Obliviate 2009
Oct. 4th, 2009 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_of_clunnBack from London!
I had a blast!
Starting out I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
robs55 and her cousin, who was a blessing, becaus eshe knows her way around London, as where I only manage to go places I need to go and find my way back.
Anyhow, first we went to Platform 9 3/4 to catch the Hogwarts express:
Then we went on one of the "Heritage" bus lines, which are supposed to feature the traditional red double decker buses, but we only got a modern one. We managed to get prime seats, front row on the upper floor and had some panoramic views of inner city London, then we failed to get off the bus before it went into less interesting areas but still got to the restaurant in time.
Loads of people!
It was quite lovely, meeting so many HP-fans. Unfortunately acoustics in the restaurant were...special, so we had to either stick to talking to our neighbours or scream.
Back at the hotelnursedarry and cassie_black had brilliant surprises for us. I got sorted into Ravenclaw! I always thought of myself as a sort of Slytherdor and was even wearing a Slytherin shirt that declared "Sorted!" , but hey, I am definitely not complaining!
We had to sit our NEWT's and due to awesome team work, the house of Ravenclaw had the highest score!
In our goodie bags
we found gift-drabbles (a heartbreaking HG/SS YAY!), chocolate!!!, shiny, flashing pens, sweets and a raffle ticket.
Now I won some awesome children's art by Darry's daughter Claire. She made me a triad-pic! It's Harry-Hermione-Draco. So cute!
But there was also some fanart to be won. It was Harry, Draco or Harr/Draco and absolutely gorgeous!! I had some pictures taken, but Darry raised a very important issue - there are several people in the background of my pictures whom I have no possibility to contact and get permission to post pictures. So, you'll have to take my word on it that the fanart really was superb.
I just wish it could have lasted longer! Before I knew it it was 22:30 and I had to rush off to the train station. I think I will suggest tonursedarry to start the next meetup earlier. Maybe we could have lunch together instead of dinner and start the fun right afterward? So many people had to leave around the same time as I and there was no chance to really meet everybody and chat. And I didn't get to play pictionary. *pouts*
It was great!
With a NEWT score like that I should be able to get a nice Ministry job with a desk preferably as close as possible to Draco's. Or Blaise's. Or Lucius' office. Yeah. Definitely close to Lucius' office. Maybe he needs a PA??
For the people on my Christmas-card list and who have sent me their addresses for Obliviate-postcards, fear not, they'll be in the mail by tomorrow, I just have to get the special stamps for the US and continental Europe.
I had a blast!
Starting out I met
robs55 and her cousin, who was a blessing, becaus eshe knows her way around London, as where I only manage to go places I need to go and find my way back.Anyhow, first we went to Platform 9 3/4 to catch the Hogwarts express:
Then we went on one of the "Heritage" bus lines, which are supposed to feature the traditional red double decker buses, but we only got a modern one. We managed to get prime seats, front row on the upper floor and had some panoramic views of inner city London, then we failed to get off the bus before it went into less interesting areas but still got to the restaurant in time.
Loads of people!
It was quite lovely, meeting so many HP-fans. Unfortunately acoustics in the restaurant were...special, so we had to either stick to talking to our neighbours or scream.
Back at the hotel
nursedarry and cassie_black had brilliant surprises for us. I got sorted into Ravenclaw! I always thought of myself as a sort of Slytherdor and was even wearing a Slytherin shirt that declared "Sorted!" , but hey, I am definitely not complaining!We had to sit our NEWT's and due to awesome team work, the house of Ravenclaw had the highest score!
In our goodie bags
we found gift-drabbles (a heartbreaking HG/SS YAY!), chocolate!!!, shiny, flashing pens, sweets and a raffle ticket.
Now I won some awesome children's art by Darry's daughter Claire. She made me a triad-pic! It's Harry-Hermione-Draco. So cute!
But there was also some fanart to be won. It was Harry, Draco or Harr/Draco and absolutely gorgeous!! I had some pictures taken, but Darry raised a very important issue - there are several people in the background of my pictures whom I have no possibility to contact and get permission to post pictures. So, you'll have to take my word on it that the fanart really was superb.
I just wish it could have lasted longer! Before I knew it it was 22:30 and I had to rush off to the train station. I think I will suggest to
nursedarry to start the next meetup earlier. Maybe we could have lunch together instead of dinner and start the fun right afterward? So many people had to leave around the same time as I and there was no chance to really meet everybody and chat. And I didn't get to play pictionary. *pouts*It was great!
With a NEWT score like that I should be able to get a nice Ministry job with a desk preferably as close as possible to Draco's. Or Blaise's. Or Lucius' office. Yeah. Definitely close to Lucius' office. Maybe he needs a PA??
For the people on my Christmas-card list and who have sent me their addresses for Obliviate-postcards, fear not, they'll be in the mail by tomorrow, I just have to get the special stamps for the US and continental Europe.
