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[misterprongs]

Who: James Potter.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: U.S.S. Paisley.
When: Now!

[ james has been aboard the Paisley (and quite enjoying himself!) for quite some time, but he's a little homesick. for one, he has no wand, which means he can't perform most forms of magic. james is a clever wizard, and has been trying to perform a bit more wandless magic. which is what he's doing now as the recording airs, showing james staring at a pen on the dashboard of the Paisley. which is wiggling.

yes. wiggling.

after a moment or two, james sighs and reclines in his chair, and the feed flickers off just to flicker back on, because this time, it's on purpose!]

Hello, good sirs, madams, and those who identify otherwise.

[ with a grin. james misses his friends, terribly. he misses his school. he wants to go home. but until he can achieve any of these things, he's a bit bored, so -- ]

Has anyone got a good story?

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[stefanged]

Probably not. As far as the Alescis go... we're mostly Muggles, you've gotta remember.

[Is he using that right? He hopes he is.]

So things that could be fixed with magic, like teleporting or levitating stuff, kind of take us forever otherwise. A lot of our mishaps come from things like, I don't know, driving in the wrong direction for four hours, or going to the wrong person's wedding...

[He takes a sip of his tea. Huh. That probably isn't something that can be fixed with magic, but details.] My family was great, but sometimes, I swear, it was like living in a sitcom.

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[misterprongs]

[ but all of that sounds like fun :c!!! ]

I don't know.

[ with half a laugh, and james looks amused ]

Wizarding families are so... massive that you could go to the wrong wedding pretty easily -- my best mate, Sirius and I -- we're related. Second or third cousins, I think, somewhere along the line -- practically every pureblooded wizard is related somehow. And even without that -- and even with magic -- it's not so different in the end.

[ if they were so radically different, there would be no real end to the war in his world, after all. there's always common ground. ]

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[stefanged]

It sure sounds like it.

[He's grinning at the mental image of a wizard wedding - he's never been to one, but if they're anywhere near as massive as Jordanian weddings, he's in good company.]

Umi was so pissed at us... we were supposed to go to her best friend's kid's wedding, but we were with these random strangers for two hours. Kinda hard to know the difference, if you've never MET the best friend's kid to begin with.

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[misterprongs]

That sounds like every family holiday I have.

[ mildly.

james has a rather huge extended family, though he himself is an only child. tons of distant cousins, far off aunts... the potters themselves are pretty small, but then there's the weasleys, the prewitts, the longbottoms, and james' .... less appealing side of family. the malfoys, the blacks (sans sirius, of course.) ]

I think my mum would've adopted half the town if my dad would allow it.

[ sirius doesn't count. ]

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[stefanged]

Wouldn't be a bad way to pass the time.

[He takes another sip of his tea.]

Umi used to be like that, and then my older brother had to go off and have a daughter. So I think she's too preoccupied to care. I hope?

Because last time I was home, she was way too focused on getting me married.

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[misterprongs]

I think that's a universal trait of all mums, to be honest.

[ james' mother, because james is her one and only, is super determined. ]

Especially only children, so count yourself lucky.

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[stefanged]

[He wrinkles his nose.]

Relatively lucky. I just called off an engagement when I was pulled here.