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Jan. 3rd, 2013 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_dracoI'll be coming along to the Tea Appreciation group today. I've told Harry he ought to come along as well, if he's able.
You know the boxes that I gave to Hermione to experiment with? Well I started to have second thoughts about modifying them or using them for much, because considering that they came from Auntie Bella, it might not be such a clever idea to muck about with them, for a variety of reasons.
But then, last night, I came across something I forgot that I owned.
I was directing the elf - we were clearing out my wardrobe of all the robes that no longer fit - and I was coming across all sorts of random things, like old comics, exploding snap cards, and the like. Even found an old orange that was dried up to a hard stone. And then I found a box, almost exactly like the one Auntie Bella gave me and Harry this year. This one has a shape is a little more square, and the carvings on the lid are different, but I'm sure it was made by the same craftsman. It was given to me for Christmas when I was twelve, and Harry got one, as well. Obviously, we were both to dim back then to figure out that the boxes actually did something and weren't just for stashing odds and ends into.
So we don't just have two boxes, we have four. And two of them probably safer to use, because they didn't come from my Aunt - they came from someone else. Regulus.
You know the boxes that I gave to Hermione to experiment with? Well I started to have second thoughts about modifying them or using them for much, because considering that they came from Auntie Bella, it might not be such a clever idea to muck about with them, for a variety of reasons.
But then, last night, I came across something I forgot that I owned.
I was directing the elf - we were clearing out my wardrobe of all the robes that no longer fit - and I was coming across all sorts of random things, like old comics, exploding snap cards, and the like. Even found an old orange that was dried up to a hard stone. And then I found a box, almost exactly like the one Auntie Bella gave me and Harry this year. This one has a shape is a little more square, and the carvings on the lid are different, but I'm sure it was made by the same craftsman. It was given to me for Christmas when I was twelve, and Harry got one, as well. Obviously, we were both to dim back then to figure out that the boxes actually did something and weren't just for stashing odds and ends into.
So we don't just have two boxes, we have four. And two of them probably safer to use, because they didn't come from my Aunt - they came from someone else. Regulus.
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Date: 2013-01-04 12:52 am (UTC)That's rather brilliant, actually. I've been thinking, and he would probably have gotten a laugh out of your putting them to unexpected use.
Do you think it's worth the risk to try linking the four together? Or just fiddle with the safe ones?
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:00 am (UTC)I can't say, since I never allowed myself to get close to him. He took up too much of Mother's attention for my liking, back when I insisted on having it all to myself.
Bit regretful about it, mostly because I think I would understand his black (pardon the pun) humour about the world a bit better now. But I didn't then, so.
Do you reckon he knew, even back then, that me and Harry would have secrets to keep?
And I haven't decided yet, on the last. I suppose we'll see what Harry and Hermione say about it.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:15 am (UTC)And he did keep his humour in his own way, despite everything, didn't he?
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:22 am (UTC)He did, but it went over my head, in those days. Funny how it didn't go over yours. You've always been old before your time, though.
That shop - Lazlo's - I suppose it wasn't as bad as I thought. Not glamorous, but not entirely without charm, either. Hydra was being quite a bother asking about that dog, though. She's a little too mad about animals, if you ask me.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:32 am (UTC)And I'm glad it was less uncomfortable than you thought it might be. She was rather stuck on him, wasn't she? I hope her future husband, whomever he may be, is thoroughly prepared for hosting a menagerie.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:37 am (UTC)Are you sure that she and Finch-Fletchley haven't already got married in secret? They way they give each other moony glances and sneak off to snog right under her mother's nose - well, she'd best be careful. Both of them.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:43 am (UTC)And you are incredibly sweet to say so. And rather gorgeous, if I do say so myself.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:50 am (UTC)If calling you perfect gets me called gorgeous, I need to do it more often.
Will you be at quidditch tomorrow?
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Date: 2013-01-04 05:21 am (UTC)Good night, Draco.