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Tweak says, "ANY QUESTIONS?"

Rolf Scamander (outofthewild) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-09-24 17:52:00

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character: charlie weasley, character: rolf scamander

RP: And there be dragons
Who: Rolf and Charlie

What: Talking about Dragons

Where: Finnigan’s

When: Wednesday evening around 7pm

Rating: NSFW - language

Rolf was rather tired, he would admit it. It had been a very long day and he was already missing Rose and their vacation. Just getting home this morning had been hard. They’d each kept wanting just a little more time together, away from everything. Part of him wondered how things were going to go, now that they were back, but he wasn’t going to worry too much – she was his Rosie and he rather thought they’d become something more, now.

He’d worked all afternoon in the shop. The person he’d found to cover had done a fair job, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel the urge to clean and set everything where he wanted it to be. By the time he headed for the pub, he was tired and thought a pint sounded pretty good, though he came armed with a thick and magically bound notebook to take notes in.

He walked in and looked around; he’d know one of the Weasleys on sight, he thought, though he didn’t think he’d ever personally met Charlie. It didn’t matter, though, he looked forward to talking to anyone who had an interest in creatures of any ilk.

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 11:50 am UTC (link)

"Yeah? I'm rather fond of them myself, but I didn't get much opportunity to visit their reserve, just a week or so mostly tacked onto transporting the dragons." He shrugged and drank a little more. "Oh, you must tell me about that sometime. Contrary to what my family thinks I don't just love dragons," he said.

"Although if you want the low-down on the two British breeds I have contacts at both of the reserves if you don't. I'd be happy to introduce you," he offered. "I've not had much to do with the actual dragons."

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outofthewild
2014-09-29 12:44 pm UTC (link)

"My mother went to one of the reserves for almost a year, quite a while back. Wrote several papers," he said. Charlie might even have read them, though they were under her maiden name.

Rolf grinned. "Oh, I will. Even if it ended badly for me, it was an interesting job. I've had a few really interesting ones over the years." He too liked to get to prattle on about things at times, and would definitely enjoy getting to talk about it some time.

"That would be nice," he said with a nod. "With it being closer, I could take a day or two. An introduction would ease the way." His grandfather did things like that sometimes, but he liked to work independently from his family when he could.

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 02:10 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, great. I've quite possibly read her stuff. Dragon reserves are not the most thrilling of places outside of work, as I'm sure you know. I did quite a lot of reading." Sure going off the reserve worked just fine but sometimes you just lacked the energy after a whole day of dragon wrangling.

"No problem, just let me know when you're ready to go see them, I'll drop them an owl. They'll have all sorts of research of their own. Plus the MacFusty's are great and their research goes back hundreds of years," he said, the light of excitement of research in his eyes.

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outofthewild
2014-09-29 11:01 pm UTC (link)

"Probably," Rolf agreed. "And yes, they are. Most reserves can be that way - the down time really low key and you need to fill it somehow." Rolf remembered his parents finding things to do when he was young -- things that usually didn't have a single thing to do with their several children. Well, now, his mother had time for the girls a lot of times, but on the whole Rolf hadn't seen much of them either way.

"I've heard good things about the MacFusty's, once you can get in to see them," he said. They weren't the most trusting of outsiders, or so he'd heard. "But it'd definitely be a boon. I know they've not published much,a t least recently."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-29 11:39 pm UTC (link)

Charlie's face scrunched up in a frown. "Yeah, the MacFusty's can be a bit...protective really isn't the word. It might be an idea to introduce you sooner rather than later. It takes them a while to trust anyone. They take their duty very seriously. They think of it more as protecting the dragons than keeping them like we did," he explained. It had taken a lot of time and negotiation to be able to speak to those most involved the care of the dragons, never mind actually getting to see them. Charlie's eventual tour had been brief, and they all seemed to like him.

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outofthewild
2014-09-30 12:12 pm UTC (link)

"Clannish?" Rolf suggested, not criticizing but definitely repeating something he'd been told in the past. He had time while here; he could earn their trust. He didn't know when or even if he'd get to go on major expeditions again. "Given how much poaching has gone on, I can't quite blame them, honestly." He'd read the stats a while back, just after the war, and they'd astounded him.

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	hopalongcharlie 2014-09-30 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	Charlie laughed. It was a pretty accurate description really. "Yeah, that's about it." The poaching though, it was terrible. "Yeah, we had that problem with the Longhorns too, and I've seen what people do. I really don't blame them." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

outofthewild
2014-09-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)

"I don't really either. There's a time and a place for harvesting, and it's not like that," he said. He was on a list to call if a dragon died of natural causes and they needed a hand with all that sort of thing. He'd done it twice in the past, and though it wasn't something he enjoyed at all, it was a duty to be done. "At least it seems somewhat under control at this point, more than it was, anyway."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-09-30 10:40 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I've done harvesting after territorial disputes, accidental deaths, or just plain old age. They're never fun even if they are important," he said, remembering the apportioning of a variety of dragons that he'd taken part in. It was never a very pleasant job, but it was important.

Charlie hummed in agreement as he finished off his pint. "Yeah, it's far better than it was. A couple of the older keepers had stories, well, cautionary tales really, they were never much fun to hear."

"So, then. You got any more questions for me, or shall I just give you this huge stack of work to look at? Not that I'm rushing off or anything," he hastened to add, "but we wandered off topic a bit."

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outofthewild
2014-10-01 03:23 am UTC (link)

"I've been in a few places where poaching was a big problem. It really isn't pleasant at all." Not to mention dangerous. More than usual. But then as his incident proved, you could get hurt anytime. He took a long draw on his pint as well. "Right off the top of my head? No. But I probBlt will as I go through everything. And I don't mind wandering off topic," he said with a grin. "You're welcome to another pint on me, if you want."

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hopalongcharlie
2014-10-01 12:05 pm UTC (link)

Charlie too had seen the effects poachers could have on an animal, and it was never pleasant. They tended to have zero respect for the creatures they killed and unlike the keepers or other trained people they just got what they wanted the quickest way possible, which was never clean.

"Sure, not a problem. So long as it's not before noon I'm good with whenever. But I have become useless in a morning unless it's pre-arranged and I stay awake, or an emergency!" He'd been a morning person until his new venture meant he worked until four. That was a different style of morning person entirely.

"Well, I'm not going to say no to another pint," he added with a grin of his own. "Thank you very much."

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outofthewild
2014-10-01 12:28 pm UTC (link)

"No worries. I might wake early enough for the shop, but most of my personal business is done after it closes in the evening, unless I arrange for it to be otherwise beforehand, as well." There were always emergencies, of course. But he didn't see any kind of emergency coming up that would impact this book thing. "So it shouldn't conflict, and don't feel in a hurry to reply if you're busy." While he wanted to do this book, he had to do it around everything else he had going on.

Rolf grinned. He hadn't thought Charlie would turn one down. "Not a problem. You're doing me a big favor by helping me out, so I'm happy to give you something in return." Though he'd of course reference all materials and thank all contributers when the time came.

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