Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 20:49:37 GMT -5
"She is," Lisa agreed with a laugh. "Just don't point out that she's short; she'll get snippy with you."
She'd spend the rest of the day (maybe even the week) pouting and sticking her tongue out at the offender. At sixteen, legally an adult in Italy, Angelina was still childish. Funny, when one considered all of the scars she had from the many battles she'd been involved with throughout her childhood. Lisa remembered wondering how anyone could survive all of that and stay so incessantly cheerful; she suspected that it was Angelina's coping method.
"It sounds like all of them died for something they cared for deeply: you. You shouldn't let that go to waste," she said softly, in response to both his statement that he viewed life as a prison and how his friends had died.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 11, 2012 20:58:32 GMT -5
"Well, maybe then I should and see her reaction," Harry suggested laughing ever so slightly, "Might be interesting."
He may be all depressed and stuff, but that didn't mean he didn't have a laugh or two. George and Angelina were the ones who taught him how to have a good laugh, even if he still felt sad afterwards. It helped him forget about it for awhile.
"I've already completed the job they wanted me to complete," Harry simply said shaking his head with a sigh again. Maybe his signature move instead of the disarming spell should be sighing and shaking his head.
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 21:14:51 GMT -5
"She'll call you a jerk-face or something to that effect and stick her tongue out at you," Lisa informed him. "And then she'll pout and sulk for the rest of the day. Or maybe a week. It depends. Her hair will also turn a very interesting shade of magenta."
It was a combination of embarrassment and irritation that caused it, Lisa had learned. Angelina hated being reminded of the fact that she was pretty short. She would lose her usually good control over her hair-color when her height was brought up.
"No, I don't think so," she argued.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 11, 2012 21:22:28 GMT -5
"It sounds like a good plan to me then," Harry said with a small laugh.
He could remember moments when one times little Albus had called Angelina short, and her reaction was priceless. Let's just say, Albus learned to not call her short, or Auntie Angelina would be all sad and sulky. It was actually quite funny, and Angelina was back to her old self in no time. Especially after Albus apologized. Given, he was about two and a half years old, so Angelina, or Pyre, was a little better after such a cute little boy apologizing.
"Then what could they possibly want more of me?" Harry asked.
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 21:35:03 GMT -5
"Well, it's a funny plan, at least," she agreed with a laugh. "And afterwards, when you need to apologize to get her to acknowledge you, she likes flowers. It's a good idea to give her some."
Lisa remembered one day in the middle of spring a few years before when Angelina had skipped into the house and announced that she was going to make it prettier. She had then proceeded to decorate it with so many flowers that Lisa was sure she'd conjured some up with magic, even though she wasn't supposed to because she'd still been a minor at the time.
"To live. To have an actual life before you join them," she replied.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 11, 2012 21:46:36 GMT -5
"Maybe give her some purple flowers, so she can annoy Gabe with them," Harry suggested with a small laugh.
It was too bad that he didn't get to meet the Gabe in his original history. He seemed like a good guy, and he was important to his friend Eliza. It was people like him that he felt bad for, but wasn't that affected by their death, because he didn't know them. But he imagined what they were like occasionally and it actually made him feel happier when he pictured them having a nice, full, happy life.
"I'm too old to start to have an actual life. I've done what I needed to do, well I have a few things to take care of. I'm quite old compared to the lives they lived," Harry sighed and shook his head. Wow that was really becoming his signature move.
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Employee at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
If we can't find where we belong, we'll have to make it on our own.
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 22:07:15 GMT -5
"Ah, dear Gabriel and his hatred of the color purple," she laughed. "His daughter, Lexi, loves them, though. He's a good guy, Gabe, even with his quirks. He works hard, and he tries to be a good father. He's suicidally brave, though, and that worries me."
Gabe was the type to put his life on the line even if he barely knew the person. He couldn't just walk away and leave someone in trouble. While that was probably an admirable character trait, it was perpetually getting him in trouble.
"If you keep shaking your head, your neck will cramp," she singsonged. "And how old are you? Forty? The average lifespan of a man is eighty-two. You have forty-two years to do something. Write a book; go skydiving. I personally hate heights, but it sounds like fun."
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 11, 2012 22:14:30 GMT -5
"He sounds a bit like me in my younger years, though I didn't hate the color purple," Harry commented with a smile.
Ah, he tried to be a good god-father to little Teddy, and he hoped he prevailed, but he wasn't that sure. He was also a little bit suicidally brave without even knowing it, though nowadays he almost did it on purpose. It was actually quite sad when he thought about how much he changed over the years.
"Where I come from, one is lucky if they reach forty," Harry replied, trying not to shake his head again, "Almost everyone I know has died before reaching forty years old, though there are a few lucky ones who managed to survive longer. I have no interest in writing a book, or skydiving. What would I write a book over anyways?"
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 22:36:45 GMT -5
"He's...quirky. They all are. I suspect that it's their coping method. It takes a special kind of person to be a child-soldier," she noted. "His mother, Marissa, disects spells. It's interesting to watch, especially when she gets mad."
She would then proceed to very calmly cross the room and throw her notebook out the window. A few hours later when she wasn't so angry anymore, she'd retrieve it and go back to work. Lisa had figured out the pattern pretty fast.
