Cheers, Finnigan!
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alt_padmaIt was snitch of you to have the bunch of us over yesterday. Thank Mr Rosier again, will you?
I do wish the Hogwarts crew had been able to come as well. You would have liked the game we played, Malfoy especially, I think. Hooper brought it. It's called Illusionary. Have you heard of it? Well, you divide into teams and there's a stack of cards with words on, like 'muggle camp' and 'transfiguration' and 'London' and 'snake' and all sorts of things. And there are some props you can use, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to do. Well, each person on your team takes it in turns being the one to get the others to guess what your word is. But you have to make an illusion that illustrates your word to get them to guess, and you can't talk, of course. It was great fun. Thomas was the best at sketching the illusions in the air, of course, but Page was really good at making the props into whatever he wanted.
Well, anyway, then Thomas wanted to go skating, so we did that before tea, which was really not tea at all, but chocolate! But the game had been so much fun that we kept casting spells out on Mr Rosier's duck pond. Oh, and Hooper taught us this completely nift charm he knew, to make illusions and shapes and such out of his breath when it fogged up in the air. He must have pracised forever to be able to do things like that unicorn he made for Parvati. We all tried, but it's difficult to make the shapes quickly enough. I think Lav was getting the hang of it, though!
I think Page really enjoyed getting to speak with Mr Rosier in the library while we were off touring the house again. I know I've been before but we've still not seen the whole place! It just keeps going. I can't believe you said it's smaller than your family's main castle in Ireland, though, Finnigan. I dunno what I'd do with so many rooms! But I knew we'd lose Page in the library. It's quite my favourite room of Mr Rosier's, too. I know it's not quite as large as Hogwarts' library but then, Mr Rosier doesn't need multiple copies of things or quite so many books that no one ever wants to read, does he? It was really kind of him to loan Page that copy of Command of Thought, as well. I'm sure it'll be really helpful for his Dark Arts unit on Curses.
Mr Rosier was right about getting to know some of the others better. I never knew Robins was so witty! Or that Cuthbert and Page would bore us all with broom care as Quidditch strategy, ha-ha! It was loads of fun and now it won't seem like so long before we're all on the train back to school.
I do wish the Hogwarts crew had been able to come as well. You would have liked the game we played, Malfoy especially, I think. Hooper brought it. It's called Illusionary. Have you heard of it? Well, you divide into teams and there's a stack of cards with words on, like 'muggle camp' and 'transfiguration' and 'London' and 'snake' and all sorts of things. And there are some props you can use, but you don't have to use them if you don't want to do. Well, each person on your team takes it in turns being the one to get the others to guess what your word is. But you have to make an illusion that illustrates your word to get them to guess, and you can't talk, of course. It was great fun. Thomas was the best at sketching the illusions in the air, of course, but Page was really good at making the props into whatever he wanted.
Well, anyway, then Thomas wanted to go skating, so we did that before tea, which was really not tea at all, but chocolate! But the game had been so much fun that we kept casting spells out on Mr Rosier's duck pond. Oh, and Hooper taught us this completely nift charm he knew, to make illusions and shapes and such out of his breath when it fogged up in the air. He must have pracised forever to be able to do things like that unicorn he made for Parvati. We all tried, but it's difficult to make the shapes quickly enough. I think Lav was getting the hang of it, though!
I think Page really enjoyed getting to speak with Mr Rosier in the library while we were off touring the house again. I know I've been before but we've still not seen the whole place! It just keeps going. I can't believe you said it's smaller than your family's main castle in Ireland, though, Finnigan. I dunno what I'd do with so many rooms! But I knew we'd lose Page in the library. It's quite my favourite room of Mr Rosier's, too. I know it's not quite as large as Hogwarts' library but then, Mr Rosier doesn't need multiple copies of things or quite so many books that no one ever wants to read, does he? It was really kind of him to loan Page that copy of Command of Thought, as well. I'm sure it'll be really helpful for his Dark Arts unit on Curses.
Mr Rosier was right about getting to know some of the others better. I never knew Robins was so witty! Or that Cuthbert and Page would bore us all with broom care as Quidditch strategy, ha-ha! It was loads of fun and now it won't seem like so long before we're all on the train back to school.
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Date: 2011-01-07 04:04 pm (UTC)Especially since we heard Harry got a well snitch present - and no one knows who from! Have you two figured out the mystery yet, without going into basilisk-infested chambers or forests filled with spiders or anything, I mean?
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Date: 2011-01-07 04:10 pm (UTC)Harry got a Firebolt. They're supposed to be the best brooms ever made and the company has only manufactured a very limited number of them, mostly for star quidditchers. But Harry can't even use it, everyone's convinced it's been blighted with deadly jinxes and hexes. Which is possible, really, because who would send Harry a Firebolt and then not take credit for it?
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Date: 2011-01-07 04:55 pm (UTC)We were talking about it at Finnigan's, because Cuthbert said at first his grandfather thought perhaps your father sent it, to make up for being stuck at Hogwarts all holiday. But I said that didn't make any sense because your father knew very well that Harry isn't supposed to fly right now. And that's probably why the person who sent it is anonymous, isn't it? I mean, there are really only three explanations. First is because the person who sent it knows Harry isn't supposed to fly and is being, well, horrid about it. You know, taunting him with a broom he can't ride? And no one would want to do that and attach their name to it. That'd be mad.
But that's an awfully expensive prank. Cuthbert was telling us all about the Firebolt on Wednesday. He says it's got a diamond-hard polish and that they're hand-numbered and have unbreakable braking charms and, oh, I dunno, all sorts of nift features. Page was positively salivating at the thought! But anyway, it's well naff to spend that kind of gold on a present that's meant to annoy Harry, isn't it?
So the other thought we had seems to be everyone else's too, that the person who sent it either doesn't know Harry's not allowed to fly right now, or does know but is hoping he will do anyway because he's got the most snitch broom in the world. Which can only mean one thing. Macnair. And he must have stolen the gold, which is why it doesn't matter to him how much it cost.
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Date: 2011-01-07 07:25 pm (UTC)I'm sure Raz has theories but he hasn't much shared them with us, not in detail anyway. Uncle Rodolphus and his team are looking at the broom now and have been for a while. I think everyone's wondering if Macnair is behind it, though. He's probably furious he didn't get the job done the first time, the mad oaf.