Private Message to Lavender Brown
Aug. 6th, 2010 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_padmaI haven't heard back from Sandoval. I expect she's really really busy.
How was the week without the Lunatic? I'm sorry she's coming home soon. But do you think your parents might have us, anyway? I know Parvati wrote to you yesterday. Have they saidyes anything yet?
Lav, they had such a row last night! Mum's all upset with Dad because he's been playing in the orchestra more and more and producing less. And it doesn't pay as well, first off, and it's not as responsible, second, or influential. No one notices a cellist but a producer is important, you know? And she's got this idea that if he made himself 'indispensible' at the second wireless station, the one Mr Malfoy mentioned? Well, she's got this idea that if Dad made himself one of the people really running things there, he could 'make something of himself.' Ooh, Dad got so cross at that! He said a good deal about how he provides fine for us, and it's not her place to tell him how to make money. Mum said she made more in a month than he does in a year, and without her they'd never be invited to snitch parties and we'd never have been able to go to Harry's birthday, and all. She said it's down to her and he's shirking. He didn't like that at all.
Then he said...he said that she needn't bother trying to make so much because we've enough now, and it's not like they've got a chance at the Repopulation Rewards anymore. And that if she didn't work so hard at the studio or try hobnobbing with Narcissa Malfoy so much, perhaps the house would be in better order - and they could work on having another son.
Mum looked like he'd slapped her. He didn't really, of course, but she looked gobsmacked. And she said that as far as she was concerned they'd never have more children since he couldn't hold on to the last one they had.
Then Dad Apparated out. And Mum just...she started cooking. At ten at night. This morning she told us to clean all the house and Dad's still not home. She said he'd gone to work but I don't know if that's so.
Lav. I think Haruman wants to get his own place so we can stay there with him instead of Mum and Dad. They're both going mad, I think.
So will you ask your parents? I'll try Belinda next, if we can't, but I think her whole family are sill on holiday at that country house in the Cotswolds.
How was the week without the Lunatic? I'm sorry she's coming home soon. But do you think your parents might have us, anyway? I know Parvati wrote to you yesterday. Have they said
Lav, they had such a row last night! Mum's all upset with Dad because he's been playing in the orchestra more and more and producing less. And it doesn't pay as well, first off, and it's not as responsible, second, or influential. No one notices a cellist but a producer is important, you know? And she's got this idea that if he made himself 'indispensible' at the second wireless station, the one Mr Malfoy mentioned? Well, she's got this idea that if Dad made himself one of the people really running things there, he could 'make something of himself.' Ooh, Dad got so cross at that! He said a good deal about how he provides fine for us, and it's not her place to tell him how to make money. Mum said she made more in a month than he does in a year, and without her they'd never be invited to snitch parties and we'd never have been able to go to Harry's birthday, and all. She said it's down to her and he's shirking. He didn't like that at all.
Then he said...he said that she needn't bother trying to make so much because we've enough now, and it's not like they've got a chance at the Repopulation Rewards anymore. And that if she didn't work so hard at the studio or try hobnobbing with Narcissa Malfoy so much, perhaps the house would be in better order - and they could work on having another son.
Mum looked like he'd slapped her. He didn't really, of course, but she looked gobsmacked. And she said that as far as she was concerned they'd never have more children since he couldn't hold on to the last one they had.
Then Dad Apparated out. And Mum just...she started cooking. At ten at night. This morning she told us to clean all the house and Dad's still not home. She said he'd gone to work but I don't know if that's so.
Lav. I think Haruman wants to get his own place so we can stay there with him instead of Mum and Dad. They're both going mad, I think.
So will you ask your parents? I'll try Belinda next, if we can't, but I think her whole family are sill on holiday at that country house in the Cotswolds.
