Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 24, 2006 22:48:50 GMT -5
"Well what about how some wizarding families see Muggles, then? Lower classes, sometimes inhuman. And wizards have always known about Muggles. And, Merlin, with all the Dark Marks that are popping up around, the mentality is certainly still there." Kellen sighed heavily, feeling more and more depressed about it. "I'm not optimistic enough to pretend it would work."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 24, 2006 22:56:03 GMT -5
"What a minute," Lily said. "Pause, rewind, did you just call me an optimist?" She was shocked. No one had ever called her an optimist before. It would be like calling a cat a mouse. It was too much to take in for a moment. She stopped though, and waited to see if that was what he had said.
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 24, 2006 23:07:26 GMT -5
Kellen sighed again. "Well, you're the one of us two who seems to think that people can get along." He didn't mean his words to sound harsh, and in his tone they shouldn't have. "I mean, I like to think I'm optimistic, but I also like to think I'm realistic, too, you know?"
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 24, 2006 23:10:46 GMT -5
"I've been told I'm very pessimistic," Lily said. "And I suppose that's true. But in my dreams, Kellen, everything I could have ever wanted, or wished for, or hoped, comes true. It's that let down that's made me so hard on the world. It's knowing that not everything has a fairytale ending."
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 24, 2006 23:16:46 GMT -5
"And that's where the 'realistic' comes in, then, isn't it?" Kellen said. "Nobody gets a fairy tale ending. Nobody lives happily ever after. But come on...nobody feels happiness if they can't feel sadness as well. Humans need that balance. Living a perfect life will go entirely unappreciated, Lily. Hardships are a part of life."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 25, 2006 6:38:28 GMT -5
"All I know to well," Lily said. "It's not being able to look beyond those hardships which brings you to pessimism, which brings you to me. Didn't you ask me once if I saw the glass as half-full or half-empty and then it was you that explained to me pessimism and optimisim? I think it was."
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Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 25, 2006 21:12:17 GMT -5
"It's entirely possible," Kellen mused. "I don't remember exactly, but I've used the glass-as-half-full metaphor before. It's pretty common, I think."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 25, 2006 21:24:45 GMT -5
"Yeah, well I remember not knowing what it meant until you explained it to me." She was quiet. "A lot of time has passed since then and I've changed a lot, I know that. I've still got the same notebook though, only looks even more . . . loved." She smiled.
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 26, 2006 0:54:43 GMT -5
The memory of the conversation dawned on Kellen. "That's right...that was right after the statue bit, wasn't it. When you found that other book under the sofa and I freaked out about it. I'm better now, honest."
He thought for a moment, and smirked at his own nerdiness. "But I've got to tell you, that notebook looked pretty well-worn to me before. And as far as notebooks go, that means loved to me."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 26, 2006 6:39:02 GMT -5
"I believe," Lily said. "And even if you weren't I wouldn't blame you. Have you been able to go to the restricted section though? Isn't that where you found the book? And yes, it is really, really well-worn. I just can't really bring myself to part with it, so I just add on extra pages. Magic works really nice for that."
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Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 26, 2006 22:03:45 GMT -5
"I haven't really needed the restricted section, actually," Kellen said. It wasn't that he was avoiding it. Well, maybe it was a little, but he wasn't going to admit it, not anymore. "And yes, magic is pretty brilliant at solving problems like that, isn't it? Oi, especially now. I'm of age now, did you know? I can use magic outside of school. It's brilliant."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 26, 2006 22:05:19 GMT -5
"That is brillant," Lily said. "I know it's awfully a pain if I run out of paper in the summer, becuase then I can't add any extra pages. I have to write it all down and then recopy it when I come back to school. It's such a bother. But you're of age now? That's wicked awesome. Can you apparate yet?"
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 27, 2006 2:07:38 GMT -5
Kellen smiled broadly. "Yup! I got my liscence over the Christmas holiday--my birthday's early December, you know. Had to take a class at the Ministry, but I just didn't want to wait until May or June and being out of school to do it, you know?" He shrugged. "Plus, there was that thing with the Floo system being against the law for a bit. Still don't understand that...well, I was with my brother in London, and if I wanted to get anyplace magical--I had to get there somehow. It's a weird feeling, apparating, let me tell you."
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Post by hermione7lunaroc on Apr 27, 2006 6:57:33 GMT -5
"So I've heard," Lily said. "Well not heard, rather read. But that's awesome. It will be forever until I get my liscence. My birthday falls at the worst possible time. I think I'm the youngest in our year. Not for sure, because I haven't like taken a poll or a survey or anything, but I think I am. You'd have to be pretty close to be any younger than me."
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Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Apr 27, 2006 11:14:54 GMT -5
"You're an August birthday, then?" Kellen assumed. "Yeah, that's a little rough. But, really, it'll just be a couple of months longer to wait. Most people will probably try for their licenses during the summer, after all. Or at Hogsmeade, I suppose. But it'll come. You'll just...have a little longer to look forward to it, is all."
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