Rehearsals, Week Three

[alt_daphne]

Thank you, everyone, for showing up to rehearsal even though

I suppose it wasn't productive as it ought to have been, under usual circumstances, but it was nice to just sit around and chat for a bit and nibble on biscuits before we picked up with the routines and the songs. There's been quite an improvement from some of you since Saturday. I can tell that you've been practising in your free time, and it's most certainly paid off.

Justin, Susan, - and Zach. You're this week's super stars. Your toffees should be waiting for your when you return to your dorm.

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Private message to Zacharias Smith

[alt_daphne]

I am sorry about Sophie, Smith. Whether it was deserved or not isn't for me to say, but either way, it's an all together unpleasant happening.

I hope we can be civil to one another now. I'd like to be.

Re: Private message to Zacharias Smith

[alt_zacharias]

Yeah, all right. I just hope things don't continue on this way in Hufflepuff. At this rate they'll be picking off the firsties as they come through the doors.

Queenie's doing all right, though? I mean, from what Sue's said.

Just--do us a favour, right, and next time you want to use a bloke to get under Zabini's skin, just tell him that's your game, hey? I mean, I'd've snogged you either way but it would've been nice to know up front what you were after.

Oh, and tell Tors that she's got a chance with Baz Kendall if she's still interested.

Re: Private message to Zacharias Smith

[alt_daphne]

Of course you would have snogged me either way.

Only I'm done with that. If Blaise doesn't know what he wants then I'll leave him be to figure it out.

"Tors" and I don't really give one another sisterly advice, but I'm sure she'll figure it out, sooner or later.

Anyway, I hope things get better, too. In Hufflepuff.

[alt_daphne]

Weasley, I meant to ask during our meeting, but have you had any chance at all to read Much Ado About Nothing yet?

You've haven't brought it up. I know there's been a lot on, though.

[alt_ron]

Um.

Yeah, y'know, I did try reading the first scene, but mostly I couldn't understand the things they said to each other. I mean, I could tell they were taking the piss a lot, but not what they were really talking about.

And, actually, now I can't really remember much of it. I guess I'll try again.

I bet it's funnier when it's acted out. I mean, like the revue is. The lines aren't all that when you just read the script, but it got loads funnier as people've worked out how to do their parts.

D'you think we could read it together? I thought about asking Pansy cause I know she thinks Shakespeare is dead clever, but I haven't had the right chance.

[alt_daphne]

You couldn't -

Oh. You've never seen Shakespeare before, then? Because the thing of it is, his characters don't speak like we do, it's mostly poetry, with lots of metaphor and allusion, and then a good measure of wit and comedy, too.

It can be confusing, the first time you encounter it.

But were you able to get a sense of how Beatrice and Benedick are similar Dolly and Guy? Even a little?

[alt_susan]

Thanks, Daphne. It was really rather nice to be absorbed in music for awhile.

[alt_daphne]

I know what you mean. I feel that way about singing, too. Well, maybe a little more about dance than singing. Both, really.

[alt_susan]

For me, the other's flying. Or writing sometimes.

Not dancing, though! I always worry I'll get the steps wrong, or step on someone's feet.

[alt_justin]

Cheers, Daphne.

I say, it's in times of trial that one takes the full measure of one's friends, isn't it. And I think, as Susan said, there's something to the notion of keeping busy and coming together in one's community. I say, that's likely a very Hufflepuff manner of thinking, what, but I believe it holds true for all.

-Justin

[alt_daphne]

Yes - perhaps it's a Slytherin manner of thinking, too. Or, more likely, it's just the Hogwarts way.