Mark XI

[arrogantalloy]

Hey, everyone no doubt had an amazing fortnight off. I know I certainly had some, we'll go with, well, eye-opening in weird ways I guess.

And then we have the new term coming up. I've thought of some new plays and I'm looking forward to taking on Gryffindor and Slytherin, And I'm going to be taking you both more seriously than I did Hufflepuff.

And thanks to the one with the wide forehead an blonde hair. I will actually be in the Duelling competition that's coming up. Which really is an exercise in stupid, but hey, pretty sure I can make an impression, I always do.

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[preanimator]

I don't show off, and I don't mumble, I don't need to. There's nothing I have to compensate for.

[arrogantalloy]

Other than a complete and total inability to take charge.

But then, you probably couldn't handle the challenge of competitive magic casting. So of course you're going to say that.

[preanimator]

So how is it again that you 'take charge'? Is that just a euphemism for doing stupid things, because certainly you aren't the leader of anything.

And no, I'm not a duelist, I don't see the point in wasting my time learning combat spells. Nice try in making me feel ashamed, though, it might have even worked on an eight year old.

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, you're right. Apart form being captain of the quidditch team, which by default makes me a leader. And the fact that when I'm an adult I can become C.E.O of Stark Industries, it doesn't make me a leader at all.

At least I don't have to wait for people to be asleep.

And I love how we've just come out of a war and you don't feel the need to learn anything to protect yourself with. Now there is good old fashioned intelligence right there.

[preanimator]

[ ... oh, right, Herbert forgot about the quidditch thing. Well, let's just ignore that, shall we?]

Inheriting something doesn't make you inherently leadership material. It's just the fortunes of birth. And I have no idea what sleep has to do with anything.

But frankly, I find the instinctive urge to become a soldier after a war to be idiotic. I have more important things to work on, things that will benefit far more than just myself in the long term. Some of us actually try to look at the bigger picture, instead of the next conquest.

[arrogantalloy]

If I can't prove myself to be a leader, I can't take the company. Dad wasn't stupid.

War is nothing but a whole lot of small conquests and who won them. And I never said I was going to be a solder I just like to know that I can protect myself from real world dangers.

[preanimator]

Dueling will hardly teach you that, considering that it's completely ritualized. I doubt a Dark wizard is going to announce themselves, stand at fifty paces, and give you a chance to ready a spell.

[arrogantalloy]

It does teach you how to think on your feet. So maybe you should sign up. Because you don't really do well on the spot, so you could use the practise.

[preanimator]

Is there some particular reason you're trying to goad me into dueling, Stark?

[arrogantalloy]

Well you keep telling me you'll show me.

Maybe I want to see what you can do.

[preanimator]

I don't keep telling you that, I don't know where you got that idea. I'm not the villain in some stupid cartoon. And I've told you, I can't do much, because I haven't spent any time trying to learn, I DON'T CARE.

[arrogantalloy]

Fine, sure. Don't care all you want.

Your loss, I guess.

[preanimator]

Yes, really, I feel it so keenly, such a shame.

[arrogantalloy]

Up all night, tossing and turning I bet.