Rumor Mill (September)

[Gossip Ghost]

The Gossip Ghost had a lot of catching up to do. Who knows what had gone on with the students of Hogwarts over the summer? As soon as the first students stepped into the school, the Gossip Ghost was there, waiting, watching, listening. If anything juicy was going on, Gossip Ghost was there to know it. And to share it. After all, would it not be selfish to keep all this information to oneself? The students of Hogwarts deserved to know the truth about their classmates, the good, the bad, the ugly. They even deserved to know the not-so-truthful... when stories got slow, sometimes Gossip Ghost took it into his own hands to speed it up, even if it meant stretching the truth, or just plain inventing stories.

Finally, a few weeks into the year, the Gossip Ghost had enough stories put together to post them throughout the school. He made sure no bulletin board went missed. The Entrance Hall, each of the house Common Rooms, even some of the walls of the major hallways, had posted, for everyone to see, in big, bold letters:

"After snogging in front of the whole school last year, Raphael Dane and Elizabeth Frank have been sneaking into each others' rooms!"

"James Potter is Head Boy? How did he get that title? Doesn't anybody suspect a little foul play?"

"There's some building tension between best friends/potential lovebirds @marshy and @evanescente... a little trouble in paradise?"

"Notorious womanizer Sirius Black has set his sights on Dominique Keys. What does he see in that b*tch anyway, and what's she see in him?"

"Those Marauders sneak out of the school at night all the time, at least once a month. You would think the Prefect (Remus Lupin) and Head Boy among them would put a stop to it, but they just encourage it!"

"It's not bad enough that Ryan Olsen is smoking and drinking at his age in the school, but in front of younger students like @archibaldllewellyn too!"

[ooc: Basically, the Gossip Ghost has posted stories throughout the school for students to react to. Some true, some not, some exaggerated, but that's the point - they're supposed to create conversation and drama. You can reply to this thread, or start others in the Entrance Hall/Common Rooms reacting to these stories! Ask the person beside you if they can believe it, try to convince others that the story about you isn't true, or make up even more stuff to stir up more trouble.]