alt_lupin: (worried)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 03:50am on 05/10/2011
I could hear that someone was shouting but not what he was saying. Bloody hell, names? Just what we need.
alt_nymphadora: (Purple Hair Impish)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 03:52am on 05/10/2011
Exactly.

Who was he? Do you have any notion?
alt_lupin: (worried)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:02am on 05/10/2011
His name's Martin Barney; I've heard some of the younger lot call him 'Barmey Barney.' I don't know what he does for a living but he had a child taken away on account of being a squib, and his wife blamed him for it and left him.

He's certainly got reasons for his hatred of the Ministry but shouting about it in our beer garden's only going to invite trouble.

Do you reckon we should ban him from coming back?
alt_nymphadora: (Subdued)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:04am on 05/10/2011
Oh, I hate to ban anyone. But honestly, after tonight, I don't know.

Of course, if everyone thinks he's barmey, then maybe it's not as bad as all that. No one would take anything he says seriously.

Still. Everyone was on edge tonight while it was going on. I wonder how many will stay away tomorrow.
alt_lupin: (intent)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:06am on 05/10/2011
What was it Beth did, exactly? Did you see?
alt_nymphadora: (Blonde)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:12am on 05/10/2011
I said

I didn't see, exactly. When she came over and started talking him down, she sent me for tea: 'Grim as you can brew it,' she said, 'And if you've got a drop of Sleep Easy, that might stand him well'.

When I came back he was tame as a kitten and a bit unfocused. I'd say she confunded him. No one else seemed the wiser. Of course, everyone had moved away by then and were trying to pretend they couldn't hear any of it.
alt_lupin: (intent)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:14am on 05/10/2011
She might have used Imperius.

Not that I particularly mind if she did, except that he might realise later he was cursed and file a complaint (and I doubt she has a license -- unless she IS in MLE and spying on us. And I doubt she'd have been quite so eager to help you shut him up, if that's what she were up to.)
alt_sirius: (half view)
posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 04:16am on 05/10/2011
She said 'Grim,' eh?

Think she's trying to signal you?

Hope she's not DogStar. I rather like her and that would well ruin my opinion after a fashion.
alt_nymphadora: (Blonde)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:23am on 05/10/2011
She did say that, but I think it's just an expression now. You've heard it used that way, haven't you? Stiff drinks? Strong tea? Dark nights? That sort of thing.

I don't see what you're both so suspicious of with Beth. She's a local, she knows everyone, she's got a bit of a prefect's personality, If you see what I mean. But she's not MLE. And I can't see her as Dogstar, either.

And honestly? If she is, I shouldn't like to be Mr Barney: I imagine Dogstar might take care he never spouts off again. Isn't that your impression of them?
alt_lupin: (intent)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:27am on 05/10/2011
Oh, surely they'd find a use for him.

It might not be the sort of use that would leave him spouting off later on, mind.
alt_sirius: (close-up)
posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 04:34am on 05/10/2011
Exactly.
alt_sirius: (OhHellNo)
posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 04:30am on 05/10/2011
My impression of the DogStar is that they don't care who shouts loud or long, so long as there's shouting. They might have had the right idea when they first decided to use their journals after my lead but they've long since gone a bit mad with their methods.

I'm not sure but someone like Barney wouldn't be just the type they'd try to take on. Convince him the protectorate would come to an end if he'd only strap himself with a dozen self-igniting grenades and absail right through the windows of Buckingham Palace.
alt_nymphadora: (Purple Hair Impish)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:37am on 05/10/2011
Well, yes. If they could get him to do it. Otherwise, it seems they cut off anyone who drags them down.
alt_lupin: (Reflective)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:09am on 05/10/2011
And perhaps we should allow him to come for the company, but not for the beer, at least for a few weeks.
alt_nymphadora: (Purple Hair Impish)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:13am on 05/10/2011
There's a thought.
alt_lupin: (sly)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:15am on 05/10/2011
He arrived pissed tonight. If I'd realised, I'd have cut him off earlier than I did.

alt_sirius: (Hmph)
posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 04:21am on 05/10/2011
Yes, Moony, because it's obviously all your fault that his child was taken away and his wife blamed him for it.

Perhaps we ought to encourage him to voice his opinions a little less loudly but a little more conscientiously.
alt_lupin: (me again)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:26am on 05/10/2011
Well, it's partly my fault he wound up utterly blitzed instead of merely tipsy!
alt_sirius: (Earnest)
posted by [personal profile] alt_sirius at 04:35am on 05/10/2011
Speaking of getting bleary-eyed .... You did send word to Arthur, Kingsley and the others? About Minerva's birthday? And what we're not giving her this year?
alt_lupin: (Default)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:37am on 05/10/2011
Yes.

Nice job sticking ME with the blame. Not that she can't buy it for herself if she's a mind to.
alt_lupin: (Default)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:03am on 05/10/2011
And I took care of the drinks and I'll be there with the mop in a tick.
alt_nymphadora: (Teases)
posted by [personal profile] alt_nymphadora at 04:06am on 05/10/2011
It's all right. I've got the mop going. Just have to keep an eye out to see it doesn't start trying to wash anyone's feet.
alt_lupin: (smiling)
posted by [personal profile] alt_lupin at 04:06am on 05/10/2011
I'll be there with the bucket for the dishes, then.

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