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[hexuality]

Hullo.

[ And the smiling, freckled face of one Ginny Weasley is all up in this locket. She's clearly outside, soaking in the sunshine as she pulls back so her face isn't filling up the view. ]

There's been loads of talk lately about learning how to fight. Well, fight in other ways, proper swords and all. I reckon I got by all right with my wand during the worm fiasco but I can't deny that's a good thought. Merlin knows I've considered it. [ She laughs. ] Especially since I can imagine my mum in fits over me swinging a sword around.

[ She pauses, then, biting her lip around a thoughtful smile before scrambling forward (carefully) to hang her locket off a low branch of a tree in the bailey. She's sprawled (perhaps rather unladlylike, given the gown she's still getting used to wearing) on a stone bench, a broomstick in her lap, and she looks positively pleased about it. ]

But this is what I'm really excited about. I've had it since the fighting was over, as a gift... [ But she was still a little too banged up to use it. BUT NOW. ] It'd be nice, don't you think, to explore this place a bit? Beyond the castle. I'd love to see what's out there, properly out there.

[ Ginny releases the broom and it rises gently into the air. She touches it fondly. ]

Can't say I fancy flying in a dress, though. Am I allowed trousers here?

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[teenyoda]

... Is... Is that a flying broom? Seriously? Do you have a flying broom?

[Awe. He's in awe, Ginny.]

YOU'RE SO SNEAKY

[hexuality]

I have a flying broom.

[ :D!!! ]

I told you I'm a witch.

The sneakiest =D

[teenyoda]

How... how does it work? I thought the whole witches on brooms thing was just a bad caricature.

[hexuality]

Magic. It's got all sorts of charms on it—to make it fly, make sure it can't be tampered by jinxes, cushioning charm on the handle.

[ OBVIOUSLY. ]

[teenyoda]

Magic, huh? So does that mean I can use it? Or do you have to be magical to?

[hexuality]

Never thought about it.

[ NOW SHE IS. ]

I wonder... The broom itself is magical, makes me think that might be enough. Why? D'you fancy having a go?

[teenyoda]

Are you kidding me? Hell yeah! I mean, if you're okay with that. I'd love to try flying on a broom.

[hexuality]

What happened to all that fuss about your coordination?

[teenyoda]

My hand eye coordination is great. I'm a gamer, not an athlete.

[Which wasn't entirely true. He had pretty good aim on the lacrosse field. When he got to play.]

[hexuality]

Sorry, what's the difference?

[teenyoda]

You ever played Xbox? Wii? PS3?

[hexuality]

[ stiles we have covered this ]

... erm.

[teenyoda]

... [Damn you, Ginny.]

Look, just... gaming is different than athletics. Hand eye is way easier than like, hand foot face.

[hexuality]

Flying is athletic. I mean, I fly for sports reasons, we have something called Quidditch at home and I want to play professionally. [ If they make it through the war. ] Do you, er, do gaming a lot?

[teenyoda]

But it's a different kind of athletic. You're not running and... running. [Which really was his kryptonite.]

I guess? I mean, I'm not doing it twenty-four/seven, but I've put some time in, yeah.

[hexuality]

So what's an... ex-box?

[teenyoda]

It's like a better Nintendo. Or NES.

[Do de do, totally oblivious that she doesn't know ANY muggle inventions.]

[hexuality]

[ P A U S E. ]

Look, as far as I know, you could be speaking troll. [ Laughing, ] I don't know what you're talking about.

[teenyoda]

Oh my god... It's a machine. And you play games on it. With your hands on a controller controlling what happens on the screen. It's not very... athletic.

[hexuality]

Like a television?

[ SHE KNOWS SOME THINGS... ]

[teenyoda]

Yes, like a television. You play with a system that's hooked up to it and it's all on there. Or a computer. Which I'm not going to try to describe, but let's say it's like a tv that does more than have channels.

[hexuality]

I'm not an idiot, you know. Just because I haven't heard of something doesn't mean I won't understand if you tell me.

[teenyoda]

I never said you were, I just... it's hard to describe things to people when I don't know what you know and you don't seem to live in the same... reality. There's no one pre-1950s that doesn't know what a tv is, and yet you don't have electricity, so... I have no idea, man.

[hexuality]

Well, I promise I'm well ahead of the 1950s. We just do things differently. Muggles have all their inventions and electricity and all, we know about them—at least, I reckon my family knows a bit more than most magical families because Dad's obsessed with how things work without magic.

[teenyoda]

So you know about Xboxes and Nintendos and drive-thrus and roller coasters? Good. Then I don't have to explain anything.