ORDER ONLY: Terry's Birthday

[alt_hermione]

Well today was Terry's birthday and would you believe that Fred and George Weasley got him a birthday present! Or, anyway, Mrs Weasley sent things and they gave them to him and they're saying to people that it was to get well soon but they know and I know that it was a birthday present.

And Madam Pince was cleaning out the old books that no one uses anymore, like the old edition of Ancient Runes Made Easy and a copy of Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century with half the pages torn out (but it's still useful because it's alphabetical and so we still have all of names M through Z) and she gave them to me and so I gave them to Terry, because he can't come read anything he likes in the library, and there were about fifteen of them and when I saw the Headmistress she gave me a bow to put on them (thank you Headmistress) and Madam Pince let me make a birthday card with the inks I was using on the Pretiosissimum Donum Dei, even though of course I couldn't tell her that I was giving him the books too.

The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Terry wasn't so afraid of Mr Lupin, but I think that perhaps if he would only just get to know Mr Lupin he wouldn't be so scared, because he'd never bite anyone, not even if the Lord Protector told him to himself! And I know that not everybody in the Order thinks so and I'm sorry because you all probably know him better than me, but you haven't talked to him in years and years, and I'm sure I'm right!!

But in any case Terry is out of the Hospital Wing and I think he had a good birthday.

Comments

[alt_mcgonagall]

Think nothing of it, Miss Granger, but - do be careful with Lupin. I know you haven't any wish to listen to me, but it is important.

[alt_sirius]

Well, I started talking to him - Lupin, I mean - to see for myself. But of course in these journals it's hard to tell.

No one thinks he would purposefully bite anyone, Hermione. At least not literally. That's not what makes him dangerous.

Anyway, tell your Terry happy birthday from the outlaw Sirius Black. Wink while you say it; makes it sound better. Trust me.

[alt_molly]

I didn't even realise that today was Terry's birthday. Now I'm even more pleased that I sent along the package for him, and that the twins passed it along to him. What wonderful timing! He was ever so polite when he thanked me for it, too, so I can only imagine how happy YOUR present and card must have made him, Hermione. He certainly deserves a little happiness, after all he's been through, and so I'm glad he had friends to help make his birthday a genuine celebration.