Back to School Diagon Alley Festival! – Log 1

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WHO: Anyone visiting Diagon Alley!
TONE: Festive and busy!
RATING: PG-13 for possible language
WHEN: August 20 through 22
WHERE: Any and all of Diagon Alley
WHAT: There is a huge festival the whole week to let students get school supplies. People from all over are flocking to Diagon Alley for the best deals. That means you might meet new people or see old friends!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: Remember that this event is semi-open! Any HP AU character can have fun here, whether you're in the game or not, so have fun!

Comments

[fishhitler]

Tcht. [Meenah shoves her hands into her pockets.] You never cared about anything like this before, so why are you trying to now?

[quasistellar]

...

[Ouch. That one stings. But Constance isn't going to show that.]

Because I've spent far too long letting you run wild.

Because I've spent far too long not being a proper mother.

[fishhitler]

[Yeah, she probably could have phrased that one better. She bites her bottom lip before turning her head away, running the back of a hand under her nose with a small sniff.]

I don't like being told what to do, mum. There's your first hint.

[quasistellar]

Well, you still don't need to pick on others. There are better ways to make people respect you.

...and if you're angry at me, then be angry at me. Don't take it out on others.

[fishhitler]

What if it makes me feel better? Yelling and being angry at you doesn't do me any good because you never glubbin' listen to me!

[quasistellar]

I'm listening right now. I'm trying to listen more. I can't do that if all you do is scream that you hate me once and then jump out the window to go Merlin-knows-where. Do you know how many nights I've had your gran look over your sister while I've gone out looking for you? Never have been able to find you. And that scares me.

[Constance's voice is gradually getting louder, but she doesn't seem to notice.]

It finally hit me - thanks to your gran - that you and Feferi weren't going to be young forever, that you would be gone and out of the house and I wouldn't even know you anymore. I'm trying to fix that.

[fishhitler]

[Constance mightn't notice it, but Meenah sure does. Her lips curl downward into that usual sneer, hands shifting in her pockets to clench into fists before she speaks, her own voice rising.]

I was with fronds! Merlin, mum, I can take care of myself just fine! Like I've been doing for the last glubbin fourteen years! An' you know what? Suddenly invitin' him back into our lives when he had nothing to do with them in the first place? I don't want or need a dad who's never around just like my glubbin' mother!

[quasistellar]

Coming back looking like you'd been in who knows what kinds of fights? I can tell when a healing potion's been applied same as any witch can.

[It's right then that her voice cracks.]

...if something happened to me, and your gran wasn't there, you needed to know you had blood family out there. I should have told you sooner. That, you can completely blame on me.

[fishhitler]

[Oh glub, why did she have to pull out the 'if something happened to me' line? Meenah hunched her shoulders a little, now looking a bit less of an angry teenager and more unsure of herself.]

I could look after us. [No, you couldn't, Meenah.] An' nothin's gonna happen to you, mum. You'll die wrinkled and old before that.