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Dominic Chambers (knowhow) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-08-29 19:49:00

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character: dominic chambers, character: theodore nott

Books Buddies
Who: Theodore and Dominic
What: Talking about books
Where: The Corner
When: Friday after work
Rating: SFW

As he leaned against the bar waiting for Seamus to fetch him his drink, Dominic rolled his shoulders in an effort to ease the muscles there. 'Ginny wants a dance party,' Seamus had said, so Dominic had set to work experimenting with music, a dance floor and even a charm to replicate light spinning off a muggle disco ball. He still wasn't done, he'd need to go back before Ginny arrived - but the party wasn't due to start until nine and Dominic had been working since lunch. He was due a break.

He took his butterbeer from Seamus (not too alcoholic - he still had work to do) with a nod of thanks. "I'll be in The Corner," he said, having already ordered food. "Hand me those books, would you?" There was a stack of books behind the bar that Dominic had been meaning to distribute to the bookshelf for days. No matter how many books he gave away, he always seemed to have more. He sometimes wondered if there wasn't some kind of magic to being a Ravenclaw that meant you attracted books like a magnet attracted metal, whether you wanted them or not.

Carrying both books and drink resting against his chest, he made his way into the corner - groaning at the sight of the bookcase. Someone had left it in a complete mess and Dominic was going to have to sort it out before he could fit all his own books onto it. With a frown, he dropped down to his knees in front of it, pulling the books that had been piled sideways onto the shelves down and spreading them on the floor to read the titles.

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knowhow
2014-09-02 08:13 pm UTC (link)

"Oh?" Dominic began, but before he could ask what Theodore wanted to do instead, they seemed to have moved on. He went with it, happy to let the conversation take whatever winding path it chose. "Thank you. I wouldn't go quite that far - and Seamus made a lot of the decisions about the permanent stuff. I helped, but he employs me more for temporary fixtures." He frowned in concentration, trying to remember if he'd seen Theodore at any of the clubs upstairs. He usually stayed around for a bit, so knew most of the members by sight.

"Have you been up to The Roost?" he asked. "I set the space up for duelling club and choir and wizarding chess. Or private functions, sometimes."

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nottfinished
2014-09-02 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Theo understood not wanting to take credit that wasn't due, but the magical work he'd seen had been masterly and deserved credit. He didn't have a chance to voice that though because Dominic was looking at him funny. He was going to ask what was wrong when Dominic asked him a question instead. "Not a lot, but I've been up there yeah. I watched a couple of chess games. You change that too?" It was funny how that gave him the chance to do as he'd wanted to do earlier.

"Really, it's very neat magic. You should join up with the guy who spelled the journals that they were giving away here, that was really clever magic too. You could go into business together." he said with a smile.

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knowhow
2014-09-03 01:29 pm UTC (link)

Dominic laughed. "That could be tricky," he said, running a hand across his short, dark hair. "We're sort of already joined. In that he's me, too." He grinned, accepting the compliment to his spell work. "Charms and transfiguration were always my thing at school. My only thing, really. Can't brew a potion or draw a star chart to save my life. I only just scraped an A in Muggle Studies - and I'm muggleborn!" Proud as he was of his work, he didn't like to seem like he was bragging. A little honest truth about the limits of his abilities seemed to balance it out.

"Have you got one of the journals, then? I know Seamus has been pressing them on everybody." Not that everybody had accepted, of course, but it seemed like a lot of people had and that could only be good for business.

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nottfinished
2014-09-06 08:29 pm UTC (link)

Theo didn't understand what Dominic was talking about until he said it straight out and then he looked deeply impressed. He didn't think there was anything wrong in being poor in anything else when you could do spellwork like Dominic had done. Why crawl on the ground when you could soar?

"I took one, yes. I was impressed by the craft it took to make it, I should have guessed from your work here that you had a hand in creating them. Really, I haven't seen magic like that before, how did you come up with the concept? Where did you even start? The spells to change the privacy readings for different text in the same entry alone had to be difficult, especially on that scale." Theo was closer to the person he should have been without his mental health problems or neuroses at that point - his curiosity always brought out something in him that had been long suppressed by force by his father and it was coming out now.

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knowhow
2014-09-07 04:46 pm UTC (link)

Seeing Theodore's expression, Dominic couldn't help but smile. "The concept was Seamus, really. He said he'd seen something similar before. I got the fun of trying to work out how to make it work." For some people that would have been sarcastic, but Dominic really meant it. He'd enjoyed the challenge, which had taken him the better part of a year to completely solve.

"Privacy spells pretty much depend on the individual caster, though getting them to interact properly with all the magic in the journals themselves took me quite some time." He was getting involved in his topic, his face settling into concentration while he made small hand gestured to demonstrate his point. "Actually, the hardest bit was making sure everything would display in chronological order, and I'm still not sure our Cursebreakers aren't going to undo all my effort on that score."

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nottfinished
2014-09-09 12:50 am UTC (link)

If he'd been in the Muggle world, Theo might have been considered something of a geek. In the Wizarding World he was a complete geek for spellcasting and his Ravenclaw sympathies alone meant that he completely understood what Dominic meant by making it work 'fun'.

He was absorbed in Dominic's tales of how the journals worked, intrigued as to where the problems had been. "The Cursebreakers are trying to break the journals system?" he queried, unsure what that was all about but feeling defensive on both his journal and Dominic's behalf.

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knowhow
2014-09-09 04:12 pm UTC (link)

Dominic laughed and waved a hand to quiet Theodore's fears. "No! Or at least, I hope not. No, it's more that they spend so much time abroad, in different time zones, and I'm worried entries from their journals while they're away aren't going to play nicely with entries from England." It was something he hadn't really been able to test yet, and he supposed if a few things showed up out of order it wouldn't be the worst that could happen.

He wondered, privately, if the cursebreakers would be able to break into people's privacy wards. Possibly, but it was hard to see how that would benefit them much. And if they could, it wouldn't be his responsibility - would it? He hadn't made any claims about the journals being any more secure than the wards placed on them by their users. Still, he could tell the thought was going to niggle at him.

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nottfinished
2014-09-28 09:34 pm UTC (link)

Dominic's lack of concern eased Theo's hackles as well and he settled down when he heard the real issue. He could see how that might be a problem with the different timezones alone, and he wasn't as much of a Ravenclaw as he would like to be able to posit any theories.

"Considering how new they are I'd be surprised if there weren't a couple of bugs." Theo tried to reassure. "But they work remarkably well given that they're so new. You should take more credit for the spellwork, really." he said sincerely.

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