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Eve's story ran as follows:
This summer she sublet a flat from Stewart Ackerley and some of his friends. She decided to cast a series of housekeeping charms to keep the place clean, and contacted Stewart & co., asking if they would pay for the ingredients, since they would have a full year's benefit from the charms. Eve spent 20 Galleons on said ingredients; the group refused to pay her back in full, and a months-long argument ended recently, with Stewart & co. essentially throwing 10 Galleons in her face and telling her to go away.
Am sorry for Eve, but am wondering what possessed her to think that two boys and a girl willing to live with two boys would ever give 20 Galleons for a clean flat, under any circumstances. That's something like a hundred pounds, after all. Stewart Ackerley may be finicky about his personal appearance, but I doubt his standards extend quite so far outside himself.
Though right about now, given the way Harry's hair gets into every place mine doesn't (I know he couldn't cut it short if I wanted him to, but the state of our bathtub is trying), I would be willing to pay Eve some of those Galleons, were she able to transfer her charms to Cardiff.
Am also somewhat relieved to know that Stewart has demonstrated not uncharacteristic rudeness, rather than absolute moral reprehensibility; I would have been unhappy to learn I had been as mistaken in his character as in that of Lockhart's. Though really, the whole question is academic.
This summer she sublet a flat from Stewart Ackerley and some of his friends. She decided to cast a series of housekeeping charms to keep the place clean, and contacted Stewart & co., asking if they would pay for the ingredients, since they would have a full year's benefit from the charms. Eve spent 20 Galleons on said ingredients; the group refused to pay her back in full, and a months-long argument ended recently, with Stewart & co. essentially throwing 10 Galleons in her face and telling her to go away.
Am sorry for Eve, but am wondering what possessed her to think that two boys and a girl willing to live with two boys would ever give 20 Galleons for a clean flat, under any circumstances. That's something like a hundred pounds, after all. Stewart Ackerley may be finicky about his personal appearance, but I doubt his standards extend quite so far outside himself.
Though right about now, given the way Harry's hair gets into every place mine doesn't (I know he couldn't cut it short if I wanted him to, but the state of our bathtub is trying), I would be willing to pay Eve some of those Galleons, were she able to transfer her charms to Cardiff.
Am also somewhat relieved to know that Stewart has demonstrated not uncharacteristic rudeness, rather than absolute moral reprehensibility; I would have been unhappy to learn I had been as mistaken in his character as in that of Lockhart's. Though really, the whole question is academic.