25 February, 1974
Dear Danny,
Okay. I won't bothre bother to going on and on and on about why I am writing you. It is a girl. Only, she's not a girl. Well of course she's a girl how could she not be? But she's diferent different. She's very pretty and smart, and I think I might fancy her a bit.
It started in Potions. I do okay I guess in it but I get confused which blasted plant is which you know? A leaf looks like a leaf, and I'll be damned in a skirt if I know hemlock from a fig leaf. Honestly, though, when am I ever going to fall flat on my face and wonder what kind of grass is staring back at me? Well, maybe if it's Devil Snare. Ha! I know that one. It tried to crawl up my leg. Phillip thought THAT was a hoot. You try having a plant feel about your.. you knows.. only you know it's trying to kill you, not feel you. Terrible, horrible molesting killer plant. Bet our professor gets her sick little jollies from watching us struggle with them.
Okay, okay. Back on subject of the girl. She's brilliant compared to me. And she was my partner today. So we're sitting there and I'm cutting up leafs (probably oak leafs, all my luck; probably explains later outcome) and she's measuring the correct amount of leech juice, and I start rambling like I know I do. It's one thing to be a shy dork. It's another to be a shy dork with a fear of silence. I don't even remember what I was talking about, either, which is worse. It could have been about my socks for all I know.
Oh Merlin, I bet it WAS my socks. Oh, she probably thinks I'm a loon now. "Oh, hello. Nice day today. Lovely weather. Wonderful measuring there. Do you like my socks? They're white, and they have a hole in the toe."
..Oh dear. Anyway, I hope that wasn't it. Whatever it was made her laugh (and she has such a pretty laugh, too), and I felt goofy. Like I couldn't stop smiling. She laughed with (I can only hope) me, because of me. If it's at me.. So we talked a bit and she corrected me on my Herbology mistakes I kept making. (I almost put daisy roots in when it should have been the I-Think-I-Want-To-Confuse-Caradoc-So-I'll-Look-Like-Oak, which would have resulted in a bad mark, not that it mattered in the end.)
So, I'm feeling like a dorky fool, and I was asking her about if she had a boyfriend, and she was about to answer when I hear someone say my name, and when I turn, I KNOCK THE CAULDRON AND A LOT OF IT SPILLS ON HER. I was thanking everything and everyone looking out for me in whateverland that it was cooling at the moment, or else it would have been REALLY bad. She would have had to be rushed to the Hospital Wing. As it stands, it simply turned her robes a disgusting colour of brown slug, and no ill effects happened otherwise. I am SO glad that it wasn't finished. I'm not sure a Shrinking Solution bath would have been good.
Professor Slughorn wasn't very happy with me. She said it was okay, that I didn't cause (much) harm, and she was really nice about it, but you could have thought I had just force-fed her a Draught of the Living Dead. I got a long talk after class about paying attention to what I was doing and a safety lecture that included "attention span" a lot.
(I still don't know who called my name. I asked Phillip and Kingsley, and it wasn't them. I hope it wasn't too important.)
I had to stay after the class AND lecture and clean up EVERYONE'S mess. But since he likes her (I think he likes her, he doesn't like me that much is clear) he's going to let us fix our my mistake. At least, if I beg and remind him enough.
Now, with all of that said, I know I overheard her mention her birthday was coming up soon, and I want to get her something to say "Sorry I almost turned you into a horrible mess of a creature and DID turn your robes dung brown" and that says "Oh, and Happy Birthday, too!" Since you're a girl and you like girly things and whatnot, I thought you might could help. So, please please please help me? I have NO CLUE what she likes, and I can't very well ask her because that would mean going up to her and talking, and I'm horrible at that.
Please please please please?
I loooooooooove you, Danny?
Okay. I won't bothre bother to going on and on and on about why I am writing you. It is a girl. Only, she's not a girl. Well of course she's a girl how could she not be? But she's diferent different. She's very pretty and smart, and I think I might fancy her a bit.
It started in Potions. I do okay I guess in it but I get confused which blasted plant is which you know? A leaf looks like a leaf, and I'll be damned in a skirt if I know hemlock from a fig leaf. Honestly, though, when am I ever going to fall flat on my face and wonder what kind of grass is staring back at me? Well, maybe if it's Devil Snare. Ha! I know that one. It tried to crawl up my leg. Phillip thought THAT was a hoot. You try having a plant feel about your.. you knows.. only you know it's trying to kill you, not feel you. Terrible, horrible molesting killer plant. Bet our professor gets her sick little jollies from watching us struggle with them.
Okay, okay. Back on subject of the girl. She's brilliant compared to me. And she was my partner today. So we're sitting there and I'm cutting up leafs (probably oak leafs, all my luck; probably explains later outcome) and she's measuring the correct amount of leech juice, and I start rambling like I know I do. It's one thing to be a shy dork. It's another to be a shy dork with a fear of silence. I don't even remember what I was talking about, either, which is worse. It could have been about my socks for all I know.
Oh Merlin, I bet it WAS my socks. Oh, she probably thinks I'm a loon now. "Oh, hello. Nice day today. Lovely weather. Wonderful measuring there. Do you like my socks? They're white, and they have a hole in the toe."
..Oh dear. Anyway, I hope that wasn't it. Whatever it was made her laugh (and she has such a pretty laugh, too), and I felt goofy. Like I couldn't stop smiling. She laughed with (I can only hope) me, because of me. If it's at me.. So we talked a bit and she corrected me on my Herbology mistakes I kept making. (I almost put daisy roots in when it should have been the I-Think-I-Want-To-Confuse-Caradoc-So-I'll-Look-Like-Oak, which would have resulted in a bad mark, not that it mattered in the end.)
So, I'm feeling like a dorky fool, and I was asking her about if she had a boyfriend, and she was about to answer when I hear someone say my name, and when I turn, I KNOCK THE CAULDRON AND A LOT OF IT SPILLS ON HER. I was thanking everything and everyone looking out for me in whateverland that it was cooling at the moment, or else it would have been REALLY bad. She would have had to be rushed to the Hospital Wing. As it stands, it simply turned her robes a disgusting colour of brown slug, and no ill effects happened otherwise. I am SO glad that it wasn't finished. I'm not sure a Shrinking Solution bath would have been good.
Professor Slughorn wasn't very happy with me. She said it was okay, that I didn't cause (much) harm, and she was really nice about it, but you could have thought I had just force-fed her a Draught of the Living Dead. I got a long talk after class about paying attention to what I was doing and a safety lecture that included "attention span" a lot.
(I still don't know who called my name. I asked Phillip and Kingsley, and it wasn't them. I hope it wasn't too important.)
I had to stay after the class AND lecture and clean up EVERYONE'S mess. But since he likes her (I think he likes her, he doesn't like me that much is clear) he's going to let us fix our my mistake. At least, if I beg and remind him enough.
Now, with all of that said, I know I overheard her mention her birthday was coming up soon, and I want to get her something to say "Sorry I almost turned you into a horrible mess of a creature and DID turn your robes dung brown" and that says "Oh, and Happy Birthday, too!" Since you're a girl and you like girly things and whatnot, I thought you might could help. So, please please please help me? I have NO CLUE what she likes, and I can't very well ask her because that would mean going up to her and talking, and I'm horrible at that.
Please please please please?
I loooooooooove you, Danny?