potterstinks: No subject.

As no doubt everyone knows, last evening I had my birthday party here at the Manor. While I'm not normally a fan of the large parties of others, I don't see what's wrong with parties in my honour. Of course, half the wizarding world seems torn up because Pettigrew's escaped from Azkaban, but considering that he was sitting in Weasley's pocket for years without doing anything, I don't see why everyone's worked up now. It's not as though he would just walk around in the open while the world's hysterical. In any case, since My Father is an associate of the Minister's, Fudge was there and I suspect he as well saw no reason to cancel social events in light of political ones. However, he brought his stupid Peter Weasley assistant, whom I most certainly did not invite. When I said 'and guest', I assumed Fudge would bring his wife, not his human house-elf. Of course, Weasley did look quite stupid, as he was following Fudge around with napkins and hats, which was amusing, but that certainly doesn't make up for the fact that a Weasley was at Malfoy Manor. I imagine he's never been in such a privileged setting before, so I've no doubt he'll now try to worm his way into every social event My Family has.

Speaking of things that cannot be made up for, I invited Finnigan to be polite, as I thought that he and My Mother would get along nicely, and he brought along Thomas. I'm relinquishing the freedom of guests on the invitations for my next birthday party.

As I mentioned before, Sally-Anne Perks came over from Durmstrang, so she and her parents are currently staying in the guest portion of the Manor. Father and Mr Perks have always got on quite well, and Mrs Perks is a respectable witch, despite the fact that she was Beatrice Nott prior to marriage. Of course, Nott himself is all right, but there are some unsavoury people in his family who were, fortunately, not present for the celebration of my birth. It's always interesting to see Nott and Sally-Anne in the same room, as they have a few similar mannerisms.

In any case, my party was a relative success aside from the fact that Weasley and Thomas were there. Evidently Finnigan is terrified to see Millicent by himself, which is interesting, as I doubt Millicent cares about him one way or another. You would think that she had waged war on him by the way he talks about her.

Mrs Parkinson and Mrs Bulstrode were as delightful as ever. I do enjoy the way that both of them take to me, as I think they wish they were My Mother. I mean that literally, actually. I do know Mrs Parkinson wishes she could be more like My Mother, as she's often asked about her in the bit of correspondence I've exchanged with her. Of course, most mothers wish I were their own son, as I'm simply that delightful. Mrs Goyle was dressed surprisingly well, although I think she's been reading books on the matter lately.

Mr Avery told me a rather interesting story about when he and Father were younger and were forced to stay in a Muggle inn. Evidently there are some Muggles who don't bathe, which should come as no surprise to anyone.

Terence Higgs is evidently planning to play for the Magpies next year, though I'm not certain why he's so sure he's going to. I suppose he was a fair Seeker, but the Slytherin team has obviously done much better since I joined. Adrian Pucey has gained a scandalous amount of weight recently, and Miles Bletchley seems to be working in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry. It's quite interesting to catch up with people who've left Hogwarts.

Gift wise, the Macnairs gave me a ridiculous set of robes that would be better set on a monarch in the fourteenth century. While the idea that I would dress similar to royalty isn't entirely off, Mrs Macnair could certainly do with some advice from My Mother. The Averys did better with a solid gold cauldron, although it's not as though I didn't have one already. I do wish Marcus Flint hadn't brought that odd set of beetles from Africa, as I'll likely end up giving them to Professor Snape. Weasley evidently thought that trying to dance while making a fool of himself was a good gift, and given that it was quite a laugh, I suppose that will do.

And since Millicent cannot go one day without ruining something of mine, she decided to give me a gift that she'd bought in December, which happened to be a puffskein. When Millicent was staying at the Manor over the summer, we encountered an inconvenience when trying to raise a puffskein from the dead, so I suppose she thought it would be just hysterical to give me a live puffskein. Of course, four months have passed since she bought it, and since it's been in a box the entire time, it probably died ages ago. It smelt. I was immediately ill after I opened it, as were several of my guests. I suspect she was trying to sabotage my party, but fortunately Father was able to take care of it immediately.

Now I've the rest of the Easter holidays to enjoy Malfoy Manor and can rest assured knowing I haven't got to return to Hogwarts until 19 April. Of course, I'm not looking forward to it, but since it's the last time I'll ever go to Hogwarts, I can take some comfort in that.

knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-12 06:13 am UTC

You invited SEAMUS to be POLITE but not Harry and me?! REALLY POLITE! Percy said it was crap anyway, hah!

Draco Malfoy: I remain elusively dashing.

potterstinks @ 2004-04-12 06:18 am UTC

Is this a joke? Were you and Potter actually expecting to be invited? Am I supposed to know who this 'Percy' person is?