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Landon Farnsworth ([info]only_an_orphan) wrote in [info]beyondthepages,
@ 2010-04-29 20:59:00

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Entry tags:!complete, 2023 09, landon farnsworth, rose weasley, tristan moore

RP: Studying
Characters: Lan, Tris, Rose
Time/Date: Just before curfew, September 29
Location: Ravenclaw commons
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Lan studies. Really.
Status: Complete



Landon shifted Tristan's legs aside to make room for himself on the couch. "Your bed's just up those stairs, you know," he pointed out.

Tristan heaved a huge fake snore, and Landon grinned and shook his head. Tris was always tired after the full, and moreso now that he had friends to run with. Landon was almost jealous. Especially with the way Tristan occasionally went on about Remus.

It must have been a novelty though, for him to have another werewolf around. But Lan also suspected that wasn't the only thing about Remus that had Tristan's attention. For all his fronting and talking and quipping, Lan knew Tristan was shy about actually making a move toward a guy.

He supposed he'd see what happened and just be there for his mate.

Once he'd settled on the couch, Tristan made himself right at home, dropping his legs across Landon's lap. Lan grunted slightly and pushed Tris' legs down so they weren't too high in his lap, and he braced his book against them.

He'd gotten his homework done; this was extra studying for Professor Capper. He was working on an animagi transformation so he could run with Tristan, too, once they were both out of school. However, there were other distractions in the commons, and Lan let his blue gaze drift over the various housemates populating the commons.


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[info]any_other_name
2010-04-30 05:17 am UTC (link)
Rose was really starting to wonder what good it was having family connections when she couldn't make use of them. It seemed no matter how much she bugged her Aunt Ginny, the rules about Quidditch scheduling didn't seem to change. She wanted some special treatment here. It wasn't like she was asking for much. Just a little extra scheduling time.

Easing her way into common, she spotted Lan and Tristan, and made her way over to where they were, leaning against the back of the couch and sighing heavily. "No dice," she told them, "though really, at this point it's just a matter of principle." After all, now that they were further into the school year and the homework was really starting to pile up, and she wasn't sure that she really wanted the extra practice anymore.

But the fact that she couldn't have it? Made her want to keep trying to get it.

She tilted her head slightly, peering over Lan's shoulder and the book he was reading, mostly ignoring the fact that Tristan was 'sleeping', and frowned slightly. "That doesn't... look like what was assigned. Did I do the wrong pages again?"

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-04-30 05:22 am UTC (link)
"Are you still on that?" Lan asked as he glanced over his shoulder to Rose, a little more amused than he should have been. She certainly had the 'stubborn' thing down.

He jabbed Tristan's leg with his quill when his mate started to "snore" very loudly in an attempt to drown out the conversation.

"Ouch," Tristan laughed as he jerked his leg slightly, opening his blue eyes. "Rose, hey. Didn't hear you come over. Learned to whisper, did you?" he teased her before he swung his legs down to sit up.

He really should probably just head up to bed. And he would. In a minute.

Lan shook his head a little belatedly to Rose's question. "No. This is ... extra stuff. I'm going to work on becoming an animagus so I can keep the fleabag company once I'm done with school. So Professor Capper assigned some extra reading to help with the theory of it and common misconceptions and mistakes."

"You know, all the things to make him good and paranoid," Tristan offered with a grin.

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[info]any_other_name
2010-04-30 07:12 am UTC (link)
She snorted slightly. "'Course I'm still on that. Family ties, Chosen One and all that. Think that entitles me to a bit more special treatment than the average student. Bet Gryffindor's allowed secret practices."

She raised a hand to hide her smirk when Lan jabbed Tristan to wake him up, moving it as she got her expression under better control. "Must have, given that you were snoring so quietly. You'd clearly have heard me and woken up otherwise."

She raised an eyebrow when Lan said he was studying to become animagus, eyes brightening. "Yeah?" she said eagerly, leaning further over the top of the couch - she'd likely crawl over it in a minute and make them squish. "I didn't know Professor Capper offered that kind of studies." Though she supposed he wouldn't advertise it - he'd just offer it to the students who asked. "Are the issues as horrifying as I picture?" she asked, shooting Tristan a look. She figured if they weren't, he'd make something good up.

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-04-30 02:02 pm UTC (link)
"Lily says they are," Lan agreed with a slight grin as he glanced up to Rose.

Tristan laughed, a surprised sort of sound. Lan wasn't usually one for the jokes like that, and it always impressed him when Lan teased. Especially when he teased girls.

