Kirah

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

I know how Kyle will come up with the idea.
He'll think about the hat's song. Snape should be fostering friendships between the houses. But he never has before. Kyle will have him in a weird catch 22 if he has a 'fight' with Siobhan.

Hogwarts: We Are Now

Sounds good to me Prints. I was thinking along the same lines.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Kyle took his own seat with Sam and the other first year Slytherins. He was still trying to figure out what Siobhan had meant about Maggie and Alistair. He tapped his nose, was it a code? Sam watched Kyle, then snickered.

"What are you doing?" Sam asked around a bite of dinner.
"Thinking, I mean I was trying to figure something out. I think I'll just have till later though."
"What were you trying to figure out?"
"I don't know. It's like when you hold a Rememberbal and you have no idea what it is that you forgot." Sam frowned.
"You're weird man." Sam told Kyle before turning back to his meal. Kyle sighed and set to thinking on what he could do to get Snape to reveal his true motivations. Everyone said Dumbledore trusted him, and Dumbledore didn't lay his trust in anyone. Then again neither does the Dark Lord. Both opposite sides of a war trusted the same man perfectly. Kyle's father had said that Snape often brought correct information about the activities of the Order. How was he, a first year, supposed to prove something the Dark Lord believed to be true as false. Snape could easily always say whatever it was that Kyle had caught him doing was because he was at Hogwarts and had an image to maintain here.

Maybe he could catch Snape reacting in an unusual fashion. Everyone said he favored his own house. Maybe he could pick a fight with someone he'd have to side with over himself. But again all that mess with him being a double agent made for a great cover.

Kyle sighed, finished his meal and made his way to the Library. Surely Siobhan would have an idea. She was sneaky, even if she hadn't gotten into Slytherin. Kyle was in Slytherin because he had to prove himself. Would asking Siobhan for ideas be not proving himself?

Kyle didn't know enough about the ex-potions professor, but he figured he had to have some buttons that he could press. He knew Snape hated Harry Potter, that was no secret. But Harry was in the same year as Maggie and a Gryffindor to boot. Kyle took up a free table and pulled out his Transfiguration notes. He worked on the essay while trying to figure out what to do to get Snape to break character.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Kyle nodded, then said "Why in the world does your brother want to get in good with Maggie? He already has the Dark Mark. He wrote to her the day he got it. Maggie doesn't have it yet, says she'll get it after she graduates. Wouldn't it make more sense for her to be trying to be in his good graces? If she pretended to like you that'd be one way right? But instead she's doing that 'I don't care what you do' thing she does when things are going according to some weird plan she has." Kyle mulled that over with Siobhan until the dinner bell rang.

"Meet you in the library after dinner?" He asked as they climbed the front steps of the castle.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

I got rather lucky. My alma matter has a periodical that gets published internationally that I got into. The periodical is very avant garde and my story was a weird non-linear creative non-fiction piece that I wouldn't have wanted to publish through anything less modern.

That's a good goal.

Rping is one of my favorite ways to get to know a character. As you can tell from Kyle. I mean the whole reason I started this RP is because I wanted to understand him. He's a teacher for DADA in another RP and I wondered what changed from that childhood image I had of him in a family of Dark wizards.

Same theory with Charlotte and Mireille, they are interesting characters, but I'd like to understand them better in other situations. The same RP that Kyle is a professor in I have a set of twins in and they are characters from another story. When you put characters into situations that are out of your control it's easier to learn how they'd react. IE Kyle still daring to be Siobhan's friend despite obstacles in his way. That explains why he eventually became an Auror.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Kyle couldn't figure. He had noticed the Headmaster's hand, everyone had. It was his wand hand and no one knew had happened to it. He was trying to figure it out until they got out of ear shot of the group of older Slytherins.

"What the bloody hell did any of that mean?" Kyle asked more rhetorically than for an actual answer. "Revel Snape as a traitor? My father said he got out of Azkaban because of a vouch from Dumbledore." Kyle bit his lip. "Does that mean that Dumbledore really does have Snape in his pocket. I mean a get out of jail free card." The reference to the muggle game was because he had once played it when his mom was visiting one of her muggle tenets. "But they say that the Dark Lord trusts Snape just as much, and he's supposed to be able to read bloody minds." His heart was pounding. Years of cached pieces of overheard conversation started trying to piece together in Kyle's young mind.

He took a deep breath calming down a bit. "Hell's bells Siobhan what am I supposed to do?"

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

You don't have to speak the language to teach English somewhere. I considered it for a while.

I got a short story published. I'm working on getting a novel published right now. Mireille and Charlotte are actually characters from that novel. They would totally be in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff accordingly.

Are you doing NaNoWriMo?

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Nice. Good luck! It's a fun education.
Do you know what you want to do with it?
I do tech writing, and am a published author.

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

Kyle didn't understand what the older Slytherins were talking about. This had to be something dark though, something very dark. Not the stuff about what Alistair wanted Kyle to do. That wouldn't be, at least not yet. Whatever it was, it'd have a purpose though. Kyle didn't know yet, and a part of him was curious, and still needed to prove himself. Time to earn his bones he guessed, but hoped it wouldn't be that extreme.

"First thing tomorrow." Kyle was trying to keep an eye on his sister, she seemed... relaxed. He had never ever seen her looked so relaxed. There was some politicking in this conversation that he wasn't catching, and that might get him into some serious trouble. After they got away from Alistair, Kyle would have to ask Siobhan what she had picked up from the conversation. She knew her brother best. "With the Gryffindors." He added. That was Snape's class. What did it matter when he had Snape's class?

Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

lol no worries.
Ack university, there's something I don't miss applying to.
(I've long since graduated, I have my BA in English)