I'm sure that everywhere outside of Hogwarts will have tacky decorations everywhere. How about we stay in? I doubt the house elves will mind us asking them to cater.
Love, Janet
PS: The roses are beautiful, though Iggy keeps trying to eat them. Did I tell you I got a cat?
Either works for me and I could stand to do the same. Yes, I picked him up as a sorting bribe. If you'd like to meet Iggy we can eat at my place. A warning, though: he's ugly as sin and likes attention.
Janet, freshly showered and no longer smelling of that weird fog, grabbed a stack of notes she'd taken over the past week and looked for somewhere to cram them. Iggy was stuffed into a black cat sweater and snoring contentedly on her bed, sprawled out onto yet another pile of notes and head resting on a book. She rolled her eyes and pulled them out from under him. He'd just be waking up when Daniel arrived anyway.
Daniel, also freshly showered and dressed in one of his few nice shirts, knocked lightly and, most un-Daniel-like, smoothed back his damp hair. "Janet?" he called.
She crammed the notes and book into a drawer on the way to her door. "Hey! Come on in." She'd never been a precisely messy person, so aside from the stray scrap of parchment and pile of books on her dresser, the room was presentable. "How've you been?"
"I've been good. I think I'm almost ready to actually hold a class." Daniel kissed her forehead, stepping inside. Her room was certainly neater than his, but then there were wrecked trailer parks more organized than his room.
He stopped short on sight of the cat. "Okay, I see what you meant about Iggy," he said. "What kind of cat is he?"
"Great to hear." She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. "As far as I can tell, he's a Sphinx. Not the riddle kind, the horribly inbred to be hairless kind. Well, obviously." Iggy bounced off the bed and began winding around ankles, pausing to sniff at pant legs.
...Wow. It really was an ugly cat, but he wasn't going to say so. "He seems affectionate enough, for all he's inbred and hairless." Oops...that was diplomatic, Daniel. Nice going. "Who was handing out cats as a sorting bribe?"
"It's his redeeming quality," she agreed. "That and the lack of cat hair left everywhere. It's nice to own a pet and not have to be on a constant supply of eyedrops and antihistamines. It's the reason behind the name, anyway: IgE is the immunoglobulin responsible for dealing with allergic reactions." She was a little red-faced admitting that, but she figured that there were weirder reasons for naming pets than job-related inside jokes. "Some weird... creature... was passing out cats as a sorting bribe a while back. I think it was squibbed, but I picked him up just the same."
"True. I'd have the same problem with a cat...at least this one won't kill either of us."
He laughed when she explained the cat's name--it was such a very Janet explanation. "I like it," he said. "It's a lot less predictable than what I would have named a cat." Scritching behind Iggy's ears, he asked, "So how has the hospital wing been going?"
"And what would you have named him?" She expected some reference to mythology, probably Egyptian. "Oh, it's not bad. I'm mostly doing menial things like mixing potions at the moment, but I'm fine with that. I get to observe. It's still mostly house elves that come in."
Thank you. You know me too well, I think. I'm open for dinner whenever is convenient for you--name a time and place?
Love,
Daniel
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I'm sure that everywhere outside of Hogwarts will have tacky decorations everywhere. How about we stay in? I doubt the house elves will mind us asking them to cater.
Love,
Janet
PS: The roses are beautiful, though Iggy keeps trying to eat them. Did I tell you I got a cat?
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You've got a point. My place or yours, and when? I need to clean up and get human.
Love,
Daniel
PS: You have a cat?
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Either works for me and I could stand to do the same. Yes, I picked him up as a sorting bribe. If you'd like to meet Iggy we can eat at my place. A warning, though: he's ugly as sin and likes attention.
Love,
Janet
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Good, I'm not the only one Your place sounds great, and I'll consider myself warned about the cat. How can a cat be ugly?
Love,
Daniel
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Are you familiar with Sphinx cats? The ones that look like someone shaved a bat?
I'll see you later, then.
Love,
Janet
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A shaved bat? Really?
Be there in a few.
Love,
Daniel
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He stopped short on sight of the cat. "Okay, I see what you meant about Iggy," he said. "What kind of cat is he?"
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He laughed when she explained the cat's name--it was such a very Janet explanation. "I like it," he said. "It's a lot less predictable than what I would have named a cat." Scritching behind Iggy's ears, he asked, "So how has the hospital wing been going?"
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