Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 11, 2007 21:56:48 GMT -5
"Easier than going to the library, right?" Drew answered, wondering if Seanna would go ahead and ask the duck right then and there or wait until they were alone. "And yeah, some of what you're wondering about is stuff only he can answer." He was kind of curious to see them have a conversation and a little surprised she hadn't asked him where he came from or anything. Percy probably had some pretty cool stories.
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Post by seanna on Dec 15, 2007 2:55:15 GMT -5
"Very true" Seanna agreed with Drew. Percy wasn't a book, she wouldn't have to flip through hundreds of pages of useless information to find the right answer to her question. Much as Seanna would have preferred to ask Percy in private later on, she knew she would probably forget to or got distracted with something else, and there really was no reason why she couldn't communicate with Percy in front of Drew, either. It was just her own uncomfortableness and paranoia setting in again.
"Okay" Seanna mumbled somewhat to herself, while throwing Drew another hesitant look as she looked down at her duck, who was now on her lap. "So Percy, if you were a muggle kid who was destined to be a wizard or a witch and that kid had a pet that followed you around, would that pet be classed as familiar or just a normal animal?" The Huffle asked, using the normal, just everyday talking to her duck than the mind thing, it was easier for her to use that technique in front of Drew rather than the standard way she usually communicated with him.
Percy looked up from his new position on his owner's lap, his big, black eyes glazed over in confusion. "I guess, the pet could be, especially if it saved the kid in one form or another" This was interesting to Percy, he hadn't ever been asked about his kind and he was way surprised his owner was acknowledging him like so, it finally made him feel somewhat important. "All animals can be considered a familiar, it just really depends on a person's needs at that time, if they really need a familiar in their lives. Animals are really more human than people think" The duck told his owner, trying to make his bill turn into a smile, but fluttered his wings a bit in appreciation, instead. That was the only downside of being an animal, you had to find creative ways to show affection.
After listening to her duck's thought's, Seanna's brown eyes looked over at Drew once more, thinking it was silly for her to feel uncomfortable in front of him, plus she finally got the answer to the questioned she had wanted and a bit more of an understanding why her duck had came to her. "Well, Percy informed me that he guessed the pet could be a familiar, especially if the animal had saved the kid in one form or another and that all animals could be considered a familiar, it just depends on a person's needs if they really need a familiar in their lives" Seanna explained to Drew, her face now showing a little bit of confusion. That was one question she was going to have to answer herself... why she needed a familiar in her life at that point of time.
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Drew Thornton
Ministry of Magic
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 15, 2007 3:06:50 GMT -5
Drew watched curiously as Percy fluttered his feathers and while Drew had no clue what the duck was saying, the Ravenclaw was sure it was good.
"That's cool!" Drew answered once Seanna relayed the information. He found it totally facinating that the girl and the duck could communicate. "So, like, you could be a familiar to a Muggle if that's what they needed?" he asked Percy, counting on Seanna to relay the answer.
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Post by seanna on Dec 15, 2007 13:20:57 GMT -5
(Seannal? ) Once again, Seanna looked over at Drew, stunned. It was cool? Well, that was certainly a different reaction to what she normally got when she started to communicate with her duck in front of someone. It was such a shock to her to hear someone say something other than weird, that it took Seanna awhile to realize that Drew was asking her duck a question and not her. All ready Percy was entering a thought into her head before the Huffle realized it. Percy could understand the boy just as much as his owner. " Well, yes. But I'm all ready a magical familiar, so I'm more for the ones that are all ready a witch or a wizard that just needs some guidance" Percy looked up expectantly at his owner. Seanna was all ready a witch and she really did need some guidance at this point in time, it was really why he was here for her at the moment. A little bit more information was given to Seanna as to why Percy had came to her and she raised one eyebrow at her duck. The girl needed guidance? The Huffle didn't think so and she stuck her tongue slightly out at her duck. "Percy said that yes, he could be, but he's all ready a magical familiar and he's meant more for the experienced witch or wizard that just needs some guidance" The blond haired girl supplied for Drew, feeling somewhat like a owl between the two of them. Maybe she could somehow find a way to teach Percy to communicate with the Ravenclaw, but then she thought that that task would probably be more than impossible. Then there was the fact that Seanna was thinking that maybe Percy was only really supposed to communicate with her.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 16, 2007 17:55:01 GMT -5
{slippery keyboard } "Well, yeah," Drew answered, once Seanna relayed the information Percy had given, nodding to the duck that he understood. Drew really didn't think anything was strange about having a conversation with a duck. For him, it was like talking to a ghost or a centaur. The only difference was Percy wasn't depressing like ghosts tended to be, nor haughty like centaurs. "So, you need guidance, huh?" he asked, turning his attention to the girl and teasing her with a crooked smile.
