Monday is a very long day
Sep. 21st, 2009 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sally_anneI 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 thingsturn 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?
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
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?
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:55 pm (UTC)My shoes have started pinching my toes. I wonder if there's a charm I can use to make them bigger?
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:10 pm (UTC)Maybe you could ask in Charms? After all, we are trying to fix things, so it fits what we've been learning.
When do you get new shoes next? Can you ask someone for them sooner? If you had to wait til Christmas or something, that wouldn't be very fun.
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:19 pm (UTC)My foster family is supposed to get an allowance from the Ministry to buy things for me like shoes but it took forever just to get the money for books and the money for clothing never came. I figured out that most of the books in Defense this year are just last year's books with new titles, so that saved me some money, but we used that for the new robes I needed and the cauldron and a pair of warm gloves. I guess I'd better write to Mrs Wood and see if the money came in, she could order me shoes if it has.
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:52 pm (UTC)Better than walking around in pinchy shoes, at any rate.
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Date: 2009-09-22 05:22 pm (UTC)Mum uses itI could do it for you, but it'd probably be better if I just showed you and you did it yourself. 'Cause, y'know, I don't want to have to apologise for blowing your toes off or setting your shoes on fire.(no subject)
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