The weekend
Sep. 10th, 2010 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_lunaI do wish that second years could take Care of Magical Creatures. It seems most unfair to have to wait until third year. Professor Brutka seems quite nice. I took my sketch pad out to the lake at lunch today because I wanted to see if I could add some sketches of the giant squid. He was there (Professor Brutka, I mean, not the giant squid), wading along the shore with his robes hiked up around his knees. I wonder if he was looking for grindylow eggs or something. There are supposed to be some in the lake. He very politely asked if I would mind if he looked through my sketchbook and said some very nice things about some of the pictures. I think he was a little surprised at my drawing of the crogglecraes. Well, I do have to admit that I probably did make their eyes too big. It's so hard to make them proportional. Particularly the northern ones.
Classes are falling into a routine. It feels much the same as last year, except...there are little things. Now that I'm a half-blood, I mean. Like the pamphlets left on my bedside table. It seems that the Ministry of Magic thinks it's important that I learn all about hygiene now. Which is odd. Portia or Celia have never complained before or said or anything to make me think that I'm emitting peculiar smells. Perhaps they've merely been polite.
And I never knew before that half-bloods had to queue behind purebloods when reserving books from the library. Portia had to explain it when Madam Pince became rather sniffy with me. Portia says at least our laundry gets done as often, and we get to eat the same food. So we should be grateful for that. But the elves won't polish our shoes as often.
I imagine there will be other little things like that. I suppose I'll get used to it. I rather like shoes with scuffed toes anyway. They look more homey, somehow.
Classes are falling into a routine. It feels much the same as last year, except...there are little things. Now that I'm a half-blood, I mean. Like the pamphlets left on my bedside table. It seems that the Ministry of Magic thinks it's important that I learn all about hygiene now. Which is odd. Portia or Celia have never complained before or said or anything to make me think that I'm emitting peculiar smells. Perhaps they've merely been polite.
And I never knew before that half-bloods had to queue behind purebloods when reserving books from the library. Portia had to explain it when Madam Pince became rather sniffy with me. Portia says at least our laundry gets done as often, and we get to eat the same food. So we should be grateful for that. But the elves won't polish our shoes as often.
I imagine there will be other little things like that. I suppose I'll get used to it. I rather like shoes with scuffed toes anyway. They look more homey, somehow.
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Date: 2010-09-11 03:32 am (UTC)Have you completely lost it today? Why would you think you have an odor. We've stayed with each other so much that I know for a fact you do not have a problem keeping clean. Do not think twice on the fact that those pamphlets are on your bedside table.
Its all nonsense. You were fine before your status changed. You are fine now. Pay no attention to those who would have you think other wise.
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Date: 2010-09-11 01:49 pm (UTC)It's not an official rule about the queue in the library, it's just Madam Pince. If I'm with Pansy and there's a big group she'll pretend not to notice though she always does Pansy's books first.
And I've never had any problems with getting my shoes polished. The elves are really good to me, they leave me warm milk when I'm up too late. My shoes still look new, but they were a gift from Harry and that might be the magic on them.