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Tweak says, "Always bring a banana!"

Wished RPG Mods (wishedmod) wrote in wished,
@ 2009-10-02 21:41:00

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!1997: 10, !incomplete, alfred cattermole, branwen dunstan, dean thomas, drew summers, eloise midgen, evie bagnold, mandy brocklehurst, megan jones, padma patil

Who: Any students eligible to go, also any Professors and Aurors can feel free to have been ordered to patrol to protect the kiddies on this day.
What: Hogsmeade Visit
Where: Hogsmeade
When: Saturday
Warnings: Varied!

The not so newly appointed Headmistress of Hogwarts checked the last name off on her parchment list and dropped her hands to her side, watching with a stern but mildly worried expression as the stragglers loped off in the direction of the Village.

"Is this a good idea?" She asked, not looking away from the quickly moving backs of the students and thus giving the professor standing beside her no indication that they were being spoken to directly. Nevertheless, Minerva had a way of speaking that meant whether the question were meant for you or no, you felt responsible for answering it.

"I did not foresee any dire events on this day, Headmistress...." Professor Trelawney intoned, her thick and dreamy voice somewhat questioning, not certain that the question had an answer at all, and certainly not sure that she had found it.

It did manage to snap the Headmistress out of whatever thoughts had kept her standing still, however. McGonagall's mouth drew into an even tighter, sterner line and she sent the quill and parchment flying back to her office and started, herself, down the road toward Hogsmeade Village. As she adjusted her large hat, words carried on the wind that might have sounded a bit like, "Of course you didn't, barmy bat."

Professor Trelawney, fortunately, did not hear.

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summers_here
2009-10-11 09:49 pm UTC (link)

"You think I could Seek?!" Drew asked, surprised. And looking surprised. And even more ridiculous with that baby-bird head of luminous hair. "Wow, they said I'm too easily distracted to Seek." he grinned, seeming pleased at Dean's assessment. "Oh, yeah... he's not, he's not sooooo bad...." Drew said, sounding a lot like someone who didn't want to say something bad about another person... no matter how true the comment had been. "Do you wanna do Quidditch when you leave Hogwarts?" he asked, curious.

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deanthomas
2009-10-11 09:54 pm UTC (link)

Dean chuckled. "Why not? It's a good job for someone who gets distracted, maybe? Bright shiny gold thing to catch your eye? If you've got the reflexes for it." Dean hadn't really seen Drew fly, so he couldn't say. But he was light and if he was good enough to make reserves, probably wasn't any reason he could fly as Seeker, even if he might be better in a Chaser slot.

Dean heard the way he hedged and laughed. "It's all right. He's a prat, but he's not bad. I didn't mean it against him, really," he reassured Drew.

He sat back in the chair, taking a swig of the butterbeer before answering. "Nah, I'm not good enough to fly for the pros. Not really sure what I'll do out of school. Probably just find a job somewhere and suss it out then. You planning to try to play when you leave school?"

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summers_here
2009-10-11 10:28 pm UTC (link)

"Ooooh, yeah..." Drew thought about that one. He'd never really be interested in a Seeker's position because everyone had always told him he was more suited for Chasing, but he just might like to try. Maybe he should get himself one of those glowing snitches?

He bit his lip hearing Dean's laugh though, finding it adorable and attractive at the same time, but he didn't say anything.

"I don't think so." he said, making a face. "I couldn't even get into the team. Nah, I'm not sure what I wanna do when I grow up. I wanna either write like Rita Skeeter, only better, or be a Mediwizard!"

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deanthomas
2009-10-12 09:31 am UTC (link)

"Skeeter?" Huh. Dean wouldn't have figured that. "You'd do a better job, I bet. I mean if you told the truth even one out of ten times you'd be a step up on Skeeter." Of course then they might not sell as many papers. Muggle and Wizarding news weren't that different from what Dean knew - both of them played things up to sell papers or get people watching the news and whatnot. The Wizarding world was just smaller - and Dean knew the people they were talking about, sometimes. So it was more personal, and he knew enough to know it was full of crap.

"I'd never make the NEWT requirements for a Mediwizard, I don't think. Plus I think I'd get freaked out, being around people who splinched themselves or were sick all the time." Dean smiled at Drew. "People stuck in Mungo's or the like would probably like having someone happy helping them out. Doctors - healers - are usually a sour lot. Maybe you could work with kids or something. Charm their hair bright yellow to make them laugh before you have to give them a shot." If wizards even did shots. Dean hadn't dealt with mediwizards much outside of Pomfrey.

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summers_here
2009-10-14 08:02 pm UTC (link)

Drew sipped his drink and nodded as he put it down. "Yeah, that's what the difference would be." he said, laughing a little. "I won't be a jerk."

He was nosy and had a taste for the dangerous side of life, which would hopefully help him get the best stories, but he wanted to build a reputation on the truth and the best information, not deceit and scandal.

