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Tweak says, ""Put down the ducky!""

Tristan Joseph Moore (not_an_orphan) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-03-27 02:06:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2023 08, aries greengrass, hugo weasley, landon farnsworth, libra malfoy, meghan dursley, tristan moore

RP: School Shopping
Characters: Hugo, Lan, Tris, Meghan, Aries, Libra
Time/Date: Saturday, late morning
Location: Diagon Alley, various shops
Warnings/Rating: Kids being kids?
Summary: Tris and the others school-shop
Status: Complete

Tristan extended a hand to help Meghan out of the fireplace like the gentleman he was. Once it looked like everyone was present and set to go, he grinned, waggled his eyebrows, and started toward the exit.

Given that this was the last weekend before school started, it would be crowded as anything, and he wasn't disappointed when he stepped out into the Alley proper. Crowds upon crowds of people. Blue eyes shot toward Lan, and despite knowing that Rose wasn't around, the younger wizard still appeared to be looking for her.

Tris' grin broadened as he leaned over to nudge Lan. "She's not here, mate," he advised.

Lan jumped a little when Tris nudged him, and he shrugged. "I know," he said, knowing full well Tris probably heard the edge of defensiveness to his voice.

Slinging an arm around Lan's shoulders, and then around Hugo's, Tristan exhaled loudly. "Right then. How do we want to do this, and where are we headed first?"

"Books," Meghan chimed in helpfully. She was a little disappointed Lily hadn't come along, but she supposed if she had a guy as cute as Lily claimed Sirius was in the house, she might not be inclined to go on a second shopping trip. "For classes," she added before Tristan could make some quip about badgers not reading for fun, or whatever his flavor of the day was.

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star_student
2010-03-29 02:20 am UTC (link)

"Is he around?" Aries asked. "We could all not talk about Quidditch together."

But honestly, he wasn't sure what was to be gained from this conversation unless it turned another direction. He wasn't really worried about the other team. Slytherin was fairly solid, he thought. They'd lost some players, but they'd be replaced soon enough.

"Suppose you've read that Prophet article?" He was curious what everyone's reactions were.

Libra plucked one of the eagle feathers from the selection and turned it over in her hand before putting it back.

"Likely," Libra agreed quietly, perfectly content to talk with Meghan when it meant escaping her cousin. "Which means we should shop somewhere else."

She gestured vaguely toward the stationary.

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only_an_orphan
2010-03-29 03:02 am UTC (link)

"The Prophet article?" Lan echoed innocently. "I'm not sure I know which one. I mean, there were so many. Scandal in the Holyhead Harpies locker room, and there was that bit about the cauldron recall, and something about maybe dead people coming back? Didn't know they were doing April Fools in August," he said with a slight grin before he shrugged.

"Yeah. I heard about it before it made the paper though. My grandfather got called in to start dealing with it last weekend. I doubt I was supposed to hear about it, but ..." Lan shrugged and kind of grinned.

Meghan glanced to see what Libra had before she snagged a few plain quills for herself and Hugo before she followed along with Libra. Not that she minded listening to quidditch talk but ... it really wasn't interesting to her.

"How was your summer?" she inquired politely. She really wasn't sure how to talk to the purebloods. At least, the ones she didn't know or wasn't kind-of related to.

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star_student
2010-03-29 03:48 am UTC (link)

"Obviously the biggest practical joke of the century," Aries smiled, giving a little one-shouldered shrug at Lan's joking assessment.

It was curious that people were taking it seriously. Aries wasn't prepared to believe it until he met one of his own dead relatives face to face. He wouldn't even believe it seeing one of the supposed returned. Any young witch or wizard from another part of the country could be brought in and paid off to encourage a hoax.

"Sorry, I forget. What's your grandfather's line of work, exactly? This all seems rather rubbish. Does he buy into it?"

Libra ran her fingers along the parchment, trying to decide which stationary she would have to look at for the rest of term every time she needed to write home or send a note.

None of it really stuck out to her, but she didn't really hate any of it, either.

Glancing at Meghan, Libra lifted one eyebrow slightly with a smile. "Pleasant enough. We went to France for a bit of a holiday. Saw the muggle sights from afar before going to see the wizarding ones. The muggle's big tower is rather droll. Have you seen it?"

Out of the corner of her eye, Libra regarded the other girl curiously. She didn't often have time for any sort of interaction with her, but she thought she remembered that she was muggleborn. Or half? She kept deciding it was the opposite every time she considered.

The girl definitely didn't fit the bill for pureblood, whatever she was.

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only_an_orphan
2010-03-29 04:22 am UTC (link)

"He's on the Wizengamot," Landon said. "He ... buys it completely because he knows at least one of the ... the returned deceased personally. Went to school with her and the like."

He hadn't seen anyone, but that didn't make any difference to him. "They were questioned under veritaserum," he added. That he didn't think was public knowledge, but he didn't see anything wrong with adding a fact to back up the statement.

Lan cocked his head before he smiled. "It's ... impossible but happening. What's to be done, really?"

