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[aperfectthird]

audio; open →

I thought I would go to the Hall of the Missing today, if anyone would care to join me for the excursion. I will be there around seven. Thank you.

text; locked to pepper, rapunzel, and setsuna →

Charlie McGee asked me to get in touch with you in regards to providing fireworks for her wedding. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes has an extensive selection, and I am certain we will be able to find something to suit the occasion.

action; the hall of the missing →

[It's around seven, as he'd said earlier in the day, and Percy is waiting outside the Hall of the Missing, coffee in hand to ward off the chill of the early evening. He checks his pocketwatch for the time, deciding he will give any potential companion another ten minutes before he goes in. He'd like to go alone, but he's not sure it's the wisest course of action, considering all the people he knows who will be in there. With someone else there, it will allow him to make it about them and shift his focus off himself.

In the meantime, he mentally sorts through his to-do lists for the next day, categorizing into City Solutions, the Wheezes, Passione, and home, and tries not to let himself feel the trepidation at how long each of them are.]

Comments

[claimyourself]

A pig in the classroom? There's an interesting class. I wish I could turn a few girls in my class into pigs.

[She rolls her eyes, but is smiling at the thought.]

So tell me about all your magic classes. You said this man taught Potions? [She points to the guy with the unfortunate nose and hair.]

[aperfectthird]

Yes, he did. Potions class is precisely what it sounds like - we brew things and, when ingested, they affect the drinker. It's a very precise art, very easy to foul up, but very useful if you get it right.

[claimyourself]

Interesting.

[And she looks intrigued too.]

Want to keep walking? And tell me some more about your classes, please.

[aperfectthird]

All right.

[He leads her away from the people in his world, glad to leave them behind. It hurts too much to look at them. Gryffindor he may be, but there's only so much wear and tear his heart can take.]

My personal favorite class was Arithmancy. It's prognostication with the use of numbers.

[claimyourself]

Oh, that so cool! My aunt can see the future, but it's all wrapped up with the past and present at the same time. It's hard for her.

[aperfectthird]

So she - can see all of time all at once? That sounds - confusing.

[claimyourself]

It is. Her default state is one of confusion. Whenever she talks to someone, she doesn't know if it's a conversation in the present, or one they'll have in the future. Or it could even be own from the past that she's forgotten. It's... hard for her, but she bears it well. She thinks it's a gift.

[aperfectthird]

It seems like it has the potential to be a gift. I'm sure it has its uses, given the right context.

[claimyourself]

It does. Like... If you wanted to find out who had visited a certain place on a certain day, you could go with her to the location and she'd sift through the days until she found the right one, and she'd show you.

[Or show you your old house where your mother went evil. Whoops, past her canon point.]

[aperfectthird]

That's ... incredible, actually. What a powerful skill - but it comes at such a great cost. She must be very strong, to survive day in and day out like that.

[...or she self-medicates like Sibyl Trelawney, but we're not comparing them.]

[claimyourself]

[It's odd to think of Aunt Del as strong, since she always seems so frazzled and like you could knock her over with a feather, but it's true.]

Yeah, definitely.

[aperfectthird]

That's Ariadne.

[He points to a young brunette woman on the wall.]

She was involved with my brother George while they were here.

[claimyourself]

[She purses her lips, looking carefully over the portrait.]

I think I talked to her once, not long after I got here. Is she from your home too?