The smog swirled around within the strands of her hair, which were already making her cross by falling out of her hair ribbon and into her face. Katie Bell always felt this twisting nervousness before the beginning of business transactions, thick and churning with her abdomen, leftover from bulky men with underappreciating and overappreciating eyes ( Read more... )

I know, I know -- you always have to have a pair of bad days before you get the good ones, right?? Makes you like them all the more better, blah blah, because you can't have sun without clouds and all that shite. I definitely believe it, really, but that does not make the following suck all the more:

• So, when I was scouting for a flat here, I went ( Read more... )

susan, thank you ever-so-much for giving me reason to get out of the house!! if your family gets an owl with any vegetables and a fair amount of ingredients for antidotes, know it was me. you may get a second owl with some sparrow shortbreads, but that's only if i'm able to get to it, since today is even busier than it usually is for me. (i won't ( Read more... )

( And then this bloody Thicknesse (which, by the by, I think is an omen -- Thicknesse? sounds like a problem of the goiter) goes on and says that the Muggleborns should, oh, prance on down to the Ministry to tell them how they did the unthinkable and STEAL OUR MAGICS. )