| seamus_f @ 2004-04-04 23:16:00 |
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Gentlemen, we have a problem
Right, so McG says 4 to a tent and there are 5 of us. And you know how McG is about her rules. So, what are we going to do about this?
(Really, it isn't fair, as any of us could just room with the girls and we'd be four and four. Well, any of us except Ron, since the party. That's the way, mate!)
Given his usual bizarre behaviour, I don't think any of us want to have to sleep in the tent with Creevey, but I'm not sure it can really be avoided. So how are we to decide? Draw straws? Play cards? Drink each other under the table?
(And you know, our tent holds many more than 4, so this is really just completely ridiculous if you ask me.)
Comments:
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 06:00 pm UTC |
I think we should have a breakdance-off. Best combo gets not only a spot in the tent, but the best bunk as well. Breakfast in bed would be a nice touch too.
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-05 07:21 pm UTC |
Oh, no fair! Talk about a pre-determined outcome. That would mean I'd be doomed to sleep outside.
I vote for poker. I have a better chance at cards than dancing.
Although I admit it wouldn't be as amusing for the onlookers.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 07:33 pm UTC |
Hey, I have a mean poker face. It's just the hair that gives me away.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:02 pm UTC |
No worries, Nev. I don't think Harry's too keen on the dancing idea either.
Are you saying you'd rather sleep outside than share with the ickle sixth years? Perhaps we can sneak you back in after bedcheck . . .
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-05 08:06 pm UTC |
No, I'm not saying I'd rather sleep outside, believe me. And why should it have to be me anyway? Why shouldn't you be the one to sleep outside? You can take the ickle sixth years to look for shamrocks in the moonlight.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:16 pm UTC |
Pull your claws back in, sweetheart. It shouldn't have to be any of us. The entire thing is beyond silly.
Perhaps instead of a contest we should work out how to charm McG into letting us room five to a tent.
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-05 08:24 pm UTC |
And if we could conjure up a charm that would cause Prof. McG to bend the rule, we'd be sure to pass the charm NEWTs.
I'm willing to try.
I'd have a better chance than I would with breakdancing. Or Quidditch.
Or worse yet, strip poker.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:33 pm UTC |
Strip poker? Neville, is there something you want to tell me?
Well, I actually meant that sort of wink wink nudge nudge how's your father charm, but you make a good suggestion. Or we could just claim to be unable to count. Are any of us taking arithmancy?
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-05 08:40 pm UTC |
No, I'm not volunteering to play strip poker either, because I'd lose that, too. The thing is, Dean would have to win that too--he'd outlast all of us by simply resorting to taking off one dred at a time.
If he could bear to part with them at all.
I'm not taking arithmancy, thank Merlin.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:46 pm UTC |
Ha! He couldn't bear to part with even one!
Well, that makes two of us. No, four, no, five. Okay. We'll tell her we can't count.
Yeah, that should work.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 07:47 pm UTC |
Talk about stacking the deck!
And breakfast in bed my left one. You got it once and you didn't seem to like it too much.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 07:53 pm UTC |
Only cos you and Boot nearly dumped eggs on my head, a head which was still in shock due to loss of hair.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:00 pm UTC |
The way you go on about that hair, it's a wonder anyone ever thought you were straight.
Anyway, you'd have to do more than dance to get another breakfast in bed from me.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 08:05 pm UTC |
Hello, the hair is a street thing.
Well, the dancing always worked before. The novelty wore off for you, did it?
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:10 pm UTC |
The hair may be a street thing, but the way you go on about it is not.
That's the thing about novelty. It always wears off. It's what you're left with that counts.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 08:17 pm UTC |
You've not spent much time around the streets of West Ham, have you?
Yeah, I know. Learnt that when the novelty soles went out on this pair of Boots I once fancied, if you get my meaning.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:21 pm UTC |
I told you so.
I have only been there with you, so no. However, you do go on like a right queen, you know that, don't you? I think it's charming, of course; I like a man who cares about how he looks. (Unlike some hearthrobs we know.)
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 08:34 pm UTC |
I remember. But I'm stupid and have to try everything for myself. Also, easily distracted by novelty. WAS easily distracted, I should say.
Fine, I go on like a "right queen" over one thing. ONE. That's like...the bare minimum, right?
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 08:42 pm UTC |
Was? Very interesting. Tell me more.
Yes. You don't need to become gay in one fell swoop. And really, if you went on about everything, you'd just sound like . . . well, like a certain non-Gryffindor seeker of our acquaintance.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 08:57 pm UTC |
Well it's like you said. Once the novelty wears off, you look for what lasts. But if there's nothing BUT novelty, what are you left with then? Something like regret.
I didn't know I was becoming gay. Thought I was pretty much there. And, uh...yeah, no need to be over the top like that.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 09:16 pm UTC |
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. And how gay was that?
So this is you, gay? Good to know. Though in truth, it isn't really much different.
So you never said what you would do to get another breakfast out of me.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 09:30 pm UTC |
Almost as gay as applying West Side Story to real life.
Shouldn't have to be much different, should it?
Well, since my novelties are lost on you, I guess I'd just have to be my regular self. You know, all hearthroby and stuff.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 09:38 pm UTC |
You are so mean to me.
No, it shouldn't. I'm not much different. Harry isn't really different at all. And then other people are, sadly, precisely the same.
You know, I think that's plenty, really.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 09:53 pm UTC |
Are you kidding? It's a novelty of yours that I never get tired of.
