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[alt_seamus]

I never wrote in here last term but Mr Rosier thinks I should write a little so I will. He says its alright if I say I miss my mum, because she's a good, loyal subject. Only Ireland isn't safe right now. And that's why the Ministry says I need a foster home while I'm at Hogwarts.

I didn't know what to expect when I got off the train at King's Cross. I knew Mr Rosier is very important and he's Malfoy's Draco's great-uncle but that's all I knew about him. I didn't know how I'd recognise him. But it was okay, he knew what I looked like and found me on the platform.

He's old and he lives alone. Except for the house-elves. His wife died years ago and his son was killed by enemies of the Lord Protector.

He said he's wanted to have a son again for a long time, only he's been waiting for the right boy. He showed me my room. Its not his real sons old room because that's kept the way he left it. This room is big and overlooks the garden and he had the elves decorate it all in Gryffindor colours and put up pictures of Ireland to make me feel at home. We were hardly there an hour before we had to get ready for the party at Malfoy's Draco's Mr and Mrs Malfoy's house.

There were other Hogwarts students at the party. But I felt like I should stay with Mr Rosier. So mostly that's what I did. The decorations were wizard. There were fairy lights and a big gingerbread house and all the food was nice except the caviar. I didn't much like the caviar. Mr Rosier said its an aquired taste.

After dinner Mr Rosier went to the library where all the grownup men were. Mr Rosier chose a book for me to read. I was afraid it would be deadly dull but it was a book about Quidditch. So that wasn't so bad.

We're home now and Mr Rosier said I should write in my diary a little and then go to bed. So now that I've written a little I'm going to bed.

Its very quiet in here. No Ron snoring.

Comments

[alt_neville]

Seamus, I'm so awful sorry that you weren't allowed to come home with me for the hols like we'd planned. It was rotten that they told you at the last minute that you couldn't go. Evelyn and Gran were real disappointed, too, but they said that they hope you have a good time with Mr. Rosier, even if you can't spend it with us. Well, Gran said

Wow, so you were there at Malfoy's house? I expect it was pretty amazing (well, except for the cavier), from what Gran said (not that she's ever been there, but she knows some about the Malfoys).

Wait, I thought you told me that I was the one that snored.

[alt_neville]

And I'm sorry that you miss your mum. At least

[alt_seamus]

Its not so bad here with Mr Rosier. You have Evelyn and your Gran and Mr Rosier didnt have anyone at all.

He's taking me to Diagon Alley today so I can buy presents for my friends.

You both snore. You snore louder but not all the time. Ron snores every night.

[alt_neville]

You'll be getting an owl from me with presents, too! We went to Diagon Alley yesterday; I'm sorry now, because I might have run into you there if we'd gone today.

[alt_draco]

Oh. So that's why you didn't talk to any of us all night.

[alt_harry]

I was wondering.

[alt_draco]

I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave.

[alt_harry]

Well there were a lot of people, I think Id have been scared if I didn't know anybody. And Finnegan doesnt. But he ought to be a Gryffindor, yeah.

[alt_neville]

There are different ways of being brave, and Seamus is! Some just aren't real obvious. I know he really wanted to come home with me, but he didn't complain a bit when he was told he had to go spend the hols with someone he'd never even met.

[alt_seamus]

I wasn't scared. My foster father said he wanted me to stay by him so I did.

[alt_seamus]

Its not as if you talked to me either Malfoy Draco.

Why was Pansy calling you Doodle all night? Is that your new nickname?

[alt_pansy]

Yes.

[alt_seamus]

So your new nickname is Pants, then?

[alt_pansy]

Yes.

[alt_draco]

If I tell people to not call me doodle they'll obviously just do it more.


You were around all of the adults. Who wants to talk to them when they're all together like that?

[alt_padma]

You could say it's to do with your drawing. That at least makes it sound a little better.

I asked my aunts today at our party about nicknames. Aunt Miki said Uncle Revik's nickname at school was 'Bats' but that's because he was a Beater.

[alt_draco]

I don't plan to say its got anything to do with anything.

I was going to suggest "Loz" for Lavvyloo, before Pants butted in.

[alt_padma]

Did the grown-ups talk about anything interesting? Sometimes when they forget there are kids around they talk different.

[alt_seamus]

Nothing all that interesting. They're worried about how alot of the older pureblood families won't hire mudbloods. So they talked about ways to get people to try having them as house servants. And then they slagged on this one clerk at the ministry. I think he's the son of someone important so they couldnt just sack him. But he loses files and sends people to meetings in the wrong place.

And then they switched to complaining about the cost of lemons.