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alt_dracoIt's been a full week back, that's to be said. Along with all the talk about the Triwizard announcement, a lot of people have been asking me if I can teach them to speak French. All I can say to that is that if I had that kind of free time, I'd be some kind of professor or something. But for those of you that already have SOME kind of conversational knowledge of the language, I was thinking of forming a weekend afternoon group where we can just practise talking to each other while drinking tea or something. I'm a bit rusty myself, but when she was here I spoke to my Aunt Amanda almost entirely in French, so I've already gotten some good practise in in the last few weeks.
Along those lines, me and the lads on the Slytherin quidditch team have agreed that it'll be important to keep up with our flying, even with quidditch cancelled for the year. If any of the other house teams want to arrange some impromptu pick-up matches, talk to me or Harry or anyone else on the Slytherin team.
Has anyone else noticed how much nicer the food is at school, compared to last year? The elves must have stepped up their efforts, now that we'll be hosting guests. Or maybe they're getting better food and ingredients - anyway, something's definitely different.
Along those lines, me and the lads on the Slytherin quidditch team have agreed that it'll be important to keep up with our flying, even with quidditch cancelled for the year. If any of the other house teams want to arrange some impromptu pick-up matches, talk to me or Harry or anyone else on the Slytherin team.
Has anyone else noticed how much nicer the food is at school, compared to last year? The elves must have stepped up their efforts, now that we'll be hosting guests. Or maybe they're getting better food and ingredients - anyway, something's definitely different.
Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 01:04 am (UTC)How long have you known? Are you feeling all right about it? In my owl to Father this week I told him you seemed like you were down, but I just assumed it was because of what happened at the cup.
I hope you're all right.
-D
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 01:55 am (UTC)She sent me an owl.
She's known for weeks.
I'm trying not to seem too put out by it, and I talked to Lucius about it earlier, which helped a little, but I'm still
I don't know how I am.
I can't help feeling like I don't have a family any more.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:00 am (UTC)That's rubbish. Flat out rubbish.
Pansy, I'm sorry. I should have asked you if something was going on - I just assumed it was because of everything else that's happened lately.
I'm sure your Mother loves you, because how could she not. But she's always sort of seemed...juvenile, I guess. And when you think about it, that's the sort of thing a little kid would do, wait to send an owl instead of talking face to face.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:05 am (UTC)Like she was afraid of what I'd say.
And don't worry. It's partially my fault. I didn't say anything, after all. I guess I figured you had enough to worry about, and really, compared to what other people were dealing with, my problems seemed really small.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:13 am (UTC)Did you reply to your mother yet? What'd you say to her? What'd my father say?
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:26 am (UTC)He seemed to think it was a normal teenage girl thing, to be at odds with one's mother. And that I ought to be respectful, and not give her reason to distance herself from me. And that it was always best to not let emotions get in the way.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:34 am (UTC)I've just gotten very good at performing and pretending, myself. My Father is absolutely fine, of course. What of it?
But I'm not sure I could do that all the time if I didn't have someone to talk to about how I really felt. So thanks for being there, with what happened with Father, and for the packages and everything else.
I always want to return the favour but I'm not as good at mind-reading as you.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:42 am (UTC)So thank you back.
Are you still in the Common Room? It's been ages since I heard you play your guitar. If you'd be up for it, that is.
And I think that's a good thing to know. That it's easier when you have someone you can talk to. And I have Sally-Anne, of course, and you have Harry, but we also have each other, don't we. And I'll be sure to remember that next time I really need to talk to someone who I know will listen.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:48 am (UTC)Harry's good to talk to about some things, but not always as good as you, to be honest.
It's too bad summer's over.
Re: Private message to Pansy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:57 am (UTC)I'll bring my guitar.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:13 am (UTC)Private mesage to Padma
Date: 2011-09-12 01:26 am (UTC)Don't tell them we're on to them, though! They're so KEEN on themselves about it, it's terribly funny!
Re: Private mesage to Padma
Date: 2011-09-12 01:34 am (UTC)Well, that explains why Corner was so quick to tell me it was nothing. And why Linus is blushing every time he looks up from his book (which isn't all that often but still).
