Room 87 at Outside Inn -- Older Peter's Room
Older Peter's room is notably warm, well-lit and, with the exception of the desk, scrupulously clean. Blinds--in a half-up, half-down position--hang on the two windows. A white closet door lies to the left of the left window. A bedspread in autumnal shades of gold, orange, scarlet and brown covers the bed, which sits crossways in the center of the room. It matches the wall-to-wall carpet, which is a soft yellow.
There is a narrow space between the foot of the bed and an executive's chair with soft, crimson cushions. The chair is pushed up against a large oaken desk with a multitude of drawers and crannies. The desk is piled high with highlighted medical books, cups of coffee, Potions ingredients, and notebooks filled with cryptic pieces of information, bits of Latin and Greek, and the odd mnemonic.
Two immense and solid bookcases face each other, one on either side of the bed. They are filled with a number of books--a medical dictionary, more books on medicine (both the magical and the Muggle varieties) texts about history (ditto), Potions books, and quite a few novels...classic, historical, mysteries, science fiction, and so on. The books seem to be sorted according to genre, and then alphabetically.
On the blue-tinged white walls are paintings--landscapes and cityscapes, mostly. Given pride of place, however, are two photographs. The first is of a short plump dark man and a tall, blonde-haired woman, both very young and in old-fashioned wedding garb. The second shows the same woman, now fiftysomething and unsmiling, three tall, dark young women in their twenties or thirties, and a short plump blond boy of ten or eleven. All are dressed in their stiff, uncomfortable best; the flowery hats on the women suggest that this picture was probably taken in the spring.
The room is illuminated with a blaze of electric light from an overhead fixture, a floor lamp beside the bed and a reading lamp on the desk.
There is a narrow space between the foot of the bed and an executive's chair with soft, crimson cushions. The chair is pushed up against a large oaken desk with a multitude of drawers and crannies. The desk is piled high with highlighted medical books, cups of coffee, Potions ingredients, and notebooks filled with cryptic pieces of information, bits of Latin and Greek, and the odd mnemonic.
Two immense and solid bookcases face each other, one on either side of the bed. They are filled with a number of books--a medical dictionary, more books on medicine (both the magical and the Muggle varieties) texts about history (ditto), Potions books, and quite a few novels...classic, historical, mysteries, science fiction, and so on. The books seem to be sorted according to genre, and then alphabetically.
On the blue-tinged white walls are paintings--landscapes and cityscapes, mostly. Given pride of place, however, are two photographs. The first is of a short plump dark man and a tall, blonde-haired woman, both very young and in old-fashioned wedding garb. The second shows the same woman, now fiftysomething and unsmiling, three tall, dark young women in their twenties or thirties, and a short plump blond boy of ten or eleven. All are dressed in their stiff, uncomfortable best; the flowery hats on the women suggest that this picture was probably taken in the spring.
The room is illuminated with a blaze of electric light from an overhead fixture, a floor lamp beside the bed and a reading lamp on the desk.