at Pansy's

[alt_sally_anne]

I'm having a very good time at Gloss House. I've been learning to ride a horse, and we go swimming a lot -- Mrs Parkinson is busy with wedding plans and Mr Campbell is gone on business a lot so mostly we have it to ourselves.

The muggle chef cooks really well (nearly as good as an elf) and the food is SO good. Yesterday Hydra came for a visit and we went riding, I think Hydra really enjoyed that, but then it started raining. There's a box full of old games in the parlour, not just chess and gobstones but a bunch I'd never seen before and we played something called Cluedo where you're investigating a murder and you have to work out which of the other players did it and what spell they used, the pieces talk but they're a little like the mad chess pieces, they shout accusations dramatically and mine kept pretending to swoon. It's a silly game but fun, and Hydra won both times. (And it wasn't because her piece was more cooperative, the second game it was hers who'd committed the crime! you decide that randomly and you can win by accusing yourself, it's part of why I thought it was silly.)

Anyway it was a really nice afternoon. Hydra, I'm glad you could come.

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Private message to Hydra Lestrange

[alt_sally_anne]

I hope you felt alright later; I realised after you left you'd eaten about eight of those scone things with the lemon curd in them. Mina just kept bringing more out and they were really good, weren't they? I didn't have much appetite for dinner because I'd eaten so many.

Re: Private message to Hydra Lestrange

[alt_hydra]

The scones were so nice, I'm sure I could have ate a full dozen if they'd been served with real clotted cream, the way the Lord Protector serves them.
I was a bit sick after and didn't eat much dinner, which would have probably gotten me in trouble except that I ate dinner alone.

From,
Hydra

Re: Private message to Hydra Lestrange

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, I'm glad you didn't get into trouble. Is real clotted cream nice? I don't think I've ever had it.

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

The groom at Gloss House is a muggleborn named Fowles, he's not much older than Percy. Hydra stared at him like he was bright green, you'd think she'd never seen a muggleborn before and I don't understand it because she sees Hermione all the time in Slytherin. Maybe it was because he was a boy? Or older than us?

Hydra also mentioned she's having tea again with the Lord Protector this weekend. I think she finds the Lord Protector less scary than her own mum.

[alt_pansy]

It was quite fun, and Hydra was just brilliant at Cleudo, wasn't she?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes, I don't know how she worked it out as quickly as she did!

[alt_ron]

Runs in the family, maybe. I mean, her mums a brilliant Auror, isn't she? Maybe she'll be one, too, someday.

[alt_hydra]

I didn't even try very hard at the game, I was just good at it somehow.
But then Sally Anne tried to show me origami and I was really dreadful, my birds all had tails.

From,
Hydra

[alt_sally_anne]

Origami is tricky, a lot of people can't get the folds right. You were really good at the game though!