Hi! Here's the first chapter for today! Enjoy.
Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Hogwarts
Rule 5:
"Putting up Doug Henning posters in Filch's office is not appropriate."
Dear Sarah,
How are you? I'm great! Enjoying your fourth year? I sure am.
It's very cold here in Canada. We've already hit minus twelve degrees, and the temperature is still sinking. The teachers have given us permission to use magic in the corridors so that we can do warming charms.
I've started taking Muggle Studies classes here, and we were talking about Muggle magicians the other day. The teacher gave us each a poster of a Muggle magician called Doug Henning. I was thinking of you, and I thought you'd love it.
I've enclosed the poster, but you have to enlarge it, because it didn't fit in the envelope. It's a Muggle one, so it doesn't actually move, but I mucked around with it, and I got him to do a few tricks. Thought you might appreciate it.
Anyway, I'm writing this in class, so I have to go now. See you at Christmas.
Love,
Suze
Sarah folded up the letter her Canadian cousin had sent her, and stuffed it back in the envelope. Then she dug in the envelope and pulled out a small, photo-sized picture of a crazy looking man with long hair and flamboyant clothes. Tapping it with her wand, she enlarged it to its regular size.
Staring at it for a while, Sarah wondered what to do with it. It was kind of cool, and she thought she might hang it above her bed. But no…
Suddenly, an even better idea came to her. Not wanting to lose her beloved poster, she quickly used the duplicating charm they had learnt only the previous week. Hanging up the original, she hurried out of the girls' dormitory to execute her plan.
The very next day…
Argus Filch marched into the Great Hall, dragging a very reluctant Sarah Finnegan behind him and clutching a scrunched up object in his other hand. He stalked up to the teachers' table, where Professors MacGonagall, Flitwick and Sprout and Madame Pomfrey were deep in conversation about something or another rumour that was going around the school at the moment.
When Filch arrived, they halted their conversation.
"What is it, Argus?" Professor MacGonagall questioned. In answer, Filch pushed Sarah in front of them. Filch was practically shaking with rage.
"Yes? What about Miss Finnegan?"
"She broke into my office and hung up this!" Now, he revealed what he had been concealing in his other hand. It was the poster of the "Muggle magician", Doug Henning.
The teachers realised this too, and Professor MacGonagall told him, "I'll take this from here, Argus."
Once Filch was gone, she turned to the fourth year. "You do know that that was highly inappropriate, Miss Finnegan. I'm going to give you a week's detention for that, and you need to write a written apology to Argus Filch, please."
Sarah nodded demurely, but she still thought the prank had been worth it. And so, apparently, did her fellow Gryffindors, when they found out, for she was the hero of her House for the rest of the day.
Hi! well, I'm back. Sorry, I know I promised an extra chapter for every two revies today, and I'[m trying my best but I think I'm going to be one short. Oh well. Please review!