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I wouldn't say I'm equipped to deal with freak weather conditions, but I've spent half my life living with the seasons running backwards, and back home the houses used to spray snow scenes in their windows in midsummer.

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It's nice to feel seasonal for once. The blizzard's dying off. Anyone else up for checking out the slopes?



[ooc: backdatey as mun is a sickly little plant.]

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Honeymooned there. Before that, not for a few years.

It's been a long time since it's been home.

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I think it'll always be home in it's way. Sometimes I wonder if Bill thinks Egypt's more home than England, anymore, even if he did come back. Or Charlie—he's been in Romania forever, he only visits once in a really long while.

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If they still visit when they're back, it's still home. When I go back it's more a case of what I can avoid.

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Why?

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It's better that way.

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I don't know if it's better to avoid home.

I mean, we're here, but it isn't our choice.

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Home isn't always our choice either. Trust me, there are enough people who'd rather not see me. Better to stay away.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

[And she is because it reminds her all too much of Percy and she can't help but mumble,]

I wonder if that's how my brother felt about us.

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About you? I doubt it.

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Obviously not anymore but he didn't speak to us for a few years. Maybe it's because that's what he thought.

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Nope. The way you sound talking about your family, if he spoke to you just once in that time he'd know you'd never hate him.

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I threw mashed parsnip in his face when he visited once in that time.

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Being upset at someone doesn't equate to not caring about them. Usually, the opposite applies.

What did he do to warrant the root vegetables?

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Well, I know that now.

[She heaves a sigh.]

Loads of things. The parsnip was for leaving in the first place and just showing up like it was alright again. But he brought the Prime Minister too and that wasn't on, either, and there are too many reasons to explain why. It was in the middle of Christmas lunch!

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[...Ginny your life.]

Well I'd bring the Prime Minister to meet my sister, but I have no idea whether she's a Republican or not.

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[Yes, it is full of drama and flying servings of mashed parsnip.]

What?

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It's a political affiliation.

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No, not that. You have a sister?

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Yes.

[Simple, as if it should somehow be obvious.]

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I never knew that.

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That's why I told you.

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What's she like?

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I don't really know. Like I said, it could make bringing the prime minister to visit a bad decision.

[The attempt at humour is a little weary.]

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Sorry. I shouldn't have asked.

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No, it's fine. She was great, as a seven-year-old. Since then I haven't really been up to date.