Hanukkah/Christmas Wishes

[quoth_lisa]

I wish some people would just grow up and get some common sense.

I wish some people would think what they say before they say it.

I wish the world wasn't so blind.

I wish I was home.

My room.

Time.

Oh... and chocolate.

Comments

[nott_to_be]

Alright, Lisa?

[quoth_lisa]

Not entirely.

How are you?

[nott_to_be]

Alright.

May I ask why not?

[quoth_lisa]

It's a lot of things, really.

I miss somethings and people.

I want to go home.

[nott_to_be]

Oh.

I see.

Do you feel as though you've lost your home? That the place may still exist, but it is little more than a building haunted with memories of what it once was?

Do you not feel as though this place has become a home to you?

[quoth_lisa]

Hogwarts is... it's slipping away from me. It's becoming clearer and clearer that I'll not be here forever and... and I have nowhere else. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and I don't know if it's real or if I'm... I don't know.

[nott_to_be]

Perhaps you'll be able to make your own home somewhere, after Hogwarts.

[quoth_lisa]

I will need a job... Do you think Dumbledore will let me get a job as a Lady of the Night? Or table dancer?

Or should I stick to things like "TA" and "Shop assistant"?

[nott_to_be]

The thought of Dumbledore acquiescing to such a plan gives me terrible mental images.

Perhaps you can further your education. Or remain at Hogwarts. You're not unintelligent.

[quoth_lisa]

Terribly sorry.

Thank you. Stay at Hogwarts to teach? And I do not know if I could afford to further my education past Seventh year. I have enough money in the bank account my par left behind to pay for the rest of my Hogwarts education. And where would I go?

I'm sorry I am troubling you.

[nott_to_be]

Not at all. I dabble in career counselling.

Well, I do now in any case.

You could always earn scholarship somewhere. Or remain here for further education. I'm sure at least one of our illustrious professors would be willing to recommend you to the Headmaster as some sort of understudy.

[quoth_lisa]

A scholarship... Am I good enough? No, do not answer that. I've always wanted to go to Maeve's University in Ireland to study History and Ancient Languages...

You are far too nice to me, Theo.

[nott_to_be]

Ah, but you are the only Ravenclaw with whom I can speak without feeling a decidedly numbing effect on my mental faculties. I have little choice.

[quoth_lisa]

I should probably feel slightly annoyed by that comment but cannot muster up enough energy to do so. I shall thank you, though.

Do you know what you are doing this Christmas?