"I ... no. We don't travel much," Meg admitted as she followed Libra around, kind of wondering why she was following Libra around. But ... they were shopping, right? And the boys were talking, so what else was she going to do? Besides, it wasn't like talking to her was ... awkward or anything.

"But that sounds nice," she added after an awkward pause. Studying the paper as well, she pretended to find it very fascinating as she tightened her hand around the quills slightly. "Looking forward to going back to school?"

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star_student
2010-03-29 06:05 am UTC (link)

Aries perked up a little, suddenly feeling a little more friendly toward Landon. Not that he'd felt any large amount of animosity toward him to begin with, but it was always interesting to meet someone with family in high places. The Wizengamot was serious business.

"Is that legal still?" Aries wondered vaguely, trying to recall if he'd ever read up on it. His dad had threatened to use it on him a few times, but he'd never taken the threat seriously.

"Anyway. It's all a bit off to me. One of them's our age, right? Don't suppose we'll be dealing with them at Hogwarts..."

Dead people walking about would be a bit too much to handle while trying to keep up with his studies. He didn't fancy the idea of more competition.

"Aren't you?" Libra wondered, blinking at Meghan in surprise. She didn't see that as a question worth asking. Of course she was looking forward to it. There could only be so much vacation before it all started to run together.

She very much looked forward to the idea of seeing all of her friends again.

"Sort of. I guess it does seem like the summer flew past, though, doesn't it? And there's O.W.L.s." Her nose wrinkled at that thought. She would much rather skip them.

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only_an_orphan
2010-03-29 06:20 am UTC (link)

He laughed softly. "I'm pretty sure it's legal if they agree to it, or if there's ... a good solid reason to make them take it." He tilted his head slightly. "I think so," he agreed as he wracked his brain to recall. "Sirius is ... about our age, I'm pretty sure." Which was weird to think about. It was one thing to have them come back right when they'd died, so they remembered (or at least had an idea) that they'd died. But to come back so young?

"Why wouldn't we be dealing at Hogwarts? They're coming back where they died, and ... a lot of people die at the school. On both sides. But I heard there're going to be Aurors around, at least until they figure it out or it shows some sign of stopping."

"No, I am," Meg agreed quickly. She'd apparently never been all that great at small talk, and it was worse when it was a pureblood near-stranger. Sure, they had some classes together, but they didn't run anywhere near the same circles.

Meg nodded. "Landon said they're about as bad as everyone says they are," she admitted. "I'm not really looking forward to that kind of hardcore studying." Not that she couldn't ... she just ... would prefer not to. But that was a necessity of life at Hogwarts.

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star_student
2010-03-29 10:23 pm UTC (link)

"I dunno," Aries said slowly, really thinking about what it would be like with the returnees at school. "What if the magic is temporary? I'd really rather not be sitting next to some bloke when he suddenly reverts to a rotting corpse."

Which brought to mind another thought.

"Are they still in their graves, I wonder?"

It would be weird for the bones of one of the returnees to be existing in the same time period that they were walking about.

Libra nodded, only half paying attention to the other girl. Through their browsing, she had almost managed to get out of Aries line of sight. And he seemed quite content to chat with the other student about who knew what.

It was a good time for slipping away.

"I'm going to go look at robes," she declared suddenly. "Without my cousin. You can come along, if you'd like."

The company might be nice. She didn't know much about the other girl.

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only_an_orphan
2010-03-29 11:10 pm UTC (link)

Lan pulled a little face at that. What if it was temporary? Or if whoever started it stopped it?

"I don't know. I guess if anyone thought about it, they might dig up the graves and see, but if I was a returned dead, I'm not sure I'd want to see my body in the ground. It'd kind of make me wonder what I really am."

"Oh," Meghan shook her head. "I should probably stay with Lan. To make sure I have a way home," she added. Not that he'd leave without her, but she didn't want to be any trouble, and she had a feeling Libra wouldn't want her announcing their destination, if she wanted to go without her cousin.

"It was nice chatting with you," she offered.

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star_student
2010-03-30 04:49 am UTC (link)

Aries moved forward to pluck the black ink Libra would need off the shelf. He could see out of the corner of his eye that the younger girl was slipping off and he didn't plan to let her get far out of sight.

All of her other faults aside, the main problem he had with his cousin was that she was too mindless of why rules were set. Libra was a little too reckless for his taste.

"Yeah. Hopefully we won't have anything in the way of rotting corpses happening at school. S'pose I'll see you there, Farnsworth. My cousin seems ready to go." Aries jerked his chin toward the girl in question, shrugging.

"You too," Libra offered vaguely, waving to the other girl and hurrying toward the check-out with the stationary she'd snatched up on a whim.

Aries would be missing her any moment now.

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only_an_orphan
2010-03-30 05:05 am UTC (link)

"See you," Lan agreed with a slight grin. He watched Libra hurry off and Meghan head back over toward him. He was a little amused, and he'd have to make sure to tell Tris and Hugo about the adventure they'd missed out on.

Gathering some quills and ink and paper for himself, once Meg was ready to go, they checked out and headed off to see if they could find the other half of their party.

Or some other friends. Lan wasn't picky.

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