Complicated magic is like that. And that rite, they didn't even tell Raz the details (and he didn't ask.)
As to Tosha, I can do that. I think. I'll work on how to phrase it. The thing about him is - did you ever read the Narnia books? He lent them to me. He is not a tame lion, in all the way those books mean, that there is something dangerous, always just under the surface, always a dozen things in his head, always in motion. With claws just an instant away.
I do care for him. I am quite certain he cares for me. Not so much as for Barty, or Narcissa or Lucius. Not so much it would keep me alive if he knew any of this past week. But enough he would make it as gentle as he could.
And I do trust that what he tells me is true, but I never assume it's the complete truth, and I never ever imagine I could out-think him, not on my best day with a running start.
I do think he's the best Head Hogwarts could be given, in this moment. That he wants students in his charge to be as safe as he is allowed to make them. And there's ways I am - he and I talk, regularly. There are so many things I could ask that might maybe help. Or even just a time when Cedric, when others, knew he'd be busy. The Book, I mean.
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Date: 2014-08-03 08:57 pm (UTC)As to Tosha, I can do that. I think. I'll work on how to phrase it. The thing about him is - did you ever read the Narnia books? He lent them to me. He is not a tame lion, in all the way those books mean, that there is something dangerous, always just under the surface, always a dozen things in his head, always in motion. With claws just an instant away.
I do care for him. I am quite certain he cares for me. Not so much as for Barty, or Narcissa or Lucius. Not so much it would keep me alive if he knew any of this past week. But enough he would make it as gentle as he could.
And I do trust that what he tells me is true, but I never assume it's the complete truth, and I never ever imagine I could out-think him, not on my best day with a running start.
I do think he's the best Head Hogwarts could be given, in this moment. That he wants students in his charge to be as safe as he is allowed to make them. And there's ways I am - he and I talk, regularly. There are so many things I could ask that might maybe help. Or even just a time when Cedric, when others, knew he'd be busy. The Book, I mean.
But it's so very complicated. All of it.