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Halo's Cast (cast_no_shadow) wrote in mistaken_pieces,
@ 2008-12-26 17:31:00

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! rp, - 2020 august, - malfoy household, [player: halo], [player: jade], aries malfoy, scorpius malfoy

Lost books?
Who: Scorpius, Aries
When: August 26th, 2020, early evening
Where: Malfoy Manor
Status: Completed
Summary: When he decides to look something up in a textbook, Scorpius notices that his charms text is gone. He attempts to track it down by finding what his siblings are up to, and simply assumes it was Aries' doing. The confrontation with his brother leads to a dead end, so he leaves - but watches Aries' room until Aries leaves. He searches Aries' room and comes up empty handed, but encounters his brother chucking the book into a potted plant. The two have another mild confrontation and Scorpius points out that if Aries wants to read up on Charms, he has his own text, which will help him understand the spells better. Aries heads off - perhaps to do just that - and Scorpius retreats to his room.

He wouldn't have noticed at all if he hadn't had the inclination to look up something in one of his text books. He wasn't generally much for reading ahead, but he'd started thinking and it had gone on a tangent.

So he'd rummaged through his mostly-packed trunk to look for his new Charms text, and frowned when he failed to find it.

Oh, he had all the rest of them, but not his Charms book. Come to think of it, the books looked out of order, too.

The list of suspects was very, very narrow. His parents wouldn't bother, which left his siblings. Libra generally knew better, but could be dared into things ... but either way, that put Aries behind it.

Rolling his eyes, absolutely certain it had been stolen and not merely misplaced, Scorpius stormed out into the hallway to look for his siblings.

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	ignorant_bliss 2008-12-26 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	Aries scowled as he was lifted aside. He hated when that happened. Still scowling, he stalked after his brother. "Yeah," he continued, not really convinced he'd be able to stall any longer. "Libra's going to outdo us bother before she even turns nine." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cast_no_shadow
2008-12-26 11:08 pm UTC (link)

"Right," he agreed. He pushed aside the fronds of the plant before he lifted out the book from where it had fallen. Holding it up to show Aries, his arched his brows. "So if I go ask her to turn this back into plant food, she'll get right on that for me? Undo the spell she's put on the food?"

He shook his head slightly. "You know," he said. "They feed liars to the giant squid. I told you that, right?"

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	ignorant_bliss 2008-12-26 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	"They do not," Aries protested before remembering that he was supposed to be pretending to not be a liar. "And even if they did," he continued, catching himself. "I don't think I've got anything to worry about. What do they do to paranoid older brothers who never trust anyone?" Give them awards, maybe. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cast_no_shadow
2008-12-26 11:28 pm UTC (link)

"Praise them for being so clever and skeptical," he said before he started back up the stairs, brushing some dirt from the pot off of his book. "What were you doing this this, anyway? It's loads too advanced for you. You've got your own texts to be looking at."

Though he supposed if he'd been a first year with an older brother, he would've wanted to see what was ahead.

After all, he still tried to get into his father's personal collection of books. The ones he wouldn't just leave in the library for Scorpius to stumble over.

Sure, all right, he had no idea what was in the books, but it had to be good, right, if they were hidden?

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ignorant_bliss
2008-12-26 11:41 pm UTC (link)

Aries snorted. He'd expected that response.

"Mine are boring," he whined, finally giving up the game. "They've got rubbish in there like... like... levitating feathers and the like. Libra can do that without magic. And beetles to buttons?"

Aries made a face just thinking about it. How pointless was that? What would you do with a button that had once been a beetle? Why would you even want one?

"It's all a load of crock."

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cast_no_shadow
2008-12-26 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Scorpius laughed softly. "Aries, you git. You have to start small. If you don't understand the basics, and the premise, you're more apt to muck up the advanced spells."

He paused. "Besides, if you understand the principles, you can make new spells based on it. And no sense bringing her into it. She's not supposed to be doing magic, so it doesn't count what she does on accident."

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ignorant_bliss
2008-12-27 12:27 am UTC (link)

Aries rolled his eyes, not impressed. "I think I could pick up the principles well enough along the way if you'd just let me read the whole book."

Maybe. He'd been having a little trouble slogging through it earlier. Some of it had made sense, but a lot of it had been completely beyond him.

At the mention of Libra, Aries had to grin. "I'm not sure... Who says it's on accident? I think she's getting pretty good of doing what she wants when she gets mad enough to use magic."

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cast_no_shadow
2008-12-27 12:35 am UTC (link)

"Well, she'd better be careful with that."

He shook his head. "Go read your own book then. It won't do you any good to read mine, when half the spells are explained in the first year book, and then aren't elaborated on further in this one. All the principles you could possibly want are in there."

He regarded his brother for a moment longer, wondering what house he was going to wind up in. He assumed Slytherin, but ... well, there was always a chance, wasn't there, he'd wind up somewhere else? A Potter had wound up in his house, so maybe Aries would wind up in Gryffindor.

Scorpius almost shuddered at the thought.

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	ignorant_bliss 2008-12-27 12:43 am UTC (link)
	Aries sighed perhaps a touch more theatrically that was strictly necessary before shaking his head and giving up. Scorpius usually knew best, after all. Though Aries was loath to admit it. "Fine," he grumbled. "I'll go read mine then read yours." The blond tossed a smirk back over his shoulder as he picked up the pace, taking the stairs back up two at a time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cast_no_shadow
2008-12-27 12:46 am UTC (link)

Scorpius watched his brother go, shaking his head a little as he followed after him more slowly. In the hall, he glanced into Libra's room again before continuing on to his own.

Settling his Charms book in his trunk, he locked it this time - in case Aries or Libra got ambitious later on.

He flopped onto his back on his bed, sliding his wand out of his sleeve. Sure, he couldn't do anything now, not at home, but he could look at his wand, couldn't he?

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