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May. 8th, 2015 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All right. So... no one's hurt. We're all back in common rooms, and Himself's off with a bunch of the teachers, having a firewhiskey or playing Snap or whatever evil gits do after a feast and a fighting demo.
It was... not what I expected. At all. I mean, who knew He's ever in a decent mood?
I mean, for a bloke who doesn't look physically capable of smiling, He looked next thing to cheerful tonight.
It was... not what I expected. At all. I mean, who knew He's ever in a decent mood?
I mean, for a bloke who doesn't look physically capable of smiling, He looked next thing to cheerful tonight.
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Date: 2015-05-09 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 02:54 am (UTC)No, it wasn't in earnest at all. Odd, that.
Almost as if he didn't really care to see a demonstration, what, more like...he wanted us to play at it. It was bally well nearly insulting, that sort of farce.
I say, does anyone else think perhaps destroying all but one of the horcruxes has left him a little dotty?
-Justin
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Date: 2015-05-09 02:57 am (UTC)And the one that's left is the one that likes pudding and American Witches.
Nope, too much to hope for.
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Date: 2015-05-09 02:59 am (UTC)So probably you're right. Again.
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:05 am (UTC)L S-P certainly was not on form. All day, if truth be told.
It must be the talk of the Tower, what.
But I'm rather more pleased with Corner. He came off much the better in his bout, even if it was playacting.
-Justin
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 03:09 am (UTC)Indeed, much as one has little good to say about Padma, her brother does seem an all right chap. One hopes he was returning the sentiments with as much fervour, if more politeness.
-Justin
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:10 am (UTC)I mean, I don't think Voldemort's capable of smiling, but S-P? She could do it, but she's totally forgotten how.
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:43 am (UTC)Though maybe that's because we were stopped after two minutes.
Private Message to Hydra
Date: 2015-05-09 04:00 am (UTC)Worst night ever to try to sleep alone, what, and dashed impossible to risk any sort of sneaking about.
Send Jack? Preferably with something to remind me of you. I'll send him back again if you like.
Sweet dreams,
-J
Re: Private Message to Hydra
Date: 2015-05-09 04:11 am (UTC)Or, if that's a challenge to be inventive, I'll see what I can do.
I suppose it is getting late, isn't it? Well, we'll see what tomorrow brings.
Re: Private Message to Hydra
Date: 2015-05-09 05:09 am (UTC)The colour of your hair. Your scent. The crinkle in your nose. The stairs by the Slytherin dungeon. Fifth-year textbooks. Jack. The muff you used at the Yule Ball. Pink. The nightgown you brought to Gretna Green. The quill you favoured all last month, the one with the stripe of grey through it. The blue-grey of your eyes. The way you stand when you're watching carefully.
The
feel
of
silk
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Date: 2015-05-09 04:02 am (UTC)Wish you'd got the chance to put her in her place in front of all of us.
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Date: 2015-05-09 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 04:44 am (UTC)She was wrong-footed almost from the start. And slower than you.
And, yes, she might've been warming up, but you could've dispatched her before she got her rhythm. Easily.
(My opinion.)
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Date: 2015-05-09 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 03:16 am (UTC)Can't we simply enjoy, for once, that the disaster we were prepared for didn't come to pass?
I, for one, found Vince quite the droll dueling partner.
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:21 am (UTC)The horns were quite a nice touch on him, indeed. Well done.
-Justin
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Date: 2015-05-09 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 04:52 am (UTC)Can there be lots of colourful explosions, if we are?
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Date: 2015-05-09 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-09 03:10 am (UTC)He's not gone yet, what. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Who knows what we're to endure tomorrow.
-Justin
Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 03:36 am (UTC)-J
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 03:39 am (UTC)Well, that's you, then, mate! (Nothing here on mine.)
Not sure whether to congratulate you or not, really. I mean, in the world where it'd be a good thing to win, you totally deserve it. Only, yeah. Ours isn't that world.
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 03:45 am (UTC)Well, I say, we knew of all the people still here, you and I have been front-runners for the Mark for a while. Actively trying to attract this sort of attention, what.
I suppose I ought to tell Hydra, though that seems premature. As I just said, we've no idea what's in store tomorrow.
He might change his mind. Or he might select you by the end of the day, as well.
I suppose she and Draco must have felt something similar to this, when all signs pointed to them being selected.
-Justin
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 03:57 am (UTC)But that seems bloody unlikely, doesn't it?
No surprise there, though.
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:11 am (UTC)Still, you're right.
Dash it.
-J
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:50 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:58 am (UTC)I'll settle eventually. Somewhere I've a jolly boring book on a wizard who spent an entire year watching switchgrass grow. Even Linus Moon would be nodding off after two pages!
Oh, and Antonin said: His favour is difficult to quantify, impossible to predict, and unfathomable to analyse -- that being part of the reason I have avoided calling you to His further attention; as I mentioned a week or two ago, I have come to believe you lot deserve a few years to explore adulthood without the weight of His gaze upon you. But He did seem quite pleased with you and Mr Weasley both, and that is something of which you ought to be proud. Our Lord is many things, among them a quite capable judge of talent.
Which is rather no help at all, is it.
-J
Re: Private Message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:05 am (UTC)You know what? Send the scotch up to us if you're not going to drink it yourself. We're all awake up here. Finnigan, Harry and I. A right party.
Or, yeah. Nevermind about that.
We'll figure it out on our own.
Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:20 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:46 am (UTC)Again. Not what I expected. At all!
I mean, how would you answer that?
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:48 am (UTC)What was it you said you wanted?
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 04:56 am (UTC)I asked for galleons. For my poor widowed Mum who's been trying and trying to get a business off the ground, don't you know?
I mean, it was one of those times it's a dead lucky thing I managed the transformation, because me first thought was 'What can I ask for that the Order needs?' Not the thing you want Him picking out of your brain, exactly.
So, I don't know. Think I must not have asked for the right sort of thing, though. Justin's already got his bottle of scotch. And there're no galleons jingling around on on my bed.
I expect you're right about what sort of thing He meant us to ask. Guess I'm lucky He didn't get hacked off when I asked for money.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:02 am (UTC)Anyway, if you asked for the galleons for your mum, maybe they were delivered to your mum. Or, she has a vault at Gringott's, right? Maybe they went to her vault.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:04 am (UTC)Or I suppose you could say, 'I'd like that pin you're wearing AND another dead basilisk because we're fresh out of venom. Then if you could please drop yourself off a high building, that would be lovely, thanks.'
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:08 am (UTC)You're the best, y'know?
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:10 am (UTC)What did Justin ask for? Did Finnigan tell you what he asked for?
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:25 am (UTC)That's what I meant when I said he'd got it already. That was the prize he asked the LP for, and it was there on his bed when he got back from showering.
I don't know about Finnicky. Guess I could ask him. Hang on.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:27 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:34 am (UTC)Kidding.
Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:36 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Ron
Date: 2015-05-09 05:27 am (UTC)Hasn't got that yet, either.
So, I dunno. I mean, he's already on the Council.