((This application contains spoilers for Thief of Time (including the character's name, unfortunately...) ))
A woman appeared in the Sorting Room.
This was not, of course, unusual, but the way she appeared was. Most new arrivals to Hogwarts turned up in one piece. They didn't start out as a strange disturbance in the air, and a stream of
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Then she smiled slyly. "And oh yes, gold is most definitely acceptable. Especially to those of us who haven't got any at the moment."
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She concentrated. A smaller cloud of matter formed, condensing into a perfectly round, blank gold coin in the palm of her hand. "There. It's - harder to do that now, for some reason, but I can still manipulate all the necessary particles."
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Then she cocked her head. "I feel for you, Unity, I do. I was an accountant myself, you see. I got dragged out of my nice safe little domain of numbers on paper and into the big bad world, and now I'm not quite certain what I am after 'accountant' either. It's most unsettling."
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She stopped talking, and dabbed at her eyes. Water was starting to run from them again - crying, that was the word, it indicated distress and seemed to be an involuntary action. She wasn't sure how to stop it from happening. "Unsettling. Yes, it is."
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'You don't think evening dresses in the morning are just the tiniest bit...gauche?' she asks with a smile. They are, obviously, if you're not her.
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'--I suppose you haven't seen Vogue in a while, then?'
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"Please put that away..." she says, faintly.
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