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[metamorphette]

Sometimes, Tonks has found, it's easier to keep yourself to yourself; sometimes, it's just easier if you stay away from it all, keep entirely out of all the nonsense and mess happening around you, and let the world go on without you. Sometimes that's the safest plan

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[it_took_five]

"What's this?"

[metamorphette]

"Lunch, of course," she says, indicating the plate on her knee. "Got a bit hungry, made myself a sandwich. Would y'like some? I left the bread out, I think, and... and most everything else, too."

[it_took_five]

"It looks more like a war zone." He wanders to the bread, shaking his head, and starts making his own sandwich.

[metamorphette]

"Meat and cheese are just there," she says cheerfully, pointing them out. "Oh - those, I really should've put away, shouldn't I? Perishable, and all that-- a war zone? Oh, hardly. This is quite neat for me, really..."

[it_took_five]

"I'd hate to be your maid, Tonks."

[metamorphette]

She laughs a bit at that. "Then it's a good thing you aren't, now isn't it? Don't mind the mess, there's got to be house-elves or something here, haven't there? Or - or if not, something like."

[it_took_five]

He scratches his chin thoughtfully. "I think it cleans itself eventually."

[metamorphette]

"I wonder," she muses, picking at the sandwich crust. "Is it the things, the objects, themselves, flying about and putting themselves away? Brooms sweeping on their own, and so on? Or some sort of other beings, little imps or spirits of the Mansion or something, actually going about cleaning up? Interesting to find out, but as no one has yet--"

[it_took_five]

"No one's ever seen anything. I've wondered, too."

[metamorphette]

"Someone ought to do an investigation into it." --and a bite.

[it_took_five]

"If I have time." He grins because he's always curious about such things.

[metamorphette]

She laughs. "Doesn't have to be just you, if you're strapped for time. You could always delegate - give Harry Potter and his friends something to do with their days."

[it_took_five]

"You could just learn to clean it up yourself..." Then he realizes who he's talking to... "Maybe we can talk a few house elves into moving in here."