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anthony goldstein has a chart for this. ([info]logiclogiclogic) wrote in [info]pandorarpg,
@ 2012-02-07 18:38:00

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Entry tags:!status: complete, ^date: november 15 2003, character: anthony goldstein, character: michael corner

Characters: Anthony & Michael
Setting: 15 November (Saturday), around 12:24PM.
Summary: Best mates being best mates, possible definite angsting because that's what they do best.
Rating: PG-13 because there might be language.

Since the night before had been perfectly nightmare-free, Anthony had tried to look on a... brighter side. Tried being the key word because honestly, he had a few things to be less than positive about. Like, for instance, the fact that he was ever aware that later on he had a nightmare to look forward to. He really hoped the bad reaction had been a one time thing as he wasn't very keen on the idea of feeling as if he was still there for half the day after waking. It wasn't very conducive to functionality nor productivity and Anthony had things he needed to focus on.

Like the warning system for one. He'd need a second opinion on his theory once it was completely figured out... preferably someone with a good knowledge of charms and defense spells - maybe he should just talk to Hermione, actually. He didn't want everyone to think things were all safe and dandy and then find out that, no, it hadn't done anything helpful at all in the long run. Which was part of the reason he hadn't tried to push Michael into not feeling to blame about his potion. Even if that hadn't been Anthony's original intention. He'd been much more concerned with the urge to be sick and the like - which had been new in a horrible way, but that was beside the point.

The point was that Anthony was reasonably sure he might have had a pseudo-solution. Something part sneakoscope, part portkey-like for the wizards and something to notify the nearest wizard relative for the Muggles. Of course, he could always switch it up and have both notify the DA to be broader in terms of the amount of help available.

Thinking about this was a good way to not focus on the body he'd found yesterday evening with Zacharias Smith. He was sure it wasn't so much the body itself not that he had time to... process it, so much as it was what the body represented, and -

Anthony shook his head, knocking on the door to Michael's flat because he was a civilised person who didn't just go letting himself into people's places on his own, and he decided he was not going to finish that thought because then he'd likely end up like Lavender in a week's time and start calling everything hopeless and the like.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-08 01:01 am UTC (link)
Michael grunted when there was a knock on the door. His wards didn't go off which meant it was one of a few people. "Come in!" he hollered across the room, not bothering to get up. It was rude, sure, but if it was Anthony he should have learned by now to just let himself in and if it was Lavender well she could let herself in too. Really anyone could let themselves in, it wasn't exactly that difficult and Michael was quite exhausted after going to his family's house last night and dealing with his brother's revelation and on top of that, his father's, so really he didn't feel like doing anything, least of all going to the DA meeting but he knew that he needed to.

He was sprawled out across his sofa in a t-shirt and sweatpants, reading Hamlet again which really he knew better than to do that especially after all the shite Lavender was pulling but he couldn't help himself. Hamlet was truly brilliant, pretending to be mad and Michael remembered back in seventh year when he was being tortured by the Carrow how he would always pretend that it was the most fun he'd ever had and in some ways, it actually did make it more bearable, believe it or not. "Hey Ant," Michael said when he saw his friend enter the flat.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-08 03:58 am UTC (link)
Anthony rolled his eyes as he let himself into Michael's flat, sure that Michael's ways of just letting anyone into his flat wasn't safe in the least bit. He decidedly did not comment on it, though, as he really wasn't interested in being compared to someone's parent. Again.

Instead he crossed the room, not hesitating a bit in the decision to make room for himself on Michael's sofa even if it involved half-pushing him off. It was either that or sit on him, so he figured Michael should just enjoy his choice wasn't the latter of the two. Now that he was here, though, Anthony wasn't exactly sure he wanted to talk about anything serious, never mind that serious was generally his thing. He just found that he was very much preferring the days where the worst thing he had to look forward to was Michael or Terry bothering about things he did, or the ones didn't want to do.

"I don't get a joke or otherwise inappropriate comment? Colour me surprised."


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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-08 04:45 am UTC (link)
Michael marked his page in Hamlet and tossed it on the back of the sofa. He grumbled a bit when Anthony moved him out of his comfortable position on the sofa but he wasn't exactly giving his friend anywhere to sit so he supposed it was necessary. So once Anthony was settled Michael put his feet back up across Anthony's lap without hesitation, smirking a little, though it lacked his usual vigor.

