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Luna D. Lovegood (luna_l) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-12-06 18:47:00

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^date: november 06 2003, character: luna lovegood, character: michael corner

Who: Michael and Luna
When: 11am
Where: Rook Cottage
What: Puzzles and Challenges
Warnings: Safe for work [i.e. low]

Setting up for lunch gave Luna another reason she loved being able to call her own hours. She'd gotten up when the nightmare had struck, deciding to head out and start work then return for a nap. A couple hours into her nap, she woke again screaming. It was nearly ten in the morning, perfect time to get up, so perhaps it wasn't that much of a loss. Though shaking was not the easiest way to prepare lunch. Still, she managed and the kettle was ready at eleven proper. She wasn't sure what Michael liked for lunch and having forgotten, she chose to make sandwiches. Pickles and cheese as well as a duck and chutney. That way he had a couple of choices.

Her father was off for the day, looking again for the Crumpled-Horned Snorkack. She was beginning to doubt its existence, but that was something she wasn't ready to discuss with him. However, that did mean that the likelihood of them being interrupted would be extremely low, a definite plus.

She frowned looking around the living room. She would have preferred to have a pensieve for this excursion, but still, it wouldn't do to get an expensive item simply to spill it intentionally.

Checking the kettle once more, she waited for Michael.

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mlcorner
2011-12-08 04:25 am UTC (link)

Michael nodded and grabbed the plates that she mentioned, following her to the table with them. His face lit up as she mentioned that he was perfect for setting the puzzle upon—he was rather flattered to be honest. He had always been a fan of puzzles and puns but he didn't know if that was well known or not. It was nice for Luna to notice though.

Michael sat down and listened to her explanation, forgetting all about the sandwiches. When she finished he remained quiet for a moment, considering it all before he would say anything out loud to her. If these were memories and not nightmares, how would all of them have gotten them? However it did make more sense than everyone suffering the same sort of nightmares on the same nights with the same person in them, but it was still similarly far-fetched for them to all have received memories in their heads too. How had they gotten there and why did those specific people get them and why...

"Okay, this is a good idea. I like it. We need to test this and see if it gives us any answers first before we ask anymore questions." It probably sounded odd, seeing as he hadn't actually asked a single question, but his mind was reeling with them and the more he thought about it, the more questions he came up with and that just didn't help anything.

"Have you found any information on this, Luna? Has anyone ever tried it?" Michael was a Ravenclaw and they knew that it was always smart to check a book and see if there was any good information somewhere to start with. He felt a familiar giddiness he always associated with solving riddles and puzzles—his fingers and toes were tingling at the thought of getting somewhere with this mystery.

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luna_l
2011-12-09 01:50 pm UTC (link)

It was hard to get into Ravenclaw if one didn't see the world as a series of puzzles to be solved, but even so, she'd noticed Michael on more than a few occasions being tucked in a corner with a puzzle or query of some form. Additionally, since he wasn't suffering from the nightmares, that would give him a unique perspective in working on it.

She nodded happily at his acceptance. His help might hold the key to understanding what was going on. At his suggestion of testing, she smiled distantly. "Testing it was precisely why I had wanted somewhere private." The discussion itself as well but if they were going to attempt to retrieve memories, any memories, not even the specific nightmarish ones, she didn't want to do that in a public place.

"I've not found much, no, though I"m not sure I would expect to given the monopoly on memory sales that the pensieve makers guild has." She leaned her head slightly back, her eyes drifting off to the side as she remembered a conversation with her father over how information was bought and sold and how people would just accept what was printed, no matter the bias.

"But even so, there should be hints, there always are. If I could get a glimpse of the early notes that the designers of the original pensieve made, perhaps I'd know more. So it seems we are mostly on our own." She wasn't upset at the idea of not having a strong basis to go off of. She trusted Ravenclaw intuition far more than most books anyway, so while they would have been helpful, she wasn't ready to panic. Panic was reserved for that nightmare. And the thought that she might actually beg someone someday. The thought had her furrowing her brow.

Luna shook her head to clear it, pulling the wand from her hair and letting her hair fall down her back as she set her wand on the table, waiting expectantly for how he'd like to proceed.

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mlcorner
2011-12-09 06:39 pm UTC (link)

Michael nodded while she spoke, more thoughts flying into his head. This time he tried to speak aloud as he thought, instead of keeping quiet. "Alright so let's think through this. What do we know about memories so far?" Michael hadn't ever studied them at length, but he knew what they'd learned in lessons. "We can pull them from our minds and put them in a pensieve if we so desire, watch them as if we were watching a film. Others can see them as well, even if they weren't there at the time. That would be like the dreams you lot are having, if that's what they are...

"Okay so using that logic, we should be able to extract them. Also using that logic, we should be able to extract any other memory of someone's, say mine, and put it into someone else's head, like yours. If these are this Pandora Zurlo person's memories, or someone she knows, then somehow she's put her memories into everyone else's heads. But how? And why? Well I guess we'll worry about that later and just focus on trying the other bits first."

Michael was not really aware that he was rambling, but that's how he usually got when he was trying to figure things out. He was excitable and jittery and talkative. He really did love thinking. "Alright so let's try pulling a memory first and see what we can do with it, yeah?" He stood up and nodded. "Okay so, what do you want to try first?"

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