Caution

[alt_draco]

Note to all:

Might want to avoid Weasley at dinner if you can. He may still be belching up the slugs that he apparently dines on for breakfast.

Comments

[alt_hydra]

I didn't see any slugs at breakfast.
Do they feed them to us without us knowing?

From,
Hydra

[alt_draco]

It's an acquired taste for Gryffindors only, seems. So if you want to try a slug for breakfast you'll have to start chumming about with them. I think I'll stick with eggs and toast, myself.

[alt_hydra]

I don't want to try a slug for breakfast.
Or eggs!
Toast with honey is my favourite.

From,
Hydra

[alt_draco]

Anything sweet is always your favourite. But maybe there could be a new line of slug sweets. Like cockroach clusters, you know?

Try to get an eyeful of Weasley before the slug belching passes, though - you don't want to miss out on possibly the funniest thing you'll see this year.

[alt_hydra]

Which Weasley?
Because there are a few of them.

From,
Hydra

[alt_draco]

R, Weasley.

[alt_hydra]

Thank you Draco.
I will try to see if I can see him.

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

Hermione still isn't back yet. I wonder if something happened to her. Are slugs poisonous?

[alt_draco]

I think they're disgusting but harmless. Why, did she get some on her?

[alt_hermione]

No, Mr Marvolo. I'm sorry. Mr Weasley and I got invited to tea with Professor Brutka. Of course, Mr Weasley couldn't drink much tea because of the slugs, but Professor Brutka said we should stay until he stopped having so many slugs, and I didn't like to disobey a professor.

[alt_harry]

I suppose not, since she's writing to me. Weasley had tea with Brutka, she said. Wonder if he's good? Father says Care of Magical Creatures is an important class, even though some people say its too easy. But I wouldn't want to take it next year if Brutka wasn't good.

[alt_harry]

Thats fine, Granger. After supper I come to the common room. I could use your help.

[alt_hydra]

You can write?

From,
Hydra

[alt_padma]

Well, as it's Ronald Weasley, I doubt he'd come anywhere near a library, anyway, but even if he knew where the library even is, I doubt Madam Pince would let him in while he's belching slugs.

What made him try to eat slugs, anyway? That seems a perfectly daft thing to do.

Oh, wait. Weasley. Daft. Nevermind, then.

Seriously, why?

[alt_draco]

He helped me out in France that time, and he isn't as huge and grumpy as Macnair.

Your Father likes creatures though, doesn't he? Especially his snakes. He'll probably think you should take Care of Magical Creatures.

[alt_draco]

I didn't know until today that he ate slugs for brekkie, actually, but he was trying to hex me, you see, so that I'd vom up my eggs and toast, I guess, but instead he ridiculously hexed himself, and that's when the slugs started pouring out.

I've no idea why anyone would eat slugs, though.

[alt_hermione]

Yes, miss.

[alt_hydra]

How?

From,
Hydra

[alt_harry]

Well, yeah, only if I do well enough in Parseltongue he might not make me. It sounds that I might want to take it anyway though.

Father wrote me a letter telling me I ought to start thinking about next year. It's so far away. I don't really see the point.

[alt_draco]

Yeah, I might too. We'll see.

Maybe he sort of wishes you were grown up already. That's kind of what it seems like.

[alt_harry]

I think. Only sometimes he seems like he wants me to stay a kid for ever. I don't think I really understand him.

[alt_hermione]

My mother taught me, Miss.

[alt_draco]

Could be that the part where you're between a kid and a grown up makes him nervous?

No, I don't think he gets nervous.

[alt_pansy]

How can you hex yourself?

And why, exactly, was he trying to hex you? Honestly, seems like every time there's a fight, you two are at the centre of it. At least this term.

[alt_harry]

Me neither.