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Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,

"I don't," Lucy said decidedly. "At least, not those times." Sometimes she thought about what it would be like to go back to before she got her Hogwarts letter, when she'd just been a normal girl playing football with her friends and making cookies with her sisters. When she'd first found out about it she'd thought magic would be an amazing thing that would change her life - but it had never been anything like that easy. "I like who I am now. I like knowing I'm actually good at things - even if..." She trailed off, then shrugged. "Even if those things aren't magic." Susan had been with her all six years at school, she knew Lucy wasn't good at magic.

She snorted slightly at Susan's description of her job. These new adult versions of her old friends were taking some getting used to. They'd all changed so much, and yet in some ways were just the same - it felt like Lucy kept missing a step when trying to walk down stairs. "If we can get authentic stuff that would be even better," she said. "I've been using basic Sainsbury's ingredients and it's really good just with those. I've got a list somewhere." She hadn't remotely managed to memorise the massive ingredient list yet - but sometimes she liked a challenge when she cooked.

Once they were all chopped, Lucy pushed the peppers over to Susan to add to the saucepan. "It's so stupid," she complained bitterly. "I had one magical accident and the Ministry got involved, sent me a letter 'reminding' me not to magic around muggles." She added air-quotes around the word as she spoke. "Then months later I get that vanishing sickness and my hand disappears on the fucking tube as I was trying to get myself to St Mungos." She paused, trying to tamp down the irritation - Susan did work for the Ministry, after all. She popped a stray cube of green pepper into her mouth and crunched through it before she continued. "After that, I had to go see them and fill out loads of paperwork and get one of Alicia's lawyers involved. In the end it seems like they can't force me to stop living and working with muggles - not unless there are several more instances in a twelve-month period - but when an owl showed up at work and just flapped outside the window for hours I sort of gave up."

Once she'd finished speaking, her shoulders sagged a little, making her even shorter than she usually was. She still wasn't sure this was for the best, no matter how she tried to convince herself. Both magical and muggle worlds had drawbacks, and she still wished she could have struck a more equal balance. "It definitely set me on a path. I guess we'll see if it was a good one..."