Terry's birthday, and Dennis Creevey

[alt_hermione]

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

Well yesterday was Terry Boot's birthday  and I wanted to tell you all, only I didn't remember until quite late, and then I had to run to go and see him. It's really easy to forget when people aren't around. Only, how could I ever forget Terry? I don't know. But I almost did. But I talked Harry into giving me one of the hampers that people sent him, his Father sent it along to school because it's full of vegetables under a freeze charm, and growing boys are supposed to eat their veg. And he doesn't like veg very much, so he gave it to me. So I'm keeping it for Terry.

Terry looks like he's under a freeze charm kind of. If you haven't gone to see him, I mean, he looks waxy or maybe icy.

Anyhow I also talked to Dennis, and Dennis said that he was with Malfoy the other day and scones showed up out of no where, and he wanted me to tell him how to make them stop showing up. And so I told him I didn't know, but it sounds like his magic is showing up, like it does for pure blooded kids, only I didn't know it happened to mudbloods, it never really happened to me. I mean, it did, but not like scones showing up out of no where. I made the ground feel soft once when we had to sleep on it, is all.

But I don't think there's anything you can do to stop that, is there? And why would he want to stop it anyway? I know Malfoy doesn't feed him like Harry feeds me, and anyway he wouldn't accept food from Malfoy and I think that's really why, and he really likes scones, and he could just eat them.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Your birthday is in the autumn isn't it? I remember Terry did something nice for you. I didn't know when your birthday was until I saw your note to him.

Is that why Dennis was so hoping Draco would want scones? I thought he was just hoping Draco would give him more of them to eat.

There isn't anything anyone can do to stop the magic they just have. My mum can I mean sometimes little kids learn when it happens and they take advantage of it. My magic showed itself when I used to steal honey from the bees in the woods near my house, one day I realized the bees never bothered me anymore, they just thought I was a bee. I suppose if that really bothered me I'd have stopped looking for hives but I thought it was great, you know? Anyway with a muggleborn it's maybe not great because they take you away from your parents, but that's happened to Dennis already so he might as well just enjoy his scones.

I wonder where they're coming from? You can't make food out of nothing. He might have summoned them from the kitchens though, I don't reckon the house-elves would mind. Maybe that's something you can tell him, Hermione, would he believe it was just house-elf magic and they were trying to be nice to him because he likes scones so much? Or would he go talk to the elves and tell them not to give him scones anymore?

[alt_ron]

How old is Dennis?

And, uh. That's kind of disgusting about how Terry Boot looks. I mean, waxy? Did he look that way when it first happened? Or is he kinda, I dunno, not moulding but, y'know. It's just, you said about the veg and it made me wonder if he's decaying or something, just lying there petrified like that. I mean, I thought Madam Pomfrey said they would all just wake up and be back to normal once the Mandrakes got big enough to make the potion. But maybe not?

[alt_sally_anne]

Oh RON. Ugh, I'm sure he's not decaying, how could you even say such a thing?

Hermione I'm sure it's just because he's petrified. I haven't been to see him because I'm afraid I'll cry or be sick. I hate going to the hospital wing anyway.

[alt_ron]

Oh.

Sorry. I maybe shouldn't have said, huh?

[alt_sally_anne]

You are exasperating.

[alt_sally_anne]

And Dennis is nine I think. Maybe eight or ten but probably nine.

[alt_hermione]

Do you know I'm not sure either? I never asked.

[alt_sally_anne]

I think he was eight when he arrived but I'm not sure, and he's probably had a birthday but I don't know when it is.

He's smaller than the firsties though, even the short firsties.

How old were you when your magic showed itself Hermione? I was eight but some people show it younger.

[alt_hermione]

I don't know. Mum and Dad didn't like to talk about it much. I think I must have been rather young. But it wasn't bad, I mean, it wasn't like scones being summoned or anything.

[alt_ron]

What's bad about scones? I think they're nice. Especially the ones with currants in.

Now when I started showing magic it was always to do with the twins and Percy. When they'd tease me, I'd make stuff explode. Like one time, the twins were playing keep away, throwing a stuffed toy over my head. After about six times trying to reach for it, it just blew to bits right in Fred's hand. Or maybe it was George's.

And there was the time they were holding my porridge away, passing it back and forth across the table, and just when they figured I was really, really cheesed off, Fred slid in front of Percy. I know it was Fred that time because he's still got a little scar just at the corner of his eye where Percy threw his spoon at him when my bowl exploded porridge all over him. All over Percy, that is.

Oh, and, yeah. There was the one time I made the bath water fly up and dump all over Mum. I didn't like baths to begin with, but after that time, I guess I'd just yell and yell whenever she said I had to take one.

[alt_hermione]

Well, scones aren't bad themselves, I like scones, especially with cream and things, but they'd have been bad for me to summon. Because for one thing they'd have probably come from the overseer of the camp I was in and he'd have been very angry, to have his scones flying out his window, and then I'd have been in trouble, or really my parents wouldv'e been, and my Dad would have had to explain it, and he would just not have been able to, and anyway it probably would have been very bad.

[alt_sally_anne]

Were your parents able to hide that you were a witch, for a while? Or did they let you stay with them longer because they were muggle healers?

You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I was just wondering.

[alt_hermione]

I don't think they really tried to cover it up so much as it was easy to pretend because of the way things happened. I don't really know. I mean I think that maybe they didn't take any of us to work in people's houses until I was ten? Because I don't know anyone older than me who's a mudblood who works. I mean there are older mudbloods but they're all in the camps. So maybe they didn't take anyone away. I wonder how they deal with the magic in the camps. I don't know, really. We moved around too much for me to make friends with anyone really.