as I can Design it like a Pentagon with Voldemort's base in the middle and spikes out to connect the districts). Pretty much anything that you want or we can full up the entire Basin.

Well lets make a list of what we need to include:
-Voldemorts Base
-Do we want another Government building/complexes (court houses, embassy) where Voldemort lets everyone come and keeps his main base to himself and loyal followers because he is a paranoid bastard
-Schools-Needs a Name, Do we also want a dark academy or something where Voldemort trains his solders
-Public Library-Needs a Name
-Orphanage-Needs a Name
-Hospital-Needs a Name
-Shopping District-Needs a Name?
-Banking still Gringotts? Or will that be with the Goblins in the mountains? Do we want to name it something like from LOTR. Quarries
-Do we want suburbs for the residential houses such as like downtown (close to Voldemort), pureblood place, muggleborn meadow, halfblood hill etc or Does Voldemort give out crators of space to his followers?
-Greenhouses
-Do we want to leave space for fields of food and grassing lands?
-Security Stations to respond to emergencies (I figure the Aurors will be like fire, rescue and police because hello magic), How Paranoid do you want to make Voldemort? A security for each division of the city, every couple miles? How big are they?
-Wastewater treatment
-Water treatment
-Trash Collection System
-Reservoir
-Habitats-Forest-Needs a Name
-Parks-Quidditch Pitch-Novelty Name for the Stadium?
-Will owls still be used and require stations? Post Offices?
-Names of street Convention-Random names? Dark Lord Names? History Names? Animals, Grid System (Such as A,B,C one way 1,2,3 another). Do we want the main Arterials to be names anything special (such as like State Route 66, Interstate 75)?

That will give us a start :)

and by the way I really do not mind about credit. That is what always happens to the engineers, they are under appreciated and underpaid for all the work and thought that they do.

[larawander5.livejournal.com]

One more random thing. Just realized...What are you calling the City? So far all it is the moon...Do you have an actual name for it? Because plain moon on the moon is bland.

[batsutousai]

But I want to give you credit! T.T

Also, going to email you with my responses. Because spoilers will be included. *shifty eyes*
The yahoo addy on your profile, yes?

[batsutousai]

Also, I am ashamed by myself. I just realised that I gave the wrong person credit for all the moon geekiness we enjoyed in comments last chapter. *Oh, the shame*

[batsutousai]

Nope, can't kill him off. My girlfriend would turn murderous, and then where would I be? Other than, you know, single and without a place to live? ^.^" Anyway, I kinda like him.
And this is more fun. XD

[shadownitewolf.livejournal.com]

I love the pictures xD
I think I missed something...how did the idea of the moon come about?
This chapter was fun to read though *grins*

[batsutousai]

Those pictures are awesome. ^.^
Luna mentioned it in...chapter...7? I think. A few chapters ago, at any rate. And Harry actually considered it, then Death was like, 'DO IT'. So... yeah... *shifty eyes*

[bone-kun.livejournal.com]

Another brilliant chapter, as always (so worth the wait!). I still can't believe they're going to be moving to the moon! It's such an outrageous concept that I couldn't really see it happening a few chapters back. But now that it is, I'm certainly more excited with the idea. I also enjoy the fact he's still getting his classmates helping out with such a serious task, and trusts them enough not to turn their back on him (Neville helping out after everything he's learned is so strange).

About this transfigure-building on the moon. Is the soil of the moon so infused with magic that the transfiguring becomes permanent? I like that it's convenient for them to build that way, but they will stay how they are, right?

Personally, I'd like to see Snape become privy to more information as Barty and Lucius are. He'll always be there for 'Lily's son', so I imagine finding out that Xerosis is Harry would change his perspectives, at least a little. I don't want to see him get killed off when he's already such an important pawn.

I don't know what to think about Dumbledore. For now his character just makes me laugh. He knows nothing of what's going on and he's at a loss of what to do. Will he move to the moon, too? (When they were chatting about mundanes, I honestly thought Xerosis'd bring Arianna's story into it.)

Another thing I'm wondering, will anything be done about Neville's parents? It's seemingly not an important issue, but I imagine Neville would never leave them. Will they manage a cure on the moon, or nothing will happen in that department?

Fifth year is certainly turning out to be fantastically long for Harry. I can't wait to see what else is in store for Xerosis, Voldemort, and their minions!

