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[starrynights]

I get what you're trying to do. I do, I really do, and I think it's got fantastic potential, because you and I both know that the past ten years have been complete shite for my people, and inclusion is clearly the obvious start - but is this the way to do it? Throwing me into a world where the one person I'll know won't actually know me?

It just seems cruel, and I didn't expect it of you.

--no, not cruel to me. To him. He might not have anyone to help him be-- ugh, whatever. Do what you want, I know you're going to anyway.

Just don't think I won't be making new rules.

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[alphaophiuchi]

Won't really know till you get there, though. Will you?

[starrynights]

[FLINGS SELF]

Shush, you don't know, either.

[alphaophiuchi]

[ o-oh, okay! ]

Well, I do know that you're far too determined to let unfortunate circumstances get in the way of anything you might have planned. There's that, at least.

[starrynights]

[There. Proof. She'll just be over here, now.]

My plans are many and complex, and this will put something of a grinding halt on a few of them. [Some of us have university to attend, Draco, we can't all be locked away in other worlds.] Not that I can't work around that, of course.

[alphaophiuchi]

[ that's really far away, though. ]

You'll come up with new ones, I'm sure. Temporary ones, as it were.

Everyone ends up...making do when they're tossed into places like that.

[starrynights]

[He has legs. Look at all this space he could take up.]

I know; I'm nothing if not adaptable. I just... it all seems very disorganised, doesn't it?

[And kind of lonely, if she's any judge at all of wibbly wobbly timey wimey.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ well, that's certainly true. ]

Horribly so. Especially when things go slightly awry.

[starrynights]

I feel I should point out, for my own safety, that I know very well that your slightly and actual slightly differ wildly.

[alphaophiuchi]

Are you saying I understate things? I do not. Only every now and then.

[starrynights]

That's absolutely what I'm saying.

[Only a little bit drunk, once. That turned out well, though whether he'll remember this when she gets there - if she gets there - is another story.

She's not even sure if he knows her, now.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ his only knowledge, sadly, comes from the meta-knowledge of his player; he's sadly uninformed. ]

I'm wounded, you know.

[starrynights]

[Yeah, she had a feeling that would be the case.

Isn't that a punch in the gut. Welp. Suck it up, Tori.]

Cut to the quick? A blow to the very core? Will you recover?

[alphaophiuchi]

[ he'll feel bad in the future. ]

I'm honestly not sure. The jury's still out right now. It feels like one of those stinging blows that stays with you. This could be the end for me.

[starrynights]

[That's... something she's not sure she wants him to feel.]

You're a man of extremes, Malfoy. Master of the glorious understatement, yet completely capable of spinning a story the size of Hogwarts around the tiniest infraction. We can all learn from you.

[alphaophiuchi]

[ it's confusing, just let it happen. ]

You could. I'm truly talented, you know.

And just for the record, some of those infraction are hardly tiny. They can be exceedingly grandiose. To me, at least.

[starrynights]

[What argh no why fine.]

The common room held its collective breath while you regaled us with the tale of your narrow escape from a Hippogryff.

[Although she actually has an informed opinion about that, if he cares to hear it.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ you must, darlingest sweet Tori! ]

It very nearly killed me, you know. Nice to know you were listening in at that point.

[ do not burst his bubble. ]

[starrynights]

[Don't try to placate her with sweet words, Mister Has No Memory of Their Relationship This Won't Be Weird In The Least!

Except do.]

It was rather hard not to, to be perfectly honest. [Snerk.] You do have a way with words.

[She wasn't going to, as it happens. Tori is somewhat in agreement with Mister Malfoy that a Hippogryff is not appropriate live teaching material for thirteen year olds.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ hey, he remembers her. Just not the extent of things. ]

And I think I was talking loudly enough for people up in Ravenclaw Tower to hear me.

[ ugh, brilliant. It's absolutely inappropriate. Who does that?! ]

[starrynights]

[Well, that's something. Will she be starting from school, or from the summer just after his year left, when Daffy started dragging her everywhere?]

Your tones could have been described as 'strident'.

[People not actually qualified to teach? She has plans ok.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ that is an excellent question. One for the ages. Clearly the summer is the better option, though. ]

Good. Good. At least people were getting the picture, then.

[ fix the system!! ]

[starrynights]

[It is, but that depends on what he was doing before various worlds started kidnapping him. This is her first foray out of the one she grew up in, and some shared memories might be nice... though she supposes she'll manage with just her own, if she has to.]

"Hagrid's bloody chicken" was a very visual description, I thought.

[That's the idea! Eventually. Somehow. Small steps.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ celebrating his birthday. She was likely invited. Because really, why wouldn't she be? He was clinging to anyone who might tolerate his presence at that point. ]

Would've been a bloodier chicken if I'd had my way. [ this smirk. It's subtle, but pleased with itself.

[ And she can absolutely do it. He believes in her. ]

[starrynights]

[Eighteen, yes? It isn't exactly an important birthday, but given the year they'd just had... well. She was still sixteen at the tim, and hiding a little behind Daphne. But only a little.]

Oh, please. It wouldn't have got to that point if you'd been a seventh year at the time, and you know it.

[--oh. /chuffed]

[alphaophiuchi]

[ yes, indeed. And they were both welcome additions, hiding or otherwise. ]

Well, maybe. There's really no way to find out, though.

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