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Public Message for Arista Selwyn
Mar. 19th, 2013 02:55 pmDear Arista,
Sorry it's been a while since my last note to you. I'm glad you liked it when I wrote before. Thanks for telling me.
Satsuma's still having a grand time here in the castle. He's decided he likes the window ledge by my bed the best. That's the one that looks out towards the Forest. He says he can see all sorts of creatures from there--loads of different kinds of birds, and kneazles that sit and watch the birds or go off hunting and come back with field mice or snakes, and he said he even saw a centaur the other day. I told him he couldn't have done, since they stay well deep in the Forest, but he said he saw what he saw and my telling him different couldn't make him unsee it. So you'll have to guess whether he was having me on or whether he really saw a centaur after all.
He says he's waiting to see if a unicorn will come to the edge of the trees one day, because he'd really like to see one sometime. Did you know there are unicorns in the Hogwarts Forest? Maybe you'll get to see one someday when you come to school. We saw one once when the Lord Protector came to hunt them. That was a big thing in my first year. The whole council came and loads of other people, too, so I expect your father must have been here and maybe your mum, and there was a feast and everything afterwards.
I've been really glad to have Satsuma for company since I have to spend so much time revising now. Satsuma likes to sit on top of a tower made out of my noble arts books. He says those are best for sitting on, and sometimes he gets really put out when I need to take one of 'his' books and use it for a while. I never took noble arts before this year, so I'm having to work extra hard to understand what Professor Dolohov is teaching us. Luckily, he's a very good teacher, and he's helping us prepare for exams now that they're getting close.
I expect you knew how clever Satsuma is, but I'm still finding it out. For instance, one day about a fortnight ago, he hid in my satchel and came along for a trip to the library. He was careful to be really quiet, since Madam Pince gets upset if anyone makes noise in there. I was there because I had an extra long parchment to write for Transfiguration. That's with Professor Brutka. He's tough, but he's one of the best teachers here. He expects us to really think and figure things out for ourselves, so his assignments always take loads of time to work out and then to write, and I was really having a rough go on that one. I was looking up books on advanced spell casting, looking for just the right wand form for the transformation I needed to do, and Satsuma was reading over my shoulder when all of a sudden he sneezed. Didn't know stuffed cats did that, but he did. And it was just as I'd got to exactly the wand snick I needed!
Not too much else has happened, I guess. For a long while the weather was really dreary, but Satsuma doesn't seem to mind one way or the other about the weather. And he's lucky that he doesn't get hungry since there's no extra food around here anymore to feed him if he did. Of course, I expect he could just catch a rat or a toad and eat that if he wanted like the other familiars do when they get hungry. (Well, the other familiars that aren't toads, that is! It's lucky for my friend, Neville, that Satsuma's not a hungry cat since he's got one called Trevor, who's always hopping off somewhere Nev can't find him. But he's never got eaten yet, so I expect he's an extra lucky toad.)
Oh. There is something important I meant to ask you about. Are you planning to come this weekend to see our revue we're putting on here at Hogwarts? I'm not playing a mad cat this time, but I've actually got one of the lead parts. It's a funny show with loads of dancing and travelling back in time to see how the school used to be when some of our teachers were young, years back. Ask your parents if they could bring you! I'll be sure to have Satsuma with me so you can tell him hello!
Hope to see you soon!
Your friend,
Ron Weasley (and Satsuma--he says to tell you 'Allo!')
Sorry it's been a while since my last note to you. I'm glad you liked it when I wrote before. Thanks for telling me.
Satsuma's still having a grand time here in the castle. He's decided he likes the window ledge by my bed the best. That's the one that looks out towards the Forest. He says he can see all sorts of creatures from there--loads of different kinds of birds, and kneazles that sit and watch the birds or go off hunting and come back with field mice or snakes, and he said he even saw a centaur the other day. I told him he couldn't have done, since they stay well deep in the Forest, but he said he saw what he saw and my telling him different couldn't make him unsee it. So you'll have to guess whether he was having me on or whether he really saw a centaur after all.
He says he's waiting to see if a unicorn will come to the edge of the trees one day, because he'd really like to see one sometime. Did you know there are unicorns in the Hogwarts Forest? Maybe you'll get to see one someday when you come to school. We saw one once when the Lord Protector came to hunt them. That was a big thing in my first year. The whole council came and loads of other people, too, so I expect your father must have been here and maybe your mum, and there was a feast and everything afterwards.
I've been really glad to have Satsuma for company since I have to spend so much time revising now. Satsuma likes to sit on top of a tower made out of my noble arts books. He says those are best for sitting on, and sometimes he gets really put out when I need to take one of 'his' books and use it for a while. I never took noble arts before this year, so I'm having to work extra hard to understand what Professor Dolohov is teaching us. Luckily, he's a very good teacher, and he's helping us prepare for exams now that they're getting close.
I expect you knew how clever Satsuma is, but I'm still finding it out. For instance, one day about a fortnight ago, he hid in my satchel and came along for a trip to the library. He was careful to be really quiet, since Madam Pince gets upset if anyone makes noise in there. I was there because I had an extra long parchment to write for Transfiguration. That's with Professor Brutka. He's tough, but he's one of the best teachers here. He expects us to really think and figure things out for ourselves, so his assignments always take loads of time to work out and then to write, and I was really having a rough go on that one. I was looking up books on advanced spell casting, looking for just the right wand form for the transformation I needed to do, and Satsuma was reading over my shoulder when all of a sudden he sneezed. Didn't know stuffed cats did that, but he did. And it was just as I'd got to exactly the wand snick I needed!
Not too much else has happened, I guess. For a long while the weather was really dreary, but Satsuma doesn't seem to mind one way or the other about the weather. And he's lucky that he doesn't get hungry since there's no extra food around here anymore to feed him if he did. Of course, I expect he could just catch a rat or a toad and eat that if he wanted like the other familiars do when they get hungry. (Well, the other familiars that aren't toads, that is! It's lucky for my friend, Neville, that Satsuma's not a hungry cat since he's got one called Trevor, who's always hopping off somewhere Nev can't find him. But he's never got eaten yet, so I expect he's an extra lucky toad.)
Oh. There is something important I meant to ask you about. Are you planning to come this weekend to see our revue we're putting on here at Hogwarts? I'm not playing a mad cat this time, but I've actually got one of the lead parts. It's a funny show with loads of dancing and travelling back in time to see how the school used to be when some of our teachers were young, years back. Ask your parents if they could bring you! I'll be sure to have Satsuma with me so you can tell him hello!
Hope to see you soon!
Your friend,
Ron Weasley (and Satsuma--he says to tell you 'Allo!')
