Good show!
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alt_ronI think our side should be proud tonight, especially you, Thomas. I mean, yeah, Desai had a point about the risks of your going off alone, but I think we made a good case for it being worth a shot and your being especially well suited for slipping past the others right at the start when both sides were still trying to find each other and form up. It was a lark watching you take them out, too, once I was dead and back in the mess waiting to see how it was going to play out.
And Finnigan: you came through and made it worth sacrificing to get you sprung, so, yeah. Good show.
Bones: don't feel too bad about going down early. That happens. I mean, it could have been any of us getting surprised in the confusion at the start. They're right, of course, that we all need to be extra focused at the start of these things, but that's what we're here to learn, innit? And, anywiz, you were solid in the first exercise, right? It was Finnigan who went down to that first trap and Thomas, but they were in top form on the next outing. So tomorrow's your day, yeah?
The rest of you were solid. Malfoy, you especially. I think it was the right call we made at the end, don't you? And Patil: you've got eyes on all sides of your head, don't you? We were lucky to have you watching all angles.
So, yeah. Well done, mates.
Cheers.
And Finnigan: you came through and made it worth sacrificing to get you sprung, so, yeah. Good show.
Bones: don't feel too bad about going down early. That happens. I mean, it could have been any of us getting surprised in the confusion at the start. They're right, of course, that we all need to be extra focused at the start of these things, but that's what we're here to learn, innit? And, anywiz, you were solid in the first exercise, right? It was Finnigan who went down to that first trap and Thomas, but they were in top form on the next outing. So tomorrow's your day, yeah?
The rest of you were solid. Malfoy, you especially. I think it was the right call we made at the end, don't you? And Patil: you've got eyes on all sides of your head, don't you? We were lucky to have you watching all angles.
So, yeah. Well done, mates.
Cheers.
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Date: 2013-08-14 04:44 am (UTC)And cheers to the rest of you lot, too. Harry, mate, it came straight down to the last wand. Well fought!
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Date: 2013-08-14 04:46 am (UTC)Watch your back tomorrow, though!
Heh.
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Date: 2013-08-14 04:53 am (UTC)I say, jolly good. I did think you had your guard ready but--well, as you say. We're bound to hit one another now and then, what.
It seems as if Finnigan, Thomas and Zabini haven't been entirely intolerable for you. Is that so?
-F-F
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Date: 2013-08-14 05:02 am (UTC)Bit hilarious how my side ended up, yeah?
I was serious about taking Malfoy. I mean, letting Harry have him would just have been daft. So then the rest sort of fell in from there because I wanted people who would work well together, which meant people who would work well with him, yeah?
Obviously, I was trying to duck having either Thomas or Patil, but Harry outmanoeuvred me on that. I didn't figure he'd take Daphne when he did. Shame about that.
And I'm pretty sure Dolohov and Desai thought it was advantage to our team when we won the coin toss and got the extra man. But, yeah, Thomas pulled his weight this afternoon, so maybe they were right.
I expect they'll switch us around tomorrow, anywiz.
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Date: 2013-08-14 04:55 am (UTC)Indeed, congratulations and well done, all of your teammates!
(And thanks for sharing the bounty, what! I say, a bit of sweets were just the thing after such a long day.)
Thomas: I'm well impressed. I feel certain Harry and Pansy were about to win it for our side, if you hadn't been there to stop them. Good form, old man.
-Justin
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Date: 2013-08-14 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-14 05:12 am (UTC)Don't worry, Zabini and I will make sure that doesn't happen again.
He's just got to not try to helpAnyway, I was well embarrassed we got eliminated so quickly, but it was useful to watch the others try to come in to the target zone.
Honestly, though, where did you get the idea about those twine bundles? They work but we need to refine it a little.
Maybe in the morning there'll be time to try some modifications.
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Date: 2013-08-14 05:33 am (UTC)Cheers, Patil.
Oh the charm strands? I was just thinking about how we could use blood magic to link all of us together, so I don't know, I figured knots on a piece of twine would be an easy way to do it. And that part works fine. I mean, I wasn't ever quite sure I remembered who had the green knot and whose was the puke yellow one. Well, yeah, actually I do--that was Thomas' colour, but you know what I mean. Still, it was useful to know who'd got eliminated. And they did help all of you find me at the start.
I still think they'll be good for other things, like warning a teammate that something's about to attack them and which direction the danger is. That's why I had us wrap them round our wands--so they could give a tug to show direction, but you're right we haven't got that working very well yet. We just need to sharpen up the charms on them, I think.
(Privating this since there's no reason to give away our devices to the other side, yeah?)
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Sally Anne
Date: 2013-08-14 05:16 am (UTC)It's all fine.
I've got Malfoy, Finnigan, Zabini, Patil, Thomas, and Bones on my side... and I picked them. Isn't that mad? Well, I got Thomas on a coin toss, since there weren't even numbers.
But they were the right ones to choose. We've come in ahead of the other lot in pretty much everything. And more than shown skill on the things that weren't competitions.
It's not right without you here, though. You'd be excellent at this. Of course, I'm not sure how the selections would've gone, then. I think I'd still have taken Malfoy first since I had first go. I wasn't going to let Harry have him. But then, if Harry'd taken Justin like he did yesterday, then I'd've taken you second. Instead of Finnigan. And it might all have gone differently from there. But Harry might've taken you with his first pick, and then we'd've ended up on opposite sides. Which... would be interesting, wouldn't it? I'd probably lose every gambit because you know too much about how I think. And you'd love that.
Heh. Maybe it's not such a bad thing you're not here to help Harry win!
Teasing.
Really, it reeks you're not.
Guess I'll just have to go off and have a sulk.
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Date: 2013-08-14 01:35 pm (UTC)Any tow-row-rowing yet?
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Date: 2013-08-14 03:03 pm (UTC)Zabini broke out into tow-row-row yesterday when he took out one of the traps.
You'd have found that interesting, actually. First exercise yesterday, they blindfolded us and took us out into the woods a mile or so and told us to get our teams back to camp. And the orienteering part of that was a breeze.
But of course they'd set traps for us. They were these small sort of homunculous things that appeared out of nowhere practically--I mean, out from behind a clump of fern or down out of the leaves above us or out of a knot in a tree or swooping in like a bird or floating up out of a stream--they came from every direction but the first ones took us completely by surprise. Until we got the idea of where they might be. And they were aiming marking spells at us, which, if they got you, you were 'dead' and an elf popped in, told you that, and took you off to the mess tent to wait for everyone else to finish.
So, anywiz, at first we were throwing really major curses to block the traps from hitting us or to destroy them. Stuff that takes a lot out of you to cast, y'know? But then Thomas realised that basically any spell would neutralise them, and he started larking about showing us that Wingardium Leviosa or a tipping spell or a spinner or even something nonsensical like Alohomora or Aguamenti would make them go limp. And then, of course, one got him right on his silly arse.
Eh. I've got to go again. They got us up at half-six this morning and had us out flying. And then it was exercises with Desai (which is not at all like Umbridge leading it) and meditation with Dolohov. Then a snack and a bit of lecturing and a short break, which is why I had time to write. Now we're going to have Apparition training, so we're back to it!
More later, yeah?
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Date: 2013-08-14 03:25 pm (UTC)