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]

Sadde eventually finds the class of memories that will consistently produce mist and fog and keeps trying some more of those.

[chanuphis]

Miranda takes notes on their results.

[mrwoods]

Sadde wonders whether she's reached any conclusions yet.

[chanuphis]

Nothing particularly useful, no.

[mrwoods]

Drat.

[chanuphis]

"Maybe we should pick this up another day," Miranda sighs, when she fills her notebook page.

[mrwoods]

He nods. "And maybe try to talk to Spukhafte and Granger for some more tips."

[chanuphis]

"I'll ask next mealtime."

[mrwoods]

Mealtime!

[chanuphis]

Miranda goes over to the Gryffindor table and addresses Hermione Granger, then comes back.

[mrwoods]

"What'd she say?"

[chanuphis]

"She says that practice will help, my wand movement looked right, and we might need stronger memories but that will be about us and not something she can really help with, but if we're still working on it in April she will supervise us for a half-hour and see if she can come up with any pointers."

[mrwoods]

"Hmm, alright. Stronger memories. Huh." Ponder. "I wonder if grabbing a shorter memory at the peak of one of the good memories might help? Like, focusing on a couple specific seconds of a whole thing? ...have you been doing that? I've been mostly thinking of sorts of 'events' as indivisible units."

[chanuphis]

"I've tried some other variants but not that one."

[mrwoods]

"Alright, maybe that'll help. I wonder if Professor Spukhafte might have more tips."

[chanuphis]

"Maybe, but if Hermione's right it might be too idiosyncratic."

[mrwoods]

"Which might explain why so few people try it and succeed. That's kinda disheartening."

[chanuphis]

"A bit, yeah."

[mrwoods]

"Well... maybe we should try to work on creating lots of really happy memories?"

[chanuphis]

"Do you have something in mind?"

[mrwoods]

"Not particularly, I'm pretty good at not letting my emotions take over, making new ones sounds like lots of work. But given that they're happy ones it should be good work? I should spend a lot of time with you guys."

[chanuphis]

"Okay, but if we're just sort of sitting there I don't know if that'll coalesce, what do you want to do?"

[mrwoods]

"I dunno! My strongest memories were Christmas with you two."

[msmaxwell]

"Aww! Now I'm jealous."

[chanuphis]

"You didn't really miss all that much," Miranda says. "Well, at my place, I don't know about Karen's."