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.

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[mswoods]

"Mince pie!"

[chanuphis]

"Put it over here," Renée says, pointing. "I hope you like roast beef!"

Sadde may watch Renée cook with wanded spells and Miranda assist with magical appliances.

[mswoods]

She does indeed watch those things!

[chanuphis]

It makes everything go a lot faster. In particular, the magical potato peeler is a huge timesaver.

[mswoods]

Oooh, both Laura and Sadde are very impressed by that one.

[chanuphis]

However, things as large as a roast beef need to spend an ordinary amount of time actually exposed to fire, so that's not going to be ready until six. They have time to sit around. Renée and Miranda have a tree up, with ornaments, some enchanted, and presents underneath.

[mswoods]

"Ssssso," Sadde starts, as Laura talks to Renée about stuff.

[chanuphis]

"What?"

[mswoods]

She reaches inside a purse-ish thing she had been carrying with her and draws a book that shouldn't fit inside it. It's all wrapped up. "Mum gave me this for Christmas, and this is for you. You can open it now if you don't want to wait."

[chanuphis]

"Ooh! Mum, Sadde brought me a thing, can I open it now?"

"You may," Renée replies, and Miranda tears at the wrapping.

"Amber was going to bring everyone their things on Christmas Day," she explains. "I can get yours now if you want though."

[mswoods]

"I can wait," she says, smiling. "I'm not all that used to getting presents, I dunno how to do it."

Miranda's book is entitled 'Magical Artefacts and Their Creators Through History.'

[chanuphis]

"Awesome," says Miranda when she reads the title. "I'll get yours now, it'll be less back and forth for Amber." She goes and gets a package which also looks suspiciously book shaped.

[mswoods]

"Okay! Thanks!" She opens it as well.

[chanuphis]

It is a book. The title is just Snakes, but it has a comically long subtitle (A History of Slytherins And Persons Who Had They Attended Hogwarts Would In My Personal Opinion Likely Have Been Slytherins, the Accomplishments of Same, and the Psychological Traits of the House).

[mswoods]

She beams at Miranda. "That's so great! Thank you!"

[chanuphis]

"You're welcome!"

[mswoods]

"Best of luck to our respective endeavours, I guess," she says, feeding her book into the purse thing.

[chanuphis]

"Mm-hm." Miranda goes and puts her new book in her trunk.

[mswoods]

"So... am I there yet?"

[chanuphis]

"Where?"

[mswoods]

"At the point where you trust me enough."

[chanuphis]

Miranda sighs.

"I'm not actually up to much of anything. I'm eleven. I'm trying to learn enough stuff and know what I'm doing enough that I can be up to things really effectively later. But you kept making a huge deal about it and it bugged me so I bugged you back."

[mswoods]

[chanuphis]

"I'm sorry."

[mswoods]

She walks over to a wall and bangs her forehead against it once. Not strongly or loudly or anything, just for effect.