Chapter 44
'huh' Scorpius said unintelligible that morning as he woke up to a rustling of feathers near his head. As his sleep filled brain woke up and became more alert he realised the source of this noise was coming from his bedside table. For perched atop the mahogany was hedi clutching yet another letter for him. Whenever he saw hedi he was happy as it just showed that his pen pal, his friend R did care as much as she said for she always replied to his letters quickly.
Just as Scorpius was about to open the letter another owl came barreling into his room. This one was a brown coloured owl, that to the untrained eye would look like a barn owl, Scorpius however knew differently for this was his cousins owl and it was also clutching a reply for scorpius.
Tied between which to open first scorpius flipped a coin as he had seen muggles do to work out which to open. One envelope contained a letter that scorpius was eager to read and the other one he wanted to read although wasn't sure he wanted to know.
In the end his cousins letter won. Gingerly opening the parchment what Scorpius saw was not what he was expecting to see. Yes it was answer to his question and yes it did fit with the information that miss R had given him but the cause for the divorce was not what he had been expecting. He was thinking it might have been something like 8 on the list. Slightly shocked and confused Scorpius then opened the other letter which was much more what he had been expecting. Before writing the reply Scorpius called out to squeak. When the house elf appeared Scorpius asked if squeak could perform the spell in the letter. After squeak agreed there was suddenly a clock floating near the wall of his room.
After squeak had left scorpius admiring the new clock, Scorpius wrote his reply. It said:
Dear R
I'm sure they wouldn't mind ne redecorating a little bit, and anyway it would certainly be for the better.
I asked my cousin after you sent me that list, and I just had a reply. It wasn't what I was expecting R. I thought from that list it might be something like too much stress or such long distance or even one of them seeming to change slightly or something like that but it wasn't. I don't know what to think now R. It appears it really is no ones fault except my aunt. Well and one other.
You have good reasoning R but I'm still not quite convinced that it is true.
Well...yeah you might be right, but I think I can still be miffed.
You poor thing. No broomstick for weeks, how did you cope? No seriously though I bet you were scared stiff that sounds so frightening especially at 6 years old. I'm sort of not surprised your mum wouldn't get you a new broomstick.
Thanks R, I think I might need your help to remember that sometimes, as I will think I'm letting them down.
Thanks for the spell. I now have one in my room and it is fantastic. It currently reads: 1 day 18 hours 37 minutes and 45 seconds.
I know I just think that if I'm not in Slytherin then something bad is going to happen, like being disowned or home life becoming miserable. I can see myself staying at hogwarts through the holidays because of it and therefore I won't really have another home. However its not just that, living with people my own age 24/7 will be so different and nice, but also so strange as I don't often see people my own age at home and now I'm going to be in a dormitory with what 5, 6 people my own age that even if they (or other people) hate me it will be so different than what I have now. Does that make sense? As I'm not entirely sure it does.
That sounds so interesting although I'm not sure that I want to know why you would want to return a soul or something. I'm not going to lie, it sounds a little bit creepy R. Animagi transformations sound cool though.
Well I can't really see a point to it, why would someone want a potion like living death, I mean it was probably accidentally created rather than purposely but no one seems to have explored it. It can kill that's it, done. I just feel that either there is (or at least should be) more to it than that or I think it should do something more than just kill.
Question 34 answer, that's really difficult R. Um...er... I don't know... I wouldn't want to go to Azkaban but I don't know that I could live fully muggle not knowing magic existed. And if it wasn't magic that was taken from me but some other just as significant memory then again I don't think I could cope with being obliterated either. Um...um...um...ok I'm not sure about this but I think I would rather be obliterated than Azkaban as I could live in a muggle way by being obliterated rather than not live at all in Azkaban. Ask me again and I would probably go the other way because at least in Azkaban I would have my magic and my memories. You seemed so sure about your answer, I really don't know how it is such a difficult choice.
Question 35 seeing as we have been talking about animagi transformations, what animal do you think you would turn into and if it's different what animal would you like to turn into?
My answer is I think I would be a ferret but I would like to be something else a small bear perhaps.
I know right, but my grandfather is still a bit stuck in the old ways. He still kind of agrees with the whole blood supremacy thing even though he wouldn't kill people because of it, not in the end as he defected but he was on the dark side, I mean it also helps that we have our first muggleborn minster of magic in Hermione granger-Weasley as that shows him that blood supremacy isn't actually right. Anyway I like muggles so I don't think I'll have much problem with muggleborns, do you?
You are so lovely R, and so inspirational too. Yeah your right I don't think I'm really Slytherin material either, I mean I have some parts I guess but not a lot.
Definitely, I think you're right I can see muggle studies being compulsory. No, we don't need WW3. Oh and R I'm more than sure your grandfather is perfectly normal and if he isn't I don't think you can blame the muggle stuff.
No you are perfectly right, but your family arguments sound lovely. Which in its self sounds strange, arguments aren't supposed to be lovely. how often do you win by the way?
I have to admit I hadn't thought about that, but that is actually a great idea. I can just transform it in to something different, and if I can't and it is uncharmable then I guess actually it is a great gift. Will you help me try and charm it at hogwarts?
It certainly can't have been worse, R.
Oh dear. I bet those pictures are lovely R, I bet you look really sweet. By the way, when you said they attempted to put them away what did you mean? Did they not manage it?
Uh oh. Were they really that drunk already? It kind of sounds like a recipe for disaster. I think I have heard of this game but I have no idea what it is about, so...?
Yep your evening definitely sounds better than mine. I bet you had a great time.
It was morning by the time I read it, but thanks. Good morning to you too.
Love from
S
P.s time until Hogwarts is 1 day 18 hours 23 minutes and 37 seconds. By my clock anyway.