| potterstinks @ 2003-05-25 17:42:00 |
| Current mood: | enraged |
Millicent and I have been quite busy this weekend in discussing the Quidditch situation with our new Beater, whom I picked up from the station on Friday. Much to my chagrin he was evidently cranky from a long train ride and demanded I take him into Hogsmeade for dinner, where he proceeded to take the term 'all you can eat' to mean all you can eat in a century. We shall be holding our first official practice tomorrow, and I myself am on the edge of my seat wondering if there will be blood shed between he and Haydt over who gets to eat the last cauldron cake. Crabbe, I've noted, seems to be rather depressed that he was not chosen as a Beater, but the fact of the matter is, Crabbe is terrible with a broom. We certainly can't have that.
For some reason, Weasley has taken to reading fashion literature. I'm not entirely sure what he's trying to do, but then again, as it's Weasley one could suppose that is the point.
Mother is trying to plan the summer holidays now, and I'm not entirely sure where I'd like to go. Wherever Father chooses is perfectly all right with me. If I had to make a suggestion, I suppose I would say Austria, as I've never been and it's supposedly interesting. Why, I can't quite see, so I'd like to see what all the fuss is about. Going to the Continent always tends to make me irritated, as I feel they're of an entirely different breed. I think it would be best if Father chose a location, as his choices always turn out well.
I don't see why everyone's whinging about Maloney leaving the Cannons. Everyone knows the Cannons lose regardless of whether or not they've got a good Seeker. Besides, Rochefort can't be beaten. It's logistical fact. Falmouth would smash the Cannons to smithereens, with or without Maloney. Now that Charrington's been made captain since Kurtz has gone, no one else stands a chance. Maloney may have a good Plumpton Pass, but I suspect it's accidental when he does it. No one can get past Sykes' Bludger Backbeat, anyway, which is why the Falcons, I'm certain, will be in the Cup next year. They've got the best Hawkshead Attacking Formation in the British and Irish League. Sure, Wickham and O'Doyle might be a bit showy with it, but Radley always knows when to switch to a Porskoff Ploy not seen done so well since Petrova Porskoff.
Now I think I'll go down to the library, where I'll likely never return from the stacks as they're always interesting.
Comments:
| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 11:24 am UTC Re: |
Draco.
Nowhere.
Glad you took the time to reply to my comment.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:36 pm UTC |
It's always so nice to see your face around the castle. Really, it quite brightens the place up.
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 01:42 pm UTC |
I would say the same but I cannot really remember what you look like.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:45 pm UTC |
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I miss our weekly pyjama party? I realise it was my turn to bring the hair ribbon. What is your handicap?
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 01:49 pm UTC |
I have admit I am surprised you still know what pyjamas are.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:51 pm UTC |
Are you watching me sleep? Again? I'll have you know that I'm wearing pyjamas right now.
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 02:13 pm UTC |
I do hope your pyjamas will not hinder your Literati skills as you still owe me a game.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 03:36 pm UTC |
Oh, pardon me. Whatever would you illustrate without my presence?
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 03:40 pm UTC Re: |
The rest of the school, actually.
Sadly, no one looks as much as a Muggle light bulb as you do.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 03:45 pm UTC |
And no one looks as much like a ham sandwich without the bread as you do.
(parent)| petitemillicent @ 2003-05-26 03:51 pm UTC Re: |
I trust you will be able to find one in Gryffindor.
M. B.
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 04:04 pm UTC |
Now, now, Millicent, no need to be sulky. You are, of course, the only raw, gaping ham sandwich for me.
(parent)| blondenarcissa @ 2003-05-25 09:54 pm UTC |
My Little Dragon,
I do hope that your new Beater helps your team to win their next match. With your brilliant leadership I am certain that Slytherin shall prevail. Your father has taken the liberty of locating me some texts on Quidditch so that I may actually understand how the game is played when I come to your game. Quidditch, like all sports, confuses me terribly but I am making the effort to learn more because I know you enjoy it so. I expect you will be happy to know that I am doing better with my flying (save for a rather terrifying incident out in the Japanese gardens yesterday) and I look forward to a time that we may perhaps do so together.
If you would like to go to Austria for holiday that would be perfectly lovely. Do let me know if that is your final decision as I can begin working on a proper itinerary and that sort of thing.
Love,
Mother
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 09:19 am UTC |
Mother,
If you'd like, I expect I could help you with your flying this summer. After all, surely there's no one better to teach you.