I'm glad you liked my fanart! I've yet to finish them, though. I'll try get that done and start on some new fanart *u*)d

[batsutousai]

Teehee. Half the reason I decided they were definitely going to the moon was because so many people were like, meh all those chapters ago. So, of course, I had to do it. And make is awesome. XD
Poor Nev. Well, he's not really had the most accepting of childhoods, and finding this group of friends that see what he could be instead of what he isn't makes you willing to overlook a lot.

Ugh. Transfiguration is such an awesome subject, but Jo didn't really explain it too well. Bah. In my mind, the closer the materials are in composition, the easier and more permanent the transfiguration is. So, yeah, since Harry and Tom did it right, it should be pretty permanent. ^.^"

Aww... Finally, someone cheering for Sev. Seems most everyone else is just like 'Get rid of him!' or don't care one way or another. ^.^ I'd like to keep him around, myself, but I'm having trouble with Xerosis accepting that he's going to have to tell Sev who he is. Rawr. Stupid Dark Lords.

Dumbledore will be moving to the moon, whether he realises it or not. XD He is sort of lost right now, but a lot of that is because Xerosis came in and completely ruined everything he knew about Voldemort's plans, and most of what Harry and Tom are working on aren't even visible to the magical community. (I actually waffled a bit about mentioning Arianna. I almost did twice, but it ended up not really working, so it never got in. Ah well...)

Hmmm... You know, not something I really thought about. They'll be going to the moon, certainly, but not sure about a cure. We'll see what happens. (Now that you've mentioned it, I'm sure it'll write itself in. Somehow. *eye roll*)

Ah... Most of the story was just waiting to get to this point, really. But, yeah, it's going to be a scarily long year for poor Harry. XD

But they're awesome the way they are!! *big eyes* But, then, I have zero artistic talent. I'd be happy with stick figures... ^.^"
More fanart. *.*

[bone-kun.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting theory for transfiguration! I never thought of it like that before, but it makes sense.

I noticed, haha;; Snape hate seems popular with your story, though he does seem to be in total dick mode where Harry's involved. You could always try making it an accident that he finds out the identity of Xerosis. I can't imagine how that scenario would go down either.

And yeah, sorry, that was random. It's just something that popped into my head since Neville is already so important to the plot. -Speaking of, will the Weasleys make anymore appearances?

Waiting for them to make progress on getting to the moon? If that's the case, I'm scared of when the story will end..!

[batsutousai]

Eh. I had to make up some theory/rule for it, or my brain would have imploded every time I tried writing about it. Bah. Maybe we'll all luck out and Pottermore will explain all this crap.

Poor Sev. It's hard for him to appear 'good' when your version of good and evil are skewed. Meh. I'll keep trying with him and Xerosis. Maybe next chapter. *facepalm*

Oh, Merlin, the Weasleys. I... Don't know. Probably? Some of the evil plans I've got floating around for this fic could use someone one the other side to shout obscenities at Xerosis and Voldie, so I'll definitely have a use for Molly. The twins might get to cause some mayhem. And I can always Ron for an in-school bitchfest. XD

Me too... I feel like were somewhere between halfway and the end, but since I don't really have a specific end for this fic, who knows... O.o

[bone-kun.livejournal.com]

Oho! Did you register for early access Pottermore? My user is MistChaser164 xD!

By "use for Molly", I'm picturing a whole lot of torture. The twins are always awesome in fanfiction. And Ron.. Ron's the KING of in-school bitchfest.

Anyway, thanks for the throw-back of ideas! I'm off to watch some middle school soccer anime >u>;;;;;;;;;;

[batsutousai]

Alas, no. I missed out. (Something about being stressed about Xerosis at the time and avoiding everything HP as a result?) My sister got it, though. Might have to pester her to lend me her account. XD

XD Oh, she'd probably think it's torture... XD
Ron sort of is. (Though, Draco's usually better if you're on Dumbles' side.)

O.o Have fun. I think. ^.^"
Meanwhile, I shall work on an unposted fic. XD

[bone-kun.livejournal.com]

All this build up to Pottermore is making me feel I'll be disappointed when it's finally open. I'll probably end up using my account once and then quitting all together like I've done before.

(No, no. Draco's obviously QUEEN xD!)

Good luck!

