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[misterprongs]

Who: James Potter [misterprongs] and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: The Paisley.
When: Now!

Ahem.

[ with a modest clearing of the throat and bright eyes, james potter looks like everything is Alright. everything is, in fact, not alright, and his closer friends may be able to tell -- but for all the world, james looks like the enthralled young man he usually is, ready to make a grand announcement. ]

As some of you may know, my birthday is at the tail-end of the very esteemed month of March, and while I normally don't request gifts, I do have a slight idea if anyone is so inclined to celebrate the day of my birth. Or I can pay you for it, whichever your heart desires.

[ PAUSE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT as james allows his somewhat weathered golden snitch to flutter into view, and he snatches it out of the air without looking at it, offering a grin. ]

I would like a broomstick. A proper one, that flies, and allows for death-defying leaps, drops, loops, stunts, and otherwise perfectly suited to play Quidditch, and before any of the ill-informed ask me what Quidditch is, allow me to explain the rules of the best game in the history of wizarding kind. I'm told it's a bit like rugby and football, but in the air -- teams of seven, and three types of balls. There's the quaffle, which is handled by the Chasers, of which there are three, and each time the quaffle is thrown through the hoops on the pitch, it scores ten points! There's also two bludgers, which are two balls made out of iron that whip around trying to knock folks off of their broomsticks, and the two Beaters have got clubs to knock them around at other players, and to protect their own players. And there's the Keeper, their job is to block shots by he Chasers and protect the goal posts -- and then there's the Seeker, whose job it is to catch the Golden Snitch, which -- this.

[ as james holds up said golden snitch, which is struggling between his fingers. dealwithit.jpeg ]

Catching it ends the game, and grants the team who catches it a hundred and fifty points. Which usually means you win the game, but there're've been instances throughout history where the bloke catches the Snitch, but you lose anyway, 'cause some people don't know how to do math properly, which I imagine happens if you've been hit in the head one too many times by a rogue bludger, and I think the last time it happened was in the early eighteen hundreds -- oi, Moony!

[ but it seems someone (and judging from james' indignation, remus) has grabbed at james' communicator, and there's a faint muttered no one cares, prongs, shut up before the feed is disconnected.

rude. ]

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[experiencepoints]

Two questions.
Why are you flying with a broomstick?
And if the 'snitch' ends the game and gives you that many points, what is even the point of the rest of it?

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[misterprongs]

1. It's fun.
2. Ask Harry how difficult the Snitch is to catch and get back to me on why the rest of the game is pointless.

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[complicatedliar]

[Oh, this is entertaining. He's got an idea or two, could be worth a laugh. Chin resting on palm.]

So let me make certain I've understood this correctly--you desire a stick that you can tuck between your legs and play with. By yourself. In public, even.

[His lips twitch.]

But it doesn't sound terribly challenging, as enchantments go. If you've a suitable stick found, with good enough grain to hold proper runes.

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[misterprongs]

How is it, being permanently twelve years old?

[ dryly ]

And it requires more than just a stick. It's a broom -- built for flying, aerodynamic.

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[mistyday]

Wait... y'all actually fly on broomsticks? Like in the movies?

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[misterprongs]

[ . . . ]

Yes.

[ said with all the tone of i have no idea what the fuck you're talking about but SURE ]

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[theshabbiestofmen]

No one would have listened if you'd kept going on.

[But he's grinning.]

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[misterprongs]

[ with a slight huff, as he settles back against the wall, surveying remus with a look of UTMOST BETRAYAL

but then: ]

Eighteen-hundred and thirty-seven.

[ pointedly ]

Spain. England. The Cup. For your reference.

[ :) ]

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[gifted_witch]

[Firstly Potter, you get a roll of eyes.] I can't believe you have that and no wand.


[But then she has a mock thoughtful pause, forefinger tapping to her lip in debate before she seemed to come to a decision.]

I could probably manage it.

Under two conditions.

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[misterprongs]

[ oh, lily, james has so much he has to tell her, but -- he pushes that aside for the moment, with a slight tilt of his head, and he lets the snitch wander off screen for the moment. ]

For one -- Atroma apparently has good taste.

[ so there ]

For another, I'm listening.

[huaaaaagh]

Overly-complicated wizard baseball, basically.

[Sounds kind of fun, anyway.]

[misterprongs]

[ ... ]

No clue what baseball is, mate, you're going to have to clarify.

