Hols

[alt_ron]

So, yeah, hols were fun. My older brothers, Charlie and Bill, were here last weekend and that was wizard! They had loads of stories about dragons and cursed stuff and dueling, and Charlie brought me a dragon-hide wrist protector which is dead cool, and was really useful when we all went flying, cause I always have to have the wonky broom, so I'm always getting dumped off whenever I bank a turn, or sometimes it just coughs and drops like a stone and then starts up again (if I'm lucky). So I got pretty good at falling on my right arm, and then I found out that its as good as a beater bat for whopping Fred or George when they get cheeky. And we had amazing dinners--Mum had stuff bubbling on the stove all the time they were here, and pies and everything we all like. Oh, and Bill taught me a totally sorcerous charm for locking my door so the twins can't get in. Hope I remember it when we get home for summer.

But then when they went back, Charlie and Bill, it was back to work for the rest of us. I had to clean out all the cupboards upstairs--and I mean clean--I had to take everything out, charm away all the dust, then scourgify every shelf and the walls and the floors and even the ceiling, and I would have had to fold everything and put it back, but I was so hopeless with the folding spell that Mum made Ginny do it. (Good I never learned that, huh?)

And we trimmed the hedges and then we had to go to the Lovegoods and trim theirs, but Luna's Dad is really mad and hed made a bunch of his hedges into animal shapes that snapped their jaws at us or swung vicious tails to try to knock us off our brooms (and my broom didn't need any help with that!!) and we tried to petrify them, but that made the branches impossible to cut, so it was a huge load of work and when we got home Mum said we needed to finish getting the gnomes out the garden, cause a lot of them had moved back since we worked on it last week.

And all the days this week were pretty much like that. Today I had to clean out the canning room and the other cellars and I'm telling you, you don't even want to know what lives in our cellars!!! There was this one rat, Sally Anne, that was as big as my foot and that's not counting his tail and he was black as midnight. I wonder if Pansy's kneazle is any bigger!! And there were tons of totally evil spiders down there. You wouldn't believe how big their webs were, I mean some of them were floor to ceiling and then if you looked up in the rafters, you could see great wads of white web wrapped in sort of packages that were as big as rats, and I'm telling you, I couldn't get out of there fast enough!!

So I'm kind of glad we're going back to school tomorrow. It'll be good to get back to Neville's snoring and Seamus' foul socks and wondering if Trevors going to turn up on my pillow or in my shoes.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

I saw white rats at the pet emporium on Tuesday. And brown and black and pretty much any colour rats come in. Kneazles are bigger than cats so I'm sure that rat wasn't THAT big. Still it must have been wizard to see. Unless you don't like rats.

[alt_ron]

No, the rats were all right. It was the spiders, which thankfully we didn't see any of, but I could hear them. Or maybe that was the rats, too. I dunno, but I hope I don't have to go down there again forever.

[alt_neville]

Well, I'll take particular care to snore as loudly as possible when we all get back to school, so you'll feel entirely at home again.

Bet if your Mum and my Gran went into together on writing a book about household charms, it'd make thousands of Galleons.

(And I don't think Trevor's turned up on your pillow once since Seamus got that terrarium for him.)

[alt_ron]

I bet your right about them writing a book. We'd all be rich!

Or maybe not. Who wants to do housework? Certainly not me!

Yeah, your right about Trevor, but someday he's going to find a way out of there--I mean he was pretty much an escape artist before, so I figure he's just waiting till we don't expect it and then he's going to make a break for it.

[alt_molly]

I know you hate spiders, Ron, and so I'm sorry about that with the cellar job--I would have had Percy do it if I'd known they were there (Well, I hate them, too). But your Dad and I do appreciate all the hard work you boys put in this week, even if you do grouse about it! And Ginny was just over the moon about having her brothers at home. She's going to miss you something fierce when you all get back on the train tomorrow.

(Mind you fold all your clothes carefully when you pack your trunk tonight! You don't want your trousers to be all over creases.)

[alt_percy]

Indeed, Ronald, I wouldn't have minded switching jobs with you. I don't really mind spiders particularly. On the other hand, I think I'll need Mum to charm my clothes to take the stink out of them from mucking out the chicken coop.

[alt_ron]

I couldn't tell a difference. With how your clothes smell, I mean.

[alt_ron]

Mum, um, dyou think you could come help me with my trunk? I'm pretty sure I can't get all this folding done and everything sorted. It's just pretty much all gone pearshaped up here, and. Yeah, if your not busy or anything?

[alt_seamus]

My socks arent that bad! No worse than yours! Anyway I wish the holiday were longer but Mr Rosier doesnt make me scrub out his cupboards or paint the walls.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. You have it pretty good with Mr Rosier, I think. My Mum's a bit mad: she says it's how we know we're all family that we all work hard to keep the house clean and everything working properly. Mind you, with our house, there's always a lot of work to do just to keep the place from falling down! It's a bit shaky, it's so old.