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Yay! Lovely new shiny chapter! My eyes are dazed from the sheer amount of awesomeness in this chapter! XD
Yay for MOAR Tom/Harry!! Especially when Tom asks Harry to sleep with him! *Dies* XD
And the +10k words!! It's so worth the wait!! I love you!! X3

Nah, the reactions are fine this way, you got everyone's thoughts and didn't leave out anyone.

Finally! The moon, the moon!! I wanna fly and play around in space too! Not the work part though, I'm a lazy person~
+ Wants all of Harry's knowledge of languages. I'm envious. Maybe then it wouldn't be so hard to learn a new language. >.< Wait, I don't need to learn it by then cz I'll KNOW IT ALL already! Muahahahahahaha~

Poor Harry and Luna, their butts and thighs must be really numb from clamping onto a thin wood of stick for so long! Not to mention Harry's unmentionable fragile bits! (Or are they not fragile? Being the Master of Death and with all the snazzy vampire healing powers? I'm curious.)

Aww, I wanted to see the Moon Bunnies! But the part where Luna let her magically enhanced rabbits loose totally made up for it! Especially this line:
"Okay, my pretties, it's time for you to do what you do best: breed. Breed so much that in a few years, we can fill that entire basin with you, okay?"
Pure EPIC and WIN!! XD

Dobby is awesome! And I do so love Lucius!! Even though Dobby OWNS out-Slytherins him. XD

Lol. If it's calcium, Ca I'll laugh. Long and hard and until I'm rolling around on the floor and get a stomachache. Cz that will mean all Muggles are gonna get osteoporosis and rickets when they're old, or start getting them when they're young! (Got to love those science lessons that teachers beat into you every year. >.<)

[batsutousai]

Teehee. I'm happy to have filled you with such glee.

Speaking of languages... You have some Mandarin knowledge, right? Cause I'm trying to figure out a possible name for a magical school in China... *shifty eyes*

(I never even thought about that. Erm... Cushioning charms? ^.^")

I love Luna's bunnies. They'll get even more epic when next we see them. XD

LOL. Iron, too. Guess what makes up your blood. O.o
XD

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Yup! Pure Chinese blood! Though I'm not from China. Else my English would suck real bad. Hell, my English is better than my Chinese. *shifty eyes*

Hmm, the theme for the name? Like place, nature and things? You could just tack on 魔法学院 at the end of whatever you want the theme to be. It stands for Magic Academy. Or just the 学院 part for xxx Academy.

(Lol. Still uncomfortable. XD)

Really? Yay! Looking forward to it!

Nah, if it's iron, all Muggles will be fainting and dying all the time from anaemia. XD
Hmm, aluminium might work except I don't think there's much of it in our bodies.

Edward Elric: "Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20 kilograms. Ammonia, 4 liters. Lime, 1.5 kilograms. Phosphorous, 800 grams. Salt, 250 grams. Saltpeter, 100 grams. Sulphur, 80 grams. Fluorine, 7.5 grams. Iron, 5 grams. Silicon, 3 grams, and trace amounts of 15 other elements."

You could probably choose and tweak some of these. Especially the 15 other elements, or just make Magical people have 16 other elements.
Where the moon has lots of the mysterious 16th element and magical people are descended from Neil Armstrong and other people who've been in space, got hit by a meteor, live near craters, etc. XD

I don't know **** about science other than what my teacher beat into me so you can't pick my brain. And what I learnt from Ed! Sorry! XD

[batsutousai]

LOL. I'd like to say my second language was better than my first – or whatever – but, ah, English is the only language I'm fluent in, so... *shifty eyes*

I think we ended up deciding on Dzou Yen, a Chinese alchemist, 'cause, well, no Chinese knowledge here. (Managed a name for the Japanese magical school, but that's just 'cause Shara has mad Japanese skillz.)
'Neeway... What's the romaji for 学院? 'Cause it would look silly to have only half of the Chinese school's name in kanji and the rest of it, as well as the Japanese school in romaji. XD

(Well, if we're gonna feel bad for Harry, feel bad for Terry, too. He was on the broom for an extra twelve hours and has no vampire healing. XD)

Well, it's not like the element isn't in a muggle body – or that we're taking it from them or anything – it's just that that particular element boosts magic. It almost makes sense for it to be calcium or iron, since there's already so much in humans that it would be part of the reason they could cast. The ability to cast magic is one thing, the element that boosts it is another. (Does that make sense?)

