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[alt_sally_anne]

I'm writing this in the Slytherin common room and it's so lovely, some second-years are playing Exploding Snap and I can smell ginger biscuits that someone brought from home and there's a lovely fire in the fireplace and it's cosy and I'm so happy to be back.

Gemma cried this morning when Mr Morrison said it was time to take me to the station. She wanted to come along to see me off but Mrs Stretton had errands for Mr Morrison to run in London and he couldn't be expected to do them with Gemma along, so I gave her a hug and said I'd see her in the summer. Except at the station, the way Mr Morrison said goodbye made me think the Strettons don't want to have me back. I don't know. There was another row yesterday, Mrs Stretton had me helping her in the office with testing out different foods. She had samples of potatoes, turnips, carrots, and apples and she was transfiguring all of them into oranges and then she'd have me peel the orange and eat it. It was fascinating how different the results were depending on what you started with, you'd think the apple would work best but I'd say it was actually the turnip. Anyway Jeremy came in and asked her why she had ME doing this and she said she didn't want to disturb him because he never wants to help and he said that's because she never lets him do anything interesting and I wanted to leave but they were between me and the door.

Anyway Jeremy seemed to think I was doing something his mum ought to have asked him to do. And Mrs Stretton also seemed to think I was doing something he ought to be doing only she seemed to think he'd rather be out flying. And after a while I realised that she'd only asked me to help with this because she wanted to make him jealous

Finally I said I had to go pack up to go back to Hogwarts and I thought Mrs Stretton was going to hex me for interrupting but she let me go.

When I came to King's Cross in September I was terrified a little overwhelmed by all the strangers, but today I couldn't stop smiling, everywhere I looked I saw one of my friends. Pansy and I sat together on the train and talked about hols and music and AK, which is going to be wizard, and about classes, and I showed her some of the transfiguration tricks I learned from Mrs Stretton. I'm so glad to be back.

Comments

[alt_pansy]

It's good to be back, isn't it? You're getting to be so good at transfiguration, too!

And forget the Strettons. Sounds like they just wanted an unpaid nanny.

[alt_hermione]

Miss Perks it sounds as though the Strettons want to treat you like a Mudblood. And you're not to be treated that way, you aren't as muddy as us. You ought to complain.

[alt_sally_anne]

That's not really fair to the Strettons, plenty of pureblood families expect their own children to help mind the younger ones. Taking care of Gemma wasn't bad, it was the babies at night that were awful I didn't like, because I wanted to sleep.

They have mudblood house servants, if that's all they'd wanted it would've been easy enough to get another one. And she'd have been older than me and probably better with babies.

[alt_hermione]

Sorry, Miss Perks.

[alt_megan]

I think they'll want you back. You're clever and good at things and it's their duty now. You even made an eye for one of their muggles!

Do you want to go back in the summer?