Dumbldore,
I am deeply concerned for the well being of Mister Malfoy. He doesn't seem himself lately, and though I doubt that this is a terrible thing, it still worries me. He spent all Potions class trying to find different ways to look at the blackboard, heaven knows why. He seems very distracted of late, he spends more time during meals craning his neck around trying to find someone who obviously isn't there than eating.
I've also caught him out of bed after hours once, and in interests sake I followed him. I half expected him to be leading me to some broom cupboard or the astronomy tower, in which case I would have to interfere with such activities as both you and I know go on in both circumstances, but I was quite shocked when after leading me through a series of hallways I had not even known existed right to a small room, about the size of my ingredients store room. He stood still for a while, surveying the room, then walked up to a window, crouched down and inspected ever last bit of it, frame and glass. As odd as this was, he walked the length of the room, looking very concentrated on the task at hand.
He seemed to be counting his steps, pausing every now and then, ducking down, then standing sharply up and walking again. All very strange. When he made it to the other side, he continued his search by running his hands and eyes over the entire wall, right into every corner. He looked very concerned, as though he remembered something being there and now it wasn't. And this was the oddest bit, he started singing. Well, not really singing, he was kind of humming a melody throwing in the odd word to an odd note, and I'm not sure if you've ever heard a Slytherin sing, but we simply can't. It's one of our traits, we are crafty, devious, and we couldn't sing, "Michael, row the boat ashore" to save our lives. The latter, I assume, is left out of the sorting hats song because it's not really an appealing thing. Anyways, to say the least, Mister Malfoy is no exception to this.
It was awful, but the point is not his singing abilities but the fact that he was trying to do it. If it helps at all, I believe some of the words he was singing were "Shouts or talks to loud." "A lady dressed in white"; "I know a place were no one's lost." and one he said the most "Not in my castle on a Cloud." Once he was done, he waited a few seconds, then seemed obviously disappointed something hadn't happened, and walking away, saying it had been a bloody waste of time and he probably only been imagining things.
As headmaster of this school, perhaps you know what he was trying to accomplish? Or has he finally lost what bit of sanity he miraculously managed to keep? With all respect,
Yours truly,
Serverus Snape
I am deeply concerned for the well being of Mister Malfoy. He doesn't seem himself lately, and though I doubt that this is a terrible thing, it still worries me. He spent all Potions class trying to find different ways to look at the blackboard, heaven knows why. He seems very distracted of late, he spends more time during meals craning his neck around trying to find someone who obviously isn't there than eating.
I've also caught him out of bed after hours once, and in interests sake I followed him. I half expected him to be leading me to some broom cupboard or the astronomy tower, in which case I would have to interfere with such activities as both you and I know go on in both circumstances, but I was quite shocked when after leading me through a series of hallways I had not even known existed right to a small room, about the size of my ingredients store room. He stood still for a while, surveying the room, then walked up to a window, crouched down and inspected ever last bit of it, frame and glass. As odd as this was, he walked the length of the room, looking very concentrated on the task at hand.
He seemed to be counting his steps, pausing every now and then, ducking down, then standing sharply up and walking again. All very strange. When he made it to the other side, he continued his search by running his hands and eyes over the entire wall, right into every corner. He looked very concerned, as though he remembered something being there and now it wasn't. And this was the oddest bit, he started singing. Well, not really singing, he was kind of humming a melody throwing in the odd word to an odd note, and I'm not sure if you've ever heard a Slytherin sing, but we simply can't. It's one of our traits, we are crafty, devious, and we couldn't sing, "Michael, row the boat ashore" to save our lives. The latter, I assume, is left out of the sorting hats song because it's not really an appealing thing. Anyways, to say the least, Mister Malfoy is no exception to this.
It was awful, but the point is not his singing abilities but the fact that he was trying to do it. If it helps at all, I believe some of the words he was singing were "Shouts or talks to loud." "A lady dressed in white"; "I know a place were no one's lost." and one he said the most "Not in my castle on a Cloud." Once he was done, he waited a few seconds, then seemed obviously disappointed something hadn't happened, and walking away, saying it had been a bloody waste of time and he probably only been imagining things.
As headmaster of this school, perhaps you know what he was trying to accomplish? Or has he finally lost what bit of sanity he miraculously managed to keep? With all respect,
Yours truly,
Serverus Snape