OMG. FMA. I wish I hadn't accidentally tossed all my discs of that show. ;.; (I think I've still got a couple crap Japanese-Korean-English subs, but my collection of Brotherhood is completely vanished. Really liked that season, too. Ah... I'll download it again someday, I suppose. And then get sucked into it for another two-four weeks, watching the whole two seasons of it. Should be loads of fun.)

LOL. I've forgotten most of what I learned about science, anymore. You should have seen me cross-referencing things I found about the moon because a word or seven went right over my head.

Right. My mental voice's picked up a Welsh accent from too much Torchwood and having been up for 20 hours. I'm off to bed. Zzzzzz...

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Lol. All the languages I'm supposed to know best are not my best languages. *shifty eyes* Btw, I distinctly remember that you know some Spanish too, which you mentioned sometime ago? I forgot when. XD

O.O Who the hell's Dzou Yen? I've never learnt about him. O.O Then again I'm not from China so... *shifty eyes*
I use Han Yu Pin Yin so 学院 will be Xue Yuan.
P.S. I'm pretty sure that Dzou Yen isn't Han Yu Pin Yin at all. What are the original words? O.O

Ooh... Yup, it kinda did! XD Calcium! Then Muggles will get bone diseases that much easier than magical people. It would also make sense for old people like Dumbles to still be so spry and old people to live that much longer, not to mention the Giants with Big Bones.

Also, collagen as magical people don't age that easily and still look pretty even when they're old~ Lucius and Tom *cough cough*
Iron wouldn't make much sense, I guess? As both Muggles and magical people faint much the same. ;P

Poor you! Do download it again! Brotherhood is awesome!! I've watched it through like 3 times already! 5-7 times the front eps when I was waiting for the latest eps. XD
Download Eclipse [TV] or AtsA [BD]! Eclipse's typesetting is waay better as they hardsub the signs and karaoke, the softsubs' styling is prettier too!

Didn't much like the first season though, I bought the DVDs after watching the first ep of Brotherhood and finished it in 3 days. It was boring-ish and the animation's not as pretty and flashy~ (I kinda watched some when I was a kid and didn't much like it. The only reason I watched FMAB was cz I was bored at the time. Don't regret it at all!) Mustang's voice too pales in comparison to FMAB's! Also, it's missing Ling! And Greed! And Greeling! And IPWNYOU!Olivia Armstrong! And rabid chibi-pandas! XD

Lol. I'm still in my second last year of school so... I get scientific knowledge pounded into my head every week. x.x Still don't understand half of it! *shifty eyes*

Lol, I've never watched Torchwood so I don't know what you mean. XD
20 hours! O.O I just slept for 20 hours! Slept all the day away~ XD Go sleep you! Good night? And Sweet Dreams!!

[batsutousai]

LOL. I know, like, six words of Spanish, 'cause my mother and sister both took it in uni, so... If we're going to get that technical, I know a handful of words from Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Latin, French, German and Gaelic. *shifty eyes* I took classes on all of those except Gaelic and French. Given, the Spanish class I took was in elementary school and the Italian class was a two-week intensive study in preparation for going to Venice, but...

^.^" It's from HP, actually. You'd have to ask Jo? (I just looked it up at the Lexicon. He's probably based off of 鄒衍, though, who was a free-thinker often associated with Chinese alchemy. ^.^")
There are different versions of the kanji/romaji translations? (Why am I not surprised?)

LOL. Well, not something I necessarily have to decide one way or the other. Mentioning it was about as far as I was ever going to go. ^.^"

I totally intend to! I've got the link for the entire Eclipse download open in my browser – they had the most seeds XD – but I need to wait until Shara finishes downloading some books for her thesis before I start, caught our internet connection can't survive more than one of us downloading at a time.

LOL. Well, I watched the first season back when it first came out here in the States – there was a L'Arc~En~Ciel concert I went to and they played the song they did for one of the openings, with clips from the show playing at the same time... It was pretty epic – and I liked it rather a lot, but I was still relatively new to anime at that point. Held against Pokémon, it's not bad. XD
Anyway, the first season was done while Hiromu Arakawa was working on the manga, so there came a point where the anime got ahead of the manga and they had to make shit up. (They're so good at that...) FMAB was written after the manga's finish, so it remains true to the manga, for the most part.
XD I got into FMAB because I was reading some FMA fanfiction and the author mentioned it to me, so I went to take a look on a whim. Really liked it.

