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When Christmas hols roll around, everyone goes home.
And Renée makes a suggestion and Miranda sends some owls, all with the same underlying invitation:
Mum wants to go shopping in Muggle Edinburgh and said I should invite some friends. You can Floo in or she can pick you up by Apparition, as you like, and we'll get lunch and she'll have you home in time for supper. Want to come?
She invites Karen and Jenny and Emma and Alli, and as an afterthought also Vivian, since she and Karen have been friendly and another muggleborn might ease Karen's jitters.
chanuphis
chanuphis
"Not right this minute. Unless he does it again, but I bet he's scared off for at least the rest of the day."
witch_please
"Do we need to, I don't know, tell your mum or something?" Miranda looks so solemn. (More so than usual, anyway.) And Alli's usual methods of cheering people usually involve more magic than she can get away with here; she's at a bit of a loss. This is not her forte, help.
witch_please
"So." Alli casts about. "...hat?" She offers the plaid atrocity to Miranda. "Embrace the Scotland!"
witch_please
Alli puts an arm over her shoulders. "See? You look like a Scot already. C'mon, let's go. We'll find a ghost to talk to, get all the good Scottish gossip."
witch_please
Probably. Does this have any effect whatsoever on Alli's plan? Not likely.
Locals are accosted (Alli decides that the first person to look pained at her outfit is close enough to a local) and directions to a nearby attraction are obtained. Spooky dungeons and haunted mystery and similar are mentioned. Alli's sold. Onwards!
Locals are accosted (Alli decides that the first person to look pained at her outfit is close enough to a local) and directions to a nearby attraction are obtained. Spooky dungeons and haunted mystery and similar are mentioned. Alli's sold. Onwards!
chanuphis
Miranda accompanies her without complaint.
Without further incident the girls enjoy the remainder of their Scotland trip and are then all delivered home, unharmed except for Alli's memory.
Miranda spends the rest of the hols at her father's.
Without further incident the girls enjoy the remainder of their Scotland trip and are then all delivered home, unharmed except for Alli's memory.
Miranda spends the rest of the hols at her father's.
chanuphis
Miranda pauses to consider him. She will be in trouble if she Disarms him, but in a way that will get legal attention...
"You aren't welcome here," she decides to open with.
"You aren't welcome here," she decides to open with.
"What, on the path?" he says, unbothered. "Public path, y'know." He looks at her curiously. "No thoughts on the Nicaraguan decision, Miss Swan? Can't tell me it's not a disappointment."
Russell Peasegood is a man of his research. And he has no intention of following her into the home of a Muggle Auror, which is not the public path.
But he can hang out here. He can be back tomorrow. It's a nice path, he can visit it. And if Miss Swan happens to leave the house while he's here, all the better.
But he can hang out here. He can be back tomorrow. It's a nice path, he can visit it. And if Miss Swan happens to leave the house while he's here, all the better.
chanuphis
Miss Swan does not leave the house.
Charlie has to go to work, but for whatever reason he doesn't approach Russell Peasegood.
Charlie has to go to work, but for whatever reason he doesn't approach Russell Peasegood.
Russell has no problem continuing to wait for Miss Swan. He can't stay himself, always; he has other articles to write. But that's what junior reporters are for. If Miss Swan comes out in the next few days, he can be waiting for her.
chanuphis
Miss Swan doesn't recognize the junior reporters. She will try going out if Peasegood himself is not in evidence.
Well, he's not quite fast enough to be waiting right in front of the house- no good place to Apparate, not in a Muggle neighborhod- but he comes around the corner. "Miss Swan! A moment?"
Russell is no more successful for the rest of the holiday, and he can only get away with sneaking into Hogwarts so many times. So he works around the problem.
He tries to get a quote from the Auror she works with. (He mostly gets swearwords, but he can work with that.) He talks to Nicaragua, and finds a source willing to talk; he considers hunting down her friends, but decides getting to press is more important than getting more quotes.
The article runs the next day.
No Silverlight for Nicaragua!
by Russell Peasegood
The Consejo Mago of Nicaragua has formally denied Miranda "Silverlight" Swan's request for permission to hunt Dementors... local source described the decision as based out of "concern for the welfare of a child"... condemned the British government for "taking advantage of their children"... her usual escort displayed uncharacteristic rage when asked about the decision... response unprintable... reached out to Silverlight but, visibly angry, she refused comment... temporarily withdrawn from wizarding society... is she angry enough to give up the hunt?
He tries to get a quote from the Auror she works with. (He mostly gets swearwords, but he can work with that.) He talks to Nicaragua, and finds a source willing to talk; he considers hunting down her friends, but decides getting to press is more important than getting more quotes.
The article runs the next day.
No Silverlight for Nicaragua!
by Russell Peasegood
The Consejo Mago of Nicaragua has formally denied Miranda "Silverlight" Swan's request for permission to hunt Dementors... local source described the decision as based out of "concern for the welfare of a child"... condemned the British government for "taking advantage of their children"... her usual escort displayed uncharacteristic rage when asked about the decision... response unprintable... reached out to Silverlight but, visibly angry, she refused comment... temporarily withdrawn from wizarding society... is she angry enough to give up the hunt?
chanuphis
Ugh.
Miranda decides on a policy of ignoring him. Wizarding authorities won't care about what he did. Muggle ones are vulnerable.
One day maybe she will find a vaguely decent reporter and shower them with her opinions and Peasegood will be outcompeted with his fabricated dreck.
Miranda decides on a policy of ignoring him. Wizarding authorities won't care about what he did. Muggle ones are vulnerable.
One day maybe she will find a vaguely decent reporter and shower them with her opinions and Peasegood will be outcompeted with his fabricated dreck.
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