"Yeah, well, I'm going to go find my bed. Long night last night, you know, keeping those Marauders in line while we were outside." Standing, he stretched and dropped a hand to ruffle Lan's hair. "'night you two."

Lan lifted a hand to wave to Tristan before he gestured for Rose to take the place Tris had vacated.

"He doesn't really ... go around announcing it. You have to prove you're serious about it, because it's ... well, it's pretty advanced, impressive magic. Bummer of it is that you don't even get to pick what you'll be. You just ... turn into something. I figure as long as I'm not a cricket, I'll be all right." He paused. "And yes, some of the things that can happen with a transformation gone bad are pretty horrific."

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 04:15 am UTC (link)
She stuck out her tongue childishly at Lan. "Of course Lily would say that. And that is all I'm asking for, really. The same preferential treatment." She raised a curious brow at Tristan's laugh, but when she couldn't immediately find an explanation for what was off about it, she brushed it off with a grin. He did seem pretty beat. "I mean, what good is being almost-could-be-famous if you can't take advantage of it?"

She nodded as Tristan got up to head out, shaking her head at the idea of Tristan keeping anyone in line - she'd put money on the bet that Remus was the one really keeping them together, since he seemed to her from both the stories and from what she'd seen in classes to be the most stable - but didn't comment. It was meant to be a joke anyway. "'Night," she offered, watching as he departed before crawling over the back of the couch to take his seat, scooting over so she could continue to peer at the book over Lan's shoulder.

"Being a cricket could be fun," she teased. "Though if you're going to be an insect, it'd be better if you were a flea so that you could properly pester Tristan." She grinned, shaking her head. "But I don't think you'll be a bug. You'll be something a lot sleeker, with more fur and less scales."

She paused, thinking about horrific-things-gone-bad for a moment before adding, "Preferably only when you want to have more fur and less scales."

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 04:28 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, but then I'd get lost among the rest of his fleas," he said. He released the book with one hand, lifting his arm to rest it on the back of the couch so she could spy better.

"Dunno what I'd want to be if I chose," he admitted. "I'd like to be something that can run with Tris, but not ... something obnoxiously huge. Like an elephant or something." He paused. "Some people say you're what your patronus is, but pretty sure that's been disproven. Professor Capper says it does tend to happen, but it isn't a guaranteed thing."

Though he wouldn't mind being a lemur, he didn't think. He could ride on Tristan's back then, and he grinned at the idea of it.

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 05:19 am UTC (link)
"Nah. You wouldn't get lost. We'd make you a little crown or something, so you could be king of the fleas," she grinned. "Though maybe you wouldn't need it, 'cause you'd end up be shiny and special enough yourself."

When he mentioned he might end up an elephant, she actually snorted, giggling into her hand. The image she was seeing was Tristan, as a wolf, running through the forest with a large gray elephant in tow and it just seemed so out of place, and it didn't suit Lan at all. "I don't think you would end up being something obnoxious anyway," she said. "It doesn't suit you."

She thought about patronus for a minute. "That makes sense, I guess. They're supposed to be based on your personality, and all." She paused, thoughtfully. "Though maybe you've got more control over it than you think, yeah? I mean, patronus' shift with life changing events. Maybe you'll end up being something that can run, if you want it badly enough."

Maybe the reason that people commonly took the same shape as their patronus was because they wanted to be. It made sense, she thought, for that to be the case.

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 05:38 am UTC (link)
Lan grinned, and shrugged. "Elephant's probably not possible. Professor Capper said he's only ever seen people become animals native to Europe. Which kind of makes you wonder," he said. Well, it made him wonder. Were American animagi restricted to American native animals? "But thank you for the support. Tris had been giving me loads of suggestions of things I might turn into. He's voting on flobberworm at the moment."

Though he was sure the Professor hadn't seen every animagi ever, but there was definitely a good case for it.

"Suppose we'll see if I can ever get the change down. We're still working on theory, but over the holidays ... he said we could work on the actual change. When it's quieter." He paused. "In theory. I can't imagine it being too quiet with the foreign kids around."

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 06:54 am UTC (link)
She stretched back against the couch, tilting her head slightly to regard him. "Wonder if it's locational, you mean? Like you can only become an animal that's related to your nationality," she grinned. "Do you think if you were born here, but raised in the states, you'd end up turning into something that's only native there?"

Was there anything that was only native to the states, that they didn't have in the UK? Polar bears, and other northern animals were jumping to mind, but that wasn't the states she didn't think. They weren't that north.

