alt_padma: (profile)
Although we're still having to use that horrid shampoo, but only as a precaution now. At least it's the weekend, and Sandoval said at breakfast this morning that as we've been generally spared the invasion of insects ever since putting up the runes, she's reopening Ravenclaw Corner today.

And Morag, honestly, it's nothing personal. If you had the chance to revise with Troy and Sandoval and Johns and the others, you'd take it too, you know you would. And if you'd make a little more of an effort, you might be invited next year, and then you'd see for yourself it's really so much more fun than revising with - well, well people who aren't as much help to you as you are to them.

Anyway, I still spend loads of time with you and Dunstan and Moon, and anyway it'll be summer soon and we'll get together plenty at the holidays. And Parvati and my birthday is coming up, too! We've asked Mum and Dad if the quarantine is lifted, if they'd send up a real traditional meal and we'll invite all our friends. That'll be nift. And it looks like the quarantine will be lifted soon enough, so I think it's not even a waste of time to think about it.

Oh, and Mum, if Sanji keeps whinging about getting a puppy, tell him he'll just have to leave it home when he comes to school, anyway. It's too bad he's already thinking about his birthday - it's ages away. I guess it's unavoidable whenever we start planning for ours.
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Dunstan, MacDougal and I all went up to the hospital wing after lunch to get that shampoo stuff.

And then we went up the dormitory and we've cleaned out all our cupboards, trunks, and everything to check for anything that might still be causing bugs to come into the tower.

The nearest we can figure it, something was attracting them. Troy's rune repelled them from our dormitory, but then they were going as close as they could - which meant the 7th-years' and the 1st-years' dorms, to start. Then they copied out the runes but the bugs went into the next closest rooms, and so on.

We've copied out about twenty sets of runes, but as long as the bugs are being summoned somehow, they'll keep turning up. Even when the elves made it so that the bugs would die, they kept coming in anyway.

We didn't find anything, but we did bin anything that we didn't recognise, down to the little bits of parchment and old quill feathers and so on. I'm really good at tidying spells now.

If we'd found something suspicious, though, I was all prepared to cast Scarpin's Revelaspell on it to confirm a hexing. Bobolis showed me where to copy it out from her Charms book, but she said that if we had trouble we could bring it to her and she'd give it a go, as it's a rather advanced spell. (She had a horrible night, an earwig got itself onto her pillow and she woke up when it crawled in her ear! Poor thing! I think she'd have been just as happy to have a go at the people who hexed us. That alone makes me wish we'd found something definite.)

But the thing is, we've cleaned out the entire dorm, and we've all got protective runes up now, so if anyone else starts noticing a load of dirty great insects congregating outside Ravenclaw Tower, we'll know we've missed something.

(Meanwhile, Sandoval's still ever so cross. She's banned me everyone from Ravenclaw Corner until we've all finished the treatments, so we don't pass anything back and forth.)
alt_padma: (concentrating)
And I mainly managed to get through the day without the shudders every few minutes.

Also, I hope we may have found a way to stop whatever has been attracting these horrid SWARMS of insects. D'you know there was actually a wasp's nest forming in the upper corner of the dormitory by this afternoon? A wasp's nest.

Anyway. So, what happened was Troy came to Ravenclaw Corner this afternoon and he said that he's not having another night's sleep interrupted by 'shrieking females' because he needs his rest for the last Quidditch matches of the year and to revise for NEWTs. So while ordinarily he wouldn't see fit to put himself in the middle of a second-year's dust-up, as it's affecting everyone in the tower, he'd do us a favour this one time.

So he gave me a piece of parchment with a rune on it. He says it'll repel all the bugs. I nipped up to the dorm to set it on the shelf so it'll start working as soon as possible.

When I came back to the library he was telling Capper all about how he's been making a study of useful insects and used a variation of the rune that he gave me to protect himself from stings and such. (He was really chatting up Capper, as if studying bugs were the most fascinating thing in the world and honestly, I know he's really doing us a favour with this rune, if it works, I mean, but he could have been more of a gentleman about it all instead of making it seem like we ought to kiss his robe hems. As it was I think he wasn't half doing it because he thinks she'll be impressed.) Honestly, she already fancies you, Troy, you don't need to push at it so!

Well, anyway, thanks to Troy, we ought to have a relatively restored dormitory by the end the day. I hope. (And really, Troy, it'll be as much a relief to us as to you! And I hope after all this Ravenclaw wins the cup, or you get 12 NEWTs or something else, because you needn't be so shirty about it!)
alt_padma: (Ravenclaw)
EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!

More bugs.

Apr. 11th, 2010 01:05 pm
alt_padma: (Serious)
Sandoval, can we get the house-elves back upstairs? I think the spell's not working properly.

There are still dead bugs everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

We just nipped in to get dressed in fresh clothes and get our books and such. I know it was cleaned last night, they said it was, but honestly, it's like an insect carpet in there.

Gross.

Oh, and I sent MacDougal back up to Madam Pomfrey because she was scratching her head a lot.

I just don't understand why the bugs would keep coming after they were all cleaned out.

If someone hexed us, wouldn't it have worn off by now?

Maybe there's a hex bag or something hidden in the room? Could we tell the elves to look out for something like that particularly? I read about hex bags in the Maleficarum we're reading for Young Interrogators' Club. If we get rid of the hex bag it'll stop the hex, right?

EEEEWWWW!

Apr. 11th, 2010 12:30 am
alt_padma: (Ravenclaw)
This is DISGUSTING.

I'm not going in that dormitory with all that in there.

Fawcett, Brocklehurst: We've already spoken to you about leaving crumbs up in the room. Honestly.

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