[ tell him this weird thing!! ]

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[paraclete]

I care, [says the pale young man, colorless except for his red eyes... but one might have the impression that were he less composed, he'd be flushed with excitement. As it is, he's clearly interested, leaning in close to his communicator.] Would you like to go on?

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[misterprongs]

[ EXCELLENT ]

About what, Quidditch? History? Quidditch history?

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[bb_wolf]

Stupid fucking game if everything but catching the Snitch is effectively irrelevant.

You're one of the guys who hunts for that thing, aren't you?

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[misterprongs]

Absolutely amazing how you manage to be so completely wrong in so few words.

1. The game relies on a tournament system, which relies heavily on points. So the amount of points you win or lose by in the game matters, a lot. You could catch the Snitch in every game but still lose the tournament, and still miss out on the Cup if you completely ignore the rest of your team.

2. Catching the Snitch is horrendously difficult, as it moves about lightning fast and is hard to see. It takes time to catch it, which gives the rest of the team the ability to wrack up as much points as possible. The game doesn't necessarily hinge on the Seeker -- it only ends when the Seeker catches the ball.

3. I am not a Seeker, I play as the head Chaser, and I'm also the Captain.

4. Didn't your mum teach you "if you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say it at all", or was that just mine?

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[theirinurpants]

You too? With the flying on brooms? I still don't see how that isn't wildly uncomfortable. I mean, you should see how I walk after a few hours on horseback!

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[misterprongs]

Who else is flying about on brooms, and why haven't I been introduced to them yet?

{ iNSULTED ]

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[save_the_souls]

[Quidditch...oh yeah, he remembers vaguely having to watch a couple matches in Paradisa. Though being the apathetic teenager he had been, he hadn't looked up a single explanation of that game and thought the whole match was weird, pointless and confusing. Then again, he'd probably say the same about American Football.]

Oh. So that's why there's so many balls in that game.

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[misterprongs]

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You've played?

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[sandhate]

Does anyone die from this?

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[misterprongs]

Not lately, no!

[ :) ]

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[reek]

[ He's pretty sure his eyes just glazed over. ]

By far, that just may be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

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[misterprongs]

I'm deeply sorry that your world is atrociously boring.

[ with much sympathy!! ]

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[geonomy]

[Well. Someone is looking more and more excited and eager as the explanation of the rules go on. And as soon as he's done:]

Hey - You should get two broomsticks because I wanna play it. No, I need play it!

[A sport that actually involves flying? SIGN HIM THE FUCK UP.]

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[misterprongs]

[ YESSSS ]

Done and done! I want to set up a proper game, eventually, but putting together a bunch of broomsticks might take some work -- doesn't it sound brilliant?

[ QUIDDITCH IS LOVE QUIDDITCH IS LIFE ]

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[kill_switch]

A broomstick.

[Specifically, a flying broomstick? Forget the rest, she's still stuck at that impossibility. ]

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[misterprongs]

Yes, ma'am.

{ with a salute ]

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[brainiest]

You could just ride me. I mean - the lioness! Not...

[ Merlin help her. ]

I could help, maybe. I can enchant a broom easily enough. I did it in the Drabwurld.

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[misterprongs]

[ james just

waits for hermione to dig herself out of that one before continuing, and ignores it, because HE IS A GENTLEMAN ]

Can you?

[ -- but james can't let her off that easily, his tone slipping into something slightly teasing: ]

Did you make one for Harry?

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[stefanged]

I don't know what I can do about a broomstick, but I could manage something else for your birthday.

[Crew is ohana, ohana means no one is left behind - and okay, maybe Stefan wants an excuse for food.]

Chocolate or vanilla?

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[misterprongs]

Chocolate.

[ instantly!!

also remus really enjoys chocolate so ]

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[universal_charm]

<sub>[ He's not sure if the other is serious or not, but he chalks up the idea of flying to gravity manipulation. It was how motorcycles and many cars worked on his world, and for a brief second he felt a longing for his old bike he had given away when he'd joined Star Fleet. She had been such a good bike...

But he is curious about one things though - ]</sub>

Why a broomstick?

_{[ That's clearly the oddest part of that whole explanation. ]}

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[frigidaire]

[ all he has to hear is a few sentences and he knows. he knows too, too well that this must be the great 'friend' he's heard about. he looks mildly amused (and confused, because what is Quidditch really?) ]

You're Remus's friend, aren't you?