Eros’s Comments (group member since Nov 07, 2012)

Eros’s comments from the The New Age Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling group.

Obscurus Books
publisher
Located at 18a Diagon Alley, and the publishers of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Magical Menagerie
pets & related items
A very crowded pet store, noisy with the sounds of all the animals, where Hermione bought Crookshanks. The proprietor is a witch who wears heavy black spectacles. She offers advice and sells things like rat tonic. Other creatures for sale included:


enormous purple toads
gigantic tortoise with jewel-encrusted shell (probably a Fire-Crab)
poisonous orange snails (Streelers?)
a fat white rabbit that changed into a top hat and back
cats of every color
noisy cage of ravens
custard-colored furballs (probably Puffskeins)
sleek, black rats, rather more intelligent than normal rats

Madam Primpernelle's Beautifying Potions
beautifying potions
A company that helps witches remove "warts and worse," and that recently advertised for Junior Potion mixer in the Daily Prophet. Madam Primpernelle's is located at 275, Diagon Alley (DP).

Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions
robes
Though far from the only wizarding clothier around, Madam Malkin's seems to be the best, as it is the place where most Hogwarts students purchase their robes. Madam Malkin herself is a friendly, squat witch (PS5), though she seems a bit out of touch at times and got flustered when Draco Malfoy confronted Harry in her shop (HBP6).

Madam Malkin's is located next door to Flourish & Blotts, and in addition to selling Hogwarts school robes (PS5), they also sell robes which are "spangled, self-ironing, beautifying, slimming, fattening, lengthening," and "temperature-adjusting" (DP) and they carry robes made by Whopperwear "for the outsize witch or wizard." A later advertisement states that every robe sold at the store is "self-ironing and repairing" as well (JKR).

junk shop
secondhand items
Full of broken wands, lopsided scales, etc., and a thin little book called Prefects Who Gained Power which caught Percy's eye (CS4).

Gambol & Japes
joke items
This shop, a favorite of Fred and George, sells a wide variety of tricks and practical joke items. The twins bought Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks here in 1992 (CS4), though of course four years later they were a direct competitor with their own joke shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, just down the road (HBP6).

Flourish & Blotts
books
A large wizarding bookshop filled with shelves stacked to the ceiling, Flourish & Blotts is the primary - and perhaps only - supplier of textbooks for Hogwarts (PS5), though of course that's far from all they sell. The shop holds occasional book-signings, such as when Gilderoy Lockhart stopped by in 1992 (CS4), and sells books via owl (HBP11) in addition to books purchased in-store. They also take advance orders for books that are in high demand, such as The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore (DH8).

In addition to the store's manager, who at times helps customers himself (PA4), the store also employs an assistant manager (paid 42 Galleons a month) (DP) and an assistant (CS4). The job is not altogether easy, as wizarding books might attempt to bite or simply be completely invisible (PA4), and fights - like the scuffle between Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy that sent books raining down on everyone's heads - are apparently commonplace enough that a classified posting for a new assistant manager requires that he or she be "good at breaking up fights" (DP).

Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour
ice cream
An ice cream parlor with outdoor tables, where Florean Fortescue served Harry free ice cream sundaes and offered advice about medieval witchcraft for a report he was writing (PA4). The shop was boarded up after Florean disappeared mysteriously in 1996 (HBP6).

Eeylops Owl Emporium
owls & related merchandise (i.e. owl treats)
A dimly lit shop which, according to the sign, sells tawny, screech, barn, brown, and snowy owls. Hagrid bought Hedwig here for Harry's eleventh birthday on July 31, 1991 (PS5). Harry also returned later to buy owl nuts - a favorite treat of Hedwig's (HBP6).

Dark Arts establishments
dark items
In 1998, with Voldemort fully in charge of the Ministry of Magic, a number of Diagon Alley shops closed, replaced by these nondescript shops devoted to the Dark Arts (DH26). Of course, even at other times, such shops exist just around the corner in Knockturn Alley, too (CS4). However, this particular shop was not removed once Voldemort was overthrown and at last defeated.

Daily Prophet offices
newspaper publisher
The headquarters of the Daily Prophet are located in Diagon Alley, as the newspaper instructs that letters to the editor should be sent here by owl (DP).

cafes
food
When Harry spent several weeks in Diagon Alley before his third year, he ate his meals (except for breakfast) at these assorted cafes. The cafes had "brightly colored umbrellas" over their tables outside, which were Harry's preferred seats. While sitting here, he liked listening to the shoppers around him discussing their purchases or the escape of Sirius Black (PA4).

Apothecary
potion ingredients

The Apothecary is a fascinating shop crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls. Bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage

Introduction
Tapping just the right brick in the wall behind the Leaky Cauldron in London ("Three up...two across...") will reveal an archway which is a portal into Diagon Alley, a long cobbled street where is to be found a strange and exciting assortment of shops and restaurants. It is unquestionably the hub of commerce in the British wizarding world, with virtually every wizarding business stationed there. Consequently, the demand for space here is steep, and rent costs "loads of Galleons" (OP30).

