| lupercus @ 2003-10-14 19:40:00 |
| Current mood: |  complacent |
Well.
My week consisted of marking twelve thousand (approximately, though likely not far off) essays on the mating habits of the kappa, prying one third-year's hand out of the beak of a malacaw, a Hogsmeade outing with Severus, cleaning up the cage of a very sick jarvey, tea with Sirius, giving a detention to a first-year boy for putting a flobberworm down the back of a girl's robes, and playing chess last night with Harry. And it's only Tuesday.
I don't care how old I get, Hogsmeade will always be enjoyable. Severus even seemed to have a good time, he looked decidedly less sour than usual over dinner and only deducted fifteen points total from hapless students we encountered. I am hoping we can do it again at the weekend - if Severus hasn't anything better to do, of course.
Tea with Sirius went well, better than I expected I admit, though really I don't feel any different now than I did before. We parted in tentative friendship however and I suppose that is a good thing, seeing as how we have to work together and I would rather exist in civility. It's far less taxing than open hostility, and there's by far enough of that going around. I do enjoy Sirius's company anyway, or I will learn to enjoy it again. He was my friend first, after all.
Hm. There's a new book on my desk that's asking me to read it. Far be it from me not to obey the siren call of literature. Hermione might have me flogged.
Edit: Nevermind, the book's been foresaken for a brilliantly frustrating Quidditch match from America on the wireless right now - it's the Chicago Crups against the Florida Fireballs and a moment ago the match became tied because a bloody idiot in the stands interfered with the Quaffle, and the officials didn't say a damned thing about it. Uproar abounds, and I won't sleep until I know how this turns out.
Comments:
| jadedsirius @ 2003-10-14 08:23 pm UTC |
From what I hear, Chicago wouldn't be nearly so popular with most of America if they didn't spoil their chances at the last possible minute, every time. Chicago are popular for being the perpetual underdog, and they must stay the underdog.
I hear they've just perpetuated their losing legacy for one more game. Two hundred seventy to thirty!
| lupercus @ 2003-10-14 08:30 pm UTC |
From what I understand they didn't do anything this time! I think someone must have Confunded the officials personally. There's no way that wasn't fan interference on that Quaffle.
They lost, anyway. Chicago. So I suppose you may be right. Their motto IS, "Oh well, we tried," after all.
Fitchburg (who legend has it have not won a match in a century, thanks to a curse put upon them by a disgruntled ex-Chaser) at New York tomorrow night, and the WWN has it. If you're not busy we could have a listen to it in the staff room?
| potions_master @ 2003-10-14 08:37 pm UTC |
I take it then that our arragement for tomorrow evening has been postponed.
(parent)| lupercus @ 2003-10-14 08:43 pm UTC |
No, because the Quidditch match is just after dinner and you and I are meeting at ten.
You could join us, you know.
| jadedsirius @ 2003-10-14 08:53 pm UTC |
Definitely not wise.
Remus, perhaps we should put this off for another night. Wouldn't want to interfere in your plans.
| potions_master @ 2003-10-14 08:58 pm UTC |
Do not let me put a damper on your plans, mutt. I am certain I can find some way to amuse myself until Remus deigns to grace me with his presence - provided of course that he is not too incapacitated by your sub-par Firewhiskey.
(parent)| jadedsirius @ 2003-10-14 09:11 pm UTC |
Yes, of course. Perhaps you can take points from more students in the infirmary? Maybe you'll find a few more lucky unconscious souls there.
You're at your best, I think, when you're maliciously kicking your students while they're down.
| lupercus @ 2003-10-14 09:14 pm UTC |
Nonsense, it doesn't interfere at all.
I'll see you in the staff room, after dinner.
| potions_master @ 2003-10-14 08:33 pm UTC |
I would have deducted more points from the little bastards had you not spent every waking moment kicking me in the shin. I am bruised. It is your fault.
Quidditch is dull and unimportant. And it was not interference, the Quaffle was well into the stands at that point, as evidenced by the Chaser who fell in after it.
| lupercus @ 2003-10-14 08:36 pm UTC |
I apologise for your woe. Is there anything I can do to make up for it? Anything at all?
(It WAS fan interference, the bugger reached up and pulled the Quaffle out of the Chaser's hands.)
| potions_master @ 2003-10-14 08:54 pm UTC |
You have become childish and I will not play along.
Was not. Infinity and one.