Word of the Day: sully

hermione is still teaching boot new words to help with his reading. boot thinks he might do a word of the day, at least once in a while, to show what he is learning

todays word is sully, which can have a few difin definitions
1 to mar the cleanliness or luster of, to soil or stain (must remember to look up luster in dictionary, too)
2 to defile or taint, to spoil or make dirty
3 to ruin. the dictionary gave the example 'to ruin (someone's reputation)' boot doesnt know what reputation is either but it must be something good

the word is probably from the french souiller, which also gives us the word soil. boot has been learning about how words come from other languages, or from older roots, and one word in another language can become several new words in ours

sully is a useful word for a mudblood to learn

there are aurors around the castle entrances now. they look at boot like he sullys sullies the school.

must go knock up the transformation classroom and storage room. he wants everything put in order