Monday is a very long day

[alt_sally_anne]

I suppose I'm rested up from the weekend so it's not too hard staying up late for Astronomy observation, but we also have double Defense and then Transfiguration on Mondays. Anyway the year isn't going too badly so far. Muggle Studies is usually interesting. Professor Brutka seems like a better teacher than Macnair, which is good as I want to take Care of Magical Creatures next year.

In Charms we've been learning about repairing things. My father fixes things, that's usually how he brought in money. But of course I didn't have a wand yet when I was little so I could only watch, and it's quite a bit harder than it looks. Sometimes when something knits itself back together it goes too far the other way and you get a big ugly thick place. But then there are times when it all goes together perfectly and it's almost like petting a cat and feeling it purr under your hand.

Thomas is in my Transfiguration class on Mondays even though he's a Gryffindor. He has a bad time of it in class. Sometimes things work but half the time things turn to go to pieces on him. Neville says it's just as bad when he's in with the Gryffindors on Thursday. I told him to tell Thomas there's nothing for it but to put his head down and keep at it. He's doing alright outside of class so he's learning, even if his marks in Transfiguration will be dreadful. What really matters is your OWL score anyway and it's not the professor who tests you. Which isn't much consolation to Neville since he's pants outside of class too.

For Muggle Studies next week we have to think of twenty ways that wizarding lights are better than muggle lights (candles or the lectric things they used to use) which shouldn't be too difficult. Someone did ask Miss Professor Carrow if she could tell us how muggle aeroplanes worked and she got cross and said that was none of our concern. Blaise said later that maybe they stole wizarding magic to make them work, like perhaps there was always a flying carpet hidden inside and that kept them up. Pansy said they were enormous though, much bigger than any flying carpet she's ever seen. So then Blaise said maybe they put in four or five carpets per aeroplane. Pansy said that can't be right because flying carpets are expensive and there used to be lots of them. Still are I suppose, outside the Protectorate. Draco did you see any while you were in France?

Comments

[alt_padma]

IKWYM about Mondays. Don't they realise how hard it is to have such a long day after the weekends? Though it's wizard to be able to observe on the night of the equinox - that was nift.

I wonder if we'll always get the same assignment in Muggle Studies, because if we do, then keep posting about them, Perks; it'll give the rest of us a jump on the lessons.

[alt_ron]

I guess Transfig didn't go any better this week, then? He won't talk about it yet, but we figure that means it wasn't great.

It was freezing last night on the tower! I guess it'll be that way from now on. Nice it wasn't raining, though.

[alt_draco]

Up in the air I saw them, all during the day and the night, too, plus these things called hellacopters which are smaller and noisier and don't fly as high. I don't know what makes them fly but whatever it is must be bad, like the stuff that muggles used for autos and to heat their homes. Because the aeroplanes left giant plumes of smoke across the sky, and the smoke would stay there for a long time after they were gone.

[alt_pansy]

How many of the twenty have you go so far? I've got ten.

And I haven't met Professor Brutka yet. Do you want to go down and talk to him later today? We can introduce him to Pyewacket. I'm sure he's worked with loads of kneazles before, but it would give us an excuse to stop by.

[alt_neville]

I really don't get why Dean's having so much trouble in Transfiguration class. He can do the spells just fine in the common room.