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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[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.

[mrwoods]

Sadde arrives!

"Hi," he says.

[pleating]

"Hi, Sadde."

[mrwoods]

"What's up?"

[pleating]

"Charms. And Miranda's reading something she got for Christmas."

[mrwoods]

"Ooh, what?" Sadde is not much of one for homework (except in Potions, which he's actively excelling in, and Transfiguration, which he's just got a knack for).

He peers at the cover of Miranda's book. "That looks interesting," he opines.

[chanuphis]

"Oh, it's that," Miranda mutters.

[mrwoods]

He looks up at her. "Is the history of magical justice particularly upsetting? I mean, compared to baseline magical society upsettingness?"

[chanuphis]

"I mean," says Miranda, "it is, but I was expecting a lot of it at least in a general sense."

[mrwoods]

"And the parts you weren't expecting? You can tell me to shut up and go find a copy of the book if you want."

[chanuphis]

Sigh. "I knew they used to use Dementors at Azkaban. I knew they stopped. I didn't know they had no good way to contain the Dementors or destroy them or anything and so they're just running wild."

[mrwoods]

"And Dementors are...?"

[chanuphis]

"Soul-eating misery monsters."

[mrwoods]

"...that sounds like the kind of thing I should probably go get a book on before doing any thinking about."