View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
Miranda is looking at wands. She wants two, but she isn't going to spring that on Ollivander until she's found a first one. This fir is not right. Neither is this birch, that stubby little rosewood, or this ebony. Hmm.
Aha!
This pine wand (phoenix feather core) likes her just fine. Sparks! Miranda pays seven Galleons for it and sticks it in her hair.
"Excuse me," she says, when Ollivander turns away.
"Mm?"
"May I have a look at some more wands?"
"Something wrong with the one you've got, Miss Swan?"
"No, sir, but please, I want a second one, in case this one gets lost or damaged."
"Planning on that, are you?"
"No one plans to lose things, I just -"
"Planning to mistreat the wand? Leave it lying around? Forget about it someplace, carelessly handle it -?"
+ Show First Post
chanuphis
bitterchill
"No, those all got confiscated. And I don't want one, it's just that she's got, uh, a few, and if a wand likes you then it's hell to convince her that the law could be a problem."
chanuphis
"I mean you wouldn't have had to pay her for one but I guess if she'd be hard to convince..."
chanuphis
"You probably shouldn't buy things that will be confiscated and against the law just to avoid hurting someone's feelings."
chanuphis
Miranda does not think this is a very responsible answer but she keeps it to herself.
bitterchill
Ari whistles cheerfully!
He jostles his elbow against a lamppost and sucks in a breath, which comes out in a giggle fit.
He jostles his elbow against a lamppost and sucks in a breath, which comes out in a giggle fit.
bitterchill
She snorts. "Ari, would you care to stand still for fifteen seconds so I can heal your arm properly?
"Nope!"
She nods. "As you were."
"Nope!"
She nods. "As you were."
bitterchill
"I mean, my cross-section here is Mom, about three incredibly shady people who she allowed into her house, Aurors, social workers, and Sally. Who thought it seemed pretty obvious."
bitterchill
"...I'm not particularly sensitive about the whole thing, if you're burning with curiosity you can feel free to ask."
chanuphis
"I am curious but I'm not sure where to start. If it was in the news or anything I wouldn't have heard it, I've been in Australia for more than a year and only just moved back."
bitterchill
"Very long story very short, Mum was an infamous Dark Lady from the Continent who came to England to hide. She took me in as a baby and raised me to be some kind of Dark Lieutenant for her inevitable rise to conquest, which was pretty fun. About a month ago, though, she kidnapped Sally for some kind of ritual sacrifice. I objected, we ended up dueling in the sitting room, and Sally knocked her on the head with a candlestick to give me an opening, which used to set her lungs on fire. We owled the Aurors, Sally was taken back to her parents, and for lack of options I went with her. That's the state of things."
"And the bloody Prophet just kept running story after story about Dark Lords hiding in our shrubbery until Warbeck had some torrid affair and knocked it off the front page," mutters Ms. Halliwell.
"And the bloody Prophet just kept running story after story about Dark Lords hiding in our shrubbery until Warbeck had some torrid affair and knocked it off the front page," mutters Ms. Halliwell.
chanuphis
"That's really something," Miranda says. "There's been only dribs and drabs of British news down under, and it was all about Harry Potter, so I missed that entirely."
bitterchill
"Yeah, he's neat. Mum quite liked him. I wonder if I should tell him that if I ever meet him?"
bitterchill
Sally nods. "I said this."
"But it'd be fun! I can't imagine he gets many compliments from the other side, it'd be novel and all that."
Sally shakes her head silently.
bitterchill
Ari pouts. "Oh, fine. Still say he'd get a kick out of it."
"No. You would."
"Fair."
"No. You would."
"Fair."