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Greta Grindelwald has an army. (_greatergood) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-09-03 15:19:00

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ch: swap: greta grindelwald, ch: swap: phinea black, p: lisa ii, p: silyara

Who: Greta Grindelwald & Phinea Black
What: Hogwarts has been untouched by her symbol, by the Deathly Hallows symbol. She's going to change that.
When: Monday afternoon.
Where: An empty corridor on some floor.
Warnings: It's Greta and it depends on if and who finds her.

Had most of the compound's residents been to Hogwarts? Greta assumed as much, given that most of them were witches and wizards who lived similar timelines. There were squibs, she'd heard, so maybe this was a fresh experience for them - not that she cared for those types. To her, Hogwarts was fascinating. It contrasted Durmstrang in so many ways; the halls were light and open, decorated with all genres of portraits and statues. Durmstrang not only allowed darkness on several levels, but it actively promoted it.

Most of all, Hogwarts was a place that Greta had only heard of from Alba. It was new to her and lacking her signature, the one that now decorated Durmstrang's own walls. And maybe the other witch's presence was somewhere for her to find. Alba was apparently going to be the one to bring her down, paving the way for an even greater dark witch to take over. Greta didn't like those thoughts at all. In fact, it was enough to make her almost insane with anger.

But there was nothing she could do about it. Not now and perhaps not ever.

Once she found an abandonded corridor, she checked one last time for another person. This was something she could have done with someone else, but no longer. And so it was only slight accomplishment that filled her as she used the Elder Wand to begin etching the Deathly Hallows symbol, her personal signature, into one of the stony walls.

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_greatergood
2012-09-06 04:24 am UTC (link)

It was a good thing that Greta hadn't forced a smile, otherwise it may have dropped. Luckily, she only genuinely smiled every once in awhile. Her eyes trained on the woman's hand as it moved along the wall, curious as to whether she would find anything or not. The accusations only caused Greta's eyes to narrow.

"I did nothing wrong," she replied strongly. "You seem..." deranged she finished silently. "Are you all right?" Greta tilted her head and she shifted slightly on her feet. "And anyway, this cannot be the real castle, or at least, it is only one among an infinite amount."

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gynocrat
2012-09-06 04:36 am UTC (link)

Phinea knew the stones well, in the castle as she knew it, and she had taken the time to get check on this castle, to make sure it was like the one she had become so intimately familiar with over the years. A place was important, and the place one was at ... Phinea focused on the matter at hand, on the gouge into the stone the girl had been making. Incomplete as it was, Phinea did not know what it had been meant to become. But that wasn't the point.

"Should you be concerned for my health, you would not damage these walls," Phinea responded, not frightened in the least by the tone used against her. Her eyebrow had gone up, half-inviting the girl to finish her sentence honestly. But there was no answer to it at all. "The number of Hogwarts that exist does not change the respect it deserves. Real or feigned, your action shows poor attitude for that of the castle and the institution," Phinea responded, sounding almost like a teacher, if an impatient one willing to speak back more to the students than most. "And you did wrong, even should you have no remorse."

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_greatergood
2012-09-06 04:47 am UTC (link)

"But I do not even know you," Greta shook her head, her smile tiny, almost nonexistent. Yet she was growing amused. "I would not know to be concerned and even if I were aware, I have no connection to you." Therefore she couldn't care less what happened to this woman.

"Well it would be wrong of me to say I have any inherent respect for this...institution." As she said the last word, Greta turned to face the wall again, looking up the entire surface. "I attended Durmstrang Institute. You still haven't given me your name." By then she was looking back at the woman.

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gynocrat
2012-09-06 04:55 am UTC (link)

The answer was hardly surprising. Phinea had no expectations for anyone to care for her health, much less an impertinent stranger from another country she caught in the act of defacing the castle. No, the witch didn't act as if she had any genuine concern for others. "Then your question as to my health was meaningless," Phinea replied, "Should you decide you are concerned, you are now the better informed." She held no such expectations. If anything, the opposite. But the girl had seemed determined to do it anyway. Motivating someone to behave the proper way when they held such an attitude was almost always pointless.

"You don't have to attend this place to have respect for it," Phinea corrected, "I respect Durmstrang Institution without having taken courses there myself." Naturally she considered Hogwarts better, but having spent so many decades improving it, that was a natural conclusion. "I am Lady Phinea Nigella Black," she replied, choosing not to give all her titles. The one gave enough of a hint as to some of the others. "You haven't shared your name either." Her eyes hadn't left the untrustworthy figure in front of her.

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_greatergood
2012-09-06 05:06 am UTC (link)

"Not quite," Greta began pointing out. "I would be concerned, for instance, if you were mentally unstable which would put my health in danger, or perhaps if you were severely ill and close to death. If I were unable to save you then that would be on my hands." And that was the last thing Greta needed, whether or not such a thing could even happen here.

"I don't consider attempting to uncover great secrets to be disrespectful," she returned to her original story, which she had yet to give up on. Greta looked suspicious. That wasn't a name she had heard of, though she didn't expect to recognize many within the compound. Obviously she already knew Greta's last name. "Regalia." It was her middle name and it also belonged to her mother.

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gynocrat
2012-09-06 05:18 am UTC (link)

It was rather generous of the girl in front of her to share how selfish her desires truly were. Phinea expected no more of people. In a way it was refreshing to see the cold calculations of how someone's actions, which society took as social norms or as some social kindness, and see that they were only an issue of self-preservation, in one form or another. "No one's life is in danger," Phinea spoke firmly. Her mind was as agile as it had always been, and her sanity had never been drawn into question, for there was no reason to do so. Anger at the disrespect of her institution was the sane response. Had she been nonchalant, Phinea would have had to request someone bring her to a healer at once.

"Searching for a secret not yours is always disrespectful," Phinea countered. She knew many of the stories about Hogwarts, and some of the books she read even wrote about them. Many of the secrets she knew. A few others were incomplete. None of them had to do with gouging out stone. "Has your name changed in such short time?" Phinea required with sarcasm, "Just the other day it was Greta."

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_greatergood
2012-09-06 05:28 am UTC (link)

"That is good to know." Of course, Greta had decided that it was safe some time ago, at least for the immediate future. Besides, even if Phinea turned without warning and attacked her, she was very skilled at duelling. Thus she was far from worried.

"If someone wished for them to never be uncovered, they would not have hidden them in such a public place, would they?" Otherwise they wouldn't exist at all. The creators knew the school would see many students over the years. The castle was an intentional puzzle from Greta's perspective. She grinned at Phinea then, delighted by her last words. "So you already knew who I am."

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gynocrat
2012-09-06 05:38 am UTC (link)

Anyone considering the other half of the conversation potentially insane did not take that party's word for any imminent danger. But truly, that issue was irrelevant. The people running this compound, as it was called, prevented violence from being committed. Even were she to attempt violence against the other individual, it wouldn't have done anything, except perhaps have ended their conversation. Even from a selfish point of view, there was no reason for Greta to truly consider Phinea's health.

"That makes those secrets left for those who attend this school," Phinea countered, "As you have yourself stated, you are not among that number." Phinea did not believe those secrets were there for school children to have their way with, no matter how clever. The institution was a castle, built for education but built to defend itself. A good number of the secrets helped with that, and there were other matters Phinea knew, though they had not become relevant. "Literacy provides one the means to know a great many things," Phinea replied, "All it takes is reading words on a page." She had also read the texts about what Greta Grindelwald did and became in the future. It had been a foolish idea from the start.

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