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Mar. 16th, 2010 10:02 pmI really miss getting letters. It’s just a small thing, really, but it’s enough just to know that someone’s thinking of you, and it’s not quite the same to just read it on here. Because everyone else can read it too.
Lucius, your letter was really useful at sorting out what Arithmancy is like, and what to expect if I decide to take it. And I am really looking forward to Ancient Runes.
Wigbold had a dead smart way with runes. He carved them into his ships so that they would never take on water, and sewed runes in the lining of his clothes so he wouldn’t drown or get eaten by sharks. Just in case. And he painted some on the door to his cabin so they’d glow and warn him if mutiny was afoot. It all sounds frightfully clever.
Lucius says my dad was really good at Potions, so he mostly focused on that at school, which explains why I’m not entirely useless at it. He would probably have been excellent at Dark Arts if we had offered it back then. And my mum is brill at Charms and Transfiguration – she makes really beautiful things out of glass. Not to sell, but just for gifts and decorations and things. You can’t even look at some of them too hard they’re so delicate. When she was just out of school, she even showed some pieces at a gallery once, before she married my dad.
I like my classes, and I get decent marks, but I hope next year is the year I find the thing that I’m meant to do, like dad and his potions or mum and her glass.
Lucius, your letter was really useful at sorting out what Arithmancy is like, and what to expect if I decide to take it. And I am really looking forward to Ancient Runes.
Wigbold had a dead smart way with runes. He carved them into his ships so that they would never take on water, and sewed runes in the lining of his clothes so he wouldn’t drown or get eaten by sharks. Just in case. And he painted some on the door to his cabin so they’d glow and warn him if mutiny was afoot. It all sounds frightfully clever.
Lucius says my dad was really good at Potions, so he mostly focused on that at school, which explains why I’m not entirely useless at it. He would probably have been excellent at Dark Arts if we had offered it back then. And my mum is brill at Charms and Transfiguration – she makes really beautiful things out of glass. Not to sell, but just for gifts and decorations and things. You can’t even look at some of them too hard they’re so delicate. When she was just out of school, she even showed some pieces at a gallery once, before she married my dad.
I like my classes, and I get decent marks, but I hope next year is the year I find the thing that I’m meant to do, like dad and his potions or mum and her glass.