"Then you're incredibly lucky. And I don't know! It sounds like you've had a pretty interesting life, write about that," she replied.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 11, 2012 22:45:13 GMT -5
And that was precisely why he didn't let very many underage kids on the battlefield. Scorpius went on a couple times as strictly a healer, and Teddy sneaked up on a battlefield once when he was about 10 years old. There were a couple other special cases, but mostly they were kept off the battlefield, even if they were in desperate need of more soldiers.
"Children shouldn't ever be on the battlefield, no matter the need of soldiers, unless there is an extremely special case for it," Harry stated confidently. That was one of the things he was most proud of. Not dipping into their underage kids for more soldiers, no matter how much they needed them.
"Luck, yeah. I wish I could spread my luck in surviving around, and then maybe so many wouldn't die," Harry sighed, almost shaking his head, but forcing himself not to, he really did need to stop that, "No one really would want to read about my life."
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 11, 2012 23:10:57 GMT -5
"The Cavaliere train their children to fight at as early as three years old, most of the kids I know from that family had already been participating in the war for six years by the time they were thirteen," she recalled. "I think that they act the way they do to avoid thinking about it."
She remembered asking Angelina at one point how she dealt with coming home limping only to receive a tiny smile and a question about how her day was. She'd never asked Angelina about it again.
"Oh, I think they would, and what does it matter? Writing is something that can help you cope with loss. At the very least, that's what Angelina told me her therapist told her."
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 12, 2012 17:32:05 GMT -5
"That is just..." Harry said closing his eyes, remembering a time when he considered allowing children on the battlefield as fully fledged soldiers, and how he talked himself out of it, "That isn't right. Kids should be allowed to have a childhood. They shouldn't have to kill when they are young. Killing someone lives on in your subconscious for the rest of your life. Little kids shouldn't have to go through that. No one really should, but at least they would have a good childhood if you prevent it for years until they are an adult."
Harry hated the fact the Cavaliere's were just fine with training little kids to fight. It was not right. It really wasn't. In Harry's mind a kid's childhood was a time to be celebrated, something to help the child to grow and develop slowly, so when they were an adult they were well rounded and could look back at their childhood and feel like they didn't waste it, or at least be glad they weren't soldiers back then. How could they do that to their children? They were their children for pete's sake!
"Oh yeah, reliving the worst moments of my life would so help with coping with everything," Harry said sarcastically looking back up and rolling his eyes.
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 12, 2012 18:32:42 GMT -5
"I think back before the war, they probably would've held off on starting the training. With the war going on over there right now, I guess they needed as many soldiers as they could have," she speculated. "They do everything differently in Italy; they're legally considered adults at fifteen. So I guess it makes sense for them to have kids on the battlefield; their childhoods are so short. I will say that those kids have some nasty scars on them. Gabe in particular got captured once and came back with words carved into his back when he was around eleven. I was visting a friend of mine in Italy at the time and helping him out with some paperwork. Gabe'd been pretty beat up while in captivity; I don't think there was a part of him that wasn't bruised or bleeding, and then the injuries got infected, so he was laid up with that for a while."
Lisa hadn't yet been working for the Curia when Gabe was eleven, but she'd developed a friendship with Raphael Salvatore that had brought her out to Italy to visit. When they'd brought Gabe in, he'd been horribly sick because of the many injuries he'd sustained during his captivity getting infected. That had been when she'd struck up a friendship with the kid; he'd looked like he needed a friend.
"Well, shrinks probably need help themselves, but still! It's helped some people," she insisted.
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Post by Harrison "Harry" Prewett on Aug 13, 2012 17:05:08 GMT -5
"That doesn't matter," Harry said pointedly, meaning the part where the Italians needed soldiers and the adult age was different, "It doesn't matter how desperate a group is for soldiers. Kids don't belong on the battlefield. I never allowed any person underage to fight. We had only a couple of special cases, but the fact they used their own children to fight with them. That's just.... wrong." Harry didn't get it. But that was just his opinion. He would never tell these things to one of the Curia. Though, he might treat them like kids if they were kids in his head. "I do sympathize for Gabe and the other kids that were forced on the battlefield, or even if they wanted to fight, and all of their injuries and battle wounds. It's their parent's fault for even allowing underage kids to fight, even if their adult age is slightly lower."
A parent's job was to keep their child safe. Not send them off to battle and let them risk their lives. That would just cause their children to grow up reckless and scarred for the rest of their lives because of everything that happened. To this day, Harry knew that Teddy didn't remember seeing the battle he had once walked in on. It was blocked in his memory. It was also when he was 10 years old, and his favorite teacher had died.
"I guess I can give it a try. I doubt that it will help," Harry said admitting defeat finally.
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Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette
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Post by Anelisa Taelyn Lafayette on Aug 13, 2012 17:34:27 GMT -5
"I'm going to warn them to never introduce you to their cousin Aura," she noted dryly. "She's about eleven, but she was really excited to get out of Italy. I think Aura entered the war for the first time about...a year ago? Maybe two? She wrote to me about it. They're good kids, by the way; honestly they are. "
Except for that Rhys girl. Lisa worried about her; she was so withdrawn and quiet. She hoped that they kept Rhys in Italy. She didn't trust her to behave herself once away from the matriarch of the Cavaliere family.
When he agreed to write down his story, she smiled.
"See? Is it that hard to take suggestions?" she teased.
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