The worst thing is, we can't even wipe the smug looks off their faces by forming our own girls-only club, because then they'll assume we're doing nothing but talking about them the whole time!
Boys.
Re: Private mesage to Padma
Date: 2011-09-12 01:45 am (UTC)I think we should form a girls club, yes. And spend every session doing laps, pull-ups, and all the other things we learned in CCF. How baffled they'd be, to see us sweating and fighting while they're all getting together to gossip like old ninnies!
Which isn't to say that we can't talk about them while we're doing laps. Heh.
Re: Private mesage to Padma
Date: 2011-09-12 01:47 am (UTC)Yes, let's! Especially if these teas keep catching on - Tea of the Strange, French Tea, boys' teas - we'll be loads ahead of the others who spend their time just pigging out.
Re: Private mesage to Padma
Date: 2011-09-12 01:51 am (UTC)This will be perfectly delightful, I think.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:20 am (UTC)Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 01:35 am (UTC)What've you got in mind, then?
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:40 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 01:42 am (UTC)For a minute I was thinking you were thinking of inviting some of those Bulgarian Veela to a future meeting of our club.
Now, that would be interesting!
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 01:48 am (UTC)Sounds like the sort of thing Daphne would try to arrange for Blaise's birthday, or something, though.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:55 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:02 am (UTC)Not half.
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:11 am (UTC)Teddy reckons it's all a plot to make us ask them out before the French lads show up.
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:36 am (UTC)Perks isn't too bad. If she weren't a halfblood she could be one of the best in the year, actually.
Tell you who couldn't get a date to save her life, though: Midgen. I know she's in my own House, but those spots!
Anyway, Capper reckons it doesn't much matter if the French lads ask them all out. They're only here a short while and anyway, they'll all be focused on proving they're not naff at studies, won't they?
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:45 am (UTC)Not sure anyone else hasBut she's dead clever, at least.Capper's got a point. None of us at Hogwarts want to look like idiots by comparison, either.
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 02:49 am (UTC)(I mean, have you seen the way Fawcett's robes are fitting her this year? Hopkins said this afternoon that he reckons her foster family haven't bothered replacing them and they're just unusually tight.)
Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 03:10 am (UTC)It's a laugh to look and admire (or not), but I don't really have my sights set on anyone in particular
that you've mention. You?Re: Private Message to Draco Malfoy
Date: 2011-09-12 03:17 am (UTC)Now, fifth-year girls, they're really fit.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:16 am (UTC)I wish I spoke any French at all, though. It's the sort of thing Mum and Dad never really thought would come in useful.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:23 am (UTC)I don't see many people all that concerned about learning Bulgarian - but then, where would they learn it? I can't think of a single person I've met who speaks it. I reckon they'd have to buy a book.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:26 am (UTC)Anyway, I heard that the students from Durmstrang aren't all Bulgarian, so you'd have to learn German, Hungarian, Russian and even maybe Polish to really be sure you could talk to them all. I think it's much more sensible to wait to make someone's acquaintance and then learn a little of whatever they speak at home.
But French is French!
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:36 am (UTC)French is nice. Mother certainly loves it. Father too, really. I think France itself has a lot to do with it.
Tout y parlerait
À l'âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:56 am (UTC)Do you think if someone came to your French tea parties but doesn't already know any, we'd learn?
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Date: 2011-09-12 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-12 01:28 am (UTC)I dunno. Derwent could have been wrong, too.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-12 03:08 am (UTC)You'll be pleased to know your Father has surprised his Healers with his remarkable rate of recovery. The treatments Healer Fletcher authorised have done wonders to get him back to his normal schedule. Of course, I still prefer him to take care not to speak too loudly or too long, just for the next week or two, but he's fully back to himself and in next to no time at all.
I'm glad you're keeping at your languages, as well. You do realise your Auntie Amanda is still quite willing to converse as much as you like? She continues to be such a help, and all while preparing her own household for the rest of the year.
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Date: 2011-09-12 03:14 am (UTC)I didn't want to bother Aunt Amanda, but if she really doesn't mind then I should take advantage of it while she's here in England.