when the wards go down

[alt_sally_anne]

Where do you want to go, once we're not all prisoners?

What would you like to see that we could only read about in books?

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

I think it would be fun to go to Boston and Old Salem and see how much the American Witches books got wrong.

And New York City to see the tall buildings, I checked a map and they're not too far from each other.

And Paris to see the Eiffel Tower.

And Moscow to see that building with the bits that look like swirly onions.

[alt_pansy]

And Kenya to see an elephant, and Brazil to see the Amazon, and Shanghai and Hong Kong and Tokyo!

[alt_hydra]

Justin's mother lives in Kenya.

Private message to Ron and Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

I dreamed about the aeroplane again. I mean -- it woke me up. When I woke up it was because I thought I HEARD it, overhead.

And then I couldn't get back to sleep, which is a shame because I think I really could've used more time to sleep off all the firewhiskey. Though the hangover potion worked pretty well.

Re: Private message to Ron and Pansy

[alt_pansy]

It did, yeah.

I'm glad you dreamed it again.

I can't wait to see one.

Re: Private message to Ron and Pansy

[alt_sally_anne]

I want to try flying in one. See how it compares to a broom or a carpet.

[alt_sally_anne]

Who wants to try flying in a muggle aeroplane?

[alt_pansy]

Or one of those absolutely enormous ships with the drinks and the pool?

[alt_draco]

No way.

Flying without magic sounds completely unnatural. How does it even WORK?

Well, I might do if I can be the one flying the thing.

[alt_pansy]

Like one of those small ones that can do loops?

[alt_rachel]

I'd fly in one but not if Draco's flying it.

Sorry, Draco. I'm pretty sure muggles who fly those get special training.

[alt_draco]

Are you mad? I flew a dragon.

How hard can it be?

[alt_rachel]

I wouldn't have wanted to ride the dragon you were flying, either!

[alt_hermione]

OH, for the thousandth time, Draco, YOU did not FLY A DRAGON!

The dragon flies all on its own. You and I were holding on for dear life!

[alt_draco]

My glory, let me have it.

[alt_hermione]

Never.

[alt_fred]

Really?! Special training? And they have ones you can fly solo?

George is definitely interested.

[alt_pansy]

See, I told you, Sally-Anne. We're going to need our own personal Healer right next door.

[alt_rachel]

I want to see real mountains. The highest mountain in the world is over twenty times higher than Ben Nevis.

[alt_bill]

I like the way you think. Switzerland? I've read about Muggle skiing, and I've always had a sneaking suspicion it might be fun.

Or are you thinking of somewhere even more exotic, like the Himalayas?

[alt_rachel]

Skiing, that's the thing where they strap sticks to their feet? I was actually thinking about climbing in the Himalayas. I'd be up for trying skiing too, though.

[alt_jason]

Atlantic City, USA
Las Vegas, USA
Macau, China

[alt_sinistra]

Australia or New Zealand. To see what the southern stars look like.

When I was in school, before the wards, Mum took me to Tuscany one summer. Fields and fields of golden grain, and cypresses sticking up, and totally unlike here. And the food, I've never forgotten the food.

I want to talk to people who know things I don't. About stars, mostly, but other things, too. And Muggles, they put actual people into space, and what that's like, and what it looks like out there.

[alt_molly]

Arthur and I used to talk about someday taking a holiday and seeing the lavender fields in Provence, France. And there are many famous gardens I'd like to see.

[alt_evelyn]

Houston, to see where the rocket ships take off from, and where they have the space programme. And those places where they built enormous satellite dishes.

[alt_hydra]

Dijon, France.

[alt_hermione]

Oh!

Yes.

[alt_fred]

George and me want to see everything. The Charm Institute in Salonika. Muggle factories. Rome, and Berlin and Prague. And yeah, we'd be up for rides on an aeroplane.

And the Quidditch World Cup, of course.

[alt_ginny]

Paris, Venice, and New York City.

[alt_terry]

any w her e but he re

[alt_nymphadora]

Somewhere warm. With sand and blue water and tropical fruit.

[alt_ron]

I want to go to the poles. Both of them.

And then I'm going to the seaside with Tonks! Maybe an island. We had a book when we were young about children who lived in the Seychelles. Such a queer name for a place, yeah? But it looked awesome! They've got giant tortoises there.