wintery visits

[peterxy]

 So it goes.

Sadde doesn't come up with a good idea for a club for most Slytherins. Their intersecting interests seem to lie in the vicinity of "Pureblood club" and that's something Sadde will not support. They haven't managed to befriend all firsties, but their consistent association with the Ravenclaws coupled with helping people out pretty consistently has gotten most people to give them the benefit of the doubt. The trickster-ish streak does mean people are a bit confused about them, though.

Older Slytherins are still pretty resolutely against Sadde, but that's not too bad, and it's only been three and a half months.

(Also, Sadde has managed to not ask Miranda about her plans for a month and a half. Even if the curiosity is eating them inside.)

And Winter Holidays are next week.

Comments

[pleating]

"Oh, so it'll at least be easy for you to visit Miranda. What about you, Willow?"

[msmaxwell]

"We live in Oxford, mum teaches there."

[chanuphis]

"Sadde, if you want to come over and use our Floo to get wherever else, Renée won't mind."

[mrwoods]

"I don't have anywhere else in mind, other than probably visiting Karen. Although we could all spend Christmas Eve together! Except for Willow who'll be being bored out of her mind in France."

[msmaxwell]

She sticks her tongue out at him.

[pleating]

"We do family stuff Christmas Eve, I can't come."

[mrwoods]

"Oh, family stuff, sure. Another day, then?"

His interest is not just in the magic holidays thing. Really! It's just a pretty big part of it!

[pleating]

"Maybe! Um, Boxing Day?"

[chanuphis]

"Oh, I won't be there that day."

[mrwoods]

"I pretty much have no plans at all, usually mum and I just exchange small gifts and such but that's mostly 'cause muggles don't typically want to befriend me."

[pleating]

"And you haven't turned any of them into your project like the Slytherins are?"

[mrwoods]

"I never stayed long enough in any given school for that to be feasible due to Hulk incidents."

[pleating]

"Remind me what Hulk is."

[mrwoods]

"Hulk is a character from a comic book, and a Hulk incident is what I named all incidents where accidental metamorphmagic was bad enough that I had to leave school."

[pleating]

"...What's a comic book?"

[msmaxwell]

"Okay I feel like this was a personal oversight," Willow says. "It's like a book, except instead of words describing actions and locations there are drawings, so each page of a comic book has a few panels that depict a character or a scene or a character in a scene with speech bubbles shaped like so," and she draws one in the air, "indicating what a character's saying."

[pleating]

"...That's weird."

[msmaxwell]

"Nuh uh, it's super fun! And there is a particular genre, superhero comics, that's pretty big amongst comics in general because it's so much harder to write books about superhero action. The Incredible Hulk is from one of those! It's this scientist who's nice and polite but when he gets angry he becomes this big muscled green person who smashes things up!"

[pleating]

"That sounds really inconvenient!"

[msmaxwell]

"It is! But there's a whole lot of story there and he's actually a pretty deep and interesting character."

[mrwoods]

"And that's the inspiration of the name 'Hulk incidents.'"

[pleating]

"Did you smash things?"

[mrwoods]

"...I smashed a boy? Does that count?"

[pleating]

"I guess."

[mrwoods]

"It wasn't one of my best moments, no."