Third floor common room, Wednesday night

[smartestone]

Hermione's reached a point where she's just bored. She's out of things to read that she hasn't read a dozen times already, she's out of yarn for knitting, her workshops are almost over and they're not really the studying kind, and Crookshanks hasn't been around all day to play with. Not that he plays voluntarily, but shut up

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[connernotconnor]

Conner was going over his initial roster of kids signed up for the soccer camp, and so he was a little distracted as he wandered into the common room.

"Hey, anything good o --"

That's when he saw the screen, and gave an involuntary full-body shudder.

He was a little allergic to the Discovery Channel.

[cantjossme]

"Conner is have a conniption," Mel announced. "Anyone have anti-seizure medicine?"

[connernotconnor]

"Oh, ha ha, Mel," Conner said, rustling his papers at her. "I save that for when David Beckham is on the TV."

[cantjossme]

"Who?"

[connernotconnor]

Rule number one: never ask Conner to elaborate on who David Beckham is. It gets him incoherently ranty.

"Overrated, over the hill, overpriced jerk of a soccer player with a skanky wife, and who names their kid Brooklyn Romeo anyway?"

[cantjossme]

"I kind of like the name Brooklyn."

[connernotconnor]

Conner gave her a look like she'd betrayed him or kicked his puppy or something. "You would."

[smartestone]

Hermione actually recognizes that sort of reaction. "It's good, I promise," she assures him.

[connernotconnor]

"It's educational," Conner objects. "TV isn't supposed to be educational except maybe in a cheesy PSA way."

[smartestone]

"Apparently they usually blow things up," she informs him.

[connernotconnor]

"Oh, see, when they do that it's a little more fun," Conner says. "When it's the stuff with the stuffy British guy narrating over closeups of, like, medieval woodcuttings, I like to save that for when I'm desperate to sleep."

[smartestone]

"Ooh. What kind of medieval woodcuttings?"

And now she'll be up all night trying to find this show.

[connernotconnor]

Conner kind of can't believe she actually asked him that. Okay, he really can't believe it.

". . . really old ones?"

[smartestone]

"Maybe they list it on the guide," she says, biting her lip as she tries to choose between flipping channels now or later. Girl needs help.

[grenfelzer]

"Hi Conner," Carmela says, with an eyeroll for the shudder.

[connernotconnor]

Conner narrows his eyes at her slightly. "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"