IC Prospective | Mycroft 7th year

[watchful_big_brother]

Character: Mycroft Holmes (BBC 'Sherlock')
Mun: Gowa
Plot specific: Not really, just trying out Mycroft as year head boy or prefect?

While I understand that as a student one cannot simply ignore the opportunities to cause chaos when presented with such a situation, I strongly encourage everyone to please do as they are told and avoid stealing into the Forbidden Forest. Things could get... messy.


[filtered to Sherlock]

This friendly suggestion goes double for you, brother. We wouldn't want to upset Mummy with an Owl about how you managed to get yourself spirited away by some over-eager Centaurs, now would we?

Comments

[strongestoftheturks]

You do tutoring by any chance?

[watchful_big_brother]

Is it so hard to imagine that I can respect the privacies of students so long as I suspect no ill-motives in them?

My apologies for causing any unease in you, John - I'm not one to use such... slang commonly.

[watchful_big_brother]

I'm afraid not but I can supply you with a list of some high-achieving students who offer such services if you would like?

[strongestoftheturks]

Yeah, that's fine. Thanks.

Could I get someone good in Herbology, specially?

[Not going to lie, everything he touches dies.]

[3houseswatson]

Oh, just a bit.

Yeah, it doesn't suit you. There's something kind of unnatural and unsettling about you trying to use slang instead of just doing your regular thing and sounding like a pompous git posh.

[watchful_big_brother]

Unfortunately when one dines with swine, one finds himself adopting bad habits. Thankfully they don't last too long.

[watchful_big_brother]

That should be doable. I will pass on your details to a couple of candidates.

[strongestoftheturks]

Appreciated.

You do this all the time? Helping other students?

[watchful_big_brother]

I like to keep my ducks in a row, and helping some struggling students can be exactly the right push to boost moral of the population on a whole come exam period.

[strongestoftheturks]

I'm not a duck.

[watchful_big_brother]

It's an idiom.

[3houseswatson]

First off: real nice. People love being compared to pigs. Second: who have you been hanging around for you to have picked up such scandalously ghastly habits as casual speech?

[strongestoftheturks]

[Facepalm on the other side of the journal.]

Sorry.

[watchful_big_brother]

Not all of the student body is quite as cultured as one would like. I make do with my peers nonetheless.

[watchful_big_brother]

That's quite alright.

[3houseswatson]

I apologize on behalf of all the middle class-and-lower members of the student body. We're all very sorry that we're not as fancy as you'd like.

[watchful_big_brother]

That's quite alright John. Teens will be teens.

[3houseswatson]

Oh my God.

At least with Sherlock, I know that when he says stuff like that he usually means it, since he only occasionally understands sarcasm.

You, on the other hand.

[Filter.]

[3potionproblem]

I should be so lucky.

There a particular reason I shouldn't be interested in the forest this year? Dragons, griffons... disenfranchised Death Eaters on the run, perhaps?

[watchful_big_brother]

Ah, is he getting better at understanding jokes then?

[Filter.]

[watchful_big_brother]

Come now, Sherlock. Surely you can deduce a clearer result after having seen how a certain professor enjoys his dinner.

[Filter.]

[3potionproblem]

I have nothing to prove to you, Mycroft.

And I'll do as I like.

[Filter.]

[watchful_big_brother]

Of course you will - outside of the Forbidden Forest.

[3houseswatson]

I suppose so. He seems to be improving at -

Oh. Oh, I see what this is. Nope.

[watchful_big_brother]

Oh? What precisely do you think this is besides a friendly conversation?