missgranger: It was Miss Granger in the Ravenclaw Common Room with the Very Sharp Quill.

It was Miss Granger in the Ravenclaw Common Room with the Very Sharp Quill.
Apparently some rather scandalous things happened at the Ravenclaw party on Friday, which I missed entirely. There was a lot of dancing, a lot of jumping on the furniture, and a bit of drinking as well, it seems. I'm afraid I must not have noticed in my effort to find out who exactly murdered Dr Black!

I almost can't believe I played Cluedo at Hogwarts. I used to play it all the time with my dad when I was much younger, so it seems so strange to me to see it here! I'm still quite delighted, as you can tell. For those who have never played it, it's a Muggle board game wherein you are to solve a murder mystery. You play as one of six characters, and you are handed out cards to aid you in your investigation. In the end, the murderer is one of the six characters, and you must determine whodunit, with what, and where. When Lisa mentioned she had the game here at school, I begged her to let us play it. I'd forgotten not everyone here would just automatically know what Cluedo is, so my excitement weirded out Ernie, I'm sure, but after I explained and we sat down to play it he had a knack for it, as you might expect! Naturally the pictures on the cards didn't move, but we came up with the notion to charm our game pieces so we could direct them like chessmen. I favour playing as Professor Plum, and Ernie was Colonel Mustard - and for the two games she played with us, Lisa was Reverend Green, since we all felt someone had to be the Rev, and who better than Lisa, who is Jewish? It was so fitting. The second game we played, it was Col Mustard with the Dagger in the Lounge, and we had to take a break while Ernie attempted to protest his innocence. To no avail! It was the big house for Col Mustard.

It is worth noting that if you play Cluedo at all you ought to play it with someone like Ernie, who seems to be able to come up with backstories for each and every murder. In fact, Miss Scarlett twice murdered Dr Black in the Kitchen with the Spanner, but they were unique in that once Miss Scarlett murdered him for cheating on her with Mrs Peacock and the other time she simply thought he was a very large cockroach.

We probably played at least fifteen or twenty games; I have pages upon pages of Cluedo notes! It must have been very late when we decided to call it a night, as people were sleeping on the couches instead of jumping on them, and most of the students from other houses had cleared out.

It was only last night I overheard Lavender going on about some of the more mind-boggling events from Friday night and I must just say that wherever Ginny's hiding, she's got a lot of explaining to do. I don't think she was even drinking.

erniemacmillan @ 2004-03-29 03:12 am UTC

Well! I can't help thinking that if you're to be the murderer, they ought to inform you so you can be crafty and try to convince everyone else it was someone else!

missgranger @ 2004-03-29 03:22 am UTC

Everyone would believe you if you tried to pin it on Miss Scarlett, too. She is so suspicious to have found the body. It really is too bad. I could have saved Professor Plum from the indignity of being cuffed.