I am a Lean, Mean Knitting Machine!

[bubosquared]

This whole knitting business has now officially become Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied V. For reference:

Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied I: Windows Tetris. (Which I'd love to play again, actually.)
Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied II: Juggling
Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied III Doodling and sketching
Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied IV Smoking
Melle Needs To Keep Her Hands Occupied V: Knitting

So, yes, I took my knitting stuff to work today. Dude, I have an hour-long train ride each way, that's a lot of time to kill.

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Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

.... Possibly. I mean, I can see the pureblood girls doing this, because the wizarding society is rather ... well, old-fashioned, in a way. I tend to think of it as kind of stuck in Agatha Chistie time (as well as that kind of social class, if that makes any sense).

OTOH, Hermione is Muggleborn, so she probably doesn't have these sort of habits and such. Then again, she's been pretty much immersed in wizard culture for a large part of her life, so who knows.

Basically, I don't know, but that doesn't stop me from waffling on about it anyway. ;D

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[rsadelle]

Huh. I was thinking of it in terms of Hermione the person, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin, Potter vs. Malfoy, not in terms of Muggle vs. Wizard behavior. And yet, I'm also still waffling. I want her to, but I don't know if that's consistent with her character. Would she be the kind of person to look beyond Gryffindor good, Slytherin bad and point out to Harry that he's always friends with people everyone else in the Wizarding world looks down on, so why do they just dismiss the Slytherins out of hand?

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Heh. Watch me go off on the wrong tangent. <g>

I think that of all the main characters, Hermione's the one most likely to go against the anti-Slytherin prejudice. She's already demonstrated that she tends to make up her own mind about things rather than go with the general opinion (cfr the house elves thing). So I think it'd depend on her opinion of Draco rather than of the Slytherins in general, and I do think that (especially when she's been through a war) Hermione would judge him by how he acted in the war, rather than his behaviour as a child.

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[rsadelle]

I don't think he actually did anything in the war. I think he just continued to be something of a spoiled brat while the war went on around him. I suppose Harry had to have something to do with Voldemort's defeat, but I'm not sure what. Lucius killed Narcissa and then himself before they could be captured and thrown in Azkaban or given to the dementors. And the death that Hermione's dealing with is completely unrelated to the war. Plus, Draco and Hermione are already sort of becoming friends.

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hm. I was going to say something about how, for Draco, not doing anything in the war kind of is doing something, because he's at least not joining his father like everyone's expected him to. Then again, it'd depend on how much the others of their year would've been involved in the war, I think.

I'd say, if they're already becoming friends, she'd take his arm on the street. Like I said, Hermione's the most likely person to judge people by who they are, not what they are.

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[rsadelle]

I'm not sure exactly how he feels about his parents. His father did kill his mother, so I imagine he's angry about that, but I think he's mostly still in shock.

Oh, good, because I have her doing it.

Same story: How does Lydia sound as a name for a black cat?

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Sounds perfect to me. :)

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[rsadelle]

Good, because that's what I want to name it. I was thinking of Lydia Selene, but I don't want to overdo the moon thing.

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Whose cat is this, btw?

Re: Something else to occupy you: answer me this.

[rsadelle]

Astra's. It's her birthday present from Draco. She's done some slightly freaky magical things, and Hermione suggests that a black cat might be overdoing it, but Draco tells her, "Use every advantage."