Private message to Ron and Ginny Weasley
Sep. 22nd, 2013 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_billHello to both of you,
I hope the new school year has started off well (and you are happy with the return of Professor McGonagall--but how could you not be happy with such a vast improvement?).
I saw out of the corner of my eye while glancing through the journals that there were at least some Quidditch tryouts going on this weekend. You're both back on the team, right? What's the line up look like this year? Boy, it'll be hard to imagine Gryffindor taking the field without Fred and George as Beaters. It looks like Luna Lovegood even tried out as a Beater for Ravenclaw, but I get the impression she wasn't chosen, right?
Which House are you up against for your first match?
Ginny, how are the new Prefect duties shaping up for you? Do you like the other Gryffindor Prefects? In my day, they tended to pair off the firsties (especially the ones who tended to get homesick the most) with the youngest Prefects; do they still do that now? I guess the reasoning was that the younger Prefects weren't quite as intimidating for firsties to approach as the lordly Seventh Years.
Mum, Fred and George have all been busier than you can imagine. Mum's wrapping up the summer canning but starting the cider season and the root vegetables. The boys have decided to move into their workspace, so they've been sorting out what the take and what to leave and popping back and forth between the Burrow and WWW with lists and charts and boxes of exotic ingredients. They have purple shadows on their eyes from lack of sleep, but they seem ecstatically happy. I think they hope to have their packaging finalised in time to have some free samples to place in the Common Rooms the weekend before the first Hogsmeade weekend, since they've snagged some shelf space in Zonko's. The hope is that they'll whet the kids' appetites so the students will trot into town to come clean out the shelves. Eventually, owl order will be added as an option, too. Ginny, I'm letting you know this in case it's an issue for the Prefects: don't want you to get in trouble because of your brothers' marketing efforts. On the other hand, if you know of any loophole they can use, if there's any issue about getting their samples into the Common Rooms, let them know. If it helps, they don't intend to charge for the samples. They're just hoping to drum up some pre-product release excitement. They do so want to make this whole thing a success, not the least because they're hoping they can help chip in some with Mum's support.
Ron, how are NEWT classes going? I'm particularly curious to hear what Professor Dolohov's classes are like, since Noble Arts wasn't around when I was going through NEWTs. (It would also be kind if you could relieve Mum's mind, too. You know she isn't exactly neutral about the whole thing).
Haven't heard much from Percy, lately. He's been skipping Sunday dinners home more and more. Charlie's well and sends his love. The baby dragons keep him extra busy. He never fails to tell me that Art (the one named after Dad) is thriving the best of all.
Have a good week. Would love to hear from you once you can tear your attention away from essays, tests, Quidditch, and/or Prefect rounds,
Bill
I hope the new school year has started off well (and you are happy with the return of Professor McGonagall--but how could you not be happy with such a vast improvement?).
I saw out of the corner of my eye while glancing through the journals that there were at least some Quidditch tryouts going on this weekend. You're both back on the team, right? What's the line up look like this year? Boy, it'll be hard to imagine Gryffindor taking the field without Fred and George as Beaters. It looks like Luna Lovegood even tried out as a Beater for Ravenclaw, but I get the impression she wasn't chosen, right?
Which House are you up against for your first match?
Ginny, how are the new Prefect duties shaping up for you? Do you like the other Gryffindor Prefects? In my day, they tended to pair off the firsties (especially the ones who tended to get homesick the most) with the youngest Prefects; do they still do that now? I guess the reasoning was that the younger Prefects weren't quite as intimidating for firsties to approach as the lordly Seventh Years.
Mum, Fred and George have all been busier than you can imagine. Mum's wrapping up the summer canning but starting the cider season and the root vegetables. The boys have decided to move into their workspace, so they've been sorting out what the take and what to leave and popping back and forth between the Burrow and WWW with lists and charts and boxes of exotic ingredients. They have purple shadows on their eyes from lack of sleep, but they seem ecstatically happy. I think they hope to have their packaging finalised in time to have some free samples to place in the Common Rooms the weekend before the first Hogsmeade weekend, since they've snagged some shelf space in Zonko's. The hope is that they'll whet the kids' appetites so the students will trot into town to come clean out the shelves. Eventually, owl order will be added as an option, too. Ginny, I'm letting you know this in case it's an issue for the Prefects: don't want you to get in trouble because of your brothers' marketing efforts. On the other hand, if you know of any loophole they can use, if there's any issue about getting their samples into the Common Rooms, let them know. If it helps, they don't intend to charge for the samples. They're just hoping to drum up some pre-product release excitement. They do so want to make this whole thing a success, not the least because they're hoping they can help chip in some with Mum's support.
Ron, how are NEWT classes going? I'm particularly curious to hear what Professor Dolohov's classes are like, since Noble Arts wasn't around when I was going through NEWTs. (It would also be kind if you could relieve Mum's mind, too. You know she isn't exactly neutral about the whole thing).
Haven't heard much from Percy, lately. He's been skipping Sunday dinners home more and more. Charlie's well and sends his love. The baby dragons keep him extra busy. He never fails to tell me that Art (the one named after Dad) is thriving the best of all.
Have a good week. Would love to hear from you once you can tear your attention away from essays, tests, Quidditch, and/or Prefect rounds,
Bill
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Date: 2013-09-23 08:56 pm (UTC)