LOL I know that feeling. I really sucked at Chemistry and Biology. (Physics and Earth Science was a lot of fun, though. And Astronomy was okay...)

Torchwood is tasty. They blow shit up a lot. And shoot each other. And have epic fights with aliens. And, and, and...
The most recent season is currently showing every Friday, so I download it overnight and watch it Saturday morning. (It's a spin-off of Doctor Who, which I'm only a little in love with... *shifty eyes*)

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Lol. I don't know any of the languages you know except for some Japanese. Gaelic? O.O How the hell did you learn Gaelic? Online?

Han Yu Pin Yin for 鄒衍 is Zou Yan, without the D and the E is replaced by A. Jo probably used her own Romanisation of what she heard, which is not a recognised system for Chinese people but one that Westerners like to use. Much like the Sya, Jya, Dzu as romaji for しゃ, じゃ, つ.
Besides, there's probably about 2 systems in use now, Han Yu Pin Yin used by the Chinese and 1 other system used by the Taiwanese (which I don't know but my mum does, they learnt it in her time when there was no Simplified Chinese and Han Yu Pin Yin yet).

Good luck in downloading and watching!! Damn, now you've made me want to rewatch it again! I'll watch it for the 4th time through once I'm done with my exams next and next next week. And I wonder why I never finish any new series... -.-"

Ohh... Pokemon's awesome! But only the first season, the later seasons keep getting worse and worse, and the Pokemons keep getting uglier and uglier with each new generation. -.-
Lol, I got into it because I watched the 1st ep when I was bored, then I fell in love with it. It's amazing how boredom can introduce you to a wonderful world full of possibilities! XD

Mm, I like Chemistry the most out of the science subjects I'm studying now, Physics is okay but I suck at remembering formulas while Biology sucks. I wanna learn Astronomy but sadly my country doesn't offer much classes on them, only a few chapters each in primary and lower secondary. T.T And I've never heard of Earth Sciences. Is it something like Geography with the impact of science on it? O.O

Ooh, now you've made me want to watch it! I love Explosions and Guns, especially Bazookas! I shall go download it at once!
So is Doctor Who not as nice? I've heard great things about both these shows but I'm busy enough in my world of fanfiction and anime. ^.^"

[batsutousai]

LOL. I spent a week in Ireland on a trip and our bus driver taught us a few words. One of my friends then spent a semester and taught me some more when she got back. I'm absolute shite at pronouncing it, though. ^.^"

Yeah, us westerners and our need for romanization. XD Well, I'll probably make it Zou Yan Xue Yuan, then. Just to keep it consistent. XD

LOL But sometimes you just need to re-watch old series for your own sanity. Ew... Exams... Good luck.

LOL. Yeah, Pokémon got really tedious. (It doesn't help that Ash/Satoshi is still eleven. Jeebus.) I do like some of the new Pokémon, though. My absolute most favourite is #491, Darkrai. And I'm kind of fond of the newest grass starter, Tsutaja. (It's a green snake with red eyes. Come on, how can you NOT love that? I named mine Tom. ^.^")

I got really lucky with Astronomy. At my school, it was only taught every other year and we actually had an astronomy lab – there's a word for it, but I don't remember... You know, those rooms with the domed top that you can use shadows and lights to display the night sky on? Whatever. – but when they rebuilt the school a couple years after I graduated, they tore it down. ;.;
Earth Sciences was the 'easy' science my school offered. It was sort of a crash course in geography, oceanography, astronomy, etc. It was probably the easiest class I ever took, and our teacher was awesome.

Mmmm... Doctor Who is the more family-friendly series. They blow some things up, but they usually try to find peaceful solutions to their problems. Torchwood is all about the explosions and innuendo, etc. People die a lot. I love both of them. (Doctor Who's on a break at the moment, but it should be starting back up beginning of next month, about the time this season of Torchwood's over. XD Really sad, though, that Sarah Jane Adventures – another spin-off – won't be continued. *sad day*)
The original Doctor Who has it's moments. It was awesome back in the day, but now it's just a cheesy sci-fi flick with really bad special effects. The current Doctor Who series I absolutely adore. Okay, to be fair, I adored the first few seasons, but the current one and the last one I'm still a bit meh on. I'm okay with the actor they picked for the Doctor, but I have no really attachment to his companion, and the plotline is convoluted as all fuck. 'S what they get for switching directors. Bah.

