Private... at least I hope so.
[ooc this will be locked properly, for all that Susan is worried :) ]
Duw, I've hardly caught my breath twice over the past few days and no mistake! First off all the security went haywire over the interwebb and well, me, I just kept my head down mainly given as I've managed to make a marmalade of it all in the past with no help from You Know Who as it was, but I admit I did look from time to time to see what everyone else had been posting. Mind you I hardly had to given what it's like with gossip round here. And here has got a lot smaller lately.
We all thought we were so safe here, see, if you call something a safe house it sort of lulls you into a sense of security that maybe it was wrong to get relaxed into - like a bath that suddenly goes cold or filled with cold baked beans instead of water. Something. I have to say though that once they'd worked out what was wrong Professor McGonagall didn't half put a shove on getting us all out of Kippenross. Her and the teachers and some of the older ones. I was right at the wrong end with the sheep, looking after Lola who's got a poorly foot and she's expecting and all and then when the alarm went up I couldn't find Professor Hagrid so I had to get Lola up and pretty much carry her to the floo, I hope no one minds a sheep at the Lighthouse but she needs looking after and besides she's used to humans poor lamb! I had to let her go down the corridor once I'd got there though because though I'd seen Marcus locking up the chicken shed and making a dash for the floo I lost sight of him - well, you try carrying a sheep! - and he hadn't gone into the Lighthouse and although he might have made for the Mill you just never know do you? Thankfully Ernie was there at the Lighthouse and so we went back to look for him though we probably shouldn't have mind he wasn't gone far, just under the bushes on the edge of the trees that come up to the west wing doors of Kippenross. He'd got scared cos he'd seen figures in black robes but he couldn't work out if they were teachers or Death eaters because of something called Con Tax which I didn't understand but anyway we got him safe to the floo, Ernie and I, and Ernie was ever so brave even when we were running and his side was hurting him because he'd been attacked all that long ago at Hogwarts, and as we got to the floo we realised the figures we could see were Professor Weasley who definitely looked worse for wear though he wasn't saying nothing about it, just telling us very quietly to get through and he had Hermione Granger and a couple of seventh years with him, but they looked fine.
It's so scary though, I mean, I have stopped panicking after the event though I did that for a while just thinking about anything happening to Ernie but we're all safe, and Professor McGonagall deserves an Order of Merlin which she would totally get if my aunt was still Minister. Soon as I can I'm going to go and see Aunt Amelia at Thorne because it's been such ages she's probably thinking I've forgotten about her! Not that I could help it, I mean she's at Thorne and I've got the livestock to share in caring for and I can't hardly go and stay there with her especially when there's so much work to do to get all of everyone's things back from Kippenross which had to have been the most used safehouse of the lot! So we're all out of there and no one got hurt though saying that I hear that Padma Patil and Valerius Visconti have been attacked and the gossip is that they're really, really hurt. I must make them a card if I'm not allowed to visit or knit them something only I can't because my bag got left behind at Kippenross and Merlin knows where it is now.
And now we're all squashed up in two safehouses instead of three and it's not all been realo realler sorted out so at the moment I'm sharing a room with Alicia and baby Tabitha who both snore and Professor Sprout and she keeps wittering in her sleep about her willows though I've never seen she had any, and I wish I'd known 'cos I do miss my Sally.
Duw, I've hardly caught my breath twice over the past few days and no mistake! First off all the security went haywire over the interwebb and well, me, I just kept my head down mainly given as I've managed to make a marmalade of it all in the past with no help from You Know Who as it was, but I admit I did look from time to time to see what everyone else had been posting. Mind you I hardly had to given what it's like with gossip round here. And here has got a lot smaller lately.
We all thought we were so safe here, see, if you call something a safe house it sort of lulls you into a sense of security that maybe it was wrong to get relaxed into - like a bath that suddenly goes cold or filled with cold baked beans instead of water. Something. I have to say though that once they'd worked out what was wrong Professor McGonagall didn't half put a shove on getting us all out of Kippenross. Her and the teachers and some of the older ones. I was right at the wrong end with the sheep, looking after Lola who's got a poorly foot and she's expecting and all and then when the alarm went up I couldn't find Professor Hagrid so I had to get Lola up and pretty much carry her to the floo, I hope no one minds a sheep at the Lighthouse but she needs looking after and besides she's used to humans poor lamb! I had to let her go down the corridor once I'd got there though because though I'd seen Marcus locking up the chicken shed and making a dash for the floo I lost sight of him - well, you try carrying a sheep! - and he hadn't gone into the Lighthouse and although he might have made for the Mill you just never know do you? Thankfully Ernie was there at the Lighthouse and so we went back to look for him though we probably shouldn't have mind he wasn't gone far, just under the bushes on the edge of the trees that come up to the west wing doors of Kippenross. He'd got scared cos he'd seen figures in black robes but he couldn't work out if they were teachers or Death eaters because of something called Con Tax which I didn't understand but anyway we got him safe to the floo, Ernie and I, and Ernie was ever so brave even when we were running and his side was hurting him because he'd been attacked all that long ago at Hogwarts, and as we got to the floo we realised the figures we could see were Professor Weasley who definitely looked worse for wear though he wasn't saying nothing about it, just telling us very quietly to get through and he had Hermione Granger and a couple of seventh years with him, but they looked fine.
It's so scary though, I mean, I have stopped panicking after the event though I did that for a while just thinking about anything happening to Ernie but we're all safe, and Professor McGonagall deserves an Order of Merlin which she would totally get if my aunt was still Minister. Soon as I can I'm going to go and see Aunt Amelia at Thorne because it's been such ages she's probably thinking I've forgotten about her! Not that I could help it, I mean she's at Thorne and I've got the livestock to share in caring for and I can't hardly go and stay there with her especially when there's so much work to do to get all of everyone's things back from Kippenross which had to have been the most used safehouse of the lot! So we're all out of there and no one got hurt though saying that I hear that Padma Patil and Valerius Visconti have been attacked and the gossip is that they're really, really hurt. I must make them a card if I'm not allowed to visit or knit them something only I can't because my bag got left behind at Kippenross and Merlin knows where it is now.
And now we're all squashed up in two safehouses instead of three and it's not all been realo realler sorted out so at the moment I'm sharing a room with Alicia and baby Tabitha who both snore and Professor Sprout and she keeps wittering in her sleep about her willows though I've never seen she had any, and I wish I'd known 'cos I do miss my Sally.