Settling in
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Things I like about my new room at the Browns:
The little rag rug that Mrs Weasley gave me fits perfectly beside my bed. Mrs Brown said it's all right for me to have it, because no one will see it.
It's on the uppermost floor--not an attic, really. I think Mrs Brown said it used to be a governess' room. Since it's so high, I can see out my window for miles and miles. There is a little seat by the window, which makes it perfect for curling up there. Perhaps I can make some pillows for the window seat.
Mr Brown said it would be all right if I borrowed books from his library and kept them in my room until I'm finished reading them. He said they wouldn't be missed because no one reads them anyway (I think the library originally came from Mr Brown's father).
Nobody can hear me up here.
The little rag rug that Mrs Weasley gave me fits perfectly beside my bed. Mrs Brown said it's all right for me to have it, because no one will see it.
It's on the uppermost floor--not an attic, really. I think Mrs Brown said it used to be a governess' room. Since it's so high, I can see out my window for miles and miles. There is a little seat by the window, which makes it perfect for curling up there. Perhaps I can make some pillows for the window seat.
Mr Brown said it would be all right if I borrowed books from his library and kept them in my room until I'm finished reading them. He said they wouldn't be missed because no one reads them anyway (I think the library originally came from Mr Brown's father).
Nobody can hear me up here.
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-18 08:47 pm (UTC)Something cheery would be very nice. Bright reds, oranges and saffron, I think. Or perhaps a really brilliant cobalt blue as a contrast if you can get it.
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-18 08:48 pm (UTC)Which could be very useful, really. I'd like to paint pictures on the walls, the way I did at home. If they'll let me. I'll have to ask.
I wish I still had the quilt my mum made for me that was on my bed at home. She sewed it from pieces of my old baby clothes and things.
I asked, though, and the Browns haven't been sent anything from my old home. I don't know what happened to it all.
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-18 08:49 pm (UTC)Order Only
Date: 2010-06-18 08:52 pm (UTC)Poor girl, to have none of her keepsakes from growing up...
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:53 pm (UTC)Oh, how I wish things had worked out differently!
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Date: 2010-06-18 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-18 09:40 pm (UTC)Especially the part about the view, and the seat by the window.
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Hydra
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Date: 2010-06-19 12:49 am (UTC)It's very simple. But sometimes simple things really can be the best.
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Date: 2010-06-19 01:00 am (UTC)Isn't it easier to buy them?
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Hydra
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Date: 2010-06-19 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 01:40 am (UTC)Or do you really use needles and threads and things?
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Hydra
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Date: 2010-06-19 01:52 am (UTC)The woman who taught me how to knit, Mrs Weasley, sometimes knits by charm (so that the needles can be clacking away in the air while she's busy doing other things, like making dinner) but sometimes she prefers to knit by hand. It can be quite soothing, you know. And doing things by hand can actually be easier when you're doing something fiddly, like an intricate pattern with a lot of colour switches, but charms work well when you're doing the same thing row after row after row, like long bits of ribbing. That can get rather boring.
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Date: 2010-06-19 01:59 am (UTC)It sounds fun to try to make something but it would be disappointing to try and realise I wasn't much good at.
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Hydra
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:04 am (UTC)Is there anything that you would like to try?
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:12 am (UTC)Only, do you remember the little animals that would run around the collar of your robes, and a lot of girls had them at the beginning of school?
They were called robe pets, and they were nice but the spells would wear off eventually?
Maybe I would like to make something like that, only bigger and it wouldn't live on your robes, but follow you around, and the spell wouldn't ever wear off, or at least not for a long time.
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Hydra
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 02:41 am (UTC)I am so glad to hear that things are going well, even though we are so far away from each other. I can't wait till we can see each other again. Hopefully the Browns will let you come over sometime.
If not, at least we have the YPL trip to look forward too. Maybe we can share a tent together.
I miss you bunches.
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Date: 2010-06-19 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 04:20 am (UTC)