During the summer before his third year, Harry Potter spent several weeks in Diagon Alley, staying in a room at the Leaky Cauldron by night and roaming the street by day, marveling at the incredible shops and the witches and wizards, in from all over the country, who came by to do their shopping (PA4).

Following Voldemort's return to power in 1996, wizards and witches no longer felt safe wandering out in public, and Diagon Alley changed dramatically. The once-crowded streets stood virtually empty, faces of Death Eaters plastered the fronts of once-bright shops, and street vendors popped up, hawking anti-Dark devices (HBP6). Within another year and Voldemort's taking over of the Ministry of Magic, a large number of shops had closed, replaced by others devoted bto the Dark Arts, and the street was filled with Muggle-borns who had been cast aside by the new system (DH26). Presumably, after Voldemort's eventual downfall and the installation of Kingsley Shacklebolt as Minister for Magic (BLC), Diagon Alley eventually returned to its splendor of old.

Name: Aeson Lucan Juvenalis
Nicknames: Lucan only by fellow workers and family

House was in before Teaching: Hufflepuff

Class: Potions

Other Position of importance: Head of Hufflepuff
Age: 24

Blood Type: Purblood

Appearance: (view spoiler)[
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With short wavy blonde hair. A tall lean cut muscular body. Bluish green eyes swirling with light as if the glow of the killing curse gleams non stop in his eyes.

Personality: For a Hufflepuff he is rather darkened. He shows the more deviled side of the Hufflepuff House. Although holding his characteristics rather strongly...He is very fair given he will never approach any being unarmed. He believes in respectful duels but never lets up on strong curses and hexes.
His entire outlook on the power of the bond between wand and wizard are very strong wensuring to repeat a single form of lyrics to himself and his classes.
I am the wind that blows across the sea;
I am the Wave of the Deep;
I am the Roar of the Ocean;
I am the Stag of Seven Battles;
I am the Hawk on the Cliff;
I am a Ray of Sunlight;
I am a Shadow of Darkness;
I am the Greenest of Plants;
I am a Wild Boar;
I am a Salmon in the River;
I am a Lake on the Plain;
I am the Word of Knowledge;
I am the Point of a Spear;
I am the Lure beyond the ends of the Earth;
I can shift my shape like a God.
~From the Song of Amergin with some tweeks

History: Born in France in a small coastal wizarding town. He is the only member of his family to be a Hufflepuff. His other family members have all been in Slytherin or some of the darker groups of other schools. He is far more kinder than his other family members who most of now await the coming of the end of their sentences in Azkaban Prison.

Wand:
Length: 14 in
Wood: Yew & Elm
Core: Phoenix Feather
General Info: Yew is a very powerful tree with deep complicated symbolism, and as such has a wide range of possible uses, especially in all workings dealing with the essential transformation such as being an animagus. I addition to this it can induce visions, protect from aggression, enhance magical and psychic abilities, etc...
However, in most cases it is not recommended to use Yew as a wand wood. The main cause for this restriction is lays not in the connection with the Dark Arts, as most would (and mistakenly) assume. The point is that the Yew energies are not fully manageable. They are shapeless, non-consistent, and almost chaotic. The effect of using them can be unpredictable and often disastrous.
Elm wood in this wand combines darkly with the Yew and causing greatness to form in the core of the wand. Elm wood is good for any magic working. It also has the power to add stability and grounding to a spell. Elm does very well in the Dark Arts, especially in spells or curses that can bring irreversible material damage.
It is known to dull the senses and cause depression or darkness.

Pet(Limit 3 pets, one must be an Owl): Shaydin

Current Family: all in Azkaban

Crush (optional): open to guys

Other:
He is an animagus

Marco Mur Head of Gryffindor edit it please as he is approved to be the Head.

Castiel approved as Head of Ravenclaw. Just one issue did you not read the part No exceptions on full name?

well done on the Charries and Love the Head Mistress.

lol i am just back from my holiday extravaganza with family so I will be popping in and out ensuring this group has any place imaginable thnx to the help and info provided by the fabulous J.K. Rowling

Hello to everyone I hope a happy Christmas took place and to those like me who did not have that of a satisfying one, I do apologize and hope that the rest of the year and the new year will be of great appealing to you.

very nice.

Name: Cornelius Favian Lunes
Age:25
Occupational Job and Department of Work:The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures (The Wizengamot Council, Cheif Warlock and Head of Department in the Being Division mostly working on cases involving Werewolf Relations and Registry.
Appearance:
Personality: He is rather dark and cold hearted...Cruelty is the best policy when one is trying to defend themselves from darkness one must know their way around the darkness by delving directly into it...
History: unknown
Wand:
Length: 14 in
Wood: Locust wood
Core: Hippogriff Feather, Horntail Heartstring
Special abilities (If any): Animagus

Pets: none
Broom: Flies a Nimbus 2001
Other: