Order Only: Incoming Infant
Mar. 7th, 2012 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_siriusAlice, Dora's heading your way with Mary Ashton, aged all of four months. We actually found her yesterday but it took some legwork. By the time we collected her, Dora had to get back and feed Bea and then, well, with one thing and another, the two of them had a grand time sharing toys and such. Anyway, she's bringing her along now. I think we both would have preferred to take her poor mum along, too. Only 19 herself and stuck in an unlikely corner of Hades.
As for our other local boy, his name's Puneet Kamathali. We found him this afternoon: His parents work at a curry place over on Thornfield Road. We had to order dinner in order to keep talking to them (and Kreacher was none too happy we returned with 'foreign food!' But I digress).
The problem is that Puneet's parents are quite well-treated, from what they told us. Their parents each owned a curry takeaway before the Ministry fell and their 'masters' essentially leave them to run things on their own. While they naturally want their son to have a good life, they didn't see much point to giving him up. Plus Mr Kamathali was extremely concerned that if we took Puneet elsewhere, he might not be raised in their faith, which apparently is not a problem for them in their current circumstances. But would he be around other Indians? Would he know anything about his ancestors? Etc.
We tried to explain the rings and the ways we can allow them to communicate but it was clear they weren't going to go for it. We had to Obliviate them.
Anyone have thoughts about what we might do to convince them on a second go?
As for our other local boy, his name's Puneet Kamathali. We found him this afternoon: His parents work at a curry place over on Thornfield Road. We had to order dinner in order to keep talking to them (and Kreacher was none too happy we returned with 'foreign food!' But I digress).
The problem is that Puneet's parents are quite well-treated, from what they told us. Their parents each owned a curry takeaway before the Ministry fell and their 'masters' essentially leave them to run things on their own. While they naturally want their son to have a good life, they didn't see much point to giving him up. Plus Mr Kamathali was extremely concerned that if we took Puneet elsewhere, he might not be raised in their faith, which apparently is not a problem for them in their current circumstances. But would he be around other Indians? Would he know anything about his ancestors? Etc.
We tried to explain the rings and the ways we can allow them to communicate but it was clear they weren't going to go for it. We had to Obliviate them.
Anyone have thoughts about what we might do to convince them on a second go?
