5th floor Commonroom: Saturday Afternoon (After cheer practice)

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi had intended to make breakfast this morning, but she slept in and had cheer practice.

So, pancakes for lunch.

The tele is on...

We're Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs
We love to thrash criminals and slice 'n' dice thugs!
We're totally radical, gnarly dudes,
Cowabunga homeboys with nothin' to lose ...

Our arch-enemies want us iodized
But they can't beat us 'cause we're merchandised!

(Iodizer: "DESTROY THEM!!")

Count off!

Picasso!
Warhol!
Rockwell!
Grandma Moses!

So kick back, dweebs, it's the end of our rhyme,
The show's gonna start and it's time to slime!

[[ooc: open]]

Comments

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I offered. Though I don't doubt Pippi would have pressed me into service if I didn't," he said with a wink. "Can't complain though. I've heard her pancakes are brilliant."

[smartestone]

"Which, really, can make it all worth it," Hermione agrees with a smile.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Peter replied, stirring his eggs vigorously. "I've not seen you since the cabins, I think. How have you been?"

[smartestone]

Still working on her part of helping, Hermione shrugs a tiny bit. "It's been quiet, mostly. I'm trying to get out more. I hear you've been getting out, though," she smiles.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Have you been intent on a project then that keeps you away from everyone?" Peter raised an eyebrow then grinned. "And now I must inquire where you heard that?"

[smartestone]

"No project yet," she says. "Though it might be time for me to start one. And I do listen to the radio."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"What type of projects interest you?" Peter asked. "And I could I have forgotten about the radio. It's so very useful." He shot a cold glance at Joxer.

[smartestone]

"It's very good for getting information you wouldn't otherwise," she says with a nod. "Blair and I were talking about equality differences here, and I told him about the house elves at my old school, who are basically slaves so that we can have things easier. I'm thinking about starting a knitting drive and sending the proceeds- namely, clothing- to them."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter considered the idea. "I can't deny that it's a worthy goal, but if they're slaves, don't they need freedom more than knitted clothing?"

[smartestone]

"That's just it. When they're given clothes, it means they're free," she says. "You can't just tell them they're free. They need to have it given to them."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Rather makes them your responsibility afterwards, hmm?" Peter said. "Do you have a plan for their well-being after they've been given freedom? People - and elves, I assume - usually need help re-adjusting." Peter spoke with the weight of experience at that.

[smartestone]

"Well, I've found so far that the house elves that have been freed tend to go back to work serving people," she admits. "But at least they earn wages, and even days off."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Have you considered setting up a school for them?" Peter suggested. "So that they might learn a new trade if they don't wish to go back into service?"

[smartestone]

The wheels turning in Hermione's head might be visible. "It's nothing I can do while I'm still in school, but perhaps afterwards..."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"It's something to consider in any case," Peter said. "I mean, if they have no other options than being in service, they're that much more likely to be enslaved again. Unless you can manage to change your society away from the acceptance of it."

Peter blushed. "Apologies, I don't mean to pontificate on it."

[smartestone]

"No, no, this is good," she says excitedly. "It's actually a help. Thank you."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Glad to be of service then," Peter replied with a grin. "I'd say something about how we Brits should stick together, but there are really so many of us here, that somethings I think the Yanks ought to stick together instead."

[smartestone]

Hermione smiles back. "You may be right about that."