Charming is a Victorian Era Harry Potter roleplay set primarily in the village of Hogsmeade, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the non-canon village of Irvingly. Characters of all classes, both magical and muggle — and even non-human! — are welcome.

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    You have found our archive! Charming lives on here!
    02.05 One last puzzle before we depart!
    02.01 AC? What AC?
    01.26 Impending URL changes!
    01.11 I've got a bit of a reputation...
    01.06 AC underway, and a puzzle to solve!
    01.01 Happy new year! Have some announcements of varying importance.
    12.31 Enter the Winter Labyrinth if you dare!
    12.23 Professional Quidditch things...
    12.21 New stamp!
    12.20 Concerning immortality
    12.16 A heads up that the Secret Swap deadline is fast approaching!
    12.14 Introducing our new Minister of Magic!
    12.13 On the first day of Charming, Kayte gave to me...
    12.11 Some quick reminders!
    12.08 Another peek at what's to come...
     
        
     
    Bird Poop
    #1
    • Meta was so happy that the weather was finally good enough for her to go to the park every day. She preferred the out-doors much more than being at home. Home was where stupid Gretchen was but in the park she could mostly ignore her as long as she didn't go too far from where their nanny was.

      Today, Meta decided to play with a small toy boat near one of the ponds. It was a pity that their stupid nanny didn't want to go on a boat ride with them. Couldn't her nannies be cool and pretty like Mirella? Meta was looking forward for the woman to be fired.

      She giggled as she moved the boat on the water with a long stick, when she felt something warm and wet hit her head and Meta realized that a bird had pooped on her.

      She let out a cry.
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    #2

    Despite being well rounded from pregnancy and being perpetually achey, Abe couldn't stand to be idle. It was her day off and all she wanted to do was walk. The day was nice so she decided that a walk in the park would not be remiss. So with Sir Elam prancing along by her side she did just that. Clad still in her usual mens clothes hand-me-downs, she made her way to the park, saying things to her pet here and there but mostly just dodging looks she got for her short hair, attire and obvious pregnancy. She forgot how weird people could be and so she decided to walk towards the pond where it was less crowded.


    Naturally Sir Elam jumped into the pond and Abe just laughed at him. He was the only cat she knew who enjoyed water. She would have been content to watch her pet play around in the water had she not heard the distinct cry of a young girl. Normally Abe would let the child's nanny care for it - whatever it was - but as she looked around and found the crying girl not far from her, it became apparent that the nanny was not rushing to her side. So she walked on over to the little girl and nearly started cracking up when she saw the reason for her tears: there was bird shit on her head.


    Managing to keep the laugh from her voice she grabbed a handkerchief from her pocket and bent down as best as she could to the girls side. "Here, use this to clean yourself up a bit, hmm?" She said it in a voice that was less harsh than she usually spoke with. The little girl was obviously from money and so she almost expected her to tell her to go away like a little brat would. Time would tell, it seemed.

    #3
    Meta was approached by a young lady who for some reason was dressed like a boy. Her stomach was big, just like Meta's mother, so she quickly assumed that a baby lived in there, just like with Meta's own mother. The lady's hair was shorter than most ladies', but Meta's hair was also rather short. After she had cut off Gretchen's hair, Meta's hair was also cut to the same lenght as Gretchen's. Luckily, her hair grew fast so it had already reached her shoulders.

    She attempted to smother down her sobs and pick up the lady's handkerchief. If it was Mirella who had brought them to the park and not her stupid nanny, Meta would have walked away so Mirella wouldn't be fired, but she didn't really cared for her nanny.

    She moved the handkerchief to her head so she could clean up the poop, but once the hand that held the handkerchief touched her head, Meta started screaming. "It's icky! I don't want to touch it!" She declared and started crying loudly again.
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    #4
    In hindsight Abe should have known that a well off young girl like her wouldn't be able to stand the touch of bird shit - even through a handkerchief. So at her returned cry Abe grabbed the handkerchief from the childs hand and picked the poop right off, shaking it off then dipping a corner of the handkerchief in the water. "I know it's nasty but I'll take care of it." She said as she smiled to the child as she used the wet handkerchief to wipe off any residual poop.

    After she'd made sure the girl was clean of any poop she gave a slight chuckle. "There now you're good as new." It felt strange talking to the little girl knowing that this very moment could be in her future with her own child. Though Spawn wouldn't be as impeccably dressed or darkly colored. There was a small comfort in knowing that she'd at least handled the situation reasonably well.


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    #5
    Meta felt relieved when the poop was removed from her head. She still felt like she needed a bath quickly, though. Once they returned home she would definitely wash her hair, because just knowing that there was poop on her head made her feel filthy.

    "My hair must smell, doesn't it?" Meta asked the blonde with a sob. She didn't want Frida and Gretchen to make fun of her smelly hair. "I surely smell like a mudblood!"
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    #6
    For a moment she was stunned by the girls words. She just said mudblood and were the girl older she might have given it to her for saying such a thing. But she was a child and she couldn't very well yell at a child. So instead she just said: "You don't smell bad...besides, they don't really smell bad." She refused to say the word. It was terribly ugly.

    "If it did don't you think we'd be getting a wave of stench from Irvingly?" She tried to make light of it as she looked at the girl. "You still smell very much like a lovely young girl, I promise." She said it with a smile, the back of her mind almost cringing because she wasn't complete shit at the whole interacting with children thing.
    #7
    Meta was confused at the girl's defensive stance towards the mudbloods. That didn't sound as something any of her relatives would have done. Even the ones who didn't had too strong feelings about it wouldn't be so nice to them.

    "Maybe they put a barrier to keep the smell from coming." Meta commented with a shrug. "I know for sure that I would never want to live with them. They should have been told to leave when the Ministry found them, rather than allow them to live so close to us!"
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    #8
    She wasn't about to have an argument with a little girl so she just sighed. "I suppose that's true." She conceded. It wasn't her child after all and if this little girl was a brat there wasn't much of anything Abe could do about it. She must have learned it from somewhere so she wouldn't be surprised if her family was one of those really uppity ones that were annoying as all get out.

    "But nevermind that. We should get your nanny. Is she close by?" She looked around, unsure which of the women who were chit-chatting it could have been. And she was nearly certain she would be one of those women. After all, it would be a bad idea to completely leave a young, well-off girl like that alone without any adult supervision.
    #9
    "She's over there." Meta replied and nodded towards the direction. She really had to return back to her nanny, otherwise she could be grounded. It was the woman's duty to keep an eye on her, but the girls weren't supposed to wander around all the time!

    "Thanks." she said to the older lady and then she ran towards her nanny.
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