Quidditch is rather easily understood, though of course it's a complex game to play. Each team has two Beaters, three Chasers, one Keeper and a Seeker (me). While the rest of the team does have its merits, mainly the match is between the two opposing Seekers. The Chasers toss around a blocky sort of ball called a Quaffle, and they try to get it past the Keeper, who guards the hoops. Meanwhile, the Beaters try to make themselves feel important by hitting a giant iron ball around (a Bludger) with bats and aiming it at the opposing team's heads. The real point of Quidditch, however, is the Golden Snitch. The Seeker's job is to catch the Snitch. The Snitch is quite tiny and flies around on miniscule wings so you can hardly spot it unless you're lucky. Catching the Snitch almost always ensures you'll win the game, aside from that messy spot at the World Cup.
A Seeker has quite a bit of responsibility, naturally, and a common move with Seekers is the Wronski Feint, in which one Seeker pretends to have spotted the Snitch on the ground in an attempt to make the other Seeker. The first Seeker pulls out of the dive at the last minute, and generally the other Seeker either nosedives into the ground or merely swears a lot. There's also the Plumpton, which I still feel is always accidental; it's when the Seeker catches the Snitch up the sleeve of his robe. Potter is a Seeker for Gryffindor, and is fond of catching the Snitch in his mouth.
In any case, Slytherin plays Ravenclaw in a fortnight, and the last match of the term is me against Potter.
I'm not terribly interested in Austria, to be quite honest. In fact, I hadn't even thought of it until I was writing my journal entry. I was simply trying to come up with a suggestion, when really I have no preference.
Your pride and joy,
Draco
| blondenarcissa @ 2003-05-26 05:32 pm UTC |
Draco,
Of course I would like for you to help me with the flying over holiday. You're ever so brilliant at everything you do; how could I expect that anyone would ever measure up to my darling boy on a broomstick?
Thank you very much for the Quidditch explanation. It is certainly much easier to understand than Quidditch Through the Ages and the other texts that your father gifted me.
Isn't catching the snitch in one's mouth a penalty? I would have thought that a Gryffindor would not try to break rules such as that.
You will triumph at your year-end matches; I am certain. It will bring me great pleasure to see my son succeed.
Darling, surely you must have some desire to see Austria or else you would not have brought it up. We can certainly spend a few days there. Of course we can take mini-holidays to several places over Summer. Do not feel as though you can only choose one place to visit, dear.
Love,
Mother
| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 09:05 am UTC |
Have you gone COMPLETELY mental?! Rochefort is too sodding BIG FOR HIS BROOM! Seekers are supposed to be tiny! Like you!
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 09:20 am UTC |
Just because Rochefort isn't a twig doesn't mean he's not a superior Seeker. Sure, Seekers are typically lightweight, but I suspect it's entirely a smokescreen. Krum certainly isn't small.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 09:24 am UTC |
Yeah, well I reckon Krum's UNIBROW gives him extra wind velocity, haha. Anyway Toohey's a lousy Keeper, he just sits up there writing bloody trophy ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES! I saw Falmouth against Portree a couple years ago with my dad and that's what Toohey was doing! A bloody roll of parchment and everything! He let three Quaffles go right by him without even turning a page! How can anyone like the Falcons??
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 09:46 am UTC |
You're right, of course. Clearly I should spend my time supporting the Chudley Cannons. After all, they haven't won the League since the nineteenth century, so I'm sure they're do for another win any day now.
Toohey isn't allowed to take parchment on the pitch anymore. Besides, I'd like to think he was just trying to master the Starfish and Stick. It's not as though anyone even has the chance to get to Toohey, what with O'Doyle teaching Radley and Wickham the Parkin's Pincer. No other Chasers stand a chance. O'Doyle rules the pitch.
| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 10:04 am UTC |
O'Doyle rules?? O'DOYLE RULES? Now I know you're mental, cracked you are! Do you REALLY think bloody O'Doyle could stand up against Claiborne? And as if he could pull off Parkin's Pincer! Wickham hardly even knows how to speak let alone take direction! Caerphilly has a wicked Parkin's Pincer, have you seen it? Of course they would, really, they're not too bright with the risk taking BUT! Falmouth! hasn't! even! tried! it!
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:14 pm UTC |
I think O'Doyle could stand up against Claiborne and then stand up against her some more. Actually, I don't think it, I know it. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that I've actually attended a Chudley match.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:32 pm UTC |
Obviously I was harbouring a secret love of the Cannons. You moron, I was watching the Arrows. You were there, in those hideous orange robes that you and Potter have. It was last year.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 01:40 pm UTC |
I know THAT, ARSE! Why were you even there?! You follow Falmouth, not Appleby! Who says you get to go to Chudley matches anyway? I mean uh... WHO SAYS YOU GET TO GO TO CHUDLEY MATCHES ANYWAY, JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE SO BLOODY RICH!
