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Tweak says, "WEASLEY-WEASLEY! "

persuade_me (persuade_me) wrote,
@ 2009-11-01 21:32:00

Current mood:

accomplished

A small but well-appointed cafe and bar, Milan
The coat, I think, is my purchase of the day. Not that there are not many excellent purchases.

Shopping with you, or in this case you and Pansy, is always more pleasurable than shopping alone.

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	sicarian 2009-11-02 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Yes, few men pull off furs as becomingly as you do. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 02:48 am UTC (link)
	And you're quite sure it wasn't too much? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 02:51 am UTC (link)
	You never asked before. Why the new found interest? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Harry and I had a slight disagreement about money. He seems to think I spend too much. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 02:57 am UTC (link)
	He had only found out about your pecuniary style now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 03:00 am UTC (link)
	Perhaps he never really had to notice. I have a little money of my own, and I often spent Severus's, as you know. He hadn't said a word about medical and other expenses and so I suppose I didn't think he cared at all. And there is quite a lot of money, but he seems to think we should be cautious "just in case". It's inexplicable, really, don't you think? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Not really. The two of you clearly have different financial approach. You need new shoes every season. I wager Potter has trainers that are at least ten years old. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Or at least he has dozens of different pairs. But he can't expect me to dress like he does (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Of course he doesn't. But you can reduce your expenditure and still look pretty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 03:31 am UTC (link)
	But I do not want to have make that accommodation. Why should I? It is not as if he doesn't have the money. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Because he wants you to? Because he's uneasy with your rarefied spending? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 03:37 am UTC (link)
	What is so rarefied about it? I mean, that is, he knows that I always take care with how I dress. That I have decided preferences as to not only my own clothes but all the things around me. It is not as if I have never had to do without. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Darling, you want me to say you are right, you shouldn't have to watch your spending at all. But if it gives Potter a peace of mind to know that six thousand galleons are sitting in his Gringotts vault instead of draped (beautifully) around your (beautiful) person then it's a small concession to make. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 03:55 am UTC (link)
	You wouldn't think it so small if it were you who had to not have the new winter coat you want. It isn't as if I never think of what he wants, and you know that and he does as well. I can't see why the money thing matters at all when he has quite enough of it. There are so many other things to care about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:01 am UTC (link)
	I would. Money matters to a great deal of people. It is the foremost thing on their minds, especially these past couple of years. And it would be very detrimental to Potter's career if he gives the appearance that money does not matter to him and his family. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:04 am UTC (link)
	I hardly think it is a political question whether or not I buy a new dinner service. I am not trying to be obtuse, I know what you mean, but it is not as if the money is not his own. I just find it... frustrating. I thought he knew me better. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

sicarian
2009-11-02 04:14 am UTC (link)

But people would wonder of a rich government official if his money is indeed all his own, and after the MP expenses scandal (I'm sure Potter has told you all about it), that is now more true than ever.

I'm guessing that Potter knows you're better at giving things up than before, but he knows how difficult that is for you and he wouldn't have asked it of you if it weren't important to him.

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	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:16 am UTC (link)
	In fact he never said any of that. He just said it was ridiculous and unnecessary, (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:18 am UTC (link)
	I see. But Draco, is curtailing your expenditure that painful for you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

persuade_me
2009-11-02 04:22 am UTC (link)

Even if he had said such things I would still think it was absurd. They are Muggles and if we want to hide money from them, or anything else, then we just do.

It's not, perhaps, impossible. At least not to some degree but it seems so unnecessary when...

a long breath

Do you know, I think I will have a glass of wine after all. I want to tell you a story, despite the fact that I know you aren't going to enjoy it.

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	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:25 am UTC (link)
	Then I would have a glass as well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:27 am UTC (link)
	Harry wants a child. A natural child, that is, a child of his own bloodline. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:28 am UTC (link)
	Are you pregnant? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:32 am UTC (link)
	No. Well, I don't know. Possibly. It's not impossible, but it's too soon to tell if... And it's probably still unlikely. There was a spell. Telugu, the healer who treated me with Scorpius came up with a possible replication, but there were complications. Difficulties. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:33 am UTC (link)
	Are you hurt? Ill? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

persuade_me
2009-11-02 04:39 am UTC (link)

I am... concerned. Anxious. Unhappy. I don't know if it's the spell, whether it worked or didn't, whether it's the difficulites and the way they keep me awake, or whether it's Severus - just Severus, or perhaps the Cottage.

