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[alt_seamus]

Mr Rosier hired a tutor to teach me over the summer. Mr Aubrey says that I need to work on my composition. Also that Mr Rosier would not have gotten as far as he has if he didn't spell properly and write proper sentences.

I am working with Mr Aubrey every morning until lunchtime.  For most of the week I wrote compositions about Irish wizarding history and he marked the mistakes so I could fix them. But today he suggested I write a journal entry so that my friends could hear what I'm up to.

I am grateful to Mr Rosier for helping me learn. I expect this will improve my marks on my essays as well.

In the afternoons I have been flying on my broom and reading. Today I got an owl from Ron Weasley and I'm going to his house next week to visit. He said there might be a quidditch game and I should bring my broom. I'm looking forward to it quite a lot. In fact, I can hardly wait. I am going to count the hours until next Friday because I am so excited that I don't believe I will be able to sleep between now and then.

There, I have enough words now.

Comments

[alt_padma]

I am glad that you are working so hard to improve your marks.

Does Mr Aubrey mark your journal entries, too? Is that why you are writing that way? It is not very interesting.

By the way, did you see the ad in today's Prophet? The dragon, the hinkypunk, the puffskein and the tebo are all robe pets that Mum is adding especially because boys like them more than dogs and cats.

I hope you enjoy your Quidditch game and that Mr Aubrey does not make you write about it.

[alt_seamus]

Mr Aubrey had me write it all out on a separate sheet of parchment. And then he marked my mistakes. And then I copied it over into my journal.

I did see that ad! The dragon is wizard and I like the hinkypunk too, much better than butterflies. I mean robe pets are nift but a boy can't wear something too girly.

I think Ill tell Mr Aubrey Id rather just write an essay and not have to have my journal entries marked, ugh.

[alt_padma]

Sanji wanted mum to add other things, like Manticores and a cockatrise, but Mum said they'd be too dangerous. I mean, you wouldn't want a Robe Pet that'd scare everyone all the time. She wont do a Chinese Fireball either because she's afraid it might actually catch fire. Though I think she was just teasing Sanji when she said that.

I guess mum didn't know if boys would like them at all, when she sent them. But Sanji loves his - oh, and his has been going since she sent the ones to me and Parvati. I guess because he plays with it every day. But we couldn't do that with school.

I hope Mum and Dad don't decide to get us tutors.

OH! But I was going to tell everyone! We have a mudblood now! Besides the one in the shop, I mean. In the house. Well, around the house. It was kinda weird at first but I guess I'm getting used to it.

[alt_seamus]

You got a mudblood? What sorts of things does it do? Is it a grown up one or our age like the ones at school?

[alt_padma]

It's a grownup one. A man. He'll be working on the new parts of the shop this summer, but first Mum and Dad wanted to make sure he really knows how to do all that stuff. Plaster and bricks and all, I mean. So he's building a shed out back for brooms and the carpet, and then he's going to put a balcony on our room, Dad says, before he starts the shop.

I asked if the mudblood could put the balcony on Haruman's room or Sanji's. Dad wanted to know why - I mean, really, can't he understand simple things like that?

[alt_seamus]

Don't you want a balcony? Why wouldn't you want a balcony?

[alt_padma]

Of course we want a balcony!! But that doesn't mean we want a dirty mudblood tromping through our room when we're right there! Yuck.

[alt_seamus]

Oh well does he have to come in to your room? Couldn't he build the balcony up from the ground outside so he was always outside of it?

[alt_padma]

I dunno. I mean I think he'd have to be inside some of the time, right? Like if it's raining. And there has to be a door or something to get onto the balcony, and he'd have to put that in, right?

I mean maybe he could do it when we're on the camping trip. That'd be better. Because we wouldn't be around. I mean, it's really creepy having him about at all, but the thought of him in our room?

I dunno.

[alt_seamus]

Well maybe if it was raining he could work on something else? But yeah there's no getting around the door. How long does it take to build a door anyway?

[alt_padma]

Without magic?

Ages, I bet.

[alt_seamus]

I don't even know how long it would take with magic.

[alt_neville]

I'm coming to the Weasleys, too, next Friday. It'll be great to see you.

If there's anything I should work on over the summer, I bet it would be transfiguration, but ugh, I don't want to think about it until next September.

[alt_seamus]

Me either mate but I didn't really want to think about composition either!

[alt_neville]

I hope he lets you do other stuff for fun? Do you ever get out to Diagon Alley or to a Quidditch match or anything?

[alt_seamus]

Oh yeah of course! Mr Rosier took me to a Quidditch match earlier this week. And we're going on a proper holiday to Brighton later this summer. It won't be all work.

[alt_neville]

Which match did you see?

[alt_seamus]

Falmouth Falcons vs. Montrose Magpies.

The Magpies won but it was really close.