"Sorry mate, hasn't been all that exciting of an evening, I'm afraid." He wasn't sure if he wanted to just launch into the news or not, but Anthony deserved to know as he was, for the most part, family. Michael didn't know if Anthony had stopped by to be depressed in such a manner though. Certainly there were better things to start with? Beating around the bush wasn't really Michael's style though. "James and Dad are having the nightmares." Michael chewed the inside of his cheek. "I don't know what the fuck to do anymore, honestly."

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-08 06:06 am UTC (link)
Anthony settled for making a face at Michael that he was perfectly sure conveyed just how he felt about that. He didn't think words were at all necessary for how he felt about it.

He wasn't exactly sure what he might've expected while he waited for Michael to elaborate on what he'd meant by it being not a very exciting meeting. Probably something about Lavender, or about the potion, or something, but that was still a shock. They weren't his relatives, not in that blood way, but Anthony had spent more than enough time around the Corner family that it felt almost the same as finding out about his own father.

"Shit, Michael," Anthony started, but paused as he didn't exactly know what to say next. He didn't know how to be the positive person in a conversation, especially when he wasn't actually feeling that way deep down. He frowned. "You're not...?" He didn't want to actually accuse Michael of losing hope or... whatever. It was just that he was sort of looking to him being positive enough for the both of them.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-08 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Funny enough, Michael knew what Anthony was getting at. You spend twelve years being best friends with someone and you start to pick up on these things, especially Anthony who had a weird way with not saying everything he meant to say. "No. I mean, how can I? I'm not going to lie and say everything doesn't feel hopeless because it does, but I can't just bloody give up..." Michael looked over at his book shelf for a moment, thinking of some of the books that resided there and the stories that recounted tales of just such situations of loss and devastation--none of them were very optimistic.

"Even if it feels like the world is crashing down around my head. The potions were useless, Muggles are affected by the nightmares too, this meeting today is a huge mess, Greyback's escaped from bloody Azkaban, Seamus says he doesn't know where Dean or his mum are at and generally I wouldn't think the worst but now..." Michael shook his head and scrubbed his hand over his face and then through his hair, tugging at it a bit. "Lavender's six year old nephew has a memory. I mean, this is bullshite, Ant. This is fucking bullshite. I'm bloody tired is what I am." He sighed. "And sorry. I didn't mean to unload on you right after you walk in the door. I know we're all tired of talking about this shite too."

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-09 01:10 am UTC (link)
Anthony was actually very glad for times like these when he didn't have to say more than two words and what he meant behind them was pretty much understood without question. What with there only being less than a handful of people that actually got that about him, he sort of had to appreciate it around the people who did.

His frown deepened a bit as he listened to Michael speak. It would be a lie to pretend that the odds weren't highly stacked against them in this, in ways they weren't even when Voldemort had the Ministry and Professor Dumbledore was dead. It was hard to find things to be positive about really, though at this exact moment, he was very very glad that so far he hadn't heard a thing about Lance being affected; he had no idea how he'd feel if that happened.

"It's fine," he shook his head. "It's not like there's much escaping it. At this point, I'm sure there's isn't anyone in Britain who doesn't know at least two people caught in this - which may or may not include themselves. Then there are bodies and the like being left for just anyone to find. None of it exactly makes for lighthearted conversation."

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-09 01:34 am UTC (link)
Michael considered what his friend was saying, knowing that it was certainly true. Everyone was dealing with it, but who knew if they all had as much information as the DA did which may be a good or a bad thing. He wasn't sure if it was exactly fair but it's not as if he could go about shouting the truth either. Not everyone took things well, especially when they knew the truth.

But then Anthony said something a bit off and Michael sat up. "Wait, what do you mean? Bodies being left for just anyone to find?" Michael raised an eyebrow, looking at his mate. He hadn't seen anything in the Prophet about a body - all he had read was more about the Kissed.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-09 02:00 am UTC (link)
He didn't realise until Michael asked him about it that he'd actually been hoping that it would go unnoticed and the conversation would continue in the vein it had been heading in before hand. That would have been nice. "Well - " he started, frowning again because he didn't exactly want to explain and in that same moment, it occurred to him that Michael had said something about Seamus' mum being missing and Anthony really hoped that wasn't who they'd found last night even though all luck seemed to point towards that being the answer. If she was still missing. There was a very good chance the woman was completely unrelated to anyone he knew, right?

