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

[chanuphis]

"Sounds about right."

[mrwoods]

"If I find any Ravenclaws that look like they'd have grown up to be particle physicists if they were muggles I'll tell them about it."

[chanuphis]

"What do counterfactual particle physicists look like?"

[mrwoods]

"I dunno! Maybe they ask these kinds of questions but then go ahead and try to answer them. Maybe it's the people who invent spells."

[chanuphis]

"So, people advanced in Runes and Arithmancy."

[mrwoods]

"Yeah, possibly, though maybe there's a way to tell before they can actually take those electives."

[chanuphis]

"I'm planning on both but I don't think I'd be a particle physicist."

[mrwoods]

"Really? I was planning on Divination and something else that's definitely not gonna be Magical Creatures."

[chanuphis]

"Divination is usually considered a soft subject. I'm not sure if it'll live up to your expectations."

[mrwoods]

"Hmm... maybe I'd better just study it by myself, then. It's just, you know, knowing the future is an instant-victory condition, it sounds very useful to be able to do it."

[chanuphis]

"Which is how you can tell that nobody's very good at it."

[mrwoods]

"Nobody's very good at most things, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Weren't we just discussing how to kill unkillable monsters?"

[chanuphis]

"Yes, but I think more people have been trying for divination."

[mrwoods]

"More people have been succeeding too, though, even if sporadically. Prophecies are a thing. Although, granted, apparently they're not a thing you can actually learn."

[chanuphis]

"Which means they don't really support your argument."

[mrwoods]

"Well, no, you're right." He shrugs. "I guess I just believe less in the general competence of people than you do. What's Arithmancy even about, though?"

[chanuphis]

"Magic math."

[mrwoods]

Blink. "Okay, how can maths be magic? I was pretty sure magic just- was."

[chanuphis]

"I don't know, I haven't taken it yet and Mum never did so she couldn't tell me about it."

[mrwoods]

"So... why are you gonna take it?"

[chanuphis]

"To find out what it's about. Besides, I have to take some things, I have explained my Divination opinion and don't have a reason to take Muggle Studies, and that leaves Runes and Arithmancy and maybe Creatures but I'll probably try for an independent study instead."

[mrwoods]

"Hmm... Well you've convinced me, guess I'll be taking those as well!"

[chanuphis]

"Maybe we'll be in the same sections."

[mrwoods]

"Yeah!"

[chanuphis]

"Two years off, though. We'll see."