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Nov 4, 2021 8:14:49 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2021 8:14:49 GMT -7
No one could say Dominique was a peaceful type of person. She knew she was argumentative, brash and stubborn to a fault. Unfortunately, one of her new coworkers at Interpol had decided that her qualities meant she wasn’t as smart as they were, and continuously talked down to the middle Weasley-Delacour child. Now this was something Nikki would not stand for, and she had to do something about it. So she had decided to turn to the family shop, Weasley Wizarding Wheezes, to put her coworker back in his place.
Nikki opened the door to the shop in Diagon Alley, the bell tinkling as she passed through. “Yoohoo! Lily, you here yet?” she called. She had asked her cousin what her hours were, so she could make sure she came to the shop when Lily was working. Lily and Nikki were very different people, but they understood each other. And the youngest Potter certainly understood wanting to put someone in their place. “I need your help,” she added, beginning to meander through the thickly stocked shelves. She knew Lily would have some ideas on what she could use to teach her coworker a lesson, but she hadn’t made her presence known yet, so Nikki started looking at the items on the shelf closest to her. Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, no that would be a nuisance to everyone, not just her coworker. Sighing, she tapped her fingers against her elbow, hoping Lily was here and would help her soon.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
396 posts
played by Colin
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last online May 17, 2024 8:01:04 GMT -7
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Nov 8, 2021 16:55:41 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Nov 8, 2021 16:55:41 GMT -7
▲ Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes was already Lily’s home away from home away from home. She had a lot places she considered home, but the family joke shop was easily one of her favorites outside of The Burrow. When she had asked her Uncle George over the Christmas break if she could work for him after graduation, she had immediately been given a ‘yes!’ and had been looking forward to it since. There was the little hiccup and almost dying thing back in May at Hogwarts, but that had sorted itself out and she ended up finally graduating. Eight long years of school, and now she finally had her second dream job: cashier at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. Professional Quidditch would have been cool, but that took a lot of effort and two years without playing in a match had seriously hindered her flying skills, so that sort of disappeared as a possible career path. Not that she couldn’t hop back on her broom at any point and give it another go though. Right now, all of her attention was set at learning the stock of the store and how to help sell product to customers. Her natural enthusiasm really helped with it, and while parents hated that, the kids absolutely loved her. Uncle George was somewhere in the back of the shop currently, showing off a new product to a gaggle of interested soon to be fifth years. She had overheard that they were all going to Ilvermorny for this upcoming school year, and that meant they wanted to load up on joke products before it was too late. Her position behind the counter meant she had to wait until they were finished picking what they wanted, but that was definitely going to be a while, because a round of small explosions went off from where the group was. Once the fireworks came out, it always ended up being another twenty or thirty minutes. She’d smell the sulfur from the ignition pretty soon here too… The front door jingled as another customer entered the shop, and Lily leaned over the counter to make her appearance known. It was Nikki! “Check-out!” she yelled back, knowing that her cousin would understand the lingo. She needed help, which was interesting because there wasn’t all that much Lily could do to help someone else out. At least when it came to doing magic stuff. She was sort of bad at that stuff. “Ooookay…joke help or me help? Because those are sometimes the same thing, but Al tells me that they shouldn’t be.”@dominique ● 426 ● In Too Deep by Sum 41 MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Nov 11, 2021 13:47:37 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2021 13:47:37 GMT -7
Dominique’s head swung around quickly as she heard her cousin call back to her. She swept over to the register, ducking out of the way of the fifth years clearly intent on causing mischief their Uncle George would be proud of. She spotted her cousins flaming red hair and smiled, stopping in front of her. “I’d call it both,” she said after a moment, cocking her head to the side. Her smile turned devilish.