"So, last night I wasn't exactly paying attention to where I was going and I ran into Zacharias Smith. Pretty literally. And there was an alley, and we found... someone," he finally answered.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-09 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Michael pulled his feet off of Anthony's lap (which he figured would be a relief to his mate anyhow) and sat up completely straight now. "Smith? What the fuck were you doing wandering around with Smith? He's a bloody prat." Michael shook his head. He knew that wasn't really the point here, but Zacharias Smith's name left a terrible taste in his mouth and the image of himself punching him came forefront in his mind when anyone mentioned the bloke and made Michael hot all over again just thinking of the things that Smith had said that night.

"Right, so what do you mean, found someone?"

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-09 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Not that Anthony was really all that surprised by that reaction, considering, but even still he had sort of hoped that Michael would realise that they hadn't been about to sit down to tea. "Well. I wasn't exactly... wandering. And it's not like we were on our way to dinner together or anything like that. We just so happened to be in the same place at the same time." He decided that part of the story didn't need any more details should Michael find it in himself to do something stupid.

"I mean, in the alley... there was a body. A very much dead body." Not that he was still bothered by it. Much.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-09 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Michael knew that what Anthony was saying was the truth and he didn't have the right to be getting worked up, but after the run-in with Marietta, he didn't particularly like the idea of Anthony getting into another situation in which he could be bullied. And maybe Michael had denied it with Marietta but Anthony was a bit of an easy target so it was just in Michael's nature to worry about these things. "Yeah, alright," Michael said, deflating some.

"Fuck." He really had nothing else to say these days. It basically described everything. "Did you know - did you find out who it was?" he asked, almost tentatively, almost too afraid to even want to find out. He wondered exactly when this had been, if it had been after he'd left his family's house and if it could possibly be either his brother or his father. Anthony would have recognised either of them though and he wouldn't have just been calling it 'a body.' Not to mention Michael would have been one of the first notified, yeah? It couldn't have been one of his family members, he assured himself. Not that it made it any better because it was still someone else's.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-10 08:57 am UTC (link)
Anthony gave Michael a brief look, not exactly sure whether he believed that the Zacharias part of the conversation was actually being let go or not. After a moment, he decided that it was fine.

There was a bit of something in the tone of Michael's question that made Anthony shake his head as quickly as possible, not hesitating to add, "All I know is that it - the person - was an older woman." He wasn't actually sure what sort of unasked question he was answering, but in a way he sort of was.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-10 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Michael nodded, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding. So even though he had rationalised that it couldn't be his father or his brother, it still comforted him to know that this was a woman that Anthony had seen. "What was she doing in the alley?" Michael asked, though it's not like Anthony would actually know the answer to that. "What happened to her? Were they able to tell you?" he asked, assuming that Anthony had called the DMLE to the scene even though he had been with Smith, Anthony was no idiot. He did wonder what they had to say about Smith being found with another body though.

Just then an owl came flying in through the window, carrying an afternoon edition of the Prophet. Michael read the headline and cringed, handing it over to Anthony without speaking. At least now they knew who the body was.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-10 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Anthony had figured, the night before, that the woman probably hadn't died all that long before they'd found her, especially considering how strong the spell to keep the alley from anyone's notice had been at first. And the alley had looked as if it had seen a fight. He shrugged, though, answering Michael with, "No idea why she was there. From what I saw it the alley looked a bit of a mess, so I'd say she fought back. And it looked like the Killing Curse, but no one actually told me anything. I think once they realised I didn't actually see anything happen, they didn't feel the need to tell me much of anything at all. Which was fine with me, honestly."

When the owl arrived with the Prophet, Anthony saw Michael cringe and took the paper with a bit of hesitation, finding the more important headline after a moment. Did that - he'd found Seamus' mother last night, then? It made talking about it completely different than when the woman had been unknown to him just a bit ago. "But Dean as a possible suspect, though? Really?"

