assidua-vigilantia‌:

You like her based on those two facts about her? She’s an awful harpy of a woman with no redeeming qualities to her whatsoever. But she was a good beater, I suppose. [ he snorts ] That’s not going to happen. 

"Well she’s a beater, that’s a redeeming quality.” She smirked. “Us ladies gotta stick together... But I was kidding, I reserve judgement on people until I meet them. I don’t judge one way or the other based on others stories. Otherwise I never would have liked you, you’ve got a reputation.” She pointed out. “That’s okay, at least you’re out here.”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

alicebarnettbottcm‌:

“Definitely avoid it if you can.” She nods. “Well you’re welcome to hang out in here, I know the cubicles suck. Having my own office now is nice, but I don’t want to be jammed in here all the time.” She scratches her eyebrow and sighs. “How’s training going, though? You seem to be doing well.”

"What happened to cause ... that?” She motioned out the door with a grin. “Oh I don’t mind the cubicles too much usually. The issue right now is that there’s an argument going on between the one next to me and the one across from me. I’m not really up for dealing with them bickering over my head so I thought I’d take a walk. I wasn’t working on anything important anyway.” She admitted, sure it was work but it wasn’t time sensitive. “Training is going great actually. I love it. Even working with Moody isn’t too bad.”

antheamckinncn‌:

“Oh no, I’m terrible at dancing!” They do their best, though, wiggling their shoulders a bit. “You’re definitely better at this than I am.”

"No one cares! Everyone is just having fun. As long as you are too, it doesn’t matter how good you are!”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

ettootsbrute‌:

I know, it totally blows. I gotta’ do Christmas breakfast with my folks in the morning too, so I’m just all around screwed. [ she grins ] Nice! I guess you are around a lot more here, yeah. I’ve definitely liked having you around more. How’s training going?

"Oh damn... Well... at least it won’t be a boring Christmas, right?” She shrugged a bit hoping that was a positive spin on things right? “It’s going great. Of course, it started off pretty rough but now that things calmed a bit it’s been a lot but in a good way?” She’d started not too long before an attack and had jumped right into that. Of course, she’d been prepared because that was why she joined. That was why she changed things up. To protect. To help.

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

apisremus‌:

Do you want a pain potion? I have some really strong ones with me.

"That would be a life saver actually. I used to carry a kit with me as a cursebreaker, maybe I should start doing that again.”

mssrprxngs‌:

“Ugh.” James rolls his eyes. “This is gonna’ sound weird, but can you not mention any of this to Lily? She’s been super sensitive about things like this lately. Convinced herself our kid’s gonna’ be the most bullied human on the face of the earth.”

"Sure, no problem. Honestly, I don’t think it was a bullied thing- I’ve... experienced a lot of that. I think it was a wrong place wrong time thing. That’s all.” She shrugged a bit. “I think your kid is gonna be just fine, once all this bullshit is over the world will be a totally different place.” She smiled, genuinely believing it.

ettootsbrute‌:

Right? And you’d think making them fly would be a lot easier with magic, like it’s perfect. [ she laughs ] Either way it’s gonna’ be a night of groovy tunes. Wish I could drink more, but alas, I gotta’ work in four hours. What are you up to tonight?

"Exactly!” She agreed. “Four hours? Damn that sucks.” Dorcas sighed but she understood. Work called when work called. “I’m meeting my family later on in the evening for Christmas so I’m actually pretty excited. I've seen them more since training for being an Auror than I did when I was a curse breaker the entire time.”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

assidua-vigilantia‌:

Wrong, I’m exactly as awful as people think I am. [ he smiles slightly, though ] That’s true. My sister was beater for the Slytherin team, and she’s built like a four foot ten tank. Alright, is this good enough? [ he sways back and forth slightly ] 

"I disagree, but you’re entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong i think it is.” She smirked. “Really?!” She beamed just at hearing this, she loved quidditch but she was highly biased towards other beaters, especially women. “I like her already.” She grinned. “I’ll accept this, but don’t be afraid to break it down if you want too.” She laughed a little, and kept her own dancing gentle and close to him just in case.

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

alicebarnettbottcm‌:

“Oh, have you not had the pleasure of meeting passive aggressive Moody?” Alice sighs. “Sorry, he and I are feuding. Which would be easier to deal with if I wasn’t stuck on desk duty.” She shakes her head. “What’s up, are you okay?”

"I guess I’ve been lucky so far...” She glanced back before returning her gaze to Alice. “I think I’ll do my best to avoid it.” She chuckled, glad it wasn’t directed at her. “Yeah that seems like a bad situation all around. I’m doing fine actually, not stuck on desk duty but still trying to catch up on some paper work because I don’t have anything else better to do.”

antheamckinncn‌:

They follow Dorcas to the dance floor and raise their eyebrows. “Okay, let’s– let’s see these moves.”

"Okay okay!” She laughed and as the song switched to a new one she started moving with the music, slightly singing along as well. “C’mon, you too!”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

mssrprxngs‌:

“Incredibly. Did we do something?”

"Existed? Because as far as I can tell that’s it.”

apisremus‌:

Yeah, people are…. kinda’ the worst?

"Apparently today they are... I have a headache too.” She sighed and covered her face with her hands.

"That was... weird.”

assidua-vigilantia‌:

The only thing I’ll be killing on the dance floor is my reputation as a person that hates fun or any sort of social obligation. Dancing at Frank and Alice’s wedding was bad enough as it is. [ he snorts ] I’m sure you are. 

"That’s not a bad thing... you know you’re not as awful as you let everyone think you are.” Dorcas rose her brows at him curiously. “Oh how awful dancing.” She grinned. "I used to be beater for Hufflepuff you know- you have to have some muscle for that.”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

wildagriffiths‌:

Wilda grins as Dorcas introduces herself. “That’s cool. I thought about being an Auror once. Uh, yeah, I’m on the Puddlemore United team.” She’s *still* not used to being recognized, it throws her off every time. A beat of silence, and then she remembers she’s supposed to introduce herself. “Oh, shit, sorry. I’m Wilda, Wilda Griffiths.” Do not blush, girl, you’re smoother than this.

"I was going do it right out of school, but decided to do cursebreaker... but with everything going on here I didn’t want to keep being away every time something serious happened. I wanted to be able to help.” She nodded.”I actually used to play in school. I was one of the beaters for Hufflepuff.” Doe grinned and grabbed her hand, she hadn’t been drinking but she was enjoying the others reactions, so when Wilda introduced herself she grabbed her hand gently and pressed a kiss to her knuckles. “Pleasure to meet you, officially.”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

antheamckinncn‌:

“Sounds like a solid– solid enough evaluation to me. I’ll let– let you know what I think once I’ve seen your sweet dance moves, how about that?”

"Sounds like a plan to me, so let’s go!” Dorcas flashed a wide grin at Anthea and motioned for them to follow her.

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆

ettootsbrute‌:

Right? Like, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer isn’t a thing. Which blows  my  mind. [ she laughs ] Sounds like a fair  policy to me. Celestina usually manages to steal my heart with  a song of hers each year,  but the Weird Sisters have some sweet  new singles out  this  year. 

"Yeah! How is that possible!? I don’t get it! They have reindeer!” Dorcas sighed, perhaps a little over dramatically but she was grinning, not as distressed as she might sound. “Those are always safe bets, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re in the top three.”

❆ Christmas 1979 ❆