"Yeah, that's the only thing I'm worried about, the exams... but I reckon I'll do okay, and I really wanna help people... like, I could go out to the places where people can't really get to doctors, so the docs have to go to them." Then he laughed and put his hand up to his hair. "Yeah, well if I can remember what bit of that thing I got wrong then I guess I could."

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deanthomas
2009-10-15 10:33 am UTC (link)

"Think you'd have to be a LITTLE bit of a jerk to be a reporter, since you'd have to ask nosy questions to get the truth and all." Dean grinned. "Can't really see you being an arse though, so maybe you'll be the exception."

Dean cocked his head, listening. "Like other countries and all? That'd be hard. I couldn't do it - I like having good food and proper loos and all too much," he admitted. "It's a good sort of thing to do though. Like Greenpeace for wizards?" he guessed. Or one of those kinds of help programs. Dean didn't really know a lot about them.

He smiled as Drew touched his hair. "Long as you don't have your heart set on being a hair stylist, think you'll be fine."

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summers_here
2009-10-15 07:58 pm UTC (link)

"Course I'll be the exception!" Drew said, grinning again.

"Yeaaah... or like, a dragon tamer or something!" he exclaimed, with overzealous amusement. "I want adventure!" As if being a wizard wasn't adventure enough.

The smile Dean gave while he was fussing over his hair colour just melted his already gooey little heart and it felt the heat of it get too close and sting him as it burned. He still smiled on the outside though. "Well, that was my secret love but I guess I'll just have to look for something else to do now." he said with a fake sigh.

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deanthomas
2009-10-16 02:44 pm UTC (link)

Dean looked amused. Picturing Drew as a dragon-tamer was a little far off. Other than Weasley's brother, he'd never seen one. He pictured them looking a bit like Professor Moody though - battlescarred, missing limbs. Probably loads of burn scars. That sort of thing. Bouncy, currently daisy-headed Drew didn't really fit the description in his mind. "Think watching the dragons fourth year was close enough to a dragon for me." Though he'd spent about two weeks afterwards obsessively trying to remember every detail to draw them. They were just so. . . fantastic. Dragons were intrinsic parts of the sort of fantasy world that muggles didn't think existed. Seeing them up close - well, not that close, but close enough - had left Dean more than a bit awed.

"Well. Suppose some girls - and blokes - spend loads of time trying to get their hair yellow. So some people might pay you for it?" he suggested. "Think maybe you're better off with the Healing, or the reporting though. Not sure on the dragons. I'd hate to read about them taking a bite out of you." Since that'd be a big bite. Drew wasn't big enough to lose inches to dragon teeth.

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summers_here
2009-10-18 05:35 pm UTC (link)

"Nah, I wanna get right in there!" Drew enthused, and you could tell he'd either be really good at dragon taming or he'd be charcoal within two minutes.

Drew was going to point out that he didn't exactly know what word he'd said wrong in that incantation to turn his hair yellow in the first place, but Dean's concern for him - fictional though it was - made him duck his head and beam a five million kilowatt smile. "Aw, fanks." he said into his butterbeer.

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	deanthomas 2009-10-18 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	Dean looked amused. "Think even the tamers try to keep a little distance. Up close and personal with a dragon - usually not where you want to be, right? They didn't look very friendly." He laughed, draining the last of his butterbeer and shaking his head. "Did you want another?" he asked, nodding toward the drink in front of Drew. "Or do you want to walk back?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	summers_here 2009-10-19 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Drew's smile was fond and he put his chin in his hand, staring back at Dean. "I've had a nice time." he commented, even though it hadn't been very long. "You can go if you want to. It was kind of you to stay and talk to me, but I know this can't be very fun for you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

deanthomas
2009-10-20 06:57 pm UTC (link)

Dean rolled his eyes. "If I wanted to go, I'd have told you. I'm having a nice time chatting. Just thought you might not want to sit about. If you're good, then I'll get us another."

He stood up, picking up the mugs, ruffling a hand lightly through the bright yellow hair first. "I meant it when I said I wanted to be friends, even if it started off a bit weird, okay?" He smiled and then promised. "Be right back." He didn't mind chatting. Drew was sweet and easy to talk to. It sounded like a pretty good way to spend the rest of the afternoon, really. They could walk back in another couple of butterbeers or something.

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summers_here
2009-10-20 09:06 pm UTC (link)

Drew was surprised, but pleasantly so, as Dean said he was going to say, ducking his head a little under the hair ruffle and laughing in reply, his grin broad and happy. He watched Dean disappear off to the bar to get them another drink and he put his chin in his hand again and sighed - why was it that he seemed ever cursed to never have the boys he wanted, to never have something steady with the boys he could have?

He tried to put that out of his mind and set about transfiguring a little paper umbrella out of a coaster for when Dean came back.

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