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When Christmas hols roll around, everyone goes home.
And Renée makes a suggestion and Miranda sends some owls, all with the same underlying invitation:
Mum wants to go shopping in Muggle Edinburgh and said I should invite some friends. You can Floo in or she can pick you up by Apparition, as you like, and we'll get lunch and she'll have you home in time for supper. Want to come?
She invites Karen and Jenny and Emma and Alli, and as an afterthought also Vivian, since she and Karen have been friendly and another muggleborn might ease Karen's jitters.
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chanuphis
witch_please
Alli abandons her piles of ridiculous books willingly enough, and follows Miranda to queue for the register. And they do actually get in a queue; the front of the store has more of the tourist crowd, and there's only the one woman behind the counter, so it's starting to back up.
Russell Peasegood considers himself quite the expert on Ebele Miranda "Silverlight" Swan. His coworkers disagree quietly, behind his back, but the fact remains he did get actual statements from her, back in the day. And so it is that he is the one assigned to track her down when the news breaks that the wizarding government of Nicaragua has refused her request for permission to pursue a reported nest of Dementors.
It's a Hogwarts holiday, so Miranda will be home with her mother. A witch living in London, if Russell's memory serves him right (and it always does). Surprise will be on his side; the news came early from one of the Prophet's sources, so if he hurries he might be able to get her honest reaction to hearing the news for the first time! It's too good a scoop to pass up. Parchment and quill in hand, Russell Apparates to Silverlight's location.
It's a Hogwarts holiday, so Miranda will be home with her mother. A witch living in London, if Russell's memory serves him right (and it always does). Surprise will be on his side; the news came early from one of the Prophet's sources, so if he hurries he might be able to get her honest reaction to hearing the news for the first time! It's too good a scoop to pass up. Parchment and quill in hand, Russell Apparates to Silverlight's location.
chanuphis
The occupants of this Scottish Muggle bookshop are very startled. There is some shrieking and some dropped books.
Russell starts swearing even as he pulls out his wand. This has ruined his scoop, and if he doesn't want to get hauled up in front of the Ministry, there's only one thing to do.
"Obliviate!"
"Obliviate!"
chanuphis
The Muggles stop shrieking. They pick up their books.
Silverlight, however, is glowering at him like she suspects he may be a Dementor in disguise.
She takes a step toward him, then another.
"It's not gonna work," she tells him.
Silverlight, however, is glowering at him like she suspects he may be a Dementor in disguise.
She takes a step toward him, then another.
"It's not gonna work," she tells him.
"They're fine," he tells her, sounding frazzled and stressed. "They're all fine, I'll fix it, I'll get my scoop, it'll be fine, obliviate!"
He hits the remainder of the room, ending with Alli and finally Miranda, before sprinting out the back of the bookstore. The woman at the register yells after him how it's the "wrong door, laddie!" but the crack! from the back alleyway announces his Disapparation.
He hits the remainder of the room, ending with Alli and finally Miranda, before sprinting out the back of the bookstore. The woman at the register yells after him how it's the "wrong door, laddie!" but the crack! from the back alleyway announces his Disapparation.
chanuphis
Alli whirls around to face Alli.
"What's the last thing you remember?"
"What's the last thing you remember?"
witch_please
Alli blinks at her, confused. "I put down that weird goat book? We got in the queue? You're still buying the animal book, right?"
witch_please
Alli shrugs and nods agreement. "Works for me. I want the whole story though! Bah. I can't believe I missed it."
chanuphis
Miranda seethes through purchasing her Dr. Dolittle books and stalking out of the bookshop.
"That reporter," she says, when they're out of earshot of any Muggles, "who conned a statement out of me in first year, Apparated in, was very surprised at where he was, and Obliviated all the Muggles and you, but it didn't work on me."
"That reporter," she says, when they're out of earshot of any Muggles, "who conned a statement out of me in first year, Apparated in, was very surprised at where he was, and Obliviated all the Muggles and you, but it didn't work on me."
witch_please
"Oh," Alli says, feeling weirdly cheated. "Just an Apparation? Okay." Years of hanging out with Miranda had led her to suspect some sort of... massive Dementor/Auror war, or something. That would have been cool.
Then her brain catches up to her more, and she looks back at Miranda. "Wait, so, what did Reporter Arsehole want?"
Then her brain catches up to her more, and she looks back at Miranda. "Wait, so, what did Reporter Arsehole want?"
chanuphis
"Another bloody statement from me, probably. He'll be lucky if I don't hex him on seeing him again instead."
witch_please
"I'll do it!" Alli says immediately. "...I mean. No one at the Ministry cares if I'm being a little shit, but you run around Silverlighting?"
chanuphis
"I don't know if he can be prosecuted for Memory Charming you. I'm sure he can't be for the Muggles and it'd be hard to prove he tried it on me. Prosecution's better than a hex."
witch_please
"Yeah. And I know bloody well nothing about getting arrested, except for that period of 'do not ever because Death Eaters', so I will be no help. Sorry."
chanuphis
"Not right this minute. Unless he does it again, but I bet he's scared off for at least the rest of the day."
witch_please
"Do we need to, I don't know, tell your mum or something?" Miranda looks so solemn. (More so than usual, anyway.) And Alli's usual methods of cheering people usually involve more magic than she can get away with here; she's at a bit of a loss. This is not her forte, help.
chanuphis
"We could look for her, but I don't think there's much she could do about it, either."
witch_please
"So." Alli casts about. "...hat?" She offers the plaid atrocity to Miranda. "Embrace the Scotland!"