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-11 07:29 am UTC (link)
Michael knew that it was a long shot, but it was worth asking. So this woman had been murdered, obviously, and by the sounds of it, it was brutal. It could have been Pandora again - most likely it was. But for some reason it sounded odd to him and he couldn't pinpoint why. "The Killing Curse? Are you sure?" Pandora had not used the Killing Curse on anyone else so far, had she? She usually killed everyone in some brutal way, so why would she do in this woman this way? Could it possibly be someone else?

Michael just shook his head. "I doubt that's what the DMLE is actually saying. It's just the Prophet being the Prophet. If Dean is missing then he may have been kidnapped by whoever killed Seamus' mum...if it was Pandora; but she's never used Avada Kedavra before. Why would she do it now?"

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-11 08:17 am UTC (link)
"Pretty sure, yeah. I mean, the scene wasn't very... um, bloody. Which sort of narrows down the methods of murder, I'd say." Anthony remembered that much, as there was little no chance that he'd have kept his lunch if it had been. He knew that much at least. He just wasn't a very big fan of violence unless in self-defence.

"I know it's not the DMLE. I'm just expressing my distaste at the Prophet and their lack of evolving past spinning an embellishment on every thing they write." Anthony shrugged. He wasn't really in the habit of thinking much on the way Pandora was happening to murder people as it wasn't very conducive to his sanity and if there was one thing Anthony was trying to keep steady, it was that. On the other hand, he couldn't really resist a theory discussion, even if he felt the topic a tad morbid.

"If the woman was Seamus' mum, which is highly likely considering I don't believe in coincidences that big, then Dean was with her. And that means two against one, right? Besides, that would also mean this all happened in an alleyway in Diagon Alley, which is busy enough in the middle of the day, let alone at around five when people are off work and milling about. Which I'd guess was the point of the don't-notice spell -- or whatever they used." He set the paper aside. "Staying with the theory of it being Pandora, maybe there was something more important than torturing the woman."

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-12 12:53 am UTC (link)
Michael considered what Anthony said. Seamus said in his journal that Dean and his mum were supposed to stop by the Leaky while he was on shift Friday, which meant that Dean and Fiona had been together - as the Prophet had pointed out, though having it confirmed by Seamus made Michael believe it more than the Prophet saying so.

"I don't know, that doesn't seem right though. Isn't that what she's known for? Even before, that's what she liked to do is torture people and so far no one else has been killed by anything less than some form of unusual torture. But even so, why would she take Dean? What use would he be to her?" While Dean did not have a memory, maybe he was kidnapped just because he was with Fiona at the time? She hadn't killed anyone who didn't have a memory so far though and it was rubbing Michael the wrong way to hear that Dean was kidnapped, but he was having trouble thinking of why. "I mean, Ron walked in on her murdering Penelope and she didn't bother to kidnap him and he doesn't have a memory. So why Dean?"

And then it hit him. Ron and Penelope. Ron's memory of the woman and Dean offering to draw the woman and then Michael saying that Dean could draw Lavender's memory of the woman in the fireplace as well. Michael banged his foot on the ground. "Fuck! He knew! He knew who she was, Anthony! He'd already seen her in Ron's memory of Penelope's murder, remember? He offered to draw her so that we could all know what she looked like. She probably noticed that he recognised her and took him because of it."

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-14 02:22 am UTC (link)
Anthony was sure that Michael was completely and absolutely right about Pandora's habits. It wasn't that Anthony was trying to be ignorant as to her practises, he just found that he could still do his part without really knowing in much detail as to what it was that she did, so he didn't give much information on her a second thought. At least it had worked for him so far.

Either way, he had nothing specific to give in terms of reasons for why she'd have gone after Dean, if it was Pandora, and so he let Michael talk out his thoughts on the matter, his eyebrows raising a bit in surprise, though, it did of course make sense if that was what happened.

"Is that a good thing, though? I mean, it's loads better than finding him in the alley, too, would have been -- even though I think that even with that it depends on how you'd prefer to look at it, but overall...?" Anthony couldn't help the fact that he tended to see the bad first. It was just there.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-14 02:40 am UTC (link)
Michael shrugged, not really sure if it was good or not. "If she took him that meant that she didn't necessarily mean to kill him right away. So that gives him a chance, if nothing else. I don't know if it's a good one but..." The last thing that they needed right now was to lose a member of the DA. Sure, they weren't exactly getting anywhere particularly useful so far, but that didn't change the fact that Michael just felt safer with them all around him, advancements or not.

