Private message to Mrs Brown

Professor Vector has sent around the sign up parchment for the students who will be staying at Hogwarts for the holidays. I would like to know whether it would be all right with you and Mr Brown if I were to do that this year. I've been helping Professor Brutka take care of the animals for Care of Magical Creatures (feeding and mucking out the cages and so forth) and I expect it also be a good time to get ahead on my reading for the spring term. Some of the other students who have stayed over the holidays have told me that they've had a lovely time and gotten a lot of revising done too so you needn't give a thought to me. Lavender probably pref

Please let me know, either through the journals or by owl so I can let Professor Vector know. Thank you.

And I also wanted to say thank you for the article you sent to me about fashion tips. My roommates Celia and Portia read it too and said that you really have a remarkable fashion sense and I should be proud that you are willing to take me in hand.