Jam, jam, and more jam

[alt_sally_anne]

The Strettons have been trying to take orders by journal private message instead of just owl post and since I know how to use the journals, they've been having me go through to look for orders people are placing. Except of course people are mostly writing these private messages to Mr or Mrs Stretton so they've been having me read THEIR journals to try to keep up, which means I'm reading all the time but of course I can't write anything since it will show up at Mrs Stretton or Mr Stretton and not me.

Jeremy's been laughing. He knows how to use the journals too, of course, but he never writes in his so he can pretend to his mum and dad that he doesn't and I got stuck with it. Of course I'm going back to school in less than two weeks now so they're going to have to work out some other system.

Mr Stretton had this idea that involves giving journals to the goblins at Gringott's so let's say someone wanted to order jam from the Strettons, they could write a private message that would be to Stretton Jam Ordering and to Gringott's and say, 'I would like to place an order for ten holiday jam parcels at four galleons each, please owl them to the following addresses and I authorise the transfer of forty galleons from my Gringott's bank vault to the Stretton vault.' And the goblins could move the gold from one vault to the other, and the Strettons could send an owl with the jam and it would be very fast because they wouldn't have to wait for payment to arrive.

I don't know whether the goblins would go along with it or not -- journals are a bit new and of course there's the problem of stolen diaries. Is there anything in the magic to keep you from writing in someone else's diary? I can read the Strettons' but they ASKED me to so that might be different. Mr Stretton's been owling people at the Ministry to set up a meeting; of course this wouldn't be JUST for the Strettons they'd do this, but everyone who sells things by owl.

Anyway, I think it's an interesting idea.

I can't wait to go back to school.

Comments

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_draco]

The Goblins have a tonne of incoming owls to manage every day, I don't know that they'd want to deal with the journals, too. But I can bring your entry to my Father's attention, and you can tell Mrs Stretton I said that I would. No promises that anything will come of it, though.

I'm looking forward to Dark Arts more than anything. I've already read the whole book, and there's a section I want to ask Vince about on the train.

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_sally_anne]

I can't believe I'm already behind and school hasn't even started yet. Do you think I should read the book in order, once I finally get it, or is there a particular section I should start with? (Dark Arts, I mean; I got in.)

And thank you, you can bring it to your Father's attention if you want to but I certainly don't want to impose. Honestly, it seems like an interesting idea but I can think of a lot of things that could go wrong. It would've been awfully handy last winter during the quarantine, though. (Not so much for us, since we couldn't get owls at ALL. But for the people who were stuck at home for one reason or another.)

Re: Private message to Draco

[alt_draco]

I'll bring it to his attention. At some point or another.

Start with the beginning. There are sections on theory that seem fairly important. An interesting section on psychological mindset, too, which I hadn't thought much about before. That's that section I wanted to ask Vince about, actually. I don't know if you know, but he's already very good at Dark Arts. Greg's not bad at all, either.