Private Message to Linus

[alt_lavender]

Linus, darling, I've been thinking about what you told me this morning and I've been wondering...

Were you really in earnest, or was it another one of your thought experiments?

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[alt_linus]

I am proud that when it came to it, my father took a stand for the preservation of Hogwarts. I believe he remains in hope that Karo will somehow see reason, and judges it inadvisable to make an open declaration that might force her prematurely to a choice which she is not yet ready to make correctly. It is a subtle approach, yet ultimately may prove kinder and more wise. Yet he has been quite supportive of me remaining here.

When I write him tomorrow, I shall share news of the triumph involving the wards.

[alt_lavender]

It was a triumph! Why can't you just stay here and be happy being a wizard and doing that sort of thing?

Do you really want to go live among Muggles??? Are you ashamed of your wizardry somehow? Is this some sort of guilt?

[alt_linus]

It is not Muggles per se among whom I wish to live. It is poets. And one must go where the poets are. Were. And will be again, I make no doubt.

Besides, I am told they have opinions on the writing of history at Oxford the likes of which Professor Binns has never dreamt. Someone someday must set down a proper chronicle of these tumultuous, challenging, and spirit-refining times. Why should it not be a Moon who does so?

My dear fierce lady lion -- you aren't afraid, are you?

[alt_lavender]

No!

It just sounds like a wild Snorkack hunt or whatever those creatures were that Lovegood used to go on about.

And the poetry's lovely, but they're still Muggles.

[alt_linus]

Lavender, my dearest, I think perhaps we both ought to sleep on the matter before either of us says aught we might regret.

[alt_lavender]

I suppose we should.