Private Message to Mum and Dad

[alt_ron]

Hiya. Sorry I didn't write yesterday, but we've been so busy with fitness and skills tests. And marching, which is hilarious. I mean, it's just mental, we're so rank at it. But they've got us doing it for hours. And, get this: we're meant to go march in uniform at the Freedom Day celebration in New London, so we've got to work out how to do it. Or there'll be trouble.

Um, so yeah. Mum. I did send Percy an owl. All right? I mean, I wrote to say the Burrow will feel empty without him grumping about. And that the goats'll miss him. So I did do it, and you don't have to keep reminding me, yeah?

So, um. I was thinking. Percy's room. It seems a waste for it to just sit there with the dust piling up. So do you think I could maybe move down there?

Anywiz, I miss you, but it's all good here. No big accidents or cockups yet. Except for the whole marching business. So I'll see you in three weeks, yeah?

Your favourite son,
Ronald

Comments

[alt_molly]

I'm very glad to hear from you. That's right it had slipped my mind that you would be in London for Freedom Day. I hope it will be fun (and that you won't be too hot, and you have enough water to drink. And don't forget to use the sunburn potion, or you'll peel like an orange). Your father and I had talked about making a day out of it and going to London to see the parade. The twins will come along with us, although I don't know about Percy's or Bill's plans. Percy's quite busy packing up and moving into his new flat, and he may wish to spend the day unpacking and settling in.

As far as Percy's old room...well, that's a thought, and a very practical one. I'll admit it hadn't even crossed my mind. Percy's moving out took me rather by surprise. I'll speak with your father about it.

My initial instinct is, I think I would prefer to wait a little bit, dear. After all, you'll be with CCF for most of August, and you're going back to school on September 1 anyway. I think it might be a bit more tactful to let Percy get settled into his flat, and be sure that it's all going to work out. Let's give him a chance to feel it's really his, before he sees we're displacing his place at the Burrow. You know he can be a bit prickly and territorial about his space and his things. Then, if all goes well, after he starts to feel really at home in New London, I don't think he'll take it amiss if we move you down there, starting next summer. We can talk with him about it at Christmas, perhaps, so he'll be able to become accustomed to the idea. Would that be acceptable?

[alt_ron]

You don't have to come to the parade, y'know. Not for me, I mean.

I think we're going to really reek at this marching thing. People are starting go all shouty crackers about it, too. I reckon Blaise Zabini may blast somebody if they don't smarten up soon. Bundy and I have a wager on who'll snap first, him or Patil.

It's just for pudding, Mum. Before you say anything. The wager, I mean. If she loses, she gives me hers, and if I lose, she gets mine.

Anywiz. So Percy's not finished shifting house yet, then? I thought he'd be gone already. And once he is, what does he care what happens to that room? I mean, he'll have his own new rooms in New London. It's not like he'll need his old one.

Only, it would be loads easier to shift my things when I'm packing up, and then I could just come home to that room at Christmas Hols. And anywiz, you know how my room smells of ghoul dung whenever it's been shut up for a long time. That's really foul, too, in case you hadn't noticed.

Think about it? I mean, maybe you could just not tell Perce for a bit if you think he'll have a snit over it.

[alt_molly]

But we do want to see it, dear. And we can get together with you afterwards, if you like, but really, if you'd prefer to go off with your own friends, your father and I will understand entirely. Ginny will be joining us, but you don't need to, if you don't want to do so.

And as for the room, let me think about it. I'll talk with your father, and perhaps then to Percy.