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll need it. Probably going to fail lots of shit cz I didn't study at all.

Lol, yeah. And he and Pikachu get reset to Level 1 in every new season. I'm more partial to Dialga, since I played Diamond. Ahh, I trained it to Level 95 but my cousin accidentally deleted my save file when he was adding games to my MicroSD. T.T All my high-leveled Pokemons and my kickass records were gone! T.T (Really? I never thought of it that way. Lol, I was thinking that it looked too much like Treecko to me and Originality Fucking Where, Nintendo?!)

Aww, lucky you! What I wouldn't give to have classes like that. *sighs*
Hmm, I've never heard of Earth Sciences but it sounds interesting. I only know basic geography of my own country and the 7 main oceans. The horror!

Lol, I'll check them all out then. Downloading Torchwood now. As for the others, I'll wait. My hard drives are dying with the amount of Gigs I'm stuffing in them. T.T

[batsutousai]

I shall send you good vibes. Maybe you'll get lucky and the bullshit you make up will turn out to be right. XD

Ugh. Tell me about it. It's like, start of every season, you're sitting there wondering why Pikachu isn't kicking some serious arse.
LOL. Yeah, I played Pearl, but I have Diamond. Didn't get overly far, 'cause about the time I started it, Platinum came out and I ended up playing and beating that one instead. Darkrai, though, was one of those event Pokémon that you couldn't get during normal gameplay – unless you cheated, which I did. I fell in love with him during that film where he's trying to keep Palkia and Dialga from destroying the town? Dunno if you saw it, but it was pretty amazing. (Loved that film. I watch it, sometimes, when I'm not feeling well. ^.^")
(Does it look like Treecko? Maybe a little, I guess? I dunno. I sort of fell out of the Pokémon world during Ruby and Sapphire, so that's the generation I'm least familiar with. No, my only problem with Tsutaja is his American name, which makes me shudder every time I hear it. We got a little toy version of him and Shara only knows his American name, so she comes by my desk sometimes and sees him and goes, "Snivy!" and I shudder and cover my ears. She thinks it's loads of fun. *eye roll*)

Yeah, my high school was nice. It sounds like it went to the dogs once I graduated, though. The awesome choir teacher retired when I graduated, the principal who everyone adored left the next year and a jerk replaced him, and the year after that the best Chemistry teacher retired. I think the Astronomy/Oceanography teacher retired the year they closed the old building, protesting their destruction of his astronomy lab. Now a days, alumni can't even visit the building anymore 'cause the security's gotten insane. My favourite librarian had to sneak me in through the loading dock by the cafeteria so I could visit for a couple hours. *eye roll*
Yeah. Dunno how common Earth Science is in the rest of the country, but my school had it. It was a nice class, though. Easy A. XD

LOL. Sounds like you need to burn some off. Or for someone to buy you a new/bigger harddrive. XD

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Lol, that was what happened in my last Biology exam. I made lots of bullshit up and got 80%, the same marks as my Chemistry exam which I studied really hard for. -.-"
Thanks for the luck!! XD

I got Diamond when it came out! It was a long long time before Platinum ever came out so... Too lazy to play a whole new game again. XD
I cheated to get all Pokemons available in my Pokedex, they're all stored in my PC~

Yeah, I've watched it! Personally I think the Diamond and Pearl arc of the movies are among the best movies in the entire franchise. I've watched all the movies, and Pokemon movies are usually very good! :D
Though I was kinda disappointed in Zoroark, it felt kinda bland somehow. Still, the returning characters from Celebi was worth it!

(Yeah, kinda. They're both green and their evolutions look really similar if you ignore their main traits but I could be wrong. I was always a fan of Fire Pokemon and to see the pig-like Pokemon for Fire. *shudders* I swore off Black and White even though I was looking forward to it. The trailers weren't much help as the new Pokemons either look similar to the older Pokemon or they're just plain stupid-looking and ugly. Seriously, a trash can for a Pokemon... -.-")

Ohh, still, you're lucky to have had all those awesome teachers and classes. :)
Lol, that happens to me too when I try to get in my old schools, just without the librarians sneaking me in part. I wear my old school uniform, carry books, sit in the canteen, chat, get out. XD
Oh, I don't live in the US, I live somewhere in the middle of Asia and our education system sucks for most subjects except Maths, Add Maths, Bio, Chem and Physics, the Science-y and Maths-y subjects. The others, well, you're better off not knowing.