I am, for one, unsurprised in certain people's aforementioned sameness.
Really? That's an unexpected compliment, you know. Perhaps it's I who owes you breakfast.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:14 pm UTC |
I am all astonishment!
Potter and I are trying to make a deal. If you promise me that breakfast when we return, plus budge over for me if I simply cannot take it and have to sneak back into the tent, I will make this ultimate sacrifice.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 10:22 pm UTC |
Fantastic.
Breakfast: no problem. Sharing a bunk: just like old times. Well, not just, but yeah, it's not a problem. Ultimate sacrifice: shall I start polishing your cross?
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:29 pm UTC |
I aim to please
Very funny. No, but be prepared to stroke me properly. I feel my feathers will be getting a bit ruffled.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 10:33 pm UTC |
Ah, I see.
...
Okay, now I'm hoping that your feathers do get ruffled. That's just not fair.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:42 pm UTC |
What?
Oh. OH! Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. I wasn't thinking, clearly.
I wasn't thinking clearly.
Not that, you know, I am getting a lot of stroking--but it matters not. I'm sorry. Forget I said that.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 10:51 pm UTC |
Well, okay.
God, I knew you weren't serious. Don't be so flustered.
| deanthomas @ 2004-04-05 07:51 pm UTC |
Come on Harry. I could teach you the basic Applejacks and you'd be on your way to Crazy legs in no time. Breakin' 3: Electric BoogaHarry.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 07:51 pm UTC |
Nice try, TBWL. I'd love to see you shake a tail feather, if only for my own amusement.
But, I don't want to give Dean an easy win. He gets so full of himself, that one. Any suggestions?
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 09:05 pm UTC |
Well, fine, if you're going to be like that.
Perhaps it should be Ron. He'll be sneaking out to meet Parvati all the time anyway, and he's the last one who got a kiss. I feel he should be made to pay for that in some way.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 09:42 pm UTC |
He also did odd things with all of Dean's belongings. What are you trying to say? Is there any one of us that he hasn't done something to?
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 09:47 pm UTC |
Harry, I got the message. You're in. But who is out? Can you stop thinking about yourself for a few minutes and help me work this out?
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:08 pm UTC |
All right, fine. What will you give me to stay in the 6th year tent?
Mind you, that's with two Quidditch-mad teammates of yours and the aforementioned Creevey.
Can we make a deal, here?
| just_harry @ 2004-04-05 10:16 pm UTC |
Colin is NOT on the Quidditch team at least, so it's fair then.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:22 pm UTC |
But Colin is the worst of them all! Colin is the reason for all of this.
Come on, Harry, work with me, or I'll get Dean to agree to kick Ron or Neville out, and it will be all on your head.
| just_harry @ 2004-04-05 10:26 pm UTC |
Okay, this really isn't fair.
Do you want my eggs at breakfast?
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:33 pm UTC |
Fair doesn't mean what is good for you, Harry.
No. I want the 1963 Playwizards they are holding for me at that shop in Glasgow.
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:45 pm UTC |
Of course not. They'll send them owl post. You don't have to go anyplace; you just have to send them the money.
(parent)| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-06 08:01 am UTC |
Well, I think I should be exempt, too. May I remind you that the last time I got into a dust-up with Colin I ended up blowing up the library. In the interest of avoiding any more explosions, I refuse to share a tent with him.
(parent) knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-05 10:31 pm UTC |
NO WAY IN HELL I'M STAYING IN A TENT WITH THAT CREEVEY THING AND THAT IS FINAL!!!!!!
| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:36 pm UTC |
Ron, stop shouting. And where have you been, anyway? Making eyes at Parvati?
So what will you give me to stay in the 6th year tent?
| knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-05 10:40 pm UTC |
Yeah right! Does it look like I have a bunch of stuffs to give you?! HELLO!! HARRY'S BEST FRIEND SPEAKING! IF HE'S EXEMPT, I AM TOO!
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 10:50 pm UTC |
I have already made a deal with Dean, and Harry and I are negotiating as we speak. Neville's gone off to bed but I will get to him later.
So? What will you give me? It needn't be a thing, you know.
| knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-05 11:08 pm UTC |
SEAMUS! I'M! NOT! GIVING! YOU! ANYTHING!! HARRY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING EITHER! UNFAIR!!! This is STUPID!
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-05 11:14 pm UTC |
Ron.
Is it fair that I should have to sleep in the same tent with a confirmed homophobe rather than my beloved roommates? I would say it is not. I'm simply trying to redress the balance by asking for a small token of your appreciation.
That, or I kick your arse at wizard's poker. Your choice, mate.
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-06 07:55 am UTC |
I'll help play for the bloody magazine, too. BUT I AM NOT MOVING IN WITH COLIN.
I agree, this is stupid.
| just_harry @ 2004-04-05 11:31 pm UTC |
I think I'm still exempt.
The magazines can be from me and Ron, even though this is exploitation.
| wheresmytoad @ 2004-04-06 07:53 am UTC |
I refuse to be cut out of the tent because I went to bed. I'm up now, and I still want to negotiate.
(parent)| seamus_f @ 2004-04-06 06:11 pm UTC |
Now, now. I said I'd get to you later. Thank you for your generous offer. It's a magazine apiece. They really aren't that expensive—I bought five last month. It is simply a token of your appreciation, nothing more.
(parent)| dooglevoluna @ 2004-04-05 10:39 pm UTC |
Colin isn't so bad. He just lacks vision sometimes.
Hi, Ronald.