Maybe in the context of that life, but here? Now? Not really.
[Li-Na folds her arms across her chest]
Try to put yourself in my shoes. A letter arrives via a large predator bird from someone, someone you never told where you live. This person might tell you the bird can find you on its own, but is it in your best interest to believe that? How can you be sure the person did not follow you home one day?
What you're saying has logical sense. However, your forgetting a few important details. It's me that is the owner of the large predator bird, and I really don't care to know where people live. Besides, if I wanted to know, I could just use my connections at work to do so. Also, you have yet to meet Bronte. He may be a large owl, but he's a very nice owl that is way nicer than my cat. Trying to say something could happen, when it clearly won't is jumping the gun a bit isn't it?
You might know that you do not care where people live, but other people do
not know that. And I am not saying Bronte is not a very nice owl. I am sure
he is a very nice owl. But not thinking at all about things that
could happen means when things do happen you are not prepared.
Prepared for what? I'm the only one here in the city with a bloody owl! We're not in the world where every witch or wizard uses an owl to communicate. So unless someone else pops up who is from the same world as Draco, you're fine. You know, the only other person who has had a legit issues with Bronte was your kid cousin, Xiaolang. Is everyone in your family so distrusting?
[Li-Na's eyebrows snap down at the mention of Xiaolang]
We are not distrusting. But that is not the point. The point is we are not in this wizard world of yours. Stop thinking about this so personally. I am not objecting to Bronte or you. I am objecting to the method of communication. In the hands of an unscrupulous person, an owl able to find a person's home could be very dangerous. What if the person does not want anyone to know where they live? All it would take is an owl and a way to track the owl.
[Derek says she's made her point, but Li-Na is not sure if he gets it. Still, she does not particularly want to continue that line of conversation anyway.]
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event log cont -- derek
Maybe in the context of that life, but here? Now? Not really.
[Li-Na folds her arms across her chest]
Try to put yourself in my shoes. A letter arrives via a large predator bird from someone, someone you never told where you live. This person might tell you the bird can find you on its own, but is it in your best interest to believe that? How can you be sure the person did not follow you home one day?
Re: event log cont -- derek
[Derek lets out a sigh.]
What you're saying has logical sense. However, your forgetting a few important details. It's me that is the owner of the large predator bird, and I really don't care to know where people live. Besides, if I wanted to know, I could just use my connections at work to do so. Also, you have yet to meet Bronte. He may be a large owl, but he's a very nice owl that is way nicer than my cat. Trying to say something could happen, when it clearly won't is jumping the gun a bit isn't it?
Re: event log cont -- derek
[Li-Na raises her eyebrows at that sigh]
You might know that you do not care where people live, but other people do not know that. And I am not saying Bronte is not a very nice owl. I am sure he is a very nice owl. But not thinking at all about things that could happen means when things do happen you are not prepared.
Re: event log cont -- derek
Re: event log cont -- derek
We are not distrusting. But that is not the point. The point is we are not in this wizard world of yours. Stop thinking about this so personally. I am not objecting to Bronte or you. I am objecting to the method of communication. In the hands of an unscrupulous person, an owl able to find a person's home could be very dangerous. What if the person does not want anyone to know where they live? All it would take is an owl and a way to track the owl.
[thank you Mr Nelson for the word 'unscrupulous']
Re: event log cont -- derek
Fine fine, you've made your point.
[Good grief, does this family not know the meaning of fun?]
[Derek glances behind Li-Na at the bunnies behind her.]
How many of those little guys do you have back there?
Re: event log cont -- derek
Six. They seem determined to stick with me.