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Old 09-17-2011, 08:06 PM   #26 (permalink)
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"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you are not."

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Louisa pondered the sentence he'd just said, 'it's hard to be seen in a caring light when you're mainly associated with death.' She agreed by nodding slowly. "That's right. I think I wouldn't want to be a Thestral." Not that it made sense to be one but she expressed a point.

"We have to. But the kitchen's closed. The house elves aren't letting anyone in. We can try and see that if you like!" She hadn't come down and seen it but overheard it in the common room. Louisa was up for an investigation. Maybe they cleaned everything up and students were allowed to get inside again?

Louisa chuckled. "No. I think using them in a battle would be stupid as you said, most soldiers have seen death." She turned to look at the empty ground around that was probably occupied by three Thestrals already and replied to Adam, "That's another bright idea. Maybe they use them to watch somewhere.. happy." Since a happy place wouldn't include people that encountered death...right? Was there such a place, though? Louisa had no answer to that.

Then came the pensieve suggestion. Louisa faced Adam, forgetting about the invesible creatures around them, and her face beamed strongly. "That's brilliant! Really!" She paused thoughtfully, "I don't know where to find a pensieve but.. do you think we can buy one? They have to be so expensive but I guess Jason would pay for it from his new job!" Yeah, because her stepdad who had magic-phobia would totally understand that. She did have her ways, though. "We need to learn how to extract a memory, though. It's advanced magic, right?" Maybe when they were seventh year students?


Adam was staring at the mother thestral who had started to walk towards them, not in a menacing way, but more in a curious kind of way. She seemed to want a little bit of attention herself, but she wasn't sure that she wanted to take it away from her babies. Adam gave a little nod of agreement to Louisa's statement..."I suppose they live peaceful lives though since most people don't want to approach them...or can't see them to approach them."

Adam gave the mother an encouraging smile, but she stayed where she was, eyeing them in that way of hers. "The mother has moved closer," Adam said to Louisa so she would understand why he kept smiling like that. "She doesn't seem to want us to touch her though...she's just...curious?" Adam proposed. Surely the creature was allowed to be curious about the strange people that were petting her children, right? Even if they had brought food with them...maternal instinct he supposed.

When Louisa mentioned the House Elves closing the kitchen Adam turned to look at her. "Oh...do we know why they closed it?" Adam asked. For some reason his first thought went to revolt or strike, and that was probably because he had been reading about giving House Elves rights in this Magical Creatures book he was reading. "Are they revolting or something?" Adam hoped not, mainly because if they did revolt how would they get food, and also because revolts and strikes could sometimes turn ugly.

Adam chuckled slightly..."Well if there's a place that's completely filled with happy people that have never seen death or anything miserable, I think that might be where I'd like to go!" Of course being surrounded by people who were only ever happy had its downsides too...after all sometimes you just needed to get angry and needed to feel something other than happy. "Although it's good to have a bit of a balance of all the emotions..."

Adam was slightly surprised that Louisa had been agreeing strongly with his idea. "They probably are really expensive," Adam said with a little nod of the head. "Although maybe you could borrow them or rent them...you know, like books?" It seemed like a plausible thing, right? Surely not everyone wanted to spend the money to buy their own, so surely someone had thought of a pensieve renting location or something...right? As to the extracting the memory thing Adam furrowed his brows slightly. "I'm not exactly sure, but I'm positive there must be a book on it in the library, right?"
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