I couldn't tell Telugu everything. I didn't want him to know that Lily was involved directly in what happened when Scorpius was, apparently, conceived. I didn't want him to know that her blood was, I think, part of the spell. I don't want him to know and I wouldn't attempt to replicate that part exactly and we both know why. That it is not a way we ever want opened again.

So I have no idea if Telugu could replicate the other parts of what happened and even.... It's all been very upsetting.

You know I should never make plans.

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	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:43 am UTC (link)
	You want to give Potter a child and that is the only way you know how. Don't ever hide anything from a healer again. You should tell Telugu everything. Then perhaps we would find out what is wrong. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:49 am UTC (link)
	No one can know about Lily. Do you know what it would mean if people knew that she can, perhaps, open a portal that would bring the Dark Lord back here. Perhaps. Even the slightest chance. We can't risk it. I took Scorpius's blood instead. It gives me nightmares. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 04:54 am UTC (link)
	You hurt my godson? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 04:57 am UTC (link)
	He was sedated. I was careful. But... a little. I dream a lot that something went wrong. But perhaps that is also about the other thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:00 am UTC (link)
	I am angry with you. But tell me, what other thing? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:01 am UTC (link)
	I am glad you're angry with me. For that. I think perhaps, almost certainly, Telugu killed a nixie to make the potion he gave me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:03 am UTC (link)
	For fuck's sake! Draco, are you trying to spawn some kind of a demon child? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:05 am UTC (link)
	A nixie died in Scorpius's conception. It's almost the only thing we can be completely sure about. I didn't ask him to, but I did tell him to do what was necessary, and he said the nixie component was in the potion I drank. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Who else besides you and Telugu knows about Scorpius and the nixie? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:10 am UTC (link)
	That a nixie was involved in Scorpius's birth? Harry. Severus. My parents. You. Pansy, as of this morning. Marcellus and Nymphadora. Perhaps Finola. Oh, assorted Weasleys, I imagine. Harry would have told them. Possibly also Miss Lovegood, although I'm not positive. I suppose that is quite a lot of people. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:12 am UTC (link)
	I meant this time round. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:16 am UTC (link)
	Oh. No one. No one at all. Not even Harry. Certainly not Severus. Telugu knows about whatever he did with or to a nixie, of course. But not about Scorpius because he would have wanted to know why. So, no one. Just you and I. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:22 am UTC (link)
	Good. Obviously it should stay that way. Draco, I can't believe you. And you went on and on about Harry and his unreasonable budgetary demands. I have half a mind to return everything you bought to the shops. When would you know for certain whether you are with child or not? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:24 am UTC (link)
	Almost another fortnight at least. And I was quite clearly saying that the money shouldn't matter. It's all Severus's fault in any case. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:27 am UTC (link)
	How Draco? How is it Snape's fault? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:28 am UTC (link)
	If he hadn't refused to come home then none of this would have happened. At least, it wouldn't have happened like this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Yes, I'm sure you would've found other ways to act stupidly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Not every part of it is stupid. But... some, certainly. And there's one more thing. I suspect the nixies know. Either that or Severus abandoning me means that the Cottage is making me paranoid. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:44 am UTC (link)
	I suppose I can have someone find out if the nixies know anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	persuade_me 2009-11-02 05:47 am UTC (link)
	That would help. One was following me, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sicarian 2009-11-02 05:49 am UTC (link)
	Perhaps a short vacation is in order? Some place landlocked and with no bodies of water nearby. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

persuade_me
2009-11-02 01:59 pm UTC (link)

I can't afford to take anyone away else from Lake Cottage right now. Things are tenuous enough as it is. Marcellus and Nymphadora are leaving as well. Mummy is only erratically there. When Harry is at work it is often only the children and I. And the elves. I worry constantly that the house will notice.

Oh look, it's Pansy after all. I haven't told her much at all about the complexities of Lily and Scorpius. I will in time, I'm sure, but I'm just getting used to her and it's been years, of course, I can hardly tell if we will ever be as close as we once were. So let's just... We can talk tomorrow.

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	sicarian 2009-11-02 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. I'm not done with you quite yet. (Reply to this) (Parent)