Third Floor Common Room: Afternoon

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In between bites from a giant sized bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, Ron would be seen smashing the keypad of the remote in an effort to find something decent to watch.

Eventually he settled on the BBC and watched in horror as two British women attempted to clean what had to be the most disgustingly dirty house he had ever seen.

"Bloody hell. That's actually someone's carpet?"

Perhaps eating food while watching this show was a bad idea.


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"Unless humanity outlaws all fun things, I think there's a sliver of hope left," Jen said, thinking of her junk food-free future. "They might still need lessons in basic hygiene, but there's some hope."

She glanced at the screen and cringed. "Extensive lessons in basic -- what is that?"

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"I'm hoping whatever it is? It's not a new life form," Ron said covering his mouth in horror.

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"I wonder if --" Jen touched the minute device behind her right ear to activate her scanners, which promptly made a tiny whining sound and retracted again. "Well, I guess we may never know."

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Ron gave her a wary look. "What the bloody hell was that?"

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"The amazing disappearing sunglasses? They're supposed to help me identify things like unfamiliar life forms," Jen admitted, "even though I have no idea if they'd work through the TV. They haven't worked completely right since I came through the vortex to get here, anyway."

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"Those are completely wicked," Ron said trying to look behind Jen's head to see if there was anything there. "Are they magic?"

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There was, if he could see it, a very slim, curved piece of matte-finish grey material behind each ear. "Not magic. Just thirty-first century technology." She paused. "With late twentieth century style, I've been told."

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"That's pretty cool," Ron said getting back into his chair. "Must have set you back some."

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"They probably cost a lot, but they were standard issue for what I did back home, so I didn't pay for them," Jen explained. "But they've been useful."

As sunglasses, more often than anything else these days.

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"Standard issue?" Ron asked tilting his head. "Are you in the army or something?"

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"Police. I was, anyway. Still technically am," Jen answered. "It's a long story."

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"We've all got some of those," Ron said with an amused look. "I'm still hoping when I go back that I'll get to be an Auror. That's like a police person for wizards."

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". . . wizards have police?" Jen supposed it made sense, but it'd never occurred to her before. "What kind of wizard crimes do you get?"

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Ron frowned a bit at that. "Well just like anyone else, wizards can go wrong. Up until recently its just been penny-ante stuff. Charms and curses and such. Now we got some bad eggs back home who are trying to take over the government and hurting other people."