“I need your help with finding something for an annoying coworker,” she began, hopping up on the counter and crossing her legs. “He’s just so...full of himself. He talks to me like he’s better than me, even though he’s only been in the department six months longer than I have. He turns down my ideas, even though I have absolutely heard him using one of my ideas to our superiors, passing it off as his own. The nerve!” Nikki scoffed, tossing her strawberry blonde hair behind her shoulder. “I need something that will knock him down a few pegs, put him back in his place. Obviously I wouldn’t be there if I wasn’t ready yet, so I need him to remember that,” she finished, folding her hands in her lap. “Thoughts?” she asked. Hopefully Lily could come up with some joke products that would put this irritating fly in his place.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
396 posts
played by Colin
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last online May 17, 2024 8:01:04 GMT -7
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Feb 5, 2022 14:49:50 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Feb 5, 2022 14:49:50 GMT -7
▲ Retaliation against a coworker? More than half of the products in the store could accomplish that, and all of them if you were fine with getting a little creative. Lily would never explicitly recommend WWW fireworks for something like this but she could definitely envision ways that they could be used to make it look like the coworker set them off or happened to be the cause of them. If it was simply for disruptions, they were perfect for it. “Sounds like a jerk! I don’t need to tell you that though,” she grinned back at her cousin. The trick here was to pick something out that would be inconspicuous and maybe even destroy itself after a given amount of time. Leaving zero evidence behind was the perfect prank, and even better when it made the receiver feel like they’re going crazy because of it. Once again, a large portion of the jokes in the store had properties like that, it was just a matter of which one. Or which ones? Leaning forward on the counter, Lily tapped her fingers on it as she thought out loud. “I mean, you could do tons of stuff. If you want something that will really drive him crazy, we have these things called Bed Bugs. You could slip it into his chair cushion if he has one, and it’ll randomly bump him every thirty or so minutes,” she explained. Scrunching her nose up, she pulled her wand out and cast Accio for one of the Bed Bug packages. She’d used one once on an old roommate that snore too loudly, slipping it into the four-poster mattress without anyone noticing. Once the roommate started complaining about her poor nights of sleep, Lily casually mentioned the snoring. Problem solved. With the package levitating gently onto the counter, Lily turned it around so Nikki could see. “It comes in a pack of two, in case you want to make someone else squirm so it doesn’t seem like he’s singled out. And I guess Uncle George found a way to make it work like a timer, so it can be done in increments of five minutes.” That was new! A little timer on the underside of the bug-shaped prank looked to be the same as with kitchen timers. It was genius. She couldn’t begin to imagine how badly someone would be squirming if one of these was going off every five to ten minutes in their chair. @dominique ● 410 ● Demon by Claudio Simonetti MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Aug 29, 2022 11:14:03 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2022 11:14:03 GMT -7
Nikki knew that coming to her cousin was the right choice. Lily had always been way more like their Uncles Fred & George, or at least from what her father would tell her about Fred. He had unfortunately been a casualty from the Second Wizarding War, and she could sometimes tell that George still felt the hole in his life where his twin should be. They continued to produce amazing products however, with Uncle Ron and now Lily’s help in the shop. Lily began to explain a product she had in mind, and Nikki’s eyes glinted in fascination. “Oooh he does have a chair cushion,” she confirmed, then smirked. “He’s always swiveling in that damn thing, thinking he’s the head of our team when he’s just a grunt like me.” Her mouth twisted in distaste; that was probably the main reason he irked her so. Just because he had gotten so many NEWTs made him feel like he was the best the Ministry could recruit, and Nikki hated him for it.