She made a slight 'tch' sound when Lan mentioned Tristan had suggested a flobberworm. "Flobberworms are too dull - think of all the wasted personality. You'd have to be like... a multicoloured, flashing flobberworm with wings or something in order for that to work out, and then we'd have to give you an entirely new classification. Feels like a lot of work. You'd probably be better off being an elephant." She grinned. "Oh, wait, was that the part where I was supposed to tease that you wouldn't be a Flobberworm, you'd be a Horklump? My bad. Pretend I said that instead."

She sat up when he mentioned that they could start working on the actual change over the holidays. "That soon? Wow. I didn't realize how far along on this you were. I feel like saying congratulations or something even if you haven't actually done it yet."

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 07:01 am UTC (link)
"I don't know," he decided. "Too bad all the neat animals live in ... Africa. Imagine if you were able to be a lion or a tiger or something. Here I think the best I can hope for is a cougar. If ... I even go cat and not Flobberworm."

But now he was wondering. Was it more closely tied to blood? If he was French, would he be more likely to become some sort of animal more native or associated with France? And if he was English but born in Africa, which way would things go? Did you get more options if you moved? Was it all a bunch of hooey? He grinned and thought maybe he'd ask Professor Capper about some of that.

"So I'm not dull enough to be a Flobberworm?" he inquired. Compared to some of the students, he knew he was pretty ... well, not dull exactly, but definitely quiet. He wasn't as loud as Tristan. He hadn't been as flashy as James. He wasn't nearly as everywhere as Lily was.

He chuckled. "That'd be a little preemptive. He said it can take years before a person can actually transition, and ... it's usually harder at first. One of those things where the more you practice, the better you get."

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 07:55 am UTC (link)
She grinned. "I'd suggest moving there to get more options, or at least doing the bulk of the transforming... stuff... there, but I think you'd have to stay longer than... a day or two, and I think Tristan would be more insufferable than usual if you stayed away too long." Though maybe not. He did have the Mauraders now to keep him company. But they were all in a different house, so she thought her point still stood.

"Weren't you listening? No, you are not dull enough to be a Flobberworm. You'd be a Horklump. Remember? We were pretending that was what I said," she grinned a bit before she shrugged her shoulders. "No, you're not. I don't know what you are Lan, but I'd be willing to bet that it's something furry with four paws. I mean, you and Tristan are practically joined at the hip as it is - it seems highly unlikely to me that your 'inner animal' is something that wouldn't run around with him during the fulls." She shrugged. Maybe it didn't work like that - life wasn't always a happy ending after all - but she liked to think it was sometimes.

"Years?" she asked, somewhat incredulously, though she wasn't really surprised. "Do you spend all those in fervent meditation, complete with strange voodoo chanting of 'become the animal, become the animal', getting in tune with nature and all that?" She was getting ahead of herself. Her mind was starting to catch up now. "Or is it the far less interesting idea of just convincing your body to assume a different shape?"

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 08:07 am UTC (link)
"Not even in school a month yet, and you're already trying to get me to move. There's just no winning with you, Rose Weasley." Landon grinned. "But you're right. If I was gone, who would keep Tris in check? He'd be constantly whining, and no one wants that."

He grinned. "As long as it's not a rat or a mouse or something Tris might mistake for a snack, I suppose I'll be content with it," he decided. As long as he could make it through the forest and keep up with Tris, he wasn't going to complain about the shape he took.

"Years," he said. "Not always. Sometimes people pick it up right away, and sometimes it just takes a few weeks of actually focusing on the magic, the spell, to be able to change. So ... we'll see. I'm reading up on the theory, and we're having a couple of tutoring sessions, and then when it's quieter, we'll be giving it a try to see if I'm ready."

He looked thoughtful. "Pretty sure I'm going to hit up James and Sirius and see if they've got any tips. I mean, they were younger than us when they changed."

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 08:28 am UTC (link)
"No. You can never win with me Landon Farnsworth. If you did move? I would complain about the agony and stress that it caused me," she threw the back of her palm to her forehead dramatically. "Probably best that you just stay here, even if it means you don't get to become an elephant. Or a lion. Unless you really do have your heart set on a Flobberworm," she grinned.

She nodded to his explanation. "Well, I wish you an early good luck then. I mean, the holidays always come up way sooner than I expect them to, so it feels like it's right around the corner."

