Public Message for Arista Selwyn
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alt_ronDear 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!')
Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-19 10:04 pm (UTC)You all right? I thought you looked a bit done for this afternoon in Creatures.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 12:50 am (UTC)People need to eat.
Ill be fine.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 01:25 am (UTC)Yeah, they do. We're making sure people get to eat all the way down our table, too. And you saw Diggory, I guess?
Did she call you in tonight, too? She hasn't said anything to any of us. Yet. Not that we're going to stop or anything if she does.
What did she make you write?
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 01:41 am (UTC)Good.
Had me write I will behave appropriately.
Wrote it tonight too.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 01:58 am (UTC)Heh.
I think you behave appropriately. Bet you think so, too.
She really is dim. Vicious. But dim.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 01:59 am (UTC)I'm not stopping. She can make me write lines, too, if she wants.
But the other thing. That new Educational Decree? (She ought to call those Anti-education Decrees since she obviously doesn't want us learning anything.) We're going to need to meet more often in the secret room. And we can't let any of her snitches see us going there or coming back. But it's the only way to revise actual magic.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 02:04 am (UTC)We're going to have to meet more often, yeah.
What about everyone else?
The people who don't know about the room?
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 02:04 am (UTC)Everyone.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 02:17 am (UTC)But, yeah. I see what you mean.
Only the thing is, some of them would tattle on us.
Who are you worried about that we can't invite to the room or give galleons to? Is there anyone in your House that's likely to fail? Because if so, wouldn't Slughorn let you tutor them in the dormitories or the common room? And the Hufflepuffs could do that. I mean, Sprout would let them, right? I dunno about Vector, but y'know, if there are Ravenclaws who fail, there's probably something wrong we couldn't help fix. (Like Capper last year, y'know? Because he just didn't care about ANY other subjects, so he only passed the one. That was really sort of on him, wasn't it? Cause he was smart enough, I mean. If he'd done what he needed to.) I'm not sure about our lot. I mean, Bundy's nervous, but she'll be all right. Nev, though. I'm not sure. I think he'll get through. He won't be brilliant. On anything but Herbology. But he'll get through, yeah?
So who do you think we need to try to help who's not already with us?
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 02:31 am (UTC)That, and Defence.
I think after Capper, everyone is going to care. But she's making it so they can't do what they need to and that's not on.
What about Thomas and Finnigan?
Milli's going to be tough. And Vince and Greg. Their wands won't get snapped or anything, but they still deserve a chance.
ow.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 02:59 am (UTC)Yeah. Bullstrode seems like she might not pass. But Daphne could help her. Maybe she already is. I could ask. Or you could, obviously. I don't know about Crabbe and Goyle, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're right. Only, well. Is there anything you could really teach them that would make a difference between now and OWLs? I mean, if they're going to fail, it's not just because they can't practise spells outside of lessons now. If you see what I'm saying.
Who else? Who are the halfbloods we haven't given a galleon to? Are there any we could?
Not Jones. She's snitching for Umbridge now. So's Midgen. That means we really can't help them.
Oh, and yeah. Not Thomas and Finnigan. I think they'll both do all right. Thomas, well. He's smart, and he's no way going to let himself get sent back to the camps. Honestly. He'd probably murder Umbridge first if he thought she was going to stand in his way to getting through OWLs. And Finnigan? I don't know. He's been really on edge since Christmas, I guess. You know we don't get along, right? (That's really not putting it strongly enough, but y'know what I mean.) So I don't know what's up with him, but he's looking like he wants to murder someone every third minute. And usually that's me he's looking at when he's looking like that. So maybe he's worried about exams, but maybe it's other stuff. Ireland, y'know. Anywiz, I don't think Mr Rosier would let anything bad happen to him. And I do know he's had loads of private tutoring over hols and all, so I don't think we should worry too much about him.
Who else?
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 03:12 am (UTC)And yeah, it's mad, but people will do a lot of things that aren't right when they're scared.
I don't know if there's anyone else we could give one to, but I'll keep thinking.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 03:22 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 03:30 am (UTC)By the way. Did you see what Black wrote on Umbritch's Decree? Called her out for being a fat cow.
I'm sure that'll make her jollier tomorrow.
But it's dead funny tonight.
Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 04:53 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Harry Marvolo
Date: 2013-03-20 05:07 am (UTC)