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Me and Sirius and Ron and Hermione went and played Grottle this weekend and I'd never played it before, actually I never even heard of it, so it was really cool. The run is away from Hogsmeade, a little bit, but pretty close to it, so we flew from there. Sirius is a great flyer and Hermione doesn't get to fly very much so that was good. It was kind of cold but not too bad, except Ron forgot his gloves so I gave him mine and my Firebolt was really cold. There were alot of families at the Grottle run, but Lee Jordan was there too.
Grottle is really cool. I think it's the only place you can fly on flying carpets legally, I mean unless you get special permission from the Ministry of Magic, so I'd never flown one before. First I flew with Sirius and Ron flew with Hermione, on a count of me and Hermione never playing it before, and I still think I like my Firebolt better than the flying carpet but it was really neat. It was like you could fall off really easy, so it was kind of hard to get used to but then it was really fun. Sirius let me fly by myself then and it was kind of weird. Then we started doing Grottle runs. You have to fly the carpet through this course with all these snowpeople shouting things at you and throwing snowballs, and you're supposed to get their noses from them so you can get prizes. The snowpeople were sort of nasty, they kept making fun of Ron's hair and my glasses, but I got a bunch of the noses. Ron said the noses kept breaking in half when he took them and a snowwoman stuck a whole armful of snow down the back of my robes. I only got one nose on my first run and Hermione got two, but after I knew what the snowpeople were doing it was easier. Sirius was great at it too, he took one of the snowmen's head right off! They didn't give him any extra points for it, though.
Ron and Hermione went and made their own snowpeople and Sirius and I kept playing Grottle. I wish we played it at Hogwarts because it was really fun. I mean, I guess it's more a fun game than a competitive game like Quidditch, so it's not really something people would play at school. We got a whole bunch of prizes at the end when we turned in our carrot noses, and I got this Falmouth pendant, but I don't really like the Falcons at all. I gave alot of mine to Ron and Sirius got this really tiny book called The Small Book of Small Wonders, so he gave it to Hermione. Then we had a snowball fight and Sirius won, even though it was me and Hermione against him and Ron, because he stuffed Ron's head under a pile of snow. Then we flew back to Hogsmeade and took the carriages back to Hogwarts. The dorm was really quiet because Seamus and Dean were fighting, maybe, or something, and I think Neville was at Hogsmeade with Ginny.
Grottle is really cool. I think it's the only place you can fly on flying carpets legally, I mean unless you get special permission from the Ministry of Magic, so I'd never flown one before. First I flew with Sirius and Ron flew with Hermione, on a count of me and Hermione never playing it before, and I still think I like my Firebolt better than the flying carpet but it was really neat. It was like you could fall off really easy, so it was kind of hard to get used to but then it was really fun. Sirius let me fly by myself then and it was kind of weird. Then we started doing Grottle runs. You have to fly the carpet through this course with all these snowpeople shouting things at you and throwing snowballs, and you're supposed to get their noses from them so you can get prizes. The snowpeople were sort of nasty, they kept making fun of Ron's hair and my glasses, but I got a bunch of the noses. Ron said the noses kept breaking in half when he took them and a snowwoman stuck a whole armful of snow down the back of my robes. I only got one nose on my first run and Hermione got two, but after I knew what the snowpeople were doing it was easier. Sirius was great at it too, he took one of the snowmen's head right off! They didn't give him any extra points for it, though.
Ron and Hermione went and made their own snowpeople and Sirius and I kept playing Grottle. I wish we played it at Hogwarts because it was really fun. I mean, I guess it's more a fun game than a competitive game like Quidditch, so it's not really something people would play at school. We got a whole bunch of prizes at the end when we turned in our carrot noses, and I got this Falmouth pendant, but I don't really like the Falcons at all. I gave alot of mine to Ron and Sirius got this really tiny book called The Small Book of Small Wonders, so he gave it to Hermione. Then we had a snowball fight and Sirius won, even though it was me and Hermione against him and Ron, because he stuffed Ron's head under a pile of snow. Then we flew back to Hogsmeade and took the carriages back to Hogwarts. The dorm was really quiet because Seamus and Dean were fighting, maybe, or something, and I think Neville was at Hogsmeade with Ginny.