Uh... Appleby's not bad, yeah?
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:48 pm UTC |
I prefer the Wasps to the Arrows, actually, but that's beside the point.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 01:59 pm UTC |
THEN HOW CAN YOU GO SUPPORT APPLEBY?! WIMBOURNE IS THEIR ARCHNEMESIS!
What's the point??
| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 02:19 pm UTC |
Because I don't follow the Wasps. I follow the Falcons.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:31 pm UTC |
That hardly complements. WEASLEY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
(parent) knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 01:37 pm UTC |
It had grey! Your tie is grey! Do I have to spell everything out around here?! Honestly, Malfoy.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:42 pm UTC |
Your hair has red. Do you know what else has red? Blood. I think a bloody nose would complement nicely.
(parent) knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 01:47 pm UTC |
My hair's not exactly the same red as blood, is it Mr I Love Colours?! Why are you so cranky anyway?? I'm just telling you about the pennant!! It's not my bloody fault you're not getting enough sleep!!
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:49 pm UTC |
I am getting a perfectly adequate amount of sleep. That's slander, Weasley, and My Father doesn't have to take that.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:53 pm UTC |
Well, you don't think he'd stand for people saying I'm on a bad sleep schedule, do you?
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 01:59 pm UTC |
What are you talking about? Why are you even speaking?
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 03:36 pm UTC |
Oh, I don't know. You, Granger, Finnigan, your sister, Thomas, Longbottom, Brown, Patil, Herder, Macmillan, Bones, Abbott, Finch-Fletchley, Cornfoot, Li, Macdougal, Truce, Midgen, Spinks, Jones, Turpin, Brocklehurst, Boot, Eberly, Ackerley, Lassicle, Fawcett, Other Patil, Mullarkey, Landgreen, Quinn, Summers, Dunstan, Macdonald, Whitby, Sutberry, Stebbins, Madley, Blotts, Chapter, Rincewind, Creevey, Creevey, Spriggs, Corner, Davies, Lansing, Galapagos, Dobbs, Chang, Endwalk, Hopkins, Moon, Cauldwell, Branstone, Zabini, Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, Professor Sinistra, Professor Snape, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Wiglorn, Professor Vector, Professor Trelawney, Professor Lupin, Professor McGonagall, Professor Black, Madam Hooch, Madam Pomfrey, Madam Pince, Peeves, the Bloody Baron, the Fat Friar, the Grey Lady, Nearly-Headless Nick, Filch, Mrs Norris, Fang?
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 03:42 pm UTC Re: |
Why should THEY know?! Harry's right, you're rather odd.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 03:54 pm UTC Re: |
WHO THE SOD IS ASKING YOU TO CLOSE YOUR EYES?! YOUR SECRET'S SAFE WITH ME, IDIOT
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 03:56 pm UTC |
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? PEOPLE TEND TO CLOSE THEIR EYES WHEN DEAD, YOU REALISE. IT'S HARDLY ANY SECRET.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 03:59 pm UTC |
IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED, WEASEL, NO ONE EVER KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 04:03 pm UTC Re: |
STOP BEING DIFFICULT, I'M NOT GOING TO BLOODY SAY IT!!!
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 04:11 pm UTC |
IF I WAS BEING TOO FURTIVE ABOUT NOT WANTING TO EVER HEAR ABOUT YOUR TRIPS TO THE TOILET, ALLOW ME TO APOLOGISE AND REMEDY THAT IMMEDIATELY.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 04:27 pm UTC |
I had been assuming you weren't planning to return. That is what civilised creatures we call humans would have done.
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 04:30 pm UTC Re: |
I said I'll be right back! Blind? Deaf? Honestly.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 04:53 pm UTC |
Oh, I just thought you might like to have a go at a game of Snap.
(parent)| potterstinks @ 2003-05-26 05:01 pm UTC |
I WAS SEEING IF YOU HAD GONE YET, YOU BILLYWIG. WHY DID YOU THINK I WAS ASKING IF YOU WERE HERE - TO PLAY EXPLODING SNAP?
(parent)| knight_to_h3 @ 2003-05-26 05:05 pm UTC Re: |
I SAID I'M STILL HERE, DIDN'T I?! I'M STARTING TO THINK YOU NEED GLASSES AS WELL
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