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Order only: owls and other news
Jul. 27th, 2009 09:29 pmAlice, that owl you sent with Kevin's birth announcement finally found me. Poor chap must have been confused as to my whereabouts; from the disgruntled way it demanded food, water and a perch for the day, I gather it went to the homestead in Monaco first and has been backtracking for some time.
In any case, Frank, you watch your back, too, mate. Especially if you're as lacking in sleep as I suspect from the sprog's feeding timetable. And Moony - let me know if you need suggestions for how best to corrupt Kevin. Never too early for a godfather to make his friends regret their decision! Have you given him his first lesson in breaking out of his cradle yet?
I also wanted to let you lot know how Justin Finch-Fletchley has been doing. We're making great progress, I'm proud to say. He's a fair hand at changing matchsticks to needles already, though he has some trouble with charms pronunciations due to a tendency to stammer. I think that's more self-confidence than any inherent speech defect, though. I don't know if he'll be ready to enter Beauxbatons as a second-year student or not, but he's certainly catching them up as fast as ever he can.
His mother has been asking all sorts of questions, as well, mostly about the efforts to bring about the current regime's downfall. I think her curiosity can be attributed to the new celebrity of Mr Emilius Highslip, who it turns out is the young man who stopped me in the street that day. It seems he did defect, after all. I've no time to detail what happened at the moment, but it was rather daring and it put quite the damper on Malfoy's return, I can promise you!
All the excitement has had the effect of increasing Mrs F-F's sympathy to our cause. I've very nearly got her to the point where I think we can expect a sizable donation to the Order. It should be enough to replenish our supplies for next autumn. Once Justin has been safely placed at Beauxbatons I shall be off again on my own little collecting mission for us.
Hermione? How are you doing, kiddo? And how is Harry - I've not seen him write recently. Not that he writes often. But his birthday is coming up and I'm sure he must be at least a little excited about that.
In any case, Frank, you watch your back, too, mate. Especially if you're as lacking in sleep as I suspect from the sprog's feeding timetable. And Moony - let me know if you need suggestions for how best to corrupt Kevin. Never too early for a godfather to make his friends regret their decision! Have you given him his first lesson in breaking out of his cradle yet?
I also wanted to let you lot know how Justin Finch-Fletchley has been doing. We're making great progress, I'm proud to say. He's a fair hand at changing matchsticks to needles already, though he has some trouble with charms pronunciations due to a tendency to stammer. I think that's more self-confidence than any inherent speech defect, though. I don't know if he'll be ready to enter Beauxbatons as a second-year student or not, but he's certainly catching them up as fast as ever he can.
His mother has been asking all sorts of questions, as well, mostly about the efforts to bring about the current regime's downfall. I think her curiosity can be attributed to the new celebrity of Mr Emilius Highslip, who it turns out is the young man who stopped me in the street that day. It seems he did defect, after all. I've no time to detail what happened at the moment, but it was rather daring and it put quite the damper on Malfoy's return, I can promise you!
All the excitement has had the effect of increasing Mrs F-F's sympathy to our cause. I've very nearly got her to the point where I think we can expect a sizable donation to the Order. It should be enough to replenish our supplies for next autumn. Once Justin has been safely placed at Beauxbatons I shall be off again on my own little collecting mission for us.
Hermione? How are you doing, kiddo? And how is Harry - I've not seen him write recently. Not that he writes often. But his birthday is coming up and I'm sure he must be at least a little excited about that.
