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Tweak says, "It's always better the 2nd day"

Cassandra Trelawney (blondemagic) wrote in hogwarts_dawn,
@ 2021-03-10 10:30:00

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character: draco malfoy, character: peter pettigrew, character: scorpius malfoy, unused: cassandra trelawney

RP: Cassandra & Scorpius
Who: Cassandra & Scorpius Malfoy
Later: Draco & Scorpius, Cass & Peter
When: Late Morning, March 10
Where: Wandering the grounds
What: Scouting a location for the new greenhouses

One of the greatest things Cassandra was enjoying about the modern era was the fact that a woman could wear trousers and no one cared. She didn't have to deal with layer after layer after layer of bullshit every morning anymore and if she didn't want to, she didn't have to wear her hair up. Gloves, outside of those for winter, had gone the way of the dodo. Dressing in the mornings was so much simpler. Although there was also a lamentable lack of deep pockets... Thankfully, the heavy cloak she had over everything else had pockets abounds and it meant she was ready to go out.

Almost immediately after breakfast, she had disappeared outside to start scouting around the grounds. She carried in front of her a Y-shaped branch from a hazel tree - a rather traditional dowsing rod though instead of hidden pockets of water (of which there were many around Hogwarts), she was seeing good spiritual energy. It probably looked very silly to anyone who saw her, watching her pace about for a minute, then hold out a stick, shake her head, and move on. The process had been going for a good hour by now and she'd made very little progress.

The land around Hogwarts was so scarred, she was almost afraid there wouldn't be a good spot. Now, she was paused and staring up at the whomping willow that hadn't been on the grounds when she was a girl. Thankfully, she was just out of reach of it so the occasional ominous creak was just the tree settling in the cold. "... Right. The other way then."

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Re: Peter/Cass

blondemagic
2021-03-11 02:35 am UTC (link)

She exhaled softly, glancing away from him this time, "Usually, I can ignore it. Just a small point behind my eyes. Other times, I cannot even stand candlelight." She didn't know what a migraine was - or at least the term for it and treating headache pain wasn't considered particularly important 100+ years ago. It was a symptom, not its own individual problem. "I've tried every potion and herbal remedy. Even Muggle pills. Nothing touches them."

Talking about bees was far more enjoyable. That, and her time in the outdoors. Her headaches only got worse if she acknowledged them. "Trelawneys used to be druids. That too was tradition," but she seemed to be the last one to care about it. As the cities and towns crowded out the world, farming, nature, and its associated magic was going by the wayside. Or... it had?

A soft, nearly silent laugh escaped her at that ridiculous bow, his admission of his cad nature bringing a smile back. "I am. I don't know about you," and she certainly wasn't going to force him. But he was following up with a compliment and she squeezed his hand gently, "I think you're doing fine. The last time I smiled this much... I was eleven and I was hiding in the library with Albus after a professor had made me feel utterly terrible about having a vision in class."

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Re: Peter/Cass

p__pettigrew
2021-03-11 03:11 am UTC (link)

"So you get headaches? Migraines? I'm pretty sure that Muggles have come up with some strong pills that would not have existed in your time. Of course the downside is that we don't know what they would do to you. Or your gift," Peter said, almost as if thinking out loud on the last part. "I know we have potions too, but I don't know if they help as much. Muggles have been rather powerful in healing."

Peter tilted his head. "I've heard the term something to do with people around the time of Merlin, but I'm not sure what it means. It sounds like it meant a lot to you."

He shrugged. "I don't know. I'm talking to a woman who sounds kind and smart and interesting. If I thought we were flirting, I probably would have been much worse," he admitted, remembering some of his terrible attempts when Sirius had convinced him to talk to a girl he liked. "That professor was terrible, but I'm glad you had someone to make you smile."

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Re: Peter/Cass

blondemagic
2021-03-11 03:41 am UTC (link)

"If that's what you call 'sick headaches', then I suppose so," she dropped her gaze again as he went on. No, they had no idea what would happen but she would honestly try anything if it meant her head didn't hurt as often. Cassandra just listened though, having long since given up on trying to end her headaches.

"The natural wild magic of the UK before..." she gestured towards the castle with a shrug, "It's taught me a lot about herbology, nature, healing." But those things had never been her path. Her destiny had been predetermined - or so she had thought. She was almost afraid to look into the textbooks about herself.

"As soon as you asked what was wrong with the moon, I decided you belonged to me - even if it was just friendly," she confessed with a slight shrug. That was probably strange but if neither of them was actually good at flirting then they were both doing just fine. She stopped them in their walk, the path on the grounds having led them to an area nearer to the castle but the actual classroom greenhouses were in the distance, just barely visible over a small crest of hill. "What about here?"

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