However that did not change the fact that none of them were really all that safe and Lavender - and now maybe even he - was in more danger than the rest and he still hadn't mentioned any of it to Anthony. And he knew better than not to do so, he just hadn't felt like he blurting it out, or maybe he just wasn't sure how to tell him without worrying him more. Michael leaned back into the sofa, and looked down at his lap, picking at his sweatpants a bit as he spoke as nonchalantly as possible. "Er, so we may have also seen Greyback yesterday when I went to visit Lav..."

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-14 07:17 am UTC (link)
There wasn't really anything left to say on that, was there? Unless there was some vigilante mission put into effect, either Dean turned up alive or dead and there wasn't much that could actually be done about it until then.

And he wasn't buying any of the nonchalance that Michael was trying to force into his tone either, and he was sure that if Michael had actually been looking at him, then the narrow-eyed look Anthony was giving him would properly tell him as much. "May have?" he echoed. "Don't try to downplay it as if it isn't a pretty big deal." Or as if the tone he used would be enough to somehow curb Anthony from worrying at least a little.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-14 04:39 pm UTC (link)
It was a big deal, but it was easier to pretend it wasn't and try not to worry about it himself because if he did then he'd have to admit that maybe he'd got himself into a situation he may likely not be able to get out of. If that were the case, he'd deal with it accordingly, because he wasn't going to just up and leave Lavender where she stood, but it was still a hard thing to deal with either way. "It wasn't that bad. He just sort of stood there and watched us for a bit. I think he was trying to make Lav feel threatened and since I was the first one who noticed him it wasn't working really.

"But she has SOS bubblegum so really, it didn't take long for the auror to get there and Greyback left after that. He had a wizard with him though." Michael sighed heavily. If it weren't for the wizard nothing really would have happened at all. "The wizard killed Lav's dog, the bastard. Who does that? Fucking arse. The auror wanted Lavender to have her family leave town but I don't think they can, what with their business there and all. She didn't seem very happy with it, but what can you expect? Not everyone can just pick up and move at a moment's notice..." He was prattling on about Lavender again, probably on purpose right now to circumvent the fact that Greyback had seen him and now knew he was close to Lavender and that probably put him in danger too. It was easier to try and ignore it though than to consider as a real possibility.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-15 04:55 am UTC (link)
He could see what Michael was selling, but Anthony wasn't sure that he was buying. Mainly because it sounded a lot as if Michael was not only trying to convince Anthony, but himself as well. And, honestly, the last thing he really wanted to talk about was Lavender -- completely as part of his general lack of wanting to hear about whatever happened to be going on with her, even when it was only about normal everyday things.

"Right, not that bad at all, I'm sure. I mean," Anthony shrugged, his nonchalance almost mocking, "it's not like we're talking about a former Death Eater werewolf with disturbing habits, right?" And because he was not indulging Michael's attempt to divert the conversation elsewhere, he ignored all mention of Lavender.

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[info]mlcorner
2012-02-16 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Michael knew what that tone meant and he could tell that Anthony was not really falling for the act, which didn't really help since it wasn't just for Anthony. If Greyback really was a threat to him now, who knew what that might mean for the future.

"Well I mean, the Death Eaters are disbanded, right? He's not really got any help there. And who knows if he has a pack anymore; it may just be him and that wizard which means once the aurors find him they can get him back into Azkaban where he belongs. And the full moon is quite a ways away so we won't have to worry about that problem for a while so that's a plus. It could be worse, really." Though Lavender's niece and nephew should probably not be going to Eastbourne anymore all things considered.

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[info]logiclogiclogic
2012-02-18 04:29 am UTC (link)
There wasn't actually much keeping Anthony from telling Michael how much like bullshit that sounded to him, other than the fact that it partly occurred to him why Michael was trying to hold onto the idea that it wasn't as bad as it really actually was. So instead of giving another sarcastic reply, he bit his bottom lip. Though, he really really wanted to say more.

"Yeah. Right," Anthony tried to actually say lightly, but even to him it just came off a bit more as if he was taking a bit of a break and would return to heavily disagreeing with Michael on how bad this new development was or wasn't the next chance he got. Which, was likely actually true, he suspected.

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