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[hexuality]

[ video | action ]

Welcome to the City, and to Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes!

[Look, it's the youngest Weasley in question, filming a post to the network from behind the counter at her brothers' joke shop. The place itself is absolutely bustling with people and noise (chatter, whizzing, bangs, flashes!) and Ginny herself looks a little tousled but beaming. She has to raise her voice a bit to be heard.]

Looks like the weekend brought the visitors with it, so we're having a special until everyone goes home! Maybe that's three days from now, maybe it's tomorrow! Wouldn't you hate to miss this lot?

[The camera wheels around to show the shop, the shelves, the colourful magical products, then back to her.]

So come find us! And if you ask us how Babbitty Rabbitty's Cackling Stump is doing, you'll get 10% off one item of your choice! And if you're family—or from home at all—you'll just have to outright bribe me for a discount. [Wink. That means you, brothers, she knows you're out there.] We hope to see you here!

[And with a flourish of her wand and a shower of indoor fireworks later, rousing applause and appreciation from the patrons, the feed ends.]



[ooc; FOURTH WALL! HAVE AT HER. Just no doubles, no telling her she's from a book, and no future spoilers beyond the Final Battle (though if it happens, she'll conveniently forget once it's all over). Feel free to threadjack, too! HAVE FUN AND BACKDATE FOREVER! ♥

Ginny will be at the joke shop, at Passioné, and out and about in the City once shop hours are over. Come troll her on the network or in person!]

Comments

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[boutant]

[ Guess who saw that announcement and is just going to come show up and ambush Ginny?

Ariadne. That's who. ]

You didn't mention how visitors are supposed to pay for this, you know.

[ Never mind that she probably still has a bank account... ]

action;

[hexuality]

Ariadne!

[She's practically scrambling over the counter just to get to her, slipping around a few precariously-balanced products and throwing herself at the other girl with a hug. Yes, she's been in a foul mood lately, but there's a high that being surrounded by the stuff she loves can bring, and this just makes everything better.]

It's so good to see you! I've missed you so much!

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[boutant]

[ Laughing (the Weasleys have always made her laugh just as much as they've made her cry), Ariadne catches her in the hug, squeezing. ]

There's no way I'd miss a chance to come see you.

[ Like it's under her control, just as she can't remember Ginny to miss her elsewhere, but it's the thought that counts. ]

[caniculares]

Weasley's Wizard-

What kind of items are we looking at, here?

[hexuality]

The finest magical tricks, sweets, and fireworks you can imagine. If you're visiting a friend or have a friend visiting and want to surprise them, odds are you'll find whatever you want on our shelves.

[caniculares]

The only Weasley's I know are more into Muggles than jokes.

[mapmaker]

[ The invitation is tucked away inside his jumper, paper crinkling as he walks but of course the building is the first that he has to out and out explore. For all that he's a sensible sort, he is a Marauder and it's like a siren song. He enters just as the fireworks end, eases his way in through the crowd.

She looks like another Gryffindor he knows, so much that he actually double takes. ] Hello, are you the proprietor?

[hexuality]

Yes, hullo!

[Ginny's grinning and waving and thanking people as they compliment the little display, waving them towards the shelves that carry the same products she's just used for a demonstration.]

Sorry, hi, I'm Ginny Weasley. Welcome!

[mapmaker]

[ Weasley.

Immediately his smile widens, the newly healing scar on his cheek pulling taut. ] Any relation to Arthur?

[ex_emperatrix676]

Keeping busy, little witch?

[hexuality]

Bellatrix.

[ex_emperatrix676]

Quite a long way from home, aren't you? What would Mummy say?

[caniculares]

....well.

You aged badly.

[maraudings]

[James strolls on in to the shop, because who can say no to a red head?]

If I say Babbitty Rabbitty's Cackling Stump three times, will I get a bigger discount?

[hexuality]

[Well. She knows you. His son looks just like him, for Merlin's sake, but she'd know Harry in a heartbeat and that isn't him, which leaves...]

You're James Potter, aren't you?

[maraudings]

I see my fame precedes me.

[And isn't James happy about that. He's smirking.]

You are a lot prettier looking than Arthur.

[killerstyle]

[THE DOORS OPEN.

A GREEN-EYED MAN STRIDES IN.

And proceeds to head right over to Ginny, catch her face in his hands, and kiss her thoroughly before she quite knows what is happening, um.

...

Guess who.]

holy shit i'm dying YES

[hexuality]

[It would probably alarm her brothers that Ginny doesn't quite move to fend off this man who is suddenly making out with her, but they don't know what she knows. And the fact is she knows what kissing Finnick Odair is like because it's happened before and so she just... rolls with it, aww yeah.

And then starts laughing against his mouth.]

aiming to get beat up by every visiting member of the HP cast awww yeah

[killerstyle]

[It's not until she starts laughing that he gets properly theatrical, sweeping her off her feet into a low and charming dip that he probably learned from some really crappy movie he'd marathoned the last time he was properly in the City.

Never a bad time to pick up a new trick of the trade, after all.]

Hey, watch the--careful, Ginny, don't bite me!

[Pause.]

I mean, that's my job. And only upon request.

video. combobreaker

[intelligently]

What is 'Babbitty Rabbitty's Cackling Stump'?

video; sup fellow ginger lady

[hexuality]

[She starts laughing.]

A kid's story from my world. It's a bit ridiculous, honestly. Which is why it seems fitting for the joke shop today.

video. pls strawberry blonde

[intelligently]

And that means you get 10% off?

[freewheeling]

I never got the knack of selling. [ Halo Ginny, have a flamboyant warlock surveying your shop. He couldn't help himself, the magic called to him. Like to like, you know. ]

I tried once. Drank all my stock and ended up with ten llamas I had no clue what to do with. It was all very troublesome. Three hundred years later and I still go into a cold sweat at the memory. [ Brightening. ] Though you seem to be doing well for yourself.

[hexuality]

Carrying on the family business, as it were. [Proudly,] My brothers started the place and when they went home, I took it on instead of letting it close. Why would I let all this go to waste?

[Extending a hand,]

Ginny Weasley. Pleasure to meet you.

[freewheeling]

Magnus Bane.

[ Instead of shaking her hand he lifts it to his lips and drops a kiss there. ] The pleasure's all mine.