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]

"I think this adds up to 'you cannot realistically have this particular Ravenclaw problem'."

[mswoods]

"...yeah, I guess so." Shrug. "Do you know many Gryffindors or Hufflepuffs? I think the Hufflepuffs are lacking a bit in the 'hard work' department, but most Gryffindors still don't quite trust me so I can't tell."

[chanuphis]

"I haven't talked to any of them all that much, but I think Gryffindors might have too good a reputation and coast on that."

[mswoods]

"Hmm, yeah, I can see that. ...I kinda find it a little bit weird, as a House. I mean, wit, cunning, hard work, and courage. One of these is not like the others."

[chanuphis]

"It doesn't stand out that too much to me. And less if you make it wit, ambition, loyalty, and courage."

[mswoods]

"Hmmm, I guess." She shrugs. "I dunno, I guess I'm just too un-Gryffindor. Figures."

[chanuphis]

"I think both loyalty and courage kind of seem like... wrong answers. Like... any situations where loyalty comes up it seems like other things should be coming up more than that. Any situation where courage comes up it seems like you might have already made a mistake to even be there and dealing with that would have been a better use of your time than cultivating your bravery."

[mswoods]

"Hmm, I dunno, I guess I can see a sort of bravery that's not like that. I mean, technically looking at a task like 'create glory for Slytherin' or 'cure death' and not just having your knees buckle under you does take a lot of courage."

[chanuphis]

"I don't feel like I'm using courage to care about curing death. I think I'm doing some other thing. Maybe some people need courage."

[mswoods]

"Well, I think most people are terrified out of their minds of death."

[chanuphis]

"I'm not sure I'd characterize it that way."

[mswoods]

"How would you characterise it?"

[chanuphis]

"They... ignore it and come up with ways to use it anyway. Like gravity. Nobody except physicists thinks about it very much, but we have stairs."

[mswoods]

"I'm not so sure. I mean, personally I have thought about death way more than about gravity, but even in general, I don't know if people would be so... fixated on stuff like religion and the afterlife if death didn't scare them at least a little."

[chanuphis]

"Even people who aren't religious are like that though."

[mswoods]

"Right! I mean, I suppose when it comes to you ending death isn't much about courage, maybe. I don't know if I'm scared of death but I think if I'm not it has something to do with being eleven. It feels like it makes sense to be afraid of death."

[chanuphis]

"I mean... I'm not not afraid to die but going around being afraid seems like a waste of time to me and it looks like everybody else thinks so too, they just need to do more complicated things to not go around being afraid," says Miranda.

"This conversation doesn't sound especially Christmasy," remarks Renée, offering the girls mugs of cider.

[mswoods]

"It's not particularly un-Christmasy to us," Sadde comments, accepting the mug, and Laura nods in agreement. "And I see what you mean," she tells Miranda.

[chanuphis]

"Good, because I didn't have a better way to explain it handy."

[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!"