I noticed in that post of his that Mr Black (the good one, I mean, not the awful one) was reading a book about Salazar Slytherin, so I went and looked in the library and Madam Pince has a copy. She also had something called Lives of the Founders and a really nift illustrated book about the duel between Slytherin and Gryffindor. So I've got those ( Read more... )

a waste last night. Everyone wanted to talk about what Professor Binns had said during the Slytherin lesson, and about the Chamber, and no one really wanted to talk about the Picts and Saxons and their tributes to wizards at all ( Read more... )

is an utter waste of time!!! We'd do just as well to get the books and take it in turns to read aloud to one another, for all the good lessons do ( Read more... )

The revising club is really getting to be quite the crowd. I told Belinda that she'd better get a move on if she wants to keep her place with us. For one thing, it doesn't look well for a Ravenclaw to be doing worse in most of her subjects than Hufflepuffs or Gryffindors. But for another there's only so much room at the table before it gets too ( Read more... )

Why are Mondays so busy?

I know we've just come back from holiday and ought to be well-rested, but for some reason I'm ever so much more tired than usual. (It doesn't help when Professor Binns is drowning droning on about centaurs. Parvati may be horse-mad but I'm not ( Read more... )