Oh, little things here and there. I was down at the Burrow a few weekends ago helping Mum harvest the apples, for instance, and I thought back to when I was young and Mum taught me how to recognise the apples that were ready for picking -- which made me think of when Bill and I would climb the trees to get the ones at the top, which made me think of all the times Dad would come out and see us climbing the trees, out onto the branches Mum kept telling us not to trust our weight to I mean, and how he'd shake his head and sigh but only cast a feather-fall charm on us both and let us keep going. Which made me think of all the things I'm going to let the Bap get away with, and how I want to promise him that I'll let him have as many adventures as he wants, he just has to listen to me when I tell him No to something for safety. That kind of thing. I've got a whole raft of promises saved up, and tonnes of stories about Dad to tell him. Even a few stories about Percy, the poor bastard.
(And I had a nice long talk with Sasha and Alex last week about safety-proofing around dragons -- Sasha made us all learn every charm in the book when the twins started walking, but I told her a friend was preggers and I'd probably wind up babysitting a lot, so could we go over it all again. She had a lot of useful tips.)
That was smart about telling Poppy, but oh, the looks you're going to get. And I'd love to be a fly on the wall when she lights into Dumbledore about the whole thing. (Was it just me, or was he looking particularly worn down today, and being more Dumbledoreish than usual? He cornered Snape for a nice long talk, did you see? They both looked dead grim. Well, more grim than Snape usually looks.)
And I'm glad you want me there, because I'd really like to be there. I still can't get over the fact that we made a person!
Oh -- and, I'm off shift on Tuesday this week. Think you can win free? The leaves up here are half turned and it's awfully beautiful. We could take a picnic and go wandering around the grounds of the castle. You look like you could use a bit of an adventure.
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(And I had a nice long talk with Sasha and Alex last week about safety-proofing around dragons -- Sasha made us all learn every charm in the book when the twins started walking, but I told her a friend was preggers and I'd probably wind up babysitting a lot, so could we go over it all again. She had a lot of useful tips.)
That was smart about telling Poppy, but oh, the looks you're going to get. And I'd love to be a fly on the wall when she lights into Dumbledore about the whole thing. (Was it just me, or was he looking particularly worn down today, and being more Dumbledoreish than usual? He cornered Snape for a nice long talk, did you see? They both looked dead grim. Well, more grim than Snape usually looks.)
And I'm glad you want me there, because I'd really like to be there. I still can't get over the fact that we made a person!
Oh -- and, I'm off shift on Tuesday this week. Think you can win free? The leaves up here are half turned and it's awfully beautiful. We could take a picnic and go wandering around the grounds of the castle. You look like you could use a bit of an adventure.