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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[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."

[chanuphis]

"This isn't the book for it. Try The Dementors and their Kiss for an overview."

[mrwoods]

"Okay."

He goes find the book.

[chanuphis]

The book, as promised, describes Dementors.

[mrwoods]

Oh.

"These things are running wild," he says, deadpan.

[chanuphis]

"There were some wild ones even before, the ones who didn't work at Azkaban, but I didn't know they just let them all go when they stopped using them as prison guards."

[mrwoods]

"And muggles can't see them and our only defence is a spell that's typically not taught until we're much older." Still deadpan.

[chanuphis]

"I'm going to ask Professor Spukhafte about it, but yeah."

[mrwoods]

He lays his face on his hands.

"So can putting all of them in a rocket and launching them to the Kuiper Belt be another of our goals?"

[chanuphis]

"We'd have to get near them for that. But yes. It can."

[mrwoods]

"Okay, then step two of that goal is getting a team of wixen who can cast the Patronus on board with the project."

[chanuphis]

"I'm not sure herding the Dementors will actually be a viable plan... I guess if they really can't be destroyed it might be the best we can do."

[mrwoods]

"Well this book seems pretty adamant on the indestructible aspect, but I guess since we're already planning to eliminate death and disease killing an unlikable monster isn't all that different. Actually there surely have been attempts if they're so sure it won't work, maybe we should research that. Actually yeah we totally should, this is a thing we can actually do in the present, as opposed to most of our other plans."

[chanuphis]

"Sounds like something to do, yeah."

[mrwoods]

He resumes his reading, this time paying more attention and not just grabbing a more detailed description of what Dementors are.

[alicornucopia]

The book continues to be about Dementors. It has an aside about the Patronus Charm and how it is done.

[mrwoods]

Good! More detail is good. Herding Dementors doesn't look impossible but the Charm is less useful than the quick blurb in the introduction chapter led him to believe.