By now you should all have settled in, unpacked, resolved any arguments over who is sleeping in the noisy spot beneath the water pipes, and worked out three ways to leave the dungeons without being seen. It should not be necessary for me to remind you that First Years are not to be used for target practice; there are ample House Elves to go around ( Read more... )

...no, I have not died, unless death is now defined as 'too bloody busy to sit fiddling around with a Muggle contraption that thinks it's smarter than I am'.

How Muggles co-exist with these things is entirely beyond me. They sit in the corner, compact and still, like a briefcase full of smug, virtually daring you to turn them on and be bombarded ( Read more... )

I seem to have acquired another House Elf. At least, I hope that's what it is. That is to say, it is a House Elf. Its reasons for appearing so frequently at my quarters I have yet to determine. I have an unpleasant notion that it may have developed an attachment to Early ( Read more... )

I can't find the damn Italian dictionary.

What does 'sono bella ragazza' mean?

The dust has settled, the skies are once more a sort of sullen grey with occasional freakish outbreaks of sunshine, the birds are bickering in the trees, and the day-to-day routine of lessons has once more commenced ( Read more... )

I'm getting rather used to treating Kippenross as my own. It's going to be something of a shock to the system to hear the somnolent corridors reverberating to the sound of student voices once more. Not until next year, though, I'm relieved to say. There's far too much to be done to have the cackling masses underfoot and it is exceedingly ( Read more... )

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Poppy?

Much as it grieves me to admit defeat in any arena, personal, professional or in the wider scheme of things...

...I surrender.

I'll be at the Infirmary this afternoon at four o'clock and will submit to your prodding and prying, and take whatever wretched medicine you want to dole out. Just call them off.

And don't you dare deny that ( Read more... )

I have acquired House Elves.

Why have I acquired House Elves ( Read more... )

Lupin, I think I have the perfect place for you.