Cold Beboots was cold

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The final evening at Christmas Reflections at Fort Edmonton! It ended up being like -27C in the river valley... The poor draft horses had frost all over their coats, and were brought into the stables (switched out for tractors AKA "mechanical horses" ;) ) halfway through the evening. I took a shower right before I left for work, and I put my hair in braids while wet. So after I lit the bonfires, and I realized about an hour into my shift that my braids had frozen. SOLID. Like, icicle cores. D: 

CHECK IT OUT



PIPI LONGSTOCKING COSPLAYS = NOW RIDICULOUSLY EASY. 

And for comparison purposes, here is what it looks like defrosted. SO FLOPPY



Here is a shot of the glorious bonfire I made yesterday, to warm you up wherever you are. :)

Comments

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"I absolutely loved that line in the books. It really does demonstrate a cultural difference amongst wizards and muggles: wizards HAVE to warn their young kids about these kinds of things. ;)" And even then, they weren't angry with Ginny. He reminded her, but he was upset and didn't know just who had been possessing his daughter yet.

"Draco is going to have a long talk with her i the summertime about how to recognize super-neat-o rare magic, and distinguish it from rare dark magic/magical objects." There might also be a real discussion about why the Death Eaters did what they did, from that question he flipped out about the first time. She might start thinking that all of the Death Eaters were brainwashed, too. She saw a report that it happened to Draco's dad.

" Borderline, yes, but maybe towards the end even Draco notices a few cracks in the veneer? After all, he knows from experience what "stressed out/fear" looks like..." Once Hermione knows what she's doing, but she can't seem to tell anybody or stop? She has that look of somebody that's in way over her head and trapped. (Also, "her body will lie in the Chamber forever" is REALLY twisted.)

Hermione still might work out just what the monster is. She's smart enough, she has the hints about chickens first-hand, but maybe she can't tell anybody. She could deface a library book and earn detentions from a very, very disappointed Madam Pince? Somebody would go take a look at just which book it was she was marking up, eventually, but Pince might not have spread that rumor around. Hermione was properly apologetic, she thought it was her notes-- detention, but no need to embarrass somebody that liked her books.

"Precisely. This is jet another incident which has cemented Draco's distrust for authority, especially authority that purports to praise you and make use of your "unique skills"... but is really manipulating you for another purpose." That lets him really disapprove of what Albus is trying to do to Harry. There is the remote chance that Albus had absolutely no idea, but... he did this before. Tom Riddle didn't want to go home for summer, either, and here's Harry coming to him asking to stay. If Albus doesn't have any idea, with Arabella Figg right there to monitor, then he's a moron. He's not a moron.

"Yeah, this is again, the very beginning of a paradigm shift in Draco's philosophy. It doesn't help that he's having flashbacks, though. With PTSD, there are some good days/weeks/even months, but it flares up every so often, and then she's asking him questions that he actually has to THINK about and if he thinks about it he has to confront things that he's done that he'd rather not think about..." Yeah. Better to lash out and not think about it in company. He'll probably have to keep thinking about it later, because he almost lost her completely right there (not that it really matters, but it was against The Plan).

"I read a fic a while back (one of those "what if the bad guys have a point?" stories) that overall magical strength has been declining for several centuries, and it's blamed on muggleborn dilution. In a few hundred years, if this continues, then NO-ONE will have magic. I've always thought about it in terms of misconceptions along that line, along with the same kind of justifications that were used in Hitler's Germany or even in some areas about immigration: like, "THEY'RE STEALING OUR JOBS AND RUINING OUR TRADITIONS" and other things, times a thousand but with magic. "