Lestrange seemed genuine, which was a pleasant surprise, though Ford wasn't sure whether or not he ought to believe him. He wasn't sure, either, how much it mattered. It was mildly pleasing to think that Lestrange had enjoyed the haunted house experience enough that he'd been thinking about it since then (particularly given his dearth of letters or conversations, which had implied the opposite), but it wasn't as though they could actually do anything like that anymore, was it? They probably shouldn't have done anything like that to begin with, although obviously Ford hadn't known that at the time. He was aware that this sort of stuff was fairly morbid, though, and that it probably wasn't the best thing for Cash to be doing in his leisure time. Probably that was why he'd had those two strange moments during the trip to Londonderry, where things had seemed to go a little wrong for a few minutes.
Then he mentioned ouija boards and Ford's face lit up, muddled thoughts about whether or not he ought to invite Cash to engage in his death-centric hobbies entirely forgotten. "You read about ouija boards?" he asked eagerly, leaning forward slightly on the table (elbows on the table again — it was a good thing he was never planning to invite Lestrange for dinner again because his etiquette did seem to suffer terribly when the other man was around). Ouija boards were relatively new, so it was quite a niche thing to have read about, and it wasn't really something Ford had gotten to talk to anyone about since he'd first learned about them last year. The mechanism itself wasn't new, of course, but this was the first tool that made it so accessible to the common people, as opposed to just the Muggles that thought themselves mediums and whatnot, and Ford was utterly fascinated by them.
"You know the best thing about ouija boards?" Ford asked, not pausing even once to think that perhaps he shouldn't be delving into a conversation about a tool Muggles used to speak to the dead when they'd just spent the whole evening — well, doing everything they'd been doing. "They really believe in them. Like — they did an investigation into it, the MACUSA did, when they first started being used in America. All these Muggles sat around and someone, or maybe all of them, moved that little wooden bit around, yeah? So that it spelled out the words and everything. But they interviewed them afterwards and they all said they hadn't moved it, and they all thought they were telling the truth," Ford said empathically. "It's just — it's mental, but it's so interesting. Where did you read about them?"
Then he mentioned ouija boards and Ford's face lit up, muddled thoughts about whether or not he ought to invite Cash to engage in his death-centric hobbies entirely forgotten. "You read about ouija boards?" he asked eagerly, leaning forward slightly on the table (elbows on the table again — it was a good thing he was never planning to invite Lestrange for dinner again because his etiquette did seem to suffer terribly when the other man was around). Ouija boards were relatively new, so it was quite a niche thing to have read about, and it wasn't really something Ford had gotten to talk to anyone about since he'd first learned about them last year. The mechanism itself wasn't new, of course, but this was the first tool that made it so accessible to the common people, as opposed to just the Muggles that thought themselves mediums and whatnot, and Ford was utterly fascinated by them.
"You know the best thing about ouija boards?" Ford asked, not pausing even once to think that perhaps he shouldn't be delving into a conversation about a tool Muggles used to speak to the dead when they'd just spent the whole evening — well, doing everything they'd been doing. "They really believe in them. Like — they did an investigation into it, the MACUSA did, when they first started being used in America. All these Muggles sat around and someone, or maybe all of them, moved that little wooden bit around, yeah? So that it spelled out the words and everything. But they interviewed them afterwards and they all said they hadn't moved it, and they all thought they were telling the truth," Ford said empathically. "It's just — it's mental, but it's so interesting. Where did you read about them?"
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