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Tweak says, "Fortunately the lad's a genius"

Regulus Black (vagueconspiracy) wrote in shards_of_time,
@ 2008-10-11 19:07:00

WHO: Gellert and Albus
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Wherever the wind takes us!
WHAT: Clearly I did not think this through.

Gellert was frustrated beyond all reason. The search for the Hallows had stalled, thanks to being catapulted into the future. All the trails had gone cold, he didn't even know where to begin to look for new information, and he was beginning to fear that it might be hopeless.

Obviously, it was vital that they return to their own time.

"Obviously," he said, pacing on the sidewalk in Hogsmeade, where they had come to enjoy the quaint village atmosphere because it was so crowded in the Ministry housing, "it is vital that we return to our own time."

Gellert paused and tapped a finger against his lips. He was wearing his jeans again, mostly because he could, and a rather fuzzy sweater that he feared made him look silly but which was quite warm. "But," he mused. "How to manage this. Perhaps! You should get a job in the Department of Mysteries."

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_bumblebee_
2008-10-12 01:10 pm UTC (link)

"Because a wild flobberworm serves no purpose to a daily gardener, Gellert, in order to keep a herd of them we must learn to raise them properly and keep them alive to defend the food we sow." That was obvious, wasn't it? But regardless he was running out of reasons to keep flobberworms, they were a rather useless creature when one actually thought about it.

But back around to English and the Bible. "English is a Germanic Language with instances of the Romance languages intertwined, it is a beautiful manner of speaking and will one day become the universal language, and please, join a monastery and you may learn the dead language of Latin. But if you did so, I would be very, very lonesome without your company." The smile always won out and Albus almost lost himself in it, but that would be a dangerous pursuit with this man.

"I would like that very much," he said airily and smiled.

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i don't even know if albus understands german but oh well, gellert doesn't care

vagueconspiracy
2008-10-14 05:22 am UTC (link)

"Perhaps that might have been a useful waste of time in Herbology class, then, Albus. But certainly there are better things for students to do with their time than learn what end of the worm to poke the lettuce in, when they could find that in a book if they chose to keep a garden?"

Gellert sometimes thought that he would be a fantastic professor. Because clearly, he knew what was really important.

"The day it becomes a universal language is the day I top myself, Albus," Gellert said fervently. "Its rules are slipshod and too often broken, and each day it becomes less elegant, if that were possible. I am appalled at the way it is used in this time. It makes me want to slip into German just to make myself happy," he finished, doing just that. It made him smile, and he added, "Some days we can speak English under our tree, to make you happy. But not all of them, dear Albus."

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_bumblebee_
2008-10-14 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Albus discarded the matter of the flobberworms, he had nothing left to defend them with and no matter what he said, Gellert would come back with some arguing point. As for English as a language, Albus rolled his eyes at his friend and shook his head. "You can't blame the generations for changing the way they use language, language and culture are co-extensive.. when one changes so does the other, so as a culture progresses and transforms so also does the language therefore you get dialects and slang terms as the people in a community lose traditions.. it's in the older generations and the truly magnificent and articulate speakers where you get the most notable and lyrical discussions from and can truly appreciate the beauty of speech."

He finished that monologue and looked at Gellert with a stern gaze when he code switched to German. Albus understood him but he didn't speak back in the same tongue, but kept to his English roots. "We shall have an interesting form of communication, from a linguistic perspective it is absolutely thrilling."

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vagueconspiracy
2008-10-18 06:30 pm UTC (link)

Ha! Clearly Gellert had won the point of the flobberworms, and he could feel that he was on the brink of proving English a crude language as well. In his own mind, at least. Which left the problem of the book. Albus was not going to make it easy on him...so why should Gellert make it easy on Albus?

He continued speaking in German because he felt like it. "Naturally language must be fluid and adaptable," he said. "But in no other language have I encountered such a lax attitude toward proper grammar. As you say, language can be a beautiful thing, but only when properly used; these people use it in such a crude way."

Then he gave Albus a dangerous, devastating smile and said, "But whoever said we needed to use language to communicate?" He twisted his body to get closer, leaned up, and kissed Albus lightly on the corner of his mouth - not a truly romantic kiss, but hardly platonic, either.

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