Fifth floor common room

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

It was finals season, which meant Willow was very happy. It was also Thursday night, which meant Willow was multi-tasking.

"I don't care what they say," she said in response to what she was watching on the television, "if you're a dancer you wear shoes you can dance in! It's your own fault if your silly boots knock you out of the competition."

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[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"You always talk to the TV?" Harry asked, coming in to the common room in search of something edible. "They don't talk back around here, do they?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Depends on the week," Willow said. "With regards to the talking back, not the talking to. The talking to depends upon the program, which in this case is about dancers competing for an extremely vague prize."

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"Oh. They have talked back before though?" Harry had a talking skull in his bedroom. Talking electronics shouldn't really be that odd. "I don't watch much TV."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"What year are you from?" Willow asked. It was a good default question for that sort of information.

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"This one," Harry said. There had to be some sort of horribly unhealthy salty snack food in one of these cupboards, right? "You?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"More or less now," Willow said. "So for you this is more of a lifestyle choice than it is an issue of history."

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"Sort of. More of a 'I don't wanna blow up the TV' issue. Which is a choice, I guess." He was doing his best to stay far enough away from the TV. If it started going wonky it was entirely not his fault. Really.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"This is possible?" Willow asked. "Because I could surround it with pillows if that would help."

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"Technology does not like wizards," Harry said with a shrug. "Well, my kind at least. Don't know about any other types you've got around here. Sometimes stuff blows up. Or breaks down. Or does strange and inexplicable things."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow cast a worried look towards the TV. "Really? I've never had the issue but then I'm a witch. Is it very wizard specific?"

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"Magic users in general, last I knew. But then last I knew there weren't aliens running around and people didn't turn into little kids randomly. So I could be wrong. Or it might just be my kind of wizard, which is obviously not your kind if you've never accidentally blown up something electronic and expensive just by looking at it funny."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I'm not saying it never happened," Willow said, "just that it's not as much of a constant fear as it seems to be for you."

[harrydresden.livejournal.com]

"Not so much a fear of the blowing up of things as a fear of the reactions of other people to the blowing up of things," Harry said. "Just never seems to end well. So I usually try not to get to close to anything too electronic, just in case."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was bored. Bored bored bored. So she thought about maybe visiting Jeff and seeing how he was coming along with that whole ceiling-is-going-to-eat-him thing, but got distracted by Willow talking to the TV.

"...Oooh, what are we talking to the TV about?" she asked, bouncing in and plopping into a seat. "You're not yelling yet, so I'm guessing it's not something you had money on."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Heck no," Willow said. "It's a show about dancers who dance to prove which one of them is best and the prize is money and ambiguousness."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Are any of them actually any good?" Turtle asked, tilting her head.

Popcorn, she thought. She should have grabbed popcorn before she sat down. or maybe checked to see if they had any of those little goldfish crackers up here.

Blast.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"It depends on the type of dancing," Willow said. "Though there's this one girl? Who during the first big dance? Totally freaked and ran offstage. And not that I don't sympathize but then again I don't volunteer myself for these things either."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Like, freaked out about being on stage?" Turtle asked. "Really?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Really!" Willow said. "She ran off! A guy on the other team had to be all 'Uhhh, stage? You? Nowish?' And then she didn't get eliminated because her team was immune!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle balked a little.

"I can't decide if that's totally bogus, or a complete move of complete genius on the part of the girl. I mean, think about it. If you're going to freak out, freaking out when you've got immunity is definitely the time to do it. Maybe she was holding onto it until it was safe for her to get it out of her system. Pretty sneaky, that."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure she's smart enough for that," Willow said. "Then again, maybe the stupidity is an act?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Could be," Turtle nodded. "My sister had the stupidity act down to a science. Is she blonde? The dancer, I mean. My sister is definitely, definitely blonde, and, believe me, that only made it easier for her."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Blonde and wee," Willow said. She pointed to the dancer on the TV. "There! Her. That one."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm..." Turtle hummed thoughtfully, narrowing her eyes as she seemed to lean forward for a better look. "...It is rather hard to tell, about the intentional or not..."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"She also says she's never done any official dancing before," Willow added. "In case that affects your decision."