http://onewinteryday.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] onewinteryday.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] hh_mirror2007-03-31 07:44 pm

Open RP: Henry in the library.

Camilla had warned him about the dog-Latin he would have to endure if he wanted to find any spells here. And yet he's ploughing through several books, snorting incredulously at points, it's true--but still reading them.

It seems his intent is to learn all the spells in the Hogwarts library by rote. He hasn't even got a wand yet. He is, however, making notes with a very expensive-looking pen, pages upon pages of cramped handwriting.

His eyes hurting him a tad, Henry Winter takes off his glasses and idly looks up, to see if anybody else is around.

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*Albel looks around as he walks in. Once, after the war ended, he'd been in the library in Castle Aquaria. While this library is slightly smaller, it projects a much warmer air (probably partially to do with not being painted entirely in shades of blue). He scowls irritably at Henry when the other man's gaze drifts his way.* What are you looking at, worm?

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, there's something called a rhetorical question. Perhaps you've heard of it - you know, when you ask a question without expecting an answer?

((OOC: I apologize in advance for Albel. He somehow contrives to be rude and angry regardless of how he's actually feeling.))

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*Albel, however, isn't easily intimidated. Of course, having red eyes and a metal claw means that he's rather intimidating himself, even if he does wear a sarong. He sticks out his good hand.* The name's Albel. Albel Nox.

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite some time, although I seem to have spent most of it as a piece of popcorn. I was just revived recently.

*Albel blinks at a random thought. It just struck me that I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in castles.*

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
If I knew why, I'd gladly tell you. It makes just as much sense as turning into anything else, I suppose.

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Believing? If I wasn't really popcorn, I defy you to explain why I awoke surrounded by popcorn and covered in butter. *The warrior shudders for a moment at the thought of some of the people he knew being in the same room as him when he was covered in butter. Some noblewomen display a shocking lack of self-control.*

[identity profile] aquilus-albel.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't believe there were any clocks in the room, and if there were, they weren't striking. Slipping on a butter-covered boot and sliding into the wall does not lend itself to observations about the time, in any case.

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone else was indeed around. Albus Dumbledore, resurrected from the dead, might as well have been a ghost, the way he haunted Hogwarts.

"My, what an impressive pen," said Albus, intending nothing phallic whatsoever in the remark. "Generally we use quills."

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"How very nice to meet you, Henry," said Albus. The use of a first name was deliberate. It connoted not disrespect but immediate warmth.

How genuine the wellspring of this warmth might be was another question entirely. Henry Winter reminded Albus of someone, too.

"I am Albus Dumbledore, once headmaster here. You might say I have entered my years of retirement. One never does leave learning behind, though, so here I am. Would you care for a sherbet lemon? Hard sweets do no damage to the books," Albus twinkled.

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. The asceticism of the young scholar. Dumbledore smiled a little enigmatic smile. "Over the years, one learns the deftness necessary to avoid sticky fingers," he said. "One also learns simple cleaning charms. One also learns to carry a handkerchief." He popped a lemon drop into his own mouth thoughtfully. "That's quite an abstruse text you have there. I would be surprised if an instructor here assigned such a thing. Reading for pleasure, then?"

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
(( The book's identity supplied by Henry-mun. ))

"Indeed I have read it. I have taught from it, myself, the good old Guide to Advanced Transfiguration (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/books.html#guide_to_advanced_transfiguration). I taught Transfiguration here once upon a time. That book I would not have assigned except to the more expert among the students, those whom I gave private tutorials." He stroked his beard. "Oh, so many wonderful tutorials, in all manner of things, magical and historical, everything under the sun. It was one of my chiefest joys."

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am a kind of professor emeritus, you know," Albus allows, still stroking his beard. "Anything is possible."

[identity profile] lemondrop-party.livejournal.com 2007-03-31 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"I never have left it," Albus replied with a firm nod.

So, Henry Winter had undertaken advanced study in transfiguration, without the guidance of an instructor, and without a wand.

Henry Winter also had no interest in sweets, which meant he was not familiar with Albus's Chocolate Frog card. Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times ...

It behooved Albus to Keep An Eye on this young man.

"May I?" he asked, for the sake of politeness, but he was already taking the seat beside Henry's, and peering at the page to which the text was opened.

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