Lucky Thirteen

[alt_seamus]

So today was my birthday and it was pretty good. Thanks for the card and pressie Padma! It flies around and around when you let it go. It was starting to get on Percy's nerves so I put it away after a bit. Mr Rosier couldn't send me anything but he wrote in his journal that he'd gotten tickets to go see the Kestrals play this summer. I can't wait! I guess that means he doesn't think I'll be home for spring hols. But at this point I can't say I'm surprised.

And pudding tonight was chocolate cake so no complaints there. Even if I didn't have any candles to blow out. He said I could have a cake with candles in summer if I want and we'd celebrate then. Actually the birthday that should really be wizard this summer is Draco's, if he's still planning to hold a party in June.

Anyway I said thank you over in your diary but thank you Mr Rosier for my present. I'm really excited to go see the Kestrals. I wish I'd be home sooner than summer but summer's not that far away really.

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[alt_padma]

I'm glad you liked it! It was just a little thing they had at the new shop. I dunno who brought it originally, but it's yours now.

Oh, by the way, I meant to tell you that Perks was in the queue round the same time I was. Did you know she had brought lists from some of the older kids in Slytherin, with their shopping?

First I thought she was making a little mudblood of herself, doing their shopping like a house-elf. But then I thought of that book you were telling me about, the one set in Hogwarts way back in the 1800s, and how the poorer students used to fag for the older ones, you know, to make a bit of pocket money. I guess that little bit of change she made off those folded valentines gave her the taste for money. That and her association with Stretton - he's always got a scheme going. I'm sure he's been teaching her a thing or two about taking advantage.

Can you imagine? I mean, if Sandoval asked me to fetch her something, of course I'd do it, but that's because she's such a wonderful person, and a great friend. Not because she paid me.

Ooh! D'you think Parkinson pays her to be friends? I know Weasley hasn't any dosh for it, perhaps she just feels grateful that someone pities her enough to be friends without insisting on the benefit of payment.