Shopping in New London was

[alt_padma]

utterly brill! Mum saw our new lacquer and the bag I got and Parvati's new comb and simply adores them, too. And it was so nift to just gad about, even without buying anything. I thought we might never get Parkinson back from that record shop.

Perks, Parvati says Gemma can plait her hair anytime she likes! Did you decide against that bracelet, after all? I know some people don't like anything round their wrists when they're writing. Or the jingling bothers them. It's probably just as well you didn't get it.

Supper was lovely, too! I didn't know that Burrow and O'Flaherty had both gone into Healers' training. It was a surprise to see them - Haruman usually doesn't talk much about his mates.

(Lav, did you see the way that Chadwick smiled at you? He's well fit, isn't he?)

Oh, and has anyone seen today's Prophet? There's a huge piece about Auror Crouch - and they mentioned Sandoval prominently, too! I knew she'd be brilliant as an Auror! 'Presence and grace under heavy hexfire' and then later it said she was 'instrumental' in apprehending the traitors. I'm keeping our copy so when she's head of the Aurors one day, I can say I knew her back at school. Well done, Lana! Ravenclaw Corner is well proud of you!

Daphs, you might want to read the article, too, because it does talk about Auror Crouch's career and some of the things he's done for the Lord Protector. Plus there's his mum, which might be useful to you when playing that scene with Chang. (Actually there's a sidebar that's got a bunch of facts and trivia about him, like how he showed his magic the first time and when he joined MLE and like that. And you might want to read it, if you haven't. I think there's more there than in that Rise of the Protector book Ptolemy found for us all!)

I don't know about anyone else, but even though it's been lovely to get away from school, I think yesterday was the best part of the holiday. I can't believe we've got to pack up now and go back. I hope our lacquer lasts as long as they said it would. We paid the extra two sickles for the hardening and strengthening spell, too, so that it should last through the end of term.

Ugh, and now Aunt Sivarti wants us to go help make supper. It's not even time for lunch!

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Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

The bread was fantastic. It was probably my favourite part of the meal. Although to drink there was this thing -- when Haruman heard Gemma and I hadn't ever had curry before he said we had to have a lassie? It's made with mangoes. This is a rather posh curry shop so they use real ingredients. The Strettons have a transfigured mango jam thing that's sort of odd and too sweet but this was NOTHING like that.

I really liked it. I might almost put up with more sneering from Patil to get another one of those. Almost.

It was really awkward, actually. I hadn't planned to stay to dinner because I knew her brother was treating and I didn't want to impose. But Gemma got all slow-pokey at just the wrong moment and he arrived before we left and when I tried to say 'well, it's been grand, see you later!' she dug in her heels and insisted we didn't HAVE to go back yet and then Haruman got all gracious and if we'd left, it would have been rude plus Gemma would have made a scene.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Lassie, eh? Never heard of them. Must've been really good, though.

Little kids can be a right pain. I remember when Ginny was like that.

Still is sometimes.