Oh, Poppy, don't apologise about getting it for me, please.
I had an idea what I was in for before I ever opened it. Narrative conventions being what they are. (And this book certainly does manage a number of them. Above and beyond the more political parts, I mean. The love triangle bits, and the so-symbolic gestures, and the building of tension like it does. All things the other version got quite wrong, now I think about it.)
Anyway, today, at least, I don't much want to be coddled. It's not like it'd change anything.
I don't know that most people who get called heroic meant it. I know Raz - well. He didn't think he'd earned it, one bit. And I never used the word about him, once I realised. The thing about being heroic, like that (or whatever else you call it) is that there's nothing else after. So you're making one choice, but cutting off all the other things you might do, later. I think about that a lot.
Other topics, yes. (Though I agree on Miss Patil.)
Apparition, yes. I really would rather deal with our rooms at Hogwarts myself (well, Cedric has offered to help, and Harry, and Tosha has already said I should make use of Cedric's work time for it when I'm ready). So there's a certain incentive to manage apparation sooner than later, but no. Not quite yet. And I do plan to start with short distances, to well-known places near here, before anything else.
Perhaps, on the swimming. Though astronomers, we do notice the oddest things, visually, sometimes. There's a few places up by Tintagel, maybe, and getting someone to apparate me that direction is a bit easier now the Guild's got a foothold there as well. St Nectan's Kieve is lovely this time of year, or there's other places on the river near there.
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Date: 2014-07-14 12:06 am (UTC)I had an idea what I was in for before I ever opened it. Narrative conventions being what they are. (And this book certainly does manage a number of them. Above and beyond the more political parts, I mean. The love triangle bits, and the so-symbolic gestures, and the building of tension like it does. All things the other version got quite wrong, now I think about it.)
Anyway, today, at least, I don't much want to be coddled. It's not like it'd change anything.
I don't know that most people who get called heroic meant it. I know Raz - well. He didn't think he'd earned it, one bit. And I never used the word about him, once I realised. The thing about being heroic, like that (or whatever else you call it) is that there's nothing else after. So you're making one choice, but cutting off all the other things you might do, later. I think about that a lot.
Other topics, yes. (Though I agree on Miss Patil.)
Apparition, yes. I really would rather deal with our rooms at Hogwarts myself (well, Cedric has offered to help, and Harry, and Tosha has already said I should make use of Cedric's work time for it when I'm ready). So there's a certain incentive to manage apparation sooner than later, but no. Not quite yet. And I do plan to start with short distances, to well-known places near here, before anything else.
Perhaps, on the swimming. Though astronomers, we do notice the oddest things, visually, sometimes. There's a few places up by Tintagel, maybe, and getting someone to apparate me that direction is a bit easier now the Guild's got a foothold there as well. St Nectan's Kieve is lovely this time of year, or there's other places on the river near there.