The mudblood and mud

[alt_terry]

The Headmistress has said that she doesn't need to have boot underfoot so much during the summertime. The Headmistress is busy and important and so must catch up with her meetings and correspondence. So she is assigning boot to do chores for some of the other professors. boot mucks out the cages of some the creatures used in Care of Magical Creatures classes for Professor Brutka. Shoveling muck is the sort of thing that mudbloods should do. boot will help Madam Pomfrey do the summer inventory in the Hospital Wing later this summer. boot also helps Professor Sprout do things like turn the compost pile and prune plants in the greenhouse. Professor Sprout says boot is better than she is at dodging when the venomous tentacula gets fiesty.

Sometimes boot is so tired at the end of the day that he barely manages to eat his dinner before falling asleep. The days go quickly.

Comments

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_hermione]

Terry!! You're going to be so much better than me!! I'm so jealous!!!!

Harry lets me do whatever I want with his books. He's moved to a larger set of rooms with a suite and everything, because his Father says he's becoming a teen-ager and he might as well have a grown up room. There was a lot of fuss about it, which I don't see why, because it's not as though he got to pick the decorations or anything. They're just all Buckingham things, with lots of snakes and so on. But they moved a lot of books in there, things that they thought Harry would like, and nobody ever watches us, and Harry doesn't mind if I read them.

Actually he doesn't even mind if I practise saying the incantations. I don't think he'd mind if I got a fake wand and tried to do the movements but I haven't been brave enough to try. Anyway if someone is spying on us they'd see, wouldn't they? And it wouldn't be like a real wand so maybe it wouldn't help so much.

I asked Harry about it once and he just said, well, you're training to help me more in school, so that's part of your job, isn't it? As long as you help me do other things too, so we only have to have the house-elves in here once a day when they clean. I think he knows the house-elves spy sometimes and that's why he likes having me around, because he knows I don't spy.

Well, I do, only not for his Father.

But I think Headmistress McGonagall will look out for you, Terry, truly I do.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_neville]

It sounds like it'd be dead dangerous to use even a fake wand in Buckingham, Hermione. Maybe only try it in the middle of the night, when everyone is sleeping?

I'm sorry, cause I know you really want to learn. But you've been caught with a wand once. They won't give you another chance if you're found trying to learn how to use one. Even if the one you're holding is fake.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_terry]

Oh, and I forgot to say...another thing I do in the secret classroom in the afternoon is to write down everything I can remember from what I learned in the Professors in the morning. I leave the notes there. So you'll be able to read them when you get back at the end of the summer.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

[alt_gredforge]

There's a charm to hide the writing on the notes. Circle the wand twice clockwise over the parchment and then tap it, saying 'Reddo invisibilis.'

To see the notes again, use the same wand movements and say 'Finite incantatem.'

Just in case.