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Yesterday Mr Rosier took me to Diagon Alley. He said I should buy presents for Draco, Pansy, and Hydra. I'll see them at the party at Mrs Black's house. Not the Mrs Black that Pansy's staying with. Draco's grandmother. That's on Boxing Day so I won't send those gifts by owl. I bought presents for my mates from school as well. Those I can send by owl.
Today we didn't have anywhere to go so he let me explore his house. My families main house is big, but it has people everywhere. This house is big and very quiet. There are house-elves, but you don't see them unless you want to. There's a long hallway with pictures of all the Rosiers. It goes back for centuries. Some of the pictures talk but not all. Theres one of a woman who married a muggle, and her portrait is still there but they hexed it to get rid of her mouth so she can't say anything. She still looks at you, though.
Theres a room with tables and chairs and games to play. The weather today was too nasty to go out flying, but theres a room on the side of the house with a door that opens to the outside. And it has brooms. Including some really wizard ones. Also practice quaffles and bludgers and snitches. Mr Rosier says when the weather improves I can borrow any broom I like to go flying.
Mr Rosier was happiest about showing me the library. He had the house-elves move all the books he thought a boy might find interesting to one book-case, and theres a complete set of the Young Merlin adventures, with at least ten Id never even seen before. And Im a little old now for the Murgatroyd Mysteries but there were a bunch Id never seen before of those too. He also pointed out where he keeps the books on spells. He has a bunch on the Dark Arts. He took one down and added it to the shelf of my the books that were set aside because I might be interested. He said it was a good intraductery text for a curious young person. Not that I should be learning Dark Arts. But if I wanted to know a little about them he said knowlege is never a bad thing.
I dont think he thinks much of Professor Lockhart.
Anyway, he said I could read any book in the library that looked interesting. Not just the ones on my shelf. But if I take down one of the other books he said I should tell him what Im reading. He said that some books leave out important things. Like for instance he told me a story about a student wizard who learned a spell to transfigure brooms (ordinary sweeping brooms, not the kind that normally fly) to carry water but didn't know how to make them stop.
I promised I wouldnt do anything mad like that. Mr Rosier said I shouldnt be afraid to make mistakes. If you never make a mistake your not really testing yourself. He said that since Im a Gryffindor, if I make a mistake it should be a really glorious mistake.
I asked him if hed heard about Nott melting Smiths cauldron. He said that was exactly the sort of thing he was talking about.
To read in my room tonight I took up one of the Young Merlin books and also the book on Dark Arts. Its called 'Spells of Power: an introduction.' I read the first bit. The wizard who wrote it was in Gryffindor when he was at Hogwarts.
Today we didn't have anywhere to go so he let me explore his house. My families main house is big, but it has people everywhere. This house is big and very quiet. There are house-elves, but you don't see them unless you want to. There's a long hallway with pictures of all the Rosiers. It goes back for centuries. Some of the pictures talk but not all. Theres one of a woman who married a muggle, and her portrait is still there but they hexed it to get rid of her mouth so she can't say anything. She still looks at you, though.
Theres a room with tables and chairs and games to play. The weather today was too nasty to go out flying, but theres a room on the side of the house with a door that opens to the outside. And it has brooms. Including some really wizard ones. Also practice quaffles and bludgers and snitches. Mr Rosier says when the weather improves I can borrow any broom I like to go flying.
Mr Rosier was happiest about showing me the library. He had the house-elves move all the books he thought a boy might find interesting to one book-case, and theres a complete set of the Young Merlin adventures, with at least ten Id never even seen before. And Im a little old now for the Murgatroyd Mysteries but there were a bunch Id never seen before of those too. He also pointed out where he keeps the books on spells. He has a bunch on the Dark Arts. He took one down and added it to the shelf of my the books that were set aside because I might be interested. He said it was a good intraductery text for a curious young person. Not that I should be learning Dark Arts. But if I wanted to know a little about them he said knowlege is never a bad thing.
I dont think he thinks much of Professor Lockhart.
Anyway, he said I could read any book in the library that looked interesting. Not just the ones on my shelf. But if I take down one of the other books he said I should tell him what Im reading. He said that some books leave out important things. Like for instance he told me a story about a student wizard who learned a spell to transfigure brooms (ordinary sweeping brooms, not the kind that normally fly) to carry water but didn't know how to make them stop.
I promised I wouldnt do anything mad like that. Mr Rosier said I shouldnt be afraid to make mistakes. If you never make a mistake your not really testing yourself. He said that since Im a Gryffindor, if I make a mistake it should be a really glorious mistake.
I asked him if hed heard about Nott melting Smiths cauldron. He said that was exactly the sort of thing he was talking about.
To read in my room tonight I took up one of the Young Merlin books and also the book on Dark Arts. Its called 'Spells of Power: an introduction.' I read the first bit. The wizard who wrote it was in Gryffindor when he was at Hogwarts.