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Post by seanna on Dec 17, 2007 21:14:50 GMT -5
(sure ) This time, Seanna poked her tongue out at Drew. "If you ask my duck, he said that, if you ask me, I say no" The Huffle really didn't think she needed guidance. Really, how was a duck supposed to guide her? Was Percy actually going to make sure that she was going to do the right things from here on out? That, Seanna was sure, would see her do the opposite to what Percy would suggest. It had always been that way when the Huffle didn't get her own way on something. Guidance or not, there was only really one thing she did need guidance on. The whole Deva situation was still swirling around her foggy mind and she felt like she was stuck in the middle. But yet, her mind went back to the conversation she had with her little first year Huffle, Elizabeth and at the same time, she was having a conversation with herself in her brain. There just had to be a good side and not just a evil side, right? Though, to her, some of Shaw's ramblings really did make some sort of sense to her. "Hey Drew?" Seanna began, looking up at him, wondering just how to ask about the whole situation, especially when it looked like no one else was willing to talk to her about it. "Why do you think Shaw entered into the school?" The girl had her own thoughts on the topic, but it was good to get someones else's opinion now again to sort out the mess that was currently in her mind.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 17, 2007 22:07:19 GMT -5
The question surprised him. Very few people wanted to talk about the invasion, and those that did usually wanted details they couldn't understand.
And yes, recently he was counting himself in that last group.
But Seanna had always seemed to be of the same school of thought as he had. Drew figured he could have the conversation he wanted... needed... with the Huffle girl. He started wondering why he hadn't thought of Seanna earlier.
"I don't know," he answered, thinking his own suspicions sounded lame. It didn't stop him from sharing them with Seanna. "The only thing I can really guess is to show that he could. Prove he had something over the rest of us."
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Post by seanna on Dec 17, 2007 23:50:00 GMT -5
Seanna wrinkled her nose at Drew's suggestion. "But he didn't have to prove that he could get into the school, he had done that all ready when he... when he, well, kidnapped you" The Huffle girl really didn't want to bring that up, but she felt like she had to if they were really going to go through the madman's mind. Shaw had proven that he could get into the school, undetected and more to the point, kidnap a student and not be noticed by any of the school Professor's and not even be caught by the ministry silly people until it was too late.
Shaw was just as elusive to catch as that golden snitch. Not so much small, but he knew how to hide like one. And yet, he had done it again, proven that he was still hard to catch and unobtain, by slipping away after the deva attack. "I've been thinking... that maybe... maybe he wanted us? I mean, the students as a whole... maybe not that he wanted us, but the Deva wanted us?" It was all that she could remember from her panic mind back on that night, when Shaw said that he was there just because they were there.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 18, 2007 0:14:53 GMT -5
"That was different," Drew answered, speaking of his own kidnapping with much more clarity than he had out in the courtyard the previous year. The episode still bothered him, but he wasn't about to curse any squirrels over it. "With that, he wasn't taking over the school. He was just luring me out. And what better way to make his point than by overtaking the school after all of these security measures were supposedly put into place."
"No, I don't think he wanted us, per say," Drew continued. "I think he wanted to show the world how vulnerable we all are to him and his group. Who else is more vulnerable than a bunch of school kids/"
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Post by seanna on Dec 18, 2007 3:02:31 GMT -5
The Huffle knew kind of why Shaw had lured Drew out, for. Something to do with information, the man had told her that night in Diagon when she had questioned why he had kidnapped Drew. Seanna also thought that Drew had made a very good point, the Huffle didn't realize that the school had put in even more security measures after the boy had been kidnapped. It was a very good way for the man to gloat that he had surpassed all the new security measures and got into the school again.
While she agreed with Drew that they had been vulnerable, she still thought there was more to Shaw coming in and taking over the school. Yes, they were vulnerable, but they were vulnerable in so many ways. "We were-- still are vulnerable. This is why I think that maybe he needed us. Or well, he and his group needed us. They needed to plant a seed of doubt into all of us... so that they could lay some sort of foundation of something... maybe to keep what they believe in, going?" The thought had been in Seanna's mind for awhile, otherwise, why else would someone come into a school full of kids for?
Secretly, she kinda thought some of the plan was working. Paranoia was strife and running around Hogwarts-- even she didn't fully trust as many people as she used too and as much as she hated to admit it, she had to think these days before she thought of what to say to people, who knew where certain information could end up?