Lol, I just got a new one last week but I'm too lazy to move my files now. I'll wait until after exams when I can spend the whole day sorting my files til I'm satisfied with them! :D

[batsutousai]

I think I got Pearl when it first came out, and than waited a bit to get Diamond. And then Platinum came out and...well...
LOL. I got most of them in Pearl via a lot of hard work, then cheated to get the ones I missed. XD I usually cheat to get the max Master Balls and Rare Candies so I can pretty much start off with a level 99 party and catch any Pokémon I come across. Lets me focus on the storyline more, and then I don't get bored when I have to seat around and level. *sigh*
(Okay, yeah, the trash can was all kinds of gross. I caught one, evolved it, then sent it back to the wild so I didn't have to look at it anymore. But there's a really cool fire/ghost-type that looks like a candle. It eventually evolves into a candelabra. And there's an ice cream cone. Om-nom-nom. XD The three monkeys are really cute, though I don't much care for their evolved forms – and I like their alternate colour forms better. And this is the first time I have ever liked one of the bat Pokémon. It's got a heart for a nose. OMG.
And, of course, Zorua and Zoroark, which were a pain to get, them being special release Pokémon, but I adore Zorua. Haven't evolved him or removed him from my party since I picked him up. ^.^")
It just wasn't as exciting, really. There was none of that 'saving the world from imminent disaster' going on. It was just about saving the city's trees. Meh. Did like that they brought Celebi back, though, yeah. And the alternate coloured beasts from Silver/Gold/Crystal. Suicune is one of my favourite Pokémon, and I *really* like her/him in all blue.)

Ah. Well, we don't have uniforms, so... They used to have off-campus lunches, which made it really easy to sneak into the school, the the new building had a bigger cafeteria, so they did away with that. ^.^"
No, I know. It was just sort of a 'I can see why you would have it, since it's kinda rare over there, too.' ^.^"
LOL

I'm blaming you for making me hunt down my DVDs of FMA, btw. I've been watching them instead of writing while waiting for Brotherhood to finish downloading. (Also was most upset to find that the only copy of The Conqueror of Shamballa that I have is the effin' dub. Rawr.
Why didn't I look before telling Shara she could toss all my FMA burned discs... ;.;

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Lol, I didn't cheat much except to get all available Pokemons. There was one cheat my brother's friend had that let him run/cycle through houses and hills/mountains. Neat, except it made the game damn laggy to load.
Haha, I sat around training each and every one of my Pokemon so I've got lots of sentimental attachment to them, though it was frustrating leveling them. Too bad about my save file. T.T
(OMG. I love Zorua! He's just so damn cute!! I totally get what you mean! :D)
Yeah, Suicune is just so beautiful and magical! Still prefer him/her in blue and purple though, I just like the colour combination~ XD

Haha, glad to have been of service! XD
Just keep this a secret! I don't want any of your more rabid fans coming after me for distracting you from writing! ;P
(Shamballa eh, I haven't watched that one yet, should probably get around to it if I weren't so hooked on FFVII fanfiction right now. Seph/Cloud is love! <3~ Well, actually Cloud/Anyone is love! :D [Except for Hojo and Jenova, eurgh!])

[batsutousai]

LOL. The getting all Pokémon cheats have a nasty tendency to either break my game or just not work right, so I usually go the hard-work route with the master ball cheat. ^.^" (Ooh, I remember that cheat. That's how I got Darkrai and Shaymin, although, yeah, it lagged like all fuck. And you had to turn it off if you wanted to travel through the caves or go up the mountain/Elite Four. XD
LOL. I remember having serious sentimental attachments to my original Red game Pokémon, and then we lost the cartridge in a hotel room during a car trip. I was completely devastated. ^.^" But, I occasionally form attachments to the Pokémon I level via rare candy, although that's really just because I've had them for the entire game – usually it's my starter. You should see me facing down the Elite Four when one of them manages to kill one of my favourite Pokémon. I go on this absolute rage and start yelling at the game while kicking their ass. It's quite funny to watch. (Well, funny or disturbing. Not sure.)
Well, yeah, the blue/purple combination is pretty. There's just something about the all-blue that tickles my fancy. ^.^"

