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

[mrwoods]

"What do you think you'd be? I read somewhere that it's related to your personality somehow."

[chanuphis]

"Not a clue. Maybe something that could fly, I don't know."

[mrwoods]

"I bet I'd be a chameleon."

[chanuphis]

"I bet you would. Which is cool conceptually but not very practical."

[mrwoods]

"Yeah. And besides-" Chameleon eyes and tongue. Tongue lick. Skin turns yellow then back. "-I have the coolest aspects already."

[msmaxwell]

"Ew!"

[pleating]

"Ew!" agrees Karen.

[mrwoods]

Face normal again. "So, yeah, no animagic planned for me at the moment."

[chanuphis]

"Do you want to come with me to ask Professor Spukhafte about Patronuses?"

[mrwoods]

"Definitely!"

[chanuphis]

"Now?"

[mrwoods]

He closes the book. "Sure! Just need to check this out."

[chanuphis]

Miranda waits for him.

[mrwoods]

He promptly checks the book out, puts it in his bag, and leaves with her.

[peterxy]

Professor Spukhafte is in her office!

[chanuphis]

"Professor?"

[peterxy]

"Hello, Ms. Svan. Mr. Voods."

Sadde still isn't quite in her good graces.

[chanuphis]

"Hi. We're interested in the Patronus Charm. Is that something you'd be willing to help us with?"

[peterxy]

The Professor blinks and clicks her tongue. "That is a very difficult Charm, one that even, what is the name, N.E.W.T. students are not regularly taught."

[chanuphis]

"It didn't sound especially difficult in the book. What's so hard about it?"

[peterxy]

"Unlike most other Charms, it requires a very specific frame of mind to be attained and maintained, othervise it vinks out. There are also aspects relating to personality and self-confidence that are not yet vell understood."

[chanuphis]

"...I'd like to try it anyway. Is it safe to practice on our own out of the book?"

[peterxy]

"...vell, unless you are a Dark Vix," and she shoots Sadde a meaningful glance, "it should be fine. But you are very unlikely to succeed even vithout a Dementor around, and they make casting the Patronus much more difficult."

[chanuphis]

"Does something weird happen if dark wixen try to cast Patronuses?"

[peterxy]

"Not all people who could be called Dark Vixen suffer this fate, but trying to cast the Patronus Charm has been known to instead produce maggots that eat the vix."