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 19, 2007 11:55:47 GMT -5
"Yeah," Drew answered, agreing that the point was to plant the doubt in the magical community. If the Deva could invade Hogwarts, what did that mean for the rest of the world?
"You know what's scariest for me?" Drew asked softly, looking at his hands. "If Shaw had apporached it differently... if he had just asked for the information he wanted, I would have given it to him. I trusted him that much." The Ravenclaw hadn't admitted that to many people and while it turned out that Shaw hadn't needed him to begin with, it still bothered him that he had trusted the man that much.
"And... and I can see that I could have very easily gotten caught up with all of them if he had asked me to join him." A nice, pure-blooded guy like himself, if it had been worded right, sure Drew would have bought into it. "I could have been one of those faceless people trying to forward wizarding rights, y'know?"
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Post by seanna on Dec 20, 2007 2:37:50 GMT -5
What Drew just said to her, shocked her slightly, but she could definitely see where he was coming from. "That's not... it wouldn't be hard to do that, to give that information to him" Seanna bit her lip, not sure where she was going with this, but somehow she had to let Drew know she understood. "Especially to someone in a position of authority, in a position of trust. Shaw was... is... a very cunning man, very likable man" Very likable man? It was the truth though, that man wouldn't have anyone coming in to invade the school with him, if he wasn't very likable in the first place.
Even on that night last summer, Seanna herself still trusted her old Professor enough to lower her wand, still trusted and believed that he wasn't there to harm them and even was interested in knowing what he was all about. "It was probably better in the end, that he didn't come and straight out asked you. We found out exactly what he was like because he did do it that way to you" If it wasn't for that night, who knew how long Shaw would've kept up the demise of being the nice Professor, yet all along, he was just trying to gain their trust to put his plan into action.
"Wizarding rights?" Seanna echoed, hearing some of this from her first year as well and through the rumors that was spreading every where around the castle and the wizarding world. "You mean that's what the whole Deva thing is all about?" The girl was even in more confusion than she had been while during the whole attack, deciding if Drew was sharing with her, she might as well share with him as well.
"You wanna know a secret? I would've probably said yes if he had asked me too... " Seanna trailed off quietly, thinking the only difference between her and Drew was that the Ravenclaw had said could have been, while she said probably, as in if Shaw had asked her, she would of have probably said yes because his way was the only thing she had to believe in, the only thing she knew of to believe in.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 21, 2007 1:24:33 GMT -5
"Yeah... I think that's why he didn't do it all subtle," Drew told her. "He said that night..." Or maybe it had been the woman... "that they were reaqdy to be known. ready to get their message out there. The invasion was just another phase I guess."
"I think a lot of people would have joined him," Drew added. "I mean, you word it right, talk about bringing the wizarding community out into the open, showing pride in being who we are instead of hiding it all the time. Who wouldn't want that?"
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Post by seanna on Dec 21, 2007 6:16:31 GMT -5
Seanna fell silent again, absentmindedly petting Percy and thinking things through. So basically the castle was just another place for Shaw to show to the world what he was all about, show to the world that his clan was ready to be known and wasn't going to hide anymore.
That was where Seanna hit another confusion point in her thoughts, if they weren't going to hide and was ready to show the world who they were, then how come most of them were still in hiding? Shaking her own head, the Huffle realized that they were probably in hiding because the silly ministry people would be all out looking for them... not that they would have a hope in fantasy land of catching Shaw.
That actually did sound all right, but then Seanna could see a whole lot of things going wrong with that, as well. The poor muggles on one hand, wouldn't understand them, the wizarding world would spend more time explaining things to the muggles, there would be a lot of misunderstandings and she could see a whole lot of accidents happening with that as well.
"Some things are better left secret, though" Seanna began, going through the muddiness of her own mind and trying to sort them out. "Yeah, it would probably be great not having to hide anymore, not having a secret, but there would be a lot of misunderstandings as well" Then another thought had occurred to her and Seanna looked up at Drew, the confusion still in her brown eyes.
"But we all ready have muggle people knowing about the wizarding community, though. Otherwise we wouldn't have half-bloods or muggle born's learning about the ways of the wizarding world"
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 23, 2007 2:49:30 GMT -5
"Those people only find out about it after they get invovled... after the fact," Drew told her. He knew that with both his aunt and his uncle, they had fallen in love first and then broken the news gently to their prospective spouses. And with Muggle borns, the Magical government had all sorts of procedures that they went through to let the parents know what was going on.
"I don't know about the secrets though," Drew said, thoughtfully. "I mean, everyone talks about tolerance and equality. So why is being magical something to hide?"
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