Cheering charms for mudbloods

[alt_terry]

boot has been thinking about something one student said to another, the week he was a dog in the Gryffindor common room. she said, 'whatever do muggles do without cheering charms?'

good question

sometimes people get sad or scared, but they dont want to be. magic folk can use charms of course. muggles or mudbloods like boot have to do other things that arent magic. but those things can still work if you make up your mind not to let them yourself give in to bad feelings. You have to practise, though. And when you do them, you really have to want them to work.

people at the camps sometimes sang. boot can't do that much. never wants to bother people around hogwarts. they might be revising, or anyway dont want to notice boot. boots voice isnt much good anyway. but when boot is alone, he sometimes hums, or plays a whistle he made for himself.

being warm. new warm clothes with no holes. boots! a fire, if boot can think of a reason to stay. something warm to eat. bread, just out of the oven. A kitchen house elf sometimes gives boot a mug of hot chocolate. that always cheers boot up for a whole day.

sometimes just the stars. boot goes out and watches them while students are at dinner, or late at night. boot likes them, cause they are clear and shining and quiet. (hermione showed boot a book all about consell constellations, the stories told about the shapes they make in the sky.) saw the northern lights once, too, dancing in the sky. 'aurora borealis,' that book called them.

all the stars and planets dont even care if you are muggle or mudblood or magic folk but just shine down on everyone. can't be touched by sadness or anger or fear. so boot looks at them to forget everything around himself.

boot watches for falling stars, too. has seen a few. never got a wish granted from one, but boot doesnt mind pretending.