LOL. The only one who knows is Shara. (And maybe larawander5.) On the other hand, until I've got the layout of the city worked out for sure, I can't do a whole lot of work on the next chapter. Should have that done by the end of the week, assuming we can track down a better res image of the moon. Rawr.
Shamballa was okay, I guess. Mostly I liked it for the hints of Ed/Roy love. There's supposedly a new film that ties in with Brotherhood, actually, but I'm having a dreadful time finding a copy of it. (Possibly because it's not released on DVD yet... ^.^")
LOL. FFVII, huh? I have a terrible love for Squall/Cloud crossovers, and I'm okay with some occasional Cloud/Seph or Cloud/Zack, but otherwise I'm not much for the fandom. (Mostly 'cause I utterly fail at playing that game... ^.^")
VII just never quite caught my attention like VIII, X and XII did. (Admittedly, VIII is completely shivani's fault.) I really like the characters for XIII, but I get so bored levelling all the time that I'm stuck about halfway through. *sigh*

I'm gonna go...eat Jello and watch FMA some more. *shift eyes*

[ringermaker.livejournal.com]

Poor you! D: Rare candy... I think I've used so much of those they're just pretty much normal to me. ^-^"
Lol, it's funny! Me and my bro both do the same! XD Well, I think my bro will be more disturbing if you ever compare. He'll be walking around cursing, kicking things, throwing things and yelling at them. :D

Good! XD At least I won't need to keep looking behind me everywhere I go in cyberspace! Rabid fans are scary! Rabid fangirls are even scarier! *shudders and hides behind my computer chair*

Ooh, really? Ed/Roy?! Now I've got to watch it! (Sucker for BL. >.<)
Yup, it's some side-story which ties in when they're hunting for the Philosopher's Stone. It's probably just out in theaters so ETA for DVDs/BDs/fansubs will probably be sometime next year. T.T

Lol, I've never played any Final Fantasy games. I suck at games! x.x All the things I know are from either FMVs/Wiki/game scripts.
Squall/Cloud is also love! <3~ Too bad there are just so little good fiction of them out there. T.T
I like VII and VIII best, the others have too little guys that catch my fancy and the plots are getting more and more complicated and convoluted I get headaches trying to remember them sometimes. x.x
Lol, leveling anything is boring, which is why I always quit halfway through a game. >.< The only game I can ever manage to keep on leveling is Pokemon. Must be why it's so addicting and sells so well for Nintendo. *grumbles*

Have fun~! XD

[history13041985.livejournal.com]

I love this chapter! I love the talking between Harry and Albus (poor Albus, he sees the muggle as good).
I read the comment and wonder about Ron. Because perhaps you can use an other character for saying bad thing about Harry and Voldemort ( he is always used , Ron is not my favorite character but he is too often used like that.

[batsutousai]

Poor Albus indeed. XD

Eh? I'd need someone in the school, and Ron's, honestly, the first that comes to mind. He'd be the most vocal, at any rate. (And it's not, necessarily, for saying bad things about Harry and Voldie, it's for bitching about something else which, while the readers know it's related to Harry and Voldie, Ron won't. What, I cannot say, because that would give it away. XD)

[history13041985.livejournal.com]

A ravenclaw can do the same thing that Ron( some are bully (they hide books of Luna)). And i think they will ask a lot of question and those question will annoy Voldemort.

[farawisa.livejournal.com]

loved it. the new chapter was amazing. there is just one thing that i noticed about the meeting with dumbles. it's on the morning and mme rosmerta says afternoon at one point.

otherwise i loved every moment of it. especially when harry told dobby to tell lucius that everyone that disturbed them would be killed on sight. that can so be understood with a suggestive meaning.

hope you go on soon.

ps: i just remembered the bunnies. they were great as well!

[batsutousai]

Hn. So she does. Oops. I suppose I should go fix that, but I'm not sure I care enough to edit all four versions of the fic on the web... ^.^"

LOL. Poor Lucius. His brain might just combust. XD

And the bunnies will return. Even more awesome than before. *insert evil laugh here*