Types of skills

[alt_draco]

I ought to be going on to the Great Hall for breakfast but, I'm not very hungry today. I was trying to read a book father gave me, called The Chess Mind and it tells you how to play chess and also how to be good at it can help you in real life. It says chess builds logical thinking skills, which I guess must be true. I wish I enjoyed chess more but when I play it feels like taking an exam and who wants to take an exam for fun? I will keep reading the book though, because if Father gave it to me then it must be important.

But I think creative thinking skills are as important as logical ones. Back at home Harry and I would always make up games together, and I like that best because then you can come up with your own rules instead of following someone elses. One of the games we played was called Green Ghost. I've never actually seen a green ghost but that was the colour of the blanket the person being the ghost would hide under. Mother put an obscurrity charm on the blanket so it was really dark in there and the ghost wouldn't be able to see anything. Of course real ghosts don't look like shapeless people under blankets, and the ghosts at the Manor would probably be offended if they saw us, but we usually played this game at Kensington or the Lord's Palace. There weren't any ghosts there because muggles used to live there and a muggle never leaves a ghost. I'd say more about how Green Ghost was played but its hard to explain and you would have to see it to understand how it worked.

We played hide and seek a lot too, which everyone knows how to play but at the Lord's palace, especially, it was enormous and the game could go on for a really, really long time and once I hid so well I was sort of lost. Harry was really good at finding people, but I was really good at hiding. Hydra was better at hiding than anyone, but she would always run out of the hiding spot if her name was called so that rather ruined it. And also

Well brilliant, now I'm hungry. Maybe I have time to grab a bun before heading to the greenhouses.

Comments

[alt_draco]

When did they play this game? I've never heard of it, but maybe Father or Mother have. They must've let people hex in the corridors back then, maybe because mudbloods were allowed to be students so the real wizards and witches needed to be on guard. Anyway it sounds fun.

[alt_sally_anne]

The annual I found that talked about it was from 1974 or 1975, I think. Actually now you mention it I think it was against the rules to do magic in the corridors then, too, but the students who were playing just tried to make sure no one saw. Of course if we played it we shouldn't do that, I wouldn't want anyone breaking rules.

When did your parents go to school? I can show you where they keep the annuals. It was really strange to find pictures of my father when he was my age. I don't look much like him.

[alt_draco]

I don't remember when my parents went to school, it was yonks ago. Oh but I guess I do remember Father saying he became Head Boy in 1971. I look a lot like my Father, and I've seen pictures of what he looked like at my age because we have them at the Manor. Did your Father play quiditch for Slytherin or anything like that?

[alt_sally_anne]

Don't tell anyone (that was a joke I know everyone can read this) but my father was in Ravenclaw, not Slytherin. Aren't I lucky I broke the family tradition? But he didn't play quidditch for Ravenclaw either. I don't think he ever even tried out for the team.

Did your Father play quidditch? Or your mum - I guess that one's hard to picture, she always looks so dignified and perfect it's hard to imagine her playing a game where she'd get rained on or whacked with bludgers. But there's no rule that says quidditch players can't be beautiful.

[alt_padma]

So they probably didnt play this, then.

My parents went to school even before that, I think, but Parvati and I have an older brother whose already finished school, and then Mum started her busness and I guess they waited awhile before having more kids, I dunno why.

My dad played quiddich, he says. And we also play Gilli-Danda at home, and Kabaddi when we've got enough relatives to play that.