She shook her head when he reminded her that the Mauraders had been younger than they were when they made the change. "Crazy," she said with a roll of her eyes. "I swear, those boys are going to grow up to be 'claws with brains like that. It's a good idea though, hitting then up up for pointers. And I'm sure they would love the opportunity to brag about their wondrous achievements so early on in their school years, in amongst giving you useful advice."

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 08:35 am UTC (link)
He laughed, though it was faint and he was slightly uncomfortable. Oh, he knew Rose wouldn't be stressed or agonized if he moved, but it of course stirred up feelings. Like ... it would be nice if she would miss him when he was gone. Not that he wanted to cause her pain, but it would mean she cared ...

Realizing he was thinking himself into circles, Lan shook his head slightly. "Don't have my heart set on anything yet. Easier to avoid disappointment if you're not hoping for something." Which, he realized, was vague enough to cover a lot of bases. Including the one in which he tried not to hope for anything from her so he wouldn't be disappointed.

"But thank you for your early luck, and here's hoping it pays off," he murmured. "I just hope they don't ... try to have one over on me." He didn't think they would, really, not over the animagus transformation, but he had heard stories. He supposed he'd just try his luck and use a bit of cautious skepticism if something seemed off.

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 09:15 am UTC (link)
She wondered briefly at the faint laugh, but assumed the teasing joke hadn't really landed. She was used to that. She would argue, however, that it was getting late and they were exhausted from Quidditch and schoolwork which was why the joke hadn't landed. She was aware she should probably be courteous and accept the conversation was wrapping up and say her goodnights, and she would. In a minute.

She nodded when he said he didn't have his heart set on anything. "That's probably smart. Though I suppose in ways it is a lot like when you first cast your patronus. You wonder what it's going to be, but it's not like you're disappointed with the end result, right?"

She grinned and shook her head when he spoke again. "You have spent far too long with Tristan for any Gryffindors to be able to pull one over on you," she said. "Even if they would be Ravenclaws in another life. I am certain that you will be able to tell the solid advice from the stupidity. Besides, they'd probably get that this isn't an issue to tease and joke about if the consequences are as serious as you've implied. They can't be that foolish, right?"

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 09:21 am UTC (link)
"Well, it's like that, but ... different. A patronus is a charm, and you don't have to actually be the animal. My aunt's patronus is a rattlesnake, and she wouldn't want to be that if ... she went through the process to become an animagus."

Not that Ace had any actual blood relation to him, but she was close enough to 'aunt' in the fake family tree of life. He also suspected that her patronus was symbolic of both her house and her interest in poisons, but he wasn't going to get into it. Because by that theory, he had some lemur-like interests or tendencies, and he couldn't see that connection.

"Yeah. I know what to look out for, and if Remus was around, I'm sure he wouldn't let them wind me in a bad situation," Landon decided. "But I don't know how foolish they can be. Is there really a limit that the Gryffindors haven't found and pushed farther?" His dark brows elevated slightly as he grinned.

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[info]any_other_name
2010-05-01 10:36 am UTC (link)
Her lips quirked upwards in a smirk. "All right. Two good points," she said. "You win those ones. See? I do let others win from time to time. But I maintain that part of the reason you're not disappointed is because there's got to be a level where it feels right, you know? Where it feels like you always should have known that that was the animal you'd end up with. Though I guess that's something you could ask the boys about when you pick their brains for tips," she teased.

"Though, I have no further arguments to your accurate statements that Gryffindors do not know the concept of limits. I have an entire family of them that can attest to this fact. There are varying definitions of limit, but..." she grinned a bit. "Even still. The Mauraders are horribly out of date, even if they're trying desperately to be hip and modern. Pretty sure you'll be able to see through them."

She paused slightly, biting at her bottom lip briefly before saying, "And I'm hardly an expert or anything, but if there's anything I can do to help - even if it's just that you need someone to talk to - let me know, yeah?"

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[info]only_an_orphan
2010-05-01 04:10 pm UTC (link)
He chuckled softly. There were parts of him that wondered if people he knew would come back. If his father would. If his grandmother would. If Ace's folks would. Speaking of out of date. Lan shook his head, and he knew it was kind of silly to try to speculate about that. Whatever would happen, would happen.

Besides, aside from Tonks' return last week, there hadn't been anything else. Though every time they'd wondered if it was over, someone else came back. So maybe it was just going slowly. He sort of wished they could figure out where it had started. How it had started.

Realizing he was drifting off into tangents, which probably meant it was time for bed, Lan shook out of his thoughts before he focused his gaze on Rose. "Thanks," he said. "I'll keep that in mind," he promised her.

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