[It's as good an answer as any--and it's not like Sirius knows any better. He nods, vaguely, looking over the spider again. It's massive, but it's drawn itself into a corner as tightly as it can, as if it's aware of what he's suggested.]
But if it came after us, your dad would be all right with us defending ourselves, right.
[All right, that's just ridiculous. But Sirius no longer feels the need to kill or even threaten the spider. After all, he said it himself: it's only a spider.]
[Because it sounds as if it might be from a book, and Sirius greets it with his nose wrinkled, uncertain as he is about everything Big and Important that's quoted out of books at him.
Whatever. Spiders, all of it, whatever, and he sighs, hugely, so it blows his fringe away from his forehead.]
We're not going to kill it, you don't have to quote things at me.
[He gives a self-conscious, nervous little smile; he can smile now that he has that assurance. Sirius isn't going to be mad at him for his...fun-killing.]
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Date: 2013-11-27 09:07 am (UTC)But if it came after us, your dad would be all right with us defending ourselves, right.
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Date: 2013-11-27 12:08 pm (UTC)[He thinks that over with a little frown. What would Dad say?]
I think he'd sooner that we...do so nonlethally, in that case.
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Date: 2013-11-27 02:36 pm (UTC)[All right, that's just ridiculous. But Sirius no longer feels the need to kill or even threaten the spider. After all, he said it himself: it's only a spider.]
You can't be serious.
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Date: 2013-11-27 05:46 pm (UTC)[There's a decided solemnity when he nods. The more he thinks about this, the more he's certain of it.]
Our character can be measured in how we treat the smallest, weakest creatures. Spiders included.
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Date: 2013-11-27 07:32 pm (UTC)[Because it sounds as if it might be from a book, and Sirius greets it with his nose wrinkled, uncertain as he is about everything Big and Important that's quoted out of books at him.
Whatever. Spiders, all of it, whatever, and he sighs, hugely, so it blows his fringe away from his forehead.]
We're not going to kill it, you don't have to quote things at me.
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Date: 2013-11-28 08:53 pm (UTC)I'm not quoting! That's just me talking.