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Silly King, Granger can win that rook vs. knight endgame without resorting to cheating. Cheating would certainly help, but I doubt ze would agree to it.
If Granger had a top bunk, ze wouldn't need that ladder to get down, and might even remove the ladder to force zemself to practice descending by magic. However, Granger has a bottom bunk.
Lucius was acquitted of corruption, of course, which, I assure you, has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that ze recently offered generous gifts to certain Wizengamot members. The Wizengamot probably issues a warrant against Lucius whenever they're short on cash. All such actions against Lucius are, strictly speaking, legitimate, because ze actually committed the crimes they accuse zem of. How do you think Granger feels about participating in this scheme?
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One, that's beautiful; two, I don't think she likes it but I expect she might be practical enough to put up with it.
Heh, mark of scrutiny on the pronouns. I was thinking just the other day about how a particular character would be easier to talk about if I followed the habit of using gender-neutral pronouns for everyone that you uphold in these commentaries. Ey prefers to be addressed by whatever gender other people default to when thinking about em, but internally ey is strongly gender-fluid. So if I use the gender people commonly know em by, that feels right in the sense of according with eir preferences but leads to confusion when I talk about eir internal state or occasions when ey presents differently; on the other hand, if I use gender-neutral pronouns for em and not for other people, it gives the (erroneous) impression of singling em out as a gender-neutral person.