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]

"Analogies and comparisons are good! I like them, you can use them to explain things."

[chanuphis]

"Good."

[mswoods]

Sip sip.

Look around.

"So, is your dad... like, do you spend time with him?"

[chanuphis]

"Yes."

"Miranda!" exclaims Renée.

Miranda winces.

[mswoods]

She looks between the both of them. "Er?"

[chanuphis]

"Although Miranda's father and I are no longer together," says Renée, "he is alive and well and I am astonished to hear that you have been friends all semester and not heard of him and I hope it is not why I think it is."

"Mum, we left the entire country over people being horrid about blood status, and if anyone thinks I'm a bigot I can just mention you, and I haven't been lying!"

[mswoods]

She blinks slowly. "I had kind of assumed he was just not very present because of... reasons," she says, eloquently.

[chanuphis]

"No," sighs Miranda, "they're divorced and I mostly live with Mum but he's alive and he's nice and he'll be here tomorrow and I'll be at his place Boxing Day to when school starts again, but I preferred to sound people out while sounding like I was completely wix-raised and explaining all my Muggle knowledge through Mum being Muggleborn."

Renée shakes her head.

[mswoods]

She scratches her head. "Did you expect people- non-Slytherins, anyway, would treat you any worse if they knew your dad was a muggle? I mean, I think even to most snakes the difference between muggle and muggleborn is basically how often they have to see one."

Laura does not really react. Apparently Sadde has explained the things to her.

[chanuphis]

"I didn't know, and I wanted to know before it got rumored around the entire school the way things sometimes are. And I know at least a couple people have been assuming my dad is a dead wizard."

[mswoods]

She shrugs. "Fair enough, I guess. My dad was only a jerkwad."

"Language!" Laura admonishes.

"Wasn't he?"

Laura just sighs.

[chanuphis]

"I don't want you picking up from those terrorists that you ought to be ashamed of your father, Miranda."

"I'm not ashamed of him! That's not what I said!"

[mswoods]

Sadde looks between them again. She's not sure whether she should say anything so better not. Probably.

[chanuphis]

"Well - not tomorrow, tomorrow's Christmas, but the day after, you're going to explain this to him," Renée says.

"And he'll say that he's glad I'm keeping safe," says Miranda stubbornly.

"We'll see."

[mswoods]

"For what it's worth, I understand what she's saying," Sadde tells Renée tentatively.

[chanuphis]

"You went to school years before we did," Miranda adds to Renée. "And you noticed things were bad in regular wix society but you went to school the first year after Harry Potter was born and that was years ago and it's different and I'm not being horrible just for the sake of it."

[mswoods]

She has read History books! She knows what happened the year after Harry Potter was born.

"People are pretty nasty there about muggles. Slytherins are, anyway, and even some non-Slytherins. I got jinxed and punched and thrown against a wall on my first week."

Does she mention she provoked a lot of that on purpose? No she does not.

[chanuphis]

"Miranda isn't in Slytherin."

"There are stuck-up people in every house and I hang out with a Slytherin and we mix during classes," Miranda says.

[mswoods]

She nods.

[chanuphis]

"Well," huffs Renée. "Charlie still deserves to know."

"I understand. I'll tell him Boxing Day."

[mswoods]

Sip.

[alicornucopia]

"I apologize for that," Renée tells Laura.

[peterxy]

"No need to apologise," she says. She looks pretty serene and unconcerned, but then again, she always does.

[chanuphis]

Christmas elapses.

After everyone is back at Hogwarts, Miranda may be seen sitting in the library with Karen. Karen is doing her Charms homework. Miranda is reading one of her Christmas books for a change: A History of Magical Justice.

She doesn't look happy with its contents.

[msmaxwell]

Willow is doing her homework as well.