peterverse | summer

Professor Spukhafte doesn't have any more advice than Hermione does, and is not as willing as the Gryffindor to help them if they're still stuck.

Which they are. Sadde's suggestion that they try focusing on shorter parts of memories for a higher happiness-per-second value helps him but not Miranda, so he ends up with a more solid fog. Still just fog, though. They continue reading books about it, and it seems to just be that idiosyncratic. Interestingly enough, some books written by alchemists also have mentions of Dementors, trying to figure out what their symbolic value is and whether it's possible to integrate it. More advanced books are in the Restricted Section, and they won't have access to it until at least Professor Slughorn gives them the go ahead.

The year passes. Willow is consistently good at the theoretical parts of classes and consistently bad at the practical ones, mostly due to being flustered by failures and not quite being able to get over that fact. Sadde and Miranda are exceptional at Potions, and the only reason Sadde isn't also exceptional at Transfiguration is that he doesn't quite care enough about homework when all that's on the line are his grades. That, plus all the time he spends between reading about Dementors, reading about Alchemy, and trying to undo the damage suffered by Slytherins because of the Dark Lord.

That last goal has the most tangible results, for a certain value of "tangible." Slytherin firsties are divided between liking him (Jacob and two of the girls) and grudgingly tolerating him (the other boy and girl). He has thoroughly dispelled the notion that he's "just another Slytherin" firsties from other Houses (except perhaps Gryffindor) might have, but of course that doesn't make the older years all that happy. Well, not that the older Slytherins actually care that much. But he has helped various of them with various things, mostly by acting like a somewhat willful minion, since there's not much more he can do to help older students beyond that, so he's at least on talking terms with most of them (Cole and Astoria have been quite useful there, as well).

Arens is not one of them, but by now he's mostly just ignoring Sadde and hoping he'll just go away.

Summer arrives.

They return home and spend a while with their respective families, but eventually...

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Karen really shouldn't have gotten distracted by that! Her punishment is a tackle-dunk!

Oh nooooo!

Blghghrg!

Now where is Miranda?

Late to the party. But splashing Willow, since Willow was not being splashed enough.

Ooh, Sadde can agree with that! She abandons her pursuit to splash Willow as well!

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Oh no! Her foes are banding together against her! Time for a tactical retreat! Blublub!

Karen dives too in case she's next!

Well, the obvious thing for Sadde to do now would be turn against Miranda!

...so she won't do that, and will chase Karen instead, morphing appropriately aquatic features because cheating is great.

Miranda helps chase Karen, although she can't catch up.

When Sadde catches Karen, she pulls her feet to slow her down so Miranda will catch up and then goes after Willow.

Miranda, of course, splashes Karen, gets splashed back, and then leads her back to the other two.

Some more mutual splashing is going on!

It is, predictably, going better for Sadde because of blatant cheating.

That's okay. Much splashing can be had by all.

So much splashing!

After they're tired of swimming they go ride ponies, and Karen then has to go home, but she hugs everybody first.

Hugs are nice! Ponies are not. Not even Minnie likes Sadde, though at least she only expresses that dislike by making displeased whiny noises and refusing to stay still for long enough for Sadde to be able to ride her.

They don't have to ride ponies for very long, since Sadde is sitting out. Although Miranda does like being able to travel rapidly overland without tripping.

Sadde doesn't much mind. Brooms are way better.

Miranda agrees. Horses are just novel.

Not to Willow they're not, and Sadde herself never expected to be able to ride one anyway so not much of a disappointment.

Well, what's next after horses and bidding Karen goodbye?

Well, whatever they want, really! ...within the limits of what the house actually has to offer. Since most sports involving feet are out of the question, there's: food ("I bet Ms. Hannah baked us muffins!"), board games, card games, hide-and-seek, lots of movies, and a bunch of PlayStation games.

Miranda would like to try some PlayStation games; she knows what they are but has never actually tried one.

Sadde's in the same boat.

Rad! How about BomberMan? It supports up to four players!

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