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haaaaaaaaah, so my word is worth crap xD i said i'd finish translating somnium 6 before i even started writing ARIP 3, but it seems my mind thought otherwise. not a good thing if your will and your mind are going in different directions. but oh well.
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Harry closed the door behind him and looked around his flat, sighing deeply. It was a bit of a routine he had for Friday evenings, actually. They didn't live in a mansion or anything, but the cozy living room was a sight for sore eyes; it never failed to remind him of how life had started anew, after Voldemort. He was sure coming home when he was done with a week of hard work wouldn't feel as good if he were still living at Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
He chuckled at the thought. It hadn't taken him long to figure out that after working all day, having to deal with the worst part of the Wizarding World, the last thing he needed was to go back to such a dark, dreary place. True to his personality he tried to deal with it himself, but after a while he had started looking unrested and haggard, and snapping at everyone, and finally his friends had confronted him and he'd come out with it. At some point of the conversation someone came up with the idea of him moving (Hermione, probably), and soon enough both of his best friends were jumping on board, and plans were made, and money was pooled, and when Ron was finally able to shake his mother off, they moved in to their new flat. It was that easy; it almost seemed like they'd all been thinking it and just waiting until someone else spoke out-- they all agreed so quickly.
Well, except one. Kreacher had been behaving rather well up to that point, getting accustomed to the three of them and their lifestyle... he almost didn't stutter anymore when saying Hermione's name. However, when he heard the news that they were moving, he practically had a stroke. He started ranting and raving, and muttering and whining, and just being overall annoying, all because he couldn't believe they were leaving the ancestral home of the Black family to rot just like that. Said he was tied to the structure of the place, and at one point he DID try to tie himself up to a railing so they couldn't move him-- not that it did him any good, of course. By then Harry didn't know how else to explain his motivations for the move. Hermione kept reminding them that although he was setting them back, they couldn't deny what an incredible display of loyalty and commitment it was, that he still cared so much for a family that hadn't even treated him well. Ron couldn't quite use the same nouns to describe the situation. Harry agreed with him. They kept quiet around Hermione, but Harry was sure that if Kreacher couldn't cook, Ron wouldn't have minded leaving him tied up to that railing for a long while.
In the end, and only because Kreacher's magical pull to his actual master was stronger than any emotional tie to his former mistress, they managed to get him to move. Months had passed since then and he was doing much better, although he still got depressed once in a while. Hermione always went out of her way to make sure the disgruntled Elf was doing okay.
And speaking of Hermione, that reminded Harry of something he had to do. He looked around for her but didn't see her; he figured she must be in her room working, so he decided to go back to his room and change before going to talk to her.
All of this started because, as soon as 6 o'clock rolled around, Ron had gotten up from his cubicle and, already tugging off his itchy uniform robes, made his way to Harry's. "Hey, mate, you going home?"
"For a little bit, yeah. Why? You're not?" Harry had answered, looking up from the file he was reading.
"I've got, uh, there's something I gotta do. Listen, could you tell Hermione that something came up? Tell her that... that thing I told her a few days ago that maybe could come up but I wasn't sure it would, so it was better if we didn't make any plans just in case it DID come up, it came up. Tell her not to wait for me, okay?"
Harry had replied that he wasn't sure he could manage to get that... whatever Ron had said... to ever come out of his mouth. Ron let him know that he could paraphrase if he wanted to, so long as the main idea was relayed to Hermione in the end. Then he promptly ran out of the Auror Department, leaving Harry behind to ponder if he had even understood what the main idea was, and wonder just where Ron was going in such a hurry.
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that's the first half of the scene, and i rather like this one. curiously enough, i have no idea how to go about the next one! the r/ll scene, that is. and while i've got ronnie all ready and waiting to react, my vision of luna's being... not difficult, just kind of vague. yeah, i know she's supposed to be dreamy and stuff, but considering it's the image of luna i have in my head, she could afford to be a little bit more specific. i know the point she's supposed to make, but no idea of how to get there. i might try just skipping that scene and going for the third one, the h/g one.
and speaking of HP-- i haven't had much time to be on the 'net lately, and so i've been spending my computer time doing stuff that doesn't need an internet connection to get done. usually for me, this means writing, but i tried something new this time around: i made a music video! yes, about a week ago, i finally got off my ass and figured out how to use vegas 6. and it's, of course, an h/hr vid ^.^ please check it out if you haven't yet. i'm currently giving the finishing touches to my second vid, though this one isn't HP...
browsing through the cowboy bebop articles in wikipedia, i found this little tidbit: A poll in the Japanese magazine Newtype USA asked its readers to rank the "Top 25 Anime Titles of All Time"; Cowboy Bebop placed second (behind Neon Genesis Evangelion) on a list that included such anime as Mobile Suit Gundam. hmmmm, i would really like to get a hold of that list-- it already matches my top two spots, and includes gundam as well, so i'm willing to bet some of my other personal "top 25" will probably match up too. now i'm curious.
i have a new fandom! the BBC's robin hood series finally made its way to panama (wow, that was only, what, one and a half years late? ¬_¬ congratulations, hallmark channel. so i'm stuck on episode two, meanwhile the britons are already on SEASON two >.<). i was totally hooked from day one. i LOVE robin hood, have i ever mentioned that? and this version is particularly good. robin/marian SO ftw! and since the three musketeers and sherlock holmes have been done about a hundred million times by now, all i need is some sort of king arthur remake-tv-show and i'll die happy ;)
p.s.: happy belated birthday to kell (kaiserkehl) and nitya (infiniteskies)!! i hope you girls had a blast! *hugs* ^____^