potterstinks @ 2004-05-28 03:27:00

Current mood:

enraged

The Bloody Baron and I just had a conversation about the house-elves, but he left rather quickly. Evidently he glides into our rooms at night when he thinks we're asleep, which is incredibly disturbing. He seemed quite surprised that I was awake and tried to wave his arms around at me menacingly, but I'm too bored to be bothered. The fact that I even had a conversation with him at all is proof of how bored I am.

It's been a while since I've updated the world about my plight against the house-elves, so I shall now provide an in-depth synopsis for anyone who may have forgotten, though that seems impossible. In the past two years, the house-elves have left notes in my food, turned my belongings orange, written notes on the mirror while I've been bathing and, finally, sawed the legs of my bed by minuscule amounts over an entire year until it was nearly on the ground. This year, they stole all of my socks. I had to go sockless. They also, I believe, rearranged all of the letters in my issue of Quidditch Monthly this month, as they were all backwards and impossible to read. It was beyond the abilities of anyone else in my dormitory at the time, and Nott can't be bothered.

Has anyone ever done anything about this? Of course not. 'You're just paranoid, Malfoy,' everyone says. 'Of course no one's lowering your bed bit by bit. You're just imagining it.' When, of course, it got so low that no one could pretend they hadn't noticed, people told me that the bed had, perhaps, got old. What sort of bed gets old and starts removing bits of its own legs?

Perhaps this Sleep Duel shall give me the opportunity to catch them. After all, I can't imagine they're aware of the fact that I shall be awake every night now. If they creep into my room to do something to my belongings, I shall have them and I will demand comeuppance. Dumbledore certainly can't let his love for the elves blind him if I've caught them at it.

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