Nikki looked down at the package Lily had levitated in front of her and she grinned widely. “This is definitely a good start, and the pack of two could come in handy,” she told her cousin, thinking of another employee who was a little annoying, but nothing in comparison to this guy. She could presumably put it under both their cushions, though she wasn’t entirely sure the other colleague would rat her out or not if she told them beforehand. She hadn’t gotten a good read on them yet. “What about something that could embarrass him a little more…publicly?” she asked. This was a good start, but she could step things up a little in her opinion.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
396 posts
played by Colin
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last online May 17, 2024 8:01:04 GMT -7
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Jan 24, 2023 17:35:33 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Jan 24, 2023 17:35:33 GMT -7
▲ Merlin, Lily wished she had a swivel chair that also had wheels on it! Such a thing would be unbelievably dangerous for herself, customers, and the store because she absolutely would end up using it to get places instead of walking. Because why not? Who needed to walk when you could just roll down the aisles in style? Alas, while her chair at the counter did spin, it was more of a bar stool than anything else. Even leaning it back onto two legs was dangerous, and she had been warned multiple times by her uncle that she was going to eventually fall if she kept it up. So far that hadn't happened. All it took was an errant mini toy broom or spring-loaded spoon flying her way to have her spilling over backwards. Despite her reflexes, staying upright on a falling chair was not something she wanted to test. "These would definitely work then," she confirmed, pushing the package to the side so that there would be room for whatever else Nikki wanted. Which seemed like it was going to be the case. Getting someone really good like that meant a certain level of damage would have to be done. Not enough for the person to catch on that it was a prank product, but something that could be passed off as a normal occurrence. Lily hopped off of her chair and scooted around the counter, motioning for her cousin to follow. "Let me show you my wares." Two aisles away were the products she called the 'mundane mischief'. Ordinary looking items that mostly caused inconvenience to whomever was unfortunate enough to pick them up. The self-slapping spatula was still her favorite, and it brought out a chuckle as she saw it hanging on the shelf. "How about a Pocket-Pouring Pen? Basic idea is that if it goes in his pocket, the ink tube will explode. You might have to transfigure it to look like whatever he uses to really sell it though." She didn't actually know if the Ministry used pens or quills. But who didn't like having a fancy looking pen with them? @dominique ● 356 ● Song by Artist MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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May 26, 2023 11:14:33 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 26, 2023 11:14:33 GMT -7
Dominique smiled cheekily at her cousin. “I trust your judgment in this particular area,” she confirmed. As it was set aside and Lily got up to show her some other ideas, Nikki followed dutifully, eyes alight with mischievous excitement. They passed by a shelf full of items that seemed normal, however knowing her uncles, nothing was ever ‘normal’ in Weasley Wizarding Wheezes.
Nikki’s eyes widened in amusement as Lily produced the Pocket-pouring pen. “Ooh he is going on about how expensive his robes were as he gets them SPECIALLY MADE IN FRANCE,” she confided, exaggerating a mock-French accent that her colleague insufferably put on when he’d talk about his special French robes. Of course, Dominique was fluent in French thanks to her mother, so when her coworker would brag about his wardrobe, Nikki would switch to French, peppering him with questions he did not understand. “Now for maximum effect, meaning most amusement to myself, would you suggest sneaking the pen into his pocket? Or perhaps let him take it from me to his detriment?” she asked Lily. Both would be amusing, but she was sure one would provide more entertainment than the other.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
396 posts
played by Colin
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last online May 17, 2024 8:01:04 GMT -7
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Jun 24, 2023 8:08:41 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Jun 24, 2023 8:08:41 GMT -7
▲ The best part about the ink-spewing joke pen was that while it was technically cleanable, it required a very specific set of cleaning charms to do so. Supposedly the sort that not even magical cleaners usually used. But there was a shop that sold a 'potion' of sorts to instantly clean it up. And that shop was the joke shop. The solution sat directly under the pens on the shelf, and Lily picked it up to read the back gin just to make sure she had her details correct. Of course she was right. She knew the items like the back of her hand. Lily grinned when she heard from her cousin that this annoying dude had expensive French made robes. What a waste. Personally, she didn't even see the need for them anymore. They were impractical at work, and it wasn't like she would ever end up anywhere she'd need them again. Maybe James's wedding, but definitely not for Al. He'd never pull it off. "This pen doesn't discriminate. Unless he's got them charmed to repel liquid...still worth a shot?" That was the only downside, after all. The ink spill would still be a bother though if the robes did happen to be liquid-proof. A pocket pooled up with ink would be impossible to empty without getting it everywhere. "I think you should sneak it in. Or leave it on his desk. If he's got any way to tie it back to you, it's not a good prank." Leaving the victim on their toes and worried about the next pen was so much better than drawing attention, at least in her opinion. Make him second guess every single pen or quill he'd ever pick up again. "But it's up to you. Making it look like a mistake at first would definitely be funnier for me. And then maybe hit him with another in a couple of weeks once he's gotten those robes cleaned up."@dominique ● 325 ● Song by Artist MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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